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The news just keeps on coming. Some days you pay attention. Some days you don't. Look here in every Alibi to refresh your memory about what's going on in your community. Don't worry if you don't know all the answers—there's a cheat sheet at the end.
1) Who did Santa Fe police call after discovering a 100-pound cougar had broken into a Plaza jewelry store at about 1 a.m. Saturday morning?
a. Zoologists from the Rio Grande Zoo
b. The Albuquerque Police Department
c. The Department of Game and Fish
d. Mayor Martin Chavez, who tried to heal his relationship with the cougar by offering it lunch.
2) Sixteen-hundred members of New Mexico's National Guard will be in Iraq by 2010. This makes up what percentage of the state's Guard?
a. 25 percent
b. 50 percent
c. 15 percent
d. 75 percent
3) The state Attorney General's office issued an opinion on the Department of Health's new medical marijuana program. It said:
a. Department of Health employees could face federal prosecution for implementing the new law.
b. Patients and employees alike are protected because of the way cases have played out in other parts of the country.
c. Law enforcement should begin actively seeking patients using medical marijuana and turning them over to the feds.
d. Marijuana can be prescribed, but the state shouldn't concern itself with distribution.
4) The city of Albuquerque owes how many employees in back pay after miscalculating overtime for those covered by union contracts?
a. About 200
b. 50 or so
c. 500
d. Almost 800


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Further appellate review granted, 451 Mass. 1103 (2008).
Workers' Compensation Act, Average weekly wages, Concurrent employment, Uninsured employer.
The reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents erred in determining that an employee's benefits for injuries resulting in total incapacity were to be calculated based on his combined wages from an insured employer and an uninsured employer, where G. L. c. 152, s. 1(1), limits the earnings that can be used to calculate such an employee's aver-age weekly wages to those from insured employers and self-insured employers. [78-80]
APPEAL from a decision of the Industrial Accident Reviewing Board.
David A. Guberman, Assistant Attorney General, for Workers' Compensation Trust Fund.
Paul H. Nugent for the employee.
BERRY, J. Under the Workers' Compensation Act (act), an employee who sustains injuries resulting in total incapacity is entitled to compensation based on the employee's "average weekly wage before the injury." G. L. c. 152, §§ 34, 34A. [Note 1] A
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related section of the act, G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), as amended through St. 1943, c. 529, § 1, defines "average weekly wages" in pertinent part as follows: "In case the injured employee is employed in the concurrent service of more than one insured employer or self-insurer, his total earnings from the several insured employers and self-insurers shall be considered in determining his average weekly wages" (emphasis added).
In this case, Michael Sellers (employee) worked concurrently for an insured employer (i.e., an employer that carried workers' compensation insurance) and an uninsured employer (i.e., an employer that, in violation of G. L. c. 152, unlawfully failed to carry workers' compensation insurance). [Note 2] The employee suffered a serious and wholly disabling injury while working for the uninsured employer.
Had the employee been engaged in concurrent work for, and earning wages from, one or more insured employers or self-insurers, then, under the above-quoted sections of the act, the employee would have received disability benefits calculated by combining his concurrent average weekly wages from the several insured or self-insured employers.
The question presented in this appeal is whether, even though one of the employers was an uninsured entity, the applicable sections of the act may be construed so as to entitle the employee to the same calculated combined wages that would have resulted under §§ 1(1) and 34 or 34A if the employee had been concurrently working for insured employers or self-insurers.
Based on the plain definitions contained in the act, we are constrained to conclude that the employee in this case is not entitled to have his average weekly wages calculated by combining his concurrent wages earned from both the uninsured employer and the insured employer. Revisions of the applicable sections of G. L. c. 152 to correct what is obviously a disparity among injured employees requires legislative amendment. Such
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amendment cannot, however, be achieved by judicial rewriting of the statutory terms. This court cannot "read into the statute a provision which the Legislature did not see fit to put there, whether the omission came from inadvertence or of set purpose." General Elec. Co. v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 803 (1999), quoting from King v. Viscoloid Co., 219 Mass. 420, 425 (1914).
1. Procedural and factual history. We take the facts from the administrative record. In September, 2001, the employee was working for the John Havlin Tree Service (Havlin) when a tree limb weighing 300 to 400 pounds fell on his back and neck. The employee suffered injuries rendering him a quadriplegic. At the time of the accident, Havlin did not carry workers' compensation insurance. However, at the time of his injury, in addition to working for Havlin, the employee also worked for, and received wages from, Steve Miller Company (SMC). SMC carried workers' compensation insurance.
The employee filed his application for workers' compensation benefits with the Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA). Because the injury occurred while the employee was performing services for an uninsured employer, under G. L. c. 152, § 65(2), the employee's benefits were to be paid by the Workers' Compensation Trust Fund (trust fund), which provides benefits where an injury to a worker occurs during employment for an uninsured company. [Note 3] The trust fund, in turn, may seek recovery from the uninsured employer for the compensation paid. G. L. c. 152, § 65(8). (In addition, employers that fail to carry mandated
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worker's compensation insurance can be held liable for full tort damages to the injured plaintiff. G. L. c. 152, § 25C.)
