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It is justice turned on its head that wrongly convicted prisoners and falsely accused priests both pay a very steep price for not being guilty.
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series. Please click here for Part 1 and Part 2.
Two weeks ago, in "The Mirror of Justice Cracked," I mentioned that on October 6, CNN's "Larry King Live" had a panel of twelve recently exonerated prisoners. They each served an average of 20 years in prison for sexual assault crimes they did not commit and had nothing to do with. Innocence Project founder, Attorney Barry Scheck appeared with them. Mr. Scheck spoke of 25 new exonerations for a total of close to 300 in the U.S. alone in recent years.
A popular monthly Catholic magazine has a "Q & A" column hosted by a monsignor who answers readers' questions. A few years ago, a reader asked if it's possible that some Catholic priests could be falsely accused of sexual abuse and wrongly convicted by people looking for money. The monsignor's reply was painful and troubling, for me at least. "The American justice system," he wrote, "has built-in safeguards making it impossible for an innocent priest to be found guilty or an innocent diocese or bishop to be held liable." I wrote to the monsignor asking for a chance to present another view, but never received a reply.
It seems that twenty years of "Law and Order" episodes gave this good monsignor a fictional view of crime and punishment. A lot of people cling to the notion that police, prosecutors and judges always do the right thing, and justice always prevails. It usually does, but not always.
In reality, sexual assault crimes pose an enormous problem for the criminal justice system. There is no other crime for which more guilty criminals are never prosecuted at all and remain free. But there is also no other crime for which more innocent men are falsely accused and wrongly imprisoned – sometimes for decades.
That much, at least, has been made clear in the hundreds of DNA exonerations of the last few years. Society must not treat lightly the fact that some 300 men wrongly spent decades in American prisons for crimes – mostly sexual assault crimes – that they did not commit. As Attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld describe in their powerfully compelling book, Actual Innocence (New American Library, 2003):
"DNA testing is to justice what the telescope is for the stars . . . a way to see things as they really are. It is a revelation machine. And the evidence suggests that thousands of innocent people are in prison." (Actual Innocence, Introduction, op. xviii).
What Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld meant was that many sexual abuse cases do not involve DNA evidence, or any other evidence by which a person can be irrefutably either convicted or cleared. Many men – and they are overwhelmingly men – in prison for sexual abuse or assault crimes are there based solely on someone's word, with no real evidence at all. I wrote of some of what these men went through in my post, "The Eighth Commandment."
In the case of accused Catholic priests, the fact that accusers stand to gain hundreds of thousands of dollars for making their claims, and the fact that priests are made very easy targets when the Church has no interest in corroboration, seems not to weigh into the justice equation at all.
As I mentioned in "The Mirror of Justice Cracked," the new film, "Conviction" opened in theaters around the country this month. It's the incredible, but true story of Betty Ann Waters (Hilary Swank), whose brother Kenny Waters (Sam Rockwell) spent 18 years in prison for a crime he did not commit while Betty Ann Waters worked her way through law school to help prove his innocence. It's the story of one family's Way of the Cross, and a tour de force of the power of love and truth.
Every one of the men who appeared on Larry King Live that night was wrongly convicted by a jury or forced into plea deals because they could not afford adequate legal defense. The sheer frustration they related to the CNN cameras riveted me to the TV screen. "That's what they all say!" was thrown in one man's face for twenty years whenever he said he was not guilty. That has also been said to me, and it was said by other priests and officials of my own diocese. One former official of my diocese – now, dreadfully, the head of a nationally known treatment center for priests – callously dismissed my protests of innocence as "a paranoid rant" without ever having even met me.
You might remember my friend, Leo Demers from "Simon of Cyrene: Compelled to Carry the Cross." Several years ago, Leo was a senior executive for a major television network. One day, Leo and a production crew were inside a Massachusetts prison obtaining footage for a news documentary on prisons. While listening to all the statistics on crime and punishment, Leo asked their guide, "How many of your prisoners are innocent?" "It depends on who you ask," said the prison official. "If you ask them, they're ALL innocent!" Well, that's just not true. That's certainly not what they all say. There is a high price to pay when prisoners, especially those convicted of sexual crimes, insist they are innocent.
I have been in this prison for over sixteen years, and I can count on one hand the number of men who have told me they are innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted, and who maintain that position for any length of time. Once the real costs for making such a claim become clear, no sane prisoner would continue to risk claiming innocence if he was not. Once a defendant becomes a convict, claims of innocence are not always in his best interest.
These Stone Walls began 2010 with a post about the late Father Richard John Neuhaus of First Things who began corresponding with me a dozen years ago. In 1998, Father Neuhaus wrote of his concern that people might criticize him if he publicized my claim that the crimes for which I was sent to prison never took place. Father Neuhaus wrote that people will see my claims as self-serving. The editorial that Father Richard Neuhaus wrote years later about my case – the one called "A Kafkaesque Tale" located above at "A Priest's Story" – came about only when he finally understood just what a claim of innocence means for a wrongly convicted prisoner, especially a wrongly convicted Catholic priest. The Reverend Richard John Neuhaus would not lightly have concluded:
"Bishop John McCormack, a former aide of Boston's Cardinal Law, and the Diocese of Manchester do not come off as friends of justice or, for that matter, of elementary decency . . . You may want to pray for a Church and a justice system that seem indifferent to justice."
The punishment phase of sentencing is not over when a condemned man is escorted in chains out the courtroom door toward a prison-bound van. As I wrote in my post, "Saints Alive!" I marked sixteen years in prison on September 23, Saint Pio's feast day. Had I been guilty, and said so, I would not be in prison today. I would have walked out of prison a free man over thirteen years ago – with no parole and no ties to bind me. If I could have stood before the Honorable Judge Arthur Brennan and said the word, "guilty" in 1994, I would not be in prison writing this blog post today.
On two occasions before my trial, the prosecutor offered, in writing, a "plea deal" for a sentence of one to three years if I would say that one word, "guilty." In the middle of trial after my accuser's bizarre testimony, I was asked to step outside for ten minutes to reconsider my position. My defense counsel was even asked to submit a counter offer for an even lesser sentence, but I just couldn't say the word.
During that ten minutes in the lobby of the courtroom that day, I went to a pay phone and telephoned two people. First, I called Attorney Bradford Cook, a lawyer who represented my diocese against the simultaneous lawsuits brought by my accusers – four brothers all in their late twenties and early thirties. I told Attorney Cook of the pressure to take the deal, and I told him that I was not guilty of these charges. Attorney Cook told me that taking a plea deal would make it much more difficult for my diocese to defend against the lawsuits. Then I called Father David Deibel, my canonical advocate. He told me that a plea of guilty – even a negotiated lie like this one would have been – could mean dismissal from the priesthood. I walked back into the courtroom and refused the deal.
