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does anyone know how i can make this work? here's the situation: please be patient to read. i need help :
1. ive installed linux 2 times months ago. there was no problem. it ran smoothly. now, the only thing changed with my hardware is the usb keyboard(ps2 before). now when i boot from cd, after the "/sbin/loader" file loads, it should go to a blue screen that says "running anaconda". the problem is that the pc hangs during this time (blue screen, before the running anaconda message). i tried running "linux nousb" to disable usb support and it continues. seems my problem was solved... BUT:
2. after selecting all packages i want to install etc... during the actual copying of the packages (about 50 - 60%, sometimes even less!), the pc hangs. the mouse moves, but the cd wont eject. i already unplugged the usb keyboard before install and it still hangs. this happened 5 times.
3. the pc hangs DURING boot from cd process. when i use a FLOPPY BOOT DISK, there seems to be nothing wrong with the keyboard. but the pc still hangs on the installation process of copying packages.
4. maybe its a CD problem. i then tried the install from hard disk method. so i made 3 ISO images(named redhat1.ISO, redhat2...) using UltraISO (its an ISO image creator). i placed the ISOs on Drive C:\ (c:\redhat1.ISO, c:\redhat2.ISO...) BUT when i select the /dev/hda1 then the directory "/" the installer cant find the image. i tried placing them in a directory called "C:\temp\new\RedHat", like in the RedHat Documentation sample of this method. it still doesnt work. maybe there should be a specific filename? has anyone tried this method?
there... i hope someone has experienced this too. please help thanks... suggestions are welcome...


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We had learned all about the butterfly lifecycle, and what better way to experience something than to see it happen before your eyes. I read this Let's Read and Find Out Science Reader entitled "From Caterpillar to Butterfly." In this story, the students in the class receive caterpillars in a jar, and are anxiously waiting for them to change or go through metamorphasis. This book is great at explaining key vocabulary appropriate for early learners. We learned that although our skin grows with us, a caterpillar's skin does not. Instead, it molts about 3 or 4 times. It sheds its skin and has a new one underneath. We actually saw this in our real-life observations. We learned that the caterpillar hangs from a button of silk, which enables it to attach without falling off the the branch (or in our case, lid of the container). Before we got our larvae delivery, I explained that we were going to be just like the kids in the book, discovering the life-cycle of the butterfly right before our very eyes.
After the caterpillars made their cocoons on the top lids of the containers they were in, we put them in this hand-made netting. It's made with paper plates on either ends, and tulle wrapped securely around. A large branch gives it stability and is suspended in the middle. We cinched the ends with clips and attached it to the ceiling. We put it in a spot everyone could view, but not such a high-traffic area that it would be bumped and jostled with our daily activities.
The cocoons before they hatched. They shook at times, but that button of silk held fast!
One of the several Painted Lady Butterflies after hatching (the butterfly in the story was also a Painted Lady!).
We sliced up oranges for them to feed on once they had hatched out of the chrysalis. The Science Reader explained that the butterflies eat through a long coiled tube called a proboscis. We actually saw them eating, which was so amazing! The proboscis was as long as one of their legs and went directly into the orange! So cool! The red you see in the picture, is the dye that came off their wings as they began to dry.
Here we are outside in our rock garden about to release the butterflies. Just like the students in the book, we were a little happy and a little sad. We were glad the butterflies were going to be out in nature, their true and natural home, but we were also going to miss learning and observing them each day!
We knew they were ready to find their true home because a few of them kept escaping into the classroom. They were ready to fly!
Off they go! I had to cover the faces, but the kid's expressions were just priceless as they saw the butterflies take flight! Look closely at the little guy to the extreme left! Mouth gaping open, his face was full of wonder and excitement! Priceless!
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Check out my first post (HERE) for a whole explanation on this! Jenni is hosting this round and she has a linky set up if you'd like to join in! Check out her blog HERE.
Today's topic is: your favorite writer.
This isn't even a question. My favorite writer, hands down is:
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I have to tell you guys, I love, love, LOVE this author! So far, I've read every book of her's that has been released (I'm halfway through ACOMAF) and I've loved all of them. She's such a wonderful fantasy author who doesn't stop at the fantasy aspects. She has stellar world-building and character development as well as plot structure. If you haven't read her books yet and you're a fan of heavier YA fantasy, I highly suggest checking out her books!
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The weird thing is that I'm not even sure if I actually AM ugly or not, but I don't suppose it matters either way because I FEEL ugly regardless. Because of this, I spend way too much time trying to find affirmation on my looks, which is (obviously) quite pathetic, and it usually doesn't work anyway. Besides, nobody wants to see "rate me" threads on ANY board.
So, does anybody have any tips for changing my perspective on this? Whether I'm actually ugly or not, I feel ugly all the time and I hate it. Yes, I know, "inner beauty" and all that, but I'm having a hard time not hating my insides, too.
Anybody else on here ever find a way to get past this feeling? :(
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Yeah, I know how that feels. I used to be overlooked by girls all my life and have girls that I did love run off with a hotter guy. I was normally quiet but in reality I was always down and easily insulted. I was a chubby guy that girls liked talking to when the hot guy isn't around. Though they wouldn't date me, I started to put myself down till I did something about it. I changed my attitude and lost the weight and started focusing on other things except females. Its kind of funny how I stopped worrying about finding love and girls, they wind up finding me. One of the girls I used to have a crush on back in Middle school saw me and was talking to me. " Oh I thought you were always cute back then" Me : "Oh really? Then why didn't you say anything to me about it?" She would either just smile or try to change the topic. In the end I realized I didn't need attention or someone who was shallow. So in a way its better to just focus on yourself and tell yourself your not ugly. Each person in this world is different from the next in personality, thoughts, and looks. No one is truly ugly or truly good looking. It differs on each person's opinion. That's my opinion, because from what I see, Everyone doesn't always agree on the same thing =)


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So after such a long wait the poor Dear Jane Quilt has a back.
The batting was sandwiched in yesterday and today I have actually started quilting on it.
Today I found my quilting thread and all of the tiny needles that I would need. I even bought some extra hand cream as quilting is quite harsh on the hands. I should have just gone and got my normal vitamin E cream that I use as the one that I got has perfume in it and it burned my poor delicate skin.
The next three I will do are all the greens and then I will box off the middle and start on the next occurrence. I can see the program and now that I am initiated I just have to keep on stitching and before I know it I will be at 2% complete as it is I have not even reached 1%.
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State of the Guild Address 2016
Neksis / Feb 12, 2016
Hi, Neksis here. I just wanted to share with you where I feel we're at and what's in store the guild. I'll do my best to keep it short and I thank you for taking the time and interest to read it.
Our Approach to Running the Guild
With the release of the Heart of Thorns' mechanics and content, the dynamics of the relationship that guilds have with their members has changed. We now have an environment where it's much more convenient for people to be members of multiple guilds and, as a result, guilds who are trying to maintain strict representation policies are really having a hard time of it.
They're finding out what we, pretty much, have always known: . People are going to stick with guilds where they have the most fun and it's with this mindset that we will run this guild.
Guild Events
Our biggest focus is going to be bringing you more scheduled content that we all can run together as a guild. These Guild Events will encompass all types of gameplay ranging from the heavily coordinated and challenging to events which are ultra-casual--who knows? We even might do stuff that's downright silly. Whichever the case, the experience of getting the whole guild and running the game together is unmatched when you're with a good guild. It's why people join guilds in the first place. We plan to bring you more of it.
Our Real Guild Hall
Thanks to your donated materials and efforts, the Guild Hall is really coming together. Just remember that . Within it we house the guild's past and decide it's future. Whether people are using it to vote on new changes and ideas for the guild or joking around in its chatroom, the website is the nexus for all guild activity outside of the game.
One new feature recently added to the homepage is a Comments/Suggestions box. This allows you to offer any observations or criticisms regarding the guild and even gives you the option of submitting them anonymously--even I won't be able to tell who sent them.
I've always strived to make this website a useful, intuitive and content-rich resource and am always looking for ways to improve its convenience to the guild. So please, use this website and take advantage of its content--even if it's to look for new events on the calendar or check personal messages every now and then before hopping into the game.
It's Your Guild
This guild is what you make it and you all have a say in how it's run and where it's headed. Whether it's by voting in polls, making submissions in the Comment/Suggestion box or by contacting one of our Senior Members directly, the opinion and consensus of all guild members is what shapes this guild into what it is and will become.
The reason for this is because . It's the casual, friendly attitude that you share with one another that makes people choose to make our guild their home. No one here carries a chip on their shoulder or is too elitist or self-absorbed to help out another member or include them in their game. The patience and support given to each other during guild missions are qualities I've rarely seen in any other guilds I've been a part of.
I, along with the other leadership of the guild thank you for this and want to assure you we're going to do our best to make this guild as fun for you as you've made it for us.
Thank you and I'll see you in game,


