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For an item, making it on here is no easy task. If we really love something and think it is reference class in its price range, then it may just get this prestigious award. These are also the things that we will be comparing new products too when we get them through. This is also something we will be updating so if something better comes along, you can say goodbye to this place, our pride of place!
Sub £250 Earphone – Dunu DN-2000J
These earphones offer surreal value at their price of £230. They are dynamic, balanced and very detailed sounding and they compete way above their price range. They also come with a great range of accessories, have some cool ideas regarding the ability to use different accessories to tune them and also are fairly comfortable. These are the universal for us. A great upgrade from the previous Pride of Place model in the DN-2000.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2015/09/13/measurement-monday-dunu-dn-2000-dn-2000j/
Cables – Double Helix Cables
Peter Bradstock's Double Helix Cables is revolutionary. The ideas he brings to all things cables are a breath of fresh air and how hard he works to make sure his offerings are the best is phenomenal. Lets face it, you know someones gear is good when you see all the other brands copying his ideas.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2016/03/15/dhc-complement-4-review/
Price No Object CIEM – Nominees
We are currently in the process of reviewing a range of flagship CIEMs and building towards a big round up. Nominees so far: JH Audio Roxanne, Hidition Viento-R, 64 Audio A10 & A12, Vision Ears VE6XC, Rhines Ears Stage 7, Harschacoustics SH-3 U-Tune, Lear BD-4.2, Jomo 6R, UERM, Ambient Acoustics AM-6, ACS Encore, Heir Audio 10.A, Custom Art Harmony 8.2.
Sub £300 Headphone – ZMF Headphones Master Model
These headphones define musical. They make everything sound good with their rich, slightly dark sound signature. That being said they still do things that a lot of headphones at this price cant even dream of. What Zach does with a pair of Fostex T50RPs is truly amazing and these are one of our go to headphones for long listening periods.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2014/10/27/zmf-headphones-zpex-master-master-model-v1-and-v2-review-modifying-the-fostex-t50rp-into-something-special/
Sub £30 Headphone – Superlux HD681
These have been on my wall forever, they may not get much use but whenever we get them down and plug them in, they amaze us with how great they sound for no more than £26. They dont have a lot of bass and are a bit thin and bright but the details they offer, the midrange clarity and sense of space is hella good at such a low price.
Price No Object Closed Headphone – Beyerdynamic T5p w/ Double Helix Cables
These headphones are a fairly polarizing listen because of how revealing they are but with the right gear they are a true force. My pair are a bit special as they were modded by DHC and that has made them both a lot better and are a reference grade headphone.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2014/10/28/beyerdynamic-t5p-headphone-review-a-journey-through-cables-feat-double-helix-cables-effect-audio-and-nocturnal-audio/
Price No Object Open Headphone – Sennheiser HD800
Perhaps the best dynamic driver headphone ever made and also the only one that can keep up with the planars of today. This may not always be the most musical but has crazy levels of transaprency, detail and honesty. It is as handy a tool for testing DACs and amps as it is for giving my ears a lot of pleasure.
Server – Fidelizer Nimitra
Hailing from Thailand the Nimitra is the first server that just hits the right balance for me. It is suitable to task, easy to use, comes with great customer support and most importantly sounds great!
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2018/04/11/fidelizer-nimitra-straight-shooting-server/
BookShelf Speakers – Kef LS50
What a bargain speaker this is, at £800 it's a truly great value loudspeaker from both an enjoyment point of view and from a reference point of view due to its transparency and versatility. It demands some pretty solid amplification, and will pull apart a poor source, but, you give it the right circumstances and it can truly be great. At this price, there isn't another speaker I have heard that I prefer; simple as that.
Floorstanding SPEAKERS – Pearl acoustics sibelius SG
These mightily transparent speakers have both the sound and build quality to last a life time!
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2016/10/25/pearl-acoustics-sibelius-sg-meets-eye/
Mono block Power amplfiers – Caas Elysian100
Josh fell in love with these extremely clean and articulate amps. They provided the power his speakers needed in a well sized package and therefore will be the sites reference for this type of product going forward.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2016/10/15/caas-elysian100-mono-blocks-engineers-amplifier/
Portable Headphone Amplifier – Vorzuge Pureamp
This is my favourite pairing with the PWAK120-B and gives all my earphones that clean signal and dynamics they deserve. It has a small profile and no unneccesary features that go unused. It is a pure amp in all it does.
Price No Object DAP – Astell & Kern AK240ss
I use this because it is an outstanding source. Big storage, good UI, gorgeous aesthetics and build and astonishing sound, It offers detail, refinement, subtlety, aggression, poise, precision and oh the list goes on and on, but most of all it is a reliable source. It won't let me down, I know it is giving me a true representation of the music and if I'm reviewing an IEM/CIEM, or simply listening for pleasure, what more can I ask for. It also does a good job bringing itself ahead of the standard version!
DAC – totaldac d1-tube-mk2
In France they are doing some special stuff with DACs, especially in Vincent Brient's lab. This is a warm and lush tube DAC that is so natrual and spacious. It also doubles up as a top level pre-amp, which always handy, even if the price tag just under 10 grand isn't cheap.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2015/07/18/totaldac-d1-tube-mk2-a-big-old-ladder-above-the-rest/
Headphone Amplifier – Questyle CMA800R mono Blocks
Doubling up what is already a very competent amp gives you a rather spectacular experience and also a very cool looking stacking two amps on top of each other. Capable with a range of headphones I find these to really shine with Sennheiser's HD800!
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2015/12/30/questyle-cma800r-dual-mono-double-the-magic/
Pre/Power Amplifier Combo – Parasound P5 & A23
A really talented pairing that shows what synergy can do for a system. For my system, this bridged the gap between an analytical solid state system and the body and depth of a valve system. It has plenty of power, it's versatile and has an abundance of features from the P5 so you can utilise the amp for your cinema system too. There really isn't anything to dislike about them. To offer this many characteristics of a higher end system at this price really has to be commended. BELIEVE THE HYPE.
Review Link – http://inearspace.com/2014/11/29/parasound-halo-p5-preamplifier-review-let-me-polish-your-halo/


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I am feeling very sad because my friend Ruth Merriman has died. Ruth was a wonderful woman who helped a lot of people when she was alive. Before she died she asked her friends to record a song she loved. She wanted to do this to raise money for the charity Jigsaw4U.
Ruths's children also wanted to join in so they got their school, Hillcross Primary to record the chorus.
Here is the video.
I hope that you enjoy watching this.

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Last school break, Closing The Gap Malaysia made their way to Taylor's University to beat the odds!
What does this mean? Closing The Gap (CTG) Malaysia is an organisation who aims to improve access to higher education for young people from underrepresented backgrounds. They provide support for post-schooling options for their esteemed Scholars, personalised mentoring and career guidance to help them achieve their fullest potential.
We honoured to be given a chance to host their Critical Thinking workshop by an established philosopher Hazman Baharom, where the scholars were challenged to practice critical reasoning (a key skill of the future- or the present). Scholars were required to disect tough articles that tackled current issues regarding the Khat controversy, Lynas, ICERD and so on. It's amazing to see how these young people, high school and Pre-U students tried their best to apply what they've learnt and presented their findings in front of a crowd. It was certainly a very practical and hands on workshop where the students took away valuable lessons. Throughout, CTG also had their mentors come over, not only to guide the students through these brainy activities, but also to share their lives and build relationships.
Moreover, the scholars also had the opportunity to have a lunch chat with Dato Sri' Nazir Razak and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Teach For Malaysia who both shared a bit about their life learnings, ambitions, personal experiences and jobs of the future.
Following this, Nathaniel Tan and Deborah Chow from Engage Education, both committed and experienced in Education, was present to share about their life journey, tips on studying effectively and strategies to enter top universities.
To sum up, it was a heavy yet productive day for the scholars, guest speakers and mentors. CTG is making impact for the younger generation! Do find out more about them here: https://www.facebook.com/ClosingTheGapMalaysia/ and support them in any way you could!


