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The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced yesterday that a high-powered Cabinet sub-committee will be set up to carry out the government's efforts to eradicate hardcore poverty among all races by 2010.
When Abdullah comes to Sabah next Tuesday (January 29) to launch the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC), he should explain to Sabahans what this high-powered committee means to Sabah.
This is because 14 years ago, in its manifesto to capture Sabah state power from PBS, the Barisan Nasional pledged to create a "New Sabah" and promised, among other things, to reduce the poverty level in Sabah from 33 per cent in 1994 to zero in the year 2000.
However, this promise of zero poverty in Sabah by the year 2,000 was never fulfilled. According to the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the incidence of poverty in Sabah in 2004 was the highest of all states in Malaysia at 23 per cent, nowhere near zero incidence and higher than Terengganu (15.4%) and Kelantan (10.6%).
Sabah had also the worst incidence of hard-core poverty in 2004 at 6.5% as compared the next three states with high incidence, i.e. Terengganu 4.4% and Kedah and Kelantan 1.3%.
Now, eight years after its failure to honour its pledge to reduce poverty in Sabah to zero in 2000, the Prime Minister is talking about eradicating hard core poverty by 2010.
When will the Barisan Nasional honour its 1994 Sabah state general election pledge to reduce poverty to zero in the state? Will the Sabah Development Corridor take over the 1994 Barisan Nasional broken pledge to achieve zero poverty rate in Sabah by 2000 with a new deadline for zero poverty in Sabah?
Will Abdullah be able to announce the new date for the reduction of poverty to zero in Sabah when he launches the SDC next Tuesday?
(Media Conference Statement 2 in Tawau on Monday, 21st January 2008)


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Ryan Grim strikes us as another one of those wild-eyed liberals looking to take over the Democrat party, and the sort of revisionist young whippersnapper who still calls President Ronald Reagan "a C-list actor," but we think his op-ed piece in Sunday's Washington Post correctly identifies the current fissure among the Democrats as a generation gap.
So far as we can tell Grim is a bit too young remember the late '60s and early '70s when the hippies and the hard hats were fighting it out on the streets and "generation gap" was a familiar part of the political lexicon, but he's familiar enough with Reagan's landslide victories and the Republican party's ascendancy in the '80s to understand why some Democrats are still spooked by it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and front-running Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden are all aged enough to remember how President Richard Nixon a landslide over the hippie favorite Democratic nominee Sen. George McGovern in '72 despite an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam. They remember that the carefully centrist President Jimmy Carter won office in '76 only because of the Watergate scandal, but was decisively ousted four years later by Reagan, who won a record 49 states in his reelection bid.
They also well remember how many of their longstanding congressional colleagues were voted out along the way. Such liberal lions as McGovern and Sen. Frank Church and Birch Bayh and the most senior Sen. Warren Magnuson from the New Deal era were voted out during the '70s, and the likes of wild-eyed conservative Rep. Newt Gingrich were voted in. Reagan won a third term of sorts when his Vice President George H.W. Bush, and any Democrat old enough to remember that still shudders at the thought. President Bill Clinton ended the Republicans' 12-year White House reign in 92′ and won reelection in '96, but he ran as a centrist and won by mere pluralities with considerable help from nutcase third-party populist candidate Ross Perot peeling off conservative votes. In '94 the Republicans even took the House of Representatives after 40 years of Democratic control, a result of Clinton offending the public with such divisive ideas as allowing gays to serve in the military and the government taking a greater role in the health care system, but Clinton won reelection mostly because he and Gingrich had come up with a rare balanced budget and revived the Reagan economic expansion after a short and mild recession.
Republican President George W. Bush succeeded Clinton with a plurality and razor-then electoral majority and then won reelection with a slight majority of the popular, which drove all the Democrats crazy, even though the increasingly wild-eyed conservatives in the Republican party found both Bushes far too centrist for their tastes. President Barack Obama succeeded the second Bush and then easily won reelection, which drove all the Republicans crazy even if the younger of the increasingly wild-eyed Democrats now consider Obama far too centrist for their tastes. All of which explains why such liberal but seasoned septuagenarians as Pelosi and Schumer and Biden are reluctant to veer too far left of the center.
Much younger and less experienced and better-looking and more wild-eyed Democrats as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke and Sen. Kamala Harris and New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker now have considerable sway in the Democratic party, and although the aging self-described socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and ripened Massachusetts Sen. Warren are on their side Grim seems correct in surmising that a generation gap will be the story of the Democrats' upcoming presidential primaries. Grim apparently believes that youthful idealism and its resulting recklessness will eventually overwhelm old age's hard-earned experience and its resulting caution, and he seems to wish for it, and although we hope he's wrong we worry he might be right.
At this point in our late middle age we must admit, however begrudgingly, that a lot has changed since Nixon won a landslide reelection but lost a popular culture back in '72, and that things have changed far even more rapidly ever since. The "don't ask, don't tell" that allowed homosexuals to serve in the military so long as they remained closeted cost Clinton the House back in '94, but it seems quaint in this age of constitutionally guaranteed same-sex marriage. The government intrusion into health care that Clinton's wife proposed was less ambitious than what Obama wound up getting passed, and lately it polls well, and the Republicans couldn't come with any alternative they could pass even when they held the White House and both chambers of Congress, so the crazy ideas that these young Democrats are proposing will have some appeal to a significant portion of the population. "Socialism" is no longer the damning term of opprobrium that it was during most of our lives, although it still should be, as far as we're still concerned, and will probably get a lot more votes than Eugene Debs ever did back in a more sensible era of America.
Which is a shame, especially given the currently wild-eyed state of the Republican party in the era of President Donald Trump. It's not the admirably wild-eyed conservatism of the Republican party that opposed the New Deal programs President Franklin Roosevelt wrought during his party's six-decades dominance of American politics, nor is it the centrist and internationalist Republicanism of President Dwight Eisenhower that ended that long reign. It's not the small government and free markets conservatism of Republican nominee Sen. Barry Goldwater, who lost by a landslide in '64. Trump has the same tough-talking anti-hippie and pro-law-and-order rhetoric that Nixon won with in '68, but Nixon won reelection after establishing the Environmental Protection Agency that Trump rails against and abandoning the Gold Standard monetary policy that Trump's Federal Reserve Board appointees want to reinstate, and Trump has made his disdain Republican nominee back to Reagan quite clear.
Despite a pretty good economy America is adding the same trillion or so to the national debt that Obama was racking up in the wake of a deep and long lasting recession, The Repubicans' big tax cut bill went mainly to the rich while the poor are probably paying even more for Trump's tariffs every time they go to Wal-Mart. As bad as Obama was Trump has done even more to buddy up to dictatorships while undermining our the post-World War II military and trading alliances that Eisenhower and both Republican and Democratic presidents wisely established. We also note that his promise of proposing such a wonderful health care policy that your head will spin has not yet been kept.
On the other hand, Trump has outraged those damned Democrats even more than Nixon or Reagan or either of the Bushes ever did, and the more wild-eyed Republicans seem satisfied with that. He's threatened governmental retribution against the free press and promised to lock up his political opponents, enforced our border laws with extreme cruelty and questioned the legitimacy of any federal judges of Latino heritage, has kinder words for the leaders of Russia and North Korea than he can must for our North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners, and is even coarser than Nixon ever was in his "twitter" denunciations of the damned hippies.
As much as the die-hard fans love it, it's not at all the conservatism and Republican party we signed up with. With ur old-school sensibilities we're free press absolutists, and we worry how that Third World "lock 'em up" stuff might play out if the damned Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress yet again. We have nothing against Latino citizens and legal immigrants, and rather enjoy their music and food and construction and road-paving efforts and occasional judicial opinions. We prefer our classically liberal democratic allies to the authoritarian populists popping up around the world, and by now we're friends with a lot of dope-smoking hippies, and our hard=hat friends are also taking atoke or two.