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She was never going to let anyone else steal the attention on the red carpet, was she?
Rihanna pulled out all the best moves when she arrived at the MTV Movie Awards.
The gorgeous singer leg-bombed in her white dress and almost suffered a minor wardrobe malfunction.
Her nude hotpants were almost let a bit, er, loose and she narrowly avoided over-exposing near her groin area.
During the show, Rihanna performed her duet hit Monster with Eminem for the first time.
She did a costume change and ditched her stunning gown for a more urban vibe.
Rihanna has been off the radar lately as she takes a deserved break following an exhausting world tour.
In recent weeks the unlucky in love beaut has all but confirmed her relationship with rap hitmaker Drake.
The pair were seen holding hands as she joined him in London for his performances across the country.


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Monday, 19 November 2012
A quilt for No2...
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I love the bold design!ReplyDelete
Oh, it's lovely! Better late than never...ReplyDelete
I love it. Your hand stitching is so neat. I am absolutely clueless when it comes to quilting (well, most things on the crafting front.)ReplyDelete
oh so lovely. well worth waiting for I'd say. and 20 quilts. wow! xxxReplyDelete
Utterly fab. I'm impressed that a 16 year old lad appreciates a handmade quilt. My boys wouldn't and my daughter would just spill nail varnish on it.ReplyDelete
Worth the wait I think and the hand quilting looks perfect. Love the pattern for the new one... just do it! (Says she who hasn't even finished my first quilt!)ReplyDelete
Oh it is absolutely gorgeous! And really masculine too. Definitely worth the wait. It would have been too warm in August anyway :) And the new pattern is fab. I agree with Gina you should just dive in, but if you want to procrastinate a bit longer perhaps I could commission you to do something for me?! K xReplyDelete
Gorgeous quilt and the hand quilting looks beautiful!ReplyDelete
I've nearly finished my retro flowers and, although it felt like a slog (each bit seems to take ages), it is so worth it! Sewing curves isn't so bad, I used this method using my 1/4" foot without pins and it's so quick and easy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlwVGoL4zV0&feature=player_embedded
Wow - it's beautiful! And, I'm so impressed that you hand-quilted it!ReplyDelete
You are a quilting legend!! That is a glorious, boyish quilt, lucky boy! BxReplyDelete
Oh Wow! It's fab Tracy, definitely masculine and very striking and I'm hugely impressed that you've got 20 quilts under your belt - not literally I hasten to add, or your belt wouldn't do up would it - but you know what I mean! Sewing curves sounds incredibly daunting to me but then you are a quilting master so why not give it a go xxxReplyDelete
20, goodness! And so gorgeous!ReplyDelete
It's stunning! And Wow! That is a lot of quilts in just four years, I am in awe!ReplyDelete
That's gorgeous, congratulations on getting to 20 quiltsReplyDelete
Hi! Thanks for leaving me a comment, I really enjoy reading them and I will try to reply if I can find an email address for you...


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So it has been ages since I have blogged here...several other things are up and running.
I am truly tired of the of the mud-slinging and the baseless and just irrelevant trash talk that is going on with both sides of the political spectrum. At times it feels like I am back in 3rd grade with rash talk going on....and senseless bullying.
Most recently I was enraged by both McCain and Palin's misinformed (or ignorant) commentary re: community organizers. Both seemed to not "get" what community organization is all about, and the sheer and daunting responsibility that is involved with community organization.
So, rather than comment more on it, I offer a link from another blog re: the history and enormous global responsibility that community organizers have - http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/4/105623/5197/586/586233
In the meantime, I beg, I plead, I pray that both sides of the debate could get back to the issues and needs of our country and the world, rather than dig into the personal lives of candidates children, trash talk the past and valid experience of candidates, or simply engage in the immature and disrespectful trash talk and mockery.
Please - let's get back to the issues that need to be focused on. Please!
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Oops - community organizing means no responsibility?
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Yep, not only is there a T towel, now there's a T bag, too, thanks to a wee collaboration with Matt of Mattt. The limited edition bag features charcoal ink Ts on grey denim (ie: perfect for those who like muted colours!) and is only available in Matt's shop or the markets he's attending. I was at Rose St last Saturday to visit a friend and saw one of them in amongst all the other bags, which was quite cool (forgot to take a snap tho, so stole this one from Matt!)
And in other collaboration news, some of my Volker Haug cushions (ie: cushions screen printed with Volker Haug's lights) are now stocked in Tongue and Groove in Collingwood. I haven't been to the new shop/studio, which is now off Smith Street (I think...though their website's yet to be updated) but loooved the old Smith Street store, so can't wait to drop by. Oh, and the cushions come in four different designs, as shown in the photos above, and in medium and large sizes.
And note the use of black and grey, rather than my usual rather bright colour palette...it must be a boy thing.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
It's a T bag
Posted by Spin Spin at Thursday, October 08, 2009
Labels: collaboration, mattt, volker haug
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The bag looks fabulous! Well done!ReplyDelete
Love the muted colours - looks great!ReplyDelete
T-bag rocks... when can we expect the other 25 letters of the alphabet? :)ReplyDelete
Tess - when they start being a delicious beverage. Har ho.ReplyDelete
Thanks for saying nice things peeps :)
hi there, just wanted to let you know that Akzidenz this week is my choice for the Sunday Stash on flickr - i love that fabric!!ReplyDelete
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BRITISH banker Rurik Jutting has been ruled mentally fit to stand trial for the murder of two Indonesian women.
Jutting, 29, originally from Cobham, Surrey, appeared in a short court hearing in Hong Kong today charged with the women's murders after having undergone psychiatric tests.
A judge ruled he was fit to enter a plea, although Jutting did not do so, and the case was adjourned until July after prosecutors said the government lab needed 28 weeks to examine more than 200 items of evidence collected from the crime scene.
The bodies of the two young women were found at Jutting's 31st floor apartment in the Wan Chai nightlife and red light district.
Cambridge-educated Jutting, who worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, appeared in court unshaven and wearing the same clothes from previous appearances.
Sumarti Ningsih, 23, was found dead in a suitcase at Jutting's flat in the former British colony's Wan Chai district .
Police had been called to the property on Halloween night and first found 29-year-old Seneng Mujiasih with wounds to her throat and buttocks. She died a short time later.
Jutting moved to Hong Kong from London in July last year and is understood to have quit his highly-paid job in the days before the incident.
Before leaving he appeared to have set a sinister automatic response for his email account at the bank.
The email response read: "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath. For escalation please contact God, though suspect the devil will have custody (Last line only really worked if I had followed through)."


