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"What has Beanie Wells meant? Oh, man. We wouldn't be right here with all of you if it weren't for Beanie Wells," Jim Tressel said. "I think he's really grown."
A few weeks before bruising Beanie Wells took his first handoff as Ohio State's starting tailback, Jim Tressel pulled him aside for a conversation. It was the kind of thing a head coach says to a key player before a season begins. Tressel, looking up and into Wells' eyes, challenged the 6-foot-1, 235-pound back to develop something. A warrior's mentality. What Tressel meant by that was ignoring pain, ignoring bruises. There is, after all, a difference between being injured and being hurt. So Wells has played with a severe ankle injury all season that won't get better without rest. Against Michigan, Wells ran over defenders. He ran past them. He cut around them. He did it with tears in his eyes. A Buckeye legend was created that cold, wet early winter's day. He hit the Wolverines for a career-high 39 carries and 222 yards. To date, Wells has the second-best sophomore rushing season in OSU history -- behind only Archie Griffin. "What has Beanie Wells meant? Oh, man. We wouldn't be right here with all of you if it weren't for Beanie Wells," Tressel said. "I think he's really grown." A couple of weeks after his Michigan performance, Buckeye teammates voted Wells the Most Valuable Player. "It's great that my teammates voted me that award," Wells said, almost too bashful to mention it. "It's a tremendous honor. I was really surprised by that." Wells has run for 1,463 yards and 14 touchdowns on 254 carries. He replaced fellow Summit County native Antonio Pittman, who left a year early for the NFL. "We lose Antonio Pittman and gained Beanie Wells," right tackle Kirk Barton said. "He's as good as anyone." Wells speaks short and softly. So when he speaks, he leads. He did it before the Michigan game to get his teammates in the right frame of mind. Wells did it again during Ohio State's bowl media day, when he essentially said he was tired of hearing Ohio State get trashed. "I'm tired of hearing people talk about how Ohio State has no speed," Wells said. "Ohio State's not this. Ohio State is this. We are Ohio State, and we're going to play whoever." That'll be LSU on Jan. 7 in the BCS National Championship game at the Superdome in New Orleans. While some believe the Tigers run defense is the strength of the team, Wells doesn't see it that way. LSU is allowing 103 yards a game on the ground, good for 14th in the country. "I think if you really look at the film, teams could run non LSU," Wells said. "So I really wouldn't say that's one of their strengths." What is fresh in Wells' mind is Darren McFadden leading Arkansas to a 385-yard rushing day against LSU. Florida and Kentucky both ran for better than their season averages on the Tigers. Ole Miss hit them for 201 yards. If the Buckeyes are going to have success on offense, Wells will need to be their warrior again. If that happens, he will start the 2008 season as a Heisman Trophy favorite. "I haven't focused on it ... or thought about that," Wells said. "My whole focus right now is gearing up for LSU. Just going out there to New Orleans and being the best team we can possibly be." Wells remembers a year ago when Ohio State went to Arizona, fat off its own ranking, the banquet circuit and press clippings. They weren't themselves, Wells said. "This year, we're a lot more focused," Wells said. "We're not 12-0 as we were last year. We're 11-1, and we know what it feels like to lose. We don't like that feeling at all, and we don't want to feel that ... on the way home (from New Orleans)." He doesn't want Cajun food. He doesn't care to stop by Emeril's. He could care less about Bourbon Street. "Becoming a national champion," Wels said. "That's about it." Wells doesn't waste words, nor carries. For more on Ohio State's preparations for the All State Sugar Bowl, read Todd Porter's blog at www.cantonrep.com/blogs Reach Repository sports writer Todd Porter at (330) 580-8340 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Unassuming heroism may be the only kind that makes any sense to Christchurch filmmaker Gerard Smyth (When a City Falls, Barefoot Cinema). Eighty-year-old writer Jean Watson could hardly be more self-deprecating in responding to his attention in this film, but by the end of his account of her surprising life you might wonder why there's not been a film about her already. The book-loving daughter of Northland dairy farmers, she's best known in New Zealand for Stand in the Rain, a novel published in 1965, and for her decade-long involvement with another literary scion of the land, Barry Crump. What is less well known is that 30 years ago she sold her Wellington house and used the proceeds to buy the land for a children's home in Tamil Nadu in southern India. We follow along on one of her frequent visits. She guides us around the rapidly changing world of her 'Star People', named for the white stars painted on their faces. The value of her work is there for all to see, not least in the hospitality of successful former beneficiaries, and the shining eyes of the children enjoying shelter and educational opportunities.

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Arugula, steak, and balsamic vinegar is already a proven combination in Italian cooking: the famous Florentine steak, thick and slow-grilled then glossed with olive oil, is often served with a side of arugula and balsamic. The peppery bite is perfect against the richness of the beef, while the balsamic adds complex sweetness. It's the reason the flavors in this salad work so well together.
But here, instead of a pricey, thick-cut steak, this trattoria classic uses little"rags" of beef (making it a much more economical meal), which are quick-sauteed, their residual heat wilting the arugula just enough to take away some of its raw bite. I found the recipe on Apartment Therapy from an old contribution by SE's own Maggie Hoffman; she adds mushrooms and calls it an Italian version of stir-fry.
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- 4 tablespoons olive oil, plus more as needed
- 2 small shallots, cut into ribbons
- 4 cloves of garlic, sliced
- 1 sprig rosemary, leaves removed and chopped
- 3 cups sliced mushrooms, preferably porcini, trumpet, or chantarelles
- salt and pepper
- 1 pound steak, cut crosswise into thin slices
- 2 tablespoons good balsamic vinegar, plus more for garnish
- 6 ounces baby arugula, washed well
- Shaved parmesan, to garnish
In a large (14-inch) skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over medium until shimmering. Add the shallots, garlic, and rosemary and cook until translucent. Add the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and cook until soft and beginning to caramelize. Scrape the mushroom mixture into a bowl.
Add the remaining two tablespoons of olive oil to the pan and heat over high until shimmering. Add the beef slices, season with salt, and spread out onto a single layer (work in batches if there's not enough room). Cook until there's no visible red.
Return the mushroom mixture to the pan to heat through, then add the balsamic vinegar, tossing well to coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Off the heat, add the arugula, tossing until just starting to wilt, then transfer to plates. Top with shards of shaved Parmesan and more balsamic vinegar, if desired.
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Vancouver Whitecaps FC caused a minor sensation at last week's MLS SuperDraft, bypassing all the top college prospects, and instead selecting 17-year-old United States U-20 international striker Omar Salgado as the first overall pick. Vancouver's remaining selections were more orthodox, with three 22-year-olds in midfielder Michael Nanchoff from the University of Akron (eighth overall) and midfielder/striker Jeb Brovsky (19th) and defender Bilal Duckett (37th) both from the University of Notre Dame.
While many pundits were surprised that Vancouver opted for such a young player as the top pick, it was not really out of character for a Whitecaps FC organization that has always placed an emphasis on player development. And while this may have been Vancouver's first Major League Soccer entry draft, it definitely wasn't the first time the club has opted for youth on draft day.
Back in the days of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL), head coach and general manager Bob Lenarduzzi certainly was not afraid to take a chance on younger players. In fact, the first two players signed by the club in 1987 were teenagers Domenic Mobilio and Pat Onstad, who both went on to long and distinguished professional careers. 16-year-old forward Guido Titotto also saw action in 1987, his first of eight seasons with Vancouver.
In the 1989 CSL draft, Lenarduzzi selected 16-year-old midfielder Scott Macey, who went on to enjoy six seasons here. Another 16-year-old Vancouver draft pick was Oliver Heald in 1992. He spent time with Vancouver's reserve team before taking his career to England for several years, then returned in 1996 and played eight seasons with the club. "Ollie" still ranks 11th on the team's all-time scoring list.
