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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- When you finish off the last leftovers from the Thanksgiving turkey, and start to hear the first Christmas carols of the season, you know the time has come to take some year-end tax-saving steps. Here are eight key ones:
For maximum savings, give highly appreciated securities instead of cash to charities and take a deduction for their market value.
Make charitable gifts by December 31. You might consider doubling up -- that is, make contributions now for both this year and next. If you contribute via credit card, you can write off the gifts on this year's tax return and pay the bill in January. For maximum savings, give highly appreciated securities instead of cash to charities and take a deduction for their market value.
Warning: The law generally limits your deduction for charitable contributions to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, so don't go overboard. You can, however, deduct any excess on next year's tax return.
Take capital losses. If you have some dogs among your stocks -- and who doesn't? - it's wise to consider selling them before year's end. Up to $3,000 a year in net long-term or short-term losses can be deducted from the sale of stocks, bonds or other assets. You can also use losses to offset your gains dollar-for-dollar. If losses exceed gains, you can use the excess to offset up to $3,000 of regular income. Any unused losses can be carried forward to cut taxes in future years.
Sell your most expensive securities first. Instruct your broker to unload the shares that cost you the most, not the least. That will reduce your capital gain. Otherwise, the IRS will require you to figure your profit using the costliest method: First in, first out (FIFO).
Warning: Don't let the possibility of tax savings cloud your judgment as an investor and cause you to make the mistake of selling losers that show signs of turning profitable in the near future.
Give highly appreciated investments to kids. Instead of passing cash gifts to your young children or grandchildren, give them securities on which you have big paper profits. When the kids sell the securities, they'll pay tax on them at their rate, presumably 15 percent -- five percentage points less than the 20 percent long-term capital gains tax you would have to pay if you are in the 28 percent bracket or above. You can reap similar tax savings by transferring highly appreciated property to low-income parents or grandparents who are in the 15 percent bracket.
Remember, the government limits the amount of untaxed gifts that you can give to a total $675,000 over your lifetime, plus $10,000 a year to any individuals. For example, you can give five gifts of $10,000 to each of five children -- a total of $50,000. If you have solid retirement investments or other assets that you can count on, making substantial gifts now can also help heirs by holding down the often heavy taxes on your estate.
Use a credit card to pay deductible expenses by year-end, even though you won't confront the bill until 2001.
Make early payments. Use a credit card to pay deductible expenses by year-end, even though you won't confront the bill until 2001. For tax purposes, an expense is deductible in the year the charge is incurred, which is not necessarily the year that you pay.
Miscellaneous expenses -- such as union or professional dues, tax preparation and investment advisory fees, legal and accounting fees, job uniforms and tools, subscriptions to business publications, and job-related educational expenses -- are deductible if they exceed 2 percent of your adjusted gross income. Thus, if you're close to that threshold, bunch your miscellaneous expenses and perhaps pay some of next year's costs now.
Warning: Don't automatically rush to make prepayments -- or generate last-minute deductions in some other way -- if doing so requires you to take money out of an interest-bearing account. Compare the interest you would earn by holding onto that money longer with the benefit of the tax deduction. It's usually, but not always, better to take the deduction.
Accelerate paying medical expenses. They're deductible when they exceed 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income. It you're close to qualifying, you may want to have elective surgery or dental work done this year rather than next.
Postpone taking income until next year. If you are self-employed, delay billing customers or patients until the very end of December, so the money will not arrive until next year.
Use up your FSA money. If you've deposited money in a flexible spending account where you work, be sure to incur enough expenses by year-end -- for childcare, eldercare or healthcare -- to cover those deposits. Remember the key rule governing your FSA in any given year: Use it or lose it. The government says you MUST spend all of the funds in your FSA within the year you set them aside. As long as you spend the money in 2000, you can submit receipts in 2001 and still receive reimbursement.
For more tax-saving guidance, try any popular tax software program, such as TurboTax/MacInTax from Intuit, TaxCut or TaxAct.


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BEIJING (AP) -- Sanya Richards needed a furious comeback. Jeremy Wariner could have walked to the finish.
The results were the same, though.
No dropped batons.
And gold medals. Finally.
In a pair of races that brought some redemption after a disappointing Olympics for the U.S. track and field team, Wariner, Richards and Allyson Felix led a sweep of the 1,600-meter relays Saturday, an event that might as well have been designed to bolster the country's gold-medal count.
Richards anchored her team to a come-from-behind victory in 3 minutes, 18.54 seconds, the world's fastest time since 1993. It was the fourth straight Olympic win in the event for the United States.

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Writer Kevin Williamson needs another hit, and he needs it badly. After a string of misfires with "The Faculty" and "Teaching Mrs. Tingle," as well as several programs in the television realm arriving dead on arrival with audiences, we have seen a screenwriter hit rock bottom. Even "Dawson's Creek," his one successful television show, ends its run this May. 1996's "Scream" feels like a far distant memory now.
Is his curse about to end with Dimension Films' "Cursedr" Six weeks after the studio announced that it would fast track the skein for a August 8th, 2003, opening, FilmJerk.com has descriptions of the film's leads obtained from casting sources — it isn't much, but it's the first step forward for a project described only as "a modern, hip twist on the classic werewolf tale" and that would help to "reinvent the werewolf genre" in an October 15th press release.
The lead character is a 16 year old named Jimmy, described as a likeable guy, but full of typical teen gawky awkwardness. He is smart, sensitive and trying to come into his own. The other leads in the film are Brooke, of the same age, who is the high school beauty, who become his love interest and Bo, a year older, who is Brooke's football jock boyfriend who makes trouble for Jimmy whenever their paths cross. He is further described as being quite the opposite of Jimmy and insensitive.
With Dimension tight-fisted in divulging details of the film's plot, we're now left to ponder if any of these three leads themselves become werewolves, a la 1986's "Teen Wolf." The character archetypes certainly seem right for Jimmy, in particular.
Folklore (and films) often tells of individuals becoming possessed by the spirits of animals, doomed to change uncontrollably into the beast that inhabits them. The werewolf is the most common focus, but animal possession is a common theme in many cultures and the traditional holds that they change on or about the full moon, and that a "silver bullet" is the only weapon capable of killing them. Other werebeasts are rumored to have the ability to change form at will, and some can be exorcised using rituals and magic. Incidentally, the first written account of a werewolf appears in the Bible's Book of Daniel, where King Nebuchadnezzar exhibited symptoms of were-wolfism for nearly four years. It will be interesting to see if any of this ties into the film's plot.
There have been two critically successful films in the past two years on the subject, both independents– this year's "Dog Soldiers" and 2001's "Ginger Snaps." But both bypassed theater release in the U.S., but did relatively well in video rentals/sales, so much so that there is talk of a sequel for the latter film.
So, in order to give this project some credibility, the director helming the project is Wes Craven, who directed Williamson's first two "Scream" films. Prior to signing on the director, he had been working on a film called "Pulse" for Dimension, but the project was put back into development just before it was set to begin filming.
Hopefully, the pair's third teaming together is the charm for Williamson.
The Scorecard
Producers: Marianne Maddalena and Kevin Williamson
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Kevin Williamson
Casting Directors: Lisa Beach and Sarah Katzman
Location: Los Angeles
Start Date: January 27, 2003
Distributor: Dimension Films


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Summer Exhibition edit: Further Education Advisory Group
Caroline King
Monday 17 July 2017
3 — 3.30pm
Join educator Caroline King on this tour to explore her selection of this year's Summer Exhibition.
Caroline King is the Foundation Art & Design course co-ordinator at Richmond-upon-Thames College, which is a large tertiary college based in Twickenham. The students come from a wide range of boroughs and backgrounds resulting in a diverse and dynamic learning community. Caroline is motivated by the ways in which arts education can develop creative practical and conceptual skills, alongside nurturing a person's confidence and ambition.
"Teaching vocational Art & Design within Further Education is extremely rewarding. It enables you to work with students who are excited by, and open to, the wonders of the creative world and are establishing the creative path they wish to take."
