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Sileni Estates
Enjoy the relaxed winery atmosphere and iconic vineyard views all year round at the Sileni Estates winery.
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Contact Us
Sileni Estates is a major vineyard and winery development in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand's oldest established vineyard area. The first vintage was in 1998 and since then the wines have won world wide acclaim.
Sileni boasts a state of the art winery designed to crush over 1500 tonnes of grapes. Our Winemaking Team have honed their winemaking skills in wineries around the world and we strive to maintain high standards in environmentally sustainable viticultural and winemaking practices. Sileni Estates produce hand crafted wines that reflect the unique characteristics of the vineyard.
We look forward to welcoming you to Sileni Estates for a tasting, a tour or an event.
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Sileni Estates , 2016 Maraekakaho Road, RD1, Hastings, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.
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text: Page Content Mike CurbMusic Publisher, Philanthropist, and Former California Lt. Governor California State University, NorthridgeMichael C. Curb is a California State University, Northridge alumnus, outstanding public servant and preeminent artist and music producer who is widely recognized for his distinguished career and commitment to higher education. Born in 1944 in Georgia, Mr. Curb attended San Fernando Valley State College (now Cal State Northridge) in the early 1960s. While a student he launched Curb Records, now the oldest and one of the most successful private record labels in the United States. In the years since, he has sung and/or written more than 400 songs and produced more than 250 No. 1 records, including 25 that reached gold or platinum status. His influence covers a wide range of musical styles, contributing broadly to the culture of our era.Mr. Curb entered public service in the 1970s, serving as co-chair of the Ronald Reagan California campaign for President and as co-chair of President Gerald Ford's California campaign. In 1978, Mr. Curb was elected California's Lieutenant Governor. He served on the California State University Board of Trustees and the University of California Board of Regents. In 1982, he was elected chair of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors, and in 1983 he served as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee. He currently serves on Fisk University's governing board.Mr. Curb has established an extraordinary record as a philanthropist, supporting music and higher education. In 2006, he made a generous contribution to support the study and public enjoyment of music and the arts at California State University, Northridge. In his honor, the CSU Board of Trustees named the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication at Cal State Northridge. Mr. Curb has also endowed the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University; the Curb Institute for Music at Rhodes College; and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.In recognition of the extraordinary impact he has made on American culture and the world, his outstanding record of public service, and his commitment to the university, the Board of Trustees of the California State University and California State University, Northridge are proud to confer upon Michael C. Curb the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts.

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Ssup guys? I'm back.
It's mid-semester break right now and I have tons of tests plus quizzes coming up when the school starts again. But I'm here still chillin' and worry-less because "hidup kena chill" right? Ha ha (I'm not really laughing right now)
Degree life has been great - so far. Although there might be some bitter experiences - which I'm going to share with you guys later on in this post. Honestly, I never expected that degree life would be sort of boring. I was told that degree students are usually busy 24/7 but hm, I beg to differ. I do get a lot of assignments every single frikin' day and I do have a lot of chapters to revise, but nah, I still choose chillin' with my housemates playing Uno cards over doing the damn assignments. Heh.
Lol, who am I kidding - I've been stressing like a maniac over them and it's never gonna stop! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh
Anyway, I've been thinking about myself for quite sometime. I've come to realize that I've been so negative lately. I hated everything and everyone. Everything seems so wrong eventhough they weren't.
My theory of cause: It's probably because I've been coping and accepting everyone's bullshits all this while and I finally blew up.
Yeah, I can't seems to handling people's annoying ass quite well recently. I'm getting bolder and more straight-forward than ever. I might not say it to their face but man, you should see my tweets about them. It's nasty. (I've deleted 'em tho)
I've realize that I hate humans even more now. What even is humanity and respect, right?
Now let's get into my bitter experiences:
I have a bunch of group assignments that needed to be done and submitted before finals and after mid semester break. Gosh, God knows how much I hated group projects. There're times when a couple of my group members didn't even discuss with the others and made crucial decisions all by themselves. Um hello??? It's called GROUP assignment not INDIVIDUAL or PARTNER assignment. Why are you like that????
Making "group" decisions by yourself is bad enough, but not even bothering to inform us is like a whole new level of stupidity and selfishness.
There're also times where I have to do most of the tasks because everyone is useless and don't know how to manage their time well enough.
Annoying roommate (and classmate) is like the shittiest thing that you have to face for a whole semester. To add more salt to the pain, I can't even confront her (them) because I know for sure she (them) would never change. It's gonna be a waste of my precious time. The only result that I would get out of the confrontation is a good relationship turns awkward.
I was late for my presentation once and I still can't get over it. The slides for the presentation are with me so logically, I should be the very first to arrive and set everything up. But what happened was the other way around. And what's more, the presentation did not go so well. RIP presentation marks.
There're more to tell but I think that's enough of negativity for now. These stories are only the sneak peek of my terrible semester. Please expect more negativity from me. Hahaha.
Random confession: I didn't have the gut to scold people for what they did wrong because I'm afraid of the after-effect but having the platform (blogging) to actually tell random kind strangers what I feel and been through is honestly quite relieving.
I haven't had the chance to blogwalk and read + comment on others' post 'cos I'm busy having the time of my life right now. I promise I will do so when I get the chance.
Stay tune guys.