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Europe and Eurasia: Remarks After a Friends of Georgia Photo Opportunity
QUESTION: Mr. Tillerson, can I ask you, sir, please, recognizing the Trump decision yesterday on Jerusalem, Israel, Jerusalem as (inaudible) as the capital of Israel, a reaction (inaudible)? What's the reaction of the United States Department of --
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, I think, as the President said in his remarks, the recognition is just a recognition of reality. All of Israel's government offices are largely in Jerusalem already, so the U.S. is just recognizing the reality of that. I think it's important, though, in the context of those remarks that the President also said the U.S. would support a two-state solution if those – that is the desire of the two parties, and he also said this does not in any way finalize the status of Jerusalem, that that's still up to the parties to discuss, and I think the President was very clear in that regard.
We've very committed to a peace process still. It's what I know the whole world wants and we still believe there is an opportunity for peace.
Thank you.
QUESTION: Yesterday you made a statement about Georgia's aspiration to NATO. Can you tell us respective of Georgia and NATO and --
SECRETARY TILLERSON: Well, the U.S. strongly supports Georgia's membership in NATO and we look forward to completing all the steps for that to happen.
QUESTION: Thank you.
QUESTION: Secretary Tillerson, what will be your message to Foreign Minister Lavrov?
SECRETARY TILLERSON: I'll save that for Minister Lavrov.


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One of the films I have been following very closely at the Australian box office is The Painted Veil. The film directed by Aussie John Curren (Praise, We Don't Live Here Anymore) and starring Ed Norton and Naomi Watts that was released a year and a half ago in America. Australia was only deemed worthy to see this acclaimed Somerset adaptation three weeks ago. It reminds me of how the UK had to wait two years for The Upside of Anger for reasons I'll never know. In the time since The Painted Veil, however, was released in American the following things have happened:
- Co-Stars Naomi Watts and Liev Shreiber have had a year-long relationship and had a child who is now ten months old,
- Watts, Shreiber and Norton have completed eleven films combined from summer blockbusters like The Incredible Hulk (Norton) and Wolverine (Shreiber) to arthouse films like Funny Games U.S. (Watts),
- The film won a Golden Globe and LAFCA Critics Award for Alexandre Desplat's score (below), as well as a Best Adapted Score win from the National Board of Review and two Independent Spirit Award nominations,
- Two films (The Departed and No Country For Old Men) have won Best Picture Academy Awards,
- Australia has had an election and change of Government, America has had seemingly year-long Democratic Party elections and Zimbabwe's President Mugabe has been voted out of office (or has he?),
- Angelina Jolie has adopted 294 babies and 13 African nations.
So it is with amusement that I see how well The Painted Veil has done at the Australian box office. In it's first week of release it was the second highest new entry on the chart, after Deception with Hugh Jackman. It debuted at #7 with takings of just under $530,000 and a per theatre average of nearly double it's nearest rival ($10,800 versus Forgetting Sarah Marshall's $6,000 at #1).
In it's second week it rose up the chart to number four, behind only Iron Man, Made of Honour (both debuts) and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. It grossed $340,500, experiencing the smallest drop of any film in the top ten. And this past weekend Veil grossed $294,000 for a number five position on the chart. So far it has grossed over $1.1mil, which equates to roughly $11million in American terms. An obvious success, I can't help but be a little bit disappointed.
If Australians - ney, anybody of any nation outside of America - make movies like this successes that's not going to stop them being released a year and a half after they premiere in the States. The Internet buzz has long gone from The Painted Veil, yet the movie is a smash hit so what's to stop the distributors just pussyfooting around release dates until they find out three years down the track that suits them? I'm still not entirely sure why we have to wait an extra month for Speed Racer.
And then Americans complain about having to wait for international movies and I just laugh myself silly.


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Searchers Find Missing Man Dead
Searchers Find Missing Man Dead
OTTUMWA, Iowa —
A missing man was found dead during a search Thursday morning in southeastern Iowa, reported the Ottumwa Courier newspaper.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jerry Droz told the newspaper Duane Hinkle, 60, was found dead by volunteers searching his property near Lockridge.
Hinkle was last seen Jan. 10.
The Courier said this was the third search party sent out to look for Hinkle.
Droz said an autopsy is planned to identify the cause of death.