Another prominent teenaged draft pick was Alfredo Valente, who was Vancouver's top selection in the 1998 A-League draft at the age of 17. A highly touted local prospect, Valente turned down offers from several big European teams to play for his hometown club. He quickly became a key player, spending eleven seasons here and rising to eighth place on Vancouver's career scoring chart.
It's always a gamble drafting a player so young, as the future is tough to predict. That was certainly the case with Carmen D'Onofrio. In 1991, Vancouver selected the 16-year-old striker in the first round of the CSL draft. However, instead of turning pro, D'Onofrio ended up going to Stanford University. By the time he graduated, Vancouver was playing in a different league, and so the club drafted him again in 1996, again in the first round! He came close to signing, but instead ended up playing professional indoor soccer in Edmonton for several seasons. D'Onofrio finally signed for Vancouver in 1999, but never found his scoring form and only lasted two seasons.
Nobody can be sure what the future will hold for young Omar Salgado, but I for one am certainly looking forward to finding out.


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A must-have book for anyone who wishes to develop a robust, efficient, and reliable note-taking system, or who aims at training interpreters to do so.
"Take a step back and you'll see more" the saying goes. And this issue follows that advice with articles about our profession's history that segue into considerations of contemporary developments that open horizons for the future.
A must-have book for anyone who wishes to develop a robust, efficient, and reliable note-taking system, or who aims at training interpreters to do so.
A critical link in helping the allies defeat Nazi German, she pursued a career in conference interpreting after the war – and never uttered a word of German again.
En 1953, avec André Kaminker, chef interprète du Conseil de l'Europe et Hans Jacob, chef interprète de l'Unesco, Constantin Andronikof fonde l'Association Internationale des Interprètes de conférence.
Ce volume, qui est le résultat d'un énorme travail de documentation, constitue une contribution majeure à la connaissance directe de l'évolution de la profession.
A conference interpreter has to be familiar with parliamentary procedure. But where did the rules and their attendant rituals come from?
An exhibition on the origins of simultaneous interpretation organized by AIIC and the UN (New York).
Crusaders learned what sorts of linguists they needed as they set about establishing their Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Reaper_-218-, on 13 February 2018 - 11:04 AM, said:
I wonder how many players (like me), didn't see this Announcement in the days since it was posted and tried to log on tonight?
Why can't WG place a notice on the Game startup screen in the days leading up to a server downtime or update?
I'm sure that most players NEVER even visit the Forum until they find a notice telling them the server is down.
Agree with that but at least they made improvements with the forum as i don't think they used to post downtime but Raibot and WG promised they would post in advance and not disappointed
It took me around 3 years to find the forum so used to be in the same boat as you but now i follow the forum religiously and inform my tanks group of info


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Thanks for your reply, ozgeorge, but "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" is a place I've already been some years ago and I wasn't impressed. What I am actually looking for is something from the Church Fathers themselves.
Why weren't you impressed by Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future?
Well, I would have thought that "aliens" had been relegated to the same level of mythology as dragon and fairy's. I don't watch much TV, but I thought everyone was in to "reality TV" now. And I also think there is a vast difference between believing there may be life on other planets and believing aliens are popping in for regular visits and are watching us.
These ghosts would seem to be the ones who just barely made it to Purgatory, who feel little or no joy yet and who need to learn many painful lessons about their past life on earth."
"Second, there are malicious and deceptive spirits - and since they are_deceptive, they hardly ever appear malicious. These are probably the ones who respond to conjurings at seances. They probably come from Hell. Even the chance_of that happening should be sufficient to terrify away all temptations to necromancy."
"Third, there are bright, happy spirits of dead friends and family, especially spouses, who appear unbidden, at God's will, not ours, with messages of hope and love. They seem to come from Heaven. Unlike the purgatorial ghosts who come back primarily for their own sakes, these bright spirits come back for the sake of us the living, to tell us all is well. They are aped by evil spirits who say the same, who speak 'peace, peace, when there is no peace'. But the deception works only one way: the fake can deceive by appearing genuine, but the genuine never deceives by appearing fake. Heavenly spirits always convince us that they are genuinely good.
The Church prays at first for the sinners, who have been imprisoned in hades, "that they may gain some small comfort, even if not complete release". Prayers are said mainly for those who have died in faith "even if they are very sinful". Indeed there are also cases of saints who have even prayed for the ungodly, but "the church of God by no means prays for such"64. The sinners and those imprisoned after death in hades benefit from these prayers on the one hand because they have not been definitively condemned and do not yet have the final decision of the tribunal, on the other hand because they have not yet fallen into hell, which will happen after the Second Coming of Christ.
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Spot on Danyl. Take a bow. Nice to have some left-wing objectivity.
I don't think I've heard Clark described as 'smug'. The word is frequently used to describe Cullen, however. And you'd be hard pressed to argue that our Deputy PM is not insufferably smug - you don't need Crosby/Textor to tell you that, you just need a few seconds of Question Time footage.
It seems to me that Labour party supporters at PAS are building themselves a narrative to explain their parties upcoming annihilation and the Cosby/Textor revelations feed right into that, providing an excuse for the left that poor old Labour will only lose because of some sort of satanic, right-wing media sorcery.
Labour will lose this election for a variety of reasons - bad luck with the economy, incompetent handling of the media, public rejection of their policies, 'third-termitis' and so on - and the Nats will win by default because Labour are doing a terrible job convincing the country to give them another term, not because they have Crosby/Textor on the payroll.
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What bollocks....
Forgive my possible naivety, but don't all poilitical heavies use these sort of people? And dont try and tell me that helen doesn't get, or hasnt had, media coaching? Labour surely uses someone to make sure our perception of dear leader is the correct one otherwise we wouldn't be getting this
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Productivity was "disastrously low" and growing only slowly, limiting household incomes, international competitiveness and living standards, McDonald said in a paper, outlining his "personal views".
Handicapped by "ineffective economic policies", New Zealand's economic performance was unacceptably weak and it was being marginalised by a globalising, rapidly developing world.
There was a link between rising tax and government regulation since 2000 and poor productivity, he said.
For example, Working For Families payments were used to compensate for low productivity, incomes and living standards, rather than dealing with the fundamental problems, he said.
Government policy risk was now a "major disincentive" for business investment.
"New Zealand's increase in tax and regulation since 2000 strongly correlates with poor productivity," he said.
The perils of politicisation
Indeed, its modus operandi is not workng.
The reasons for it is given in an editorial in the Dominion-Post today, as noted by The Hive.
A perception has grown up, rightly or wrongly, in recent years that the public service has left behind its tradition of political neutrality and become an operational arm of the Labour Party.
That has been encouraged by a national librarian lavishly praising her minister in public, a chief executive bowing to bullying from his minister over a departmental appointment and a former state services commissioner who learned a senior state servant didn't have the doctorate she claimed yet failed to frogmarch her from the building, presumably because of her political connections.
A sense has also grown of a service no longer willing to give ministers advice they do not want to hear and a chief executive pool that erroneously believes their boss is their minister, not the state services commissioner.
Now, I will explain why Helengrad is not working, why government is producing so much awful and unworkable policy.
Liarbour has either stacked the bureacracy with too many of its own placemen and women, or people are all too terrified to give the independent advice government needs to avoid getting into trouble.
It's almost like "Oh yes! Dear Leader! Killing the first born is an excellent policy."
A more neutral civil service would warn her against it.
You reap what you sow. Liarbour only has itself to blame for so much bad policy and the effect on its poll ratings!
Hat tip: The Hive
Is it because I is black?
