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Kutztown University is increasing security patrols on campus after the third reported assault on campus in the past few days.
The most recent assault happened just after 10 p.m. Wednesday near the center of campus. The university says two men, one armed with a knife, assaulted a student on Bell Plaza.
On Sunday a student was involved in a scuffle on campus.
Last Friday an attempted robbery was reported. Police said in that incident three men forced their way into a dorm room and tried to rob two students.
No one has been hurt in any of the incidents. The university says it does not appear the incidents are connected.
Kutztown students will be leaving campus for spring break starting Friday.
The university president sent the following letter reguarding what's being done to keep students safe:
"March 14, 2013
Dear KU Campus Community,
Last night we learned of the third assault on our campus in the past week. I am very concerned about the safety of our university and can understand the worry these recent incidents has caused all of us.
I have met with my senior staff and we have developed a strict plan to bring the perpetrators of these crimes to justice. Campus Police are working closely with the Pennsylvania State Police to actively investigate the situation. We will be increasing security patrols on campus beginning tonight and are looking into long-term security improvements as well.
As a campus community, we cannot tolerate this behavior. We must work together to reclaim our campus and our personal safety. If you are a witness to a crime, please take it to the proper authorities as soon as possible. Crimes can be reported anonymously to Campus Police on campus by dialing 3TIPS. Off campus you can call Berks Crime Alert at 1-877-373-9913. Anyone who is identified as being associated with a crime will be subject to prosecution to the fullest extent of the law, as well as our university judicial system.
Please keep your personal safety in mind when you are out on campus and in the borough tonight and in the future. While Kutztown has long been considered a safe place, it only takes inappropriate behavior by a few individuals to tarnish that reputation. Be sure to walk together in groups, use our police escort service if you are alone, and report any suspicious activity to the police.
I trust that by working together, we will create an environment for an enjoyable second half of our spring semester and beyond.
Thank for your concern and your cooperation.
F. Javier Cevallos


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1.3 million Americans have lost their jobs since Obama took office in January 2009. In that same period of time, 15.1 million Americans signed up for food stamps.
Annual healthcare premiums are now $5,000 higher than Obama promised they'd be.
Christina Romer, the former Chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, warned that unemployment would skyrocket without the stimulus package. The administration spent $278,000 for each job 'created/saved.' Yet real unemployment — represented by black dots — is now even higher than their worst-case-scenario predictions.
Gasoline prices aren't actually rising. The purchasing power of the US dollar is in free-fall, though, and that's why we keeping paying more at the pump. Obscene deficits and unfunded liabilities have driven investors away from our currency. This is one reason Iran began to seek oil payments in the Japanese yen.
In 2010, General Motors' Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre starred in a misleading commercial in which he claimed, "I'm here to announce we've repaid our government loan — in full, with interest, five years ahead of the original schedule." However, they 'paid back' this loan with other bailout monies. The government still owns about 26 percent of GM, too, stock that (1) it needs to sell at $53.00 per share in order to break even and (2) closed this week at $23.68 per share.
The Youth Misery Index has jumped 26 percent under the Obama administration.10 The Department of Education continues to inflate tuition costs with the help of financial aid packages and excessive Pell grants, and, as of July 2012, the youth unemployment rate stood at a dismal 17.1 percent. When isolated for African-Americans, it reaches 28.6 percent.
The median household income has fallen 8.2 percent since Obama took office. The figure, which was $55,198 at the beginning of his term, dropped to $50,678 as of August 2012.
The national debt eclipsed $16 trillion in September 2012 after having risen by $5.4 trillion under the Obama administration.
Keynesians are jumping for joy that the unemployment rate fell below 8 percent for the first time since Obama took office. In other words, unemployment is the same as it was when he took office: 7.8 percent. And this doesn't include persons who have stopped looking for work, who are statistically underemployed, et cetera. The government's "official" (U-3) unemployment rate is the green line; the real (U-6) unemployment rate is the red line.
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Brian, I forgot, please try to put this type information in a PDF also so we can print it out. I had the Clancy Obamacare PDF printed out in a 24 x 18 size poster and take it everywhere I go and show it at every opportunity so people know how many government agencies are involved in Obamacare and it really makes a huge impression.
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2016 Season Close Update: 2x IFWA World Champion – Mark GomezThursday, December 1st, 2016
Hello Friends, Family, and Sponsors,
I would really like to apologize for the delay in these emails. If you have followed me on social media, you may have been able to keep track of the nonstop action these last several months. Since my last email update in May, I had a successful sweep of the opening three European rounds of the IFWA World Tour. I then went stateside and immediately immersed myself in three back to back event weekends driving around the West Coast. From that time forward, the size of potential email updates grew into what is best described as a larger and larger snowball, growing each week I traveled.
I am much harder on myself than most think and I take a lot of pride in being able to effectively communicate to the people that help me along the way. I also want to be able to paint a brief, but highlighted, story of each of my travels for those who don't use social media. This brings me to the end of my season, when I finally have had more than just a week in between events (besides the holidays). As the dust has now settled and I collect the data from my year, I am really proud of the incredible season I was able to pull off, with podium results at almost every event!
This year I competed in the following series:
– IFWA World Freeride Championship Tour
– Pro Watercross National Race and Freestyle Tour
– IJSBA World Finals of Racing and Freestyle
– Australian Freeride Nationals
– US Pro Freestyle Championship
– Many individual freeride events
– Riding the North point of Nazaré with an average of 30 meter waves
– Representing Hydro-Turf as the brand's Sponsorship Liaison
– Becoming the National Freestyle Champion on the Pro Watercross Tour
– Taking 4th in the world my rookie year in Pro Freestyle 1200 class
– Taking 3rd in the world in Vintage 550 racing class
– 24 events in 8 different countries, traveling over 89,200 road & air miles within 11 months, competing in all 3 categories of stand up jetskiing
I have had a very successful year boosting my social media presence, which gives my sponsors a bigger exposure network with each additional post. My posts are the best that I can do to illustrate a timeline of my events, give updates of my travels, showcase cool photos and videos from the year, and more.
Instagram @Markgomez137 gained over 5,000 new followers this season! Apx 19,300 followers
Facebook/MarkaGomez gained over 2,500 new followers this season! Apx 7,500 followers
Facebook Views: 114,936 — Facebook Shares: 1,659
Youtube Views: 197,939 — Video Link here –> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJcjCb6hs_g
This year's IFWA tour took place in 6 different countries: Nazaré , Portugal – Lacanau, France – Newquay, UK – Bahia, Brazil – Oregon, USA – Kamisu, Japan. It was an incredible season with the opening winning streak along Europe. A big part of this success was shipping my personal TC Freeride built Rickter EDGE overseas to the European tour and final round in Japan. It took a lot of effort, logistics and resources to make it happen. In the end, it was well worth the reliability and comfort being on my own equipment, which was proven by my overall results. I did not pull this off alone. Along the entire tour, I worked with my teammate through many similar sponsors Abraham Ho from Cancun, Mexico, who was recently picked up by Monster Energy as an athlete with explosive style. We are a great team that works effectively to get through each tour stop. I won my second consecutive World Title. The tour is amazing and I enjoy meeting such a great group of riders and enthusiasts from around the world. It has so much potential to become even greater. I am working in the background to assist the great people there with all that I can, to ensure it reaches that next level.