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On Nov. 14, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 into law, instituting first-time vaccine safety reforms in the U.S. vaccination system and creating the first no-fault federal vaccine injury compensation program alternative to a lawsuit against vaccine manufacturers and pediatricians.
Twenty-two years later, on Nov. 18, 2008, I made a statement to the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) and questioned whether the compensation program is fatally flawed and so broken that it should be repealed. Many parents are wondering whether it would be better to return to civil court without restrictions to sue vaccine manufacturers and doctors for injuries and deaths their children suffered after receiving federally recommended vaccines.
During its two-decade history, two out of three individuals applying for federal vaccine injury compensation have been turned away empty-handed even though to date $1.8 billion has been awarded to more than 2,200 plaintiff's out of some 12,000 who have applied.
Today, nearly 5,000 vaccine injury claims are sitting in limbo because they represent children who suffered brain and immune system dysfunction after vaccination but have been diagnosed with regressive autism, which is not recognized by the program as a compensable event. There is $2.7 billion sitting in the Trust Fund, which could have been awarded to vaccine victims.
Safety Provisions Not Being Enforced
At the time of the law's creation in 1986, Congress said they were committed to setting up a fair, expedited, non-adversarial, less traumatic, less expensive no-fault compensation mechanism alternative to civil litigation. But Congress also acknowledged that any legislation providing liability protection must also be equally committed to preventing vaccine harm.
The Act contains strong safety provisions, including first-time mandates for doctors to record and report serious health problems, hospitalizations, injuries and deaths after vaccination and give parents written benefit and risk information before a child is vaccinated.
But few of the safety provisions have been enforced and, as I testified in Congress in 1999 and again at the Nov. 18 ACCV meeting, there has been a betrayal of the promise that was made to parents about how the compensation program would be implemented.
Obtaining compensation has become a highly adversarial, time-consuming, traumatic and expensive process for families of vaccine injured children, and far too many vaccine victims have been denied compensation. Meanwhile, vaccine makers and doctors have enjoyed liability protection and dozens of doses of nine new vaccines have been added to the childhood vaccine schedule.
I pointed out that federal court judges are beginning to look back at the legislative history of the Act, which so clearly affirms the intent of Congress when creating it. In recent court decisions, judges have agreed with parents and their attorneys that the compensation program has become far too difficult for plaintiffs.
A recent state Supreme Court ruling also reiterated that Congress never intended to shield vaccine manufacturers from ALL liability for vaccine injuries and deaths when it could be demonstrated that a safer product could have been marketed.
In a Supreme Court of Georgia ruling on October 6, 2008 in American Home Products v. Ferrari, the justices unanimously held that the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not give a vaccine manufacturer blanket immunity from vaccine injury lawsuits if it can be proven that the company could have made a safer vaccine. Georgia Supreme Court Justice George Carley wrote that the 1986 law and "the congressional intent behind it shows that the Vaccine Act does not pre-empt all design defect claims."
He added that Congress did not "use language which indicates that use of the compensation system is mandatory" but only "an appealing alternative" to the courts.
Justice Carley wrote that there is no evidence that "FDA approval alone renders a vaccine unavoidably safe" and said "We hesitate to hold that a manufacturer is excused from making changes it knows will improve its product merely because an older, more dangerous version received FDA approval," adding that to do so would have "the perverse effect" of granting complete immunity from liability to an entire industry and he concluded that "in the absence of any clear and manifest congressional purpose to achieve that result, we must reject such a far-reaching interpretation."
More Vaccine-Injured Children Should be Compensated
During the ACCV meeting, longtime plaintiff's attorney Sherry Drew gave a moving description of the suffering that families with vaccine injured children endure and, during public comment at the end of the meeting, Jim Moody, of SafeMinds, and Vicky Debold, RN, PhD joined me in urging the Committee to recommend to the new Secretary of DHHS that more vaccine injured children be compensated. This was echoed by outgoing parent ACCV member Tawny Buck, of Alaska, who has a DPT vaccine injured daughter and new ACCV parent member Sarah Hoiberg, of Florida, who has a DTaP vaccine injured daughter.
In the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act, the Institute of Medicine was directed to review the medical literature for scientific evidence that vaccines can cause injury and death, which resulted in landmark reports to Congress in 1991 and 1994 providing that evidence.
IOM announced at the ACCV meeting that it has recently been contracted by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) to assemble a Committee of scientific experts to review of the medical literature for evidence regarding the biological mechanisms for injury and death in association with varicella zoster (chicken pox), hepatitis B, meningococcal and HPV vaccine. There will be several public workshops during the Committee's two-year study.
NVIC has been calling for basic science research into the biological mechanisms of vaccine injury and death for more than two decades. Without understanding how and why vaccines can cause brain and immune system dysfunction, there will be no way to develop pathological profiles to help scientifically confirm whether or not an individual has been injured or died from vaccination.
The Truth About Vaccine Risks
The truth about vaccine risks lies in the science, properly designed and conducted. The upcoming IOM review may be hampered by a lack of biological mechanism studies published in the medical literature but the review is also an opportunity to point the way to fill in those gaps in knowledge and the need for additional research that could become part of a national vaccine safety research agenda.
In the absence of scientific certainty, all children who regress into poor health after vaccination should be given a fair hearing in the federal vaccine injury compensation program and generously compensated when no other plausible cause can be found for what happened to them after vaccination. Congress intended the vaccine injury compensation program to be non-adversarial, fair, generous and humane.
If it cannot function the way it was intended to function, then parents have every right to call for its repeal and a return to unrestricted lawsuits. The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was "established to ensure an adequate supply of vaccines, stabilize vaccine costs, and establish and maintain an accessible and efficient forum for individuals found to be injured by certain vaccines."
When you read between the lines, you discover that what this really means is that a program has been put into place to protect vaccine manufacturers (i.e. "ensure an adequate supply of vaccines") and NOT to look out for those injured by vaccines.
This is why Barbara Loe Fisher, one of the top vaccine experts in the world, and other vaccine-choice advocates are calling on Congress to revamp, and possibly even repeal, this fatally flawed program.
Major Flaws of the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Prior to October 1, 1988, an individual could pursue an unrestricted lawsuit against a vaccine manufacturer if they or their child was injured by a vaccine. After that date, including currently,, you are required to apply for federal compensation prior to pursuing a lawsuit.
According to the program's guidelines:
• The system will offer to pay up to $250,000 for a vaccine-associated death.
• The system will offer to pay for all past and future unreimbursed medical expenses, custodial and nursing home care; up to $250,000 pain and suffering; and loss of earned income.
• The system will offer to pay for all past and future unreimbursed medical expenses, custodial and nursing home care; up to $250,000 pain and suffering; and loss of earned income.
$250,000 for a child killed or severely injured by a vaccine?
This amount falls far short of what is deserved and required. You simply cannot put a price on a lost life, and a study by Harvard professor Michael Ganz found that the lifetime cost of caring for a child with autism is more than $3 million.
Yet, parents who believe that a vaccine caused autism in their children probably won't even get $250,000 from the fund.
According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, not one case related to autism has been deemed "compensable." And only last year did the government concede that vaccines "significantly aggravated" an underlying disorder and caused "autistic symptoms" in one 9-year-old girl named Hannah Poling.
The courts ruled that her family is entitled to compensation from the fund, but there are still 4,900 autism cases pending.
Meanwhile, as of October 2008, a total of 12,746 claims have been filed, and of them 2,266 have been compensated while 4,755 have been dismissed. And although the claims were supposed to be handled "quickly, easily and with certainty and generosity," according to a House report accompanying the 1986 legislation, many claims have taken years -- more than 10 years -- to be settled. Even the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration states that, on average, it takes two to three years to adjudicate a claim after it is filed.
But you haven't heard the worst of it until you find out who is actually responsible for paying the meager compensations that do get paid. Is it the vaccine manufacturers, as one might suspect?
Not a chance.
The system is funded by a surcharge on each dose of vaccine sold. The doctors pay the tax initially when they purchase the vaccines, but this is passed right down to the parents of the child.
So not only are the vaccine manufacturers shielded from potential lawsuits, they are not even responsible for paying one cent of the claims filed against them -- you are!
And the lawyers who fight against the families who have filed claims with the system? Well, they're not related to the vaccine manufacturers either. In fact, they are full-time government attorneys, employed solely for the purpose of battling to defend the vaccine manufacturers.
What Options do You Have?
The government essentially forces children to get vaccines by threatening to not let them into the school system otherwise. Well, a growing network of parents have decided to homeschool their children, in part because of their belief that mandated vaccinations for public and private school children are a dangerous overreach by state governments.
The trend toward not vaccinating has been growing for some time now. Close to 70 percent of physicians say that the number of concerns from parents have increased significantly in recent years.
And rightfully so.
Vaccines given to newborns contain an array of potentially toxic chemicals including:
• Formaldehyde
• Aluminum phosphate (toxic and carcinogenic)
• Antibiotics
• Phenols (corrosive to skin and toxic)
• Live viruses and various other components
• Aluminum phosphate (toxic and carcinogenic)
• Antibiotics
• Phenols (corrosive to skin and toxic)
• Live viruses and various other components
The truth is that vaccinations are not the heavily promoted miracle cure-all that will keep your children from getting sick. And all vaccines carry the risk of serious side effects such as crippling neurological damage like autism and even death.
If your child is vaccinated according to the CDC's recommended schedule, by the time your child starts kindergarten he or she will have received 48 doses of 14 vaccines. Of these, 36 doses will be given during the first 18 months of life.
Public health officials have NEVER proven that it is indeed safe to inject this number and volume of vaccines into infants. What's more, they cannot explain why, concurrent with an increasing number of vaccinations, there has been an explosion of neurological and immune system disorders in American children.
As I've stated before, homeschooling your children is far from the only option out there.
Dr. Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, has devised a more sensible vaccination schedule, which advises the following:
1. No vaccinations until your child is 2 years old.
2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury).
3. No live virus vaccines.
4. The following vaccines can be given one at a time (not as a combination vaccine), every six months, beginning at age 2:
* Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)
* Diphtheria
* Tetanus
* Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)
Your pediatrician will not like this schedule, but if you have reviewed the evidence and still feel your child should be inoculated to a certain degree, this is a far safer alternative to the standard vaccination schedule.
If you decide you do not want to vaccinate, know that all 50 states have vaccination requirements but all states provide exemptions for medical reasons while 48 states allow exemptions for sincerely held religious beliefs. Another 18 states allow parents to opt out for personal, conscientious or philosophical beliefs as well.
My previous article, How To Legally Avoid Unwanted Immunizations Of All Kinds, spells out how you go about practicing this right, as does an entire chapter in my book Take Control of Your Health.
Are You Ready for Change in Vaccine Safety Reform?
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which was co-founded by Barbara Loe Fisher, is the American vaccine safety watchdog. They are currently being flooded with vaccine reaction reports and parents reporting that their vaccine exemptions are being pulled or they can't get one. I highly recommend you make a donation to the NVIC to help support them in their efforts to raise awareness about these vital issues and implement vaccine safety reform.