Which is not to say that we agree about anything with anyone on the left. Even the aged and relatively wised-up Democrats toward the center have always been too far left for our centrist tastes, and Grim's favored youngsters strike us as at least as crazy as Trump.
There's always some hope that the upcoming congressional impeachment investigations will result in some deus ex machina that delivers the Republican party some nominee other than Trump, and that the Democrats won't go full-blown socialist. We can't envision any scenario where the budget gets balanced, or any sort of budget actually gets passed and signed into law, or health care becomes universal and inexpensive, or all the ethnic and sexual groups learn to love another, but we hold out hope the center will hold and the republic will somehow persist.
When we were born Eisenhower had reconciled the Republicans with Social Security and most of the rest of Roosevelt's New Deal, and until recently the Democrats have only arguing about how much to tax the free markets that Goldwater and Reagan had championed, everyone more or less agreed on the post-war world order that Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and Kennedy and Nixon had sustained, and for the most part it worked out well enough. At this point in our late middle age we believe the sole purpose of the Democratic party is to keep the damned Republicans from imposing their worst ideas on a great nation, and that the Republicans exist solely to save the country from the Democrats dumbest ideas.
For now both parties are seized by a wild-eyed youthful idealism, which we've noticed from our reading of history is the most destructive force on the planet, but old age and experience and its resulting caution still stand a fighting chance. We'll probably wind up casting another futile protest vote on some write-in candidate, but hope the rest of the country chooses as wisely as possible, given the circumstances..
— Bud Norman

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Prostitution Islamabad Escort occurs in a variety of forms. Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to Prostitution Islamabad Escort. In escort Prostitution Islamabad Escort, the act may take place at the client's residence or hotel room, or at the escort's residence or a hotel room rented for the occasion by the escort. Another form is street Prostitution Islamabad Escort. Although the majority of prostitutes are female and have male clients, a prostitute can be and have clients, of any gender or sexual orientation.
There are about 42 million prostitutes in the world, living all over the world. Sex tourism refers to the practice of traveling to engage in sexual relations with prostitutes in other countries. Some rich clients may pay for long-term contracts that may last for years.
Some view Prostitution Islamabad Escort as a form of exploitation of or violence against women, and children, that helps to create a supply of victims for human trafficking. Some critics of Prostitution Islamabad Escort as an institution are supporters of the Swedish approach, which has also been adopted by Canada, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Norway, and France.
Etymology and terminology
Prostitute is derived from the Latin prostituta. Some sources cite the verb as a composition of "pro" meaning "up front" or "forward" and "situere", defined as "to offer up for sale". Another explanation is that prostituta is a composition of pro and statuere . A literal translation therefore is: "to put up front for sale" or "to place forward". The Online Etymology Dictionary states, "The notion of 'sex for hire' is not inherent in the etymology, which rather suggests one 'exposed to lust' or sex 'indiscriminately offered.'"
The word prostitute was then carried down through various languages to the present-day Western society. Most sex worker activists groups reject the word prostitute and since the late 1970s have used the term sex worker instead. However, a sex worker can also mean anyone who works within the sex industry or whose work is of a sexual nature and is not limited solely to prostitutes.
A variety of terms are used for those who engage in Prostitution Islamabad Escort, some of which distinguish between different types of Prostitution Islamabad Escort or imply a value judgment about them. Common alternatives for prostitute include escort and whore; however, not all professional escorts are prostitutes.
The English word whore derives from the Old English word hora, from the Proto-Germanic horizon, which derives from the Proto-Indo-European root keh2- meaning "desire", a root which has also given us Latin carus, whence the French her and the Latin Caritas. Use of the word whore is widely considered pejorative, especially in its modern slang form of ho. In Germany, however, most prostitutes' organizations deliberately use the word Hure since they feel that prostitute is a bureaucratic term. Those seeking to remove the social stigma associated with Prostitution Islamabad Escorts often promote terminologies such as sex worker, commercial sex worker or sex trade worker. Another commonly used word for a prostitute is a hooker. Although a popular etymology connects "hooker" with Joseph Hooker, a Union general in the American Civil War, the word more likely comes from the concentration of prostitutes around the shipyards and ferry terminal of the Corlear's Hook area of Manhattan in the 1820s, who came to be referred to as "hookers". A streetwalker solicits customers on the streets or in public places, while a call girl makes appointments by phone, or in recent years, through email or the internet.
Correctly or not, use of the word prostitute without specifying sex may commonly be assumed to be female; compound terms such as male Prostitution Islamabad Escort or male escort are therefore often used to identify males. Those offering services to female customers are commonly known as gigolos; those offering services to male customers are hustlers or rent boys.
Organizers of Prostitution Islamabad Escort may be known as pimps and madams or Mama-san. More formally, one who is said to practice procuring is a procurer or procuress.
The clients of prostitutes are also known as johns or tricks in North America and punters in the British Isles. These slang terms are used among both prostitutes and law enforcement for persons who solicit prostitutes. The term john may have originated from the frequent customer practice of giving one's name as "John", a common name in English-speaking countries, in an effort to maintain anonymity. In some places, men who drive around red-light districts for the purpose of soliciting prostitutes are also known as curb-crawlers.
Other meanings
The word "Prostitution Islamabad Escort" can also be used metaphorically to mean debasing oneself or working towards an unworthy cause or "selling out". In this sense, "prostituting oneself" or "whoring oneself" the services or acts performed are typically not sexual. For instance, in the book, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield says of his brother: "Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me." D.B. is not literally a prostitute; Holden feels that his job writing B-movie screenplays is morally debasing.
The Prostitution Islamabad Escort metaphor, "traditionally used to signify political inconstancy, unreliability, fickleness, a lack of firm values and integrity, and venality, has long been a staple of Russian political rhetoric." One of the famous insults of Leon Trotsky made by Vladimir Lenin was calling him a "political prostitute". In 1938, he used the same description for the Comintern, saying that the chief aim of the Bonapartist clique of Stalin during the preceding several years "has consisted in proving to the imperialist 'democracies' its wise conservatism and love for order. For the sake of the longed alliance with imperialist democracies has brought the Comintern to the last stages of political Prostitution Islamabad Escort."
Besides targeting political figures, the term is used in relation to organizations and even small countries, which "have no choice but to sell themselves", because their voice in world affairs is insignificant. In 2007, a Russian caricature depicted the Baltic states as three "ladies of the night", "vying for the attention of Uncle Sam, since the Russian client has run out of money".
Sex work researcher and writer Gail Peterson write that these metaphorical usages exist because "the term "prostitute" gradually took on a Christian moralist tradition, as being synonymous with the debasement of oneself or of others for the purpose of ill-gotten gains".
Ancient Near East
In the Ancient Near East along the Tigris–Euphrates river system there were many shrines and temples or "houses of heaven" dedicated to various deities documented by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in The Histories where sacred Prostitution Islamabad Escort was a common practice. It came to an end when the emperor Constantine in the fourth century AD destroyed the goddess temples and replaced them with Christianity.
As early as the 18th century BC, ancient Mesopotamia recognized the need to protect women's property rights. In the Code of Hammurabi, provisions were found that addressed inheritance rights of women, including female prostitutes.
Ancient Hebrew culture
According to Zohar and the Alphabet of Ben Sira, there were four angels of sacred Prostitution Islamabad Escort, who mated with archangel Samael. They were the queens of the demons Lilith, Naamah, Agrat Bat Mahlat and Eisheth Zenunim.
Ancient Greece
Both women and boys engaged in Prostitution Islamabad Escort in ancient Greece. Female prostitutes could be independent and sometimes influential women. They were required to wear distinctive dresses and had to pay taxes. Some similarities have been found between the Greek hetaera, the Japanese oiran, and also the Indian tawaif. Some prostitutes in ancient Greece, such as Lais were as famous for their company as their beauty, and some of these women charged extraordinary sums for their services.