Caroline is a member of the six-strong RA Further Education Advisory Group, who meet with the Learning Department regularly to guide the development of the FE students offer.
As a fine artist Caroline's influences are diverse, as are the ways she create artworks. Politics, advertising, news media, religion, activism and selfie culture are all points of reference, particularly for the shared strategies they use to communicate their agendas within our physical and virtual worlds. King uses a range of visual language and media to create multiples, series and assemblages; the world is fragmentary and repetitious and the work intentionally reflects this.
To see examples of Caroline King's work please visit her website.
This event has limited capacity, headsets for the tour will be distributed on a first come first served basis.
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Monday 17 July 2017
3 — 3.30pm
Meet in the Wohl Central Hall, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
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Law with Social Sciences (Full-Time, 2018 Entry)
What will I learn?
This course allows you to develop your interest in the social sciences, while providing a solid grounding in legal studies from one of the UK's top law schools. You will also have the opportunity to gain a qualifying law degree, exempting you from some professional law examinations.
As well as studying legal judgments and statutes, you will examine the impact of economic, cultural and political change on law, and will consider how law affects life beyond the courtroom. We have a
strong research and teaching interest in the economic, social, philosophical and political links with law. The course makes the most of this by allowing you flexibility to select optional modules from within Economics, Philosophy, Politics and International Studies, Sociology and Business. Increasingly, law firms are looking for students who can demonstrate a breadth of academic interest outside law, meaning that our graduates are highly employable. Throughout the course you will also gain valuable research, writing, presentation and debating skills that can be applied in many employment settings.
You can choose either a three- or four- year degree programme.
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For each module you'll usually have two lectures per week, plus regular seminars which offer opportunities for legal problem solving and discussion of ethical or policy issues relating to the law. Staff also have regular advice and feedback hours in which you can discuss issues outside the seminar setting. We employ a range of innovative teaching methods, such as performance based learning, reflective journals and dramatised dissertations.
Our contextual approach to law means that we ask for consistent work and for your full commitment throughout the course. In return, we will give you all the support and advice needed to help you realise your full potential.
How will I be assessed?
We offer a variety of assessment methods, with emphasis placed on continuing assessment through class tests, essays and other formative and summative written work. Depending on module choice, you may be able to weight your degree towards either examinations or essays.
Can I study abroad?
Our LLB with Study Abroad in English and LLB with French or German Law courses have an integral year abroad, in which you will study approved law modules at one of our partner universities.
All students have the opportunity to apply for an intercalated year abroad at one of our partner universities. The Study Abroad Team based in the Office for Global Engagement offers support for these activities, and the Department's dedicated Study Abroad Co-ordinator can provide more specific information and assistance.
Entry Requirements
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These offers normally exclude General Studies and Critical Thinking.
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Examples of our graduates' job roles include: Advocate, Trainee Solicitor, Funding and Bid Co-ordinator, Risk Analyst, Litigation Paralegal.
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LOEB et al. T. HENDRICKS, Collector. (Circuit Court, S. D. New York. September 14, 1893.)
CUSTOMS DUTIES-ExCESSIVE VALUATION-STA.TUTORY REMEDY EXCJ,USIVE.
Under the aot of June 10, 1890, § 13, which provides for an appeal to the board of general appraisers if the importer Is a.ggrieved by valuation of the import, and section 25, which declares that no action shall be against the collector in any case in which theinlporter Is entitled ,toappeaI under tlle provislonsof the act, the remedy by appeal from an appraisement 1s exclusive, and an action cannot agalnet the col).ector to recover an alleged excess of dutlespald on a valuation advanced by an appraiser over the invoice value of' IInported merchandise.
:At Law. Demurrer to complaint for want of jurisdiction. Sustained.
On an Importation and entrY of cotton embroideries from St. Gall, Switzerland, by Loeb & Schoenfeld, at the port of New York on November 7, 1891. the invoice of the goods was transmitted by the collector to the appraiser of the port for appraisement. The cOmplaint in the action alleged that the appraisement was not conducted according to law; that the appraiser made no attempt to appraise the D;larket value of the goods, but proceeded in an Irregular, a.rbitrary, and 1Ilegal manner to appraise the cost of production . thereof, and made an addition to the invoice value of said merchandise of 3 per cent., purporting to be for general expenses; that the collector liquidated the duties upon suchlllegal advanced valuation returned by the appraiser, which liquidation was therefore alleged to be wholly null and void. The collector assessed and <;pllected the duties on the advanced valuation, and the importers brought directly in the United States circuit court against the collector to recover judgment for the alleged excess. The United States attorney, on behalf of the collector, filed a demurrer to the complaint. en the ground that the court had no jurisdiction of the cause of action therein alleg-ed against the The act of congress of June 10, 1890, relative to the collection of customs duties, contains the following provisions: "Sec. 13. · · · The decision of the appraiser or the person acting as such (in cases where no objection Is made thereto, either by the -collector, or by the importer, owner, consignee , or agent.) or of the general. appraiser In cases otreappralsement, shall be final and conclusive as to the dTItiable value of such merchandise against all parties interested therein, unless the Importer, owner. consignee, or agent of the merchandise shall be dissatisfied with such decision. and shall within two days thereafter, give notice to the collector in writing of' such dissatisfaction, or unless the collector shall deem the' appraisement of the merchandise too low, in either tlle collector shall transmit the Invoice and ,all the papers appertaining t)lereto to the boal'J1 ot three general appraisers,
LOEB'll. HENDRICKS.
which shall be on duty at the port of New York, or to a board of three general appraisers who may be designated by the secretary of the treasury for such. duty at that port or at any other port, which board shall determine and decide the case thus submitted, and their decision or that of a majority of them, shall be final and conclusive as to the dutiable value of such merchandise against all parties interested therein, and the collector,or the person acting as such, shall ascertain, fix, and liquidate the rate and amount of duties to be paid on such merchandise, and the dutiable costs and charges thereon according to law." "Sec. 25. That from and after the taking effect of this act no collector or other officer of the customs shall be in any way liable to any owner, importer, consignee, or agent of any merchandise, or any other person, for or on account of any rulings or decisions as to the classification of said merchandise or the duties charged thereon, or the collection of any dues, charges or duties on or on account of said merchandise, or any other matter or thing as to which said owner, importer, consignee, or agent of such merchandise might, under this act, be entitled to appeal from the decision of said collector or other officer, or from any board of appraisers provided for in this act."
Hemy O. Platt, Asst. U. S. Atty., 'in support of the demurrer.
(1) There is no longer any right of action at common law by an importer against collectors of customs for the recovery of an alleged excess of duties. Cary v. Curtis, 3 How. 236; Arnson v. Murphy, 109 U. S. 238, 240, 241, 3 Sup. Ct. Rep. 184; Hager v. Swayne, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 841, 842; section 29, Act June 10,1890; U. S. v. Davis, 4 C. C. A. 251,54 Fed. Rep. 155, 156. (2) There is now no statute under which this action against the collector is authorized to be brought in the United States circuit court. The act of February 26, 1845, was the first act giving exclusive statutory right of action. It was repealed by the act of June 30, 1864. Barney v. Watson, 92 U. S. 449. The act of June 30, 1864, was repealed by the Revised Statutes, (section 5596.) The statutory right of action provided for in the Revised Statutes was repealed by section 29 of t)J.e act of June 10, 1890, wherein a new and exclusive remedy was provided by a new procedure. In re Sherman, 55 Fed. Rep. 276, 277. This repeal did not revive the former acts of 1845 or 1864, nor revive the common-law right of action which was abrogated by the act of 1839, (chapter 82, § 2.) U. S. v. Philbrick, 120 U. S. 52, 57, 58, 7 Sup. Ct. Rep. 413. 'I.'he exclusive remedy of an importer for a review of any advance in the invoice valuation by the appraiser is plainly pointed out in section 13 of the act of June 10, 1890. (3) The collector is by law relieved from such actions against him in the United States circuit court. Section 25, Act June 10, 1890. This exemption is not confined to those matters as to which the importer can now appeal from the decision of the board of general appraisers to the United States circuit court, under the provisions of section 15 of the act of June 10, 1890, but covers all matters as to which the importer is entitled to' appeal from the decision of the collector or other officer. Section 25, Id. The appraiser is an officer. He is appointed by the president. 14 Stat. 303; sections 6, 7, e. 284, Act July 27, 1866. The importer is now entitled to appeal from the appraiser to the board of general appraisers, whose decision as to dutiable valuation is final and conclusive. Section 13, Act June 10, 1890; Passavant v. U. S., 148 U. S. 214, 13 Sup. Ct. Rep. 572: U. S. v. Strauss, 55 Fed. Rep. 388, 390.