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White Pines Christmas Box Card
Our power was out this past weekend and I had the opportunity to stay home from work (school cancelled for 3 days) and did a little crafting. I love the White Pines paper packet from Close to My Heart. I also love creating box cards. They look complicated, but this tutorial from SplitCoaststampers shows how quickly they can come together.
To create this card I used White Pines paper packet, White Pines Assortment, White Pines Compliments and Glacier Twine.
All supplies can be ordered here.


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Cutting a paper skeleton from eight sheets of A4 paper.
Click here to see the whole skeleton album online
Click here to see the whole skeleton album online
Download a pdf copy of the full Talular Workshop report, which includes timetable, notes and feedback on every session.
Wherever you are in the world, you are welcome to use the TALULAR workshop with your students. Use it, improve it and spread the it!
'The rate of adoption of the TALULAR ideology, which is actively promoted in Malawi... If we were to apply crude statistics, the ratio of those who feel comfortable in using TALULAR and those who do not is already 2:1. ...For a poor country like Malawi the choice to use TALULAR as a means of provision of resources, is an answer to low financial support of educational activities. Anything that could work against a solution to financial shortcomings is worth thinking about and monitoring what goes on in relation to it. ...I started thinking that TALULAR needs a better strategy for its dissemination... Otherwise, teachers will end up using lecture methodologies all the time, because practical work would not work without resources.'' ADK Phiri. (2008)
Absalom Phiri's dissertation for Doctor of philosophy: Exploring the Integration of Indigenous Science in the Primary School Science Curriculum in Malawi
Simeon Mackson Gwayi's doctoral dissertation: Perceptions of Innovations as Predictors of TALULAR Implementation Levels among Secondary School Science Teachers in Malawi: A Diffusion of Innovations Perspective.
Malawi Institute of Education's Talular: A User's Guide, produced in association with American Institutes for Research (AIR).


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Members of Michael Jackson's family have paid tribute to the pop icon on the 5th anniversary of his death.
Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. He passed away in his Los Angeles home, after suffering a cardiac arrest. His untimely death preceded his planned This Is It tour, which was scheduled to kick off in London just a month after he passed away.
Five years after his tragic death, his sister LaToya Jackson paid tribute to Michael describing her brother as "the most incredible father, brother, son and the most talented performer this world has ever known."
According to E! News, she said in a statement: "If Michael were here today he would tell us to all celebrate his life and not to mourn his death. Michael was all about love and peace and in honor of my brother I ask you to please do something kind for someone today, and, blast and dance to all the beautiful music he left us all."
Wonderful RT @LiberianGuuurl: @jermjackson5 LOOK at how Amsterdam remembers your brother pic.twitter.com/4IVXI9Ynmr
— Jermaine Jackson (@jermjackson5) June 25, 2014
"I will spend the day celebrating his life by listening to his music, looking through old home photos, watching his videos and concerts. Michael I love you forever and if you were today I know you would say, 'I love you more!'"
She also tweeted a message to the star's fans saying: "Thank you for remembering."
Michael's elder brother Jermaine Jackson turned to Twitter to express his pervading sense of loss since his sibling's death.
In a series of emotional tweets he wrote: "Hard to believe it's been five years ... The pain never eases. Michael's absence is still hard to take. But let's find comfort in happy memories & HIS music.
"However you are remembering Michael today, much love to you all on this difficult day.
"Play his music. Cry. Light candles. Lay flowers. Smile. Dance. Reminisce. Be still. Celebrate Michael's life #youarenotalone"
Many of the celebrities who worked with the star and were among his friends shared their personal memories of the star.
Supermodel Iman, who featured with Michael in the Remember the Time video tweeted a photo on Instagram of herself with Jackson and Eddie Murphy from the music video, writing: "Remember The Time' with @MichaelJackson @eddiemurphy can't believe it has been 5 yrs since his passing #RIP."
Performer Lady Gaga wrote: "R I P Michael. We love you. Today the world and media will grieve your absence, and think deeply of how we could have treated you better."
"Remember The Time" with @MichaelJackson eddiemurphy can't believe it has been 5 yrs since his... http://t.co/YH2f2fNrkj — Iman Abdulmajid (@The_Real_IMAN) June 25, 2014
In a career that began when he was just five-years-old and spanned five decades, Michael Jackson set a new standard for performance and entertainment, and is regarded by his fans and his contemporaries past and present, as the greatest entertainer that ever lived.
He is credited with revolutionising the music video with the release of the Thriller short film and became famed for his gravity defying dance moves that left audiences spellbound and won him admirers including Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
Breaking records as an artist, the singer was also famed for his philanthropy and his wider concerns for the condition of the planet, which were reflected in his songs.
Remembering the star, fans too, have been holding memorials and public gatherings around the world in memory of the global icon. 15,627 red roses were placed outside the Forest Lawn cemetery where he was laid to rest.
Others have been describing the impact of the star on their lives on his official Facebook page and on Twitter.
@magicmack_wrote on Twitter: "R.I.P Michael Jackson. You were and still are an inspiration on my life and career and I'm thankful for everything I've learned from you #MJ
In one of the many unknown stories of Jackson's private displays of generosity fan Saul Williams shared on Twitter that it was because of Jackson that he was able to go college.
"Michael Jackson paid my way thru college. I received MJ performing arts scholarship my 1st yr at Morehouse frm the 25 mil. he gave to UNCF" he said.
In a statement on Michael Jackson's official webpage, the singer's long time friends and co-executors of the Michael Jackson Estate, John Branca & John McClain paid their tributes to the much-loved star.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Michael's loved ones today as we remember the kind, gentle and giving spirit who generously shared his amazing artistic gifts with the world along with a limitless empathy for those in need. Time has shown that with each passing year the world's appreciation deepens not just for Michael's talent but also for his lifelong passion to spread peace, unity, love and hope across every culture and society. Michael's friendship, kindness, humor and joyful warmth will always be missed. The world is a far better place for having known him."
His message and his memory were immortalised in his music and in the prophetic words of Michael Jackson himself, it's in the music that he lives on.
"When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die." - Michael Jackson


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The product's inventor, Australian Samuel Adeloju, will receive a £10,000 cash prize and the opportunity to visit Dyson's research, design and development centre to learn more about its design process from Dyson engineers.
The Longreach, which was chosen from a final shortlist of 15 by James Dyson, is made of hydrophobic foam which rapidly expands upon hitting water. It is also equipped with flares for night-time illumination.
Mr Dyson, best known for developing bagless vacuum cleaners, said: "Longreach is a smart solution to a very real problem. A product's functionality couldn't be more important when it's used to save someone's life."
Mr Adeloju's engineering faculty at the University of New South Wales will also receive £10,000.
The 24-year-old industrial design graduate from Sydney said the inspiration for Longreach came from his army reserve training, where weapons that propel grenades and flares were demonstrated.
"After learning about propulsion technology in grenade launchers, I had to find a chemical that would expand to forty times its size in just fifteen seconds upon hitting water.
"After four months of testing I found that hydrophobic foam worked. Winning the James Dyson Award will give me the financial support to develop a prototype and carry on testing," said Mr Adeloju, who is in talks with a search and rescue service to mass produce his invention.
The inventors of Seakettle, a device that uses natural sunlight to make seawater drinkable for people trapped at sea, and Reax, an invention that assists paramedics in the performance of CPR, will also visit Dyson's engineering centre as runners up.
The James Dyson Award is run in 18 countries. Last year's winner, the Automist, a device that detects fires and puts them out by 'aerosolising' the water from a kitchen tap, is now on the market.