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A change in lifestyle preferences and a growing trend towards using smart electronic devices are the primary factors driving the growth of consumer electronics.
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Possible Effects of the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Intended for Journalism Sector
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The tools and systems which are among the 5th generation information and communication technologies to be effective during the Industry 4.0 process; artificial intelligence a, "cloud computing system", "digital environment (Internet of Things)" and 3D printer are prominent. In this study, artificial intelligence, which is also called "logical analysis robot which is considered as one of the main tools of information technologies, has been chosen as the main subject. In this context, it is aimed to investigate the possible effects of developing artificial intelligence on journalism sector to journalism sector, which is fully operating using information technologies.
In this study, the concept of artificial intelligence is discussed and the predictions about its scope are analyzed. Then, the current situation regarding the level of usage of information technology in the journalism sector is examined. Then, fictions about the development and use of artificial intelligence for the journalism sector are discussed. Finally, the possible effects of the use of artificial intelligence in the journalism sector are analyzed. As the method of the study, theoretical examination (literature review) and editing methods are used.
Article Details
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
BBC. (2014). La Times'ta 'Robot Gazeteci' Devri, BBC Türkçe, https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler/2014/03/140318_robot_gazeteci (18.03.2109).
Butler, B. (2013). Introducing Truth Teller: Political fact-checking. The Washington Post. The Adress of Access: https://www.washingtonpost.com, (21.03.2019).
DeepMind. (2018). AI ile Oyunlara "İnsani" Yapay Zeka Yolda; CHIP Online, https://www.chip.com.tr/haber/deepmind-ai-ile-oyunlara-insani-yapay-zeka-yolda_76837.html, (18.03.2019).
Doğruluk Payı. (2017). Basılı Gazete ve Dergi Sayılarında Ciddi Azalma Yaşanıyor, https://www.dogrulukpayi.com/bulten/basili-gazete-ve-dergi-sayilarinda-ciddi-azalmayasaniyor, (18.03.2019).
Flew, T.; Spurgeon, C.; Daniel, A. & Swift, A. (2012). "The Promise of Computational Journalism", Journalism Practice. 6:2, 157-171.
Linden, C. G. (2017). "Decades of Automation in the Newsroom", Digital Journalism, 5:2, pp.123-140.
Lokot, T. & Dıakopoulos, N. (2016). "News Bots", Digital Journalism, 4:6, pp. 682699.
Meet My Colleague – The Robot. (2016, Ocak). LMU-Ludwig Maximilians Universität München. http://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/news/newsarchiv/2016/graefe_journalism.html Date of Access: 16.03.2019
Montal, T. & Reıch, Z. (2017). "I, Robot. You, Journalist. Who is the Author?", Digital Journalism, 5:7, pp. 829-849.
Russell, S. J. & Norvıg, P. (2010). Artificial Intelligence A modern Approach, (3 rd ed.), Prentice Hall.
Sabah. (2018). Çin'de Yapay Zeka Spiker Olarak İşe Başlıyor, https://www.sabah.com.tr/teknoloji/2018/06/01/cinde-yapay-zeka-spiker-olarak-ise-basliyor, (17.03.2019).
Turing, A. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf , (14.03.2019).
Van Dalen, A. (2012). "The Algorithms Behind The Headlines", Journalism Practice, 6:5-6, 648- 658.
Watry, G. (2016). Fourth Industrial Revolution and Robot Journalism. https://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/01/fourth-industrial-revolution-and-robot-journalism, (20.03.2019).
Yülek, M. (2018). 11. Kalkınma Planı ve Türkiye'nin Robotları, https://www.dunya.com/kose-yazisi/11-kalkinma-plani-ve-turkiyenin-robotlari/401624, (20.03.2019).
WEF. (2019). 9 Quotes That Sum Up the Fourth Industrial Revolution. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/9-quotes-that-sum-up-the-fourth-industrial revolution/, (19.03.2019).


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Personal profile
Louisa joined the University of Huddersfield in 2006 and is currently a Senior Lectuer on the BSc (Hons) Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences courses. She started her employment as a commercial/sales and marketing assistant at Manchester City Football Club, then moved into sports development, working in two local authorities for over 10 years. As part of this employment she was seconded to a Sport England funded post as a voluntary sector development officer. During her time as a sports development officer Louisa was responsible for coach education, talent identification, the development of children's coaching opportunities and the professionalisation of voluntary sports clubs. These roles involved liaising with a number of key stakeholders including Sport England, Sports Coach UK, PCTs and the Youth Sport Trust.
Since joining the University in 2006, Louisa has acted as Course Leader for the foundation degree and BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching, Sport, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences courses. Louisa is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Louisa is a graduate in Sports Science and has an MA in Child Welfare and Safeguarding.
Louisa is currently undertaking a PhD looking at the impact of physical activity interventions on the health and wellbeing of young people attending a pupil referral unit.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Benefits of exercise and physical activity with vulnerable young people
- Effects of masculinity, body image and ethnicity on physical activity participation rates
- The impact of specialist sports colleges on improved physical activity levels of secondary school aged children
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Research Output
Exploring the impact of physical activity on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and well-being of young people attending a pupil referral unitHorner, L., 8 Nov 2019, In : Journal of Sports Sciences. 37, Sup1, p. 40-41 2 p., D2.S3.2(2).
Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract
Physical Activity as an Intervention with Young People Exhibiting Harmful Sexual Behaviour: A ReviewHorner, L. & Gallagher, B., 19 Dec 2018, In : Crime, Security and Society. 1, 2, p. 14-29 16 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Activities per year
The International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity Conference
Louisa Horner (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Exploring the impact of physical activity on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and wellbeing of young people attending a pupil referral unit
Louisa Horner (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press / Media
BBC 1 North West (Manchester): Inside Out
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Paying Attention to pupils with ADHD: A Guide for Teaching Assistants
Daniel Glover & Louisa Horner
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment


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Legal Paternity Testing
A legal DNA test is used when results are needed specifically for court. These types of test cover such relationship tests as disputed paternity or maternity, changing the name on a birth certificate or immigration purposes. Legal DNA tests are more rigorous than peace of mind tests. They require more detailed paperwork which must be signed by the adults involved. The sampler must be an independent professional. They are responsible for ensuring the paperwork complies with the requirements of a test that is to be used for legal purposes. The samples have to follow a "chain of custody" thus ensuring that the samples have not been tampered with. The samplers will check the ID of the people to be sampled. Photographs are taken and the appropriate consent forms are filled in. Under no circumstances is a child allowed to be sampled without the proper consent from the mother or the legal carer. At no point are the sampling kits supplied to the people to be sampled and they are never allowed to be responsible for the samples at any point during the sampling process. The samplers are wholly responsible for the custody of the samples and the dispatch to the laboratory. The results will be made available to the solicitors involved in organising the legal case. They are normally responsible for communicating the results to the clients. If this is a private case brought by a member of the public the results are made available to all parties involved in the testing. When would you need a legal DNA test? A legal DNA test is required in the following circumstances: 1. If a father is required to pay child support and the paternity id disputed. 2. In order to change the birth certificate of an individual where a different father is named. 3. Immigration for passport or visa applications by foreign nationals for their children. 4. If requested for the resolving of a disputed estate. Children and siblings could be required to undertake a DNA test if required under terms of the will of a deceased relative. Polygenyn Ltd. has all of its DNA tests carried out by a Ministry of Justice approved laboratory. This is a requirement for a legally approved DNA test.