Liberty Scott is rightfully full of 'rage' as he posts on the situation in Zimbabwe, which has just seen Robert Mugabe kill and cheat his way back into power.
Millions of dollars spent and finally a brillant but cunningly simple idea. If only someone at corrections had thought of it sooner.
Evil or Just Plain Incompetent?
"Looking back to when New Zealand signed up to the Kyoto Protocol, it would be reasonable to assume that the government would have wanted to protect the critical agricultural industry from the cost of carbon pricing. Instead our government did the opposite and included agricultural emissions in its Kyoto obligations making New Zealand the only country in the world to have agricultural emissions included as a part of its Kyoto Protocol commitments."
Muriel Newman.
I am amazed that as the emissions trading bills wends its way through parliament that little or nothing has been noted of this fact. I could be wrong, but I don't recall anything from the Hive or Fran O'Sullivan, who have done sterling work in covering the legislation.
But, yes, it's one of those gobsmacking moments when you sit back and think that the New Zealand government has needlessly endangered one of the few successful industries we have- farming.
Now, it was National that signed Kyoto in the 1990s but Liarbour is pushing through emissions trading today.
So who do we blame for this most almighty cock up of multi-billion dollar proportions?
As Muriel Newman says:
"New Zealand farmers should not be penalised for the inadequacies of those who invented the scheme. They need political leaders who will question the legitimacy of these matters on their behalf, mindful of the fact that the only way that other countries have successfully reduced their emissions of methane is by reducing livestock numbers. To expect New Zealand farmers to follow this course of action and exacerbate the world food shortage crisis and destroy the backbone of our economy is lunacy.
Farming leaders have warned that the imposition of Kyoto taxes at the levels being talked about in the emissions trading bill, will critically damage the viability of our most important export industry."
Hat tip: Crusader Rabbit
UPDATE: Sir David Bellamy explains why cows and sheep should be exclused from emissions trading.
Accuse Others of What You Do
An hysterical commentor at The Labour Blog (where only party approved comments are published) summed it up so well:-
"Similarly the C/T strategy of inserting lies, rumour and innuendo through third parties –"
You couldn't get a better example of this practice than Labour's very own use of it's favorite third party rumour monger in this week-ends Sunday Star Times -Labour's favorite mouthpiece..
If you want to know what these crooks are up to, just look at what they accuse others of doing.
"Tawdry Audrey" has some explaining to do
It said the leaflet called "Join the conversation" was described by National as not talking about the election, but about listening to people and developing policy, both of which were legitimate parliamentary activities.
The commission agreed that the "overall character" of the flyer was not to encourage people to vote or not vote for a party."
Hagar the Horrible still playing it dirty
"We have expressed concern to Parliamentary Service on a number of occasions about the security of the parliamentary email system," Mr Eagleson said.
"Since then (the release of Don Brash's emails) a number of initiatives have been taken both by Parliamentary Service and by ourselves to try and improve the situation."
Asked if he believed Hager still had access to National Party diary information Mr Eagleson said "I don't know".
Mr Eagleson said he didn't want to get into specifics of his concerns or whether the details of the story confirmed leaks were continuing or if the party's security was compromised.
"We are doing all we can, but if you are asking me whether it is foolproof, well there are no 100 percent guarantees."
Sunday, June 29, 2008
The ultimate Nanny State
Dear Leader has long admired Sweden, so what's happening over there?
A kid handed out party invites in class and had them confiscated for not inviting two troublemakers. Apparantly their fellings were hurt, it wasn't fair, so Nanny state stepped in.
Kids are even complaining to the state that their parents spend too much time online, often looking at porn!
Elsewhere, in Canada, parents must be careful on how they punish their children. Never mind smacking, but even grounding them can be unlawful and your naughty 12-year-old might get the punishment overturned in court.
As we wonder whether such nonsense, such undermining of parental rights, might happen in New Zealand, think what Liarbour might bring should it win a fourth term. The smacking ban might just be the start of it!
Now, what did happen to the Dear Leader appointed Cindy Kiro and her plans to monitor all the country's children?
Partners in defeat
They Can't Help Themselves
They could sit by and smile while Hagar and the execrable Sunday Star Times set themselves up for a defamation lawsuit but the smiles will be vanishing as the defamatory comments pile up unedited at The Standard. If these people had one brain between the lot of them they'd be dangerous.
Here's a sample of their comments which I expect will be taken down within hours. But don't worry, the thread has been saved and sent to the lads in Aussie.
"As if it isn't bad enough they are using these nasty, repulsive, divisive people...."
"..John Key chose - note, actively chose, he went to them - to employ racist shits,..."
"Similarly the C/T strategy of inserting lies, rumour and innuendo through third parties –"
"...while highlighting CT's history of underhandedness."
"they're known as the dirtiest and most driven political PR firm in the game. CT specialises in dog-whistle racism, attack politics and pretty much every aspect of the politics of division."
Keep it up chaps and you'll all pay a very high price for your KeyDerangement Syndrome. They say the only cure is radical surgery to the bank account.
If you read the whole thread you will see the real problem for Labour is that this time round they are broke and can't afford to hire their own consultants.
Why are they broke? Because their very own Electoral Finance Actl has dried up their money supply. No more tax payer advertising via gummint departments. No more unlimited union electoral spend up. Nobody will back a loser on 29% in the polls.
My spies tell me already they are in hock for over $460k so it's very hard to see how they will fund any campaign at all. Hell, they might have to sell some assets.
Hail Saint Helen! Dear Leader makes cripples walk!
Ho Ho Ho And Off To Court We Go
Here's the punch line from the groveling apology issued by the rabid leftist website Crikey:-
"minister has been overseen and directed by the same professional manipulators used (and also kept secret) by his predecessor, Don Brash. They are the Australian political tacticians, Crosby/Textor. "
Hagar will have to provide some evidence for this description and I think he will struggle.
"They managed the 2001 election campaign where Howard claimed, incorrectly, that refugees on the ship
There is a clear implication by Hagar that the consultants were responsible for Howard's statement. Hagar will struggle to prove that. My recollection of the episode was that even after exhaustive and public enquiry there was nothing to show that Howard had not acted on what he thought was accurate advice from the Navy - albeit LATER shown to be inaccurate.
The article in its entirety is clearly malicious and if parts of it are untrue then Hagar is dog tucker and is swimming in deep defamation waters.
In reality it is nothing but a very shoddy beat up. (Just like his hollow book which has been vastly outsold by Wishart's Aboslute Power.)
Politicians use media consultants. Really? Is that all? Somebody should tell Trevor Mallard.
National's crime is to use consultants who are better at their jobs than are those used by Labour.
Because they are good at their jobs they will wait until the election is over and then skin Hagar alive.
I can't wait.
Are we up for the Great Battle For Freedom?
So big we may not even know it.
You could say we cannot see the wood for the trees.
I refer to the government's emissions trading scheme and its international variants.
You could say its the biggest ideological battle since capitalism versus communism.
And we had thought capitalism had won.
But no, the socialists have regrouped for one more battle and in the guise of a new religion, they look set to increase state control of industry far bigger than the social democratic , mixed economy countries ever achieved in the 1970s (or the Muldoonist 80s in New Zealand) when socialism reached a zenith.
Carbon taxes, carbon trading, call it what you want. The end result is the same. Greater state control of private enterprise and more nannying into our lives.
Wherever we look, governments are pushing through various legislation, some faster than others.
Here in New Zealand we see emissions trading, which is set to cost tens of thousands of jobs, raise fuel and food prices and lower our living standards.
Of course, we mustn't forget how government will use its agents of state, the SOEs to claim something different, however flawed, even when it threatens to break its pet lobbying groups.