Ancient Rome
Prostitution Islamabad Escort in ancient Rome was legal, public, and widespread. A registered prostitute was called a meretrix while the unregistered one fell under the broad category prostitute. There were some commonalities with the Greek system, but as the Empire grew, prostitutes were often foreign slaves, captured, purchased, or raised for that purpose, sometimes by large-scale "prostitute farmers" who took abandoned children. Indeed, abandoned children were almost always raised as prostitutes. Enslavement into Prostitution Islamabad Escort was sometimes used as a legal punishment against criminal free women. Buyers were allowed to inspect naked men and women for sale in private and there was no stigma attached to the purchase of males by a male aristocrat.
According to Shia Muslims, Muhammad sanctioned fixed-term marriage – muta'a in Iraq and sigheh in Iran – which has instead been used as a legitimizing cover for sex workers, in a culture where Prostitution Islamabad Escort is otherwise forbidden. Sunni Muslims, who make up the majority of Muslims worldwide, believe the practice of fixed-term marriage was abrogated and ultimately forbidden by either Muhammad, or one of his successors, Umar. Sunnis regard Prostitution Islamabad Escort as sinful and forbidden.
In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female Prostitution Islamabad Escort throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka, Japan. Oiran were courtesans in Japan during the Edo period. The oiran were considered a type of "woman of pleasure" or prostitute. Among the oiran, the was considered the highest rank of courtesan available only to the wealthiest and highest ranking men. To entertain their clients, oiran practiced the arts of dance, music, poetry, and calligraphy as well as sexual services, and an educated wit was considered essential for sophisticated conversation. Many became celebrities of their times outside the pleasure districts. Their art and fashions often set trends among wealthy women. The last recorded oiran was in 1761. Although illegal in modern Japan, the definition of Prostitution Islamabad Escort does not extend to a "private agreement" reached between a woman and a man in a brothel. Yoshiwara has a large number of soaplands that began when explicit Prostitution Islamabad Escort in Japan became illegal, where women washed men's bodies. They were originally known as toruko-buro, meaning Turkish bath.
A tawaif was a courtesan who catered to the nobility of South Asia, particularly during the era of the Mughal Empire. These courtesans danced, sang, recited poetry and entertained their suitors at mehfils. Like the geisha tradition in Japan, their main purpose was to professionally entertain their guests, and while sex was often incidental, it was not assured contractually. High-class or the most popular tawaifs could often pick and choose between the best of their suitors. They contributed to music, dance, theatre, film, and the Urdu literary tradition.
Middle Ages
Throughout the Middle Ages the definition of a prostitute has been ambiguous, with various secular and canonical organizations defining Prostitution Islamabad Escort in constantly evolving terms. Even though medieval secular authorities created legislation to deal with the phenomenon of Prostitution Islamabad Escorts, they rarely attempted to define what a prostitute was because it was deemed unnecessary "to specify exactly who fell into that category" of a prostitute. The first known definition of Prostitution Islamabad Escort was found in Marseille's thirteenth century statutes, which included a chapter entitled De meretricibus . A fourteenth-century English tract, Fasciculus Morum, states that the term prostitute, "must be applied only to those women who give themselves to anyone and will refuse none, and that for monetary gain". Women who became prostitutes often did not have the familial ties or means to protect themselves from the lure of Prostitution Islamabad Escort, and it has been recorded on several occasions that mothers would be charged with prostituting their own daughters in exchange for extra money.
Medieval civilians accepted without question the fact of Prostitution Islamabad Escort, it was necessary part of medieval life. Prostitutes subverted the sexual tendencies of male youth, just by existing. With the establishment of Prostitution Islamabad Escort men were less likely to collectively rape honest women of marriageable and re-marriageable age. This is most clearly demonstrated in St. Augustine's claim that "the removal of the institution would bring lust into all aspects of the world." Meaning that without prostitutes to subvert male tendencies, men would go after innocent women instead, thus the prostitutes were actually doing society a favor.
In urban societies there was an erroneous view that Prostitution Islamabad Escort was flourishing more in rural regions rather than in cities, however, it has been proven that Prostitution Islamabad Escort was more rampant in cities and large towns. Although there were wandering prostitutes in rural areas who worked based on the calendar of fairs, similar to riding a circuit, in which prostitutes stopped by various towns based on what event was going on at the time, most prostitutes remained in cities. Cities tended to draw more prostitutes due to the sheer size of the population and the institutionalization of Prostitution Islamabad Escort in urban areas which made it more rampant in metropolitan regions. The global trend of the thirteenth century was toward the development of positive policy on Prostitution Islamabad Escort as laws exiling prostitutes changed towards sumptuary laws and the confinement of prostitutes to red light districts.
Sumptuary laws became the regulatory norm for prostitutes and included making courtesans "wear a shoulder-knot of a particular color as a badge of their calling" to be able to easily distinguish the prostitute from a respectable woman in society. However this did not prevent illegal brothels from thriving. Furthermore, brothels theoretically banned the patronage of married men and clergy also, but it was sporadically enforced and there is evidence of clergymen present in brawls that were documented in brothels. Thus it is obvious that the clergy were at least present in brothels at some point or another. Brothels also settled the "obsessive fear of the sharing of women" and solved the issue of "collective security." The lives of prostitutes in brothels were not cloistered like that of nuns and "only some lived permanently in the streets assigned to them." Prostitutes were only allowed to practice their trade in the brothel in which they worked. Brothels were also used to protect prostitutes and their clients through various regulations. For example, the law that "forbid brothel keepers beat them." However, brothel regulations also hindered prostitutes' lives by forbidding them from having "lovers other than their customers" or from having a favored customer. However, prostitutes were sometimes called upon as witnesses during the trial.
16th–17th centuries
By the end of the 15th-century attitudes seemed to have begun to harden against Prostitution Islamabad Escort. An outbreak of syphilis in Naples 1494 which later swept across Europe, and which may have originated from the Columbian Exchange, and the prevalence of other sexually transmitted diseases from the earlier 16th century may have been causes of this change in attitude. By the early 16th century, the association between prostitutes, plague, and contagion emerged, causing brothels and Prostitution Islamabad Escort to be outlawed by secular authority. Furthermore, outlawing brothel-keeping and Prostitution Islamabad Escort was also used to "strengthen the criminal law" system of the sixteenth-century secular rulers.
Canon law defined a prostitute as "a promiscuous woman, regardless of financial elements." The prostitute was considered a "whore … who available for the lust of many men," and was most closely associated with promiscuity.
The Church's stance on Prostitution Islamabad Escort was three-fold: "acceptance of Prostitution Islamabad Escort as an inevitable social fact, condemnation of those profiting from this commerce, and encouragement for the prostitute to repent." The Church was forced to recognize its inability to remove Prostitution Islamabad Escort from the worldly society, and in the fourteenth century "began to tolerate Prostitution Islamabad Escort as a lesser evil." However, prostitutes were to be excluded from the Church as long as they practiced. Around the twelfth century, the idea of prostitute saints took hold, with Mary Magdalene being one of the most popular saints of the era. The Church used Mary Magdalene's biblical history of being a reformed harlot to encourage prostitutes to repent and mend their ways. Simultaneously, religious houses were established with the purpose of providing asylum and encouraging the reformation of Prostitution Islamabad Escort. 'Magdalene Homes' were particularly popular and peaked especially in the early fourteenth century. Over the course of the Middle Ages, popes and religious communities made various attempts to remove Prostitution Islamabad Escort or reform prostitutes, with varying success.