W. Wickham Smith, for plaintiffs.
colore officii from a merchant, and paid under protest. Ell10tt v. Swartwout, 10 Pet. 137. . (2) The repeal of the acts of 1845 and 1864 and of the Revised Statutes leaves the importer just where he was before they were enacted. (3) Section 25 of the act of June 10, 1890, does not take away the commonlaw right of action against the collector in a case which does not relate to the classification of .merGhandise or the rate of duty chargeable thereon.
(1) A collector of customs was suable at common law for money extorted
REPORTER,vol. 57.
; LACOMBE, Cireuit language of section 25 of the cust()IIj,S administrative actO! June 10, 1890, is controlling of this case. Its phra.seQlogy lscow,prehensive;. its exemption.o£ the collector from. personal liability.to the importer is plain; and the act W8iS· one, which it· was· within the power of congress to pass. The sugge£ltiop. that the importfn' in a case involving the appraisement of merchandise has no right of appeal from the board of general appraisers is immaterial. He is, under this act, entitled to appeal from the decision of the cgllector, and in such case the statute secures the collector exemption from personal suit. Demurrer .sustained.. .
In re LANGFORD.
(Circult Court, D., South Carolina. August 21, 1893.)
INTOXICATING LIQ,UORS-EFFl1lCT OF WILSON ACT.
The Wilson act (26 Stat.:l13) puts an imported package of intoxicating liquors, Whether in its original shape or otherwise, under the police power of "upon arrival In such state," precisely as other intoxicating liquor in the state is subject to the pOllee power. The;expression, "upon arrival in such state," means neither on entrance witbiJ;lthe borders of the state, nor on delivery to the consignee, but on its destination. .
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The South Carolina dispensary act, (approved December 24. 1892,) I 25, 8uBsecB. 1, 3, 4, require on the part of a person charged that the intoxicating liquor was intended for sale; but subdivision 2 makes it a criminal offense for any servant, agent, or employe of a special class of common carriers to remove from a car any intoxicating liquor whatever, Without any qualiftcation as to knowledge that it. Is Intoxicating liquor, or that it is intended for sale, and Without attaching any criminality to the person receiving the liquor from the carrier. Held, that subdivision 2 discriminated, In singling out one class from the whole community for punishment, and was not Within the exercise of the police power, under Const. S. C. art. 1, § 12, which provides that no person shall be liable to any other punishment for any offense, ()r be subjected in law to any other restraints or disqualifications in regard to any personal rights, than such as are laid on· others under like circumstances. The South Carolina dispensary act, § 25, subsec. 2, not being an exercise of police power, the section contravenes the Interstllte commerce act and the fourteenth amendment, and Is void. Where a federal court has jurisdiction In a case of greo.t moment to the partil!6 and: to the public, and cail speedily heo.r the case, and give the desired relief, the case should not be left to the determination of a state court because of the comity between the state and federal courts.
ACT-CONSTITUTIONALITy-POI,ICE POWER,
Application by D. M. Langford for discharge from custody on return of .writ of habeas c0;rPus. Granted. Cothran, Cothran & Wells, for petitioner. D. A. Townsend, Gen., and Mr. Ansel, for respondent. SIMONTON, District Judge. This case comes up upon petition for habeas corpus, the writ, and the return thereto. The peti.


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This Was the It Sneaker 30 Years Ago—and It's Still Cool
Trends come and go, but there's one specific style of sneakers that has been going strong for exactly 30 years: the Nike Air Max. In celebration of its three-decade anniversary, Nordstrom has teamed up with the cult activewear brand on a special collaboration.
"When Nike revealed the very first Air Max in 1987, it changed the relationship between fashion and sport forever," Nordstrom explained on its website. "Take a look back at the iconic, style-defining shoes—then step into the future as we drop a limited selection of new Nike Airs all month long."
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Chalate and El Salvador were head and shoulders above the rest of the Nantucket Adult Soccer League all season, so it was no surprise to see the two teams facing off in the championship match last Wednesday at the Delta Fields.
Chalate pulled ahead 1-0 at the end of the first half, but in a wild and fast-paced second half, El Salvador scored three goals and went on to win the championship game 3-2.
�In the first half we just had too much adrenaline going. At half-time we talked to each other and settled down,� El Salvador�s Paul Quirke said. �We played the worst 45 minutes we had ever played in the first half and were only down one goal against a great team.�
It was the third meeting of the two teams this season, with the first game ending in a tie and Chalate getting the better of their counterparts 3-0 in the second match-up. That regular-season victory catapulted Chalate to the top of the standings and they went on to win the Cerritos Cup, given to the regular season champion.
It was only fitting, as the cup was named after their fallen teammate, Olmer Villanueva, who was left paralyzed from the neck down after an automobile accident in June.
In the championship game, Chalate struck early, 10 minutes into the game, on a header from Caio Correa.
The 15-year-old Correa was named Player of the Year after the game. He was the league�s leading scorer, finishing the regular season with 28 goals.
Photo by Jim Powers Summer soccer final between El Salvador, in red, and Chalate, in blue at the Delta Fields, Wednesday evening.
El Salvador�s defensive attempts to mark the young Correa made for an interesting game within the game, as he used his speed and agility to try to get by El Salvador�s top defenders Mauricio Dos Santos and Gregory Earle, who countered with their size and strength.
After Correa scored, the El Salvador defense settled in and kept Chalate out of the net for the rest of the half, although El Salvador was unable to counter with a goal of its own.
That all changed in the second half. With less than 10 minutes gone by, Edgar Cruz sent a pass across the goal line to Simon Delcher, who knocked in the game-tying goal.
Over the next 10 minutes of game time, both teams were awarded free kicks from just inches outside the penalty box, but neither was able to convert it into a goal.
Then, with El Salvador�s working inside the Chalate box, Esteban Cancela tried to lob a pass toward the net, but the ball deflected off Roberto Edwin�s hand, and El Salvador was given a penalty kick.
Cancela took the shot and blasted the ball to the right side to beat keeper Raul Soles.
�I think after they scored the tying goal we dropped back too much, and all the balls coming in (on the attack) were through the air instead of on the ground, and their defenders are too tall for that to work,� Correa said.
Chalate nearly re-tied the game when Robin Martinez took a shot from the right sideline that was curving toward the top corner of the net but El Salvador�s keeper Jaime Guevara made what was no doubt the save of the game, diving to his left and at the last second punching the ball out of danger.
After stopping the Chalate scoring chance, El Salvador quickly moved the ball up the field, getting it to their speedy striker Carlos Figueroa at midfield. From there Figueroa dribbled the rest of the way, and fired a shot that Soles dove and blocked. Unfortunately for Chalate, the deflection went right back to Figueroa, who easily scored on the rebound with Soles out of position.
Photo by Jim Powers
El Salvador takes the Soccer League title after their win over Chalate.
With time running out and Chalate trailing 3-1, they unleashed an all-out attack, and after a couple of missed scoring opportunities they were able to put the ball in the net.
Andrew Steward weaved through a pair of defenders on the right side of the box and then sent a perfectly placed cross to Mian Scarlett, who was waiting by the far post and headed in the goal that put Chalate back in the game 3-2. But Chalate never had a chance to go for the equalizing goal, as the final whistle blew just seconds after play resumed.