We also see how governments will also push legislation through, regardless of the economic and social conquences, even to the point of risking its own majority. This is how the socialists in Liarbour and the Greens think. Their statist ideology comes first.
Over in Australia, we see how similar environmentalism is also set to cause the country billions of dollars and harm living standards too.
And in the UK, with plans to build thousands of windmills even though they will need conventional power back up to work.
There won't be much environmental gain anyway. We saw this with the support for biofuels. But environmental friendliness is not the real aim. It's about control. Witness how Green Parties everywhere tend to be socialists in drag, or watermelons, green on the outside and red on the inside. Witness how the dirtiest countries, like the former USSR, tend to be the socialist/communist ones, while the richer capitalist ones are usually cleaner.
And now, after communism was shown to fail, we see a fightback under the guise of supporting Gaia. We should not have private cars, we are told, they damage the environment. We cannot use petrol too, likewise. But Pruises are more environmentally damaging and so are diesel buses! We are told to use biofuels but then we realise they cause bigger problems, like habitat devastation and starvation. And we'll have it drummed into us concepts of carbon foot prints and food miles.
We should be carbon free but non nuclear is still wrong. And if you doubt the nannying, look how the greenies are obsessed by what we eat (it can't be pies) and what we watch (it can't be The Great Global Warming Swindle).
And now they and their Liarbour allies are pushing carbon trading schemes the world over, with governments looking at huge windfall taxes.
What timing too? When global economies are particularly vulnerable, helped in part by the enviro-socialism they promote stopped sufficient discovery of oil and led to the push for biofiuels.
True, there will be some capitalists seeing new opportunities, like fifth columnists. And wasn't it Lenin who said the capitalists would sell the rope from which to hang themselves?
In the meantime, Fran O'Sullivan argues how Liarbour should try and gain a cross-party consensus on climate change, which probably means leaving such measures until after the Election. But Liarbour is too keen on state control to even consider those who disagree with it.
And Poneke notes how climate change evangelists seek to brand sceptics planet destroyers.
Like he, I smell the bullshit too. Was it Rod Oram that was the facilitator?
Anyway, the stakes are truly high. Not just economic wealth but control, our freedom, the rights for us to do what we want. Be it in business, how we live, what we drive, what we heat, how we heat our homes, where we go for our holidays, and after the government's latest piece of annoying, even what type of lightbulb we use!
Are we up for the Great Battle For Freedom?
How Easy It Is To Go Straight
The SST trumpets the past criminal history of a man who is setting up a business to distribute an imported energy drink. This is an admirable endeavour for a person with a record of paedophilia and theft. He's not in contact with kids and if anyone steals anything it will be his clients stealing his stock. Pretty good so far?
Not until you look at the fellow from the Food Safety Authority. My eyebrows shot up when I read this little gem of socialist busy body interference:-
' "It's all good, it's all go with the Food Safety Authority," he said.
But an authority spokesman last night said Percy was mistaken.
"I don't know who he is talking about. "We are investigating him and things aren't all go," authority communications manager Gary Bowering said." '
The product is either safe or it is not safe.
Show me the legislation which entitles you to investigate this fellow or stick to your job, jerk!
Liarbour: The Living Dead!
Another great shocking exclusive from the SST!
Labour's Elephant
"..........says Dr Jon Johansson, a leadership expert at Victoria University. "The real weakness of Clark is that there is no over-arching explanation as to what the purpose of her government is. We've seen this right through the three terms."
(In passing, I'm impressed with Dr Johansson's new title, no doubt self written. Helps pad out the CV.)
Of course, like all the other lefties, he can't bring himself to admit what the voters of New Zealand know.
"The over-arching explanation as to what the purpose of her government is - is to keep itself in power - no matter who else suffers."
None of this morning's Herald commentators seems aware that the public has woken up to the fact that it has been governed by a cabal of crooks. One little example was the extraordinary admission the other day in question time by someone or other that there had been insufficient time to address matters relating to crime and prisons because they were too busy working on the electoral finance bill. This of course was entirely in keeping with 'the over-arching purpose of her government.
These things are not lost on the voters.
Adolf has obtained an exclusive photo of one of these EFB meetings, leaked by an official who must remain anonymous.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Obama v Clinton
Olympians need to 'get hard'
How many times have Kiwi athletes and Rugby players been told to 'get hard'.
Well, now the little blue pill might just be helping them do just that.
Of course, it's not performance on the running track that these 'rock hard' athletes are looking for but performance somewhere else.
After all, we all know what goes on back in the athletes village don't we!
Yesterday's Whale is Tomorrow's Sheep
Based in New Zealand, the International Commission for Sheep (The Bleating Commission) will focus on the sharp drop in sheep numbers world wide over the past thirty years. Numbers in New Zealand have declined from over sixty million head in 1965 to less than 20 million today. It is calculated there are now fewer sheep roaming the world's pastures than there are whales in the sea.
Inaugural world president of the Bleating Commission, Sue Kedgeley, is calling for a world wide ban on the consumption of sheep meat. (Adolf was buying Kumara in Glenfield for $2.99 on the day this silly bitch was wasting parliament's time bleating about supermarkets selling them for $6.00.)
"The pain and misery caused to these innocent frolicking little lambsies is unacceptable" said the Chief Bleater. "We cruelly slaughter these animals in their hundreds of thousands. People need to know that by slaughtering just one humpback whale we could save the lives of seven hundred dear little lambs for the same amount of meat. It's what we call the death dividend."
Government grants are to be given to Iwi and other privileged group to establish sheep watching tourism ventures. Japanese visitors are to be encouraged to adopt a sheep and receive yearly updates on their little baa baa's progress into sheeplehood. Others on their gullible travels will be sold purified organic sheep dags to wear around their necks as lucky charms. (Especially effective when you enter the tropics.)
Sheep friendly businesses will receive certificates of sheepishness and will qualify for special tax rebates and the University of Canterbury is to be endowed with a faculty for woolly thinking, engaging Dr Michael Cullen as inaugural Professor. New Zealand is to shake off its 'land of sheep shaggers' image as a thorough programme of re-education is introduced to kindergartens, preschools and primary schools.
The Prime Minister has jumped at the chance to redress her party's flagging electoral fortunes by launching The Bleaters new logo on Nationwide TV next week.
Here it is:-
Hope you are snug in your beds tonight
More crap lands on Zim
The UN security council has failed to agree on declaring Zimbabwe's runoff election illegitimate today in the face of South African opposition.
Instead, it merely issued an oral statement of regret.
Personally I think their statement came out the other end
Adolf Apologises
Adolf has withdrawn this picture and regrets any offense its use may have given to the extended families of Herr Hitler and Goebbels.
A suitable replacement has been found.
It really, really does look like Clark's hand.
They Don't Like It Up'em
Here's great news, lads. You're no longer at risk of losing any more demographics. They've all gone. More Maori vote National, more poor people vote National. More rich pricks vote National. More cockies vote National.
There's nobody left except for the intellectually handicapped.
That's the price of Cullen's recession we didn't have to have. If he had released tax cuts six years ago, restrained growth of gummint bureaucracy, resisted the temptation to spend billions on bribes, we would have been a prosperous nation where people could afford to pay high prices for food and petrol.
Why, you blokes might even have had a show of winning this election.
And guess what happened?
These paragons of free speech blocked it.
National and Key on 'Smacking'
Lucyna is confused. The Standard showed a cartoon and labels Key inconsistent. Colin Espiner is similarly confused. Ropata seems to think because Key asked a curly question in Parliament he is swell.
"The Leader of the Opposition is now running around saying he wants a referendum so he can disguise from conservatives the fact he voted for the child discipline bill in the first place - something he would like them to forget."