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American voters are exceptionally good at voting against their own interests about a host of issues.
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Too Many Choices! Some Candidates Need to Drop Out!September 11, 2019
Americans suffer from the so-called âtyranny of choice" every time they step out the door and enter a market place. Doesn't seem to affect them. And yet, somehow, when presidential primaries have more than one or two candidates, the pundit class pretends like it's a national crisis. They must drop out! Too many choices!
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Still Trust Them? Now the Government Is Tracking You So It Can Steal Your CarJanuary 29, 2015
According to federal government documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, federal and local law enforcement agencies are using incredibly sneaky technology to track you as you drive the nation's streets and highways. Their goal? Stealing your car.
This latest scandal — a mash-up of privacy violations on a wide NSA-like scale, corrupt asset forfeiture programs that make a mockery of the U.S. as a nation that respects private property rights, and brazen targeting of lawful gun owners — is a perfect political storm, an outrage that ought to bring liberals, libertarians and conservatives together in an alliance of freedom-loving people against an out-of-control government.
Given the collective shrug elicited by the Edward Snowden revelations, however, expecting a big reaction may be unrealistic.
In the shell of a nut: the ACLU has learned that the DEA and local police departments are scanning every motorist's license plate as they drive down American streets. The NYPD and LAPD have each already collected hundreds of millions of time- and place-tagged license plate scans. One private security corporation sells its composite list of 2 billion scans to any police department or government agency that wants it. The Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build and maintain a national database of license plate data to be shared with other parts of the U.S. security state apparatus.
Aggregated and analyzed, license plate tracking data forms a sophisticated model of your, and my, and everyone else's habits, associations, shopping habits, friendships, and other activities. If you visit a porn store, they know — and their algorithms can predict when you'll go again. But blackmail is not what's on the cops' minds…not for now, anyway.
They want your cash.
"Asset forfeiture" programs have become big business for law enforcement. Relying on dubious interpretations of the Constitution's prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure, American police agencies are taking in billions of dollars a year from people they arrest. "Since 2008, thousands of local and state police agencies have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property worth $3 billion under a civil asset forfeiture program at the Justice Department called Equitable Sharing," according to The Washington Post.
Total take: $5.3 billion.
If you think they're confiscating the mounds of coke and machine guns they find in a drug kingpin's trunk, think again. Pulled over for DUI? They take your car, sell it at auction and pocket the proceeds, or keep it for the cops' own use. That's on top of whatever jail time and fine the judge hands you if you get convicted.
Even if you're found not guilty, they keep your car. And/or your cash. And/or jewelry. Anything valuable. Anything they want.
"No criminal charges are necessary for such seizures, and under federal and state laws, authorities may keep most or all seized assets even in the absence of formal charges. Countless innocent Americans have been victimized by what critics call legalized government theft," according to The Wall Street Journal. "Police have made cash seizures worth almost $2.5 billion from motorists and others without search warrants or indictments since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," says the Post. "Police spent the seizure proceeds with little oversight, in some cases buying luxury cars, high-powered weapons and military-grade gear such as armored cars."
Talk about un-American: these renegade robber-cops are traitors.
Police have been so pleased with the money and other goodies they nab through asset forfeiture programs that they send officers to seminars that teach them how to maximize their take. Some victims have complained, and successfully proven in court, that they were targeted and entrapped by police whose motivation to detain and arrest them was solely to steal their possessions — but it's expensive and time-consuming.
Among the money-making schemes cooked up by greedy cops was a 2009 plan by the DEA to "work closely" with officials of the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) "in attacking the guns going to [redacted by government censors] and the gun shows, to include programs/operation with LPRs [license plate readers] at the gun shows."
But the DEA and ATF didn't care about gun violence. "One internal email acknowledged that the tracking program's primary purpose is civil asset forfeiture," the Journal reports. They planned to set-up checkpoints around gun shows, search attendees' cars using the pretext of a traffic stop, and arrest drivers on whatever charge they can come up with — some legit, others ginned up, in some cases no indictment at all — as an excuse to take their money and their cars. Which, even if they beat the rap, the cops get to keep.
Note to self: carry $5 in cash, use a debit card.
The UK Guardian reports: "According to DEA documents, the primary goal of the program was to seize cars, cash and other assets belonging to criminals. However, the [license plate reader] database's expansion 'throughout the United States,' as one email put it, also widened law enforcers' capacity for asset forfeiture."
"It's deeply concerning and creepy," lawyer Clark Neily of the libertarian Institute for Justice told the newspaper. "We're Americans. We drive a lot."
It is also disgusting, cause for the immediate firing of every "law enforcement" official who has overseen an asset forfeiture program, and a perfect illustration of why only an idiot would trust the government.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and cartoonist for The Los Angeles Times, is the author of the new critically-acclaimed book "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan." Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
Is Driving Doomed?January 6, 2015
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Is driving doomed? Fewer young people are buying cars or getting drivers licenses ….
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Why Are "Feminists" Telling Women Not To Protect Themselves from Rapists?September 4, 2014
Identity politics, a writer friend reminds me, is where liberalism goes to die.
The oceans are boiling, freelance journalists' heads are getting lopped off, and there's not the slightest sign of resistance to income inequality so out of control it would worry Cornelius Vanderbilt. Yet the Internet's politically-correct "social justice warriors" are dedicating their formidable energies into attacking pissant trivialities.
Anyone who doubts that online slacktivists have their heads so far up their collective asses that they can't see daylight need only read up on the controversy over Undercover Colors, which is a nail polish that allows women (or men, but they're not the target audience) to discreetly discover whether their drink has been spiked by one of several common "date rape" drugs.
(My advice to women: if you're at a party or with a guy so sketchy that you think you may have been slipped a mickey, don't bother with the fancy polish. Just scoot. You don't want to be there anyway.)
Better safe than sorry, right?
"Anything that puts the onus on women to 'discreetly' keep from being raped misses the point," writes Jessica Valenti, a once-influential feminist blogger whose hammer-to-the-skull-obvious post-motherhood columns for The Guardian add to the case for automatically censoring any piece of writing by a parent about their children. "We should be trying to stop rape, not just individually avoid it."
Um, what?
Valenti is serious about this: "So long as it isn't me isn't an effective strategy to end rape. 'Undercover Colors' polish and products like it only offer the veneer of equality and safety. And that's simply not good enough."
Which is true. And stupid.