In the end, I was sentenced to a term of 33 1/2 to 67 years in prison for exercising my Constitutional right to a fair trial and a presumption of innocence – though I believe I got neither from either Church or State – for a crime that never took place at all. Also in the end, my diocese did nothing to defend against the lawsuits and instead opted to settle them – and hundreds of others against other priests similarly accused.
Eight years into my fight for exoneration, with no help at all from my diocese, my bishop promised to hire legal counsel to review the case. He then reneged on that offer, and sought my administrative dismissal from the priesthood when he was implicated in the scandal from the time he served as an auxiliary bishop of Boston. Fortunately, to date at least, that betrayal has not been successful.
But even then, punishment wasn't over. The lower number in a New Hampshire prison sentence is only available to prisoners who can become eligible for parole by admitting guilt. Absent that, I will not be allowed to leave prison until the age of 108 for a crime – brought with no evidence at all – alleged to have happened when I was 29.
This reality was best described by a New Hampshire lawyer who commented anonymously on a document entitled "Lawyers Weigh In on the Sentence of Rev. Gordon MacRae" found at "Commentary" above:
"Parole does almost invariably require an admission of guilt . . . This has the perverse and Kafkaesque result that confessed child molesters who admit guilt and promise not to do it again are likely to obtain parole at an early date, whereas a middle-aged man with a long sentence who insists he is innocent will likely die in prison."
But there was still more punishment to come. When I was sent to prison in late 1994, the housing units where most prisoners were placed were not available to me because I would not admit guilt. Most prisoners spend four to six months in a section of the prison that houses eight prisoners to a cell. Yes, that is as miserable an existence as it sounds! Prisoners typically wait there until a bunk opens up in the preferred housing units where there are some amenities and a little freedom of movement. Such a move has never been available to me. Because I maintained my innocence, I spent five years confined in a cell with seven other prisoners.
I watched others come and go for years while I remained there longer than just about any other New Hampshire prisoner. Only after five years in such conditions was I allowed to move to a far more humane existence in a unit with but two men per cell.
Usually prisoners are moved back to the 8-man cells as a punishment for disciplinary reports. In over sixteen years, I have not had a single such infraction or report. But I guess it was inevitable. Weeks after The Wall Street Journal published "A Priest's Story" in 2005, I was suddenly one day moved to the eight-man cells again. It was a terrible letdown, and it took many months to earn my way back to the place I have lived in since; to the cell where These Stone Walls began last year.
Imagine what it feels like, then – as I described in "The Mirror of Justice Cracked" – to hear Church officials like the former director of the largest treatment center for accused priests suggest that it is self-serving for an accused priest to maintain his innocence. Self-serving?
While I was typing this post in my cell last night, I received something in the mail that caused me a lot of distress and heartache. It was a mass mailing sent to many priests – including most of those currently in prison – from a priest who was himself accused. He has formed an advocacy organization that claims to seek justice for priests, but too often, I fear, it promotes vengeance. There's a difference, and I wrote about the difference last month in "Angelic Justice." Vengeance is nothing more than justice from which all signs of mercy have been stripped.
The mass mailing I received included a list of fifteen U.S. bishops who have themselves been accused of sexual misconduct. The mailing named them, described their current status, then presented graphic details about claims against them, founded and not, corroborated and not.
The priest's letter took great pains to point out the double standard that is the source and substance of his anger. The double standard is that some of the accused bishops remain in their ministry because they maintain their innocence and deny claims against them. For all of them, their dioceses funded criminal, civil, and canonical legal counsel while most similarly accused priests are abandoned and on their own. None of the bishops need fear administrative laicization without defense or the loss of their retirement benefits.
Yes, it does feel like a double standard. Father Richard Neuhaus pointed that fact out in a First Things article, "Clerical Scandal and the Scandal of Clericalism," and he did so with great fidelity to the Gospel and the Church.
But none of this gets to the point of this priest's anger. I believe he was falsely accused. I believe his bishop treated him very badly. I share his deeply felt anger and pain. But our paths separate right there. I do not and cannot condone or share his vengeance. Being falsely accused does not give me license to do to others what I protest has been done to me. Most of those fifteen bishops faced allegations without evidence just as I did. Each deserves a presumption of innocence from the entire Church – including me. The priest is wrong to disseminate their names and these details.
It's ironic that this same priest is often angry with me because he doesn't think I am angry enough. I assure you, he's wrong on that score. But being angry and feeling let down does not excuse me from doing the right thing. It does not excuse me from fidelity to the Gospel, fidelity to the Church, and fidelity to my own sense of right and wrong. At the end of the day, I am still wrongly imprisoned, but I have the freedom to choose the person I'm going to be while wrongly imprisoned.
When I began this three-part post three weeks ago, I set out to write the nature and scope of the injustices that took place in my diocese. Now that it comes down to it, I can't. It feels too much like vengeance. There is far too much at stake for me to settle for something so unfaithful as vengeance.
Others wrote the story, however, and I'm going to let that suffice. I hope you will read it for yourself at "Case History IV: Status of the Case." It's a cautionary tale about one priest's steep, uphill climb toward justice.
You can help, if you're so inclined. You could help by Tweeting, facebooking, pinging, e-mailing, or blogging a link to this series of posts so that other Catholics may see it, and especially other priests. For your convenience, the "please share this post" buttons are located below this post and all others.
Toward the end of his book, Double Standard (p. 149), David F. Pierre, Jr. wrote: "The last several years have been a tough time to be a priest." Tell me about it!


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Is Faith a Factor In Zambian Politics? HH is a Freemason, He Has Been Cult Member Since April 1999?
December 6, 2012
The UPND leader became a brethren and mason brother in April of 1999 and was initiated from the Eagle Lodge No. 7232 EC, which is the District Grand Lodge of Zambia and has been a congregant of the Masons Temple located on Chachacha Road in the city of Lusaka which is more like an equivalent of a church branch in the case of Christians.
In Zambia the percentage of politicians who are Freemasons, is very low, almost negligible compared to Western countries where they secretly dominate. This will keep changing however as the New World Order agenda advances. Freemasonry will continue gaining a bigger stake in politics as time goes. This trend of the occult dominating the world was prophesied long ago in the bible.
The formation of the New World Order thats already at an advanced level, is a work of Freemasons working to put it in place. In less developed countries Freemasons are from lower degrees of hierarchy than the ones in developed countries. The ones in developed countries are part of higher ranks, ranks known as the Illuminati. The Illuminati are the main decision makers.