This week, Mr Key said his stance remained one of supporting the law change unless he saw evidence that good parents were being penalised under it. He said there was not yet any sign of that.
Meanwhile, there still remains the one sole political party who voted consistently against this intrusive, nanny-state-knows-best legislation.
Key needs to be elected to change the law. But he won't be elected (he doesn't think) by being portrayed as a supporter of "childbeaters". But if he is elected he won't necessarily change the law anyway unless there were signs good parents were being prosecuted.
What a dumb thing to say. With his initial compromise, where he allowed police discretion to be applied explicitly, virtually the only way now that good parents would be prosecuted would be if the police didn't use their discretion properly. And that would be the fault of whom?
That's what happens when you follow polls, not principles.
Treasury Chief To Campaign For Labour
Looks a lot like Hodgson.
Does anyone seriously think that the absence of this poobah from just one meeting will put the economy at risk?
Bloody hell, I'd better get over there and put a twenty billion dollar policy on his life.
Another Direct Hit
While Cullen was trying to launch his pathetic Battle of The Bilge this week, he was being outflanked by those agents provocateur called Digipoll. They found that the National infantry had crossed the Rhine in the dead of the month and are racing toward the Frau Fuhrer bunker. Well so to speak.
This is by far and away the most disastrous poll for Labour yet. Bell weather Auckland is gone - down a whopping ten percent in one month to well below 30%. Support across the nation is down 4% with National out to the biggest margin since polls began - 22%.
The Bilious Bitch has gained a little as preferred PM but who cares?
Worse still, low income people are flocking to National. What a bastard, all those billions invested in bribes were wasted.
Here's how it looks:-
National 55
Labour 32
Greens 6
Poodle 3
|Party name
|Party Votes won
|Party seat entitlement
|No. of electorate seats won
|No. of list MPs
|Total MPs
|% of MPs
|Act New Zealand
|Green Party
|Jim Anderton's Progressive
|Labour Party
|Maori Party
|National Party
|United Future New Zealand
National/Act/Maori coalition has seventy six seats. Enough to govern for the next generation.
Economic gloom
Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero".I don't think Dr Cullen has any idea what he's talking about when he says this:
"We're in a nasty environment," said Tim Bond, the bank's chief equity strategist. "There is an inflation shock underway. This is going to be very negative for financial assets. We are going into tortoise mood and are retreating into our shell. Investors will do well if they can preserve their wealth."
Finance Minister Michael Cullen reassures that the country's economic outlook is positive despite the contraction in the first quarter. "While the March quarter GDP data today are disappointing, it is important to remember that this is a temporary disappointment driven by an unusual set of negative overseas economic developments, but that New Zealand's medium-term economic and social prospects are very health and strong," Cullen says.I think Cullen falls into this category quite nicely:
Sure, the government's books are in okay shape but this is not a public debt crisis, it is a private debt/credit crisis! What is the bottom line on the world situation?
Ludwig von Mises observed that fiat money can be inflated as long as people think it will end one day. However, if people begin to think inflation will continue forever or, worse yet, if they think it will accelerate, it's "game over" for the scumbag thieves who are in the process of robbing honest, hardworking people, who actually create wealth.
Who are the scumbag thieves I speak of? Primarily, they are the bankers and politicians, who form this unholy alliance of thieves. Politicians are always seeking to get elected by giving as many things away to voters as possible, without taxing them. The Federal Reserve-backed banking system provides the cover for the economic lies and dishonesty of our elected officials. As Ronald Reagan quipped, "They say politics is the second-oldest profession and I've been around it long enough to know it has a lot in common with the oldest profession."
Like hookers, politicians turn their own kind of tricks. They trick voters into thinking they are getting something for nothing while they are having their pockets picked by $135 oil prices caused mostly by an increase in the money supply used to finance the exact giveaway programs that get these clowns elected time after time!
There is also a good article here.
Lou is right, there are a lot of ducks in a row right now and they're all falling down. Our (NZ's) bottom line is this I believe: with no finance companies left able to lend money there will be no expansions by companies and employers. There will be redundancies. House prices will fall a lot (no crash, just a slump) and there will be no further development because there are no credible finance companies left willing to lend! To solve this 'crisis', money supply in NZ will have to be increased leading to high inflation for a long time. But with no demand to support higher prices (consumer confidence is slumping) prices will fall - deflation. We could then have deflation with very little economic growth.
How to profit out of this? Buy Gold stocks. Choose companies that are un-hedged to the US dollar and are producing rather than exploring. Gold will go nuts in the next 2-3 years. At the very least don't get into debt, in fact reduce it as best you can.
This is shaping up as a very good election to lose.
Have a great weekend!
Liarbour achievements
Enough is Enough!
A good message of what we feel not just about crime, but other government failures.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Can Liarbour be this dumb?
Director-general of health Stephen McKernan told Parliament's health select committee this week the Health Ministry would be reviewing subsidised pharmaceuticals for patients treated by private specialists.
"Our general policy is public funding is for public patients," he said.
Yes folks
The toughest times in 20 years are here NOW.
I started business in 1990 and in 18 years have never seen conditions like these stacking up in a row.
It's a bloody shame the Labour government has pissed our wealth up against the wall for 9 years because we sure could do with it now.
Maybe some ex Labour MP's will learn the true cost of money next year after years of signing cheques with "meaningless" 000,000,000's added on the end.
For the rest of us. Maybe shares in parachute companies?????
Labour Friday
Friday Frolics- Dear Leader special!
A: Because after the next election it is highly unlikely that members of the Labour caucus will be spending much time in schools.
3. Key, Hide and Helen are suddenly and tragically killed by a freak accident in Parliament. All three appear before the Pearly Gates. St Peter looks at Key and asks, "now who might you be?"
4-Liabour Party conference time and Dear Leader aims to show "Socialists are not stupid."
Helen Clark says, "We are all here today to prove to the world that we are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer."
Recession confirmed! Cullenomics crumbles further!
And with finance houses collapsing by the dozen inflation takin off and unemployment rising, hasn't Cullen left a fine Liabrour legacy after nine long years?
Yet more Liarbour corruption
Kevin Brady told a select committee this week he was considering splitting a broad-ranging inquiry into the immigration service, and how issues around the granting of residency to relatives of Ms Thompson were handled.
He said it was possible aspects which included the role Government ministers played would be addressed first.
Mr Brady indicated ministers will undergo interviews under oath when they are questioned about what they knew of the matter and how they had responded.
Failed history lecturer needs to revise his history too
Is The Flake A Fake?
When Daily Kos published a copy of Obama's birth certificate to shut down debate over his eligibility to run for presidential office, I had my doubts. The most obvious sign was the fact that the serial number was blanked out. The second sing was the wording. His race was classified as 'African' but as far as Adolf can recall, back when Obama is alleged to have been born, blacks were referrd to as 'negro.' The term 'African' is a product of the politically correct modern day.
Click for higher resolution image.
TBR has more.
The Liarbour Minister of Heath
Liarbour certainly know how to spend your money
The Audit Office embarked on an investigation into defence agencies' monitoring and reporting last year in regard to 10 major defence purchases, most of which have been subject to delays and cost increases.
But in an interim report, released today, Auditor-General Kevin Brady said the ministry's reporting systems were so poor his office had been forced to abandon the audit.
Typical Liarbour, eh! It just confirms what Gooner said the other day about Liarbour.
They just think a problem can be solved by throwing money at a problem without a care as to how wisely it is spent.
It was only yesterday we heard about the bureaucratic Tertiary Education Commission gorging on waste.
Ask yourself, who spends money wisest? You or this Liarbour government?
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Just a thought....
I note with interest that the Yahoo Xtra site is running a "news poll" with the question being:
"Should other countries intervene in Zimbabwe?"
