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The last tidbit I dug out of my "previous versions vault" received such a good response I thought I'd show you some more. This was the old Chapter 2 of The Space Between Worlds. Cahokia Mounds is a pre-Columbian Native American historic site in Illinois, directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. You can read more about it here: Cahokia Mounds. Bridget and Celena visit on a school field trip, and naturally, some teleportation occurs.
* * * * *
Bridget, Celena and the rest of their World History class filed out of the bus at the famous Native American site the next state over.
"Have you ever been here before?" Celena asked as she stepped onto the pavement.
"Once," answered Bridget. "In fourth grade. I really don't remember much, though."
They followed their teacher, Mr. Blackwell, toward the information center. It was a beautiful day, exactly the kind of weather Bridget liked: cool and damp after a rain the night before, a sky covered in white, grey and black clouds and wind that smelled like wet earth and leaves. Fall was setting in and the trees were beginning to lose their green.
A tour guide named Ms. Bayless introduced herself and led them through some exhibits which she explained, then out of the building and across the flatland. They explored a reconstructed teepee and learned about the unusual flatness of the land below while they stood atop the largest mound. Altogether, there were nearly eighty mounds of various sizes, but the group couldn't see them all and so would visit only the most notable ones.
"This is Mound 72," the tour guide told them. "During excavation more than two hundred fifty skeletons were recovered from this site. Archeologists believe that as many as sixty-two percent of those found were sacrificial victims, including about forty men and women who we think may have been buried alive."
Bridget shifted her weight back and forth on her feet. Skeletons and violent death were still not her topics of choice.
The students were taken by more mounds and shown "borrow pits," which their guide explained were simply areas from which earth had been taken to be used elsewhere, in this case for the creation of the mounds.
"And why were the mounds built?" Bridget asked Ms. Bayless. She felt she had missed that at some point.
"They were primarily ceremonial," Ms. Bayless said. "But of course, we'll never know exactly why."
Bridget couldn't help but feel a bit of contempt for a people who apparently considered it "ceremony" to place living victims beneath a small mountain of earth. She would never understand why primitive societies seemed to have barbarism at the heart of their culture.
As they followed Ms. Bayless to the next site, Bridget's mind drifted to a thought she'd had many times before. She had often heard people speak of "the good old days," saying they wanted to return to them. There seemed to be a pervasive idea floating around that the past was far better than the present, be it the 1950's or the long-forgotten days of the ancients. With her unique viewpoint, Bridget found that nothing could be more ridiculous or further from the truth. It seemed that no matter what time period she called to mind, from whatever frame of reference, it appeared not better but worse beyond a shadow of a doubt. The Black Plague, slavery, other chronic human rights violations of one sort or another, foul living conditions and cruel superstitions were the sordid tunes played across the ages. If there were people who said they "wanted to go back in time," it was only because they didn't remember. If they did remember, they would never want to go back. Any rational person would prefer drinking a latte in an air-conditioned apartment than battling an incurable disease in a 97 degree teepee and defecating outside in a shallow hole.
"Bridget," Celena whispered. "Are you listening?"
Bridget looked up and smiled. She had been staring at the ground with her arms crossed while Ms. Bayless spoke. "No, I wasn't," she admitted.
The guide took them to one of the last points of interest on the tour. She indicated a large circle, about four hundred feet in diameter, made of upright, wooden posts of cedar.
"And this is Woodhenge," said Ms. Bayless. "Woodhenge was probably built as an astronomical observatory, to mark the changing of seasons by the positions of the sun and stars."
Celena put her hand on one of the cedar poles, while Bridget stood by, quietly listening and observing.
"This was reconstructed with new tree trunks in 1985," their guide continued. She motioned for the class to follow her as she entered the circle. "It was originally discovered during the 1960's when the area was going to be part of an interstate highway. Woodhenge is thought to have been built around 1000 AD. The original posts were red cedar, which was a sacred wood to the Mississippians, and the wood contained some red pigment which indicates that it may have been painted."
There were large spaces between the cedar trunks and within moments every student was within the circle. Celena was walking around within it. She seemed bored as she kicked at grass clumps and casually looked up and down the wooden posts.
"Celena," Bridget called, mimicking her friend's tone from a little while ago. "Are you listening?"
Her friend stifled a laugh. "No, I'm not!" She stuck her tongue out.
"Maturity," mused Bridget. She rolled her eyes and pretended to listen intently to Ms. Bayless.
The tour was over. They were free to explore the grounds with Mr. Blackwell as long as they wished and were thanked for coming. Donations were accepted at the information center.
Mr. Blackwell informed them that they would eat lunch before doing anything else. Bridget didn't see Celena. She looked for her so that they could walk back to the bus together. Bridget noticed that Celena wasn't where she had been milling about before; perhaps she had walked around to the other side of the class, so she would be in front as they left the circle.
"Celena," Bridget called absentmindedly, then turned to follow the others. She thought Celena must be on the side of the group or maybe got behind her during the tour.
Bridget surveyed again, then looked right and left, and outside the circle to where her classmates were moving in a rather slovenly herd.
"Celena?" said Bridget. Her chest tightened as she now looked every which way. Celena wasn't with the class or in front of it, next to her, outside the circle or within it. Celena was gone.
"Celena!" Bridget yelled. Several girls turned and looked at her. Mr. Blackwell took no notice and kept walking alongside his students. "Mr. Blackwell, we've lost Celena." Bridget told him.
Mr. Blackwell stopped. "Has anyone seen Celena?" he asked, looking at the indifferent teenagers in front of him.
"Oh yeah, I think she went ahead of us," Shawn said. He was one of the guys that Bridget didn't know too well. "I think I saw her a second ago."
"Oh good, thank you Shawn," Mr. Blackwell said. "We'll catch up to her, Bridget. Don't worry." Mr. Blackwell smiled calmly. Apparently, he felt that one of his students being missing only minutes after they had all been together on a guided tour was no big deal.
Bridget, however, knew that Celena would never do that. She would never just "go ahead" with no warning. Bridget hesitated, not wanting to leave Woodhenge without knowing Celena's whereabouts, but Mr. Blackwell again tried to reassure her and told her to come. She followed reluctantly and slowly.
Then, gradually allowing more and more distance to intervene between herself, her teacher and the class, Bridget stopped. She backed up, bit by bit, making sure no one was watching, then turned and ran back to the circle of cedar trunks.
A thought that she couldn't bring herself to accept sharply bit at her. She wondered how her nagging suspicion could possibly be true: that Celena had closed her eyes in the center of the circle for a moment and disappeared, just as they had done in Bryn Cader Faner in Wales. Was Celena wearing her necklace? Bridget had worn hers every day since the day she found it.
Bridget went to the center of Woodhenge and glanced around to see if anyone was coming. Mr. Blackwell and the class could be seen in the distance as they neared the parking lot. No one noticed that not one, but now two students were absent.
This was different than the ring cairn by the charming little farmhouse where they stayed on their vacation. Though she experienced things on the other side of the portal in Wales that were painful and terrifying, at least she knew what awaited her when she visited the otherworld there. If this was truly another portal, then it was uncharted territory in the fullest sense. Bridget had no idea what to expect.
But, Bridget knew, now I have no choice but to try. Probably nothing will happen. Maybe Celena really did go ahead and is already in the bus eating. As she told herself that, she knew it wasn't true. Her first instinct was most likely the correct one.
With a force of will, Bridget shut her eyes tightly and held them closed. She wrapped her arms around her torso as though trying to protect her body from some impending danger. The idea of opening her eyes again scared her; she didn't want to be surprised.
* * * * *
In a matter of seconds, Bridget heard rushing winds all around her, beating at her skin, tugging at her clothes and whipping her hair around her face. She cried out and opened her eyes only as a reflex.
There was no rolling moorland, no little stone cottages or a great hill fort. In every direction there was only a greyness and roaring wind. She looked beneath her, and it seemed that the very ground was made out of the greyness as well. Bridget knelt and pressed her hand against it. It felt like stone – slate, to be precise, the type of stone from which the ring cairn was made. She rose again and tried to steady herself against the pummeling gusts. This place appeared to have no boundaries. There was no horizon or line of treetops, no markings by which to gauge one's position. Bridget looked for the sun and found none. She couldn't see any light source. Maybe that was why she found nothing living. All was the greyish-white rushing of air current. It was almost like being enveloped in fog, though not as tangible. It was more ethereal; dreamlike.