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There is no reason against it, a gay boy is just like any other boy. He can be interested in all that boy scouts do and so why should he not be given the right to join? The word 'boy' suggest that it's about gender, not sexuality. It's not 'Heterosexual Scouts'.
Who the hell are you to tell someone they can't join your club because of their sexual preferences? Quit judging people and let them participate. The boy scouts are setting a very bad example for the children. No one has the right to discriminate against homosexuals. Homosexuals are people too, except it and grow up.
There is not some quality that makes boys suitable for the Boy Scouts that gay boys lack. NOBODY should be deprived of valuable childhood experiences because of things they can't control. The squeamishness from some social conservatives about the proposed change is simply an expression of the stereotype that LGBT people are somehow more lustful or perverted or dirty, applied to CHILDREN. There is no difference between a gay boy and a straight boy, besides the genders they prefer if they're old enough to be thinking about that yet. They feel all the same emotions. And to those talking about Boy Scouts of America's freedom being infringed: The debate is over whether it's right for them to allow gay members. Not whether the government should force them to allow gay members.
I understand that the boyscouts try to teach boys morals and stuff, but what tells them the a homosexual boy is incapable of learning these lessons? they have no viablen evidence that states that a homosexual child is any different from a strait child other than his sexual preferences, whic do not effect his abilities to learn.
I am not religious but according to Christian text, all men are created equal (Galatians 3:28). So what if a homosexual man were to want to join the Boy Scouts, but he is rejected because of sexuality? How is this fair? This puts much hatred towards homosexual people and ensures that our younger generation does not accept our gay people. After all, homosexuality is not a choice, you are born that way. If a 12-year old can understand this why can't some adults understand as well?
What is wrong with gays exactly? Why should we not be allowed in the Boy Scouts? We are as much people as heterosexual people, with a small difference. Really, one day people will look back and think, "Why did we ever debate that silly issue?" This debate is the same as the civil rights debate of the 20th century.
If the Boy Scouts of America came out and said "Black people aren't as good as white people so they can no longer join the BSA," there would be an uproar and they would be boycotted so hard. Why isn't that happening with the homosexuals?! Not letting them join is a form of discrimination because being gay IS NOT a choice.
My dad is a Boy Scout Camp Director, so I grew up living the life or a scout. I volunteered with the staff until I was old enough to become a staff member myself and I have done this for nearly 20 years. I'm a girl. I do the same things the boys do. If the boys and adults can accept me into their "boys only world" then why can we not except gays into "our world" as well? At my own camp I have seen staff members lose their jobs and be booted from the program. I saw these leaders being treated unjustly because of their sexual orientation. These men have earned the right to Eagle, and to see that right removed, it's a disgrace to the Boy Scouting ways. These scouts that have been removed from the program were some of the most amazing people I have ever met. They always have been and will remain to be even under The Scout Oath and Scout Law.
I am a 15 year old Boy Scout, and we had a discussion between many troops where no adult was included. We came to the conclusion that we should allow gays. Most youth support gays even if their parents don't, and we have decided to stand up for them. If your are an adult and don't support gays too bad. We say they're allowed. In 20-50 years when your generation has passed WE will be here. Gays will be accepted and who knows it might be your grandchildren.
Scouting is a youth organization and as such should move with the times. I find it sad to see that the american branch of the scouting has become so religious. Luckily in most countries scouting is not about religion but about equality and accepting people the way they are. The Boy Scouts of America give the international scouting organization a bad name.
People really don't think outside the box do they. This isn't a typical, "Do you agree with gay rights debate." This is much more complicated. Equal rights is all well in good but what about the straight kids? Which no matter how you put it will always outweigh the number of gays. How are young children going to like a boy that may possibly be ATTRACTED to them going on hikes and recreational activities with them? It isn't just about the 1 gay boy that wants to join. It's about the comfort of the whole unit. And 1 gay person could very well disrupt that.
They'll force removal of God, and morally straight from the oath, and reverant from the law. BSA typically teaches God as a big part of life of a scout. God and gays can't seem to coexist.
It is called tradition. The Boy Scouts of America are here to produce this country's next generation of male leaders. Traditionally male leaders marry women and have this countries next generation of leader children. If you start allowing gay scout leaders then no parent of a potential heterosexual male will allow their child to join. I say potential because kids do not really know what sexuality is when they join. Girls still have cuddies if you grew up in the 90's. We as Americans always have options and this is what makes us Americans. We can always start something new aside from the boy scouts. So why kill an organization that already works for this country? You would need to be naive to think this would not kill this organization or would not cause lesser of male leaders to come out of this organization. Some things were meant to be sacred. Leave this organization alone. they are not bothering anyone. Whether you are gay or straight, you need to learn sooner or later that not every door is going to be open for you in life. I was a boy scout and I was/am straight. I sucked at it, hated it, and I left after one year. It was not fun for me. I wanted to play sports instead. That was my path and I had many other options. This country cannot continue to dilute every organization it can think of. Leave these poor kids alone. It was not an outlet for me but it definitely is for many. If you are gay you have many options. Stop trying to ruin something that is good. You have already succeeded at keeping American babies from being born by ruining the idea of traditional family. Look at the birth rates for non immigrant Americans within the last 2 to 3 generations that are non Hispanic. Wait until Hispanics take over. You gays are not going to have a voice in anything. So you better start appreciating what you have. Bite me.
This is a quote from Wikipedia talking about why it was founded:
The progressive movement in the United States was at its height during the early 20th century. "With the migration of families from farms to cities, there were concerns among some people that young men were no longer learning patriotism and individualism."
This organization was created so that people could be traditional Americans, and that's how it still is. I have no prejudice against gays on a personal level, but when it comes to big questions like this, we have to look at the big picture. To make social strides is not the intention of this organization, it's to encourage traditionalism and religion and to make a man out of a boy. They are a privately run organization, and nobody has a say into how they should choose members. I have amazing gay and bi-sexual friends who are a huge part of my life, but just because they are doesn't mean I want them to be in the boy or girl scouts. It was an organization created on strong tradition, so I ask Liberals and Democrats to stop trying to fix or change something that is not broken.
The Boys Scouts, like all private clubs, institutions, and organizations, can have rules that prohibit gays because they believe being gay is immoral based on the Bible and God's teachings or for whatever beliefs they hold. This has already been decided by the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale.
"Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640, was a case of the Supreme Court of the United States decided on June 28, 2000, that held that the constitutional right to freedom of association allows a private organization like the Boy Scouts of America to exclude a person from membership when "the presence of that person affects in a significant way the group's ability to advocate public or private viewpoints." In a five to four decision, the Supreme Court ruled that opposition to homosexuality is part of BSA's "expressive message" and that allowing homosexuals as adult leaders would interfere with that message. It reversed a decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court that had determined that New Jersey's public accommodations law required the BSA to readmit assistant Scoutmaster James Dale, who had made his homosexuality public and whom the BSA had expelled from the organization."
"The Boy Scouts of America is a private, non-profit organization engaged in instilling its system of values in young people. It asserts that homosexuality is inconsistent with those values."
Let's look at the Boy Scout's Oath:
"On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country. To help other people at all times, to obey the Scout Law, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
Then, let's look at the Boy Scout's Law:
"A Scout is: Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave Clean, and Reverent."
Then let's look at the Boy Scout's Handbook that defines Reverent: "A Scout is Reverent. - A Scout is reverent toward God. He is faithful in his religious duties. He respects the beliefs of others."
The God part and Reverent are where homosexuals and bisexuals don't qualify.
The Bible, which was written by God through men, clearly state the gays are sinners and an abomination to the Lord. So the Boy Scouts are being reverent toward God.
Leviticus 18:22
"Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin." (NLT)
I guess we need to figure out why gay men want to be Boy Scout Leaders, if Gays know they are breaking the Boy Scouts oath, what possible reasons could they have?
One of their biggest reasons is too destroy another American Institution, like Marriage, so they can feel like they are normal; but, they are not normal..
So, we are left with the only reason gay men want to be Scout Leaders is because they like being around young men for sexual pleasure and the hope that they can convince young boys to become homosexuals like them; abominations to God!
I am a venture scout and the ideals and foundation of scouts is based on what is right. In the scout oath it says "On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight."
Allowing gays would be going against everything scouts stands for. MORALLY STRAIGHT is the key phrase and duty to God.
BSA as stated before was built on Christian values just as this nation was. Unfortunately, the BSA is just going along with the rest of the weak Christians and caving in to the growing immoral efforts of this declining nation. All I have to say is that the USA better wake up or the Lord God Almighty is going to do it for us.
First of all, boy scouts was founded on morals and values. I'm a Christian and the Bible clearly states that God calls that an abomination and what did he do to Sodom and Gamora. Is nothing sacred anymore? We have to respect them but where is the respect for Christian morality and God? Boys scouts is considered a safe haven for kids, why pollute it?
In an organization like this, where the people need teamwork and live close to each other, allowing gay members would disrupt the members of the boys scout. Some rape cases or even murder cases of gays and non-gays in school is proof. This "abnormality" would shake the teamwork that the boy scouts hold onto, and safety of the boy scouts would be demolished.
Should the KKK accept black members? Another confusion of liberty and license. Just because you want something, doesn't make it yours. Would you want to force your way into an orginization that's openly condeming you?
That's like an atheist demanding a marriage ceremony in a Muslim mosque. It just doesn't make sense to me.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - December 5, 2011 --Wildlife officials say a recovery program aimed at restoring the California condor in much of the Southwest has been hampered by lead poisoning from hunters' bullets.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service says about half of the roughly 130 condors released since 1996 along the Arizona/Utah border have died or vanished.
Officials say the No. 1 cause of death for condors is poisoning from lead fragments left by bullets in animal carcasses.
Still, the birds are gaining a foothold. About 70 condors range from Arizona's Grand Canyon to southern Utah's Zion National Park.
California, which bans lead bullets in condor territory, has an additional 111 of the birds in the wild.
The total population in the wild is nearly 400, including some in Mexico.