This year my best friend in the sport, Tanner Thomas and I teamed up together to take on Pro Freestyle at the World Finals. We rented a house in Lake Havasu and brought in all the tools and equipment needed to build a fully functional compound. This enabled us to tweak and tune our Freestyle skis to be the best they could be. To help us with that task was our very good friend and amazingly talented mechanic, Hiroyuki Oginio "Ninja", who flew in from Japan. I had very bad luck with self inflicted engine and ignition problems during my condensed training period prior to the World Finals. With the help of all of my sponsors, Tanner, and Hiro, I was able to get it completely dialed in just three days before the event. This was an incredibly stressful two and a half weeks, which set me back from many things. However, I came at those three days with a fire to improve like I never thought I had. Upon competition day I was able to bring a handful of new tricks to the Pro Freestyle scene that I carried over from the freeride world. The Flatwater Flex flip, NoCanDo flip, No Hand flip, and Super flip variations which earned 3rd place in the pack on the final day and 4th overall by points. It felt incredible to receive all the positive feedback from riders and fans about bringing freeride style into freestyle in just a short amount of time from when I started. With that, I am motivated more than ever to focus more attention to this next year and win the Pro 1200 Freestyle World Title next year!
There was an incredible amount of work that had to be done every week in between events. I considered this a year of strictly competing because the amount of time I had to enjoy riding for practice was extremely scarce compared to the year before. Many times this season I would only be riding jetskis solely the day before or day of the events. My two Rickter jetskis were almost always in a box or trailer being shipped to a new location and/or coming back from one. I had to make big adjustments when things went wrong or changed due to mechanical problems, weather, ect. In a crazy way, I really enjoyed the challenges and more so being able to see it through that I accomplished my goals anyway. These kind of things forced me to lean on my sponsors, family, girlfriend, and friends for their support, understanding, and patience to make it through this unbalanced season of wild situations. Thank you for stepping up with me.
3rd IFWA World Title – Focus and take on Pro Freestyle World Title –
Train and hone overall riding ability – Educate and Expose the sport via video media.
Overall, 2016 was an incredible year! I have many potential plans in the works for 2017 to carry the momentum from this year. With the success of the first Japanese round in the IFWA tour, there is much interest from the Japanese and excitement to improve the IFWA tour. I intend to support the association's movement and compete once again on the 2017 tour to ride for a 3rd World Title. I plan to keep my schedule a little more open in between events to focus more on my quality over quantity, pertaining to my training, promotion, and most of all, exposure. This year I took on my rookie year of Pro Freestyle getting on competitive equipment with a sparing few weeks to train. I was able to make a hard push to place 4th in the world. Next year I want to train, focus, and win the US Freestyle Championships and Pro Freestyle World Title.
In 2017 I don't intend to settle for just being a top ranked rider. I truly want to push myself with more training time to bring new things to the table, hone my skills, and be the absolute best I can be at every event. I am never completely satisfied with what I can do; I am always looking to improve, and try new things. This was a difficult thing to do this year, with the risk of the rest of my season in the back of my mind and the need to stay healthy for it. Most importantly, during motosurf and freestyle training, I will have more time and opportunities to get more unique and better videos and photos. I also need the time between events to edit, produce, and publicize this content. I am gearing up to create a weekly or bi weekly "Vlog" series. These videos will provide the opportunity to my followers to get a closer look into my jetski life. There will be a little less production factor in order to edit them faster and feel more personal. In these Vlogs I will talk through any and all things jetski related including: part installations, maintenance, travel progress, rider interviews, sport education, trick walkthroughs, event coverage, product and sponsor promotion, and more.
This is a different path from this year, yet I intend to create an even bigger year from it in the long run. I will compete and attend events where it appeals most to my sponsors. Ultimately, I want to focus on generating new, interesting, and fun media that will broaden my exposure and reach out to a more diverse audience. I want to create videos that can become timeless, that speak to all of the up and coming riders who can take parts from it, build their equipment across the board, and improve their riding to come compete with the best. I have enjoyed this sport, putting in my all for over 12 years competitively. From a young age, I have been inspired by videos and media produced and featured by the best riders in the world. It would mean even more to be able to showcase my friends and competitors and bring more light onto the sport that we all love with these videos.


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Over the course of recorded history a mere 25-year span is little more than a microscopic dot on a timeline. A quarter century compared to millennia seems insignificant.
But a lot can happen in a quarter of a century. Civilizations have changed; world wars have been fought; inventions have revolutionized society.
I was reminded of how big an impact 25 years can make on an industry while compiling stories for a special report in this issue on the Texas Plant Protection Association's 25th annual conference, coming up in December.
Agriculture is different today than it was in 1990, when the association held its first meeting. A lot of what farmers use routinely today were either just coming on line back then or were not commercially available.
Precision agriculture, for instance, was in its infancy. Folks had been working on ways to incorporate "site-specific" production techniques into managing crops, but the practices were far from being routinely available. And many were cost-prohibitive to individual farmers.
Today, a row-crop producer likely would have to request that GPS equipment be removed from harvest equipment, sprayers or planters if he, for one reason or another, doesn't want it.
In 1990, transgenic varieties were being tested but widespread use was still years away. Now, as with GPS technology, it's easier to find genetically modified seed than it is to buy what we now call "conventional" but is really less conventional than the transgenics.
In 1990, cotton farmers listed the boll weevil as one of the most economically destructive pests they dealt with. Now, except for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, boll weevils are no longer a threat, and farmers report they make anywhere from 100 to 300 more pounds of cotton per acre than they did before the boll weevil eradication program eliminated the pest.
Agricultural researchers are making progress on limiting damage from cotton root rot and aflatoxin contamination in corn. Herbicide-resistant weeds have emerged as a major problem for row crop farmers.
Industry has consolidated but continues to develop new products that improve farm efficiency.
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Farmers and ranchers have endured too many drought years over the past 25 years and farmers who irrigate have noted significant decreases in water availability. Heat, cold, flood and hail have taken tolls on crops, but those rare years when temperatures, moisture and the price of cotton in China all lined up to offer a good profit helped farmers decide to keep on trying.
Markets have risen and fallen on reports of poor crops in Russia and bin busters in Australia. Increased emphasis on renewable energy, especially ethanol and biodiesel, contributed to rising grain prices—hailed by crop producers and cursed by livestock operators.
It's been 25 years of changing farm policy, increased reliance on crop insurance and fewer legislators who have significant ties to rural America.
And through it all, TPPA has addressed the most pertinent issues, the newest technology, the changing landscape of Texas agriculture. With a three-tiered approach—industry, research and Extension—the organization takes a wide-angle view of those issues and provides a forum for education, discussion, and dissemination.
Twenty five years is perhaps a miniscule point in history, but it's an important milestone for an organization that continues to evaluate and respond to the needs of Texas agriculture.
Congratulations, TPPA.
Also of interest:
Dec. 10-11, TPPA celebrates 25 years
TPPA celebrates 25th annual conference Dec. 10-11


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Praises D.A. Eyster at Cannabis Renaissance series in Laytonville
Criminal defense attorney Eugene (ED) Denson untangled a complex web of marijuana laws at the Long Valley Garden Club in Laytonville March 9.
The Alderpoint lawyer"s presentation was the second in a series called Cannabis Renaissance: Navigating Our Future, created by three garden club members -Jude Nagle, Jon Spitz and Patricia Kovner.
"We want to bring this very important discussion in all it"s ramifications to our community," Nagle said. "After all, cannabis is the base of our local economy. During these rapidly changing times, with the threat or promise of legalization looming, there is a lot of vital information to keep up with."
After decades of prohibition, including propaganda, misinformation, repression, and criminalization of the "sacred healing herb," Nagle said it is time to come full circle "to celebrate and reclaim the amazing history of our co-evolution with this remarkable plant."
Four master cannabis growers will be featured at the April 13 garden club program at 375 Harwood Road in Laytonville, 4 to 6 p.m. Kristin Nevedal, Founding Chair of the Emerald Growers" Association, will share the podium with Scott Ireland, Rosebud Ireland and Kevin Jodrey.
"Marijuana law is really complicated," said Denson, who hosts a KMUD radio show on cannabis. "It"s a huge mess. The federal law is simple- marijuana is illegal; there is no known medical use, and the only exceptions are the seven or eight people who have been getting marijuana since the 1970s . . . If you use marijuana in any way, under federal law, you"ll be a criminal. There is no way out of it."