It has also been discovered that when Hakainde was still active with Grant Thornton at Mukuba house on Kabelenga road, Lusaka, the UPND leader who was then Managing partner at the accounting and management consultancy firm spent some good time both revealing Masonic practices and made attempts to demystify Freemasonry to colleagues and almost making it sound attractive.
Some of the key personalities that have congregated with Hakainde at the Freemason temple in Lusaka include former Director General of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Nixon Banda who was also installed as worship master of the Free Masons Temple in Zambia on January 21, 2006.
Freemasonry is the worlds largest cult. It is multi-cultural and multi-racial, with over 300,000 members in approximately 8,500 Lodges in England & Wales. Part of a worldwide organisation of millions of Freemasons,.
Freemasonry offers its members an approach to life which seeks to reinforce thoughtfulness for others, kindness, honesty, courtesy, truth, integrity and fairness in all things. Freemasonry urges brethren to regard the interests of the family as paramount.
Charity is at the heart of Freemasonry by teaching and practicing concern for people, care for the less fortunate and help for those in need.
Freemasonry is a religious cult that is largely believed to be anti-Christian teachings and is also perceived as satanic in nature and therefore unacceptable in societies that have a strong christian foundation like Zambia. It is trite law in the cult that a Freemason must have faith and have a belief in a Supreme Being.
Owing to the supremacy of the Christian faith among Zambians, Hakainde has had to make attempts to visit some churches as a way of creating an impression that he is actually Christian. A lot of free masons make efforts to seem friendly to Christian interests as a way of avoiding hostility from Christian communities.
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Report: Lance Armstrong drops fight against U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
It was not clear whether Armstrong planned to appeal a federal court ruling that permits USADA to proceed against him
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (VN) — Lance Armstrong announced Thursday that he would drop his fight against charges by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his career, and that he and others were part of a doping conspiracy spanning years.
The Associated Press broke the story Thursday evening.
In a statement sent to the AP, Armstrong said: "Today I turn the page. I will no longer address this issue, regardless of the circumstances. I will commit myself to the work I began before ever winning a single Tour de France title: serving people and families affected by cancer, especially those in underserved communities."
His statement reiterated many of the arguments rejected on Monday when U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks dismissed Armstrong's lawsuit against USADA, allowing the agency's doping case against the seven-time winner of the Tour de France to continue.
In his ruling, Sparks wrote that despite what he termed USADA's "woefully inadequate charging letter," Armstrong's challenges regarding due process were "without merit" and dismissed without prejudice "for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted."
The ruling stated further that Armstrong's remaining claims were "best resolved through the well-established system of international arbitration, by those with expertise in the field, rather than by the unilateral edict of a single nation's courts. …"
The 40-year-old Armstrong, who retired in 2011, had the options of appealing in federal court, proceeding with arbitration or accepting USADA's sanctions for what the agency has called "a doping conspiracy" involving the former pro cyclist and associates at his former U.S. Postal Service team.
It was not clear Thursday whether Armstrong planned to appeal Sparks' ruling. At the time, attorney Tim Herman issued a statement saying: "We are reviewing the court's lengthy opinion and considering Mr. Armstrong's options at this point."
By refusing arbitration, Armstrong could receive a lifetime ban and lose all of his Tour titles. He has repeatedly denied doping and went to court over what his attorneys called USADA's lack of jurisdiction and a violation of his constitutional rights.
His longtime sporting director Johan Bruyneel, meanwhile, has asked for an arbitration hearing, which can be open to the public.
Bruyneel, Armstrong's personal friend, was also his directeur sportif for most of his professional career, and likewise faces the possibility of a lifetime ban from the sport. Now manager at RadioShack-Nissan, Bruyneel declined participation in the Tour de France this year, hoping to stay out of the spotlight, but recently returned to the team car at the Vuelta a España.
"This whole situation with allegations with USADA came just before the Tour," he told VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood. "I decided it wouldn't be good for the focus of the team for me to be present.
"The Tour is chaos, a lot of people, a lot of media, so I didn't want to deal with that, I didn't want the team to deal with that, so I thought it was a wise decision."
In Colorado Springs, meanwhile, USADA CEO Travis Tygart also released a statement.
"It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and our athletic heroes," he wrote. "This is a heartbreaking example of how the win-at-all-costs culture of sport, if left unchecked, will overtake fair, safe and honest competition, but for clean athletes, it is a reassuring reminder that there is hope for future generations to compete on a level playing field without the use of performance-enhancing drugs."
Later Thursday, USADA also announced that it would strip Armstrong of his Tour victories and other titles, and ban him for life.


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Active Life Club have been instrumental in my passion for Creative Media. They have helped me build up my skills from video editing, photography and web development which has led me to study these subjects for my future career.
Laraib – BSc Media Student/Volunteer at ALC
West of Scotland Regional Council (WSREC) would like to indicate its support for Active Life Club (ALC), an important organisation working in the heart of the South Side of Glasgow, Glasgow.
We recognize the huge and important contributions it has made for the youth through sport and capacity building over the last decade and more. It is an organisation well known to WSREC for its commitment and the involved of youth within all its activity including decision making as part of ALC Committee membership.
ALC is a valued affiliate of WSREC and wishes it all the best with its work for bringing Youth activity and into the heart of the community.
ALC aims to promote the social, physical and mental well-being of disadvantaged and excluded groups in Glasgow and provide a range of recreational and diversionary activities for young people goes hand in hand with WSREC's vision of 'we see an inclusive society free from discrimination' and one of own aim of 'fostering good community relations'.
Mohammed Razaq
Executive Director
I have seen firsthand the fantastic work carried out by Active Life Club. Their contribution to integrating different groups in the community has led to a visible improvement in my constituency like in Govanhill and Pollokshields. It's not just community relations that have benefited from ALC's input, young people are more engaged in learning, sports and local projects making them feel like they have a stake in their environment and future.
Anas Sarwar MP
Councillor Siddique is one of the elected members in Southside Central. She is a Chemistry graduate who specialised in post graduate research and achieved a PhD in drug delivery systems for cancer. Her background is in further and higher education, pharmaceutical and chemical industry.
Her role at Glasgow City Council involves chairing the children and families policy development. She is particularly interested in education, attainment, also raising aspirations in science, technology, engineering and maths.
Starting the day with a positive attitude will help you overcome the toughest of challenges.
Active Life Club,
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We work to grow and sustain the healthcare design community of Greater Boston with opportunities to share knowledge and expand connections. Our sessions are typically on the third Wednesday of the month at 5:15PM and run from September to June with July, August and December off.
Join the BSA Healthcare Facilities Committee LinkedIn Group!
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Some More Positive Murmurs for Web Ads
More upbeat–but not too ecstatic–chatter about the state of the Internet advertising market this morning from Wall Street: Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth is raising his estimates for Google (GOOG), citing "improving macro conditions [and] a stronger ad market."