Like: wearing shoes isn't an effective strategy to stop assholes from breaking glass bottles on streets. Since assholes do leave shards of glass all over the place, however, walking barefoot isn't smart.
Installing a car alarm or using an anti-theft device like The Club is an example of "individual avoidance." One wishes that it were possible to leave one's automobile unattended free of fear that someone might steal it. But reality dictates that, if you park in a high-crime neighborhood, you take measures to deter thieves. True, it's a "so long as it isn't me" strategy. But what else can you do? We're not likely to see an effective strategy to eliminate car theft any sooner than "an effective strategy to end rape," a crime endemic in every culture throughout history.
How removed from the real world are writers like Tara Culp-Resser of Think Progress, who also criticized the entrepreneurs who invented the anti-date-rape polish? "It would likely be more effective to focus on larger efforts to tackle the cultural assumptions at the root of the campus sexual assault crisis," she wrote. "Like the idea that it's okay to take advantage of people when they're drunk."
To my horror, I have known men who bragged about having raped inebriated women. (Since their accounts were devoid of details, it would have been pointless to report them to the police.) They didn't violate women because of "cultural assumptions." They did it for the same reason that CEO pigs issue themselves huge raises the same day they fire thousands of employees: because they can.
This reminds me of the complaint against liberals who claim to support public education, yet send their kids to private school. If your local public schools are decrepit or dangerous, it's unconscionable to subject your children to them if you can afford not to. Obviously, we should fight to ban private schools, and for that matter the capitalist system that separates American kids into pre-poor and pre-rich educational systems — but until the revolution is achieved, it's every man and woman for himself and herself.
Feminist propaganda can't stop rape. No marches, no poster campaign, no hashtag bullshit. Men will stop raping women when they no longer can.
Neither I, nor the social justice types, know how to achieve that better society. Until someone comes up with that Big Idea, anything women can do to protect themselves — self-defense classes, carrying pepper spray, even a nail polish — is just common sense.
(Ted Rall, syndicated writer and cartoonist, is the author of "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan," out this week. Subscribe to Ted Rall at Beacon.)
Premium Ignition OptionApril 4, 2014
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Parking IQ TestSeptember 3, 2013
I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California and the Southland (metro Los Angeles).
This week: L.A. officials are replacing parking pay stations due to complaints from motorists who struggle to remember their parking space numbers while paying.
Hate-Based Consumer PreferencesSeptember 7, 2011
SYNDICATED COLUMN: Thrifty Families and Other LiesApril 26, 2011
Like Their Government, Americans Live on Debt
his State of the Union address President Obama repeated this ancient canard: "We have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in," he said. "That is not sustainable. Every day, families sacrifice to live within their means. They deserve a government that does the same."
Republicans have used this "families balance their budgets, so should government" line for years. Now Democrats are doing it too. Everyone is jumping aboard the pseudo-austerity bandwagon. (Why pseudo? Neither party really wants to balance the federal budget because it can only be done by bringing home the troops, shrinking the Pentagon by 90 percent, ending corporate welfare, and soaking the rich—i.e. major campaign donors—with higher taxes.)
The family budget talking point is a fascinating meme that reflects a rarely considered national blind spot. As with other cases of mass denial (we think we're generous do-gooders around the world, foreigners see us for the crazy mean torturers we also are), we give ourselves more credit than we deserve.
We Americans value thrift and personal responsibility. We believe we should live within our means. These cultural ideals stem from our Puritan history.
But we don't live up to our ideals. Not even close.
Americans are up to the ears in debt.
Four out of five individuals have at least one credit card. The average family has an outstanding balance of $10,700. It spends 21 percent of its monthly income to pay interest on that balance.
The average American family has assets: It owns a house worth $160,000. But it owes $95,000 to the bank. As the housing market continues to crash, equity shrinks.
Our average family's savings are virtually nonexistent: $3,800 in the bank, no retirement account whatsoever (for half of families, average retirement savings $35,000 for the other half), no mutual funds, no stocks, no bonds.
The claim that American families live within their means is a joke.
To be fair, it's not entirely their fault. The typical American family only earns $43,000. It's hard to buy much of anything, much less the house that embodies the American Dream, with that. And it's impossible to save.
So they/we borrow.
As grim as a life of indebted servitude may seem, imagine what the American economy would look like if families really did live within their means, spending no more than they earned. No debt. No credit.
Markets for big-ticket items—homes, automobiles, major appliances—would crash and burn. Countless businesses would go under.
According to the National Association of Realtors 23 percent of homebuyers paid cash in January. That's more than ever before but that still leaves at least 77 percent relying on mortgage financing. (Why "at least"? Most "cash" transactions include money borrowed from banks and credit unions.) Take 77 percent of purchasers out of the buy side of the equation and million-dollar homes would be worth five figures.
Pop! Credit is the biggest bubble of all.
If credit went away, most Americans' biggest asset would vanish. Everyone would be "under water" to their lenders. The burbs would soon look like Afghanistan.
The same goes for cars: At least 88 percent of buyers take out a loan.
What would happen if these buyers had to save actual cash money before they could hit the showroom? They wouldn't buy a car. Air would get cleaner but the economic collapse that began in 2008, which has put one out of five Americans out of work, would accelerate dramatically.
Two-thirds of the U.S. economy directly relies on consumer spending. People can only purchase goods and services using one of three sources: income, savings or credit. As we've seen, the average American family doesn't have savings. Its income has been falling since 1968.
That leaves credit. If consumer credit vanished, the corporato-capitalist system currently prevailing in the U.S. would deteriorate from its current, merely unsustainable form into total chaos. Without credit cards and other loans citizens would seethe, trapped between the mutually irreconcilable forces of falling wages and the aggressive advertising and marketing of products they would never be able to afford. There would only be two possible long-term outcomes: revolution, or the ruling classes would be forced to pay substantially higher wages to workers. To corporate elites, the latter choice would be too unpalatable to countenance.
The typical American family cannot live within its means because it cannot earn enough to sustain its lifestyle. Were it to downgrade its living standards to a level it could afford, there wouldn't be enough consumer spending to drive the economy. This would force further personal austerity. Eventually we'd all be living outside.
You know what's funny? Unlike the American family, the U.S. government can spend less than it earns. It can increase revenues by raising taxes. Unlike families, it spends trillions of dollars on stuff—wars—that it doesn't need and actually makes things worse.
It could even use its power to force employers to pay workers what they deserve. If the government did that, families might not need credit.
They could (finally) live within their means.
(Ted Rall is the author of "The Anti-American Manifesto." His website is tedrall.com.)
Lifestyles of the Drab and CowardlyApril 7, 2008
Inspired by a heinous article in The New York Times, this cartoon deals with recession-friendly luxury wear for rich assholes. They want other rich people to recognize them–but they don't want us to catch them in the streets.