The responses, as at 20:45 are, yes - 8789 or 88%, no - 943 or 9%, and not sure - 281 or 3%.
As this is a fairly non political poll, and as such is probably free from the bulk voting of labour supporters, this probably reflects the atitudes of the readership. However I can't help but wonder if the "yes to no" ratio would be so large if the question was something like:
"Do you think NZ troops should be part of any intervention force sent to Zimbawe to overthrow Mugabe?"
This Little Piggy
Failed priorities confirmed as Liarbour blunder backfires too!
A Century of Top Ups?
"Helen's had her day"
Clark decides what Key will do as PM in 2009
If there is any referendum on child discipline laws it will be held by postal ballot in 2009, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.Of course this is the same Helen Clark who also said this:
Helen Clark: A lot of people aren't comfortable with beatings but they don't want to see, you know, stressed and harassed parents, you know, pulled in by the police because they, they smacked a child.That's the problem when you live your life not by principles, but by polls.
Bob McCroskie: So you do not want to see smacking banned?
Helen Clark: Absolutely not, I think you are trying to defy human nature.
Cops acquitted so must be 'scum'
But if you're a cop in the watch house fingerprinting a dangerous, P-fuelled prisoner and you have to restrain him and are charged with Assault and are acquitted then all is not swell. You are in fact, "lower than low".
So let me get this straight: if you're a cop charged with an offence and you're found guilty then that's patently the right result, but the victim's relatives will forgive you.
But if you're found not guilty that's patently the wrong result and you should expect no forgiveness.
But she said his family did not want Holmes to be sentenced to prison.
"I do feel sorry for him, it's a mistake that he has made," she said.
Reaction from the Falwasser family was predominantly surprise and disappointment. One close family member walked out saying "pigs", "no justice" and "bullshit".As a Mongrel Mob member said to me once "there ain't no justice bro', just us".
And he was right.


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The Walkabout: Helping Young Adults Transition to Survivorship
About 70,000 adolescents and young adults (AYAs), defined as ages 15-39, are diagnosed with cancer each year. These individuals are often treated alongside people twice their age, in offices and clinics where the staff has little experience with the unique needs of AYAs, which can include social isolation, fertility concerns, body image, cognitive function, late treatment effects, and issues related to education, employment, and insurance. Unfortunately, completion of active treatment does not put an end to many of these concerns. Transitioning to survivorship can be particularly difficult for AYAs, who often lack the social support and resources to adjust to their new normal.
Enter Caroline Peterson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, a licensed professional counselor, art therapist and mindfulness meditation instructor. Caroline has combined mindfulness-based stress reduction with art therapy and counseling to create a unique program, called Walkabout, to assist AYAs in transitioning to survivorship.
Taken from its origins as an adolescent aboriginal rite of passage, a walkabout is a maturational reflective journey of discovery in which aboriginal youth leave home to experience their capacity in the challenging wilderness. The Walkabout is a transformative journey, allowing them to look deep inside, and deeper at the world around them, growing into their true selves. AYAs face a similar challenging journey, beyond what is familiar and comfortable, when diagnosed with cancer. The Walkabout program provides a scene-change on the journey, providing the time, space and environment to personally make sense of what's next in life and build a strong view for surviving well.
OncoLink sat down with Caroline to learn more about the challenges facing AYAs transitioning to a survivor role and this unique program.
OncoLink: Thank you for speaking with us today! Many people do not understand why a cancer diagnosis is any different psychologically for an AYA than an older individual. Can you help us understand this better?
Caroline Peterson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC: The period of later adolescence and young adulthood is a time when individuals are truly coming into their own — manifesting their independence as they launch themselves into higher educational goals, planning careers or successfully advancing professional goals, as well as exploring or committing to partnering relationships and perhaps family planning goals. For healthy AYAs, this is a maturational period of life in which their youthful energy well matches this array of challenges and the future is perceived as bountiful. After a cancer diagnosis, an AYA is faced with uncertainty in all of these areas.
OncoLink: What do you see as the common psychosocial/psychological issues for AYAs during the transition from active treatment to survivor?
Caroline Peterson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC: Diagnosis and treatment for cancer affects AYAs globally, across the bio-psycho-social-spiritual domains of their lives. Treatment for cancer varies, and some treatments are quite arduous.
The post treatment period includes becoming comfortable with separation from the health care team and reclaiming many aspects of life, which have been disrupted, sometimes significantly. Even when post-treatment prognosis is excellent, the idea of the future is changed and learning to live with uncertainty is a significant challenge. Other challenges include self image related to body image and sexuality, work, family and social roles.
During the diagnostic and treatment period, AYAs often return to the care and focused attention of their parents, therefore, post-treatment roles require renegotiating independence with parents. Partner relationships may be deeply altered. AYAs who are parents face the ongoing needs of their children, even as they cope to find the right language to communicate with their children about their illness experience.
In the case of young adults diagnosed with sarcomas, who are one focus of the Walkabout program, the medical literature suggests that many sarcoma survivors experience persistent distress over time.
Walkabout is intended to help any AYA diagnosed with cancer to understand their distress and work with it directly and creatively.
OncoLink: The Walkabout program combines several approaches that have proven successful in decreasing distress from illness, anxiety, depression, fatigue and worried thinking. Can you describe the components of the program and how they meet the needs of the participants?
Caroline Peterson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC: Key elements include (1) engagement with peers; (2) mindfulness meditation skills training to be more attentive and aware, less reactive to challenging events in daily life, with increased vitality and greater ease of mind; (3) physical activity, including mindful walkabouts with a camera in hand; and (4) expressive therapy component using digital photography, art materials and collage to explore the present and imagine a meaningful future. Participants need not have any experience with photography or art to benefit from the program.
OncoLink: What skills are participants able to take away from Walkabout to help them cope with life's challenges long-term?
Caroline Peterson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC: Human beings are inherently creative and using our creativity has been described as "synonymous with health itself." By habit and culture, we articulate our experience more readily using the left or language side of the brain. The creative/expressive component of Walkabout aims to exercise the right side of the brain, to expand creative capacity, spatially, intuitively, and imaginally — like putting more lights on in a house or having more gigabytes.
Mindfulness skills training is another way to light up the brain. People who receive mindfulness skills training, as in the Walkabout, are reported to experience benefit beyond the training period. Overall, this could be described as a greater capacity in the mind and body for balance or what is called psycho-physiological self-regulation.
This balanced way of coping allows one to respond, rather than react, to stressful events. Using mindful attention and awareness to naturally calm the mind and body. Participants report a greater capacity to embrace each day fully and "surf" the normal ups and downs of living.
OncoLink: Who is the program for and how can AYA survivors in the Philadelphia area participate in Walkabout?
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Date and time: 29 March, 6.30pm-7.30pm BST
Topic: the evaluative statement
Participants: 14
Tweets: about 160
I tuned in to the first #chartership chat on Twitter last month but I missed the last two so it was great to get involved again. Tonight's theme was the evaluative statement, and while there weren't as many of us present this week (@joeyanne was missing and we were competing with the hottest day of the year, as @cjclib pointed out!), @tinamreynolds did a great job keeping the conversation going and the discussion was just as fast-flowing and crammed with useful tips.
@joeyanne will be archiving the tweets as usual and you can still read write-ups of the previous #chartership chats. The next chat is on 12 April at 6.30pm BST, and the theme will be the mentor/mentee relationship.
16 February, #Chartership chat on Twitter blogpost by @joeyanne
Storify on #chartership chat by @ellyob
1 March, Chatting about Chartership blogpost by @el399
17 March, collecting and reporting evidence blogpost by @Library_Quine
I've taken the approach of previous bloggers and tried to pull out the main areas we discussed, as well as the best practical tips for writing your statement.