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NJ, Newark schools settle for $5M in lawsuit by families of '07 schoolyard murder victims
NEWARK, N.J. – The families of three college-bound friends murdered in a Newark schoolyard in 2007 have reached a $5 million settlement with the city schools and state.Okay, so there was a gang that went after a group of kids hanging out in the schoolyard after midnight. In CrazyLand, this means that the school is responsible for what happened. Apparently they're supposed to put up razorwire after dark and leave a rabid pitbull inside the schoolyard to discourage teenagers from hanging around at midnight. And because they failed to make the schoolyard impenetrable, they are liable for the murders.
The settlement was announced Tuesday, several weeks into a civil trial.
The state attorney general's office says the Department of Education is responsible for $3 million and the Newark school district is liable for $2 million. The state has oversight of the Newark schools.
This makes perfect sense - if you are insane.
The families claimed the school district was negligent for leaving gates to the Mount Vernon School open at night when the schoolyard was a known gang hangout.RIGHT! Because gang members would have seen the locked gate and moved on, right? No, really, stop laughing! You mean to tell me that gang members that would execute three people just for being on their turf wouldn't be deterred by a locked gate? Next thing you know, you're going to tell me that locking the gate might have pissed them off and made they decide to start smashing windows or something. Here's a question: If this was a "known gang hangout", why the bloody hell weren't cops somewhere close by? The school is at fault for not locking a gate, but the city escapes liability even though they allow violent crime to flourish. Makes perfect sense to me!
You know what I'd like to know? I'd like to know what the "prison terms" are that the six people responsible for the murders are serving. I'll bet a good deal of money that not one of them will serve more than 10 years. I'd wager that the "boys" will be out by the age of 21, and the "men" will serve 8-10 at best. This is the part that the news conveniently leaves out - the shockingly small amount of jail time that is actually served even for horrific murders. You know why the guy who shot the NY firefighters didn't get much press? They hated having to admit the fact that he was out of jail for murder after only 14 years served - and he used a hammer for that murder.
Why, it's almost like we have a criminal problem, not a gun problem!
That is all.
Another dispatch from...
(image courtesy of Robb Allen)