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It is with great enthusiasm that I would like to welcome Alex Sosebee to the Creekstone Church staff as our new Director of Operations.
Alex and his wife, Chelsea (an RN at Northeast Regional Hospital) were not only both students at UNG during their college years, but also attended Creekstone in our earliest days of meeting on Sunday nights at the Parks and Rec Center back in 2010.
Along with his position at Creekstone, Alex is currently Director of Operations for Runner's Fit Race Works, a full-service race timing and production company serving all of North Georgia and the Atlanta area. Since his time at Runner's Fit, he has helped the company increase their annual events from 10 to over 140 in five years. Additionally, he recently started a new business alongside Runner's Fit called A to Z Designs, which specializes in screen printing and embroidering.
With gifts in administration, organization, team management and entrepreneurial leadership, Alex is a uniquely perfect fit for this next phase of ministry growth and development of Creekstone Church. As Director of Operations, he will help improve all areas of our church systems, including general administration, church management and communications, new member assimilation, financial stewardship, and event planning.
So please join me, with thankfulness and excitement, in welcoming Alex and Chelsea back home to the Creekstone family!


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I recently decided to make my bedroom feel like we actually lived in it. Sure someday in the future we'll be tearing down its walls and making a huge mess of things, but let's be honest, that might be a while. This was really spurred by the necessity of curtains after our blinds, that were too long for the window, inevitably snapped. Once I found some lovely grey herringbone patterned curtains from Fred Meyer's (score),
I couldn't stand the mellow green accent wall anymore. Seriously, waaaay to peaceful :P So I took up my seemingly bottomless can of Benjamin Moore Witching Hour and painted it a deliciously moody midnight color and added some even moodier paintings of misty meadows and stormy seas.
Then I needed a sign. Of course none of my old signs would do, I needed to create something 'original'. And I had to, because I hadn't found anything on Pinterest to replicate. I new we had plenty of long cuts of plywood from laying sub floors, so I took one of those and decided to stencil out SLEEP on it. I measured out a grid of sorts and free handed my letters (my designer husband luckily saved the life of my struggling 'S'). He drilled a few large holes within each of the letters then ran his jig saw through them to cut out the pieces. I sanded down the piece then painted it with the accent wall paint. Voila!
I'm excited to make more sign projects in other rooms! Share with me your favorite room with signs so I can get my wheels turning. Send me a pin on Pinterest, tag @petitemodernlife on Instagram, or send me a pic on Facebook!
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For the past 15 years, DJ Dave Awesome has entertained all types of Weddings, Corporate Events, School Dances, Sweet 16's, High School Reunions and Parties. Within the past 7 years, DJ Dave awesome has entertained all over Florida; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta, GA and recently Austin, TX. Although he now resides in Tampa Bay, Dave continues to travel in order to perform at Weddings all over!
Imagine: a DJ who naturally stays youthful, knows all about music, dancing, energy and how to involve everyone while having the experience and talent that attracts Brides from all over!
DJ Dave Awesome's thorough knowledge of music and ability to connect with people really shines while he creates a unique combination of Music, Love and Memories™!
Every Wedding with Dave highlights the music and Love that the Bride, Groom and all of their Guests share together. Dave takes the time to befriend and communicate thoroughly with all of his clients so that he can prepare exactly the kind of music and event that they want to have played during their special day.
With kids and adults, DJ Dave Awesome is a favorite everywhere! He constantly studies the hits from the past and follows the current charts so he knows exactly what anyone might request or want to hear.
*To avoid any complications, only the clean versions of songs are played.
Dave actually pays attention to and connects with the kids and allows them to feel like they can "hang out" at the DJ booth and feel comfortable to talk to him. This is why EVERY dance or party that he performs at turns out amazing!
Since Dave studies and knows the hits from all of the decades, he really excels at Class Reunions. It's as if he personally time travels with his guests through knowing the music of their time.
Be honest and forward about what you're looking for and Dave will put together the type of music and activities that you and your guests will have a blast dancing to while celebrating You!
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Foundation Scriptures:
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2 NKJV
- The Race for the Prize.
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NKJV – Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
- Perseverance and persistence will gain you the prize.
- 2 Timothy 2:3-13 NKJV – 3 You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 5 And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. 6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. 7 Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things. 8 Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel, 9 for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained. 10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. 11 This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. 12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
- We have to press in toward the mark.
- Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV – Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NKJV – Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look
at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- 2 Timothy 4:6-8 NKJV – For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
- James 1:12-17 NKJV – Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is fullgrown, brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
- 1 Peter 5:1-4 NKJV – The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; and when the Chief Shepherd appears,you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.
- Revelation 2:10 NKJV – Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
- Revelation 3:10-11 NKJV – Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth. Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.
- Crown No. 1—The Crown of Rejoicing—The Soul-Winner's Crown.
- Philippians 4:1 NKJV – Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.
- All heaven rejoices over one sinner that comes to repentance (Luke 15:7).
- They that sow in tears shall reap in joy (Psalms 126:5).
- Every soul you win, or help to win, will come to your account.
- This goes toward your Crown of Rejoicing.
- He Who Wins Souls is Wise.
- Proverbs 11:30 NKJV – The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
- Psalms 2:8 NKJV – Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
- Set your sights on the soul-winner's crown!


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Time's Up. By the End Of the Day, You'll Be Losing This…
This is the last day of your Love U special offer. And I have to admit, I'm a little sad to see it end. Starting next week, I'm going to be in touch the way I always have, with an email and two blog posts per week, instead of one every day.
You may be relieved, but I'm not.
What I loved about this process is how I got to know YOU better. Through the survey, through your blog comments, through your emails, through your "aha moments" and success stories, I've never felt closer to you than I do today.
And I know that the next thing I create for you will be even better because you care enough to share your innermost thoughts with me.
What I loved about this process is how I got to know YOU better.
I, in turn, will always tell you the hard truth — what you NEED to hear about men, not just what you WANT to hear about men — because that's what's going to help you the most. That's never going to end between us. Alas, this sale is going to end.
There will be no extensions. No last minute bonuses. No special surprises.
After midnight Pacific tonight, you will no longer be able to get the following:
– 26 weeks of Love U Inner Circle coaching calls worth over $15,000.
– 26 weeks of support from hundreds of other women in the Love U Community who are also taking this fun journey at the same time.
– The extended payment plan, at 50% off the regular monthly price, which lowers your monthly investment from $333 to $167.
– Any coaching from me for the rest of 2015. I've shut down FOCUS Coaching, my former Inner Circle, and my old private Commitment Course to give all of my attention for the rest of the year to the women of Love U.
Right now, this is all available to you.
Tomorrow, it's not.
If you've waited this long because you've been too busy at work, congratulations. It's Sunday. You can breathe now. And you might want to consider giving more TIME to love.
If you've waited this long because you're been skeptical — despite the fact that you've read my emails, despite the no-risk money-back guarantee – you can do nothing. But I would ask you to consider being more trusting with men. Guys like me are the good ones.
If you're satisfied with your love life as it is right now and would be fine being in this exact same position in 2016, do nothing.
If you've waited this long because you're a maximizer who wants to get the BEST of everything, let me tell you: sometimes you've gotta pull the trigger. Doing nothing leaves you in the same place. And my offer is not getting any better than this.
Thus, it's really simple.
If you're satisfied with your love life as it is right now and would be fine being in this exact same position in 2016, do nothing.
If you're dissatisfied and want to feel loved by a man forever, click here.
Finally, even if you didn't take advantage of this special offer, I hope you took value out of the emails, the videos, and the dialogue. I hope you challenged yourself on what you can do differently, and on understanding how men really think.
I don't know what I'm working on next. Probably a new book. Hopefully some more time with my family. Definitely spending a lot of time in Love U to help you get the love you deserve in the next six months.
Either way, I remain committed to staying in touch with you and giving you as much free valuable information as I can.
But if you like the free stuff, I assure you: you'll love the paid stuff.
In fact, I guarantee it — or your money back.
Click below before 11:59pm tonight to register for Love U and join other smart women from around the world who are also committed to finding love now.
Give me 5 minutes a day and I will give you a husband.
Many thanks and much love,
Your friend,
P.S. April joined my Inner Circle group coaching program three years ago. When you join Love U, you can see her wedding photo right atop the Commitment module.
I can't believe how much I learned from Evan's coaching program. Not only was I shocked at how much Evan himself interacts with us, I was amazed by how supportive and knowledgeable and wonderful the women in the group are. I'm one of those who stayed on even after finding a great relationship because I value the input, collaboration and friendships with the woman I've met. It also gives me an opportunity to share what I've learned with new members. I'm one of the participants who came in and did a lot of things the opposite of how Evan coaches us, fell right on my butt, dusted myself off, and then did it the right way and had these amazing results. If Evan helped me figure this out? He can do it for anyone.
Now, I'm in an amazing marriage with a really wonderful man. Easily the best and most healthy relationship of my life. And I'm happy. Really happy. Not euphoric, "This is too good to be true, when will the other shoe drop" happy, but truly content, peaceful and so excited about the future. Evan helped me to attract and keep an amazing man who makes me feel special and cherished and oh, by the way? He's gorgeous. smart, funny and extremely successful – and that, my friend, is really just icing on the cake.
Now I feel as lucky and blessed in my relationship as I do in all the other areas of my life. I used to wonder how I managed to figure out everything in life but love. I thought the really amazing relationships were for someone else. Now I realize I just didn't have the right mindset or tools. The adjustments I made were so minor, yet they had such an amazing impact on my life. Thank you, Evan, for everything.
As always, I don't make these up.
As always, this can be yours.
As always, it's up to you.
By this time tomorrow, your chance to get Love U for a reduced monthly price with free access to 6 months of group coaching worth over $15,000 will be gone.
It's now or never.
I sure hope it's now.
See you inside Love U!
Your friend,