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I just returned from a weekend in Vermont where we celebrated my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. It was a delightful affair, with relatives from all over converging. New babies, babies to come, old folk, middle-aged rest of us. Everyone got along, packed their ennui into small pouches and kept it hidden. The weather was glorious–summer-feel with hot sun, warm breezes, a bit of sweating.
I watched the sun go down over the hill behind the granite sheds on Main Street and felt maybe it wasn't so bad coming from that town. I held my not-quite two-year-old niece in my arms, the second to be adopted from China, listened to the gleeful noise coming from inside the restaurant, and felt very, very grateful.
We all come from someplace, and most of us–poets especially–carry around a sense of disease that we spend our lives writing about and trying to understand. Once in awhile a grace note sounds. It is worth noting this rare flower.
I don't know how this goodness will wend its way into new poems, but I am hopeful I can craft something that measures beauty equal to despair. Here's a poem I like that may steer me toward imagining my parents before they met:
A Family History At dusk the girl who will become my mom must trudge through the snow, her legs cold under skirts, a bandanna tight on her braids. In the henhouse, a klook pecks her chapped hand as she pulls a warm egg from under its breast. This girl will always hate hens, and she already knows she won't marry a farmer. In a dim barn, my father, a boy, forks hay under the holsteins' steaming noses. They sway on their hooves and swat dangerous tails, but he is thinking of snow, how it blows across the gray pond scribbled with skate tracks, of the small blaze on its shore, and the boys in black coats who skate hand-in-hand round and round, building up speed until the leader cracks that whip of mittens and arms, and it jerks around fast, flinging off the last boy. He'd be that one--flung like a spark trailing only his scarf. -- Julia Kasdorf from The Sleeping Preacher University of Pittsburgh Press


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3 Comments:
- cchang said...
Once again, excellent podcast. Thanks! I really like "Bass Instinct" and the Peaches remix of "Redneck Sex"
(Bunch of interesting song titles, I must say)
- cchang said...
BTW, the management at White Ghost Shivers asked me take down the link "Momma Said" so unfortunately, users won't be able to get that song from that post any longer. Sigh.
- SAS Radio said...
Bass Instinct gets my award in podcast 9's earworm catagory. The track before that on the album, Dub Hypnosis, is also particularly fine, but missed its place on the podcast for being nearly nine mins long. WGS have left me in peace, and they ought to be aware that it was thanks to your post that they sold at least ONE other album (to me). Sigh, as you say.


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Returning to the Place of Terror in 'In the Shadow'
We received a tip to a new foreign thriller, although it's in broken English (come on, it adds to the charm!). Here's the plot crunch for Paul Özcan's In the Shadow: "So as to gather pieces of evidence for their doctorate thesis, three criminology students go with a camera to the place where a notorious serial killer performed his murderous deeds. But they are about to realize that entering such a sanctuary does not come without consequences." Check out more details below.
We received the following release:
""Scary, Spooky, Deadly effective" If you are looking for the scariest film of this year, don't ask to your friends and family, ask to horror filmmakers, Worldwide. Most of them already read the script of In The Shadow, shooting right now in Paris, and helped to spread the "buzz" over this feature film. From the underground to mainstreams blockbusters, From Canada to Japan, the script is passing through every single hands of the "who's who" of horror and is truly awaited by them. In the tradition of "the french new wave of Horror Film", people are expected to be scared in an exotic way.
This film features Maximilien Poullein (The Horde), Jordan Jones (EBTV, Beverly Hills Chiwawas) Emmanuelle Coutellier (The Zero Hour) and it's the first Feature Film directed by Paul Ozcan. In the Shadow is the first feature film of the Canadian producer, Philémond-Montout Jimmy.
The film is expected to be distributed in the end of 2010."


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Today's marketing simply wouldn't exist without marketing technology. From marketing automation to demand side platforms to content management systems, technology puts the right message in front of the right person at the right time.
Or at least that's how it is supposed to happen.
You no longer create your marketing communications. You just create the rules. The system does the rest.
And sometimes, the system fails you.
1. Dynamic Copy… That Isn't Dynamic
The system is supposed to put together the right copy, on the fly, every time. But what happens when the system fails? This happens:
2. Too Many Segments, Not Enough Content
A colleague of mine forwarded me the email below, I can only speculate how this could have happened.
Here is my best guess: Eloqua populates this content dynamically and they didn't have enough content, or content that matched to the business rules, to populate the entire template for some individuals. When my colleague's email was assembled by the system, it just pulled the default placeholder text.
Unfortunately, as systems become more complex, more marketers will make this mistake. When you can no longer actually review every single iteration that may be produced, you need to build checks and controls into your system, which just makes your system that much more complex!
3. How Much Does Half a Banner Cost?
Today banner advertising is increasingly purchased and placed by systems. Unfortunately, the system didn't check that VerticalResponse's banner would actually fit.
4. Nope, That's Not Me
Using behavior to identify warm prospects is an increasingly common tactic. However, when emails with personalized links are shared, your new hot lead may actually reflect the behavior of multiple individuals
On Facebook and across their site, Marketo believes I am actually Lauren, one of my colleagues. Now Lauren looks far more engaged with Marketo's content than she actually is, breaking their lead scoring and causing them to recommend content to Lauren based on my content preferences.
5. Dear ,
When personalizing an email, handling contacts without a name in your database is one of the most basic steps. And when you are a marketing platform (one that includes email), announcing your purchase by one of the premier marketing technology stacks, you really should be able to handle the basics.
6. The Auto-Responder
No list of marketing technology failures would be complete today without including Bank of America's recent string of automated twitter responses. If you haven't seen it yet, Eksith captured the original set of exchanges.
My Takeaway
No, the answer isn't to run away from automation, but you will need a new approach to QA, one that doesn't hinge on reviewing every output. As these examples show, almost all from companies that should know better, it is far easier for a problem to slip through when the technology is now creating the marketing your audience sees.
Your Turn
What is your favorite example of marketing technology failing? Share it in the comments below or with me on Twitter (@wittlake)!


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heavenlywild:old3eyes: I just watched the Telecom's Facebook page Youtube video on the Sensation. It showed a feature called HTC Watch, movies on demand. Bet we don't see that feature down here..
Look two pages back. It is available for NZ.
Thanx. Now I see it.. But will it be movies on demand or just trailers??