Bridget didn't feel safe in this new, confusing place of wind and rock. She thought that if she only closed her eyes and said the year of her own time, she would probably be returned to Cahokia Mounds and all would be well, but she still needed to find Celena. At this new turn of events she felt there could be no question that this is where her friend must have gone.
She walked slowly and carefully against the wind and called for Celena, over and over again. After she had been moving for only a very short time, she realized her error: since there were no trees, earth or landmarks, there was nothing to mark the place where she entered. Bridget wondered if she would need to return to that spot again if she wanted to leave.
After a few more paces, Bridget saw it – the menhir she had seen before in the otherworld, in their life in ancient Wales. She stopped short and stared at it. It looked identical in every way to the stone marker in prehistoric days. Among other things, she and Celena had learned that the stone had the quality of being able to exist outside its own time.
Leaning a bit, she studied its side, and there was the Ogham writing she remembered. It was weathered, but clear enough. They had translated it into English on vacation and Bridget would never forget what it said. It read "Gethen Eynon, 5th Day of April, the Year of Our Lord, Six Hundred and Nine." Gethen Eynon was presumably the name of the inscriber.
It had to be the same standing stone. Though she knew it could exist in another time, she didn't understand how it could be in two places at once as well, both here in America and in Wales. That didn't make any sense.
She wondered if Celena had seen the stone and touched it, but then discarded that idea. Certainly, her friend wouldn't be that naïve; if she saw the menhir after accidentally stepping into this place – whatever it was – she would have known that it wasn't safe here and would've returned at once.
Unless she couldn't return – what if she thought the stone was the way out? What if the stone is the way out?
Stepping up to the familiar standing stone, Bridget placed her hand upon its top. She didn't know what to say. What might have Celena said? Just her own name, the date and the current year, with reference to the modern calendar.
"Bridget Holland, 14th of October, the Year of Our Lord …" she began. Her stomach turned. It hadn't flipped so much since they returned from their trip in June.
Three times she said the line, and nothing happened. Her only other idea was to add in the name of her location, so she added "Woodhenge, Cahokia Mounds, Illinois, United States" to the end of the sentence. Again, nothing changed. Bridget wondered if she needed to be more specific or if it was just that she was now faced with a new property of the menhir she knew nothing about. She hoped that wasn't it and simply added "Collinsville," the city where the historical site was located, after "Cahokia Mounds." She recited three times with this addition.
* * * * *
The sound of the rushing wind clipped suddenly, and Bridget was standing in the middle of Woodhenge. It was early fall; the air was clean and smelled like rain. There was little wind and after being where she was it seemed incredibly quiet and serene. Looking toward the parking lot in the distance, she could see most of her class clustered around the outside of the school bus.
Oh yes, and one other thing, Bridget reflected wryly. No Celena.
It was true, Celena wasn't there to meet her as she had hoped. Bridget closed her eyes again and returned to the land of all-encompassing greyness and wind.
* * * * *
Bridget pushed back the hair that had blown into her face and walked over to the menhir. It was partially shrouded in the swirling fog. She would have to come up with a plan.
Something else occurred to her: if the stone needed the name of a place to be spoken in order for it to work, would that mean that one could say the name of any city and it would take one there? Bridget couldn't imagine that Celena would purposely say the name of another city – unless, of course, she simply said the name of the city in which she lived, their home town. Could that be it? Bridget placed her hand on the menhir again and began speaking the line she thought would achieve this, then halted. If it really worked and she was transported to St. Louis, there would be no way to get back here to the field trip. Last time she checked there weren't any portals in her bedroom or by Celena's house. Explaining how she was at the field trip one moment and in her living room the next would be quite something to get past her mom and teacher.
Another thought came to her. Although she hated to let herself think it, there was always the worst-case scenario to consider. It was too awful and unconfrontable. What if Celena went back there – back to Wales, back to Llyn Caerwych where Paul waited, or back even further to ancient times, to the terror and death that had once been theirs?
Well, she decided, if it takes me to Caerwych I can always come back here right away, now that I know how.
Yet, it wasn't quite that simple, she knew. If her reasoning was correct by what she found to be true so far, to come back to America from Wales she would have to enter Bryn Cader Faner and use the menhir in the otherworld, since there wasn't one visible in the present day. That made things a bit more interesting, but at least the stone wasn't very far from the ring cairn.
Bridget put her hand on the stone. She took a deep breath and began reciting. Even after everything she had experienced, it was still unbelievable at times that such abilities were hers for the taking.
"Bridget Holland, 14th of October, the Year of Our Lord …" she started again. She needed to come out by the ring cairn so made sure to include it. "Bryn Cader Faner, Caerwych, Gwynedd, North Wales, United Kingdom."
"Bridget!" Celena yelled.
Bridget stopped in mid-sentence on her second line. "Celena! Oh, thank God! Where are you?" She looked in all directions but didn't see her yet.
"Here I am," her friend said. Celena stepped out of the fog wearing a look of profound relief.
Bridget sighed. "I thought you might have gone back to Caerwych! I was about to try to go there myself."
"No," Celena said. "I've been here. There's nothing here – nothing that I can see, except for the menhir. How can it be here? And what is this place?"
"I don't know. I asked myself the same thing. How far out did you go?" asked Bridget.
"You mean how far did I walk from the standing stone? I don't know. Definitely out a way. It looks like it just goes on and on like this, but I was scared to go too far. And I don't know how to get out of here."
"I already figured out how," Bridget told her. "I used the menhir, just like we did in Wales except I didn't change myself into Enid. I just told it the location and time."
"Oh good!" said Celena. "But don't you want to look around a little more, since we're here?"
Bridget nodded. Of course, she did. "Yeah, but just a little. Then we have to get back. And I don't want to get lost in here."
"Okay," Celena agreed.
They walked out in a straight line from the menhir until they could just barely see it when they turned around, then they looked in all directions. It was all the same, just rushing wind, greyish, swirling fog and the stone floor. There was nothing. Then they went back to the menhir and walked away from another side of it and did the same thing. After four times of this they decided they had seen all the nothingness they wanted to see.
"So that's it then. Congrats to us," Bridget said sarcastically. "We have discovered 'The Place of Nothingness' at Cahokia Mounds."
"Yeah," said Celena. "Weird. It's interesting but seems kind of useless."
"It does."
Bridget placed her hand back on the standing stone and slowly and carefully recited her lines so that Celena could hear her clearly. She wondered if they would ever come back to this place and explore it more, though she couldn't imagine why they'd want to.
* * * * *
A few moments later they both stood once again in the center of the circle of cedar boles. The cool air felt soft and comforting after the rushing winds. The grass looked unusually green and lush, and in the overcast sky Bridget noticed shades of blue and green amongst the clouds. She was amazed at the quiet of everything.
"Look," Bridget said. "Our class is still by the bus!"
It was true. She could see the students and their teacher walking around it in the parking lot. Some of their classmates were coming down the steps of the bus and stepping onto the blacktop. A few were pointing in their general direction.
The girls took off toward them, running as hard as they could until they came right up to Mr. Blackwell. He looked shocked.
"I found her," Bridget said, with a quick glance at Shawn. "She didn't go ahead after all."
The other students were barely finished eating lunch. Not much time had passed at all. Only fifteen minutes had elapsed since Bridget had gone to look for Celena.


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It's no secret that Briana DeJesus has gone under the knife, ahem, numerous times, but what a lot of fans may not know is who's behind the Teen Mom 2 star's plastic surgeries. On tonight's brand new episode, fans were introduced to Dr. Miami — a (you guessed it) Florida-based cosmetic surgeon. Keep scrolling to learn more about the 46-year-old!
He gave Briana a whole new body.
Dr. Miami, whose real name is Michael Salzhauer, revealed the mother-of-two once had a boob job, a butt lift, and labiaplasty all done at the same time. "It is really one long operation. She was in a lot of pain and it takes about two weeks to recover. I gave Briana a whole new body," he told Radar Online in May. "Everything from the neck down is different and, in my practice, it is common to get this all done at once."