While California"s Proposition 215 makes legal the medical use of marijuana with a physician"s prescription, the law does not limit the amount of pot a patient can use and offers few specifics on how local jurisdictions should enforce the law. The result is more than a few anomalies, contradictions and hard to predict legal situations, according to Denson.
State law, for example, permits the medical use of cannabis concentrates such as hashish and oil. A 215 grower or patient may legally possess dozens of pounds of the leaf used to make concentrates but can be prosecuted for possessing under an ounce of bud.
"If you have a 215, you are probably not going to be convicted for that," Denson said. "A pound is not much, at least up here in the garden counties. The key is that you can have what you need. To prove what you need you can rely on the county guidelines (half a pound in Mendocino, three pounds in Humboldt) or what your doctor writes on your 215."
Denson said in an an e-mail following his talk that he"s seen prescriptions ranging from six pounds to seventy-five, depending on a patient"s medical issues and the method used to ingest the medicine.
"You can try just telling the cops you need ten pounds or whatever," he added. "In that case, you"ll probably get arrested, but if you can make a believable and reasonable case for needing what you have, you"ll get off."
Another gray area, he said, is selling medical marijuana.
Growers with medical prescriptions can only cultivate cannabis for medical use to sell to patients with whom they are "associated." Patient associations, usually called collectives or co-ops, can sell to their members and can add new members at the time and place of sale. But the law doesn"t allow individual growers to do that. For an individual to sell marijuana legally the grower and patient are required to "associate" prior to cultivation. Many 215 growers, he said, join associations with dispensaries so they can sell what they grow in excess of their own personal needs to the dispensary. The dispensary can then sell to other members of the association.
Sales to non-patients are illegal, unless the non-patient is the primary caregiver of a patient and is buying on behalf of that patient. The California Supreme Court ruled that a primary caregiver is one who assumes responsibility for the health, safety or housing of the patient and does that prior to buying cannabis for the patient. The primary caregiver can grow the pot for the patient and also get reimbursed for the costs of doing so. But a relationship between two people based entirely on one supplying marijuana to the other does not make the supplier the primary caregiver.
Transporting pot is also a very tricky legal matter, Denson said. "You can have a year"s worth of marijuana at home, but that doesn"t mean you can take it to Safeway."
The attorney"s advice on crossing state lines with marijuana was unequivocal. "Don"t," he said. "It gets you into more federal trouble – it"s interstate commerce."
Denson advised all growers to be "environmentally cautious." He noted that law enforcement officials and California Fish and Game wardens are on the look-out for diesel spills and illegal water diversion and usage.
The entire justice system is operating under such a serious financial strain that it cannot effectively carry out its duties, according to Denson. Local courts are so crowded that cases are backing up. County sheriffs do not have enough deputies for adequate enforcement, and the district attorney does not have enough deputy DAs to prosecute the many cases that come in.
Denson noted that the transfer of state prisoners into the county jail system means that non-violent jail prisoners are taking up cells that are needed for more serious criminals. Creating more space means early releases and pressure on the courts and the district attorney not to send non-violent defendants to jail.
Denson praised Mendocino County DA for recognizing that the county courts had become clogged with a large number of marijuana prosecutions, many of which were so poorly investigated they could not be won. Given a jury pool that was not inclined to convict people on marijuana charges, even the best of the cases failed.
"These prosecutions were a waste of time, energy, and resources," Denson said.
"When David Eyster came in he completely changed the county"s approach to marijuana cases, opting not to prosecute weak cases. Eyster made settlements in the others which involved plea bargains for probation with little or no jail time but high financial inputs to the county in the form of paying retroactive zip-tie fees, and restitution of investigation costs instead.
"The net result is very quick resolution of marijuana cases, at low cost to the county, with perhaps $2 million dollars gained through the fees and restitution.The DA has gone to trial on just one marijuana case in four years. He won it. His office wins eighty-five to ninety percent of all its trials. By contrast other counties have pursued plea deals less favorable to defendants, with more emphasis on jail and less on fines and reimbursements. Eyster has brought money into the county where the other counties conduct the same types of cases at a loss."
Denson would not speculate on possible legalization of cannabis in California because, he said, his hands are full keeping up with laws already on the books.
"Alan Ginsberg told me in 1969 that marijuana would be legal in a year," Denson mused.
Future Long Valley Garden Club Cannabis Renaissance programs: Cannabis Cultivation Panel, April 13th; Biochemist Samantha Miller on cannabinoids, May 11; Jeffrey Hergenrather, M.D., president of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians, on medical practice, June 15; Law Enforcement Panel, July 13; Making Medicine Panel, August 10; Navigating California"s Legalization Propositions Panel, Sept. 14. All events are at the Long Valley Garden Club, 375 Harwood Road, Laytonville, 4 to 6 p.m. Donations appreciated.
Jane Futcher is the author of a WOMEN GONE WILD, a memoir about moving to Mendocino County.


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Warner Bros. has walked away with most of Mortal Kombat maker Midway Games for the cut-rate price of $33 million (£20m).
The deal gives the US movie studio rights to the majority of Midway's intellectual property, including Mortal Kombat, Rampage, Spy Hunter, and Joust.
A Delaware bankruptcy court judge approved a settlement deal last week, saying objections against the sale had been resolved.
Warner Bros. was the only firm to submit a formal bid for the debt-ridden game company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February. Exceptions to the fire-sale are Midway's San Diego and New Castle studios. If buyers can't be found for the two studios within 60 days, the company plans to shut them down.
Although nobody else was interested in bidding, several companies had filed objections to the sale, asserting their own claims to the intellectual property being sold.
Among them was the Hollywood production company Threshold Entertainment, which produced — among other things — two full-length feature films, a direct-to-video animated special, made-for-TV movies, a Saturday morning animated series, and a live stage show based on the Mortal Kombat universe.
"Threshold was responsible for transforming each of the pattern or 'stock' characters present in the underlying Mortal Kombat video game from an unprotectable idea into a fully-realized, completely-delineated and independently copyrightable expression," the company's June 24 court filing stated. "Over the course of years, Threshold in effect brought these characters 'to life' by developing their mannerisms, costume, story, abilities and personality...for which the copyright is owned by Threshold."
Another objector was Tigon Studios, a production company founded by action star Vin Diesel. Midway and Tigon had jointly produced a driving game called The Wheelman, released early this year. Yet another was the consumer brand product conglomerate Unilever, which was concerned over a prior agreement to place advertisements for AXE body sprays and deodorants in a future Midway game.
The judge said objections have been resolved, clearing the way for approval.
Midway filed for bankruptcy this summer after its majority shareholder, media mogul Sumner Redstone, sold off his controlling 87.2 per cent stake in the company to private investor Mark Thomas for only $100,000 along with the assumption of $70m of Midway's debt. ®


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TORONTO - Monday's postponed game between the Bruins and the Ottawa Senators because of the Boston Marathon bombings has been rescheduled.
The NHL announced Tuesday that the game will be played the night of Sunday, April 28 at TD Garden. The regular season was scheduled to end April 27.
Ottawa was at home on Tuesday night against Carolina. The Sens enter the game sixth in the Eastern Conference, two points up on the eighth-place New York Rangers. Winnipeg is in ninth place, four points back.
Two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line Monday, killing three people, injuring dozens and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators.
The NHL released a statement after saying it "wishes to express its sympathy to all affected by the tragic events."


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I recently posted about the news that Ellen Terry's beetle wing dress was returning to Smallhythe Place.
I now want to share these images, which have just become available, of the installation of the dress in its custom-made display space.
After the painstaking restoration work, the mounting of the dress on its mannequin was handled with equal care.
Some of the source material Terry used as inspiration for the dress is also still at Smallhythe.
Bouquets to all those involved: it's a triumph.