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This instructable describes how to drive hobby servos (the kind used in RC planes, cars, etc.) into your microcontroller projects. The control signals of servo are: a red wire, 5 volts works fine, ground (black wire) connectionsa and a control signal on the third wire (usually white or yellow). The signal is almost pulse width modulated, except that it doesn't have a fixed period. It is composed of pulses of voltage, the duration of which determine the angle of the output shaft. The pulses can be from 0.9 ms to 2.1 ms long, 1.5 ms being the center position (in other words, pulse duration varies linearly with shaft angle).
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Muslim Charity Principals Denied Justice
By Stephen Lendman
On January 25, 1995, Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12947 - Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process.
The same year, Hamas was declared a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). It's still one today, so any individual or group charged with providing it material support (true or false) is prosecuted unjustly.
On December 4, 2001, the Treasury Department declared the Holy Land Foundation a terrorist group, froze its assets, and falsely claimed it was used to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas.
Truth and justice are endangered in America. During Bush's eight years, their legitimacy and importance were targeted. Under Obama, they're on the chopping block for elimination to advance Washington's global imperium unchallenged.
Until shut down, the HLF was America's largest Muslim charity. Founded in 1989 in Culver City, CA, it shifted operations to Richardson, TX. It provides vital relief to Palestinian refugees in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan as well as aid for needy recipients in Bosnia, Albania, Chechnya, Turkey and America.
With an annual budget of about $14 million, it "provided continuous volunteering and services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area."
Its major activities included:
financial aid to needy and impoverished families;
a sponsorship program for orphaned children;
various social services;
educational services;
medical and other emergency work; and
community development, including help to rebuild Palestinian homes Israel destroyed lawlessly in violation of international law.
In its own words, it said:
"We gave:
books, not bombs;
bread, not bullets;
smiles, not scars;
toys, not tanks;
peace, not terror;
liberty, not poverty;
hope, not despair;
love, not hate; (and)
life, not death."
Its principles and other employees were heros, not terrorists or involved in conspiracy to commit it. Nonetheless, the five principles were charged, prosecuted and convicted. They received sentences ranging from 15 to 65 years.
Attorney Nancy Hollander represented HLF President and CEO Shukri Abu Baker. She said he "was convicted of providing charity. There was not, in ten years of wiretapping his home, his office, looking at his faxes, listening to everything he said, there was not one word out of his mouth about violence to anyone or about support for Hamas."
Post-9/11, crimes are what prosecutors call criminal. Innocence doesn't matter. Victims are guilty by accusation. Justice is denied for political advantage. Muslims are America's target of choice. It's the wrong time here to practice Islam.
It's also criminal to feed hungry Muslim children and provide them other humanitarian aid. Imperial America wants them vilified to justify global war on terror crimes.
As a result, co-founder, President and CEO Shukri Abu Baker received 65 years in prison.
Co-founder, Chairman and former Executive Director Ghassan Elashi also got 65 years.
Mohammed el-Mezain, former Chairman, Head of California Operation 15 years.
Top fundraiser Mufid Abdulqader 20 years, and
Abdulrahman Odeh, Director of HLF East (New Jersey) 15 years.
On October 19, 2010, attorneys submitted a 149-page brief. It provided convincing evidence of wrongful convictions. Appellate issues raised include:
(1) Names of two prosecutorial witnesses were withheld from defense attorneys, including its key one. Doing so violated Fifth Amendment due process rights and the Sixth Amendment's right of a defendant to confront accusers.
(2) The district court allowed prejudicial hearsay evidence. One source admitted sending money to Hamas. He also defrauded his employer of $610,000 in a scam unrelated to HLF. Moreover, he cheated on his taxes and lied to the FBI. As part of a plea bargain, he agreed to lie again under oath - against innocent HLF principles.
(3) The court allowed irrelevant prejudicial evidence to be presented. It included alleged Hamas suicide bombing exhibits, killing Israeli collaborators, a video showing demonstrators stomping on and burning the American flag, and more. All of it was unrelated to the case.
(4) Irrelevant prejudicial testimonies were also allowed, including erroneous legal and religious opinions.
(5) At the same time, the court denied defense attorneys the right to review government recorded, intercepted, or otherwise gotten statements, based on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) authority.
FISA, in fact, is classic police state tyranny. It violates Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. It also requires warrants to be judicially sanctioned, based on clear probable cause.
However, using undisclosed (likely manufactured) secret evidence, FISA permits unrestricted warrantless spying, data mining, and intercept of domestic and foreign Internet, telephone, and other communications, based on alleged national security threats.
As a result, it permits illegal searches, seizures, and privacy invasions. Anyone now for real or concocted reasons may be charged, convicted and imprisoned for alleged crimes they never conceived, planned or committed.
Based on Sixth Amendment issues, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) submitted an amicus brief for HLF defendants.
In part, it states:
"If the Confrontation Clause means anything, it is that a criminal defendant must be allowed to know his accusers (to) have a fair opportunity to cross-examine them. Yet an expert witness whose testimony was critical to proving the government's case was allowed to testify anonymously...."
The witness called "Avi" had no relevance to the case. An alleged Hamas/Palestinian Islamic charities (zakat committees) expert, he belonged to Israel intelligence or security.
"The total secrecy of Avi's identity is unprecedented: no reported cases have ever approved fully anonymous expert testimony like" his. As a result, the right of defense attorneys to cross-examine Avi was "completely impaired."
However, Judge Solis wrongfully claimed revealing his identity, and another anonymous witness called "Major Lior," would harm national security. Moreover, with no evidentiary hearing, prosecutors said doing so would place them in harm's way.
By allowing their testimony to stand, the appeals court "mark(ed) a significant departure from existing case law."
As a result, justice demands overturning HLF defendants' convictions because:
Sixth Amendment protections require revealing the true identify of expert witnesses to defense attorneys; and
Confrontation Clause rights forbid secret witness testimonies, "no matter the circumstances."
Based on Fifth Amendment due process violations and material support issues, Georgetown University Law Professor David Cole and attorney J Craig Jett of Burleson, Pate & Gibson submitted his own amicus brief.
Twenty organizations provided amicus support as interested parties, including:
American Friends Service Committee
Atlantic Philanthropies
The Carter Center
Christian Peacemaker Teams
The Constitutional Project
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Fund for Constitutional Government
Global Greengrants Fund
Grantmakers Without Borders
Grassroots International
The Humanitarian Law Project
Islamic Relief USA
Milt Lauenstein
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The Peace Appeal Foundation
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Samuel Rubin Foundation
Rutherford Institute
Tikva Grassroots Empowerment Fund
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In part, the brief addresses whether anyone "can be convicted for violating a prohibition on 'knowingly' providing 'material support' to designated 'foreign terrorist organizations' without proof that he or she knowingly" did it.
Defendants, in fact, were convicted on multiple counts even though the district judge's jury instructions relied on an erroneous and dangerously expansive interpretation of the material-support statute.
As a result, legitimate charitable work henceforth will be jeopardized based on unsubstantiated charges.
In fact, five recipient West Bank charities receiving HLF funds weren't designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs). Yet district court instructions told jurors they could find defendants guilty without proof of FTO connections.
Even prosecutors didn't advance that argument. As a result, failing to reverse these wrongful convictions will have a chilling effect on legitimate charitable work. None henceforth will know if they'll be free from criminal investigation, prosecution, or conviction.
"Amici maintain that the judge's jury charge violates fundamental due process principles requiring fair notice of what conduct is prohibited, as well as proof of individual culpability. Moreover, the jury charge conflicts with (requiring) proof that defendants knew that they were supporting a designated organization."
On September 1, 2011, the US 5th Circuit Appeals Court heard arguments for the defendants. On December 7, it upheld their convictions.
On December 8, Reuters headlined, "Muslim charity leaders lose appeal in Hamas case," saying:
"The organizers of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation argued they were denied a fair trial in 2008 when the government used secret Israeli witnesses to testify against them. The organizers also raised a host of constitutional challenges to the evidence presented against them at trial."
"The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected those challenges, concluding that 'while no trial is perfect,' Holy Land and its leaders were fairly convicted. The court pointed to 'voluminous evidence' that the foundation, which was started in the late 1980s, had long-running financial ties to Hamas."
In fact, they provided aid legally to needy Palestinians through zakat committees. The Court falsely accused them of links to Hamas. Judge Caroly King wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel:
"By supporting such entities, the defendants facilitated Hamas' activity by furthering its popularity among Palestinians and by providing a funding resource. This, in turn, allowed Hamas to concentrate its efforts on violent activity."
Appeals lawyers argued that prosecutors should have been denied permission to have Israeli witnesses testify anonymously. As a result, they weren't able to determine their credentials and credibility.
Abdulrahman Odeh's attorney Gregory Westfall, said the Constitution's Confrontation Clause didn't apply to these witnesses. He added that a Supreme Court appeal is likely. An uphill struggle remains for justice so far denied.
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Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides a New Concern for Canadian Police
By Sgt. Larry Burden
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Let's consider this scenario, you are dispatched to a scene where an unconscious person is slumped over the steering wheel of a car, you open the door to check on the victim and then you notice a bucket on the floor filled with what appears to be powdered chemicals and you smell rotten eggs… What you didn't know was that this was a suicide and the method chosen was Hydrogen Sulfide gas and you may have taken the last breath you will ever breathe!
Most suicide methods pose little threat to first responders, but we are now faced with an alarming new trend that can quickly kill a police officer or EMT who unknowingly opens a door to a vehicle, or an apartment filled with Hydrogen Sulfide gas (H2S)!
This deadly gas is well known in other industries such as sewer maintenance, natural gas wells and even farming and aquaculture, but few Canadian police officers outside of Alberta are aware of the occupational hazards of working around Hydrogen Sulfide. This gas is so dangerous that industries that deal with it, have mandatory occupational training in this field, but until relatively recently it has not been the kind of thing that first responders to sudden deaths have had to contend with. The RCMP in the New Brunswick recently responded to the Provinces first H2S Suicide (the second known in Canada) and fortunately the victim posted warning signs on the vehicle advising anyone who approached the car that there was poisonous gas present and to contact Hazmat. Had the victim not posted these signs the citizen who discovered the vehicle and the first police officer on the scene could have been seriously injured or even killed by inhaling the gas had they opened the vehicle. If you Google Hydrogen Sulfide suicide or go on YouTube you will find plenty of information about this new method of committing suicide. You will find videos on how to make H2S along with postings of suicidal people asking how they can kill themselves this way. Sadly there are posts from people telling them how to do it! Several online articles describe how this trend began in Japan in 2007 with the recipe for "detergent suicides" being circulated on the internet resulting in over 220 men, women and children trying to kill them killing themselves within 6 months! Included in this statistic are family members who tried to save the victim and were overcome by the gas as well. The methodology quickly spread to the United States and incidents of H2S suicides began popping up in August and December of 2008 in California, Georgia and Florida have incidents have continued to spread throughout the US and England since.
In 2010 Jennifer Adkins authored the ROCIC (Regional Organized Crime Information Center) publication "Hydrogen Sulfide Suicide" Latest Technique Hazardous to First Responders and the Public. In the paper she noted that H2S can pose other problems for the law enforcement community when it is used in populated places such as an apartment building. In one incident in Japan a young girl killed herself in her apartment using H2S resulting in 90 other occupants of the building becoming sick from the gas as it dissipated throughout the building. H2S has even become a terrorist concern. Though no incidents of a pending terrorist attack using H2S, the "Mujahideen Poisons Handbook" by Abdel-Aziz describes how to make H2S gas.
Hydrogen sulfide classified as a "broad spectrum" poison that affects several systems within the human body. It is five times more toxic than carbon monoxide and is similar in nature to Hydrogen Cyanide in that it bonds with iron and prevents cellular respiration. Not only is it a toxic gas it is heavier than air and highly flammable. H2S can be ignited at only 260C/500F, to put that in perspective a cigarette burns at 649C/1200F! When H2S is mixed with air (i.e. opening the car door) the gas has the ability to spread a long distance and could be ignited causing a flashback. Although H2S has a distinct "rotten egg" smell, high concentrations can cause olfactory fatigue and you can lose your ability to smell. Unfortunately there is no proven antidote for H2S poisoning current treatments consist of support to respiratory and cardiovascular functions. Low exposure to H2S is not likely to cause any long term health issues, but moderate and serious exposure may cause residual problems such as respiratory issues but serious exposure that results in coma or convulsion may damage the heart and brain.
Hydrogen sulfide can easily be made by mixing commonly found chemicals located under many kitchen sink's. The two primary ingredients' are an acid based product (Toilet bowl cleansers, acidic based drain cleaners or acids such as muriatic or sulfuric) and sulfur based compound (detergents, pesticides) and when combined they produce H2S. Low concentrations (0 -10 ppm) will cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, moderate concentrations (10-50 ppm) will cause headaches, dizziness, coughing and breathing difficulties nausea and vomiting and if the concentration is high (50-100 ppm) the gas can cause severe eye damage, at 100–150 ppm the olfactory nerve is paralyzed, and the sense of smell disappears. At 320 -530 ppm will cause a pulmonary edema (fluid on the lungs) and the loss of breathing function. At 800 ppm 50% of humans will die within 5 minutes of exposure and at concentrations of over 1000 ppm it will cause an immediate collapse and loss of breathing, after only one breath.
The threat to the safety of first responders cannot be overstated and we have to ensure that we change the way we do business or someone is going to die. The days of walking up to a vehicle and simply opening the door to check on an unconscious occupant are over, personal safety is a must. Furthermore if you happen to have your standard issue gas mask with you and think that it will protect you from the effects of H2S you are mistaken. According to S/Sgt. Ron Matthews NCO i/c of the RCMP national CBRNE (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive), Training Unit advises that the PC4 gas mask with the FR64 canister is not recommended for a Haz-Mat response to H2S. According to Matthews the canister does offer limited protection as outlined by 3M Technical Data Bulletin #153 and should only be used in emergencies and for escape. Matthews further stated that without knowing exactly what you're dealing with and without proper training, I suggest Haz-Mat take the lead in determining proper PPE for Chem/Bio/Rad incidents.
H2S can leech out of a car or room in which it was released and pose a threat to first responders. For example in October 2010 a Florida State Trooper was hospitalized simply because he touched the car door with his bare hands when he was investigating a H2S suicide. The vehicle had such a high concentration of the gas inside that it was emitting the smell of sulfur and rotten eggs. Another police officer was hospitalized in St. Petersburg Florida after inhaling some gas from a suicide vehicle.
H2S suicides don't only occur in vehicles, people have used H2S to commit suicide in their homes and in university residences. Indiana University was the scene of one such event in 2010 when residents noted a chemical smell in the air of a dormitory. A search located a dead student inside a closet with a bucket of H2S. Authorities then had to evacuate 90 residents of the building. In May 2009 a similar event occurred in Toronto when a woman committed a H2S suicide in the bathroom of her residence.
First responders must not rush in functioning in "hero mode" with the intent on making a rescue otherwise they may need to be rescued themselves. In his article in Police Magazine on H2S suicides author Dean Scoville noted: "of the 72 chemical suicides in the U.S. since 2008, 80% have resulted in injuries to first responders." Look the scene over and look for the unusual. So far most H2S suicide victims have posted warning signs on their vehicles (some web sites even provide downloadable signs) but not all suicide victims are that considerate. In North Carolina a 35 year old woman exposed several first responders to her chemical mixture that she had prepared in a bucket in her car. She didn't post any warning signs. Warning signs can fall off, blow away or not be visible in the dark thereby endangering first responders.
Dealing with cases such as these requires diligence on the part of everyone from the dispatchers to the investigators.
The call taker receiving a call about an unconscious person in a vehicle should ask about warning signs or the presence of odors such as rotten eggs or almonds. They should warn the caller to not approach or enter any vehicle or room and let the police handle the mater. These details need to be passed on immediately to the first responders so they are aware they may not be dealing with a carbon monoxide poisoning.
First responder; it takes approximately half a gallon each of the acid and the sulfide to produce a lethal amount of gas, so look for visible containers for liquid inside and outside the car. Can you smell rotten eggs? Look at the victim; are they conscious/unconscious, responsive or unresponsive? What colour is their skin tone? Is their chest rising or not?
If the victim is unconscious do not open the door to the vehicle in an attempt to wake them, shout from a safe distance or use a loud hailer. Look for warning signs that may in or near the vehicle that may be obscured due to condensation or vapours. First responders should note the wind speed and direction and if necessary evacuate nearby buildings.
If a chemical substance is suspected or confirmed the responders must ensure they follow their agencies policy regarding hazardous materials protocols and advise the area Haz-Mat team.
Look for tape around the doors and windows. In the New Brunswick case the victim taped all of the door seals including the driver's door so that the tape attached when it was closed from the inside. Look for containers of household cleaning supplies and buckets containing chemical mixtures.
According to the ATSDR (Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry) bulletin; "Persons exposed to hydrogen sulfide pose no serious risks of secondary contamination to personnel outside of the Hot Zone. However personnel could be secondarily contaminated by contacting or breathing vapors from clothing heavily soaked with hydrogen sulfide- containing solution." In the New Brunswick case the victim's clothing was not soaked with any solution but the odor of H2S was very pronounced and the Hazmat team had to strip the body in the Hot Zone. In addition odors from the body permeated the double body bags (body bags are not recommended cover the body with a sheet instead) and could not be transported in the body removal vehicle. Instead a hermetically sealed coffin was brought to the Hot Zone and the body was secured in it.
Another concern is the possibility off gassing from the victims lungs when moving the victim.
As the H2S suicides become more known we can expect to see more of them and as such we should not be publicizing them because that will only lead to more copycats such as occurred in England in March 2011 when a couple who met on the internet chose to kill themselves the same way a couple in Essex England had done five months before. Publicity about H2S can also increase the awareness about the hazards associated to this gas and become a new threat to first responders or investigators in the form of flash bomb booby traps. Additionally the potential for staged H2S suicides that are actually homicides present further challenges for the law enforcement community. We need to recognize that this is a growing global problem for first responders and we need to act now to amend our investigative policies and training procedures sooner than later.
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology (London, England), Japanese experience of hydrogen sulfide: the suicide craze in 2008
Kansas City Regional TWE www.kctew.org
Chemical & Detergent Suicides, Hampden County (MA) Sheriff's Department
Central Florida Intelligence Exchange, Intelligence Bulletin Oct. 2010
Regional Organized Crime Information Center – Special Research Report – Hydrogen Sulfide Suicide
Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Toronto Police Officer Safety Bulletin No. 42/2009
Police Magazine, "Chemical Suicides" Dean Scoville, April 2011