He also went into NSFW detail about the labiaplasty, which she wanted to feel more "comfortable" during sex. "In Briana's case, it was after she had [her first] baby. I do not know whether it came from the baby, or if she was just genetically born like that," Dr. Miami said after working on her. "But we trim the extra lady bits and make it neat and tucked."
He's well-educated.
According to the Bal Harbour Plastic Surgery website, Dr, Miami "attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and he was trained in the latest plastic surgery techniques while serving on the staff of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach; the University of Miami Medical Center; and the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Foundation." He also "maintains the highest standards and has been certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeon." In other words, he's smart AF.
He's an inventor.
Not only is he a children's book author (he wrote My Beautiful Mommy), but he also invented several iphone and online cosmetic surgery related applications. His successful iPhone app, iSurgeon, allows users to alter photos of themselves to see what they would look like with cosmetic surgery.
As if that weren't enough, Heidi Yourself, an online application commissioned by MTV UK, allows users to see what they could look like with any of the 10 cosmetic surgeries Heidi Montag allegedly had performed. Yeah, seriously. This eventually led to multiple variations of the application including Pet Plasty, in which users can alter the image of their pets.
Welp. I officially feel like I've done nothing with my life.
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Final F7200 Review - Diminutive Dynamite
Final (the maker formerly known as Final Audio Design) has introduced some rather nice products in its time, and is known for its trademark house-sound which gives a very pure and natural presentation. It has enjoyed some success with its 'Heaven' range of IEMs among others, but Final is not finished yet.
Step forward, the new range of balanced armature IEMs, the F Series. Starting with the F3100 and F4100 models, with the F7200 sitting at the top of this range.
- Replaceable OFC silver coated cable
- Novel carry case design and eartip design
- Clear, natural sound
- Heaven series fans with expectation bias may notice a change with the Final house sound here
Design and appearance:
These earphones are certainly tiny; the addition of eartips makes them seem even smaller somehow! The capsules are 5.5mm in diameter and only 2 grams each. Final has designed them to reduce the distance between the driver and eardrum, making for a more realistic and involving sound.
They have a certain functional aesthetic; the stainless steel capsules and OFC silver coated braided cable make the Final F7200 look like a specialist piece of equipment, which arguably, it is.
They can be worn with the cable down, or over the ear. Earhooks are supplied to reduce cable noise and keep the cable in position, should this be a problem.
They come with a novel case; made of soft silicone, the earphone cable can be wound around the outside, with capsules and jack kept apart to prevent scratching. Also the design avoids bending the cable in the same places, as some other carry case designs do.
Durability & build quality:
These new models from Final may be small, but build quality is typically superb. However the MMCX connectors are not designed for repeated disconnection/reconnection so this should only be done if the cable is upgraded, for example.
Strain reliefs are very good, and made of clear plastic to keep the earphones pretty. The right-angle jack and Y-split on the cable are made of stainless steel which gives a good impression of quality also.
Given their tiny capsule size, the Final F7200 earphones can be adjusted easily to provide the perfect fit; also there are some rather novel eartips included as well as the standard silicone eartips which we all know. These consist of relatively large foam tubes, which slip over the capsules entirely and provide extra comfort and isolation..
Sound isolation:
Isolation is fair with the standard eartips, and can be enhanced with the larger 'tube' tips. A bit of experimentation is advised with these, it's quite fun to try something new anyway.
Sound characteristics:
The Final house sound has had a slight tweak here; the F7200 still has a pure and natural quality to it, but with a little more upper midrange presence.
Low frequencies are well balanced and have great control; these are not earphones for bassheads, but music has a certain authoritative weight to it. Despite being a single balanced armature design, Final has worked its usual magic to maximise bass response without affecting the midrange.
Midrange is clear and pure; there's a certain bump in the upper midrange which distinguishes the Final F7200 from most of Final's single-BA 'Heaven' series, such as the Heaven IV. This gives an impression of greater accuracy, and makes the F7200 a good choice for professional/monitoring uses, as well as just for enjoying music as an end user.
The top end is detailed, but there's a natural smoothness there which conveys a sense of realism. It sits well with the slightly accentuated upper midrange and isn't upstaged by it. The combination makes for some very nice harmonics with brass and woodwind instruments, and imaging is as good and accurate as with any single BA design.
Soundstage & Separation:
Soundstage is impressive considering the tiny Final F7200 capsules, and we are reminded of Dr Who's Tardis. Where does all that space come from? Possibly, the purity of the sound from the Final F7200. Separation definitely benefits too; whether the music is simple or complex, the sound never gets congested.
Music Genres Good For and Why:
The slightly lifted upper midrange may cause issues for more sensitive souls with a predilection for female vocals; but other that, the Final F7200 will give good service with any genre. The accuracy on offer is especially good with acoustic performances, and as mentioned earlier in this review, the F7200 can be used for professional monitoring purposes and might be a good option for those who find equivalents such as the Etymotic ER4SR a little too dry.


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We did leave early this morning. We were going home for a fortnight and had a marina booked for WaL. Not much of a journey to get there.
I packed up the remnants of the fridge, the dirty washing and the kindles then we were way home.
I will continue this at a later date.
Farewell Reader for now.


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February 1st 2014, Saturday, 10:00 am
East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center
EPIC web address: www.eastphillips-epic.com
Office: 2536 18th Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN 55404
"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers,
but most of all the world needs dreamers who do."
Present board members: Mary Gonsior, Carol Pass, Rosie Cruz, Linda Leonard, Earl Simms
Absent board members:, Sherdl Kordian, Aisha Gomez, Ali Macalin, Jenny Bjorgo
Members: Brad Pass
10:00 Introduction:
· Motion to meet as a Committee of the Whole (LL, CO, Passed.)
· Approval of Agenda , as Amended (CP, RC, Passed.)
· Approval of the January 4th Board Minutes with the following addition: "The meeting was closed to address personnel issues. (CP, RC, Passed.)
10:10 Announcements:
· Precinct caucuses on Tuesday, February 4th.
· Other?
10:15 Crime situation:
Lake Street, Bloomington Avenue, 16th and 17th Avenue – the situation in the mornings is just horrible. We really want to see police officers in the morning when children are catching buses, starting around 6 am, and through 7:30 or 8 am. There is nonstop solicitation for prostitution and Johns trolling. The majority of the prostitutes are minors. There is plenty of trafficking occurring at night also.
Rosie's nephew was assaulted on 15th Avenue and his car was also damaged. It was really scary, and the police did apprehend the three who attacked him.
We need more lighting in this area, and we have already requested assistance from Rep. Karen Clark and we should contact CM Alondra Cano. CP noted that last month the police reported to EPIC that there were no homicides in the neighborhood last year, yet we know there were two that occurred near Chiffon's home. We are going to request an accurate report from police about crime, in particular, homicides.
10:25 Priority Plans:
CP distributed a copy of the Draft Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program "Preparation and Processing of Neighborhood Priority Plans Policy."
On page 4, the document clearly explains that neighborhood priorities may either be "new priorities identified as part of a CPP based planning process, or strategies previously identified ina neighborhood's NRP Phase II Action Plan." EPIC completed our NRP Phase II plan in late 201, and in 2012 we elected to continue using our Phase II action plan for setting our priorities. This was endorsed by the neighborhood.
We do need to carry out a community planning process every three years, with the next cycle being 2014-2016. While the CPP previously had an expectation that neighborhoods would carry out a similar planning process annually, feedback from many neighborhoods lead to a change to a three year process. It is not really necessary to carry out this process annually.
CP reported that there are five nearby neighborhoods that made a plan together to do three things. They are not building anything, creating programs, providing services. Their goals:
· Improve the equity in use of the parks; get more hours open.
· Safer streets
· Coordinating public services
While these are worthy goals, they don't meet all the needs of residents and businesses in EPIC. We need housing, and we need more home ownership. People ant more public safety, and more programs for kids. Neighborhoods with a lot of staff can't do these things because all their funds are going to staffing and operations. Chair is convinced that neighborhoods must choose between serious rebuilding of infrastructure, kids programs or staff. There is not enough funding for both.
10:36 Finance Report:
CP distributed a copy of our last Community Organization Report Form to CPP. The reporting period covers 2011 – 2013. EPIC has $17,884 CPP funds remaining to be carried forward to 2014.