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Diddy, Snoop Lion, Nelly and Game Celebrate at 2013 ESPYs [PHOTOS]
Last night's (July 17) ESPY Awards brought the best and brightest in the world of sports to the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles.
While the night was focused on the Miami Heat players, who picked up awards for Best Team and Best Game, and Serena Williams taking the title of Best Female Athlete, some big names in hip-hop were also on hand to not only give away awards (as Diddy did) but hang out with their favorite athletes.
Check out some photos of the hip-hop celebs who made it out to the ESPYs.
Watch Jay Pharaoh of 'Saturday Night Live' Impersonate Jay Z at 2013 ESPY Awards


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A LENGTHY wrangle over whether an 18th century masterpiece at Castle Howard should be exempted from capital gains tax has ended in a test case court battle.
Sir Joshua Reynolds' Omai was displayed at the stately home for more than 200 years before being sold at auction in 2001 for £9.4m, in part to fund the divorce of Simon Howard from his wife, Annette. The tax authorities have been fighting ever since to prove that capital gains tax was payable on the hammer price.
A judge ruled last year that the portrait was "plant or machinery" and, therefore, tax free but Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) challenged that decision, claiming it defied common sense to describe the masterpiece as "a wasting asset".
The Court of Appeal has now found that the Old Master was to be classed in the eyes of the law as "plant", used to boost Castle Howard's business, rather than an asset on which capital gains tax was payable.
Lord Justice Briggs said the ruling which has huge implications for historic home owners and art collectors may be "surprising" to some, but such a result was an "acceptable if unwelcome side-wind" of complex tax legislation.
Giving the Court's main ruling, Lord Justice Rimer accepted the claim that the painting constituted "plant" and fell to be treated as a "wasting asset" not subject to CGT.
This was because it had been included for exhibition in that part of Castle Howard open to the public, he said, and thus was kept by the company that owns Castle Howard "for use in its trade".
He rejected claims on behalf of HMRC that, while the painting was "plant" in the hands of the company, it was not so in the hands of the executors.
Lord Justice Briggs, adding his own judgment, said: "It is, and despite these judgments will probably remain, surprising to those unfamiliar with the workings of Capital Gains Tax, that a famous Old Master like Omai should qualify for exemption from tax on the ground that it either 'plant' or a wasting asset, with a deemed predictable life of less than 50 years.
"But this is the occasional consequence of the working of definitions and exclusions which, while aimed successfully at one potential inroad into the charge of tax, unavoidably allow others by what the legislators appear to permit as an acceptable if unwelcome side-wind."
The portrait of the South Sea islander Omai, painted in 1775, is now owned by John Magnier, the Irish stud owner.


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"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure–your perfection–is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart."
"To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life"
"You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be"
"Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark"
'I once recognized myself as a friend'
I am asked often to share some good stories about people finding their perfect match. I meet men and women, old and young, tall and short, of all kind shapes and colors… And they all have one thing in common – they want to love and to be loved…
They come to me, often after loosing a hope and faith that that special person even exists… Sometimes they are ready and sometimes they are not… To let love in – first you need to have your heart wide open… It took me a long time to figure it out…
I definitely have a supreme intuition when it comes to heart matters… Very often the first introduction I make is the only one and people leave me holding hands with the love of their life…
"Happiness is a Butterfly which, when pursued is just beyond your grasp... but if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you" ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
1) Whenever you feel out of sorts, lost or out of sync with yourself or the Universe – allow the Universe to carry you into the field of Intention to implement surrender in your life. Just be peaceful and calm.
2) When you ego defines you by what you do and what you have, or compares you to others, say to yourself, "I am here on purpose, I can achieve and accomplish everything I desire by staying in harmony with Universe"
3) Act as if anything you desire if already here. Believe that all you wanted and dreamed about was ordered with your American Express and you got a confirmation email that it was shipped and will be delivered at the appropriate time of your life to surprise you
This is one of the most commonly asked questions from those who have given their hearts, and souls to a narcissist. At first the relationship is very intense and romantic and it seems perhaps you have finally found "the one."
I recently watched a movie where a character comically said "or you are still chasing after the elusive "one." Meaning we often spend our lives waiting for the one who will finally make everything right with our world. Initially it may seem the narcissistic lover is "the one." But after the honeymoon is over the tables turn. Why? Well because the honeymoon is over! And narcissists love the honeymoon.
free your soul your mind and your body
release, loosen and relax your conscience
and see that it was only holding you back
from the springs to come, more springs and more...
Finding A Soulmate Doesn't Necessarily Equal A Blissful Relationship
As we are approaching Valentines Day I thought it would be appropriate to discuss the topic of soulmates.
There is a lot of information out there on soulmates and much of it is conflicting, as in any subject. It is difficult to have a solid understanding that can serve us when we attempt to know what these heartfelt connections in our lives mean.
When the movie "The Secret" came out it spread like wildfire across the Internet and the cat was out of the bag about the Law of Attraction. Ever since we've been seeing all kinds of expansion on the topic, such as "The Secret Behind The Secret" and "What The Secret Didn't Tell You!" And also there is the angle that "There Is No Secret! We've Know This Stuff for Ages!"
"The Secret" was based on the "Law of Attraction" which launched into a new awareness once that movie was released. The Law of Attraction is a universal law that says "You attract into your reality everything that shows up." This means what you think about comes about or what you focus on you create. It also means how you feel on an emotional level will attract into your reality a similar vibration, meaning if you are feeling low and depressed you will attract depressive people and circumstances into your reality.
True love can only be found within ourselves. If we have not taken the journey into the darkness where we meet our own soul, we can never truly know another. It is when all distractions are pushed aside and there is nothing left but the experience of our own existance that we descend into the dark realm of the unconscious or psyche.
Uncertainty is a measure of variety. Uncertainty is zero when all elements are in the same category. Uncertainty increases with both the number of categories and their equal-probability. It is the statistically defined discrepancy between a measured quantity and the true value of that quantity that cannot be corrected by calculation or calibration. Uncertainty is a prominent feature of the benefits and costs of climate change. Decision makers need to compare risk of premature or unnecessary actions with risk of failing to take actions that subsequently prove to be warranted. Uncertainty defines change and thus these uncertainty quotes describe the need for the variation in one's static and immobile life. These quotes describe the changes that have occurred in people's lives due certain very crucial events in their lives.
Nathaniel & Mercedes - they met through Sophisticated Matchmaking in 2009
April 1, 2010 at 4:02pm
Change Your life forever
Can you imagine what kind of things can happen to you when you don't block your mind from possibilities available to you?
You can shift your own thoughts and create your own new reality!
ASK YOURSELF - WHAT IF??? What it will be like if…? The answer is - It's already done. Notice what you see and interact with it. Be ready to what will show up.
Love Love Love
The eternal energy of the Light.
Yet in our western world Love has become a commercial property that can be brought and sold.
So much distortion of the real meaning of Love has come to many that the very mention of Valentine's Day can bring with it so much pain and unhappiness for so many people.
What I have noticed is that in the westernisation of Love, Love has become a thing that has to be measured.
Valentine's Day prompts people to put expectations on Love.