With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, numbers of Southern German towns closed their brothels in an attempt to eradicate Prostitution Islamabad Escort. In some periods prostitutes had to distinguish themselves by particular signs, sometimes wearing very short hair or no hair at all, or wearing veils in societies where other women did not wear them. Ancient codes regulated in this case the crime of a prostitute that dissimulated her profession. In some cultures, prostitutes were the sole women allowed to sing in public or act in theatrical performances.
18th century
According to Dervish Ismail Agha, in the Dellâkname-i Dilküsâ, the Ottoman archives, in the Turkish baths, the masseurs were traditionally young men, who helped wash clients by soaping and scrubbing their bodies. They also worked as sex workers. The Ottoman texts describe who they were, their prices, how many times they could bring their customers to orgasm, and the details of their sexual practices.
During the British East India Company's rule in India in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, it was initially fairly common for British soldiers to engage in inter-ethnic Prostitution Islamabad Escort in India, where they frequently visited local Indian nautch dancers. As British females began arriving in British India in large numbers from the early to mid-19th century, it became increasingly uncommon for British soldiers to visit Indian prostitutes, and miscegenation was despised altogether after the events of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
19th century
In the 19th century, legalized Prostitution Islamabad Escort became a public controversy as France and then the United Kingdom passed the Contagious Diseases Acts, legislation mandating pelvic examinations for suspected prostitutes. This legislation applied not only to the United Kingdom and France but also to their overseas colonies. France, instead of trying to outlaw Prostitution Islamabad Escort began to view Prostitution Islamabad Escort as an evil necessary for society to function. France chose to regulate Prostitution Islamabad Escort, introducing a Morals Brigade onto the streets of Paris. A similar situation did, in fact, exist in the Russian Empire; prostitutes operating out of government-sanctioned brothels were given yellow internal passports signifying their status and were subjected to weekly physical exams. A major work, Prostitution Islamabad Escort, Considered in Its Moral, Social, and Sanitary Aspects, was published by William Acton in 1857, which estimated that
the County of London had 80,000 prostitutes and that 1 house in 60 was serving as a brothel. Leo Tolstoy's novel Resurrection describes legal Prostitution Islamabad Escort in 19th-century Russia.
During this period, Prostitution Islamabad Escort was also very prominent in the Barbary Coast, San Francisco as the population was mainly men, due to the influx from the Gold rush. One of the more successful madams was Belle Cora, who inadvertently got involved in a scandal involving her husband, Charles Cora, shooting US Marshall William H. Richardson. This led to the rise of new statues against Prostitution Islamabad Escort, gambling and other activities seen as "immoral" .
Originally, Prostitution Islamabad Escort was widely legal in the United States. Prostitution Islamabad Escort was made illegal in almost all states between 1910 and 1915 largely due to the influence of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. On the other hand, Prostitution Islamabad Escort generated much national revenue in South Korea, hence military government encouraged the Prostitution Islamabad Escort for the U.S. military.
In 1956, the United Kingdom introduced the Sexual Offences Act 1956. While this law did not criminalise the act of Prostitution Islamabad Escort in the United Kingdom itself, it prohibited such activities as running a brothel. Soliciting was made illegal by the Street Offences Act 1959. These laws were partly repealed, and altered, by the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and the Policing and Crime Act 2009.
Beginning in the late 1980s, many states in the US increased the penalties for Prostitution Islamabad Escort in cases where the prostitute is knowingly HIV-positive. Penalties for felony Prostitution Islamabad Escort vary, with maximum sentences of typically 10 to 15 years in prison.
Sex tourism emerged in the late 20th century as a controversial aspect of Western tourism and globalization.
21st century
In the 21st century, Afghans revived a method of prostituting young boys which is referred to as "bacha bazi".
Since the break up of the Soviet Union, thousands of eastern European women end up as prostitutes in China, Western Europe, Israel, and Turkey every year; some enter the profession willingly, but many are tricked, coerced, or kidnapped, and often experience captivity and violence. There are tens of thousands of women from eastern Europe and Asia working as prostitutes in Dubai. Men from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates form a large proportion of the customers.
India's devadasi girls are forced by their poor families to dedicate themselves to the Hindu goddess Renuka. The BBC wrote in 2007 that devadasis are "sanctified prostitutes".
Historically, and currently, church prostitutes exist, and the practice may be legal or illegal, depending on the country, state or province.
Payments and salaries
Prostitutes' salaries and payments fluctuate according to the economic conditions of their respective countries. Prostitutes who usually have foreign clients, such as business travelers, depend on good foreign economic conditions. Payment may vary according to regulations made by pimps, brothel keepers, madams, and procurers, who usually take a slice out of a prostitute's income. Prices may further depend on demand; popular, high-end prostitutes can earn significant amounts of money, and virgins may receive even higher payments.
Roughly speaking, the possible attitudes are:
"Prostitution Islamabad Escort should be tolerated by society":
decriminalization: "Prostitution Islamabad Escort is labor like any other. Sex industry premises should not be subject to any special regulation or laws", the current situation in New Zealand; the laws against operating a brothel, pimping and street Prostitution Islamabad Escort are struck down, but Prostitution Islamabad Escort is hardly regulated at all. Proponents of this view often cite instances of government regulation under legalization that they consider intrusive, demeaning, or violent, but feel that criminalization adversely affects sex workers.
regulation: Prostitution Islamabad Escort may be considered a legitimate business; Prostitution Islamabad Escort and the employment of prostitutes are legal, but regulated; the current situation in the Netherlands, Germany, most of Australia and parts of Nevada . The degree of regulation varies very much; for example, in the Netherlands, prostitutes are not required to undergo mandatory health checks, while in Nevada, the regulations are very strict
"Prostitution Islamabad Escort should not be tolerated":
abolitionism: Prostitution Islamabad Escort is legal, but the surrounding activities such as public solicitation, operating a brothel and other forms of pimping are prohibited, the current situation in Great Britain, France, and Italy among others;
neo-abolitionism: prostitutes are not prosecuted, but their clients and pimps are, which is the current situation in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland.
prohibitionism: the prevailing attitude nearly everywhere in the United States, with a few exceptions in some rural Nevada counties
In some countries, there is controversy regarding the laws applicable to sex work. For instance, the legal stance of punishing pimping while keeping sex work legal but "underground" and risky is often denounced as hypocritical; opponents suggest either going the full abolition route and criminalize clients or making sex work a regulated business.
Many countries have sex worker advocacy groups which lobby against criminalization and discrimination of prostitutes.
These groups generally oppose Nevada-style regulation and oversight, stating that Prostitution Escorts in Islamabad should be treated like other professions. In the United States of America, one such group is COYOTE and another is the North American Task Force on Prostitution Islamabad Escort.
In Australia, the lead sex worker rights organization is Scarlet Alliance. International prostitutes' rights organizations include the International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights and the Network of Sex Work Projects.
Other groups, often with religious backgrounds, focus on offering women a way out of the world of Prostitution Islamabad Escort while not taking a position on the legal question.
Prostitution Islamabad Escort is a significant issue in feminist thought and activism. Many feminists are opposed to Prostitution Islamabad Escort, which they see as a form of exploitation of women and male dominance over women, and as a practice which is the result of the existing patriarchal societal order. These feminists argue that Prostitution Islamabad Escort has a very negative effect, both on the prostitutes themselves and on society as a whole, as it reinforces stereotypical views about women, who are seen as sex objects which can be used and abused by men. Other feminists hold that Prostitution Islamabad Escort can be a valid choice for the women who choose to engage in it; in this view, Prostitution Islamabad Escort must be differentiated from forced Prostitution Islamabad Escort, and feminists should support sex worker activism against abuses by both the sex industry and the legal system.
In February 2014, the members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding resolution, in favor of the 'Swedish Model' of criminalizing the buying, but not the selling of sex.
The position of Prostitution Islamabad Escort and the law varies widely worldwide, reflecting differing opinions on victimhood and exploitation, inequality, gender roles, gender equality, ethics and morality, freedom of choice, historical social norms, and social costs and benefits.