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UPDATE: Good news for mum of toddler who accidentally bought a $600 couch
By Jo Abi|
Amazon has agreed to refund a woman whose toddler bought a £340 (AUD $612) couch while playing with her mum's phone.
Isabella McNeil, of San Diego in the US, will be reimbursed for the full cost of the unsanctioned purchase.
The company has also said they are happy for the family to keep the couch, and will cover the cost of any fees associated with giving away the piece of furniture if they choose to donate it.
Isabella says she felt "shocked" to receive a notification that an expensive couch she had ordered was being shipped to her home.
She had no memory of purchasing the grey three-seater sofa and briefly wondered if she had "ordered it in her sleep".
However, it didn't take her long to figure out the identity of the mystery shopper: her toddler daughter.
Daughter Rayna, two, regularly plays with her mum's phone and it seems she accidentally bought the lounge through Amazon during her last tech session.
The website easy to use thanks to its 'buy it now with one click' feature, as the toddler has proved.
"She grabbed my phone like she usually does to play with it, and the Amazon app was still open and she hit the 'buy now with 1 click' button on accident," Isabella told The Sun.
"I didn't realise it until I got a notification saying 'your couch has shipped' [at] which point I couldn't cancel in time."
By the time Isabella realised her mistake, it was too late to cancel the order, and a huge box turned up at her front door.
After realising it would cost her £141 (AUD $253) to send it back, she decided to sell the lounge instead via Facebook.
"So Rayna ordered a couch on Amazon and I need to sell it today!" her post reads.
"I'm not able to sell it. The return fee is going to cost me 179 bucks in shipping and restocking fee. So I wanna try and recoup as much as possible."
The mum also listed an ad on Offerup.com, saying the couch was for sale after being mistakenly ordered and hadn't even been taken out of the box.
"Darn buy with one click on Amazon," the Offerup.com ad read.
"Anyway it's more of a hassle to ship back, so I'll take a loss."
Now that Amazon has agreed to refund the family for the purchase, they can cancel plans to sell the item.
"I just think parents need to be more aware, that when you're giving your kids a phone, make sure all the apps are closed make sure the passwords are fingerprint locked," she told NBC.
"Make sure they don't know your number password, because kids are a lot smarter than we think."
Isabella admitted she often gives her children her phone when she feels "desperation" and wants to "settle them down".
"It's not worth $179 to just let her play with my phone," she said. "Now I'm going to be a lot more aware of my Amazon app."
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WRAP: Future Northern Rivers panellists share their vision
HOW do you envision the Northern Rivers to be in 20, 30, 50 years?
The Future NNSW series examines the challenges ahead for our region, the population demography and their associated requirements, including the importance of creating opportunities and jobs for our youth via all levels of education and innovative business leadership.
It explores the options for addressing them and reveals innovative and achievable ideas for transforming our region over the next 25 years.
Our Future NNSW series is a prime opportunity to look forward and create the best outcomes for our diverse region.
Along with demographer Bernard Salt, The Northern Star's Future Northern Rivers event welcomed five panellists at an event at SCU. We asked them what they thought were the key actionable takeaway points from the campaign:
SCU Student - MAX DEN EXTER
Mr Den Exter said as a young student, he thought it was important for a youth perspective to be shared with key stakeholders
"Not to mention the focus the event gave to young people, letting us share our perspective on issues and the reasons why our demographic is missing," he said".
"The top issues for young people in the Northern Rivers are social critical mass, employment, environment and transport. There is definitely a need for further discussion on these issues.
"A group more broadly representative, to sit alongside the key decision makers, of the Northern Rivers Joint Organisation is needed, to ensure marginalised groups have a voice and a say in the future of our unique region including those voices of youthful optimism."
Lismore City Council General Manager - SHELLEY OLDHAM
Ms Oldham said her main takeaway point was "greater collaboration within the region with industry and other levels of government".
She noted worthwhile Future agendas as agri-business, which she said was a "key underpinning of regional development", and a making country "cool again" but focussing on the social economy for youth to retain them within the regions.
"It would be great to keep talking about regional connectivity, the role of education and government investment in the region," she sais.
"The NRJO is a state-based body that connects only with the state. To grow and expand this region requires industry and Federal Government involvement. A governance body that comprises all of these elements and considers the agility that comes with industry involvement may be better.
"Lismore City Council is working with the Federal Government to open the dialogue about economic development. This should continue and incorporate the type of governance outlined above."
Mr Roche said the Northern Rivers needed to "become a learning community" and referenced our changing demography and economy demand it.
He said how we as a region embrace our future will depend on how we position learning as a key foundation in it, and said how we learn and mobilise the knowledge that exists in our region, was a key to our future development.
"The demographics of our region reflect an increasing concentration of people with significant personal and professional experience. There is 45 per cent plus with greater than 50 years lived experience, 15 per cent with more than 70 years experience," Mr Roche said.
"Our economy is providing new opportunities for work that demands different skills, mindsets and experiences.
"We need to enable new enterprise formation and expansion. We are the Region of microbusiness formation and the home of the small to medium enterprise. We need to grow the volume of enterprise activity in ways that grows industries that are not directly dependent on government funding.
"We need resilient enterprises that also embody the values and character of our Region. We are the home of co-operatives and member-owned business. We need to provide opportunities to further grow our entrepreneurial spirit and culture, for young and old to consider how they may pursue their enterprise idea so as to make a career as opposed to just chasing a career."
He said looking beyond local politics was a means to get here.
"We are a Region of villages and valleys, but we often compete against each other for external funding and support. We need to think like a region, and focus on those initiatives that have the potential to really lift the entire region up. But we also need to go beyond a singular expectation that our local councils can respond to all these expectations of delivery. We need an expanded regional governance body that traverses sectors and stakeholders with the capacity and acumen to mobilise sustainable regional development. It needs to be beyond politics, yet work closely with those that have been elected as representatives of their local area. G21 alliance is an example of how this could operate.
"We need to back ourselves, each other and be more confident of our place in the world. The region has some phenomenal assets - a University with world class research calibre; businesses exporting to the world with intellectual property unparalleled; a hospital network that is growing through strong funding commitments; a vibrant creative sector and critically - we have natural assets that attract visitors, sustain locals, and are the basis for our deep connection with this country as told by our Traditional Custodians. We need to back each other, and by doing that, we can talk each other up - our region up - and start generating a sense of confidence and pride that we don't need to leave for opportunity, but instead better connect to unlock it."
PAM BROOK - CO-FOUNDER of BROOKFARM
Mrs Brook said there was a need for immediate collaboration projects, and to put in practice more collaboration with Industry and Government bodies.
"Dialogue should be taken on by multiple existing bodies that should then come together as a group," she said.
"There should be equal representation by Industry and involve the education centres (universities), and all the key bodies in the area should put it as an agenda point for discussion - eg.. Northern Rivers Foods, Destination Tweed etc."
She said a "ground up approach" was required to get there.