Age Difference / Older Woman / Younger Man
1 Year
Angela Bassett . . . Courtney B. Vance
Victoria Beckham (Victoria Adams/"Posh" Spice) . . . David Beckham
Camilla Parker Bowles . . . Prince Charles
Brandy . . . Robert Smith
Jane Fonda . . . Ted Turner
Cassandra Harris . . . Pierce Brosnan
Helen Hunt . . . Hank Azaria
Nicole Kidman . . . Keith Urban
Sharon Lawrence . . . Tom Apostle
Tracy Pollan . . . Michael J. Fox
Kelly Ripa . . . Mark Consuelos
Julia Roberts . . . Danny Moder
Rebecca Romijn . . . Jerry O'Connell
Afton Smith . . . Brendon Fraser
Uma Thurman . . . Ethan Hawke
Age Difference / Older Man / Younger Woman
0 Years (less than one year age difference)
Mark Burnett . . . Roma Downey
George W. Bush . . . Laura Welch
Albert Gore Jr. . . . Tipper Aitcheson
Tom Hanks . . . Rita Wilson
Tim McGraw . . . Faith Hill
It's that time of the year again - we are inundated with more party invitations and opportunities to treat ourselves than at any other time of the year. We gather with our loved ones and make merry! For many of us, celebrating at this time of year is synonymous with over-indulgence and is often followed in the New Year with pangs of guilt and resolutions to do better this year. The question many of us have is; 'Is it possible to survive the Holiday Season without culpability in January?' Believe it or not, and I know how difficult it is to imagine, but you can enjoy the Holiday Season without weight gain being a foregone conclusion!
It is my belief that, if we look hard enough, there is something good to be found in even the most disastrous of situations! With the events of the latter part of 2009, the much publicised credit crunch and the subsequent consequences this may have had for many, perhaps we can reap benefits in 2010 by re-evaluating what is important to us and living our lives by a new set of rules that encourage balance. A perfect New Year's resolution for anyone is to aim for, or to maintain, fulfilment: a goal that is surely generic to the entire human race. But how can we make sure fulfilment does not evade us in 2010?
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON . . . It is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be.
"I just want to be happy!"
Asking most people what they want from life gets the same answer, "I just want to be happy." There is a common belief that happiness is something that can be achieved and held on to it. We look forward to that time in which we can finally be happy, but it continually recedes. We want to get to the top of the Wheel of Life and stay there.
I recently interviewed Lisa Steadman about her upcoming book If He's Not The One, Who Is?: What Went Wrong - and What It Takes to Find Mr. Right (January 18, 2010) and her transformative 8 week teleclass based on the book. Lisa's message is one of hope, inspiration, and empowerment for singles who are done with past dating drama, disaster, and disappointment, and ready to create happier and healthier dating futures.
It's getting late at the office. Everyone else has gone home. Greta props her head up with her hand and sips coffee as she and her co-worker, Michael, examine the blueprints spread on the drafting table. Almost done. The deadline is tomorrow. The table behind them is littered with empty Chinese food containers and coffee cups. The garbage can is overflowing with rejected ideas.
Michael reaches for a ruler and bumps Greta's arm, splattering her coffee on the blueprints. "What have you done!"? Greta yells. Staring in disbelief at the ruin, he sinks into the chair and moans, "I can't believe it! Look what happened? What an idiot."
First you say you'll stay and then you go.
Then you say you will and then it's "no".
You're undecided now so what are ya gonna do?
-1920's song
How can I miss you if you won't go away?
There is nothing wrong with being attracted to a successful man or woman if this is because they have qualities such as drive and ambition that you find very appealing and that match you well. For gold-diggers however, this is the sole reason or main decision making criteria for entering into a relationship with a partner.
Key common features amongst gold-diggers are that many have experienced a troubled background of some sort and that they are desperately materialistic (to the extent that things in the material world are used by them to represent their identity). This can be a dangerous combination.
According to evolutionary theory the fundamental purpose of life is reproduction. We are therefore 'pre-programmed' to find a compatible partner, reproduce and raise our children.
This is, of course, greatly oversimplified and in the modern world, where many other factors come into play (such as career, travel, financial factors, health implications, personal choice etc.), it is not simply the case that all we must do in life is find a partner and raise a family.
These three frequencies, if developed sufficiently, produce everlasting life. Each frequency is a virtue, an emotion, and a magickal force for creating change. They are not abstract, intellectual concepts. Here are a few ideas and proposals to further their development in society, and in the individual.
PRAISE: Praise is a fire, or light, which needs to be established within the heart. It is our most sacred duty to keep this fire burning perpetually, in the midst of all situations. If we do this, then, in time, flames of praise spread from the heart and ignite eternal fires within every atom and cell of the physical body. Praise has two functions:
While we have preferences, the minute we start insisting that people and situations be different, we create internal turmoil - anger, disappointment, sadness and so on... It's our attachment that leads us to donning a mask. blaming others, or feeling incomplete.
There are some ways to distinguish between spirit and ego.
The following are examples of getting caught in the EGO.
* Boasting of our accomplishments to impress someone
* Defending and criticizing yourself and others
* Lying, being deceitful, seductive, or manipulative, whether overly, covertly, or by omission
* Talking on and on about ourselves and others
Letting go of hurts and regrets in past relationships is one of the simplest ways to open yourself up to accept Soulmate Love as your destiny and to start magnetizing it in. Simple, but not easy! I remember hanging on energetically to a boyfriend who "did me wrong"- I was still angry for 2 YEARS after we broke up! Yeah sure, I "knew" about how important compassion and forgiveness were, but I just couldn't seem to let my anger and hurt go.
I was justified in my anger, I felt, and held onto it, until the day came when my Love Coach asked me point blank: "How is this anger and hurt for your ex-boyfriend serving you?"
Recent scientific research is beginning to investigate the relationships between experience and the memories of experience. Researchers are seeing that certain areas of the brain light up depending on the thoughts, actions and experiences of a person. Detailed maps of the brain now exist for the repeated patterns that we human's experience. There are precise regions of the brain that light up when we see our child or grandchild. Everyone has similar patterns with slight variations that depend on how you feel about that child or grandchild...
What do men want in a woman? Brains? Beauty? Vacuuming prowess?
Researchers at the University of Iowa find that men increasingly are interested in intelligent, educated women who are financially stable — and chastity isn't an issue.
The findings are part of a study, conducted every decade since 1939, which asks participants to rank a list of 18 characteristics they would want in a partner on a scale ranging from "irrelevant" to "essential." Included are such items as "sociability" and "good cook, housekeeper," as well as "mutual attraction and love," which came in first place for both men and women in 2008. (In 1939, it wasn't in the top three for either sex.)
It's Real Love when other people care about our happiness without any concern for themselves. They're not disappointed or angry when we make our foolish mistakes, when we don't do what they want, or even when we inconvenience them personally.
Sadly, few of us have either given or received that kind of love, and without it we experience a terrible void in our lives, which we try to fill with money, power, food, approval, sex, and entertainment. But no matter how much of those substitutes we acquire, we remain empty, alone, afraid, and angry, because the one thing we really need is Real Love. Without it, we can only be miserable; with it, our happiness is guaranteed.
Picture the artichoke, whose tender heart is surrounded by the protection the universe gives it in the form of hard, prickly leaves. Picture your heart, the place where that same universe, call it Eternity, or God, same thing, speaks to us. Picture your heart surrounded by the layers of hard, prickly protection that we have all created for ourselves to protect our heart from the universe. We have done so, at times consciously but often as not without being aware we are doing so, to shield ourselves from hurt. Most of that layering has come simply out of fear. That fear has been both fear that we can recognize and fear of which we are mostly unaware. It is the fear from childhood experiences playing itself out in our adult lives. The fear is often called "reality."
Too often we assume that the needs of another are the same as our own. Acting on such assumptions can cause no end of trouble. Learn to ask and tell each other what you really need. After all, when what you long for is warmth and affection, it is disappointing to receive a new set of luggage.
As you become more aware of your sometimes unkind or unconscious responses to someone you care deeply about and you choose instead to behave in meaningful and supportive ways, the quality of your relationship is certain to improve. For this to happen you might be required to identify and abandon some form of behavior that no longer serves you. Whatever change is called for, know that ONLY ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO CROSS THE DIVIDE FOR SHIFT TO OCCURE...