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A workman has spoken of the shocking moment he discovered the military-style suspicious package which brought Leighton Buzzard town centre to a standstill.
Shortly after 8am on Friday, Aaron Kenehan arrived for what he thought would be another routine day helping with the ongoing repairs to Santander in Hockliffe Street following the recent ramraid.
But instead he stumbled upon the box in a raised flower box between the bank and Wilkinson Estate Agents and immediately taped off the area and raised the alarm.
Mr Kenehan, from Dartford, said: "I was repairing Santander and I turned up in the van, was drinking a cup of tea and I saw a box.
"I had a look and it said 'explosives' on it and I went to tell someone inside the bank.
"I had some tape because every day we have to cordon the corner of the street off because of the work to the bank, so I taped off where the box was.
"If it hadn't said 'fuses' and 'detonators' on it with serial numbers on the side I would have opened it up for a look.
"It is a strange coincidence that this happened the week after the bank was targeted.
"Is it a case of the people being disgruntled with the bank from last time?"
Simon Wilkinson, owner of Wilkinson Estate Agents, called the police and had praise for their swift response.
He said: "At about 8.20am ourselves and the workmen at Santander saw a military explosives container in the raised flower bed.
"It had all military explosive markings on it saying it contained explosive detonators.
"I called the emergency services and the police got here very quickly and proceeded to evacuate and set up the emergency cordon. The bomb squad were here in 30 minutes.
"It is interesting that it was placed behind the workers' barriers. Someone had to go across the tapes and barrier to put it there.
"The most shocking thing was people crossing through the police barrier despite being told not to."
The incident caused Hockliffe Street, Hockliffe Road, North Street, Lake Street, and the High Street to be closed for several hours.
As the crowd shivered in the cold waiting to get to their parked cars, to work, or to go shopping, a loud bang was heard at 10.37am as the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion on the box.
Police subsequently confirmed the package was never a threat and roads reopened at 11.08am. They added that they do not believe the incident was linked to the recent ramraid.
As the incident developed, one shopper, from Heath and Reach, told the LBO she had been shivering waiting for the cordon to be lifted for a couple of hours: "I dropped the kids off to school and went to WHSmiths.
"When I came out of the shop all the cordons were in place. All the cafes were full up as people went in and grabbed a coffee. There was nothing else e to do and it was so cold.
"The police were turning people back. The cordon was originally at Iceland and now it has been moved back [to near HSBC] as people were obviously too close."
Of the controlled explosion, she added: "It was loud and very worrying. It makes you worry about what it was."
She said: "I don't want to get a car parking ticket as I parked in a half hour bay in North Street. I can't wait here much longer. I've been offered a lift back home, but if I come back later I'll probably end up with a ticket."
Several shop workers told the LBO that although their premises were just outside the cordon they had been advised to shut up shop nevertheless.
One woman, hugging a hot drink, said: "At around 9am a policeman came in and said 'you need to get out'. We said they'd just found a package and needed to make it safe. We've just been trying to keep warm since and have been to Costa and Waitrose."


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Alice DuBois never imagined she'd have to rely on food stamps to help cover her expenses, but that's just one of the measures she's taken to continue making ends meet as a painter.
"People are tightening their purse strings," the Elgin resident said. "Many consider art a luxury - it's not like shelter or food - so they're cutting back. That means I have to, also."
Brian Babendererde, a graphic-novel and video-game artist from Arlington Heights, can relate. He gives himself a small "allowance" every week and doesn't put anything on his credit card he can't pay off by the end of the month; rising costs and ballooning debt would force him to spend less time drawing.
"You just have to live beneath your means if you're serious about your work," he said.
DuBois and Babendererde are among the scores of suburban artists trying to make a living in a recession that has left people with far less cash to spend on works of art.
"Even in the best of times, it's a challenge for artists to make a living," said Terry A. Scrogum, executive director of the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency that provides financial support to artists and arts-supporting groups. "In an economy like this, it's an absolute struggle."
The economic downturn hits the art world on two fronts. First, it forces state and local governments to cut back on grants and other financial support for artists and arts groups. Scrogum said the Illinois Arts Council's budget, for example, was slashed by 30 percent in 2008. Those cuts carried over to this year.
Second, the downturn drives consumers to rein in spending.
"Our traffic has dropped sharply," said Tom Hilligoss, president and owner of The Studio of Long Grove, one of the largest art galleries in the suburbs. "It's very challenging to survive these days. Our clients want to spend as little as possible."
The economy makes things particularly difficult for artists who aren't big names - artists like DuBois.
Since quitting her day job to be a full-time painter three years ago, DuBois has sold 40 to 50 paintings a year, mostly via exhibitions in rock clubs, bars and cafes in Chicago and the suburbs.
Early on, each show generated two or three calls from people interested in her colorful, sometimes surreal paintings, which DuBois says are influenced by the French artist Paul Gauguin and R.B. Kitaj, an American. (DuBois' work ranges in price from $40 to more than $200.)
As the economy worsened, DuBois' phone and e-mail inbox became disturbingly quiet.
The 38-year-old realized she had a choice. She could get another day job and relegate her painting to spare-time status, or she could do whatever was necessary to make her career work.
The decision wasn't hard. DuBois had dreamed of being an artist since she was a child. It's her passion. So when the inquiries about her paintings started to taper off, she worked harder.
"I had been pretty leisurely about following up with contacts and lining shows up," she said. "And I painted only when I really wanted to. Those habits had to change."
DuBois stepped up her self-marketing efforts, to the point where she now spends hours each day spreading the word about her art via the phone, e-mail and her Flickr site, flickr.com/photos/artistalice/. She resolved to paint for three or four hours every night, whether she felt like it or not. And she started supplementing her original work with commissions, or paintings done by request. They now account for about 80 percent of her workload.
In addition to changing her work habits, DuBois keeps her overhead low. She doesn't have a car. She uses food stamps to help with her grocery bills. The kitchen in her Elgin apartment doubles as an art studio.
"I really live very frugally," she said. "I'm proud that I've been able to sell enough work to make it so far. In this economy, that's an accomplishment."
Babendererde, 37, worked full-time as a writer and artist in the video game industry before quitting in 2001 to pursue a career as a cartoonist.
During the next four years, he wrote and drew a graphic novel (basically a long-form comic book) called "Soul Chaser Betty" in chunks of about 12 pages at a time. When each section was finished, he put the pages online. He worked whenever he could, taking freelance video-game jobs when he needed money.
"Betty," an action-fantasy tale told in a visual style influenced by Japanese comics, created enough of a splash online that Babendererde decided to collect it in book form. He published the 176-page book on his own, then spent an exhausting few months contacting hundreds of comic retailers and Web sites in an effort to get them to stock it.
The book, which has a price tag of $14.95, arrived in stores earlier this month with an initial order of 120 copies. After all the work Babendererde spent creating, publishing and then marketing it, he couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed.
"For a small-press book, that's not terrible, but it was on the low side of what I was expecting," Babendererde said; he'd hoped for an initial order of 250 to 300 copies.
The good news is that Babendererde sold enough copies of the book at comic book shows and via his Web site (twilighttangents.com) to cover the printing costs, so he won't lose money on it. He said he is already at work on another graphic novel.
"I wish I could devote all my time to my comics work, because that's what I truly love," he said. "But I never looked at this as something that will pay the bills. I do it because I want to do it, because I love it. And in this economy, that's the kind of attitude you have to have."
Artists and art dealers hope things will improve in 2009. The economic stimulus bill recently approved by Congress includes $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a large chunk of that will be distributed to state and regional arts groups. In addition to that direct help, the stimulus package might soon prompt consumers to spend a bit more freely, said gallery owner Hilligoss.
"I don't think people's interest in art has waned at all," he said. "And people turn to galleries like ours to find out about new artists. It will just take a little bit of help to get people buying again."
In the meantime, artists say they will keep on hustling to get their work noticed.
"This is not the time to be a wallflower," DuBois said. "You have to get out there. You have to learn how to market yourself. No one else is going to do it for you."