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The National Alliance to End Homelessness posted a SAMHSA PATH Organizational Sign-On Letter on August 11. The letter is requesting support from organizations working to end homelessness in opposing Congress' funding cuts to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Homelessness Programs, specifically cuts to the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program.
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These cuts would seriously threaten Connecticut's efforts to end homelessness and provide services to the most vulnerable in our communities. PATH-supported programs help support critical street outreach services. In 2014, PATH programs reached over 2,701 Connecticut residents. Of these, 66% were experiencing homelessness, and at least 17% had been homelessness for more than a year. If these cuts are realized, Connecticut street outreach will decrease, fewer people will be served, and coordination and referrals to mainstream services will drop.
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Last night, I opened up Scrivener for the first time in what seemed like months and looked at my work in progress. I had written some of it during the creative writing class I taught in my middle school, which ended in December, and even then, I had just opened the file to type in what I had written on paper, which was no more than a few typed pages. But last night was different.
I have a writing buddy now. My neighbor turned friend turned writing buddy lives upstairs. We see each other many hours a week. I am her youngest child's godmother. Many years before we even met, she published a novel. But she now has three kids and PTA functions and the rest of her life, and she's having trouble finding time to write. I don't have nearly as many things to do, but I, too, have trouble carving out that time.
I've been hoping I could find someone to write with a couple of times a week just so I had some dedicated time, but I had nowhere to turn, really. I didn't want to propose it to her because I know her time is limited, and why would she want to write with me? Yesterday, however, she emailed me and asked if I'd be interested in short, 40-minute writing sessions two times a week after the kids are asleep. Of course I said yes.
It was interesting spending this writing time with her, in her dimly lit apartment, with the two oldest children snoring in a tent on the floor a few feet away. (The youngest is sleep training and tends to wake the older two. The older two feel like they're camping out every night. It works.) I've spent many hours in her apartment, some of which were writing hours. I wrote the first story I had published in this apartment while watching her kids on Wednesday nights. But I'd never actually had writing time with her.
It got me pumped. I read through my newest, long-neglected project, and I liked it. I really liked it. I also wrote a bit. And I relished in this type of time with my good friend – peaceful, uninterrupted, and productive.
More hours should be like this.