Anmuth says his research shows an increase in pricing for Google's search ads over the past few months, particularly in the battered retail and auto sectors. His note comes a couple days after Citigroup's Mark Mahaney raised his Google estimates, citing a dramatic improvement from mid-August to mid-September.
Other Google bulls: Investors, who have been pushing up the company's shares since March (they're now hovering near the $500 mark again), and CEO Eric Schmidt, who declared this week that "it's clear that the worst is behind us."
The tempered enthusiasm isn't limited to Google's chances, by the way. Mahaney also had good things to say about Yahoo's (YHOO) chances as the economy recovers. While Yahoo is handing over its search business to Microsoft (MSFT), Carol Bartz and crew still dominate the display ad business, and that should be picking up as well, he said.
It is worth noting that Yahoo executives themselves were more cautious this week when asked to describe market trends: At an Advertising Week press conference, Bartz brought out her "still bumping along the bottom" line, while EVP Hilary Schneider said ad sales had stabilized but that she "wouldn't go so far as to say as we're seeing a full recovery."


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Glenn Ballard: The Future of Lean Construction is in Managing Networks
Lean construction creates a strategic advantage for both companies and supply and demand networks.
Glenn Ballard is a renowned construction performance developer and the father of the Last Planner System. He is currently the Director of Project Productions Systems Laboratory at the University of California Berkeley. He grew from a specialist in saving bad projects into a leading lean construction developer and educator.
How Companies can Benefit from Lean
"Organizations adopt the lean philosophy for a variety of reasons, depending in part on their initial objectives," Ballard says. Consequently, value comes in many forms. For some, the driver is stress reduction and a better quality of working life, while others emphasize better products for less money and faster and more predictable deliveries, and for some organizations, their aim is to become more resilient and flexible by following the lean philosophy.
A UK hospital study showed that if the cost of construction is one unit, design costs are around 0.1 units, operation and maintenance costs in 20 years are 4.3 units, and the business costs of running the hospital are 42 units. Lean construction places an emphasis on design since that's where you make the decisions that create or destroy the net benefits of the facility throughout its life-cycle.
Sutter Health, a client organization, demonstrated how lean can create value for the user and result in great project performance. In 2012, they reported completing 22 projects, each valued at least at $10 million. None of the projects were over schedule or over budget. All of them were fit for purpose without sacrificing quality or other desired benefits to achieve the cost results. On average, the cost savings were 3.4% against the budget that they had set using the Target Value Design approach. Half of the projects had a market cost estimation prior to the design. The completion costs of those projects averaged 15% below market.
Some designers, like Boulder Associates, have implemented the Last Planner System and seen a measurable increase in the percentage of completed work, at the same time as a reduction in working overtime. That means an improved quality of life and better business outcomes.
How to Implement Lean Successfully
Implementing lean construction is not a program, it is a way of living and doing your work. "Leadership at the top must see lean as a strategic advantage and live the philosophy. It's not something that you can tell someone else to do if you don't do it yourself," he reminds. The consistent practice of supervision at every organizational level is also essential.
An attitude of learning rather than knowing means that you treat problems as opportunities for learning rather than evidence of incompetence. Collect ideas consistently and help people develop and test ideas through the plan-do-check-act process, as a kind of industrial experimentation. Finally, you must be patient and persistent.
Ballard co-founded Lean Construction Institute with Greg Howell in 1997. From there on, the lean movement has spread globally. Currently, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Norway, Peru, Spain, the UK, and USA have active lean construction organizations. Brazil, Columbia, and Mexico are less organized, but have significant lean activities going on. "At this moment, I would think Finland is leading in Europe," Ballard says.
Organizations generally, and projects certainly, are socio-technical systems. Ballard thinks that lean and IT, especially BIM, cannot succeed separately.
Lean will continue to invade new domains. Making government lean is under way in patches around the globe. Lean came into construction with the initial focus on projects. But Ballard has seen a shift in thinking: "There has been a considerable movement toward focusing on lean in the companies that participate in projects, the lean enterprises." He argues that this is required to reach the full potential of lean in projects.
Ballard sees the next wave of lean emerging: "I think the next step is to extend lean to the demand and supply networks in which those enterprises operate. Managing the network will become the focal point of optimization; not the enterprises or the projects."


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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., May 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United-Guardian, Inc. (NASDAQ:UG) announced today that the company's Board of Directors, at its meeting on May 17, 2017, declared a cash dividend of $0.42 per share, to be paid on June 12, 2017 to all stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 30, 2017. This will be the 22nd consecutive year that the company has paid a dividend.
Ken Globus, President of United-Guardian, stated, "Based on improved first quarter financial results, along with strong sales to date for the second quarter, the Board decided that it would be in the best interest of our stockholders to increase the mid-year dividend to $0.42 per share, an increase of 20% from the $0.35 per share dividend that we paid in June 2016. With the resumption of purchases of one of our Lubrajel® products for sale in China, along with strong sales of our Renacidin® Irrigation, the Board felt that there was sufficient justification, and more than enough cash reserves, to increase the mid-year dividend."
United-Guardian is a manufacturer of cosmetic ingredients, personal and health care products, pharmaceuticals, and specialty industrial products. For more information, please contact Robert Rubinger at firstname.lastname@example.com or (631) 273-0900, or visit the company's web site at www.u-g.com.
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Iegor Bakhariev     Pexels   |   Business     🕐 05. Apr. 2018
Street art has come a long way. From being regarded a pure vandalism to becoming a significant part of advertisement for famous fashion brands. It is not only about colourful graffiti on walls, now brands like Roberto Cavalli and Moschino include the street art to attract younger generation. However, as it often happens with underground trends, big corporations will try to monetize on artists' labour as much as they can.
Swedish giant gets sued by a street artist
H&M, the biggest Swedish clothing-retail brand, has now become involved in the rough legal waters over borrowing street art without permission. As far as the fall of 2017, H&M were shooting a promotional video, for which they decided that a neighbourhood in Brooklyn with a handball court with walls full of graffiti is just hipster enough for their audience. Unfortunately, they decided not to contact the artist to ask for his permission. The name of the artists is Jason Williams, or Revok, as he goes by in the world of street art. No wonder that a couple of months later the Swedish company received a cease-and-disease letter from the artist's lawyer. William's lawyers claimed that H&M had illegally used the graffiti as a backdrop for their advertisement, and threatened with a lawsuit if appropriate compensation was not provided.
H&M's lawyers contacted the New York city officials to find out whether they had sanctioned the mural. The city did not know about it, nor did they issue an official permit. Following the findings, the Swedish company took a strong stand and decided to continue airing the ad without permission from the artist. H&M stated that since the graffiti was unauthorized it constituted vandalism, and hence they no longer need to have permission for any further use of the art.