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The center has been operating for a few months, with the funding for it coming from a grant through the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service.
Casady says the goal is to connect volunteers with organizations that can use their help.
She says making those connections will get a boost through the development of a website.
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This service could also be used during a disaster, such as another flood along the Mississippi River.
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"My faith in the church (and there is a distinction) is hanging by a thread."ReplyDelete
That's a telling quote if I ever read one. Our walks are similar, but also very different. I never found peaceful guidance in the Catholic church. Not in 12 years of Catholic school nor over 25 years of weekly mass. I am totally disgusted by both sides of the political isle. I hear the left's merits of today's crazy neocon nationalistic leadership and at the same time want to laugh at their clown-scare panic. Who is right? I don't know. I don't like the direction where we as a society are going and truthfully, I am not scared. I hesitated to make this a church rant, but with all the tags here, it truly is a relevant topic. So I come back to ""My faith in the church (and there is a distinction) is hanging by a thread."
I have found peace and comfort knowing my faith lies not in a church or in a political class. It lies at the foot of the cross of Jesus. If this is the start of the new white America then so be it. God has predetermined my course and I will trust that his love is perfect in every way. Whether I understand it or not. Maybe this new world order ends with me getting shot because I have brown skin and look like an illegal. If that happens, I know my where my salvation lies.
I don't even know if my comment makes sense, but I too process by talking and writing. I hope you find comfort and can make some if any sense of what is going on. But be brave in your stance and maybe look outside of what you have known as "the church".
Stone, I miss you homie. I always appreciate your words. And I appreciate you. I'm taking a break from most of my social media after the first of the year so I don't know if I'll see you much, but I wanted to tell you thank you for your words here. Your comments make sense and I hear you. xo my friendReplyDelete