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Why Can't We Say the Qurʿān Is Not a Book?
Ustādh Mūsá Richardson answers a question regarding the teachings and beliefs of Yūsuf Estes regarding the meaninig of the Qurʾān and its status as a book.
The lecturer was asked the following question:
[Q]: What is wrong with Yūsuf Estes saying that the Qurʾān is not a book and what is the meaning of the word 'Qurʾān' (linguistically)?
Tags: Qurʾān, Mūsá Richardson, Jahmiyyah, Yusuf Estes


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DNA and Family History Discussion Group
This new Special Interest Group has just started. A trial meeting was held in August 2019, and further meetings in November 2019 and February 2020.
The Meeting Group has been formed as an opportunity to learn about DNA testing and how it can help to research family history, to share experiences and to discuss possibilities and results. This is a fast moving area of family history and there's a lot to understand so what better than a group of fellow family historians to share experiences and knowledge on how to make best use of these new tools in our research.
The Group is lucky to have the help of one of the leading speakers and researchers in the DNA and Family History field – Donna Rutherford. Donna has spoken at many family history events (you may have heard her talk at the Sandown Family History Show in August last year), RootsTech and at the Society of Genealogists and she is the force behind the DNA Help for Genealogy (UK) Facebook Group
This is a Closed (restricted access) Facebook Group but you can ask to Join.
The DNA Special Interest Group meets at Colliers Wood Library in south west London and while this is a modern and well-equipped Library, the largest meeting room can only accommodate a group of up to 20 people, so places need to be booked in advance. There is a small room charge of £3 each (£5 non-ESFHS members) to cover the cost of room hire.
The address is Colliers Wood Library, 105-109 High Street, Colliers Wood, SW19 2HR; the Library is two minutes' walk from Colliers Wood tube station and the area is well served by buses. The meetings are on Saturdays, usually for two hours, 1-3pm.
The next meeting will be on Saturday 29 February 2020 1-3pm. Bring your laptop/phone and please remember there will be a small cost - £3 for Members, £5 for non-Members of East Surrey Family History Society. This is needed only to cover the room hire, I hope you understand.
The meeting will include a Discussion on 'X-DNA' and how it indicates relationships. This is Chromosome 23 , the sex-chromosome, where there are two genes YX for men and XX for women. You might like to bring along a small diagram which shows you and your siblings, your Mother and Father and their parents (your grandparents). I will be using the diagram attached which is on page 140 of Blaine Bettingers' 2nd edition, Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy, ISBN 978-1-4403-0057-8
What do we do if there are no family trees for the people we DNA Match with? Or if the tree is there but everone on it is 'Private'? We touched on this last time and we can ask Donna for some more tips this time. The links below should help.
I'm attaching a YouTube recording of a talk by two experts on the topic. NB this is aimed at a US audience and will help you find American relationships.
"No tree, no problem": https://www.rootstech.org/video/a-dna-match-with-no-tree-no-problem
And this is Donna Rutherfords 'New Year FAQs', packed with useful advice, and includes a section on 'No Trees/Private Trees' and how to use UK and International sources to work out relationships for those with No Names.
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Documentation:Course Design Intensive/Participants/June 2017
Welcome to the Spring 2017 session of the CDI!
Please note that the facilitators will be tweaking the design of the next CDI up until a few days before the offering. The information below is to give you the gist of what we plan to do. Check back closer to the date of the next offering for a version of the plan that will be closer to what we'll be working from.
This is the central hub for accessing the resources you will need for each day of the session. You can download the 3 day schedule here.
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes will (in part) be informed by your participation in the CDI. As a place to start (and to guide our planning), we propose outcomes for the session and for each day.
Working Docs
We'll be using the following two documents as guides during the three days of the CDI. You can choose to access these guides in whatever way works best for you.
If you use google docs, you may want to copy the following guides to your google space so that you can edit directly on the document.
- 3 Column Course Planning Doc: http://bit.ly/1lXua6l
- Course Design Working Doc: http://bit.ly/1QU8WD8
If you don't use google docs, here are the docs in DocX (Word):
We will have a few print copies on hand during the CDI for those who prefer hand written notes.
Pre-Work for Day 1
- Readings:
- Allen, D. & Tanner, K (2007). Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart: Using Visions and Decisions about High-Quality Learning Experiences to Drive Course Design CBE Life Sciences Education
- Davidovitch, N. (2013) Learning Centered Teaching and Backward Course Design. pdf
- Weimer, M. (2012) Five Characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching
- (optional) Fink, D. (2007) The Power of Course Design to Increase Student Engagement and Learning
- Video Backwards Design: * Backwards Design Video Note: most relevant, up to 4 mins 42 seconds.
- Prep document: Planning Your Course Pre-Considerations
- Note: If you use Google docs, please open this link: Planning Your Course: Things to Consider and make a copy of the document to work on it directly.
- If you don't use Google docs, please print or download the following docx and do your pre-work by hand: Planning Your Course: Things to Consider Docx
Wiki: Daily Resources
When using this resource, please attribute as follows: developed by the University of British Columbia.


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Er is veel te doen rond te laatste point release van Quake 3. Zo zijn de phyiscs veranderd,werken de mods niet meer en schijnen er veel bugs te zijn. Op de mods zullen we even moeten wachten totdat er nieuwe versies verschijne maar de phyiscs worden alweer teruggezet naar 1.17 omdat veel spelers het er niet mee eens zijn.Robert Duffy van ID melde het volgende over
"Anyone that uses DLL's to play don't notice any difference in the physics because they now work like DLL's have always worked.
The phyiscs we will likely put back. We will not unfix an obvious bug with damage through walls."En alle veranderingen volgens Clanbase
- Acceleration with strafe jumping has been decreased by about 50%. This makes overall movement slower, and makes most trick jumps (e.g. bridge to rail in dm6) impossible.
- Air control has decreased. I think this is just a direct result of the previous, as strafing in the air helped you fly further.
- Movement is no longer dependent of framerate and connection quality. The 125Hz mod achieved this by leveling the field upwards, 1.25 levels the field downwards.
- Splash damage through floors has been removed. This has major consequences in t4 duels.
- This bug fix causes a new bug, namely that rockets against the side of a platform don't hurt the person that is standing on it.
- The megahealth respawn time has been changed to 2:00 from 0:35 . This drastically changes teamplay on dm7, and duels on dm13.
- The lightning gun now has 50 ammo when picked up instead of 100.
- The railgun now has 20 ammo when picked up instead of 10.
- Demos recorded with older Q3 releases can't be played back with 1.25 .
- Q3 mods (OSP, RA3, ...) don't work with 1.25 for the moment. This will change in a couple of days when the new source is released, but until then it is a major issue if you're not sure about changing to 1.25.- QTV doesn't work with 1.25 . I expect this can't be fixed easily due to the new anti-cheat measures. Op Gamespy staat een uitgebreid artikel over de pointrelease met .plan updates van ID mensen en meningen van modmakers.