More examples from the industry
The recent legal dispute is just one of a bunch. In the past five years fashion brands have constantly gone to litigation with street artists. Such major fashion brands as Coach and Moschino have been involved in copyright and unfair competitions disputes over unauthorised use of street art. Vince Camuto, an American design store, was sued by a group of well-known street artists, for an unauthorised use of their murals in the campaign for Spring/Summer 2017. Earlier in 2015 Roberto Cavalli was sued by a trio of graffiti artists, including abovementioned Jason Williams. Their campaign, Just Cavalli, misappropriate visual material from the street art graffiti painted on a building in San Francisco. Most of such cases were settled outside of the court, and those that were not, did not favour the fashion brands.
What has H&M argued?
In a nutshell, the lawyers at H&M argued that copyright law does not extend to illegal art. Meaning, it is not a question if the street art constitutes a protectable subject matter, as it certainly does. The bigger question is whether the artists should enjoy copyright protection for the art in cases when they were not authorized by the city officials. Without going far into the formalities of copyright and human rights law, it is important to point out that the law does not provide anything about the legality in the process of making the art.
No American law nor copyright codes in the EU, provide interpretation for such cases. In such situations, the legal practice suggests that one usually should interpret the law broadly. According to the broad interpretation, if the copyright code does not say otherwise, there is nothing that should prevent the artist to enjoy exclusive moral and economic rights over their work.
Odds are on the artists' side
Most of the lawyers agree with the broad interpretation and believe that the legality of graffiti itself does not affect the rights of the artist over their piece of art. There is also a second group of scholars. They support the idea that unauthorised art does not satisfy a requirement in the constitution to promote dissemination of useful material, and hence does not qualify for copyright protection. However, it seems that the odds are on the side of the artists. First, the case law shows in their favour. Not one of unfair competition and copyright case involving fashion brands and street artists ended in favour of the fashion brand. Secondly, the legal community stands predominantly on the side of the artists, leaving the conservative scholars in minority.
H&M settled the case
The case that have emerged in the wake of popularity of street art in fashion was dead on arrival. The claims by the H&M were met by strong opposition from the legal community as well as the general public. In the light of the fuelled discussion H&M has admitted that their actions were harmful to the art community and in a statement issued on March the 15th: "H&M respects the creativity and uniqueness of artists, no matter the medium. We should have acted differently in our approach to this matter. It was never our intention to set a precedent concerning public art or to influence the debate on the legality of street art. As a result, we are withdrawing the complaint filed in court. We are currently reaching out directly to the artist in question to come up with a solution. We thank everyone for their comments and concerns, as always, all voices matter to us."
A lesson to learn
Examining the existing cases in the industry it is reasonable to believe that the street artists now have a much stronger ground in regards to their artistic expressions. It is a general rule that no registration is needed in order to have copyright over the work, which means that once an artist completed a mural the expression is automatically protected by copyright law. The outcome in the case involving H&M has shown that even unauthorised art should be protected under copyright law. However, in order to avoid unnecessary complications, it is always better to register the rights in respective offices.
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Wed, Mar 25, 2009 @ 09:20
It is almost exactly ten years since I got my driver's license in Nova Scotia. I remember that feeling of potential freedom that it represented. If you grew up in a city, you can't fully appreciate the value that being able to drive a car has. No buses, no trains, no taxis, not even sidewalks. If I wanted to go anywhere other than into the woods, I needed to do it in a car.
Fast forward to the present and I am no less excited about the license I just received today. After exactly two months on the island, I finally have my motorcycle license. And not just the 50cc auxiliary scooters, I am able to drive motorcycles and scooters up to 150cc (which is the maximum allowed in Bermuda). And it is good for ten years. Now I just have to get myself a bike, I'm about done with the one that I've been renting for the past two months. I'll be sure to mention when I get something picked out, hopefully with photos.


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The Mission of the Hamer Center is to encourage building community through building knowledge. It fulfills its mission through engagement in three inter-related activities: Teaching, Research and Service.
(1) The Hamer Center serves as a laboratory for community partnerships that integrate socio-economic and environmental conscious resolution to design and planning problems. It is an incubator for exploring ideas, a classroom, and a real-world link; viewing the activities of teaching, research and service as interrelated in investigating issues of community design and planning.
(2) The Hamer Center seeks to empower communities by providing information for responsible development through research and analysis of specific issues and by providing planning and pre-design services.
(3) The Hamer Center serves as a clearinghouse for research, projects, and case summaries related to community design and planning. The Hamer Center compiles research and community design/planning documentations for dissemination, summarizes documents relating to topics or themes and relates the material back to community issues in the Commonwealth and its unique regional conditions.
(1) Community outreach and empowerment.
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(3) Focus on issues related to disadvantaged communities and communities in need.
(4) Provide community service through studio programs, research programs, grant writing, and/or special projects. Each service studio or project must have an academic component that can be linked to a research question or teaching pedagogical question.
(5) To operate as a teaching and learning center where students and faculty are in place to explore new methodologies and required to expand project scopes to include an academic pursuit. The Center is not in direct competition with professional offices; however, clients should see the Center as a resource that helps to explore and define design/planning problems.
(6) To serve as a hub for the SALA community, and beyond – working on community design/planning research and education.


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Working for Open Jaw from a home office, I hear from WestJet several times a week. Except it's not really WestJet. It's a recorded phone scam that has been going on for years and has been well-publicized by WS and the media. But it still goes on, so it must work.
Now Air Canada is informing agents and travellers that its name is also being taken in vain by phone scammers.
A message from the airline reads:
"You may have received a phone call offering you a vacation or prize from Air Canada. Please note that this is a scam conducted in order to collect personal information for fraudulent use and that Air Canada does not engage in phone promotions."
The fraudsters are tricky: the calls I receive show like a local number and ring like a local number. Otherwise I wouldn't pick them up. There's usually a brief pause, then a recorded voice says "Thank you for choosing WestJet."
AC says these incidents should be reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC). You can do that by clicking here. The best advice is of the old-fashioned variety: if something sounds too good to be true, it likely is.


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Modern townhomes priced around $440,000 are planned in the Bishop Arts Neighborhood.
The project, from developer Bill Mead of Proximity Developers, will take the place of an empty lot and a former office building on the northeast corner of Tenth and Adams. The three-story homes will average around 2,300 square feet each with roof-top patios.
Oak Cliff-based Richard Drummond Davis Architect is designing the 17 homes. They will be constructed of brick on the first floor and stucco and either cement board or metal siding on the upper stories.