Planning and drafting the evaluative statement
There was some debate over when to start thinking about the evaluative statement. @Misteemog collected a mass of evidence first, drew it together in the statement, writing about each item, then "pruned the best bits". @Readyourbook suggested arranging your evidence into a coherent order first, then writing a sentence about each piece of evidence as a first draft:
Some said they'd been thinking about the evaluative statement while they were collecting evidence – @ellyob jots down ideas for the statement under each of her chartership objectives, alongside possible evidence. @tinamreynolds and @Readyourbook both wished they'd started thinking about the statement at an earlier stage. Whether or not you draft your statement as you're going along, we all agreed it was advisable to think about the criteria as well as your PPDP goals while you're gathering evidence.
@Readyourbook pointed out that drafting the statement can help you to focus on reflection, and to weed out evidence that doesn't add anything to your portfolio.
What to focus on
I've reached the point where I want to draft my evaluative statement, but I'm struggling to set out a framework, so it was great to get some input from other chartershippers (charterers? Hmm).
@AnabelMarsh "parachuted in" to pass on some advice from a recent chartership meeting she attended. The assessors she met prefer the statement to be based on the criteria, because it makes their job easier, though they're not opposed to other approaches. @annetteearl followed this framework, writing 250 words on each of the four criteria.
We agreed it didn't matter if your evidence applied to more than one of the criteria – they're bound to cross over (most activities, as @tinamreynolds pointed out, will count as commitment to CPD), and applying to multiple criteria can strengthen your evidence – although it may make writing the statement harder!
If there isn't room for in-depth reflection in the statement, where else can you put it?
The statement is limited to 1,000 words, so there isn't much room for proper reflection – @Schopflin repeated the mantra, "Make every word count", and pointed out that "your statement should be supported by evidence, not contain it". @Misteemog was advised to think of the statement as an executive summary of your application.
@tinamreynolds posed a question:
@johnmcmahon31 writes a reflective report on each event he attends. The portfolio I currently have on loan from CILIP (by Simon Ward) makes very good use of this – every training day and course is written up in a report, including aims and achievements, so the author is reflecting on lessons he's learned and applied in the workplace as well as just describing the experience. The statement can then be limited to one or two lines for each objective.
The CV is another place to add reflection:
By describing your key achievements in each job role and how you applied what you learned on training courses to the workplace, you can save space in your statement. Four pages is a lot to play with; even if you're as prolific as @tinamreynolds and have reems of training to draw on, you can add a line or two of reflection on the most useful courses if you're selective.
@Readyourbook suggested adding some reflection to an explanatory note at the top of each piece of evidence, to make it absolutely clear to the assessors why the evidence is included.
Other issues covered
- @ellyob wondered how many objectives you should identify in the PPDP – most people had four or five development areas but could bundle different objectives together under each one
- How much evidence do you put in the portfolio?
- Ways of organising evidence – whiteboards, physical piles of evidence, post-it notes in a matrix
- The benefits of including an explanatory statement at the top of each piece of evidence, making it clear why it is included
- Reassurance that any changes to the chartership process following the Future Skills consultation won't apply to anyone who is already registered for chartership
- What to include in the CV
Top tips on writing the evaluative statement
- It's never too early to think about the evaluative statement – if you have it in mind while you're gathering evidence it'll be much easier to write
- Think of your statement as an executive summary
- Assessors prefer it if you base your statement on the criteria (though it's not the only way) – the clearer you make it the easier their job is
- It's all about reflection not description – the place to describe activities is in the evidence…
- …and if you go over the word limit try to fit more reflective writing into your evidence
- Ensure everything in the portfolio is referred to in the statement – don't let evidence sit alone
- Arrange the statement with headings, bullet points etc to break up the text – it's easier for the assessors to read and navigate (although long headings might eat up the word count!)


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1023: Late-Night PBS
| This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: No explanation just a lot of trivia and disjointed facts. Explain the comic and separate out the trivia to different sections
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Megan falls asleep with the TV on after watching Downton Abbey. When she wakes up, around 3 AM, "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" is airing. Unlike typical late night TV, which is usually re-runs of previously recorded episodes, she claims that the episode she watched is set in the modern day (i.e. PBS had ordered new episodes of the show) and all of the people on the show have aged accordingly.
In the Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego TV show, the places the contestants went were always portrayed as fun and happy, unlike the places that they have to visit in this comic. Situations like those mentioned in this comic were never really discussed.
Mogadishu is a battle-torn city in Somalia, where there was the aptly named "Battle of Mogadishu" in 1993, which would coincide with the air dates of "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" game show.
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970-1975).
The reference to "A Bookshelf in a Dutch Apartment" is a reference to Anne Frank, who was a Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis in a Secret Annex hidden behind a bookshelf in an apartment in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She wrote the famous diary, Diary of Anne Frank.
One continuity issue in this comic is that the places they have to visit in this episode seem to require traveling to different periods in time (1993, 1975-1979, 1940s, respectively). Episodes of Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego usually did not deal with this — this is what the TV show Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego (the successor to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, albeit with a different house band and a different host) did.
The last frame also makes mention of how some programs intended for children often have subtle themes for adults who may be watching the show with their children. SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents are other examples of shows that have hidden meanings in things for the adults watching the show with their children. The joke in the panel is that these sorts of underlying themes were always present in the show, but the young/less mature viewers weren't able to pick up on them. When Cueball expresses his doubt that the show was this dark when he watched it (presumably as a kid in the early 1990s), Megan tells him exactly this, that maybe these scenarios were always there but they were too young to understand them.
In the title text there is a reference to Bob Ross, a famous painter with a painting show on PBS called "The Joy of Painting" that ran for 12 years. Bob Ross was known for using "happy little _____" to describe components of his paintings. For example while painting trees he would encourage viewers to add "happy little trees" to their paintings.
Ambien, also known as Zoldipem, is a prescription medication used for the treatment of insomnia, as well as some brain disorders. Known side effects are vivid dreams and hallucinations if you wake up (or haven't yet fallen asleep) while it is still active.
Thus, the joke in the title text is that Randall/Megan isn't sure if this is hallucinating from taking Ambien, or if something horrible has happened because PBS's security staff isn't large enough. The entire comic, in general, revolves around this notion.
Carmen Sandiego
"Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" was a computer game series in the mid-80s. Carmen Sandiego was a mysterious character that you tracked around the globe, attempting to find clues to find out where she was headed to next. The point of the series was to learn about geography and the world while having fun. The series moved to a game-show TV series in the early 1990s from 1991 to 1995. The role of The Chief was played by Lynne Thigpen, a role she played in all 3 computer games (Where in the USA, Where in the World, and Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego) and both TV shows (Where in Time and Where in the World). She was responsible for telling the detectives (sleuths) what had been stolen, which of Carmen's thieves was suspected of stealing it, and some relevant information about their last whereabouts (effectively, telling the sleuths what their mission was). Whenever the detectives would catch a thief (or Carmen), she would appear and congratulate them or console them if Carmen got away (unlike what she does here).
TV Show
The host of the TV show was Greg Lee. When the show originally aired, Greg was in his late 20s/early 30s. His job was to ask the questions of the contestants and tell them which flags to plant on the map in the final round, as well as engage in silly situations with The Chief and Rockapella to keep the show moving and provide clues.
If the show were still airing in 2012 he would be 50, hence the aging joke. This comic is not the first time a host of one of the Carmen Sandiego TV shows was mocked and shown as drinking on the job; Robot Chicken showed a similar scenario with the host of Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego in 2010 (link — the voice of the host in the skit is the voice of the actual host from Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego).