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Chiang Kai-shek was born to a merchant family but like most people from his class studied in Japan, in his case at a military academy for two years. Upon his return to China (which was under the administration of Yuan Shikai), Chiang became involved with various crime organizations and eventually the Nationalist Party (led by Sun Yatsen).
Eventually Chiang would assume leadership of the Republic of China after the government moved to the south. His style of government really can be compared to fascism, as he utilized secret police and believed that the people and state should be of one mission. Far from promoting democracy, he hunted down political opponents (even the Chinese Communist Party prior to the Nationalist "defeat"in 1949).
Once in Taiwan, Chiang never released his grip. He imposed martial law on the island, which remained in place until the late 1980s when his son would lift it. One of my teachers remembers studying in Taiwan during the 1970s and clearly recalls the "political commissar" stationed in the dorm.
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July 17 (Bloomberg) -- HSBC Holdings Plc did business with firms linked to terrorism, failed to guard against money- laundering violations in Mexico and bypassed U.S. sanctions against Iran, according to U.S. Senate investigators.
HSBC affiliates worldwide gave terrorists, drug cartels and criminals a portal into the U.S. financial system, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said in a 335-page report yesterday detailing a decade of lax controls. Lawmakers plan to question senior executives from the London-based bank, Europe's largest, at a hearing in Washington today.
"HSBC sets up a U.S. bank affiliate as its gateway into the U.S. financial system and lets its global network of affiliates abuse that gateway," Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the subcommittee, told reporters. "The failure of accountability here is dramatic."
Senate investigators focused on New York-based HSBC Bank USA NA as a "nexus" for U.S. dollar services and transfers. Their report will be the basis of a hearing in which senators question senior executives including Irene Dorner, president and chief executive of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., and the U.S. regulators accused in the report of failing to act.
HSBC rose 0.2 percent to 558 pence at 9:57 a.m. in London trading, valuing the bank at 102 billion pounds ($160 billion).
"We will acknowledge that, in the past, we have sometimes failed to meet the standards that regulators and customers expect," Robert Sherman, an HSBC spokesman, said in an e-mailed statement. "We will apologize, acknowledge these mistakes, answer for our actions and give our absolute commitment to fixing what went wrong."
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HSBC ignored links to terrorist financing among its customer banks, including Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Al Rajhi Bank, which had ties to terrorist groups through its owners, according to the report. Internal documents show HSBC decided to cut ties with the bank before reversing itself under pressure from Al Rajhi, which received shipments of $1 billion in cash from HSBC's U.S. operation between 2006 and 2010, according to the report.
HSBC's U.S. unit, with faulty safeguards, "offers a gateway for terrorists to gain access to U.S. dollars and the U.S. financial system," according to the report. "HSBC has a legal obligation to take reasonable steps to ensure it is not dealing with banks that may have links to or facilitate terrorist financing."
Mohammad Al Yami, an Al Rajhi spokesman, didn't immediately respond to an e-mail sent outside of regular business hours requesting comment on the report.
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A hypochondriac has persistent beliefs that they are ill. Having hypochondria, or health anxiety, makes you worry constantly that your symptoms could be a sign of some serious medical illness, and you are constantly checking your symptoms and scouring the internet for any information on your possible condition. You may even doctor-shop and have multiple doctor visits, and despite normal examinations and lab results, you desperately seek more exams and tests to make sure you don't have anything serious.
Of course this constant checking for an illness just gets worse the more you engage in the checking and monitoring of your symptoms, and the more you visit with the doctor and have test after test done. The doctor's advice that you don't have anything serious and the negative lab results don't satisfy you, and you still believe you have something seriously wrong with you.
So how can you stop being a hypochondriac? The first step is to understand how you came to be so worried about being ill. See the following negative cycle of health anxiety:
So in this example, you have a trigger, which is stomach pain. This stomach pain leads to thoughts about the stomach pain- you think the pain may be due to stomach cancer, and you think you may die from this, and you can't stand the uncertainty of not knowing. So your thoughts about the stomach pain then induce anxiety feelings, where you are anxious, tense, and can't relax. This anxiety in turn makes you overcompensate, so you start to over-check and over-monitor yourself for symptoms; you make multiple visits to the doctor to check out what your illness is; you get multiple lab tests to see what you have; and you over-educate yourself about your "undiagnosed" illness by reading and scouring the internet for clues about your illness. The problem with these behaviors is that it maintains your intolerance of uncertainty, so the next time you have symptoms, you continue to think it might be from some serious illness, and you start the negative cycle over again.
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The head of the federal Office of Personnel Management, John Berry, has become unhinged by a few recent critiques of federal worker pay. Berry is an Obama appointee who apparently views his role as being a one-sided lobbyist for worker interests, rather than a public servant balancing the interests of taxpayers and federal agencies.
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The Pentagon has informed Congress about another of its procurement projects that is plagued by cost overruns. In other news, the sun will rise and set today, and the pope is Catholic.
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A Case of Do or Die? The Fundamental Things that Apply to Online Leadership
by Jay A. Halfond
June 30, 2014
This is the second of a two-part essay on the organizational implications of online distance education.
Previously, I suggested that a gradual redistribution is occurring across American higher education, especially among adult learners. Local hegemony is at risk, as online interlopers, increasingly from top-tier universities and other academic behemoths, offer students choice they never had before ...Read More
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Online Leadership at the Vortex of Academic Destiny
by Jay A. Halfond
June 16, 2014
This is the first of a two-part essay on the organizational implications of online distance education.
As online education becomes more ubiquitous nationally, it becomes even more strategic locally on each college campus. But these efforts are not dispersed comparably across institutions. Some higher education institutions have been more dynamic and decisive, and others paralyzed to ...Read More
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From Arab Spring to Academic Blossoming? Transforming Nations after their Liberation
by Jay A. Halfond
April 7, 2014
Those nations trying to propel themselves into the global economy face a daunting task. And those emerging from dictatorships, theocracies and bloody revolutions face even greater challenges. Many had been drained of their best minds and most entrepreneurial spirits. Corruption and violence now need to be supplanted by a stable, civil society that can transact ...Read More
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Wallflowers at the Revolution: Evolving Faculty Perspectives on Online Education
by Jay A. Halfond
November 25, 2013
For the past decade, we have been mired in generalizations in debating online education. Broad, often anecdotal and generally unsubstantiated comparisons have been made about the virtual and physical classroom–often taking the worst of one in contrast to the best of the other. But the range of what falls under the rubric of online distance ...Read More
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Exploring Higher Education Business Models (If Such a Thing Exists)
by John O. Harney
October 8, 2013
The global economic recession has caused students, parents and policymakers to reevaluate personal and societal investments in higher education—and has prompted the realization that traditional higher ed "business models" may be unsustainable.
Jay A. Halfond of Boston University and Peter Stokes of Northeastern University recently conducted a non-scientific "pulse" survey of presidents at smaller ...Read More
Tags: tuition, John O. Harney, Jay A. Halfond, Dissent magazine, MOOCs, Davis Educational Foundation, Peter Stokes, business models, online, DIssent, Atlantic magazine, Higher Education Innovation Challenge | 4 Comments
New England Colleges Under Stress: Presidential Voices from the Region's Smaller Colleges
by Jay A. Halfond and Peter Stokes
September 3, 2013
Shifting demography, rising operating expenses, plummeting state and federal support, intensified competition, broken financial models … these are just a few of the complex challenges facing New England higher education institutions. Given these tensions, who would be surprised if college presidents in the region weren't occasionally plagued by sleepless nights, hounded by anxious trustees, or ...Read More
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Quants at the Gate: The Unique Education of Actuaries
by Jay A. Halfond and Lois K. Horwitz
August 27, 2012
Universities typically emerge as gatekeepers of the professions, by wresting control over the training and certification that is required. The process generally begins outside academe—with apprenticeships and voluntary associations—and evolves toward a new norm of academic credit and degrees. Faculty then become the experts who determine the body of knowledge budding professionals need to know ...Read More
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The Vanishing Neighborhood Campus
by Jay A. Halfond
May 14, 2012
Only a generation ago, universities like Northeastern and Boston University had campuses strategically sprinkled throughout eastern Massachusetts. Lesley University offered graduate education programs across the U.S. BU had a contract with the U.S. Army to deliver master's programs on military bases throughout Europe. Mega-high-tech companies, like Digital Equipment Corp., volunteered their corporate classrooms to ...Read More
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Just Like Starting Over: Advice for Faculty to Make the New Semester's Teaching Endure
by Jay A. Halfond
January 16, 2012
Sometimes when passing through a classroom building, I glance in at a class in session and try to gauge by students' faces whether the instructor has them engaged or not. Through their facial expressions, you can see whether they are caught up in the class or struggling not to drift away in their thoughts or ...Read More
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Projecting Project Management's Future Within the Academic Landscape
by Jay A. Halfond
November 28, 2011
U.S. universities have had century-long success in absorbing existing professions into their curricula—by making academe their gatekeeper. These professions often started with apprenticeships and short training courses leading to a certification examination—and were then elevated and "academized" into a comprehensive body of knowledge, fueled by evidence-based scholarship, led by university faculty, and offered to students ...Read More
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MMA fighters should probably sit right at the top of the list of people you shouldn't rob. You shouldn't rob anyone, just to be clear, but definitely not anyone who hits people for a living.
Too bad the would-be thieves in this video dipped out on that particular lesson, but they are definitely up to speed now.
The disaster starts when two guys on a motorcycle make the creepiest approach possible, trying to corner a woman who had just pulled into her driveway. The man on the back of the bike tried to snatch her purse when she got out of her car, but quickly learned that he'd bit off a bit more than he could chew.
It's all over in a few second, but the lady got to leave an impression and keep her purse.
Related: Never steal from a pregnant woman


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Comey, Dear 1600 Penn Ave, Dear Donald, Donald, Donald Speak, Donald Trump, Fake Media, Fake News, FBI, James B Comey, Media, News, realDonaldTrump, Shut The Fake Media Up, Shut Up, Trump, Trump Administration, Trump Life, Tweet, Tweets, Twitter
Dear Donald,
I get the feeling that you don't like the way the media is covering the story of your firing of FBI Director James B. Comey.
"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!…." @realDonaldTrump 4:59 AM – 12 May 2017
"…Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???" @realDonaldTrump 5:07 AM – 12 May 2017
You probably don't want to hear this, but threatening to cancel White House briefings is not going to rectify the fact that you and your administration cannot keep a story straight.
First the story was that you acted based off of advice/recommendation. Then the story changed to be that you were thinking about this firing for months. It was expressed that this did not have anything to do with the investigation regarding the Russia controversy, only to have that story change and say that it did play a part in why you decided to make this decision on your own.
"In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story; it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,"
Nobody can keep up with this constant flip flopping, and having written statements distributed won't help if you have to rescind and revise it as many times as you decide to change the narrative. Perhaps you can't even keep track of what it is you want the story to be and that is why the stories keep changing.
I think you were right about one tweet though.
"The Fake Media is working overtime today!" @realDonaldTrump 4:53 AM – 12 May 2017
The only thing is, I don't think you were considering you and your administration to be the "Fake Media" you were referring to.
A Solicitous Citizen


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Music and voices of resistance and revolution from the African American experience is featured as part of Black History Month on "In Your Ear." Paul Robeson, Archie Shepp, Nina Simone, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Malcolm X, Oscar Brown Jr., Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Gil Scott-Heron, Reginald Lockett and Devorah Major are some of the figures to be heard from.
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I am not quite to a good routine with my laundry. In fact, this has been a pretty discouraging week. I can't put my finger on it all, but I have just felt stuck. Unmotivated. And it is not just about laundry. Getting up in the mornings has been incredibly difficult this week. I haven't had much of a desire for anything this week. Blogging, being around people, keeping up with the house. I've just wanted to sleep all week.
My journaling from a few days ago:
Lord, I need you. I feel caught. I am overwhelmed by all there is to do around the house. I have no desire to do it. I am feeling the weight of the mundane.
This morning, the Lord met me with this:
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope (Romans 15:13).
And I am sure of this that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ (Philippians 1:6).
for it is God who works in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13).