The homes will have two-car garages and an office or study on the ground floor. The kitchen, dining and living areas are on the second floor. And two bedrooms are on the third floor.
Harrison Preston Polsky of Briggs Freeman Sotheby's International Realty is the agent. Here are more images from the architect.


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You and your closest friends -- or sisters! -- support each other through all the things that life sends your way. Handmade with gorgeous mixed metals, this fair trade accessory is a shining tribute of the strength of friendship and the powerful bond between women. With each purchase, you support the artisans that created this powerful piece.
- Alpaca silver, brass, & copper
2 women: 1.3" H x 0.6" W (3.3 x 1.5 cm)
3 women: 1.25" H x 1" W (3 x 2.5 cm)
5 women: 1.3" H x 1.6" W (3.3 x 4 cm)
- Handmade in & fairly traded from Mexico
- Far Fetched supplier IDs: SO-430N, SO-433N, SO-435N
Thirty-five years ago, Far Fetched began making and selling Artisan Made jewelry from the back of a truck at craft markets in Southern California. Today, Far Fetched works with 100 artisans or artisan cooperatives producing and selling Artisan Made jewelry. Together, we have invested $15 million dollars in Trade not Aid to artisans and the artisan community since 1991!
The Far Fetched vision remains the same - to produce and sell Artisan Made jewelry that improve the lives of all from the artisan supplier to the end customer. Production continues in the same Central Mexico town employing generations of artisans working mostly in home workshops. And in accordance with our sustainably practices, we utilize reclaimed metals whenever available and our .925 Mexican Sterling Silver is always nickel free.
We are a small, purpose-driven team spanning multiple communities across the US and working in close collaboration with our supplier-partners. We follow the fair trade principals providing a fair wage, transparency, and safe working conditions and are proud of our affiliation with the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO).
We hope you love your new Far Fetched jewelry as much as we love designing, making, and selling it!


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Bone Casing, White
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This is a special tubular bone casing for neat and easy sewing of boning channels.More details
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The channel is made of a densely woven yet flat material that ensures the boning will stay in place and not poke through even after years of use. You can make easy yet sturdy one-layer corsets using this bone casing - just pin them where you want the boning channel to be and then sew neatly along both sides of the tape.
External width is 16 mm, internal width is 10 mm - ideal for 7 or 8mm plastic, flat or spiral steel boning.
The price is for one meter.
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By Anna Lesser
The mid July heat we all know and love is beginning to settle in. Trying to find a snack to cool you down can be difficult in the Big Apple. To help, we created a list of the top 5 ice cream places in NYC for you to check out.
1) Luca & Bosco
This is one place you do not want to miss out on. All-natural ingredients and organic flavor makes for a killer taste you won't forget. Located in Essex Street Market, their famous Drunk & Salty Caramel scoop is one that will cool you down in a heartbeat, but will leave you wanting more.
2) Coolhaus
If you're looking for a more unique flavor ice cream, we have the place for you. Coolhaus has all types of food that strive to push the boundaries of traditional dessert. Their hand-dipped ice cream bars are a delicious and easy snack to have on the go in this July heat.
3) Melt
If you're anything like me and can never decide between ice cream or cookies for dessert, I am about to make your life a lot easier. Melt has the best Ice cream sandwiches New York has to offer. One of the top flavors, the Morticia, combines crackly chocolate cookies with malted chocolate rum ice cream and is one sandwich everyone is talking about.
Emack and Bolios is one tasty treat that will leave your taste buds craving more. Their list of over 100 flavors is always kept fresh and they are constantly adding new ones. One recent add- Space Cake is a delicious mix of cake batter ice cream with short bread cookie pieces and chunks of fudgy chocolate cake. Stop by and see which wonderful creation becomes your favorite!
Last, but certainly not least is old favorite, Big Gay Ice Cream. Their funky names and fun flavors makes for a fun ice cream experience. "With a playful attitude, Big Gay Ice Cream spins a new take on old-school soft-serve by creating fun and unique ice creams, toppings, and frozen treats that appeal to a diverse mix of clientele."
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2016 East Coast Music Awards Gala
April 14, 2016$39.50
The East Coast Music Association (ECMA) is excited to announce Ashley MacIsaac and Heather Rankin as hosts for the 2016 East Coast Music Awards Gala, taking place on Thursday, April 14 at Centre 200 in Sydney, NS. The Gala will also be broadcast live on Eastlink TV.
Ashley MacIsaac is one of the most celebrated Canadian roots musicians of all time selling over 500,000 albums since his 1995 double-platinum, genre-bending breakthrough Hi, How Are You Today?. Garnering worldwide acclaim by playing the fiddle in the hard-nosed, traditional Cape-Breton style while adding his own contemporary spin to Celtic music, the international success of the album's single "Sleepy Maggie" made MacIsaac an instant Canadian icon. Whether with his new project FIDLR or with his more traditional work, Ashley MacIsaac continues to surprise crowds as a performer, writer, and singer.
"It's about time! What a blast it's going to be hosting live from Cape Breton Island," says MacIsaac of the hosting opportunity. "The ECMA has helped me profoundly and is a constant thread to a career that began at their events over 20 years ago. I'm indeed honoured to host alongside an important artist such as Heather Rankin – a giant in a gem's figure."
Heather Rankin is known for her recordings and performances with the musical group, The Rankin Family. The family band known for their unique blend of traditional Celtic and contemporary folk music earned six JUNO Awards, three Canadian Country Music Awards, and 15 East Coast Music Awards. In 2012 Rankin began work on her debut solo album, forming a writing partnership with David Tyson (co-writer/producer of "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles and "Dark Horse" by Amanda Marshall). The record, titled A Fine Line, is due out in February 2016 via Maple Music Recordings. Aside from her musical successes, Heather Rankin is also an accomplished actor. Her stage credits include roles in productions with Neptune Theatre, Chester Playhouse, Mulgrave Road, Factory, and The Savoy Theatre.
"After almost 20 years, I'm excited and honoured to be returning as host of the ECMA Gala this year with fellow Cape Bretoner, Ashley MacIsaac. I'm looking forward to getting up to a little trouble with him," says Rankin. "The ECMA has played a significant role in fostering East Coast musicians of all genres for almost three decades now, providing a platform for up and coming performers to showcase their talent while honouring those who have achieved success here and outside the region. The Rankin Family was no exception."
Eastlink East Coast Music Week (ECMW) returns to Cape Breton for the first time since 2010, taking place in Sydney, NS from April 13-17, 2016.