In the awards ceremony after the game, Correa received his Player of the Year honors, D. Los Cremas� top scorer Salvador Guzman was named Rookie of the Year, Guevara was named Goalkeeper of the Year and Natural Vibes head coach Tito Smith was named manager of the year.
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Some years ago as I was listening to a national talk radio program, a very wise black woman called in. I don't recall what subject was being discussed. But she made a simple observation that I had never before considered, and have never since forgotten. She said, "I believe that race is a test." The implication was that it is a test from God, though she didn't say that. And, unfortunately, the host was not as taken with her profound observation as I was and let it pass without comment or inquiry. But I am grateful for the insight of this woman. I'm sure that God has many reasons why he chooses to fill the earth with different cultures, different languages, different religions, different ethnicities, different races. He knows that for some, the differences among men are a blessing and a delight, but for others, the source of endless and ruinous enmity. Examples of that enmity abound throughout the world and throughout history. Indeed race, among other things, is a test from God for all mankind, one of those means by which he "will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them" (Abraham 3:25).
But if race is a test, it is a multifaceted test. I believe it is not only wrong in the eyes of God to be a racist – that is to hold that one race of his children is inferior to another, but that it is also wrong in the eyes of God to hurl the charge of racism at another unjustly. For some in our day, it seems, the charge of racism rolls off the tongue very easily. It is almost like a weapon in their hands. And it is a very effective weapon because it is very difficult, even for the innocent, to defend oneself against that charge. Because the charge of racism is so damaging, and because there is hardly any defense against it, it is a charge that ought not be made wrongly.
We have often heard the story told by President George Albert Smith of a time when he was so ill he thought he had passed to the Other Side. In a vision, he saw his grandfather, George A. Smith, walking toward him. Said President Smith:
"When grandfather came within a few feet of me, he stopped. His stopping was an invitation for me to stop. Then…he looked at me very earnestly and said: 'I would like to know what you have done with my name.' Everything I had ever done passed before me as though it were a flying picture on a screen – everything I had done. Quickly this vivid retrospect came down to the very time I was standing there. My whole life passed before me. I smiled and looked at my grandfather and said: 'I have never done anything with your name of which you need be ashamed'" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church – George Albert Smith, pg. xxvi).
With regard to the subject at hand, I think there is an important principle to be learned from this story. It is that the good name of all God's children is a sacred matter. If President Smith's grandfather would hold his grandson accountable for what he had done with his name, may we not liken that principle to ourselves and expect that we will be held accountable for any injury we have done to the good name of another? I think that is a reasonable conclusion.
Jonathan Decker, in Race in Mormon History, states that "as a church we have an unfortunate history of racism." Brother Decker seems to believe that the priesthood restriction endured by men of African descent was born of racism, not by way of commandment from the Lord. I don't agree with his premise that we as a church have a "history of racism." A history of difficult doctrines and strong words? Yes. But I don't believe that the priesthood restriction which ended in 1978 was born of racism any more than the difficult doctrine of plural marriage was born of "tyranny, self-indulgence, and lawlessness" (The Mormon Question, Sarah Barringer Gordon, pg. 47), as some have charged.
For example, Brother Decker quotes President Spencer W. Kimball:
"The doctrine or policy has not varied in my memory. I know it could. I know the Lord could change his policy and release the ban and forgive the possible error which brought about the deprivation" (Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball).
Brother Decker assumes that the error President Kimball is referring to was made by early Church leaders, and so he states:
"Notice that President Kimball was open to the notion that the priesthood ban was a mistake. It truly may have been brought about by prejudice or incorrect opinion."
I am afraid Brother Decker, in rendering this opinion and all that it implies, was not careful in his reasoning. President Kimball was open to no such notion. How can we know that? We just need to read a little further. President Kimball went on to say – though Brother Decker did not include this in his essay:
"If the time comes, that he will do, I'm sure. These smart members who would force the issue, and there are many of them, cheapen the issue and certainly bring into contempt the sacred principle of revelation and divine authority.
Blacks and the priesthood: I am not sure there will be a change, although there could be. We are under the dictates of our Heavenly Father, and this is not my policy or the Church's policy. It is the policy of the Lord who has established it…" (Ibid)
Strong words from the prophet of God speaking of a very difficult doctrine from the Lord. Could President Kimball have been more clear as to the origin of the priesthood restriction? "It (was) the policy of the Lord who established it." How could anyone misinterpret those words and argue that it may have been "brought about by prejudice or incorrect opinion?"
By the words "release the ban and forgive the possible error which brought about the deprivation," President Kimball does not suggest any revelatory error on the part of early Church leaders (which is what Brother Decker implies). Rather, he refers to those whose errors caused the Lord to impose the priesthood restriction in the first place. Laman and Lemuel made errors which affected their posterity, which caused Lehi to lament as he blessed his grandchildren:
"Wherefore, if ye are cursed, behold, I leave my blessing upon you, that the cursing may be taken from you and be answered upon the heads of your parents" (2 Nephi 4:2).
The error of ancestors can bring a curse upon their posterity. Is there any doubt that generations of Lamanites were cursed as to the priesthood because of the error of their distant ancestors? And isn't it clear from the words of Lehi that the time would come when the error would be forgiven, the ban released, and the deprivation ended?
But to argue that President Kimball's words regarding "possible error" are pointed at "prejudice or incorrect opinion" by early Church leaders is, in my view, a serious error on the part of Brother Decker. If he included the rest of President Kimball's words, his argument would have fallen apart and his unfair "brought about by prejudice or incorrect opinion" conclusion would have been plainly manifest to his readers. This kind of selective presentation of facts is not a light matter when we are talking about the names of good men.
I appreciate the perspective of Elder Jeffrey R. Holland on the matter of the priesthood restriction:
"One clear-cut position is that the folklore must never be perpetuated. … I have to concede to my earlier colleagues. … They, I'm sure, in their own way, were doing the best they knew to give shape to [the policy], to give context for it, to give even history to it. All I can say is however well intended the explanations were, I think almost all of them were inadequate and/or wrong. …
It probably would have been advantageous to say nothing, to say we just don't know, and, [as] with many religious matters, whatever was being done was done on the basis of faith at that time. But some explanations were given and had been given for a lot of years. … At the very least, there should be no effort to perpetuate those efforts to explain why that doctrine existed. I think, to the extent that I know anything about it, as one of the newer and younger ones to come along, … we simply do not know why that practice, that policy, that doctrine was in place" (Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, PBS interview, March 4, 2006).
A very difficult doctrine was given to the Church by the Lord without explanation. In this, I see the dilemma experienced by Father Adam, who for a long time offered up sacrifices to the Lord. When an angel appeared to him and asked him why he offered sacrifices to the Lord, Adam responded, "I know not, save the Lord commanded me" (Moses 5:6). What Elder Holland is saying is that the leaders of the Church were in a similar situation with regard to the priesthood ban. Why was the priesthood withheld? They knew not, save the Lord commanded them. But some of them attempted to explain the doctrine "to give shape to [the policy], to give context for it, to give even history to it" – the "folklore" – when they shouldn't have.
The priesthood ban was lifted nine months after I joined the Church. I remember it well. It was and continues to be a very difficult subject because it is hurtful to brothers and sisters whom we love, because it is an obstacle to bringing many into communion with the Saints which we dearly desire, and because it is so easy to wrongly attribute that policy to ugly racism. But the sum total of the lives of these earlier leaders is that they were magnificently good men, righteous men; men whose lives were marked by fidelity to God and charity toward all men. If they made errors in attempting to explain things they really didn't understand, don't we make the same mistake when we attempt "to give shape to…to give context for, to given even history to" the motives behind their explanations when we really don't understand what was in their hearts? I agree with Elder Holland. It would have been better had they not tried. But I don't believe that the errors they made in attempting to explain the doctrine of the Lord should convict these good men of racism.
It troubles me that so many Latter-day Saints are so willing to point the boney finger of indignation at Church leaders and condemn them as racists and bigots. If you have access to volumes of statements by almost any given individual, could you not select a few statements and – ignoring the tenor, tone, and content of the vast majority of his stated convictions – portray that man in an unflattering light? I think you could. Read all of Brigham Young's teachings and statements, and let them give context to the statements that seem hard to explain. The Lord has warned:
"For behold, the same that judgeth rashly shall be judged rashly again; for according to his works shall his wages be; therefore, he that smiteth shall be smitten again, of the Lord" (Mormon 8:19).