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As long as the activity is safe sane and consensual it is fine. It doesn't matter if the people involved are committed or not. As long as they behave responsibly it is fine.
Though the experience is emotionally satisfying if people are in a relationship, but having sex before marriage is a personal decision, if someone wants to do it, it's their choice.
First if all most people get married in their late 20s or early thirties. No ones gonna wait to have sex until their 32. Sex is natural and the biological breeding ages for people are 18-24 so waiting until your 25 or older is unnatural and goes against nature. Don't miss out. It's meant to be a lot of fun and it's not hurting anyone.
Pre-marital sex has become more and more socially acceptable over the years. It's not uncommon to find people that have long and fruitful relationships without ever getting married. Marriage is in a sense a status symbol. People that aren't particularly religious don't hold as much weight in it. It is alright, as long as it's done responsibly.
Many people having premarital sex do not do it responsibly. Marriage isn't just a symbol for a commitment.. It is a commitment. Marriage shows that the partners will stay faithful to each other. What premarital sex creates is broken families with children born out of wedlock doomed to stay in poverty, or even worse...Abortions. Married couples and well structured families ensures a safe society by having just that- a well structured family which is composed of responsible parents, and well raised kids.


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Kayden Ray Fults, 2, went to fly with angels Sunday, March 1, 2015 at Dekalb Hospital. He was a native of Warren Co.
He is survived by his Mom, Kaycie Lynn Fults and Dad, Mark Johnson of Smithville; Siblings: Landon & Adrian Fults, Karlee & Joshua Johnson, Brooklyn Barnes all of Smithville; Grandparents: Jacky Fults of Smithville, Melissa Foster (Kenny) Young of Shelbyville, Kathy Johnson (Rick Hindsley) of Smithville; Great Grandparents: Viola Foster of Woodbury; Martha Fults of Smithville; Carmine Bain of Dowelltown; Special Cousins: Matt, Angie, Jacob & Emma Campbell of Woodbury; Uncles and Aunts: Cody & Tyler Fults of Shelbyville, Mary Johnson of Woodbury, Fairy Johnson of Smithville and Angela Ferrell; Cousin: Bridget Fults.
He was preceded in death by his grandfather, Bobby Johnson and great grandfather, Roy Fults and Max Foster.
Kayden was a beautiful boy who loved fire trucks and was a Jr. Member of the DeKalb Co. Fire Dept. 6206. He also loved books and Sponge Bob.
Funeral Services will be 2 pm Friday, March 05, 2015 in the Chapel of Woodbury Funeral Home with Bro. Greg Mitchell officiating. Interment will follow in the Hale Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 4 pm to 8 pm Thursday, March 04, 2015. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Woodbury Funeral Home to help the family with funeral expenses.
Woodbury Funeral Home, 615-563-2311 or To Leave Online Condolences, please visit www.woodburyfuneralhome.net


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MELPA (or Milkypostman's ELPA or Milkypostman's Experimental Lisp Package Repository if you're not into the whole brevity thing) is a package.el repository for development versions of Emacs packages (hot from the repo).
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Helpful keybindings
See Also
I have been looking tuoghrh this library and it is very comprehensive and easy to install. My question is, I don't see how to test to see if someone is logged in or not? I am sure I am just missing the nuance of how this library works.I am guessing that the basic premise is, in your controller, you test if someone has authenticated or not, if not you send them to the openid controller to authenticate. Once authenticated you route them back to the calling controller.But from the documentation I don't really see how to do that.Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.


text: KIRKUS REVIEW Catching up on some earlier Vargas Llosa. The title novella recounts the adolescence and, later, the self-destructive young adulthood of "P.P." Cuellar, who as a boy was attacked by a Great Dane in the locker room of his Catholic boys' school and partially castrated (". . . the shits, the my Gods, the get outs, the screams, the get losts, the get goings, the brothers' desperation, their terrible fright"). Though handsome, he obviously keeps himself distant from girls, compensating by being ever wilder and daring and foolish and turned-in to himself. As a tale it's only so-so, interesting chiefly for its cascading, breathless style. The six short stories that fill up the rest of the book mostly concern a barrio--gang--of upper-class young Lima, Peru, students: fights, contests, a school rebel-lion (possibly a preliminary sketch for Vargas Llosa's first novel, The Time of the Hero). Nicely rendered into English--no easy task in "The Cubs"--this early work is open and airy, graceful but hardly compelling. Pub Date: Aug. 29th, 1979ISBN: 0374521948Page count: 164ppPublisher: Harper & RowReview Posted Online: Sept. 28th, 2011Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1st, 1979


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Vancouver officials crack down on 'Beer Island'
Ian Holliday, CTV Vancouver
Published Thursday, July 10, 2014 5:30PM PDT
Last Updated Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:10PM PDT
The official name of the small landmass built in False Creek for the 2010 Olympics is Habitat Island. As the name suggests, it's intended to provide an urban refuge for pedestrians and British Columbia wildlife alike.
But lately the island has earned a new -- and similarly descriptive -- nickname: Beer Island.
Evidence of the island's reputation as a place for summer parties is easy to spot. Empty beer cans, bottle caps, cardboard boxes and a bag from a local liquor store could all be seen among the trash strewn about the island when CTV News paid a visit on Thursday.
The Vancouver Police Department and the Vancouver Park Board say they're aware of the partying that happens on the island, and they're taking steps to make it less disruptive to the neighbourhood and less detrimental to the island's natural beauty.
"What we don't want to do is discourage people from having a nice beautiful space to go and enjoy," park board commissioner Constance Barnes told CTV News. "If you're going down and having a beer and you're having a picnic or you're playing your guitar, I don't see that the park board would really come down on you for that."
What the park board will "come down on" people for is being "aggressive" or disrespectful toward other people who want to use the space. That includes littering or being too loud.
Barnes encouraged neighbours of the park to call 311 or the police with any complaints about activities on the island.
"If they call, we will be down there very quickly," she said. "I'm sure there will be tickets put out."
Vancouver police told CTV News they plan to patrol Habitat Island more frequently to discourage the "Beer Island" crowd.
Public consumption of alcohol is illegal and can result in a $230 fine. People leaving empty beer cans on Habitat Island would face $2,000 fines for littering if caught.