"ECMA is thrilled to be heading back to Cape Breton for ECMW. We've already seen incredible enthusiasm from the Sydney community, and we're confident next year's event will be the best ECMW yet," says Andy McLean, ECMA Executive Director. "Last year's decision to hold the Awards Gala on Thursday was very positively received, so we look forward to kicking off the 2016 event in the same way. Having Ashley MacIsaac and Heather Rankin – two legendary Cape Breton performers – co-host the Gala is the perfect way to launch ECMW 2016."
Early bird Gala tickets, early bird wristbands, and early bird festival passes are now on sale at http://ecma.com/festival/tickets. For a limited time, Gala tickets are $39.50, wristbands are $65, and festival passes are $160. VIP Passes are also on sale for $350. All prices include tax and fees.


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If you are interested in knowing the joy of being a builder of LICF then you can deepen your commitment to God and Church through the Membership Module. The Membership Module is the class required to become a member and consists of four parts.
1. A 30 minute introduction to what it means to become a member of Long Island Community Fellowship.
2. You will meet with Pastor Gale Jones to discuss what is means to be a disciple
3. Prospective members learn about Church Polity and review the history of LICF and our vision for the future
4. This meeting serves as a final discussion of the Membership Covenant. As a sign of their commitment to LICF new members sign the Membership Covenant
Membership Covenant
A covenant is a solemn agreement between the members of Long Island community Fellowship and is made before God. Individuals who become members enter into a covenant with the other members of LICF to do the following:
1. Protect the Unity Of the Church
- by acting in love towards other members
- by refusing to gossip
- by following the Church leaders
2. Share the Responsibility of the Church
- by praying for its growth
- by inviting the un-churched to attend
- by warmly welcoming those who visit
3. Serve the Ministry of the Church
- by discovering my gifts and talents
- by being equipped to serve by my pastor
- by developing a servants heart
4. Support the Testimony of the Church
- by attending faithfully
- by living a godly life
- by giving regularly
Members are received at our Worship Service following the completion of the Membership Module and acceptance by the church body.
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Acts 20:28 28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
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Juli Grey-Owens has been a Long Island and New York State transgender community advocate for over fifteen years. She is the Executive Director of LITAC, the Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition, whose mission is to advocate for the transgender, non-binary, and intersex communities. Grey-Owens regularly speaks at public forums about the need for statewide transgender […]
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Hey, Thrillbenders,
Becky, here! You don't know me yet, but I'm the creator of Thrillbent's newest title, Everstar. Updating every Friday, Everstar will hopefully be bringing an added dose of whimsy and adventure to Thrillbent's lineup. As my first jaunt into the world of digital comics, Everstar's creation was simultaneously incredibly enjoyable and a little nerve-wracking.
The task of creating a digital comic was, to be perfectly honest, daunting. While I was certainly familiar with the medium, I felt more comfortable with the static images of print where I didn't have to worry about whether or not the art would be staying in one place. With Thrillbent's "still animation" style that allows the panels to change from one swipe to the next, the writing process becomes very different indeed. It requires you to think about what overlays would move or appear in addition to the usual meat of the script like dialogue and descriptions. I'm an obsessive fan of comics, but the truth is I had never considered writing something in this particular format until the prospect of working with Thrillbent came up.
Once I started the process of writing specifically for Thrillbent, however, something clicked and the writing process it became more and more fun. I also had the added bonus of working with Joie Brown, an artist who was more than up to the challenge. With Thrillbent's unique style of digital storytelling, the possibilities now felt practically endless in terms of what could be done. We could toy around with things like physical humor or science-fiction visuals in a way that we wouldn't be able to anywhere else—and I can say that I might have gotten a little trigger-happy with the space battles as a result.
As I worked with Joie, it became clear that we were lucky enough to be working in a genre and style that lent itself perfectly to the digital format. We could use both the art and the storytelling style to draw kids in and provide them with a different kind of immersive storytelling experience, regardless of whether they're familiar with comics or not. In writing a series for children, we wanted to capture as much of the wonderment and curiosity of kids as possible—in Everstar's case, that wonderment is seen through the eyes of an eleven-year-old girl on the voyage of a lifetime.
Above everything, my goal with Everstar was to create something for all ages. It's a simple story of a young girl and her spaceship and it will be bringing with it all of the adventures of a wild and crazy kid in outer space. Expect pirates, irate robots, and new galaxies waiting to be explored. It may be intended for kids, but we hope that it's a story that can be enjoyed by everyone. The first two chapters are up now, so let us know what you think!


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MILAN (Reuters) - Italian investigators have seized documents from the Milan offices of International Business Machines Corp IBM.N as part of an investigation into allegations of fraud at one of its customers, BT Italy, a unit of Britain's BT Group BT.L, sources said.
Dozens of tax police visited the Italian offices of nine suppliers to BT Italy, including the U.S. tech group, on Thursday, as well as BT Italy's own headquarters, and took boxes of documents away, said sources familiar with the probe.
IBM spokesman Alessandro Ferrari said the company was cooperating with authorities.
The U.S. group is not formally under investigation and none of its representatives has been accused of wrongdoing, but the warrant for Thursday's seizures, seen by Reuters, states that some transactions between BT Italy and its suppliers were faked.
The warrant authorised the search for evidence in relation to allegations that former BT Italy managers had conspired with suppliers and customers to fake orders and to issue false credit notes in order to reduce BT Italy's costs.
Investigators also sought evidence that BT Italy and suppliers contrived sale-and-leaseback transactions to artificially boost sales and profit margins. These transactions involved several firms, including IBM, according to the warrant and the sources.
The accounting scandal surfaced last October when BT Group said it had discovered accounting errors at its Italy unit. In January, it characterised it as improper accounting and took a write-down of around 530 million pounds.
In March, it filed a criminal complaint with Italian prosecutors, accusing several former Italy executives and other employees of breaking company rules and unlawful conduct.
BT Group said in an emailed statement: "We've been proactively assisting prosecutors in Milan with their investigations into the inappropriate behaviour that took place at BT Italy."
BT Italy's lawyer, Marco Calleri, declined to comment.
Milan prosecutors this week formally put under investigation five former executives and employees of BT Italy, on allegations that they ran a conspiracy to fake transactions in order to inflate BT Italy's financial performance.
Sources said the motive was to ensure executives and staff met their bonus targets.
The five are former BT Italy chief executive Gianluca Cimini, former chief operating officer Stefania Truzzoli, former chief financial officer Luca Sebastiani, ex-employee Giacomo Ingannamorte and Sebastiani's predecessor, Alessandro Clerici.
A lawyer for Truzzoli declined to comment. Cimini did not respond to a request for comment. Lawyers for the others also did not respond.
The other suppliers raided were T.A.I. Software Solution Srl, ITF Srl, Var Group Spa, NSR Srl, Servizi Tecnici per l'Elettronica Spa, Gomedia Srl, L.B. Srl and Shicon Europe Srl, according to the warrant.