One of the purposes of the Lord in bringing to pass the restoration of all things was "that faith also might increase in the earth" (D&C 1:21). The priesthood ban has been a sore test of faith for many. But by great faith, hundreds of thousands of the children of God of African descent have learned for themselves that this is the work of God and have embraced the fullness of the gospel in spite of the obstacles. Today the children of African descent are blossoming as the rose all around the world. But, as with the posterity of Laman and Lemuel, the children of African descent endured a period of time in which some of the blessings of the gospel were withheld from them. Why? As President Hinckley and other Church leaders have said, "We don't know why."
Indeed, race is a test. So also is humility, forbearance, and the willingness to let God judge the hearts of our brothers. "An unfortunate history of racism" in the Church? I just don't think that is a fair judgment. I say we refrain from charging those of "less enlightened eras" (Brother Decker's words) with capitulation to the ugly orthodoxy of their time and give them a break based on the goodness of their lives. Strong words do not necessarily equal racism. I would also argue that we too have ugly and destructive orthodoxies in our own time – like the corrupt and soul-destroying welfare state – which Brigham Young and others recognized as wicked and rejected, but which many of us embrace because of the beams in our own eyes. In other words, we may not be as enlightened as we like to think. Perhaps a little more humility, a little more forbearance, and a little more willingness to let God be the judge of these things is in order.


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Numbers 35 GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
Cities for the Levites
35 The Lord spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho. He said, 2 "Tell the Israelites to give the Levites some cities from their own property. They must also give the Levites the pastureland around those cities. 3 Then the Levites will have cities to live in and pastureland for their cattle, the flocks they own, and any other animals they have.
4 "The land around the cities that you give the Levites will extend 1,500 feet from the city wall. 5 Outside the city measure off 3,000 feet on the east side, 3,000 feet on the south side, 3,000 feet on the west side, and 3,000 feet on the north side, with the city in the center. This will be their pastureland around the city.
6 "Six of the cities you give the Levites will be cities of refuge. You must allow murderers to escape to these cities. In addition, you must also give the Levites 42 other cities. 7 So you will give a total of 48 cities with pastureland to the Levites. 8 The cities you give the Levites from the property of the other Israelites must be given based on the amount of land each tribe owns. Take more cities from larger tribes and fewer from smaller tribes."
Cities of Refuge
9 The Lord said to Moses, 10 "Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan, 11 select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them. 12 These cities will be places of refuge from any relative who can avenge the death. So anyone accused of murder will not have to die until he has had a trial in front of the community. 13 There will be six cities you select as places of refuge, 14 three on the east side of the Jordan River and three in Canaan. 15 These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities.
16 "But if any of you uses an iron weapon to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. 17 If any of you picks up a stone as a weapon and uses it to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. 18 Or if any of you picks up a piece of wood as a weapon and uses it to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. 19 The relative who can avenge the death must make sure a murderer is put to death. When he catches up with the murderer, he must kill him. 20 If any of you kills someone you hate by shoving him or by deliberately throwing something at him, 21 or if you beat your enemy to death with your bare hands, you must be put to death. You are a murderer. The relative who can avenge the death must kill you when he catches up with you, because you are a murderer.
22 "But suppose you accidentally kill someone who wasn't your enemy. Maybe you shoved him or threw something at him but didn't mean to kill him. 23 Or suppose you drop a big stone, and someone is killed. However, you didn't know the person was there, he wasn't your enemy, and you weren't trying to harm him. 24 Then the community must use these rules in order to decide if you are innocent or if the dead person's relative can avenge the death. 25 If you are innocent, the community must protect you from that relative. They must take you back to the city of refuge you fled to. You must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
26 "But don't go outside the city of refuge you fled to. 27 If the relative who can avenge the death finds you outside the city of refuge and kills you, the relative is not guilty of murder. 28 Accused murderers must stay in their city of refuge until the death of the high priest. They may go back to their own property only after his death.
29 "These will be the rules for future generations wherever you live.
30 "Whoever kills another person will be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of more than one witness. No one can be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
31 "Never accept a cash payment in exchange for the life of a convicted murderer who has been given the death penalty. Murderers must be put to death.
32 "An accused murderer who has fled to a city of refuge must never go back and live on his own land before the death of the high priest. Don't accept a cash payment to allow him to do this.
33 "You must not pollute the land where you live. Murder is what pollutes the land. The land where a murder was committed can never make peace with the Lord except through the death of the murderer. 34 Never make the land where you and I live unclean.[a] I, the Lord, live among the Israelites."
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. Used by permission of Baker Publishing Group
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The following story is true. The names have been changed to protect the identities of my relatively innocent co-conspirators.
I guess I was about 6 years-old, maybe 7, when my best friend from down the street, Sarah, acquired two kittens. Her mom had found these two little grey furballs curled up together under their deck and, after carefully searching for signs of the mother cat, she had concluded that these two must have been left behind. They were scrawny and yowling, but sociable enough to win you over, and they soon became an adored part of the family.
It was summer, so I had all sorts of time on my hands to go trekking down the street to visit these new additions to Sarah's family. Once it became clear that both would survive, Sarah's mom told her that she should come up with names for the pair. So it happened that Sarah and I were sitting on the deck one afternoon searching through baby name books and my well-loved Children's Book of the Saints for the perfect names as the two tabbies wrestled with each other for dominance. Eventually we settled on Jake and Angelica, just as the fighting reached its climax and our dear Angelica bit into Jake's ear hard enough to send him scrambling for cover in Sarah's arms.
That was when we decided to baptize the kittens. Now, let me say here that neither of us were particularly religious children, but I had recently seen my youngest brother baptized, and although it didn't seem to do him much good (he screamed and screamed), neither of us could bear the thought of Jacob and Angelica wandering lost in the dark captivity of feline paganism. And given their recent pugnacious behavior, they clearly needed Jesus.
So we went to work, gathering all the materials we would need. Sarah's grandmother's doilies became the most precious christening outfits – sort of lacy kitty kat capes, if you will. I filled a little bowl with water for the sprinkling. (In hindsight, it seems that both the kittens and I were fortunate that my family didn't come from a background that believed in full immersion.) Sarah and her brother Andrew would be the madrina and padrino – the godparents – and, as the officiant, I briefly instructed them in their responsibilities to bring these kittens up to live in harmony with each other and others.
In the end, it was a simple ceremony. We wanted to sing a hymn, but we realized we didn't know any hymns in common, so we sang the refrain of "You are my Sunshine, My Only Sunshine" as Andrew brought forth the candidates for baptism, squirming in their lacy christening dresses.
"Name this cat," I intoned solemnly. Sarah and Andrew giggled as they held forth Angelica and then Jake for me to gently sprinkle their foreheads, repeating, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
For the record, I would do no more baptizing or pet blessing until I was ordained.
I tell this story today, because our readings over the next two weeks will focus on the meaning of blessing and baptism. And today I want to talk about blessing, because I think our society has a particularly anemic sense of blessing.
Some everyday examples of the erosion of our understanding of blessing:
While the common phrase, "God bless you" extended to another person who had just sneezed might have meant in pre-modern times, "May God protect you from the powers of evil," today it usually means something more like, "I'm socially astute, and this is what people say when someone sneezes" or more negatively, "O good grief, I hope you haven't got a cold."
Or consider the sorts of pictures that would come up on social media if one were to search #blessed: new cars, new stuff, rich foods.
Today, we live in a culture that is more fluent in the language of affirmation and accusation than in the language of blessing.
In the Scriptures, there is more at stake in blessing than we commonly allow. Blessing is not as simple as well-wishing. To be blessed is not just to have a good thing happen to you. Instead, as we find in our reading from Numbers, blessing is about presence, relationship, and power.