In addition, EPIC has $123,934 CPP funds available from 2012-2013, and $194,881 for 2014-2016. Total is $318,815 for the next three years. By being frugal, we have reserved a lot of funds that can be used for housing, other infrastructure and programs. If EPIC chooses to hire staff, it will eat up at least 75% of these funds on staff.
Board needs to create a more standard financial system. CP contacted several companies. Most are currently too busy. Romer & Company was available and familiar with nonprofit financial issues.
Motion: Accept all motions previously made in this meeting. (LL, RC, Passed.)
Motions: Payments
Motion: EPIC will hire Romer & Company (CPAs) to compile financial reports for EPIC as needed. (CP, LL, Passed.)
10:45 EPIC's current position regarding Grievances : We need a motion to carry out our response to Hannah's first request. Motion for Draft Grievance Procedure. We were advised to lengthen the time limit, but not to exceed 120 days. Clarify who can file. This cannot not affect the current grievance. We also need to limit the number of grievances. Any other changes? Interviews? General consensus is to not change other parts except clarify who can appeal. CP will clarify – appeal limited to the grievants for identifiable purpose.
Motion: EPIC will recommend adoption of the draft EPIC UNIFORM SUBMISSIONS POLICY coming from the City Attorney and the structure that follows from it for EPIC's bylaws. Presentation to the GM. (LL, RC, Passed.)
Motion to close meeting: (LL, RC, Passed.)
11:21 the meeting will be closed at this point. Any visitors will be asked to leave.
12:08 Adjourn


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Nazareth Rest Home will officially open a new wing on February 21, 2004 at 2pm.
Six extra rooms with ensuites (shower and toilet) are being constructed and it is hoped the construction will be completed by mid-January.
Once the new wing is open and occupied the rest home will have 43 residents, all with single rooms, although a few rooms are large enough for a couple wanting to share.
The new wing will be open to the public to view on February 26 at 2pm.
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Developed by dermatologists, this anti-blemish cream targets oily, spot-prone skin as well as the scars they leave behind. Active ingredient procerad corrects blemishes, repairs the surrounding skin and prevents potential discolouration marks all in 24 hours. Accompanied by niacinamide for intense soothing, piroctone olomine to stop the bacteria multiplying and LHA and salicylic acid for cell renewal – and completed, of course, with ultra soothing La Roche-Posay thermal spring water.
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Yes, denim skirts are in style next year and today I am more than happy to share with you some of the best outfit ideas you all can try this year. I will divide this post into different paragraphs, describing the best tops, shoes, and jackets you can use to wear with short, knee-length and midi denim skirts. These bottom pieces are not going anywhere anytime soon, so you are more than welcome to give them a try. Denim skirts are not only comfortable, but they are versatile and effortlessly stylish.
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How Microdosing Can Help Fight Depression
Microdosing cannabis, or consuming small amounts of cannabis at a time, is transforming the way people can harness the plant's awesome therapeutic attributes. For those patients who are more interested in the health than the high, it is a way to medicate all day long without winding up passed out on a couch or unwittingly thrown into a panic attack. When it comes to medicating depression, microdosing is a game changer.
What is Depression?
One of the most frustrating things for depression patients is the way that their diagnosis has been appropriated into casual dialogue. It isn't uncommon for someone to express their disappointment over a missed
opportunity, an unhappy ending to a film, or the unavailability of a favorite snack by saying something along the lines of "I'm so depressed." Usually, this is intended to be comedic. In actuality, it contributes to the stigma of mental illness and the mitigation of the trauma caused by the very real and debilitating condition depression can be.
Depression, clinically known as major depressive disorder, is a real and treatable condition that causes patients to feel apathy and sadness without any obvious cause. Unchecked, depression can cause a chain reaction of negative physical and emotional manifestations and severely limit or eliminate the patient's ability to work, manage relationships, and take care of him/herself. A medical diagnosis is given when the symptoms persist for at least two weeks and when other medical conditions such as brain tumors, and/or thyroid problems are ruled out.
Difference Between Depression and Sadness
Depression doesn't always look the same. Many people assume that depression and sadness are the same things. While sadness can certainly be a part of depression, the condition is much more complicated than that. Feeling sadness in response to loss is a healthy part of the grieving process. Depression, on the other hand, does not necessarily follow loss. It can manifest itself when everything in someone's life is going "right." Symptoms of depression include apathy toward activities once enjoyed, extreme weight change, feelings of sadness, fatigue, irregular sleep habits, increased fidgeting, slowed speech, low self-esteem, difficulty concentrating, and thoughts of death or suicide. While the symptoms of grieving are very similar to the symptoms of depression, there are key differences. The grief-stricken feel their sadness in waves, while depressed patients are consistently down. The grieving maintains a high self-esteem while depression causes self-hatred.
More Common Than You Think
Depression is an extremely common mental illness, striking about one in 15 adults, or 6.7 percent, a year. There are several risk factors that elevate the likelihood of a diagnosis. Women are more likely to have depression than men. Depression is also genetic and can be passed down through families. Growing up in an adverse home situation also escalates the likelihood of becoming depressed later in life.
Conventional treatments for depression include antidepressant medications. These medications are meant to change the patient's brain chemistry. Psychiatrists will often recommend that patients take these medications for long periods of time, especially in severe cases. Psychotherapy is another treatment that has been found to effectively help patients manage their depression. When nothing else works, electroconvulsive therapy may be used. This treatment has come a long way since its violent inception in the 1940's, but it is still a last resort.
Cannabis' Effect on Depression
The reason cannabis is so medically effective is because of the beneficial way that its chemical compounds including cannabinoids and terpenes interact with the body. Cannabinoids in particular directly stimulate the endocannabinoid system (ECS) in ways that promote homeostasis. The ECS is a neurological system responsible for the facilitation of critical bodily functions including the immune system, sleep, pleasure and reward, and metabolism. Cannabis supports the ECS, and that's what makes it such a versatile therapy.
One of the major risk-factors of depression is chronic stress. A 2014 study conducted by neuroscientists from the University of Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions found that cannabis may have medical efficacy in treating depression with its origins in this risk factor. The study was conducted on rats with compromised endocannabinoid systems due to the adverse effects of chronic stress. The team provided the endocannabinoid-deficient rats with cannabis and found that it was a viable treatment for the restoration of endocannabinoid levels. The team observed that this treatment effectively mitigated some symptoms of depression.z
Another 2014 study published by CNS & Neurological Disorders-Drug Targets found that cannabidiol, CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid housed in the cannabis plant, demonstrated anti-anxiety and anti-depressant effects in a variety of animal models. The study reviewed numerous experiments in which animals were put under stress through various tests. The use of CBD was effective in treating the symptoms of anxiety and depression exhibited by these animals.
A 2016 study also found that CBD had anti-depressant effects. The study was conducted on rats who were subjected to forced swimming and open field tests. After observing rats that had been injected with CBD, the study concluded that CBD produces anti-depressant effects likely because of its indirect activation of CB1 and 5-HT1A receptors, molecular pathways that, among other things, affect mood.
Why Microdosing Matters
While cannabis is a powerful therapy for an array of conditions, there are cases where less is more. That can be particularly true when it comes to treating mood disorders like depression. Studies have shown that while THC can alleviate symptoms of depression at a certain point, it can exacerbate them if it exceeds that limit. Strains that are high in THC may induce anxiety or paranoia, and that can compound the effects of depression rather than reduce them. Strains with low THC levels or a 1:1 ratio of THC to CBD are the safest bet. And the most effective way to consume those strains is to microdose.
The purpose of microdosing is to intake enough to get medicated, but not enough to cause a euphoric high. Since everyone's body is different, there is no set dose considered an official microdose. The trick is to start small, increasing the dosage until the desired effect is produced. Edibles make this easy since most are designed to be broken into small sections with clearly labeled dosages. However, smoking, vaping, and other intake methods can all be used to microdose. Just start with a tiny amount, especially when consuming concentrates.
Microdosing is a powerful way to enjoy the medical attributes of cannabis without risking potential adverse reactions or an unwanted high. The intake of large amounts of cannabis can elevate the mood but leave consumers couch locked, or worse, paralyzed by an anxiety attack. For patients with depression, microdosing is worth the try if it means an alternative therapy void of side effects and naturally designed to achieve physical and mental homeostasis.