WHAT IS LOVE: Magnetic field with electro potential – zero point field – the field of the highest possible frequencies – the sacred space – the creator – God. All of us are made of it. Divine Love is what all of us made of. It is already in you. Allow it to show up by eliminating your limiting beliefs from your mind. Love is an individualization of spirit. The only thing that matters is spirit. But most people understand under love reaction to external circumstances or internal desires. People confuse love with what they want or desire.
The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe. The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance with this most powerful law. Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace, health, and abundance.
Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon talk about aspects of attraction, Love, our darkside defined - 8 min video
Today's matchmakers work hard for their money -- and they demand a lot of it. Prices for these pros run steep, and only a select few singles are affluent enough to afford the service. But you get what you pay for, and matchmakers are selective a...bout their clientele, finding them via referrals as well as by scouring cocktail parties, political fundraising events and charity balls.
For centuries Taoism and Tantra have taught that sexuality is a tool to transform the spirit. Now recent research suggests that satisfying sex also has the capacity to heal the body and mind.
There is a segment of society for whom traditional family values are increasingly irrelevant, and for whom spring-break sexual liberationism is increasingly costly: men and women in their 20s. This is the period of life in which society's most important social commitments take shape -- commitments that produce stability, happiness and children. But the facts of life for 20-somethings are challenging. Puberty -- mainly because of improved health -- comes steadily sooner. Sexual activity kicks off earlier. But the average age at which people marry has grown later; it is now about 26 for women, 28 for men.
What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for the mankind. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. But no one can give the proper definition of love. To some Love is friendship set on fire for others Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind.
Which cities have a surplus of single men (or women) - and what that means for the country
Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman. A woman who honors her experiences and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life. Imagine a woman who believes she is good. A woman who trusts and respects herself.
If you will be able to remove the programming associated with these emotions, you will free enough space in your mind to be able to move objects (telekinesis). Your mind spends an incredible amount of time on these tree issues and the neurons of the brain are occupied with resentment and regret. The Greatest Fear of Nothing… Are you afraid of nothing, of being nothing….If there is anything that you would change, what it would be? What is missing in your life today?
In the spirit of the holiday season, and in anticipation of the approaching new year, I want to acknowledge my relationships and connections over this year and years past. My deep thanks to each of you for what you have added to my personal and professional growth and fulfillment. I share with you:
My wish for 2009:
Stop taking ourselves so seriously!
Let's have more laughter and fewer tears,
less exclusion and more acceptance,
less pretense and more authenticity,
less anger and more hope...
Friendship is a personal relationship shared between each friend for the welfare of other, in other words, it is the relationship of trust, faith and concern for each other feelings. It is a relationship of mutual caring and intimacy among one another. A friend is one who knows you as a person and regards you for what you are and not what he or she is looking in a good friend. Best friend is one who accepts the good as well bad qualities of his friend and also takes an initiative in correcting and mending them. Friendship is a distinctive kind of concern for your friend, it is a relationship of immense faith and love for each other.
Can you imagine what kind of things can happen to you when you don't block your mind from possibilities available to you? You can shift your own thoughts and create your own new reality!
ASK YOURSELF - WHAT IF? What it will be like if…? The answer is - It's already done. Notice what you see and interact with it. Be ready to what will show up.
You already know the answer. When you decide to do something or have a question or ready for a change - it's when you already have the necessary information and resources available for you, you already know the answer – all you have to do is to let it in. You are reading this workbook because you already have a readiness for a shift in your brain – you are ready for it. Now when you have the info and all of your dots connected, all you have to do is to allow it to come to you and happen.
1. People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered –
Forgive them anyway
2. If you are kind, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives –
Be kind anyway
3. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies – Succeed anyway
4. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you –
Be honest and frank anyway
5. What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight –
Build anyway
6. If you find serenity and happiness, they might be jealous –
Be happy anyway
7. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow –
Do good anyway
8. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough –
Give the world the best you got anyway
You see, in the final analysis, it is al
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Here are 10 tips by Iain Legg I really enjoyed:
1. DON'T give away your power to people. Take responsibility for
your life. If things aren't going as hoped in your life, re examine
your deepest beliefs. Swap limiting beliefs for empowering ones.
2. DO get a pet! According to Power vs Force, a purring cat
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3. DON'T watch movies that drag you down. According to Power vs
Force, this is most films. Watch movies that will make you feel
good. Listen to music that fills you with positive emotions. Read
books that empower you. (Control the input to your brain, and
you'll control your output).
"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves - Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson
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William Parrish: Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you'll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall
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People often mix together three absolutely different things – Chemistry, Falling in Love and True Love.
If you don't know what you want – you will never get it! Whatever it is you are seeking, you have to define it exactly to yourself, or it'll never sound clear to the person you are trying to connect with.
Belief systems are real, and they can be changed. For a long time I didn't believe that this was possible unless you did lots of reprogramming work on yourself. I knew they could be changed with hypnosis, and I knew that they could be changed with goals, but I didn't realize that they could be changed in thirty seconds…
Over the weekend a friend of mine has sent me an interesting article written by Mark de la Vina discussing the underwater stones of the first and second date. "...If a first date is akin to kicking the tires of a sports coupe on a car lot, the second date is like taking your potential dream rig for a test drive. At the risk of reducing dating to a visit to the auto mall, the second date is as important as that initial encounter in learning about the other person. While the first date is something of a sneak peek, a second date, free of jitters over making that great first impression, can reveal even more..."
A lot of men and women, just like you, are single and are looking for a serious relationship and love, but tend to attract or are attracted to the wrong people. Not that they don't know what is what they want to avoid but they cannot avoid it...
Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and classy. I'm not from New York. I'm looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't think I'm overreaching at all.
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FACETIME- Lohman's folk: Hot rods and Brunswick stew
Quilting, clogging, mandolin playing–- those seem pretty standard folk fare. But how about moonshine-making? Or building hot rods? According to Jon Lohman, they'll all examples of Virginia folk traditions, and he's gearing up a showcase of them next week.
"Folklife arts are not something that have to be old," explains Lohman, head of the Virginia Folklife Program. "They arise from the community and say, this is who we are."
Even hot rods?
"People have been tinkering with them pretty much since the first car rolled off the assembly line," says Lohman.
Growing up in New York's upscale and suburban Westchester County, Lohman may not have then seemed an obvious choice to become the expert on such Virginia arts as Brunswick stew making and Tidewater gospel quartet singing.
"I didn't know the field of folklore existed," he confesses.
But during a 1991 post-college move to teach in New Orleans, he was intrigued by the culture and traditions of the Big Easy, and 10 years later completed a PhD in folklore at Penn. Now 42, he finds endangered traditions like canning and tobacco auctioneering important.
"They add to the texture and beauty of life," he says.
Consider Kathak dance, something becoming more common as immigrants from Northern India settle in Northern Virginia.
"People who've come here recently bring things with them that become part of our folklife," says Lohman, disputing the notion of America as a melting pot.
"When people come here," he explains, "the traditions that were unconscious to them become important to them, like food and dress."
To keep something like oyster shucking from dying out, Lohman pairs master artists with eager learners.
"An apprenticeship is not like a lesson," he clarifies. "It's like two people spending time together, not to learn how to carve a decoy, but to learn what it is to be a decoy carver."
"I've never met anyone who draws people like he does," says Lohman's boss, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities president Rob Vaughan. "He's built a Virginia folklife program that's a model."
And Lohman debunks fears that Walmart and McDonald's will homogenize local traditions.
"Go to Patrick County, and you'll see a different type of flatfoot dancing from that in Carroll or Floyd County–- and they've all got their Hardee's," he says.
And even though he's from Irvington, New York, Lohman has his own folk traditions.
"I'm a real pizza snob," he says. And a real sub, he says, is called a "wedge," and they don't make 'em like that around here.
The Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase features bluegrass music, Brunswick stew, snake-cane carving, and hard cider making. Mmmm, mmmm. It's Sunday, September 12, from noon to 5pm at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities offices, 145 Ednam Drive in the Boar's Head complex. Phone 434 924-3296. Free.