Legal themes tend to address four types of issue: victimhood, ethics and morality, freedom of choice, and general benefit or harm to society.
Prostitution Islamabad Escort may be considered a form of exploitation, a legitimate occupation or a crime.
The legal status of Prostitution Islamabad Escort varies from country to country, from being legal and considered a profession to be punishable by death. Some jurisdictions outlaw the act of Prostitution Islamabad Escort; other countries do not prohibit Prostitution Escorts in Islamabad itself, but ban the activities typically associated with it, making it difficult to engage in Prostitution Islamabad Escort without breaking any law; and in a few countries Prostitution, Islamabad Escort is legal and regulated.
In 1949, the UN General Assembly adopted a convention stating that "Prostitution Islamabad Escort and the accompanying evil of the traffic in persons for the purpose of Prostitution Islamabad Escort are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person", requiring all signing parties to punish pimps and brothel owners and operators and to abolish all special treatment or registration of prostitutes. As of January 2009, the convention was ratified by 95 member nations including France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and not ratified by another 97 member nations including Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In countries where Prostitution Islamabad Escort is legal, advertising it may be legal or illegal.
Covert advertising for Prostitution Islamabad Escort can take a number of forms:
by cards in newsagents' windows
by cards placed in public telephone enclosures: so-called tart cards
by euphemistic advertisements in regular magazines and newspapers
in specialist contact magazines
via the Internet
In the United States, massage parlors serving as a cover for Prostitution Islamabad Escort may advertise "full service", a euphemism for coitus.
In Las Vegas, Prostitution Islamabad Escort is often promoted overtly on the Las Vegas Strip by third party workers distributing risque flyers with the pictures and phone numbers of escorts.
The way in which prostitutes advertise their presence varies widely. Some remain in apartments which have hints or clues outside such as posters with "model" written on them to lure potential customers inside. Others advertise by putting numbers or location in phoneboxes or in online or newspaper ads. In more sexually permissive societies, prostitutes can advertise in public views, such as through display windows. In sexually restrictive societies it may occur through word-of-mouth and other means.
Socio-economic issues
Illegal immigration
A difficulty facing migrant prostitutes in many developed countries is the illegal residence status of some of these women. They face potential deportation, and so do not have recourse to the law. Hence there are brothels that may not adhere to the usual legal standards intended to safeguard public health and the safety of the workers.
The immigration status of the persons who sell sexual services is – particularly in Western Europe – a controversial and highly debated political issue. Currently, in most of these countries most prostitutes are immigrants, mainly from Eastern and Central Europe; in Spain and Italy, 90% of prostitutes are estimated to be migrants, in Austria 78%, in Switzerland 75%, in Greece 73%, in Norway 70 %.
An article in Le Monde diplomatique in 1997 stated that 80% of prostitutes in Amsterdam were foreigners and 70% had no immigration papers.
Survival sex
Survival sex is when the prostitute is driven to Prostitution Islamabad Escort by a need for basic necessities such as food or shelter. This type of Prostitution Islamabad Escort is common among the homeless and in refugee camps. The term is used in the sex trade and by aid workers, although some practitioners do not regard the act as exploitative.
Use of children
Regarding the Prostitution Islamabad Escort of children, the laws on Prostitution Islamabad Escort, as well as those on sex with a child, apply. If Prostitution Islamabad Escort, in general, is legal there is usually a minimum age requirement for legal Prostitution Islamabad Escort that is higher than the general age of consent. Although some countries do not single out patronage of child Prostitution Islamabad Escort as a separate crime, the same act is punishable as sex with an underage person.
In India, the federal police say that around 1.2 million children are believed to be involved in Prostitution Islamabad Escort. A CBI statement said that studies and surveys sponsored by the ministry of women and child development estimated that about 40% of all India's prostitutes are children.
Thailand's Health System Research Institute reported that children in Prostitution Islamabad Escort make up 40% of prostitutes in Thailand.
Some adults travel to other countries to have access to sex with children, which is unavailable in their home country. Cambodia has become a notorious destination for sex with children. Thailand is also a destination for child sex tourism. Several western countries have recently enacted laws with extraterritorial reach, punishing citizens who engage in sex with minors in other countries. As the crime usually goes undiscovered, these laws are rarely enforced.
Among the elderly
Prostitution Islamabad Escort among the elderly is a phenomenon reported in South Korea where elderly people turn to Prostitution Islamabad Escort to pay their bills. This problem comes about because the state does not provide enough income for necessities. Clients in Korea tend also to be elderly.
Street prostitutes are at higher risk of violent crime than brothel prostitutes and bar prostitutes.
In the United States, the homicide rate for female prostitutes was estimated to be 204 per 100,000. There are substantial differences in rates of victimization between street prostitutes and indoor prostitutes who work as escorts, call girls, or in brothels and massage parlors. Violence against male prostitutes is less common.
Prostitution Islamabad Escort may sometimes be associated with illegal, abusive, and dangerous activities. One view maintains that this results from Prostitution Islamabad Escort being stigmatized or illegal, or both. Another, however, believes that legalizing and regulating Prostitution Islamabad Escort does not improve the situation, but instead makes it worse, creating a parallel illegal Prostitution Islamabad Escort industry, and failing to dissociate the legal part of the sex trade from crime.
Human trafficking
Sex trafficking is defined as using coercion or force to transport an unwilling person into Prostitution Escorts Service in Islamabad or other sexual exploitation. The United Nations stated in 2009 that sex trafficking is the most commonly identified form of human trafficking and estimates that about 79% of human trafficking reported is for Prostitution Islamabad Escort. Sex trafficking has been described by Kul Gautam, Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF, as "the largest slave trade in history." It is also the fastest growing criminal industry, predicted to outgrow drug trafficking. While there may be a higher number of people involved in slavery today than at any time in history, the proportion of the population is probably the smallest in history.
"Annually, according to U.S. Government-sponsored research completed in 2006, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders, which does not include millions trafficked within their own countries. Approximately 80 percent of transnational victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors," estimated the US Department of State in a 2008 study, in reference to the number of people estimated to be victims of all forms of human trafficking. Due in part to the illegal and underground nature of sex trafficking, the actual extent of women and children forced into Prostitution Islamabad Escorts is unknown.
Children are sold into the global sex trade every year. Often they are kidnapped or orphaned, and sometimes they are sold by their own families. According to the International Labour Organization, the occurrence is especially common in places such as Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nepal, and India.
Globally, forced labor generates an estimated $31billion, about half of it in the industrialized world and around one tenth in transitional countries, according to the International Labour Organization in a report on forced labor. Trafficking in people has been facilitated by factors such as porous borders and advanced communication technologies, and has become increasingly transnational in scope and highly financially lucrative.
The most common destinations for victims of human trafficking are Thailand, Japan, Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and the US, according to a report by the UNODC.
Major sources of trafficked persons include Thailand, China, Nigeria, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. Lot lizards mainly serve those in the trucking industry at truck stops and shopping centers. Prostitutes will often proposition truckers using a CB radio from a vehicle parked in the non-commercial section of a truck stop parking lot, communicating through codes based on commercial driving slang, then join the driver in his truck.
Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to Prostitution Escorts in Islamabad, often confined to special red-light districts in big cities. Other names for brothels include bordello, whorehouse, cathouse, knocking shop, and general houses. Prostitution Islamabad Escort also occurs in some massage parlors, and in Asian countries in some barber shops where sexual services may be offered as a secondary function of the premises.
Escort services may be distinguished from Prostitution Islamabad Escort or other forms of Prostitution Islamabad Escort in that sexual activities are often not explicitly advertised as necessarily included in these services; rather, payment is often noted as being for an escort's time and companionship only, although there is often an implicit assumption that sexual activities are expected.