At this point in Numbers, the Israelites have been camped out in the wilderness at Sinai for some time. At the mountain there, they have experienced God's presence like never before. Now, they are getting organized to decamp and continue their journey, but will the God who revealed himself powerfully to them at Sinai continue to be present to them as they move? They have built a tabernacle, a sign of God's presence with their encampment, according to God's instructions to Moses. But God also speaks to Moses and tells Aaron to put God's mysterious and unutterable name on the Israelites and assures that he will bless them. Blessing here is God's way of being present with the people, God's way of showing up and showing what God is up too – even in the midst of suffering and struggle.
The imagery in Aaron's blessing is all about relationship. The Lord make his face to shine upon you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you. Blessing is that which brings us face to face with the Lord who reveals himself and yet remains mysterious, shining. The face-to-face work of blessing teaches us our own identity and belovedness, just as a child learns language and connection from her mother's own expressive face. Rowan Williams writes that, "all true forms of personal knowing and mutual honoring occur in a face-to-face relationship between persons. It is by being lovingly faced by another that the individual self becomes a soul." In blessing, God turns toward God's beloved creation, and we like sunflowers turning to face the sun are drawn toward God's mysterious and life-giving light.
I think I felt it back then even in our experimental cat-tism, but I have felt it more intensely in times since when I have laid a hand on a waiting brow in acknowledgment of the sacredness of the other. Marilynne Robinson writes, "the sensation [of blessing] is of really knowing a creature, I mean really feeling its mysterious life and your own mysterious life at the same time."* It is facing each other in this knowing of God's presence in the other.
How would our lives, and families, and communities be transformed if we spoke the language of blessing more often and lingered in this recognition of God's presence?
This is the kind of blessing that we need for our journey when we decamp and head into the unknown of 2017.
This is the blessing that we need so that our lives may not be so driven by anxiety about what we lack, but rather that we may be emboldened by the hope in God's presence among us.
This is the blessing that empowers us to go out from here into a world that scarcely recognizes its own sacredness to do the work of the one who puts his name on us.
You shall say to them,
The LORD bless you and keep you;
the LORD make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;
the LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
Go, name, and bless.
*n.b. Marilynne Robinson's book Gilead is essentially an extended meditation on blessing. It too contains the story of a cat-tism. I guess this is just something that kids who will someday become clergy do. May all cats be appropriately warned.


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In this lab you will learn about using weka using the database iris.arff you find it in the folder: ~ / weka-3-6/data/Iris.arff.
This is a basic donnnées, very famous, with 150 examples of flowers described by four attributes of continuing value and belonging to three classes.
1>Open firstly file Iris.arff with a text editor to discover the format ARFF (Attribute Relation File Format) :
2>Click on the button "O". Choose the data file. / Data / Iris.arff:
Some information will appear in the window
In the pane "SelectedAttribute", you can get basic statistics for the selected attribute: Name, Type, Missing, Unique, distinct, Vlaur Min / Max.
Select SepalLength Attribut:
Select SepalWidth ATTribut :
Select PetalLength :
Select PetalWidth :
Select Class:
So we have :
>>>Blue Color => Iris-Setosa
>>>Red Color => Iris-versicolor
>>>Last Color => Iris-virginica
-Click on Visualize All :
==>We Note that the overlap(chevauchement(fr)) between classes is minimal when we have classification based on attribute petal (Either petalLength or petalWidth).
-Weka offers the possibility to operate by pretreatment by applying a filter on attributes:
- Click on Choose Button >supervised>attribute>Discretize :
==>This filter allows to discretize continuous values
2.Data visualization :
For a first approach to classification, go in the "Visualize" Tab. You will see a set of 25 graphics:
1. Change the axes to achieve a classification that gives off the lower of decision rules
-When X-> PetalWidth && Y -> SepalLength , We give off a minimal number of Decisions Rules :
Decisions Rules (Règles de décision(fr)) :
-if(X>=0.1) AND(X<=0.6) Then Class<-- Iris-Setosa.
-if(X>=1) AND(X<=1.7) AND(Y<=5.6) Then Class<-- Iris-Versicolor.
-if(X>=1.8) AND(X<=2.5) Then Class<-- Iris-virginica.
-if(Y>=7.1) Then Class<-- Iris-virginica.
=>This is the best classification in comparison with other classifications. In effect, the overlap between classes is minimal


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I provided visuals for Ninjatune mercury music prize nominee Hip Hop artist TY at the Big Chill festival.
It was an amazing experience to work with such a talented artist as TY, providing visuals across 3 LED screens on the main festival stage.
I used a cameraman Boldi (www.boldeazy.com) to integrate live camera footage with my footage clips and motion graphics using themes such as hip hop culture, politicians dancing and graphic rhythms.
The visuals were given a mention in the Independent Newspaper.
'On Saturday afternoon Ty spent an hour and a half getting the crowd worked up about British hip-hop and his brilliant backing singers.
He had the best visuals on the stages screen: with famous figures attempting various dance moves.'
The gig was also screened on Channel Four Television.


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|Elizabeth Firth
(Abt 1730-)
Elizabeth Firth 2
Elizabeth married John Child on 21 Oct 1751 in Emley, Yorkshire.1 (John Child was born about 1730.)
The Church of Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index, www.familysearch.org/, JOHN CHILD
Spouse: ELIZABETH FIRTH
Marriage: 21 OCT 1751 Emley, Yorkshire
Messages: Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church.
2 Information provided by Walter Jakeman to Paul T Gray afteer an enquiry to email@example.com (see jakeman2007apr.rtf).


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Toronto, ON, Canada
IRC Nick Toxic Blaze
I was born on Saturday, November 07, 1981 which makes me a 37 year old Scorpio.
I am a female with Brown hair and Hazel eyes.
I joined the EDA mailing list in December, 1997
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If Chris Bentley being elected to the Hesperia Unified School District school board surprised you, you weren't alone.
"I'm stunned, I'm amazed, I'm literally humbled by this experience," he said Thursday.
The only thing the stay-at-home father had hoped for was to not be humiliated when the returns came in.
A controversial and outspoken critic of the HUSD, with no financial backing, no endorsements and no help from political veterans, Bentley had been outspent, out-organized and seemed to be a long shot at best.
At least, it seemed that way until the moment the votes began to be counted.
While other school board, city council or water board candidates gathered at Election Day parties held in local homes and restaurants, Bentley and his family went to the Victor Valley Mall, where they bought new shoes for the family's four children. They had dinner at Olive Garden and did some comparison-shopping at local electronics stores.
"It was about 9 o'clock when I got home," he said. He figured he'd get it over and check the results, the first of which had been posted online by the San Bernardino County Registrar of Voters shortly after 8 p.m. What he saw seemed surreal: He had captured 27 percent of the votes counted so far, which were mostly absentee and early voting ballots at that point. "With the next numbers, I'm going to find out that the glass slipper doesn't really fit Cinderella."
But it didn't work out that way: As the numbers continued to come in over the next 14 hours, Bentley's lead held steady, even as candidates Chris Lindsay and Anthony Riley eventually switched places as the number two and number three vote-getters. When all the votes were counted at 12:38 p.m. on Wednesday, it was official: Bentley had gone from being a gadfly whose intention was to push former school board member and new school board candidate Eric Swanson to answer some tough questions had beaten Swanson -- and the rest of the six-person field -- and been elected to the school board.
"I filed papers the day after Swanson wrote his letter [to the editor] and started campaigning on the bus issue," Bentley said. "I thought Eric owed the public some explanations for [the California Charter Academy], ExCEL and some of the things the old board did."
Bentley's victory was a decisive one: He received 7,283 votes, or 24.87 percent of the vote. The next runner-up, Riley, received 20.82 percent of the vote and a total of 6,098 votes.
As for Swanson, Bentley beat him by 2,878 votes and almost 10 percent of the total vote.
How he won
"I was literally my own political operative," he said. "I asked smart people for political help, but I ended up doing it on my own."