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"The next step in evolution of this highly specially subgenre will likely literalise the metaphor, presenting narratives in which the zombies tell their own stories, acting as true protagainsts and even heroes"
~ Kyle William Bishop, American Zombie Gothic
Why can't we love the undead? So many friends push aside the idea of a zombie lover completely (you guys can't judge me! You read about vampire sex!)
As discussed before, zombie romance is more romance. Sex never enters the equation. It's about a relationship of souls (personalities), a coming together of two people.
But still zombies aren't good enough! The rotting is either done away with completely or can be avoided with medication. The eating of people or brains is the same. So where is the problem? They are undead humans, as are vampires.
With rational thought, being capable of emotions, moral agency and free will, why are the undead any less suitable as mates? They can't procreate and have different lifespans, and perhaps different nutritional needs, but so can human lovers. (Zombies, Vampires and Philosophy Should Vampires be held Accountable for their Bloodthirsty Behaviour – John Draeger) Some undead choose to vegetarian and will not eat humans, just as some humans choice to not eat meat or meat byproducts. (Z,V & P – The Blood connection between Vampires and Vegetarians by Wayne Yuen)
So, they might have a disease, parasite, genetic mutation or be cursed by magic. Why do we accept a Trill then (a humanoid that is capable of hosting an inner snakey-alien that shares its lives)? Or a Bajoran's nose? They are different from humans physically too. (Can you tell I just rewatched Deep Space Nine?)
Frankly, people stereotype zombies. And if you think its too far from cultural zombie lore, look at Day of the Dead. Bub could recognise death and exhibited signs of sorrow. Big Daddy in Land of the Dead looked after his zombie community. There was even a cute couple holding hands, strolling about the apocalyptic scene, who were zombies.
As far back as forever there are stories of love between humans and the unknown, gods , fairies, monsters etc. This evolution of the zombie is no lesser than those stories. At a time, werewolves might never have appealed or vampires not been sexy (but Alexander Skarsgard is always sexy!), it is time and literary evolution and imagination that allow us to perceive injustice to these creatures.
Don't prejudice your daughter's next boyfriend just because he's a zombie. He'll treat her right!


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A recent decision from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) clarifies the meaning of the word "public," insofar as it relates to tortious liability in public spaces. In Wilkins v. City of Haverhill, a pedestrian who was attending a parent-teacher conference at her child's public school in February 2011 slipped and fell on ice that had accumulated on the sidewalk outside of the school, and sued the City of Haverhill for negligently maintaining the premises. A Massachusetts superior court granted summary judgment to the City based upon its interpretation of M.G.L. c. 21, §17C, often referred to as the Massachusetts "Public Use Statute." Under the Public Use Statute, negligence claims against a landowner are barred if the landowner has opened its land for use by the public without charging a fee. According to the lower court, because the land on which the plaintiff slipped and fell was owned by the City and open to the public without a fee, the plaintiff's case against the City was barred.
On appeal, the SJC reversed this decision, explaining that the statutory limitation of liability for public landowners does not apply where a premises is open only to a discrete group of people, rather than to the general public. The SJC applied a traditional definition of the word "public," as that term is used in the statute, and understood the statute to reference the entire community and population at large, not any certain group. The legislative intent, the court concluded, was to draft a statute that would promote broad public use of land and protect landowners who opened their land to the entire population without a fee. Moreover, the SJC interpreted the Public Use Statute to apply only where the public is using the land for a purpose that the landowner intended the land to be used.
The SJC found that the City had not shown that the plaintiff was using the land in a way consistent with the City's intended use of the land. The plaintiff was not using the land for any educational purpose, but instead to attend a conference. While the City argued that the benefit of a parent-teacher conference is felt by both the parent and the student, the court ruled that the group invited to the conference was inherently limited, as the land was not open to persons without children currently enrolled in the school. Therefore, the SJC held that the Public Use Statute did not apply under the circumstances.
Pursuant to the SJC's decision, the summary judgment decision in favor of the City was reversed, and the plaintiff's negligence case against the City was ordered reinstated.


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Tips for repairing an electric wheelchair include engaging the free-wheel levers, adjusting the speed dial, cleaning the wheels and re-engaging loose levers. The exact steps to repair an electric wheelchair depend on the specific problem.
A common problem with electric wheelchairs is a unit that does not move, typically caused by disengaged free-wheel levers. Engaging the lever allows the use of normal controls. The levers are usually disengaged to allow the wheels to spin on their own and the chair to move in the absence of battery power. Consult the user manual to find the levers.
Another common electric wheelchair problem is the equipment moving slower than normal. This can be fixed by adjusting the speed dial, which may be set to a lower speed setting. Other possible causes for this problem include a battery that is not fully charged or loose or corroded connectors. Alternatively, try turning the power off for an hour and turning it back on.
Strange noises may occur if there is debris stuck to the wheels. Inspect the wheels and remove or clean any debris to fix the problem. Additionally, a new motor may emit strange noises. The problem should go away in about a month when the unit is broken in. Contact a technician if the problem persists.
Disengaged or loose free-wheel levers may cause a wheelchair to move in circles or veer off course. Inspect the free-wheel levers and re-engage or tighten them to return power to controls and to lock the wheels.


text: Well, it's late Sunday evening, and for NASA's Space Elevator Competition there's still no official results. Seven teams competed with at least one team from the University of British Columbia, successfully sending a robot up the tether. However, it looks like no one will win the $50,000 grand prize. It seems all the teams had trouble getting enough power for the power/weight ratios involved in the contest to get to the goal speed of one meter per second to win. Four teams competed in the strongest tether contest, with no team winning that contest either. We'll have to wait to see the official results but it looks like they'll be having these contests again (next year?)


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It's been a while since either Sean or I have written on this blog. It's kind of hard to say why. Our lives have continued on. I know we've had lots to write about. We just haven't, for one reason or another.
Work has continued to be consuming for me, which honestly isn't new news to anyone who has talked to me since about June of last year. As the new year has started, though, I have approached work from a new angle and turned over a new leaf with my attitude towards my coworkers. I have approached each one of my coworkers with a clean slate to work on, in hopes that perhaps this year will be more rewarding than last.
Last year, I struggled with my new position. Not only was it a new position for me, but also a new position as a whole with my software team. As a result, we all struggled to find where I fit into the grand scheme of our development effort. 10 months later, now that everyone's determined that I'm not going to quit easily (including myself) and that I apparently don't go crazy too easily, things are starting to go smoother.
I'm getting the hang of the documentation process that I have to go through for every test I conduct. I'm making friends with all the people necessary in order for this job to go smoother. Baked good bribery is never out of the question. (Note to anyone trying to butter someone up: Lemon pound cake is always a winner. That and chocolate chip cookies.) I'm also getting to know our customer better. I understand their processes better and I understand their expectations better. They have also become living, breathing people to me, too, instead of this nebulous idea of people booming demands down upon us. I can make most of them laugh or at least crack a smile. I also am getting to know when all they want is the honest truth and when they just want to hear what they want to hear.
Don't get me wrong. I've already had a day or two of coming home and being ready to break down because I don't think I'll get things done on time, or I'm running into this or that problem with either a coworker or the stupid processes that we have to follow. Somehow, though, it's all gotten done so far. I'm resolving my problems or I'm finally taking them to my boss and asking him to fix them. That's his job. I do my job and whatever is out of that scope, I go to him for.
That's the part that I'm learning most of all. I'm learning that I can't do everything myself. I spend so much of my effort trying to be independent and do everything myself that I sometimes forget that I can ask for help. It nearly killed me last year. If Christmas break had not come when it did, I would have either come within a hair's breath or actually had a nervous breakdown. Instead, I got a week to take a breath, actually get some things done around the house, and get a new perspective on life and work and how they meld. We'll see how things progress over this year.
Now that I've managed to be introspective for a little while, there's a pile of paperwork sitting next to me that needs to be filtered through and I need to figure out what I'm going to pack for Denver next week. Here's to hoping that it at least won't snow on me.