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The Challenges facing our new Mayor
Back in June 2016, devolution, the pet project of our former Prime Minister and Chancellor, was at risk with the arrival of Theresa May. With the success of the initiative still to be seen, those assuming the mayoral roles are under pressure to secure some quick wins and demonstrate that devolution can work. With our new Mayor in place for the East of England, we are keen to understand the opportunity he can bring, and from my base in Cambridge, the heart of the East of England area, we are


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Here's Your First Look at the SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Black Series Action Figures
Thanks to io9, we have our first look at the first four Solo: A Star Wars Story action figures being released for Hasbro's Black Series line. If you're a fan of the Black Series, you're gonna love these! Especially the Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian figure. The other figures include Alden Ehrenreich's Han Solo, Emilia Clarke's Qi'ra, and an Imperial Range Trooper, which is a new cool looking Stormtrooper.
All of these figures will be available from retailers and online at HasbroToyShop.com this spring. They'll be making their big debut, along with all kinds of other Star Wars toys at New York Toy Fair 2018.


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spectacular coastal scenery, all up there is over 1,600 km of
The region encompasses a area bordered by three major
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Georgetown steel mill talks restart
The Georgetown steelworkers' union board is expected to meet today to continue negotiations that could reopen the steel mill as unemployment benefits begin to run out for some workers.
If the deal moves forward, it would be the second attempt in two years by ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, to ask employees to make concessions in order to restart the mill that has been closed since July 2009.
The shutdown, blamed on a lack of orders, left 297 workers unemployed indefinitely.
The workers rejected an offer from ArcelorMittal in August to take a $3.65 per hour pay cut to restart the mill. But as more employees face the end of supplemental benefits, there could be more support for accepting a pay cut.
United Steelworkers Union 7898 President James Sanderson declined to say how much of a cut employees could be asked to take or what kind of scheduling flexibility would be asked of workers.
"Negotiations are delicate right now," Sanderson said. "We are at a very critical time."
Sanderson said he did not want to say anything to endanger negotiations. The company has not released any information regarding the negotiations.
"ArcelorMittal has indefinitely ceased operations at the company's Georgetown facility, which will continue unless market conditions appreciably improve or the plant is put on a more competitive footing," said ArcelorMittal spokesman Bill Steers.
When earnings were released April 29, company Chairman and CEO Lakshmi Mittal said he'd seen increased demand in the main markets and anticipated a stronger year in 2010.
After the union rejected the concessions last August, the company released the following statement: "The facility will remain closed with no plans to reopen as we continue to evaluate our options given the current labor situation and market conditions."
The union as a whole would have to vote to accept or decline any concessions recommended by the union's board.
"I just cannot see any memorandum of understanding not to include wage cuts," Sanderson said.
Sanderson said more employees are facing having their supplemental pay benefits end July 10. The supplemental pay was a percentage of the workers' base wage and continued to be doled out based on their years of service. For those who worked for the company for less than two years, benefits ran out in January.
Sanderson estimated about 19 to 20 of the mill's employees fit into that category.
More employees are expected to be affected as the benefits run out in July for workers who have been with the company between two years and less than 10. Those who have been with the company for 10 years or more will have their benefits cut off in July 2011, he said.


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Well I've been a blogger since Novemeber and have only posted a little over 10 times. Looks like I didn't post at all in Feb. I had begun a likes and dislikes list about snow but didn't have time to finish and it's a little too late now.
Since it's 1:14 in the afternoon now and I still have some school left and babysitting tonight, I won't have time to do a real post now. I have some ideas for upcoming posts though, so be looking for them soon.
Possible near future posts:
~Trip to the aquarium (with pics).
~Analogy God gave me about who's really in control of my life.
~What am I really supposed to be doing with my life right now?
~Family "tributes"
If you have any preferences about what I should post next just comment and let me know.
Enjoy the day!
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Any and all! I've been thinking about family tributes myself.
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How can you participate in National Women's Health Week?
During National Women's Health Week each year, millions of women take steps to improve their health. The week serves as a reminder for women to make their health a priority and build positive health habits for life. The 19th annual … Continue reading


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My book today is INDIAN SUMMER by Marcia Willett
A novel set among the peaceful filling hills of Devon, England. A new author for me and I will read her again. Her characters brought right into the story. The descriptions brought the area into my home.a Secrets have been hidden for years but at this time events are threatening them coming to light. Kit is visiting Sir Mungo to relieve her heart. An old love has surfaced again and asked to see her again. Not knowing what she desires, Kit is hiding out in the area. Mungo, brother, Tom has been having problems holding the family's acreage together due to current cost and aging. Tom has rented out a refurbished cottage to the wife of the soldier who is on combat duty in the east. This adds much to the story. Mungo needs to convince Tom to sell him the orchard to prevent secrets coming alight. Will he succeed? I highly recommend the book.
Disclosure: I received a free copy from St Martin's Press through NetGalley for an honest review.I would like to thank them for this opportunity to read and review the book. The opinions expressed are my own.


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Ischia is the largest
island of the partenopean island in the bay of Naples
with her 47 square kilometers. The island shows
a compact rounded shape (look at the small map)
with a varied morphology. Dominated by the Monte
Epomeo (789 mt asl) shows many other reliefs and
hills, often separated by valleys and gullies that
create a suggestive and sinuous landscape. The island
's periplus is about 39 km and its coasts are low
on the sea -level, to the North, with small sized
beaches; and more various to the south, where followed
indentention and promontories , bays and little
creeks , some of these reached only by the sea way.
On the island there aren't superficial water-courses,
the hydromineral resources mainly concern plentiful
thermomineral sources in existence all over the
land. Those particular waters are one of the most
important resources of the island, their beneficent
characteristics permitted the development of thermal
industry and touristic increase of the island.
The conformation of the island originated differents
environments: on the northern reliefs there is a
luxuriant vegetation, chestnut , holm-oak, oak-tree
woods; on the southern side the low vegetation of
the mediterranean maquis cover the slopes and the
deep creeks that from the inner side leaning the
pine-forests present on the east side into the Ischia
and Casamicciola communes toward the sea typical
and particular are.
One of the most irresistible local products is certainly
the popular 'limoncello', a liqueur made
from the unique lemons grown along the Amalfi Coast.
But you'll also be tempted by our fennel liqueur,
our laurel and mandarin liqueurs, not to
mention the exquisite 'babà al limoncello'
(limoncello flavoured cakes) which are all produced
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Filmmaker Michael Epstein couldn't believe his luck when Yoko Ono gave him access to hours of forgotten footage of her life with John Lennon.
The singer and performance artist decided it was time to show fans the home videos shot at the couple's Tittenhurst Park home in England and in New York in 1970 and 1971, and called in Epstein to sort through it. The result is John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky, which will air on America's A&E network next week.
The thrilled director is still pinching himself after realizing he had his hands on Lennon's mythical Clock movie and unseen footage of George Harrison performing with Lennon.
"Yoko realized there was all this material that had been shot that nobody had ever seen," he tells WENN. "I thought I had seen everything and I thought I knew the story, but I remember seeing this footage for the first time and just being blown away…
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34 "Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn't come to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 A man's foes will be those of his own household.
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1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" 6 This he said to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.
… 26 Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled. 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
28 They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
30 They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.'"
32 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn't Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
34 They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don't believe. 37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise him up at the last day. 40 This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
41 The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down out of heaven." 42 They said, "Isn't this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'"
43 Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves. 44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, 'They will all be taught by God.' Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father. 47 Most assuredly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50 This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
52 The Jews therefore contended with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves. 54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me. 58 This is the bread which came down out of heaven-- not as our fathers ate the manna, and died. He who eats this bread will live forever."
… 70 Jesus answered them, "Didn't I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
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2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not. 3 He humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you didn't know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man live.
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Importance of the Three Types of Dentures
Missing teeth can complicate chewing of food, your pronunciation of some words and deface your facial appearance. Dentures are a perfect solution for such problems. Essentially, different types of dentures in Tijuana are designed to cater to a patient's specific needs.
Types of Dentures
Temporary Dentures: When you undergo tooth removal surgery, several months are needed for your jawbone and gums to heal and recover fully. To help stabilize your jaws, your dentist could use a temporary or immediate dentures made from plastic to seal the gap. When the jaws have stabilized, a bridge or long-term dentures can then be fitted into the gap.