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Updated BT has been rapped by the UK's advertising watchdog, which found that the national telco had "misled" customers about when its broadband products would be available in their areas.
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld complaints submitted by 15 people, who griped about BT because its "availability checker" website for its Infinity and Total Broadband products, in some instances, repeatedly pushed back the dates over a long period of time.
BT's £2.5bn fibre network upgrade to two-thirds of homes and businesses across Britain is mainly being fed from the local exchange to streetside cabinets - the service is then carried into homes and businesses via a copper phone line.
The FTTC Infinity product boasts theoretical download speeds of up to 80Mbps and upload speeds of 20Mbps. But some customers have been disappointed to discover that BT's tracker explaining when that product should be available was seemingly telling porkies by regularly postponing the dates.
By way of example, the ASA said one complainant had been told on the site that Infinity would be available on 30 September 2012, only to then discover months later that the date had changed to 31 December 2012.
While the website has recently begun telling customers using the checker that: "When we are able to provide a date for future fibre availability, it is indicative only and subject to change", that newly placed disclaimer was not enough to satisfy the ASA.
The watchdog said in its adjudication:
We considered that the appearance of a date or provisional date in the availability checker suggested that active plans were in place to roll out BT Infinity in that area and that the service would therefore be available on or around that time, and the listed date should not be subsequently or regularly pushed back.
We noted we had not seen supporting documentation showing that, in each of the areas where the complainants were based, the listed date in the availability checker was based on scheduled plans for Openreach to have BT Infinity available in those areas on or around the listed dates.
We considered that the date BT Infinity was expected to be available in their area would be a material consideration for consumers when deciding whether to register an interest in the service.
Because we had not seen documentation that showed there were scheduled plans to roll out BT Infinity in the complainants' areas and make BT Infinity available in those areas on or around the listed dates, and because we understood that, in at least one case, there were currently no plans for BT Infinity to be rolled out in an area while the availability checker listed a provisional date that was less than three months away, we considered that the inclusion of provisional dates was likely to mislead.
It concluded that the ad could not be substantiated and was considered to be misleading. The ASA said BT's claim must not appear again in its current form. Dates were only allowed to be included, the regulator ruled, if BT's Openreach division had actually scheduled plans to work on the service in the corresponding area.
BT, for its part, said it had already made "significant changes" last October to the wording on its website to make it clear that the dates were only provisional. A new online checker is being built for BT, which will apparently be implemented in the next few months.
It's not the first time BT has got its facts wrong about where and when customers could expect to see their broadband products upgraded to faster broadband.
Last September, we reported that the company's "Where and When" website was blighted by a dodgy bug in the postcode checker system, which placed Islington in South Africa and Shoreditch on Mount Everest. ®
Updated to add
BT has been in touch since the publication of this article to give us this statement:
This is a disappointing ruling. People clearly want to know when fibre might become available in their area and so BT has been publishing its best estimates on a regular basis. Those plans sometimes have to change however if local planning permission isn't granted or we find that a third party can't meet our deadlines.
Fifteen complaints is a tiny number when you consider that BT is enabling tens of thousands of cabinets, but we will work with the ASA to make changes where we can as it is clear that people remain keen to know when fibre might reach them.


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Separately, Rosenthal is now editing the feature-length documentary "Exporting Raymond," about his outrageous experiences while remaking his own show in Russia. The series, "Vse Lubyat Kostya" (Everybody Loves Kostya), was ordered to pilot by Russian broadcaster CTC using Rosenthal's original "Raymond" script and produced by local production company Lean-M. Sony Pictures Television International, Worldwide Pants and HBO Independent Productions are behind the export, with Rosenthal's film chronicling the casting, the prep and the shooting of the pilot in December and ending with CTC's decision on whether or not to move forward with the show. No distributor has been set for the film, although Sony is widely expecting to.
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Analysis: A word game over "privacy"
In 12 pages of teacher-like explanation of the varying meaning of words, the Supreme Court on Tuesday told business companies organized as corporations the sad news that they are not entitled to the same privacy as human beings enjoy, at least when it comes to records that corporations have handed over to federal government agencies. But, at the end of the 12 pages, in what read like an intentionally clever gesture to make the ruling easier to accept, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., actually implied that corporations do have feelings, and are therefore capable of being offended. "We trust," the concluding line said, "that AT&T will not take it personally." In fact, that seemed contradictory to the ruling itself.
AT&T, of course, had paid its lawyers to go before the Court and argue that corporations do have "personal privacy," just as humans do, and are therefore capable of being embarrassed by public disclosure of such things as internal e-mails. The Court rejected that legal claim, interpreting the Freedom of Information Act's protection of "personal privacy" as reserved for humans, when a government agency comes into possession of private documents during an official investigation. (The vote was unanimous, but Justice Elena Kagan did not take part in the ruling in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T Inc., 09-1279).
As he had done during oral argument in January, the Chief Justice used his opinion to discuss how words and their derivatives can mean very different things, or very similar things, and so need to be read in context. "Corny," for example, has little to do with "corn," the opinion suggested. When it comes to the FOIA, the opinion said, there is just no convincing evidence that "personal privacy" was something that the fictional being of a corporation could experience, at least as Congress saw it when it wrote FOIA. The Court conceded that corporations are, in some sense, "persons," and, they do have, in some sense, "privacy," but it said that FOIA did not put the two together in a phrase to guarantee them "personal privacy."
Although there is a great deal of debate in public discourse about whether corporations should continue to be treated, under the Constitution, as "persons" (something the Court itself did do, of course, in its ruling last year in a deeply controversial campaign spending case), Tuesday's opinion cautioned that "this case does not call upon us to pass on the scope of a corporation's 'privacy' interests as a matter of constitutional or common law. The discrete question before us is instead whether Congress used the term 'personal privacy' to refer to the privacy of artificial persons" in FOIA. Constitutional cases that AT&T had relied upon to help make its privacy argument, the Court said, "are too far afield to be of help here."
The decision provided an authoritative interpretation of one provision of FOIA: its Exemption 7(C). That provides that the usual legal duty of government agencies to make records and documents they have available to the public does not apply when an investigating agency had gathered "law enforcement records," which, if disclosed, "could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
The FCC had gathered a variety of AT&T's internal records during an investigation, and, then, business rivals of AT&T, using FOIA requests, sought access to those files. The FCC withheld some, for such reasons as protecting trade secrets or protecting "personal privacy" of some AT&T employees, but it said the exemption did not insulate the corporation itself from disclosures that might intrude on "personal privacy." The Third Circuit Court, however, disagreed, and read the FOIA exemption to cover "personal privacy" for the corporation, too. That result was overturned Tuesday.
As the reader of the opinion works through it, the document turns into a somewhat repetitive recitation of the theme that the notion of "personal privacy" just does not seem to fit a corporation. For example, it suggested at one point, a corporation could well have a "tragedy" in its corporate life, but "we do not use the word 'personal' to" describe it. In fact, it went on, "we often use the word 'personal' to mean precisely the opposite of business-related" — as with personal expenses versus business expenses, or personal life versus work life.
The bottom line, a reader might well expect, would then wrap up the opinion along these lines: AT&T might well be disturbed by this conclusion, but as a corporation it is not capable of experiencing personal sensibilities. The Chief Justice, though, seemed to be suggesting the opposite: if one "trusts" that someone will not take bad news personally, one is conceding that, actually, they do have feelings that might be hurt.
The version the Chief Justice chose, though, may be more felicitous English composition.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Analysis: A word game over "privacy", SCOTUSblog (Mar. 1, 2011, 12:35 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/03/analysis-a-word-game-over-privacy/


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 31, 2013) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team has set its 14-player roster for the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup, which is a uniquely challenging six country event taking place Nov. 12-17 in Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan.