The show was split into 3 rounds. In the first round, there were 3 sleuths. Each question they got right gave them additional points. The top 2 scoring sleuths moved onto the next round, where they had to play a game (like the game Memory) where they had to find the thief, warrant, and loot in the correct order. Whichever sleuth did so captured the thief, saved the loot, and moved onto the next round, where they had a chance to catch Carmen Sandiego herself. Success was not always guaranteed in this round, as contestants had to plant flags correct on 7 different countries in a continent within a very short time period. If the sleuth was successfully able to do this, they captured Carmen and won the grand prize (a trip to a place of their choosing in the continental US). If not, Carmen would escape and the sleuth would win a lesser prize (like a computer).
Rockapella was the 'A cappella' group (keeping up the tradition of punny names for a cappella groups) which sang the theme song to "Where in The World Is Carmen Sandiego." 'A cappella' is a loan word from Italian meaning "in the manner of the Church" hearkening back to Gregorian chant; in the 19th century the term evolved to mean any vocalization without accompaniment. In the TV version of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, Rockapella also acted as a "house band" of sorts, singing songs while the contestants transitioned between events, providing clues, playing pranks on Greg Lee, etc. At the end of each show, Greg Lee and the episode's winning contestant would shout "Do it, Rockapella!" at which point the band would sing the shows theme song. Thus, it is unsurprising that they would be on the set when the contestants captured Carmen Sandiego. The humorous part is that, instead of singing, like everyone else in this comic, they make the contestants feel uncomfortable by glaring at them (something they would never do).
- [Megan is rubbing sleep out of her eyes and talking to Cueball.]
- Megan: Have you ever watched PBS late at night?
- Megan: I fell asleep after Downton and woke up at like 3 AM.
- [The upper portion of the panel continues dialogue, while the lower shows a drunk gameshow host and several contestants. The monitor shows a field of crosses, presumably graves.]
- Megan: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego was back on, except the host hadn't aged well and he'd clearly been drinking.
- Megan: Every question took them to some horrible place like Mogadishu or the Cambodian killing fields.
- [Now it shows a bookshelf revealing a hidden room.]
- Megan: The kids were freaked out, but they kept playing. Eventually they were told they'd found Carmen Sandiego hiding behind a bookshelf in a Dutch apartment.
- Megan: The Chief appeared and asked "Are you proud of what you've become?"
- Megan: Then Rockapella walked out and just glared at the kids until they started crying.
- Cueball: I, uh, don't remember the old show being that dark.
- Megan: Maybe we were too young to pick up on it.
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I still remember playing the Carmen San Diego educatonal games. Oh, good, good days. Davidy22[talk] 13:17, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Now I know why my copy was glitchy... Anonymous 17:20, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
The show is Downton Abbey, not Downtown Abbey. I feel like if I actually edit it the strip Randall made about that very annoyance will win. 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
So, it has come to this. 22.214.171.124 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I've just gone through the whole explanation, correcting spelling and grammar. As I went I fixed other issues, so it's not JUST spelling and grammar - I've updated links, reworded sections, and revised sentence order. I think we can remove the Incomplete tag now, but in light of the heavy editing and the low activity this explanations receives, I'll leave it a week or so for comments before I do so. Cosmogoblin (talk) 14:36, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for cleaning up my mess. 18.104.22.168 19:36, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
I would like to suggest for someone to edit the explanation for this comic. The killing fields were created in the time period mentioned, however they still exist to this day, so Carmen Sandiego could *easily* have gone there. However, not stepping on a landmine might have proved to be a problem. I am not editing it personally because it's a really big explanation and I'm fairly busy at the moment. Znayx (talk) 19:45, 20 March 2016 (UTC)


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Stivers in position to lead Ky. Senate
Manchester Republican wins re-election
Kentucky Senate Majority Leader Robert Stivers has won re-election, putting him in line as a possible successor to David Williams as the Senate's next top leader.
Stivers, a Manchester Republican, easily defeated Democrat Ralph Hoskins in Tuesday's election in their eastern Kentucky district.
Stivers has been mentioned as a possible replacement for Williams as Senate president. Williams resigned from the Senate recently to become a circuit judge in southern Kentucky.
In another Senate race, Democratic Sen. Julian Carroll defeated Republican Frank Haynes. Carroll is a former Kentucky governor.
In the Kentucky House, Republicans are looking to pick up more seats in a chamber where they've long been in the minority. GOP candidates were hoping the strong support for their presidential candidate in the state would trickle down to their races.


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Tax Breaks for College Students
Four Tax Breaks College Students And Recent Grads Shouldn't Miss
College students and recent grads may take advantage of four tax breaks that can add up to serious savings.
1. Student Loan Interest
Current college students paying interest on unsubsidized loans and student loan borrowers who have graduated or withdrawn and are repaying their loan can claim a tax deduction on their federal student loan interest. Students lucky enough to have parents helping with their student loan bill can still claim the interest rate reduction according to Kiplinger.
In the past, if parents repaid student loans for their child, neither could reap the tax benefit. Now the IRS treats student interest payment as if it had been paid by the student borrower, even if mom and dad made the payments. A student loan borrower who is not claimed as a dependent can qualify to deduct up to $2,500 for student loan interest.
2. College Tuition
Through the Hope Scholarship Tax Credit or the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit students can deduct the total credit amount directly from the taxes they owe, which makes them more valuable than a deduction. However, a student or family cannot get a refund for these credits if they do not pay taxes. A family that owes less in taxes than amount of the Hope tax credit it is eligible to receive can only get a credit equal to the taxes owed.
A family may claim the Hope Scholarship Tax Credit up to $1,650 for each eligible dependent for up to two tax years (100% of the first $1,100 and 50% of the second $1,100 paid for qualified education expenses). The Hope credit is only available for a student's first two years of post secondary education. The credit is phased out based on the student's or family's income.
A student or family may claim a tax credit of up to $2,000 per tax year with the Lifetime Learning Tax Credit. The amount of the Lifetime Learning tax credit is 20 percent of the first $10,000 of qualified educational expenses paid for all eligible students. The Lifetime Learning credit is available for all years of postsecondary education and for courses to acquire or improve job skills, unlike the Hope credit which is only available for two years.
Students may also want to consider the Tuition and Fees Tax Deduction, which can reduce taxable income by as much as $4,000. Unlike the tax credits, this is a deduction that lowers the amount of taxable income attributed to the student or family. Students can claim this deduction even if they do not itemize deductions on Schedule A of Form 1040. This deduction may benefit students who do not qualify for either the Hope or Lifetime Learning Education Tax Credits.
Up to $4,000 may be deducted from tuition and fees required for enrollment or attendance at an eligible postsecondary institution. Personal living and family expenses, including room and board, insurance, medical and transportation, are not deductible expenses.
3. Moving Expenses
Students who are required to move to take their first job will qualify for a moving expense deduction. Students (or any others) who have moved more than 50 miles for work can deduct the cost of moving themselves and their stuff. Expenses associated with driving your car to the new area will also get you a deduction of 20 cents per mile plus parking fees and any tolls.
4. Child Tax Credit
Students with children or other dependents should make sure they claim a child tax credit for each eligible child. Students may claim anyone who is their son, daughter, stepchild, foster child, brother, sister, stepsister, or a descendant of any of these who is younger than 17 in 2010 and who did not provide more than half of their own financial support. The person must have lived with the taxpayer for more than half of the year and must be a U.S. citizen, national, or resident alien.
This credit is phased out based on income and the total credit cannot exceed the amount of taxes owed. An Additional Child Tax Credit is available to certain individuals who get less than the full amount of the child tax credit. This credit can provide students a refund even if they owe no taxes.