In escort Prostitution Islamabad Escort, the action takes place at the customer's residence or hotel room, or at the escort's residence or in a hotel room rented for the occasion by the escort. The prostitute may be independent or working under the auspices of an escort agency. Services may be advertised over the Internet, in regional publications, or in local telephone listings.
Use of the Internet by prostitutes and customers is common. A prostitute may use adult boards or create a website of their own with contact details, such as email addresses. Adult contact sites, chats, and online communities are also used. This, in turn, has brought increased scrutiny from law enforcement, public officials, and activist groups toward online Prostitution Islamabad Escort. In 2009, Craigslist came under fire for its role in facilitating online Prostitution Islamabad Escort and was sued by some 40 US state attorneys general, local prosecutors, and law enforcement officials.
Reviews of the services of individual prostitutes can often be found at various escort review boards worldwide. These online forums are used to trade information between potential clients, and also by prostitutes to advertise the various services available. Sex workers, in turn, often use online forums of their own to exchange information on clients, particularly to warn others about dangerous clients.
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel for sexual intercourse with prostitutes or to engage in other sexual activity. The World Tourism Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations defines sex tourism as "trips organized from within the tourism sector, or from outside this sector but using its structures and networks, with the primary purpose of effecting a commercial sexual relationship by the tourist with residents at the destination".
Often the term "sex tourism" is mistakenly interchanged with the term "child sex tourism". As opposed to regular sex tourism, which is often legal, a tourist who has sex with a child prostitute will usually be committing a crime in the host country, under the laws of his own country and against international law. Child sex tourism is defined as travel to a foreign country for the purpose of engaging in commercially facilitated child sexual abuse. Thailand, Cambodia, India, Brazil, and Mexico have been identified as leading hotspots of child sexual exploitation.
Virtual sex
Virtual sex, that is, sexual acts conveyed by messages rather than physically, is also the subject of commercial transactions. Commercial phone sex services have been available for decades. The advent of the Internet has made other forms of virtual sex available for money, including computer-mediated cybersex, in which sexual services are provided in text form by way of chat rooms or instant messaging, or audiovisually through a webcam.
According to the paper "Estimating the prevalence and career longevity of prostitute women", the number of full-time equivalent prostitutes in a typical area in the United States is estimated at 23 per 100,000 population, of which some 4% were under 18. The length of these prostitutes' working careers was estimated at a mean of 5 years. According to a 2012 report by Foundation Scelles, there are between 40 and 42 million prostitutes in the world.
In 2003, it was estimated that in Amsterdam, one woman in 35 was working as a prostitute, compared to one in 300 in London.
The number of men who have used a prostitute at least once varies widely from country to country, from an estimated low of between 7% and 8.8% in the United Kingdom to a high of between 59% and 80% in Cambodia.
In the United States, a 2004 TNS poll reported 15% of all men admitted to having paid for sex at least once in their life. However, a paper entitled "Prostitution Islamabad Escort and the sex discrepancy in the reported number of sexual partners" concluded that men's self-reporting of prostitutes as sexual partners provides a serious underestimate.
In Australia, a survey conducted in the early 2000s showed that 15.6% of men aged 16–59 reported paying for sex at least once in their life, and 1.9% had done so in the past year.
Reports disagree on whether Prostitution Islamabad Escort levels are growing or declining in developed countries. Some have suggested that Prostitution Islamabad Escort levels have fallen in sexually liberal countries, most likely because of the increased availability of non-commercial, non-marital sex or, for example in Sweden, because of stricter legal penalties. Other reports suggest growth in Prostitution Islamabad Escort levels, for example in the US, where again, sexual liberalization is suggested as the cause. As Norma Ramos, Executive Director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women says "The more the commercial sex industry normalizes this behavior, the more of this behavior you get".
Prostitutes have long plied their trades to the military in many cultures. For example, the British naval port of Portsmouth had a flourishing local sex industry in the 19th century, and until the early 1990s, there were large red-light districts near American military bases in the Philippines. The notorious Patpong entertainment district in Bangkok, Thailand, started as an R& R location for US troops serving in the Vietnam War in the early 1970s. Washington D.C. itself had Murder Bay which attracted the military of the Civil War. The village of Vadia, India is known locally as the village of prostitutes, where unmarried women are involved in Prostitution Islamabad Escort. Mass weddings for children of prostitutes in the village are held to protect them from being pushed into Prostitution Islamabad Escort.
Medical situation
In some places, Prostitution Islamabad Escort may be associated with the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Lack of condom use among prostitutes and their clients has been cited as a factor in the spread of HIV in Asia: "One of the main reasons for the rapid spread of HIV in Asian countries is the massive transmission among sex workers and clients".
One of the sources for the spread of HIV in Africa is Prostitution Islamabad Escort, with one study finding that encounters with prostitutes produced 84% of new HIV infections in adult males in Accra, Ghana. The spread of HIV from urban settings to rural areas in Africa has been attributed to the mobility of farmers who visit sex workers in cities, for example in Ethiopia.
Some studies of Prostitution Islamabad Escort in urban settings in developing countries, such as Kenya, have stated that Prostitution Islamabad Escort acts as a reservoir of STDs within the general population.
Typical responses to the problem are:
banning Prostitution Islamabad Escort completely
introducing a system of registration for prostitutes that mandates health checks and other public health measures
educating prostitutes and their clients to encourage the use of barrier contraception and greater interaction with health care
Some think that the first two measures are counter-productive. Banning Prostitution Islamabad Escort tends to drive it underground, making safe sex promotion, treatment, and monitoring more difficult. Registering prostitutes makes the state complicit in Prostitution Islamabad Escort and does not address the health risks of unregistered prostitutes. Both of the last two measures can be viewed as harm reduction policies.
In countries and areas where safer sex precautions are either unavailable or not practiced for cultural reasons, Prostitution Islamabad Escort is an active disease vector for all STDs, including HIV/AIDS, but the encouragement of safer sex practices, combined with regular testing for sexually transmitted diseases, has been very successful when applied consistently. As an example, Thailand's condom program has been largely responsible for the country's progress against the HIV epidemic. It has been estimated that successful implementation of safe sex practices in India "would drive the epidemic to extinction" while similar measures could achieve a 50% reduction in Botswana. In 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged all countries to remove bans on Prostitution Islamabad Escort and homosexual sex, because "such laws constitute major barriers to reaching key populations with HIV services". In 2012, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, which was convened by Ban Ki-moon, and which is an independent body, established at the request of the UNAIDS, and supported by a Secretariat based at the UNDP, reached the same conclusions, also recommending decriminalization of brothels and procuring. Nevertheless, the report states that: "The content, analysis, opinions and policy recommendations contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations Development Programme."


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Author, Ginger Reynolds, narrates her personal, heart-breaking but absolutely encouraging story in 'God Kisses'. This true life story about her past, written in heart-wrenching honesty is geared towards reviving and restoring the hope of people who have lost hope as a result of the loss of someone special. This is part of her determination to positively influence her readers all around the world.
In a very tear-dropping tone, Ginger Reynolds recounts her struggles: Her beloved daughter, Tayler was her priority and gave her purpose and meaning to her life. Her joy was, however, short-lived when Tayler was diagnosed with Leukemia in March 2009 and in April of same year, Tayler lost her life to Sepsis. Reynolds's faith became wavering as she struggled during her daughter's illness and after her death. She wondered, "How does a loving God take such a precious child and allow this to happen?"
As she journeyed through this grievous path, God revealed his "God Kisses" to her through dreams, visitations, visions, and signs. She found new faith in God as she was shown that Heaven is for real. She witnessed confirmation that Tayler is alive and they both shall be reunited in Heaven. According to Betsy Godbold, executive pastor for Care and Spiritual Formation of White's Chapel United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas "God Kisses takes the reader on a vivid journey of a mother who is forced to confront the sudden death of her precious daughter. In her beautifully written words, I experienced her full surrender to the devastating pain this loss brought. As the book unfolds, so does her slow growing awareness of God, and a deeper appreciation for every day as a day filled with hope."