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U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team Head Coach Karch Kiraly mentioned that the FIVB Grand Champions Cup presents a unique challenge to all six teams participating in the event as it is well after the normal National Team season. For most athletes in the competition, they have been in their professional club leagues around the world since late September.
"We have to quickly re-assemble and hope the teamwork that we were working so hard to build in this summer season of 2013, that we can remember all that quickly and get back to playing USA Volleyball," Kiraly said. He went on to say that most teams will have just 7-10 days of training prior to the first match on Nov. 12.
For this season-ending event, Kiraly has selected four outside hitters, four middle blockers, two setters, two opposites and two liberos to fill out the 14-player roster for the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup. Outside hitters are Kristin Hildebrand (Orem, Utah), Kim Hill (Portland, Ore.), Jordan Larson-Burbach (Hooper, Neb.) and Cassidy Lichtman (Poway, Calif.). The middle blockers on the roster are Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Christa Harmotto (Hopewell Township, Pa.), Cursty Jackson (Los Angeles) and Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.). The opposites are Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) and Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.). The setters are Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) and Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio). The liberos are Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa) and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii). All but Larson-Burbach and Jackson were part of the FIVB World Grand Champions Final Round squad that competed in Sapporo, Japan, and finished in sixth place.
Each team can only suit 12 players for each match, but the roster composition can change each day as long as the players were submitted on the 14-player competition roster.
The FIVB Grand Champions Cup features continental winners United States (NORCECA), Thailand (Asia), Russia (Europe), Brazil (South America), along with wildcard Dominican Republic and host Japan. The tournament uses a round-robin format with each team playing five matches over the course of six days. The first stage will be held Nov. 12-13 at the Nagoya Nippongaishi Hall, which seats 10,000 fans. After a travel day on Nov. 14, the teams resume action Nov. 15-17 at the 5,000-seat Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, which was used during the 1964 Olympic Games and completely remodeled in the early 1990s.
The U.S. opens the season-ending tournament on Nov. 12 versus No. 1 Brazil. The two teams also met on opening day of the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix Final Round in Sapporo, Japan, in August. Team USA will face Japan on Nov. 13 and will try to improve to 6-0 against its Asian rival this year. After the travel day, the Americans challenge Russia on Nov. 15. Team USA defeated Russia 3-1 on the opening day of the 2013 FIVB World Grand Prix. The U.S. plays Thailand on Nov. 16 in the first meeting of the two teams in 2013. The Americans conclude the World Grand Champions Cup on Nov. 17 against Dominican Republic. The U.S. is 2-0 against Dominican Republic in 2013, with both victories coming in gold-medal matches (Pan American Cup and NORCECA Continental Championship).
"Now we have qualified to play in World Grand Champions and get five more really quality matches with a very young group," Kiraly said. "We are really excited about how much experience a lot of very new players got this season, or players who had been with the team but had not really played … real world competitions like World Grand Prix or Grand Champions Cup. It has been a great year of opportunity and experience, and we look to build on that over the next three years."
The U.S., currently 21-5 this season, has invested in its youth in 2013. Team USA has had 21 players play at least three sets of action in 2013, but a core group of 10 athletes have competed in at least 50 percent of the sets. During the first four events of the season, 1,083 of USA's 1,240 kills (87.3 percent) were credited to athletes who have not played in the Olympic Games. Yet, the Americans are 10-5 against teams ranked in the top 10 in the world.
"Overall I am very pleased how 2013 has progressed," Kiraly said. "I wasn't sure, didn't have a lot of expectations in terms of all the new talent we brought in. Just a couple examples among many are Kelly Murphy and Kim Hill, who had never spent any time in USA gym. They got their start in late April and early May of 2013, and through most of World Grand Prix were starters for the USA playing against the rest of the best the world has to offer. That is a quick transition to make, and not an easy one to make. And yet USA had a lot of good success."
Team USA is ranked second in the world as of the latest rankings released by the FIVB on Oct. 7. Brazil overtook the Americans as the top-ranked team in the world after the conclusion of the FIVB World Grand Prix and continues as the No. 1 team. Japan is ranked No. 3, followed by Russia at No. 6, Dominican Republic at No. 8, Thailand at No. 12.
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup has had a different winner for each of its five previous editions with Cuba (1993), Russia (1997), China (2001), Brazil (2005) and Italy (2009) all claiming the title. The U.S. captured the silver medal in the 2005 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup in its only podium finish in the five previous editions. The Americans finished fifth in the inaugural event in 1993 and fifth in the 2001 edition. Team USA did not qualify for the event in 1997 or 2009.
The U.S. Women qualified for the World Grand Champions Cup by winning the Visit Omaha NORCECA Women's Continental Championship, which was held Sept. 16-21. Team USA defeated Mexico and Cuba in pool play, Canada in the semifinal round and No. 8 Dominican Republic in the championship match. For tournament details, click here.
U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team for FIVB Volleyball Grand Champions Cup
# - Name (Pos, Ht, Spike, Block, Hometown, College)
1 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, 10-0, 9-10, Leland, Mich., Penn State University)
4 - Cursty Jackson (MB, 6-2, 10-6, 10-2, Los Angeles, Calif., University of Arizona)
5 - Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, 9-4, 8-9, Kaneohe, Hawaii, University of Washington)
7 - Cassidy Lichtman (OH, 6-1, 9-10, 9-2, Poway, Calif., Stanford University)
8 - Lauren Gibbemeyer (MB, 6-2, 10-1, 9-7, St. Paul, Minn., University of Minnesota)
9 - Kristin Hildebrand – Captain (OH, 6-1, 9-10, 9-4, Orem, Utah, Stanford University)
10 - Jordan Larson-Burbach (OH, 6-2, 9-11, 9-8, Hooper, Neb., University of Nebraska)
12 - Kayla Banwarth (L, 5-10, 9-8, 9-3, Dubuque, Iowa, University of Nebraska)
13 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, 10-7, 9-10, Hopewell Township, Pa., Penn State University)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, 10-2, 9-7, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State University)
15 - Kelly Murphy (OPP, 6-2, 10-4, 10-1, Wilmington, Ill., University of Florida)
16 - Kim Hill (OH, 6-4, 10-6, 10-2, Portland, Ore., Pepperdine University)
17 - Lauren Paolini (MB, 6-4, 10-5, 9-10, Ann Arbor, Mich., University of Texas)
20 - Jenna Hagglund (S, 5-10, 9-7, 9-6, West Chester, Ohio, University of Washington)
Head Coach: Karch Kiraly
Assistant Coaches: Reed Sunahara, Mike Hebert
Technical Coordinator: Joe Trinsey
Athletic Trainer: Jill Wosmek
Team Leader: Kenny Sullivan
FIVB Volleyball Women's World Grand Champions Cup Schedule
Nov. 12 - at Nagoya, Japan
Thailand vs. Dominican Republic, 12:10 p.m.
United States vs. Brazil, 3:40 p.m.
Japan vs. Russia, 7:10 p.m.
Nov. 13 - at Nagoya, Japan
Brazil vs. Thailand, 12:10 p.m.
Russia vs. Dominican Republic, 4:10 p.m.
United States vs. Japan, 7:10 p.m.
Nov. 14
Travel Day to Tokyo
Nov. 15 - at Tokyo, Japan
Dominican Republic vs. Brazil, 12:10 p.m.
United States vs. Russia, 4:10 p.m.
Japan vs. Thailand, 7:10 p.m.
Nov. 16 - at Tokyo, Japan
United States vs. Thailand, 12:10 p.m.
Russia vs. Brazil, 4:10 p.m.
Japan vs. Dominican Republic, 7:10 p.m.
Nov. 17 - at Tokyo, Japan
United States vs. Dominican Republic, 12:10 p.m.
Thailand vs. Russia, 3:10 p.m.
Japan vs. Brazil, 6:10 p.m.