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The swing vote in a swing state
The upcoming presidential election has Manuel Pilas confused.
Pilas, a Mexican immigrant who came to the United States for college, said voting is important to him and he will vote in the election, but he has no idea who he will vote for.
"There's no way a businessperson can open up completely " I cannot really take my flag out and say this is the way I'm voting," said Pilas, who owns the Santa Fe Furniture store in Gypsum. "[But] I can say that in this election I'm going to be the most confused ever."
Pilas is not alone. Hispanic voters will face a ballot this fall with both their Democratic favorite, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and their Republican favorite, Rudy Giuliani, missing from the ticket. A nationwide Pew Research Center survey conducted last December discovered that Hispanic Democrats favored Clinton by 59 percent, with only 15 percent of Hispanic Democrats supporting Obama. Only 10 percent of Hispanic Republicans supported GOP candidate John McCain.
Hispanic support for the Republican party has dropped substantially since the last presidential election. In the 2004 election, George W. Bush drew a record 40 percent of the Hispanic vote; the Pew survey shows that Latino Republican support is now down to 23 percent.
One voter's solution will be to vote for her chosen candidate anyway. Hispanic Eagle resident Caroline Gonzales, 65, said she has been a Democrat all her life and will write Clinton in on the ballot in this year's election.
Gonzales heard Obama speak at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, where she was a delegate from Iowa. "He has a lot of charisma, but that's about it," she said. "He looks like a wonderfully wrapped Christmas gift but you open the box and there's nothing there."
No matter what their solution, Hispanic voters will play a key role in the election, especially in Colorado. Colorado will likely be a swing state in this election, and Latinos have a substantial say in the results because they comprise 12 percent of eligible voters, according to the Pew Research Center.
Eagle County's population is 27 percent Hispanic. But it is impossible to know what percentage of Eagle County voters are Hispanic, said Teak Simonton, county clerk and recorder. Race demographics aren't recorded on voter registration cards and surnames are also a bad indication, as many people with Hispanic-sounding last names are not Latino, she said.
The number of registered Latino voters in the state has gone up from 165,000 in 2004 to 273,824 in 2007, said Lindsay Daniels, field strategist for civic engagement at the Latin American Research and Service Agency.
Colorado is one of four swing states in which Hispanics have "a sizeable share" of the vote, according to the research center. The other states are New Mexico, Florida and Nevada.
"Because Colorado is a battleground state, it looks like Latinos could have a role in pushing the state Democratic or Republican," said Mark Lopez, associate director of the Pew Hispanic Center.
Democratic National Committeewoman and superdelegate Debbie Marquez said she will be campaigning heavily for the Hispanic vote in Eagle County and Colorado for this election.
"Our Latino vote is probably the answer to winning the state in November. There's no question about it," she said. "I don't know any Latinos that will be sitting out this election so far."
Marquez said the issues concerning Hispanic voters in this election are similar to those facing the rest of the nation's voters.
The economy, healthcare, immigration, education and the war on Iraq are top issues across demographics in this election, Marquez said, but Hispanic voters are more concerned than other voters about immigration policy.
Gonzales said the most important issues to her in the upcoming election are the economy, healthcare and the educational system. She is supporting Jared Polis for U.S. House of Representatives because of his educational policies.
Pilas, 44, said business at his furniture store has been very bad this year, and he hopes the upcoming election will change that.
"I'm tired of the economy being like this " it has really hurt business," Pilas said. "I don't want another year of stress. I'd rather be out of business."
Pilas said immigration and economic policy will be key factors in deciding his vote.
"There are really nice people who have lived here for many years who were brought in when they were 2 years old, now they're 20, going to college and can't receive scholarships. That is a wrong system," Pilas said. "I'd like to see if any of those candidates have an agenda that addresses that and shows compassion to those people."
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Our last day in Jamaican paradise blossomed sunny, hot and very humid! We spent the morning on the beach and Bobby took a dip in the ocean, allowing himself to float pretty far out. I enjoyed reading the latest William Kent Kruegger mystery novel while soaking up the hot sun rays! At 10:30 we had a scheduled photo session with the resorts professional photographer. A complimentary photo session is part of the all inclusive package you get at Couples but purchasing the photos is extra. Because of the $300 credit we had we figured we could buy some of the photos to use it up! Kamar, the photographer was extremely professional and took photos of us both on the beach and in the lush front gardens of the resort. After lunch we visited the resorts, "Photoshop" where we sat down with another Couples employee and went through our photos both from the photo shoot that morning and the miscellaneous photos that had been taken of us throughout our stay. The resorts photographers take pictures every evening at the various restaurants that you can purchase it you'd like. We found 10 pictures that we really liked and ordered a CD of them for a somewhat steep fee of $100 (yay for resort credit!).
Our afternoon consisted of an overly long nap and beginning the sad process of packing to return home the following day. Our flight doesn't leave Jamaica until 12:15 p.m. but because of the two hour bus ride to the airport and the need to arrive at the airport two hours before the flight, we were scheduled to leave the resort at 8:15 a.m. At 4:00 we had a couples massage scheduled at the resorts spa to use up the last of our resort credit. Neither of us has ever had a massage before and were curious to see what it would be like. It was amazing! So incredibly relaxing and the 50 minutes flew by and we had a hard time believing that that much time had indeed past.
We had dinner that night at the Patio Restaurant where there is a breakfast and lunch buffet daily but in the evening is an a la carte restaurant. The number of restaurants the resort has, combined with two theme nights and one night of room service meant that we ate at each restaurant only once. This was especially nice considering the restaurants menus change on Thursdays so we knew the menus would be unchanged for our entire stay. It was neat how each restaurant served a different style of food (Caribbean, Asian, and Italian) and we were grateful that the food at all of these was tasty! A band began playing on the main stage and we sipped our drinks and listened and soaked everything in for one final evening. This trip has been unlike any other vacation we have taken. The level of laziness and amount of desserts eaten was almost unbelievable! Tomorrow we return home to cold Minnesota and our lives.


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Woodland Santa Bear is an painted on a hand lathed wooden plate featuring one of Debbie Cole, CDA's signature teddy bears. It is a one of a kind original artwork and measure appx 12 inches in diameter. The main colors are red, gold, and blue. This piece will be such a lovely focal piece all year round or a great gift for someone special. The cost is $50.00 plus shipping. Shipping is only available in the United States because of costs.
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Here are only cue cards sample questions for ample answers will display on the internet soon.
1] Describe a competition you visit or compete or saw in the past time.
[2] Describe a time when you were outside and rain started.
[3] Talk about a piece of furniture you have.
[4] Talk about a restaurant which provided you bad food service.
[5] Describe a comedy actor or actress which you watched on TV.
[6] Describe someone in your own family who you really admire.
[7] Talk about a person with whom you like to spend your leisure time.
[8] Describe a library you visit.
[9] Describe your favorite film.
[10] Describe one of your favorite photographs.
[11] Talk about your most favorite season in your own country.
[12] Describe your favorite restaurant.
[13] Describe a river or sea you visit.
[14] Describe a garden or park you remember.
[15] Describe one of your childhood activities.
[16] Describe a sporting event you attended.
[17] Describe an occasion when you were congratulated.
[18] Describe a very important letter you received.
[19] Describe something your own which is very important to you.
[20] Describe someone you know who is a good cook.
[21] Describe your summer holidays or vacations.
[22] Describe a teacher from your past who influenced you and you yet remember.
[23] Describe one of your neighbors.
[24] Talk about a practical skill you have.
[25] Describe a life-changing experience.
[26] Describe a club you organize or involved in.
[27] Describe an irritating person in your neighborhood.
[28] Describe something healthy you enjoy doing.
[29] Talk about a product you bought but you are not satisfied with it.
[30] Describe your first day at work or college.
[31] Talk about a funny incident that made you laugh.
[32] Describe a national festival in your country.
[33] Describe your future plan.
[34] Describe a surprise party that you organized for your friend.
[35] Describe the environmental pollution in your or another city.
[36] Talk about your favorite subject in your academic life.
[37] Describe a job or career you have or you hope to have.
[38] Talk about a pet that you had or another person had.
[39] Describe a service that was not good and you complained about it.
[40] Describe a TV programme which has made a strong impression on you.
[41] Talk about a statue in your city or hometown.
[42] Talk about your favorite music band.
[43] Talk about a time when someone did not tell you the whole truth and cheat you.
[44] A time when you wished to do something but you did not have time.
[45] Talk about something you started that is good for your health.
[46] Talk about an occasion when visitors from another country visited at your home.