'God Kisses' is an incredibly inspiring story of a mother's love, loss and revival. This beautiful Prose reveals her fragile heart yet unrelenting spirit in difficult circumstances.
Through the death of her daughter, the Reynold's family constructed and donated a "Jesus Fountain" to their church, White's Chapel, United Methodist Church in Southlake, Texas.
Because of the coins thrown into the fountain, "Tayler's Water Wells for Africa" was created. She now goes to Ghana, Africa with her church to bless the wells so far drilled, administer medicines to over 500 people and build a pavilion that serves both as a school and church. To date, 32 wells have been drilled, serving over 50,000 people!
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Regular Decision Processing Update
We Admit It! We are almost there. To date, we have downloaded almost all of our Regular Decision freshman applications. That means almost every applicant and their parent(s) should have received an initial email from our office letting them know we have received their Common Application. As of today, we estimate that there are still about 500 applications in the queue that we have yet to download (which means those 500 students and their parents have yet to receive the initial email from us). We are working hard to get those last ones processed.
While this means most of our Regular Decision applicants are now in our system, it does not mean they are all complete. There are still several thousand applications that we are working to complete. That is absolutely normal for this time of year (after all it's only been three weeks since the deadline and sadly these 14,000+ applications and their individual components don't process themselves).
Remember, if you check your in-box frequently, you will be kept informed about your application.
- You and your parents will receive an email from us when we download your application from Common App
- You and your parents will receive a second email from us when we complete your application (meaning we match your Common App to the other required materials)
- If we are unable to complete your application, we will send you an email letting you know what's missing and how to submit it without penalty (these emails are generally sent in late February/early March). Only you, the applicant, will receive this email.
- Note: these emails may go to a spam or junk folder depending on your email client so check those also
If you have any lingering concerns, you can always reach out to us during normal business hours for further assistance.
While it's too soon to say the end is in sight, this is always a great milestone to reach in our Regular Decision process. Now back to the processing, and of course, the reading.
Wendy Livingston '03, M.Ed. '09
Associate Dean of Admission
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Another Superstar – support vehicle driver, energy bunny, social media, and home school teacher
In my last post I mentioned 2 of our 3 man support crew and superstars Blake and Julia. Today it's the turn of the third person, equally important, and again without whom this expedition would not have been possible from day one.
By default Amy became the driver of the support vehicle. Every day spending 4 to 5 to 6 or more hours sitting in the vehicle, driving along beside us at times, or ahead and waiting. Being there at the right spot at the right time; ferrying us to and from starting points and the campsite, and being there to provide us with water, nutrition, breakfast. Many times this involved driving through difficult terrain, towing a trailer behind, slogging along doing 20 kph, in the cold of the morning and the heat of the day … always there, 5 to 6 hours a day – I think you get the picture of how hard and tiring this must be.
But that's not all – Amy is the energy bunny of the expedition team. She is full of laughter and jokes and smiles and energy, something that is sadly, but understandably, lacking from myself and my running partner, we can barely raise our heads at the end of the day let alone a smile.
But wait, there's more – Amy also is doing home schooling for young 11 year old Giles. Every day, either in the support vehicle whilst waiting for us runners, or afterwards at the campsite, Amy takes Giles through his school work that he has do to.
And, when there's wifi at a campsite, guess who posts the updates and picture albums to Facebook, you guessed it, Amy!
To say that she is indispensable to the expedition and that we would not have completed one single day of this expedition without her is the understatement of the year!


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At Molehill Primary Academy we use the internet as a tool for learning. As part of the Computing curriculum pupils have regular e-safety lessons and are encouraged to keep themselves safe when online.
At home, we know that is not always possible to supervise what children are looking at online. This can leave the children open to accessing various sites that are both good and bad.
Here are some useful links to help your child stay safe online:
Please discuss the e-safety rules that have been sent home and encourage your child to follow them both at home and at school.
Daci is learning really well. I love the fact that the children are pushed to their full potential.
It was very nice to be able to view Oliver's work and see how he is progressing. Thank you for the opportunity.
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Thanks for inviting me to do a story session with your school. I found the whole experience very rewarding as both children, and teachers were open to engage with me, and participated in listening to the stories, dressing up, singing and dancing.
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The Psychology Department at The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is dedicated to helping our students succeed academically, socially and emotionally.
Staffed by licensed psychologists and behavioral specialists, we serve our students who may be faced with mental health, cognitive, social/emotional and/or behavioral challenges (i.e. attention problems, learning disabilities, autism, deafness, cognitive limitations, etc.). Our focus is to enhance the educational experience for students.
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Dove Award-nominated recording artist, songwriter and award-winning author Andrew Peterson returns to Voices In My Head (The Official Podcast of Rick Lee James). Andrew recently announced the long-awaited album Resurrection Letters, Vol. I, which will release March 30 and which was preceded by Feb. 9th launch of Resurrection Letters: Prologue. Both recordings will release globally from Centricity Music, and Prologue will became available on Friday, Feb. 9 from digital retailers everywhere and through
Releasing in time for Easter, Resurrection Letters, Vol. I features songs like "Is He Worthy," "I've seen Too Much" and "His Heart Beats," the latter track being heard on Peterson's Behold the Lamb of God tour last year. The song is about that glorious moment in the tomb when Jesus, who was dead, came back to life.
"My dream for Resurrection Letters, Vol. I is that it would be the kind of record people turned up to eleven on Easter Sunday, when Christians all over the world celebrate something that happened—it really happened—two millennia ago," says Peterson.
We are in the final hours of our crowdfunding campaign to make a new album through Indiegogo. It's not too late to help us make "Thunder" a reality. Thunder will feature original music by Rick Lee James, re-imagined Hymns, and lost music from Rich Mullins.


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It's been a year since Rabbi Saphire and I wrote on this blog about the events of April 15, 2013. It's been a year of growth and strength for our community. And tonight, we gather for our second Passover seder. We've kept the promises of our people for thousands of years since we were strangers in strange lands. We are reminded of our past, celebrate the present and share hope for the future. We continue to heal. We sing loudly, retelling the stories. We continue to be strong. Boston Strong.
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Be very generous with the cracked pepper on the chicken; it makes a wonderful flavor bridge to the wine.
How to Make It
In a small saucepan, bring broth to a boil. Add dried porcini, remove from heat, and let stand until soft, about 15 minutes. Lift porcini from broth, squeezing out any extra liquid, and chop finely. Strain broth.
In a large frying pan over medium heat, stir bacon often until fat is rendered. Add shallots; stir over medium-high heat until bacon begins to brown, about 5 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer shallots and bacon to paper towels. If pan is dry, add about 1/2 tbsp. olive oil. Add fresh mushrooms and chopped porcini; stir often over high heat until liquid has evaporated and mushrooms begin to brown, 12 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375°. Sprinkle chicken on both sides with salt and cracked pepper. Heat butter and 1 tbsp. olive oil in a large, ovenproof frying pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken, skin side down, and cook until well browned on the bottom, 5 to 7 minutes. Turn chicken and transfer pan to oven. Bake just until chicken is no longer pink in center of thickest part, about 20 minutes.
Set chicken on a platter and keep warm. Pour wine into pan and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring to scrape up browned bits. Pour mixture into pan with mushrooms and add porcini-soaking liquid, bacon-shallot mixture, and chopped thyme. Stir often over high heat until almost all liquid has evaporated, 8 to 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Mound ragout on plates, top with chicken, and garnish with thyme sprigs.