ITF and Var Group declined to comment. There was no immediate response to emailed requests for comment from T.A.I. Software Solution and Servizi Tecnici per l'Elettronica.
Reuters was unable to immediately reach L.B., Shicon Europe, Gomedia and NSR for comment.
Additional reporting by Agnieszka Flak, Silvia Aloisi and Giulia Segreti; Editing by Mark Bendeich and Andrew Roche
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In 2005, The Early November was two years removed from its debut full-length, The Room's Too Cold. While the record, along with band's earlier EP, For All of This, garnered them attention as members of the Drive-Thru Records "movement", frontman Ace Enders wanted to take things in a brand new direction. Fresh off of his debut effort with I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business, Enders and The Early November began work on a triple-disc record. Due to a number of creative shifts, and the overall stress of essentially producing three albums, one "rock", one "unplugged", and one a thorough audio theatre, the record didn't come out until the summer of 2006. The Mother, the Mechanic and the Path was more or less a success, but the ambition behind three different albums may have shown itself as a lack of focus.
Perhaps, the band could've kept itself alive beyond two albums and an EP, but had burned itself out too quickly. In the years following their "indefinite hiatus" in 2007, the group's five members found ways to fulfill their creativity by way of side projects and other musical pursuits. Since their reunion in 2011, the band seems to have recovered the creative juices that may have exhausted themselves about a decade ago. Ten years after starting work on an ambitious triple album, The Early November has a new record on the table. The band's fourth full-length, and second in their post-reunion era, Imbue, shows an ambitious group of musicians honing themselves in a focused, concerted, and mature effort.
When the group formed in 2001, the quintet managed to capitalize on the hype of the pop punk/emo storm that dominated the scene at the time. 14 years later, the pop punk/emo scene has digressed far from the point it reached in the early 2000s. Since their reunion, The Early November's focus is not one of nostalgia, but driven towards a present day sound. Rather than borrow from acoustic takes like "Ever So Sweet" and "Digital Age", Imbue is ten, straightforward rock songs. There is no filler or dip in energy here, as the quintet gives it their all from beginning to end.
The opening guitar riffs of "Narrow Mouth" are airy yet apprehensive, with the band withholding full force until they kick in to the sound of Enders' shout of "You gotta get something right", leading into a towering chorus led by a smashing of guitar and throaty vocals. While there is certainly a sense of energy and charisma, the record is not urgent or tense in tone. "Boxing Timelines" shifts from an easy-going guitar line and slow-rolling lyrics, to a driving drum backing and a rapid-fire recollection of "the forgotten smiles" and "obnoxious laughs", as a lust for youth comes through in full force, but never attacks the listener with nostalgia or overt emotion.
While takes like "Better This Way" and "I Don't Care" tread the line of empowering pop punk for adults, others are tailored to a new phase in the career of The Early November. "Harmony" meshes pieces of Circa Survive and newer Copeland, filled with spacey, twinkly sounds, thorough percussion, and Enders drawing into his higher vocal range. The third track, "Magnolia", seems to pay tribute to Turnover and their high octane brand of emo, but it feels right in place as output by The Early November. It's possible that the band would not have made such a seemingly subtle creative risk a few years back, but it is as if the group has taken heed from the musical growth around them, and emanated it within their own sound.
Enders and company have seen a lot in the way of musical evolution, both in their own projects, and in the music of those around them, throughout their careers. Just like any open-minded musician, these ideas have filtered through the collective conscience of The Early November, in such a way that it is distinct and memorable. On Imbue, they don't try to recreate the magic of any solo project or work of a colleague. Rather, they are looking to the maturity, sonic diversity, and aesthetic shifts that have taken over the pop punk and emo scene over the course of their career as musicians. It isn't 2003, where angst-ridden lyrics and an ability to identify with brokenhearted teenagers is first priority. Instead, the priority is looking to the different creative trends in the scene, and finding ways to incorporate them in a way that is distinct to The Early November. With that, we get a record that is consistent from start-to-finish, concise and precise in its execution of mature and forward-thinking emo music, if there was ever such a thing.


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There are tons of great famous quotes by people from different eras. You'll recognize a lot of these quotes simply because they have been referenced by so many people in various mediums such as movies, on T-shirts and posters, to speeches, books, and well, websites. I know this isn't the be all end all of famous quotations but it's a list of the ones I have come across more than a handful of times throughout my life. Some might not have much meaning to you. Some will make you think. Some can change your life. If you know of some famous sayings that aren't already on this list, please add them in the comments section. Enjoy!
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take."
– Wayne Gretzky
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
– Gandhi
"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
– Aristotle
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
– Sun Tzu
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
– Confucius
"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
– Confucius
"Time is money."
– Benjamin Franklin
"Knowledge is power."
– Francis Bacon
"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
– Benjamin Franklin
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
– Albert Einstein
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
– Robert Frost
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
– Martin Luther King Jr
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
– George Eliot
"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."
– Muhammad Ali
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
– John Lennon
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
– Helen Keller
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
– Lao Tze
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
– Sir Winston Churchill
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
– Mark Twain
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
– Bil Keane
"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
– Charles Chaplin
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
– Mark Twain
"Live the life you love. Love the life you live."
– Bob Marley
"I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes."
– Marilyn Monroe
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth."
– William Purkey
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
– Maya Angelou
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
– Abraham Lincoln
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
– Mahatma Gandhi
"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
– Malcolm X
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
– Anais Nin
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
– Friedrich Nietzsche
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Dr. Seuss
"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
– William Shakespeare
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
– Mae West
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
– Maya Angelou
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream,realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game,play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, singit. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure,dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"
– Mother Teresa
"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."
– Oscar Wilde
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
– John Lennon
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
– Andre Gide
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
– Confucius
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago"
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
– E.E. Cummings
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FCC Chief Technologist (and University of Colorado at Boulder Adjunct Professor) Dale Hatfield, the group aims to "develop consensus on broadband network management practices and other related technical issues that can affect users' experience," which largely leads to addressing technical issues and making suggestions to policymakers. The group runs the gamut of major players in the broadband industry, including AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, DISH, EchoStar, Google, Intel, Level 3, Microsoft, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon.
Naturally, the aforementioned companies already on board are lauding the move, and for its part the NCTA is happy to see a forum for tech and engineering experts to openly discuss issues and policies. Providing the counterargument would be the folks at DSL Reports, who show reserve that this may end up being nothing more than "policy dog and pony show" to avoid stricter government regulations on network neutrality. At this point that remains to be seen, as this organization doesn't seem to have even hit infancy yet. Expect more in the coming weeks as it continues to form and attempts to organize. We submit for your perusal the press release, just after the break.