Partial Dentures: Partial dentures can be used as a replacement in cases where one or more teeth are missing. This type features metal clasps that are attached to the natural teeth for support. The metal clasps can be concealed and made invisible when you smile or talk when necessary.
Full dentures: These dentures are necessary in cases where a patient's upper or lower teeth are all missing. The teeth are usually made of plastic and attached to a plastic frame. An ultra thin layer of saliva creates suction between the mouth's roof or palate and the dentures. This suction in addition to your facial muscles and tongue are what secure the dentures into place.
Dentures are removable false teeth made of metal and acrylic resin. While they are not as good as dental implants in taking care of missing teeth, dentures remain the most popular choice due to its accessibility and affordability.
Using Dentures is more than just improving your smile and boosting your confidence. They are also important to prevent problems with speech and eating.
What Kind of Dentures Do I Need?
You either need partial dentures or complete dentures. If you only need to replace on or two teeth, partial dentures are the best options. However, if the problem with your teeth is more widespread and all your teeth need to be removed, your dentist may suggest for full dentures replacing all your lower and upper teeth together.
Taking Care of Your Dentures
You don't need any scrupulous method for this. Simply clean the food deposits and plaque from your dentures regularly by brushing them with toothpaste and water. You may follow by soaking them in a glass of water to remove the remaining food particles.


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Brooklyn hipsters were treated to a strange sight when what appeared to be a small tornado whipped up on a sandy baseball diamond. Bystanders gawked, laughed, and some even ran (probably after dropping their cans of Pabst) as the brown twister snaked its way from the diamond to the sky. "What is that?" one onlooker can be heard while the bizarre sight is caught on camera. What it is, say experts, is a freak and fairly rare dust devil.
Dust devils are only formed under perfect conditions. Wikipedia describes the phenomenon as a "strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind." They form under sunny, dry weather and aren't nearly as devastating as tornadoes, though they look similar. In fact, dust devils are kinda cute. Check it out:
Dust devils can mostly be found in areas where there are desert-like conditions, and that is not hipsterville Brooklyn. However, the baseball diamond, combined with the no wind and cool atmospheric temps, led to the formation of this perfect little devil.
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What a hip devil it was!
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Big energy's campaign cash keeps solar down in Florida
Back when Paige Kreegel was a state representative in 2009, he had an idea that he thought simply made sense. Florida, the Sunshine State, should become a model for solar power.
As chairman of the state House's Committee on Energy, Kreegel was in a position to change Florida laws that have restricted the growth of rooftop solar panels. As a self-described free-market Republican, he wanted to get government out of the way of a growing industry.
But Kreegel soon discovered his fellow committee members wouldn't discuss solar energy, and the fact that he brought it up made him an outcast. When he walked the halls of the Legislature, other lawmakers would shut their doors.
"You know how Tallahassee has an in-group and an out-group?" said Kreegel, a physician in Punta Gorda who left the House in 2012. "I didn't know I was on the outside until I went against the public utilities, and then — holy hell."
Kreegel isn't alone. Other lawmakers and lobbyists say that anyone who has attempted to expand the rooftop solar industry has been ostracized. The reason, some lawmakers say, is that Florida's largest utilities have invested heavily in state political campaigns to fend off competition.
Campaign records show utility companies have sunk $12 million into the campaigns of state lawmakers since 2010.
That money comes from the bills paid by customers of the state's four largest utilities — Duke Energy, Gulf Power, Florida Power & Light and Tampa Electric.
Those donations include contributions to every member of the Senate and House leadership. The recipient of the most utility money since 2010 is Gov. Rick Scott's 2014 reelection campaign, which took in more than $1.1 million through two political action committees.
"Why don't we have a bigger solar industry in Florida?" asked Mike Antheil, a West Palm Beach lobbyist who represents solar companies. "The answer is simple. Every kilowatt of solar you produce on your roof is one less kilowatt that the utilities can sell you."
The state's largest utilities declined to comment on specific questions related to this article.
In an email, Duke Energy spokesperson Sterling Ivey said the company could not comment "since there is pending/proposed legislative bills that we are actively monitoring."
Cherie Jacobs, Tampa Electric spokeswoman, said: "We participate in the political process, we support both parties, and we support candidates who focus on building the economy and on creating jobs."
FPL spokeswoman Alys Daly wrote in an email that the company supports "customers who want to install their own solar panels, and we take special care to serve the specialized needs of our solar customers."
With little support in Tallahassee, a coalition of conservative and liberal groups hopes to make Florida friendlier to rooftop solar energy with a 2016 ballot initiative. Before that happens, though, Florida's four largest power companies may see their influence grow. Proposed legislation in Tallahassee would stop homeowners from selling extra energy created from solar back to utility companies, perhaps the biggest blow yet to Florida's fledgling solar industry.
Parties and PACs
Only a small portion of the $12 million spent since 2010 by electric companies on campaigns went directly to candidates. Most went to political action committees and political parties.
Half of the money, $6.68 million, went to the Republican Party of Florida. The second-largest recipient, the Florida Democratic Party, took in $1.8 million.
Donations of this type allow the utilities to avoid contribution limits, which cap donations to legislative candidates at $1,000 per election cycle.
Conservative political action committees top the list of those receiving contributions, with the Florida Conservative Majority, Freedom First Committee and House Republican Campaign Committee all receiving more than six figures each from utilities.
Among the politicians who have received utility money, Scott tops the list. The utilities gave $15,444 directly to Scott's campaign fund. They also gave $600,000 to Scott's Let Get to Work PAC. The utilities handed another $670,000 to the RGA Florida PAC, which in turn gave $500,000 to the Let's Get to Work PAC. That puts electric company contributions to Scott, directly and indirectly, at $1.1 million.
In the Legislature, all 16 state senators and representatives who make up the leadership have received utility money. In total, they have pulled in more than $200,000 from utilities and their interest groups.
Those donations allow the power companies to keep pro-solar bills from getting anywhere, said state Rep. Dwight Dudley, D-St. Petersburg, a supporter of the rooftop solar industry.
"We in Florida are stuck in the stone age. This is probably the most Byzantine energy legislation in the country," Dudley said.
He has filed legislation that would have increased renewable energy in the state, but none of his ideas made it to the House floor.
Taking on the utilities has made him an outcast, Dudley said. He was talking with an acquaintance at an event last year in St. Petersburg when a utility lobbyist walked up and said, "Oh my gosh, do you know who this is? The devil's holy man," Dudley recalled. "It was loud and unpleasant, and it became very uncomfortable."
As for Kreegel, the former state representative initially had support from the utilities. That's because he opposed mandates that required a percentage of the state's energy come from renewable power, including solar.
But he lost that support when he worked to remove restrictions on rooftop solar, which Kreegel says is a big reason he's now out of politics. In 2012, Kreegel ran in the Republican primary for the U.S. House seat in Fort Myers vacated by Republican Trey Radel, who resigned after being arrested for attempting to purchase cocaine from an undercover police officer. Supporting solar back in 2009 caused him to be labeled a nonconformist, Kreegel said, and he didn't get the support of the Republican Party. He finished third.
"The whole point was that government shouldn't be impeding in good business," Kreegel said of his support for solar. "But I learned you don't go against the utilities."
Longtime monopoly
The Florida law that restricted the growth of the rooftop solar industry has been on the books for nearly a century. It was written to give utilities a regional monopoly on power production, avoiding a tangle of power lines strung up by competing companies.
The law didn't affect the solar industry until the past several years, when the price of solar panels made it cost-efficient for rooftop solar to compete with utility companies. With ample sunshine, only two other states, California and Texas, have more rooftop solar power potential than Florida, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Yet the state ranks 13th in installed solar capacity.
The average home solar array now costs $15,000 to $30,000 and can pay for itself in 10 to 20 years, said Ray Johnson, president and founder of the U.S. Solar Institute, an Oakland Park school that teaches technicians how to install the panels.
The problem is that few homeowners want to pay up front for the system, Johnson said. In about half of the states, solar companies can install panels for free and then sell the power to the home or business owner at a rate lower than utilities, paying for the system over time. These third-party sales are generally illegal under the Florida law that gives utility companies a local monopoly on supplying power.