While Riley benefited from phone banks manned by members of the Hesperia Teachers Association, which endorsed him and paid for much of his $56,227 (and counting) campaign expenditures, Bentley -- who self-financed his campaign to the tune of $10,536 -- did his networking on the sidelines of football fields at area parks four nights a week while his son played.
"I wasn't trolling for votes; you have two hours to kill, what are you going to do?"
What he did was talk to other parents, many of whom had children in the HUSD and many of whom had frustrations with the school district that they shared with Bentley, whose own frustrations with the school district have made him a thorn in the district's side for the past three years.
"I do believe I struck a chord with what I was trying to say," he said. And he related to potential voters as a father, not as a politician. "When people look at me, I think that's the best thing about me, that I'm a dad."
And he didn't follow the traditional route to power in Hesperia. He sent no mailers and made no cold calls.
"I think anybody who hears me talk recognizes I'm passionate about education," he said. "Hopefully people saw in me the kind of advocate that they'd want."
A new day, a new Bentley?
His passion has come across as acrimonious or even outright hostility to more than one person in the district. As a result, he's got plenty of critics and is a regular punching bag on the HesperiaStar.com and VVDailyPress.com forums.
But Bentley says he's also had a quieter core of supporters as well.
"I got the quiet thumbs-up from very many teachers," he said.
Bentley says he recognizes that how he's conducted himself when he was just advocating for his own children -- his "constituency of four," as he's called them -- can't be the way he handles himself when his actions can potentially affect the 21,064 students in the HUSD.
"That's the $64,000 question right there: Do I change?" he said.
Getting "7,283 votes was a humbling experience," Bentley said.
"I need to learn how to get along with people better," he said. "There's more potential for collateral damage to other kids now."
And he's already started working on it: "I went back to a [football] field last night and apologized" for comments he had made during an argument with another parent. "I was tired of my kid paying for a stupid mistake I did."
As for the clashes he's had in the past with HUSD employees -- a dispute with administrators at Maple Elementary School in 2005 snowballed into conflict with officials at the HUSD district office and finally his run for the school board -- Bentley said he's calling a truce.
"I will listen to anyone, any time, anywhere," Bentley said. "I'm not out to get anybody."
And he's going to try and prove that almost immediately, with site visits to all of the HUSD's schools, meeting with principals and staff, asking them what's working at their sites and what's not.
When he's sworn in next month, he hopes to work together with everyone in the HUSD community, to help keep parents better informed and more included, create greater transparency in the district and make more prudent and more informed decisions than he says the school board has been making of late. And he knows he'll need the community's cooperation to do it.
"December 8 is a new day," Bentley said. "It's a new day."
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Meanhile, the Madras High Court lifted the stay order issued against Mersal. One Rajendran had filed a case alleging that the makers used Mersal title from his film Mersalayiten and requested the Madras High Court to issue stay order against Sri Thenandal Films for using the title Mersal.
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I've continued to stew over getting a new camera, as I discussed a while ago. Today, the consumer-electronics world once again delivers the benefits of waiting, when the latest camera in Canon's Digital Rebel line was announced: the XSi (aka 450D) (see Gizmodo and DPreview). It looks very nice. Of course, if I actually wanted to buy it, I'll have to wait until April.
+ Live view, 40D style (and then some)
+ Bigger viewfinder
+ Kit lens is now an IS lens
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Today it was announced that petrol and diesel cars will not be on sale in France after 2040. This comes soon after the news that Volvo will only make electric or hybrid vehicles after 2019. I have also just discovered a biodegradable car made from bioplastics this week. All major developments in policy and practice for the automotive sector.
There is also now a refrigerated lorry that runs off nitrogen and Waitrose have a small fleet of biomethane fueled lorries. So is this the end of the internal combustion engine? Whilst we will certainly be relying on petrol and diesel for some time into the future it looks more and more that the technical (and some of the market) challenges of decarbonising transport are being addressed.
As with all things that can move us into a more sustainable future, the answer lies in lots of technological applications, industry innovation and often policy support, not just one silver bullet.
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This all sounds great, and they are real positive moves forward, but there remain negative impacts. Petrol and Diesel vehicles are coming lighter through materials substitution using more aluminium or carbon fibre and are therefore more fuel efficient. However such materials are substantially more energy consuming than steel to process, with a consequent greater global warming impact during the construction phase. Lithium found in electric vehicle batteries has to be mined creating its own environmental and social impacts and is not universally available (most of the mines are in Africa, but the resources are owned by China), elements found in hydrogen car fuel cells are also rare. The bioplastic car is made from plastic derived from flax and sugar beet which raises the issue of using land to grow something that is not for food. Charging your electric car, whilst producing less carbon dioxide per mile, is still generating carbon emissions unless you're using a 100% renewable energy generation source, the manufacture of the vehicle creates carbon emissions and there is still oil used in the fabric of cars and (clearly) for its operation.
Vehicle manufacturers are increasingly moving towards a circular manufacturing model where all components are recycled, this however requires energy, if renewable energy then the impact is greatly reduced, if not then it is still much better than the status quo, but not carbon free.
What to do
We will always want to move ourselves and goods around in the ways modern society expects, but in order to live in a more sustainable manner we really do need to reduce this as much as possible. Whether it's: buying locally made or grown products; walking and cycling more; car sharing your commute or work from home; trying to get all your errands done in one journey and asking your neighbours while you're at it if they need anything; taking the train or bus (where you can do some work and be more productive); doing business by conference call, or; learning via a webinar.
Can you manage without a car? Join a car pool for when you need a vehicle, a car sat on the drive doing nothing for most of its life is a huge waste of money and resources.
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Many people say to me what fantastic thing oil is. Our modern world would not have developed without it. This is exactly why we should preserving what we have left, for the important things for which there is little alternative e.g. specialist pharmaceuticals, and not burning it inefficiently in an internal combustion engine to make a journey we perhaps don't need to.
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McIlrath had six goals and 11 assists in 73 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack (AHL) last season. He established AHL career-highs in games played and shots on goal (78), and tied career-highs in goals, assists, points, game-winning goals (two) and penalty minutes (165).
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We just want to express our thanks to all you who have been following our updates and praying fervently for our family through this difficult time of many unknowns.
Tim's mom has been settled in and will be living with his sister during her time of treatments, physical therapy and radiation sessions. She is still very weak and tires easily...but is working at regaining her strength back again. Continued prayers for her ongoing as well as for family members who will be helping care for her.
Thank you to all who contributed to Tim flying home to be with his siblings and mom during this time, for those who helped him pack up her things, and taking care of him while in the states! It was so greatly appreciated!
Tim will be heading back to Kenya Sunday and we are all very ready to have him back home!! Thank you again!
May God Bless You!!!
The Kelly Family
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
On the Road
We are happy to say that Tim, his two sisters and his mom are on the road and traveling west to MT. After may delays due to complications from the biopsies, the doctors agreed to discharge her for travel in order that they can begin to make their way to the hospital/doctors that will be working with her and future treatments.
Its been a long two weeks, with many emotional ups and downs. What we do know is that she has brain and lung cancer. What we don't know, the family is hoping to get some answers once they arrive and have a chance to meet with the surgeons and doctors to determine the next step in her care and treatments.
Please continue to pray for:
*wisdom for Tim and his siblings as they help mom, making decisions, and go through this incredibly hard storm.
*for traveling mercies ~ they left 7 hrs ago from the hospital and are making their way to MT. Have about 13-14 hours of travel left. pray for excellent road conditions and ease of travel for all of them.
* wisdom for the doctors/nurses/hospital staff
* for each of the family members as we all are processing in this very emotional time, and especially the grandkids: Sue/Brad ~ CO, Sara/David, Preston & Sydney ~ NM, Shannon/Jason, Hunter & Logan ~ MT, Tim/Chrissy, McKenna, Tommy, Kaden & Micah ~ Kenya, Africa
Thank you for all of you who have prayed, sent encouraging emails, notes, cards, offers to help in anyway and given towards expenses. We are so grateful to you for that!