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December 15, 2008
This year the Living City Foundation "Lebendige Stadt" award for the best European Retail Market went to a 200 year old German green retail market in Nienburg at the Weser which receives some 250,000 visitors annually. The market was honoured with Euro 15,000 in prize money. Some 20 jury members including politicians, journalists and former mayors, as well as representatives of the German sport federation and the German soccer federation reviewed more than 100 submissions for "Best Practice" retail market role models. The criterion included diversity, quality and presentation of produce, as well as factors related to ecological and community support. Because the retail market in the historical centre of Bremen plays an important urban role, the retail markets Unser-Lieben-Frauen-Kirchhof and Domshof also received praise. "You can see every Retail Market in Europe as being the winner of this competition", informed Uwe Kluge the manager of Großmarkt Bremen GmbH (Bremen Wholesale Market). "These accolodates will ensure that Bremen's traders continue to deliver high quality and regional freshness to their customers".
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Emily Ratajkowski Just Got Married Wearing A Zara Pantsuit
Emily Ratajkowski and actor Sebastian Bear-McClard are officially married, a rep has confirmed to E! News.
The surprise ceremony took place at City Hall in N.Y.C. The 26-year-old bride made a statement by eschewing a traditional wedding dress for a mustard Zara pantsuit. Instead of a veil, Emily accessorised with a felt hat and carried her adorable Pug, not a bouquet of flowers.
"I got married today," the Gone Girl actress wrote alongside a selfie with Sebastian.
Also attending the nuptials, internet personality The Fat Jewish, who made his own statement by wearing a Planned Parenthood hoodie.
Ratajkowski was formerly in a four year relationship with Jeff Magid, although it's not known exactly when Emily started dating Bear-McClard, they were first spotted together on Valentine's Day however did not confirm their relationship until today's wedding announcement.


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After Todd McLellan and Peter Chiarelli addressed the media earlier in the week, Oilers CEO Bob Nicholson held a press conference to say, well, that Peter Chiarelli will remain as Oilers general manager and things are more or less the same.
People like Bob Nicholson don't normally hold press conferences after the season. Before the Blackhawks finished their season, Chicago Blackhawks President John McDonough went out and said neither Joel Quenneville or Stan Bowman would be fired. This made sense as it was assumed Quenneville would be gone after assistant coaches were fired last season.
Nicholson's presser was odd because most assumed Chiarelli was staying anyways. The Oilers would be entirely justified in firing him, but holding a press conference to announce he's staying doesn't change how fans feel after Chiarelli deflected blame and accountability like he was a backup goalie against the Oilers this season.
It wasn't what Oilers fans wanted to hear, but Sportsnet's Mark Spector juicy article gives it more context. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend it.
Spector paints a picture of a divided Oilers organization, where some former Oilers inside want McLellan gone as head coach, or at least back alongside one of their guys, while Nicholson preaches 'stability' as he doesn't want to fire either Chiarelli or McLellan. Paul Coffey was apparently hired by Chiarelli, which is as believable as a Leon Draisaitl offer sheet last summer, but is obviously an attempt by "The Red Wine Summits", as Spector dubbed them, trying to instill their guy in some capacity.
So, Nicholson gave Chiarelli a vote of confidence while there might be an ongoing push from the former Oilers within. Nicholson said he's believed in what Chiarelli has done and his plan going forward. What general manager doesn't have a plan though and what has Chiarelli done to warrant such faith?
Continuity for continuity's sake is bad. Yes, the Oilers have fired numerous general managers and coaches in the last decade, but that doesn't mean keeping a poor one in place is the right move. Chiarelli has done enough in his three years here to warrant a firing. He's lost significant value in trades, signed egregious free-agent contracts that'll be tough to move, and still hasn't put a built a defence after using all these assets.
The coaching staff is still being evaluated despite the season being over and other teams already making decisions on their coaching staff. Alain Vigneault was fired almost immediately following the Rangers last game. Dallas announced Ken Hitchcock's retirement and their search for a new head coach on Friday.
The Oilers are still evaluating.
These press conferences gave more questions than answers. Who is really in charge? Why hasn't a decision been made on Todd McLellan? What is Chiarelli's 'plan'? What is Paul Coffey's favourite type of wine?
This looked like an organization without any direction.
They've wasted a fabulous season from their superstar centre and their one goal next season: make the playoffs. The Oilers will scapegoat a few assistant coaches instead of making meaningful change. These past few days don't lend confidence that the Oilers have the staff to build a contender around McDavid.


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O'Keefe, Harry M. -Father- 1876 - 1937 Harry Michael O'Keefe was born on Nov. 12, 1876 in Dublin, Ireland. He arrived in the U.S. with his family on May 1, 1883 settling in Cleveland, OH. He served in the U.S. Army Calvary during Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection. He married Frances M. Seitz on Nov. 11, 1903 in St. Frances Church in Cleveland. He died at the age of 60 on Oct. 9, 1937 in the U.S. Marine Hospital in Cleveland. (section 12 lot 183). Also see his parents Joseph & Catherine.
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Milwaukee Rep's ensemble shines in 'Noises Off'
That theater troupe that just hit town is having the same kind of season the Green Bay Packers are — bumblin', stumblin' and getting hurt. Only its audience is shaking with laughter, not frustration.
The Milwaukee Repertory Theater opened a lively production of Michael Frayn's farce "Noises Off" Friday evening to constant ripples of laughter from the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater crowd. Director KJ Sanchez's staging makes strong use of familiar Rep actors while giving all of the talent chances to shine.
In "Noises Off," a shabby English touring company performs the first act of a sex farce, "Nothing On," three times: a final rehearsal, a matinee and an end-of-the-run show. The second act makes the whole evening work — it shows everything from a backstage point of view, including the cast's squabbles and romances. The Rep's cast must play both the touring actors and the touring actors playing their roles, which turns tricky in the third act, when the troupe's performance of "Nothing On" completely deteriorates.
Dotty (Laura Gordon), an older actress bankrolling the tour, has some trouble remembering her stage business, particularly a pesky plate of sardines. She's carrying on with impetuous younger actor Garry (Gerard Neugent), who's surprisingly inarticulate offstage. Garry's onstage love interest, Brooke (Kelley Faulkner), is a bimbo involved with director Lloyd (Joe Dempsey), who's also fooling around with young assistant stage manager Poppy (Sara Zientek). Belinda (Deborah Staples) is a mostly sensible actress who looks out for Freddy (Aaron Christensen), who has to know his motivation for the simplest movement. Everyone tries to keep elderly thespian Selsdon (Jonathan Gillard Daly) away from the bottle. Stage manager Tim (Joe Boersma) is the human duct tape who keeps it all from falling apart.
Their performances Friday could make up a primer of comic styles: Neugent's brilliant mugging and striking physical comedy, including a fall down stairs that would make a Danceworks dancer proud; Christensen's wonderful faints; Gordon's small gestures and perfect timing; Dempsey's moments of barely suppressed John Cleese-style rage; Daly's gorgeous facial expressions; Faulkner's nonchalance playing most of the evening in her underwear, but only vamping it up in those few moments "Nothing On" called for it. Staples often served as the straight woman who sets up the others — but she does a lovely pole slide, too.
"Noises Off" succeeds and entertains not only because it is filled with funny bits, but because it is a passionate love letter to the world of theater, and to the camaraderie of those who stage and perform it. Anyone who's ever attended a rehearsal knows a play is built up from hundreds of decisions, actions and words, which must be executed with precise timing.
"Noises Off" is the Murphy's Law kind of day any of us could have. While there are squabbles, tears, threats and stomped feet, there is no villain here. Blame the disasters on two powerful forces: human frailty and the wretched entropy that affects any complex operation. Dotty and her fellows somehow make the show go on, however badly. We can be grateful that they do.
"Noises Off continues through Dec. 22 at the Quadracci Powerhouse Theater, 108 E. Wells St. For tickets, visit milwaukeerep.com or call (414) 224-9490.
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