Since Kreegel's unsuccessful attempt to expand solar in 2009, other lawmakers have watched their bills languish in committee.
State Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, submitted a bill last year that would have given a tax break to businesses and homeowners who installed solar. The law would have meant the property tax value of the home or business could not increase as a result of the value of the solar panels. His bill never received a hearing in Senate committees.
This year, Brandes has filed a new bill that would allow businesses that produce extra energy from solar cells to sell that energy to neighbors, but it faces an uphill climb in the Legislature.
"Here's how the power companies control the Legislature: They ask the chairman of committees to never meet on the issue," Brandes said.
Beyond Legislature
With few allies in Tallahassee, the state's rooftop solar power industry is now looking to bypass lawmakers. A proposed constitutional amendment, which may appear on the 2016 ballot, would allow third-party solar power sales in Florida.
The effort is being organized by an unlikely collection of interests, including the Christian Coalition, pro-retail groups, the tea party and clean energy supporters. The idea brings together those who support fewer government regulations and those who support reducing carbon emissions, said Tory Perfetti, a Republican operative from Tampa working with a group called Floridians for Solar Choice.
"Finally, the sun is shining on the process of opening the energy market in Florida," Perfetti said.
The ballot initiative is being funded in part by Floridians for Solar Choice, a political action committee. It's not easy to trace the source of the money being given to the pro-solar initiative. Most of the contributions to Floridians for Solar Choice, totaling $264,457, came from the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Action Fund, which does not report the source of its money.
George Cavros, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer who works for the alliance, said the group will not reveal the source of the money to protect "the privacy wishes of individual donors."
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy has claimed in filings with the Federal Elections Commission that it "does not participate or intervene in any political campaign" and does not need to report its funding sources. It's a position that has earned the group criticism for its use of "dark money" spending.
The rooftop solar industry typically gets money from venture capitalists, private equity firms and large solar installers. In the last quarter of 2014, investors sunk $9.8 billion into the growing solar industry, according to a report from Mercom Capital Group.
Even with the money the ballot initiative has raised, it faces some formidable opponents. Cavros said he knows the state's utilities will likely sink money into a campaign to fight it. A conservative group backed with money from big oil companies has already campaigned against it. Americans for Prosperity, funded in part by the Koch brothers, sent an email to supporters claiming the ballot initiative is "about money, and using government and taxpayers to prop up the solar industry."
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the political affiliation of state Rep. Dwight Dudley of St. Petersburg. He is a Democrat. And to clarify another part of the same story, the legislation that would stop homeowners from selling extra energy created from solar back to utility companies is being promoted in Tallahassee by the American Legislative Exchange Council. It has not yet been sponsored by a member of the Florida Legislature.
Also, Rob Gould, Florida Power & Light & Light vice president of communications, sent a memo on April 7 to newspaper editors and publishers throughout the state, saying that FCIR's story was "riddled with factual errors and misleading claims."
Click here to read FPL's memo and the FCIR response to FPL.
Grant Smith of the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting contributed data analysis to this report.
The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit news organization supported by foundations and individual contributions. For information, go to fcir.org.


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Bruce McArthur, believed 'not dangerous' by Toronto Police turns out to be a serial killer targeting LGBT communities
July 2, 2018 | Brainwave Science
66-years-old Bruce McArthur from Canada was arrested and charged with 8 murders earlier this year. Most of victims' dismembered body parts were found hidden inside planters belonging to the suspect.
Nearly two decades before his recent arrest he pleaded guilty in the 2001 beating of a male prostitute. According to a psychological assessment, his risk for violence was 'very minimal'. Bruce McArthur had pleaded guilty to assault in that case but received no jail time and was granted a pardon.
But the investigation into his alleged serial killings for last 8 years has expanded. It includes more than 75 properties in the Toronto area where the suspect did some landscaping work. Besides, the police have also reopened 15 cold cases of missing persons from Toronto's Gay Village dating back to 1975 for possible links to McArthur.
McArthur's case becomes a real challenge for Canadian police. A targeted number of accusations against him show that modern methods that are used by authorities are to some extent powerless in the war against serial killers. Nowadays, the police must be prepared to defend their own interests as well as be equipped to protect their people. But this case proves that the law enforcement system must upgrade some of their solutions and technologies as soon as possible.
It's obvious that it's not so easy to prevent and solve criminals' plans. Moreover, most of the means used by the police are often limited. For example, DNA is available in only in 1-2% of all cases and accuracy of a lie detector tests are all over the place. It is very important to find a technology that can determine with high accuracy who is really involved in committing a crime.
Every day criminals are getting smarter and have better tools to evade police. Law enforcement agencies need to pace themselves up to address such crimes. iCognative by Brainwave Science is the name that should be a welcome change in this fight that can help law enforcement in their quest to capture killers with a new force.
iCognative technology can determine whether specific information is stored in the person's brain by measuring and recording brainwaves. The technology identifies criminals in most of the crimes with its invaluable technique. iCognative can be successfully applied in solving any crime with a lack of physical evidence.
According to details of McArthur's case, iCognative can help the police gain more information about his involvement in crimes and his motives. In order to do that, a test case can be built with the confidential information that is known only to the person that committed these crimes. The investigative agent will input such information into the iCognative system in the form of pictures, words and phrases, which can be done in 15 to 30 minutes.
In this case, we can use, for example, the dates of crimes, locations, names and pictures of victims, pictures of places where dismembered body parts were hidden etc. but provided that such details are confidential. Such details of crimes will be input in to the system as stimuli to show to the suspect/s. This stimulus will be flashed on a computer monitor to the suspect one after another and brain responses for each stimulus is captured by the technology and store in a database. These brain responses will be analyzed by the software and will determine with 99.9% accuracy if the information is present or absent in the brain of the suspect. In this way, we don't need any verbal reaction from the suspect, all the required information captured from the brain and brain does not know how to lie.
By use of iCognative technology, law enforcement agencies can solve such crimes faster saving their efforts and resources. This potent technology has the capability to be extremely powerful in the war against criminals.
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Everyone's got one…
July 27, 2009
… a client who thinks that their need is more important than your effort.
Sure, client needs are important. Delivering quality, expertise, convenience, customized service, turnkey solutions, great products — that's bread and butter for most companies. But especially in tough times, it's easy for people to forget that we aren't here to serve each other's needs: we're here in an exchange of value for value, and meeting needs is the primary way that humans make that kind of exchange. My work for your money. My money for your product. My love for your love. My financial support for the services your nonprofit provides to a community I care about. And so on.
Whatever the specifics, in order to be sustainable, our relationship has to be based on mutual buy ativan from canada acknowledgment of the value. This video makes the point brilliantly. Have a laugh; spot your own "I'm so special" client in this mix; and then please make sure you're not ever one of these clients for someone else.
And here's a notion: what if instead of clients and vendors, we think of managers and employees? Please, make sure that as a manager you're not placing your "I'm so special" needs above the value of people's work. Don't ask them to give so you can take: instead, support them in creating and receiving value. Everyone wins that way.
Good leaders say…
April 15, 2009
- Please.
- Thank you.
- I don't know, but I'll find out and get back to you.
- What do you think?
- How can I help?
- You're right.
and, sometimes most importantly…
- I screwed up. I'm sorry.
Pull up a chair
April 1, 2009
Wow. What would happen if we all just started talking — and listening — at work?
I've been a part of initiatives similar in philosophy (although never using the Chair approach, which I think is brilliant), and they work. It can take a while to earn people's trust — that they will not be punished for expressing their feelings, that their ideas will be heard, that they are part of a meaningful process as opposed to a feel-good experiment. When you do earn that trust, you get the enormous reward of people who are so engaged that they will make time in their work day to find you and tell you things they think you need to know, good and bad. How much is that worth to you?
Many thanks to Allison O'Neill for the article link. Sign up for Allison's RSS feed — her posts always have something useful to say to any manager.
Be authentic
March 19, 2009
As a follow-up to Tuesday's post about being smart with heart, here's a thoughtful and useful article on why and how to be an authentic leader.
A fallout of working for, or being associated with, an inauthentic leader is that this person robs us of our own authenticity as we tread carefully around them. We focus on what keeps us safe in our jobs. In the process they don't get the best out of us – they get our labor, but not our full engagement… Lack of authenticity in a leader buy diazepam usa carries a hefty price tag.