Its been a long two weeks, with many emotional ups and downs. What we do know is that she has brain and lung cancer. What we don't know, the family is hoping to get some answers once they arrive and have a chance to meet with the surgeons and doctors to determine the next step in her care and treatments.
Please continue to pray for:
*wisdom for Tim and his siblings as they help mom, making decisions, and go through this incredibly hard storm.
*for traveling mercies ~ they left 7 hrs ago from the hospital and are making their way to MT. Have about 13-14 hours of travel left. pray for excellent road conditions and ease of travel for all of them.
* wisdom for the doctors/nurses/hospital staff
* for each of the family members as we all are processing in this very emotional time, and especially the grandkids: Sue/Brad ~ CO, Sara/David, Preston & Sydney ~ NM, Shannon/Jason, Hunter & Logan ~ MT, Tim/Chrissy, McKenna, Tommy, Kaden & Micah ~ Kenya, Africa
Thank you for all of you who have prayed, sent encouraging emails, notes, cards, offers to help in anyway and given towards expenses. We are so grateful to you for that!
"God is who He says He is
God will do what He says He will do
We are who God says we are
God's word is alive and active in me
Im BELIEVING GOD!! "
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Tim is on his way to the airport, getting ready to fly out tonight to MT. Well, at least that was the plan.
However, upon receiving the latest update on mom just about an hour ago, Tim will now try to rearrange his flight to land in MN instead of MT.
The family decided, that with the seizures, biopsies procedures, possible surgery and treatment, Sally will need 24/7 care for the next few months. The family decided for the time being that Sally should return to MT, to be cared for by Shannon and her sisters which is her best option at this time.
On Monday, Mom had her first biopsy attempt on the spot on her lung to determine what kind of cancer she has. The risks of this procedure is that She may experience:
** a 5% chance that the biopsy withdrawal would not be enough to test
** a chance that air pockets could develop in the lungs as a result of the biopsy procedure
** a risk of her lung deflating due to the air pockets from biopsy procedure.
After the first attempt on Monday, the Dr. reported that they did not get enough sample to gain conclusive results. So, a secondary biopsy was scheduled for Wed with results coming back today.
After the second attempt, mom began to experience difficulty breathing and pain after the procedure (first attempt she had no pain). They X-rayed her lungs to discover that there was an air pocket in her lungs.
Prior to the biopsy procedures, the Dr had told Tim's sister, that Mom would be released for travel and could travel by airplane, as long as she stayed on her seizure medication.
However, after the second attempt and the complications of it, she is now unable to fly.
It is now a waiting game to see, if her lungs will "calm" down. After another Xray today, the air pocket is larger and will not be discharged until the pocket decreases in size.
So, Tim is going to attempt to change his flight to arrive in Mpls, MN meet up with his mom and sisters and then they will rent a vehicle and drive back to MT.
At times, this all seems so very complicated and overwhelming, especially when every decision is hinged upon what test results come back,or how mom is responding to procedures.
Tim's sisters are exhausted, overwhelmed, worn down and rightly so. THey have been by mom's side since Thursday.
We know so many of you have committed to prayer on behalf of our family and we are so extremely grateful.
We are asking for you to continue to pray:
1. For strength, understanding, discernment, peace, renewed energy, encouragement for Sara and Shannon and Tim
2. For Tim as he travels back to the US. Pray especially that British Airways will be leinent and understanding of Tim's change in destination and accommodate him to switch without penalties.
3. For Tim as he will arrive exhausted into Mpls (after 24 hrs of travel), and then will have to turn around and drive another 20+ hours with his mom and sisters to MT.
4. Pray for alertness for Tim, renewed energy, supernatural strength for his family as they all look to him for strength, Godly wisdom and discernment.
5. For myself and the children as we remain here in Kenya. For God's favor and hand of protection in his absence.
6. For decisions to come and wisdom for them.
7. For test results that have yet to come in, for upcoming tests on Monday scheduled in MT and for plans for treatments.
Thank you to all of you who have given towards the emergency fund to travel back. We are so blessed by your kindness and generosity.
Thank you at this time just doesn't seem like its enough to say...but we are so THANKFUL for your care and commitment to stand with us at this time. Thank you for the emails, notes of encouragement! It boosters our faith, and has sustained us and encouraged us greatly!!
We love you all!
Tim and Chrissy and family
Monday, January 6, 2014
Thank you so much for the sentiments, heartfelt words of encouragement and passionate prayers for us as a family and on behalf for Sally and extended family members. We are so blessed to be a part of the Body of Christ. You have demonstrated God's love towards us in the midst of this storm and we THANK YOU for that!!
You don't know how much it means to us - and even as hard as it is for us to be so far away...we have felt God's sustaining power and strength in the midst of the storm.
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the Presence of God in the midst of it all"
Update on Mom:
**She has been sleeping a lot mostly due to some of the medications she is currently on. Tim had a chance to talk with her briefly last night when she was awake.
**Two tumors have been found in her brain - a 1" by 1" mass and the other a smaller spot.
**a complete body CT scan has revealed a spot on her lung.
So, here is what is to follow. On Monday, a biopsy will be done on the spot on her lungs. If the results come back that its the same type of cancer she had previously back in 2001, then the options for treatment are good.
However, if the biopsy report comes back as different than the type of cancer she has had, they then must call in a specialist to do a biopsy on her brain to determine what kind of cancer she has and what her treatment options are.
Depending on the test results, will determine how long she will stay in the MN hospital.
It has been advised from the doctor that Mom will need help and assistance from her family. Her family is working on what will be in her best interest and for the follow up care through surgery, recovery and treatment.
Tim and I have been discussing what he should do and we both agree that it is important for him to go and be with his mom and to assist his sisters in anyway possible.
Tim will most likely be flying out on Thurs Jan 9th. for an undetermined amount of time.
Many people have been asking how they can help us in this situation, and for those who are wanting to do so, we could really use help in the expense of this unexpected circumstances. His expenses will be quite significant which covers the cost of his airfare, food/lodging and on the ground travel expenses incurred along the way.
If you wish to contribute, and for tax deductible receipts, checks can be made out to and mailed to:
Living Hope Church
Attn: Tim Kelly/family emergency
1840 W Mason St
Green Bay Wi 54303
Tim Kelly (not tax deductible)
attn: Bob WIgman
1300 Longtail Beach Rd
Suamico WI 54173
Thank you for your continued prayer support during this time. It means the world to us!!
Friday, January 3, 2014
We covet your prayers!!
We are writing with heavy hearts and asking for your immediate prayers for our family and extended family members.
Last night we received word that Tim's mom (Sally Kelly) was traveling back from Montana (where she had spent Christmas with Tim's sister) and collapsed in the Mpls airport. She suffered a seizure and was quickly taken to a hospital. After they evaluated her and did some tests and a CT scan, they discovered a massive brain tumor that appears to be cancerous.
We are extremely thankful and grateful for friends who live in the mlps area who dropped what they were doing and went to the hospital to be with mom and minister to her and be with her as she received the news. It is hard to even comprehend the feeling of being so far away and helpless to do anything or not be with someone you love during a crisis.
Tim's sisters have since arrived to be with mom in the hospital until specific tests results can be read and decisions can be made as to further treatment options.
At this point, mom is being sedated to keep her from experiencing more seizures and to minimize her stress and anxiety. The doctors would like to do a biopsy but with the tumor being in the brain, makes it a bit more complicated. We are unsure at this time whether mom will be able to travel back to Green Bay considering her condition.
Please pray for us as we search to come to terms and grasp with this situation and for wisdom as to what to do.
1. For Tim's sisters as they are "on the ground" there with mom and there to help mom make decisions as to what to do next.
2. For Tim as he is broken and torn being so far from home and considering what he needs to do - whether to travel home and when to do so.
One thing we are sure of in the midst of all this uncertainty, is that God is in complete control. This is not out of his range of knowledge. And certainly He knew when He called us to come to Kenya so far away, that we would be faced with this storm!! We have to trust that He cares and loves us and will be faithful to see us through this no matter what the outcome.
Thank you for praying! We covet your prayers more than ever!! We'll keep you updated as time goes on!!
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