— Bruna Martinuzzi, from "The Talisman of Leadership"
You'll find ideas about authenticity and transparency, and concrete suggestions for how to bring more authenticity into your own work experience. Remember, authenticity is a skill like any other. "Practicing" authenticity doesn't make you a manipulator or a hypocrite — it makes you better at being truly authentic. It can be scary. It can make you vulnerable. And the results will certainly surprise you.
Smart includes heart
March 17, 2009
He saw that the people who push the wheelchairs were practicing medicine. — from the Boston Globe article "A Head with a Heart" by Kevin Cullen
Here's what is possible when a leader is as focused on people as on "business" — when a leader understands that people are the business, and that we must support both in order to sustain both.
When we lead from values that include seeing how everyone contributes to the mission of the company, when we are willing to stand in front of eight thousand people or the two members of our start-up IT team and say Here's what I'm thinking. What do you think? What are your ideas?… then what happened at Beth cheap valium pills Israel Hospital can happen for us too.
Good management isn't about leaving your heart at home. It's about bringing it to work along with your brain, and reaching out with both to the people around you. Is that too fuzzy for you? Well, look at what happened at Beth Israel. Those folks are saving jobs, saving money, maybe saving lives because the person is charge was willing to look at the company with a curious heart as well as financial eyes.
(Thank you to Sarah for this link. If you find stories to share about being human at work, or have some of your own, please email me at keskridge at humansatwork dot com.)
See it, be it
March 9, 2009
As a follow-up to talking about the importance and power of focus, here's a great article by Srinivasan Pillay on why and how visualization works — what happens in the brain, and in our lives, when we visualize.
Visualizing works. And it's an enormously important skill for managers. It goes hand in hand with focus. As Pillay points out in the article, feeding your brain a "plan in a thousand words" is less successful than giving it a single, specific image. The real work is getting to that single image.
But that's all it is — work. We can all do it. It's a process. Most of us start with a jumble of ideas, feelings and thoughts that don't really draw together into a coherent set of goals — that's perfectly normal. Like anything else, it gets easier with regular repetition. We can teach ourselves to visualize focused goals, and we can figure out the right steps to take in pursuit of those goals. And along the way, we're also fighting the paralysis of fear for ourselves and our teams, topamax for cheap making our businesses more successful, and making our brains more healthy and our spirits more resilient.
Part of the science behind visualization that Pillay describes (see his second paragraph) is mirror neurons. You'll find some exercises to help you and your team understand the power of mirror neurons in Session Two of the Humans At Work program. And at the end of Session One, you'll find some questions you can ask yourself to begin visualizing the best manager you can be. You can make that a long-term visualization — or you can adapt the questions to consider how your "best manager" self would respond to your specific team or company situation right now.
And finally, here's one of the article's most important points for me:
Remember, a failure is not a final statement that you will not succeed. It is information that your vision has to be changed, refined or repeated.
In work, as in life, we do not have to be perfect the first time out in order to be successful. We just need to keep working on it.
Find your bus
January 16, 2009
Apologies for the lack of posting. I've been juggling priorities — that's a standard feature of business life. But what makes my blogging sporadic right now is not that it's unimportant — it's that I'm still finding my voice here. I can't yet dash off a post quickly and confidently. I'm still practicing, still nailing down what this blog is for. What do I want to say here? What am I trying to do?
Those are questions that every blogger needs to answer. But — more to the point — they are questions that every manager needs to answer. Who are you in the management role? What do you want to be in the eyes of your team and your company? What are you trying to do?
If you're not sure, then nothing you do will be as quick or confident as you'd like. So here's where you should start when you're working on improving your management skills. As my old mentor used to say, "If you don't know where you're going, any bus will get you there." Meaning that without a goal in mind, actions can easily become random, and sometimes we end up somewhere we really don't want to be. A clear vision of yourself as a manager, and clear values, aren't "fuzzy stuff" — they are essential drivers on your management journey. The vision is your destination: what am I when I am a great manager? The values, and the behaviors that arise from them, are the bus that will get you there.
Take a look at the teaching notes for Session 1 of Humans At Work if you're interested in doing some of this visualization and values clarification for yourself.
Start by telling your own stories of good and bad managers you've known:
- What did the manager do that you thought was right or wrong, effective or destructive? The more specific you can get with this, the better. It's not enough to decide that someone is a bad communicator (for example) — what specific actions did they take, or what specific words did they say, that you thought showed poor skills?
- Why did they do it? What were they thinking or feeling? What were they reacting to, or trying to accomplish? Here's where you move from the specific example to form some general values about good management behavior.
- How can you put these values and behavior into action in your own daily work experience? Here's a hint: you demonstrate values by behavior. Pick a behavior to practice, and then practice it.
Then tell yourself the story of you — as the greatest manager in the world. Answer these questions:
- What do you believe?
- How do you behave?
- How do other people in the organization perceive you?
Now you know where you're going. Your destination may alter as you learn and grow. That's fine — the point is to be moving forward toward a specific idea of what you want to be. The story of you will lead you; the stories of others, good and bad, will be your signposts on the way.
In that spirit, if anyone has input into what you'd like to see from this blog, or examples of blogs you think I might want to take lessons from, please leave a comment. I appreciate any help you care to give.
A different kind of business capital
December 3, 2008
This interview with economist John Helliwell in Rotman Magazine (the Rotman School of Management) reaffirms for me why it's important that companies take a clear look at how they're managing people, not just business:
The higher the degree of trust and willingness to share in a human-as-well-as-material respect across the organization, the better an enterprise will perform.
— Economist John Helliwell, speaking on the value of social capital in the workplace
If you're a new manager, don't be put off by the term social capital or the fact that the conversation ranges far beyond "strictly business" — read the interview for Helliwell's insights into the direct connection between engaging with others (even when it takes work to bridge our differences) and positive impact on quality of life and business. What he's talking about is the power of engaged relationships with the people around us: family, neighbors, and colleagues. When we connect in relationships that are based on helping, as opposed to controlling, each other, guess what? The community — whether it's your village or your company — works better.
Managing is at its essence a network of individual relationships. Whether we manage well or poorly is a product of how we behave in those relationships. Every skill in the Humans At Work program is a behavior designed to help all your relationships at work be as clear, honest and productive as they can be: to build bridges across our differences so that we can all work together to achieve our common goals. That's the essential definition of community, and these ideas of social capital as a driver of community success are important to every one of us.
So please, after you've read the interview, take some time to read more about Humans At Work. Download session details and find an idea that can help you at work, whether you're a manager or not. These ideas are for everyone. Our workplace communities need managers — but the community is not for the manager, it's for all of us. We can all benefit by making it stronger.
Get connected
November 24, 2008
I recently got my virtual hands on a copy of "The Connection Culture", a manifesto by Michael Lee Stallard proposing that fostering a sense of connection among people at work has a direct impact on employee engagement, productivity, and business success.
One measure of connection is Gallup's Q12 survey that asks questions such as whether people care about you at work, encourage your development, and seek and consider your opinion. …[T]he research showed that business units with higher Q12 scores — in other words, higher connection — experienced higher productivity, higher profitability, and higher customer satisfaction as well as lower employee turnover and fewer accidents.
— from The Connection Culture by Michael Lee Stallard
The connections Stallard describes have a powerful and profound impact on people and companies because they are how people behave with each other in ways that get the job done better. Management is behavior: all the good intentions or business acumen in the world won't make a speck of difference in your company if people don't behave in ways that help everyone work more effectively towards common goals. Managing where to buy antabuse online humans well makes them feel more connected to their job, their team, their company and to themselves. That's when you get people's best ideas, best effort, and their most consistent results.
For those who are suspicious of "fuzzy stuff" at work, let me point out that Stallard is not advocating (as an HR friend of mine says wryly) "linking pinkies and singing Kumbaya." You don't have to sing, I promise. As a manager, what you have to do is make it possible for people to engage — with the work they do, and the people they do it with — in ways that keep everyone focused, effective and productive even in chaotic and frightening times.
In fact, I submit that it's in such times — like now — that we most need to be engaged, to be connected with each other and our common goals rather than hunkered down in defensive silos. It's by working together that we'll find ways to move our businesses down this stretch of very rough road.


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