Following a conference held pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 10A, an administrative judge awarded the employee temporary total incapacity benefits pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 34. The amount awarded did not reflect the employee's concurrent employment. Both sides appealed. Following a de novo hearing, the same administrative judge awarded the employee permanent total incapacity benefits pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 34A, by combining his weekly wages from Havlin and SMC.
The trust fund then appealed to the DIA reviewing board (board). The board concluded that in keeping with the remedial purpose of the act, an "insured employer" as used in G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), should be interpreted to mean "an employer legally required to carry workers' compensation insurance." The board's analysis was that both employers were required to participate in the workers' compensation system, and that Havlin participated "illegally, causing the [t]rust [f]und . . . to pay the benefits that would have otherwise been the responsibility of Havlin's . . . insurer." In light of this, the board determined that the employee's benefits were to be calculated based on his combined wages from both Havlin and SMC, and it affirmed the decision of the administrative judge. This appeal by the trust fund followed.
2. Statutory analysis. The trust fund argues on appeal that the plain language of G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), cannot support the interpretation applied by the administrative judge and the board. The employee maintains that the term "concurrent service" in G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), captures and encompasses wages from all employers that are legally required under G. L. c. 152 to carry workers' compensation insurance -- even if a specific employer fails to carry insurance as required by law. According to the employee's theory, such a defaulting employer should still be considered as subject to, and still operating within the legal universe of, the G. L. c. 152 workers' compensation system. Thus, the employee submits, all wages are to be combined in this case.
The employee's proposed construction falls before the black letter terms in G. L. c. 152. First, the definition in G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), speaks directly of, and is limited to, earnings from
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"insured employers and self-insurers." Second, in G. L. c. 152, § 1(6), as amended through St. 1986, c. 662, § 5, an insured employer is defined as "an employer who has provided by insurance for the payment to his employees by an insurer of the compensation provided for by this chapter, or is a self-insurer." Likewise, in G. L. c. 152, § 1(7), a self-insurer is included within the statutory definition of an employer providing worker's compensation insurance under c. 152. [Note 4] The core and plain point in these definitions is that workers' compensation insurance exists as provided by the insured employer or self-insurer. "When the language of a statute is plain and unambiguous, it must be given its ordinary meaning." Commonwealth v. Brown, 431 Mass. 772, 775 (2000). An uninsured employer does not fall within either of these plainly defined terms, and the legislatively defined terms cannot be expanded to include a different class, i.e., an uninsured employer. "[A] statutory expression of one thing [here the express reference to 'insured employer or self-insurer' in G. L. c. 152, § 1(1)] is an implied exclusion of other things omitted [here the omission of any reference to uninsured employers] from the statute." Police Commr. of Boston v. Cecil, 431 Mass. 410, 413 (2000), quoting from Harborview Residents' Comm., Inc. v. Quincy Hous. Authy., 368 Mass. 425, 432 (1975), and cases cited.
A third flaw is that, in order to accept the employee's interpretation of the statute, we would, in effect, have to amend § 1(1) to read that, in addition to a worker's concurrent wages being combined for insured employers and self-insurers, an additional wage component subject to such combining "implicit" in § 1(1) would be wages earned by the worker from employers that should have, but did not have, workers' compensation insurance. "Where 'the Legislature has carefully employed specific language in one paragraph of a statute . . . the language should not be implied where it is not present.' " Hallett v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Bd., 431 Mass. 66, 69 (2000), quoting
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from First Natl. Bank v. Judge Baker Guidance Center, 13 Mass. App. Ct. 144, 153 (1982). [Note 5] A court "will not add words to a statute that the Legislature did not put there, either by inadvertent omission or by design." Commonwealth v. Callahan, 440 Mass. 436, 443 (2003), quoting from Commonwealth v. McLeod, 437 Mass. 286, 294 (2002).
We understand that the end result to the permanently and catastrophically injured employee in this case is untoward, and is particularly troublesome in light of the "humanitarian measure[s]" inherent in the act. Neff v. Commissioner of the Dept. of Industrial Accs., 421 Mass. 70, 73 (1995), quoting from Young v. Duncan, 218 Mass. 346, 349 (1914). A court cannot, however, rewrite the material provisions of G. L. c. 152, § 1(1), by judicial fiat. "It is the function of the court to construe a statute as written and an event or contingency for which no provision is made does not justify judicial legislation." Prudential Ins. Co. of Am. v. Boston, 369 Mass. 542, 547 (1976). It remains for legislative consideration and prerogative to amend the governing provisions of the workers' compensation act to yield a different calculus for average weekly wages to include concurrent wages earned by an injured employee from a uninsured employer.
The decision of the board is reversed, and the matter is remanded to the DIA for recalculation of the employee's benefits in accordance with this opinion.
So ordered.
[Note 1] Under G. L. c. 152, § 34, as amended through St. 1991, c. 398, § 59, an employee with an injury resulting in temporary, total incapacity is to be paid "sixty percent of his or her average weekly wage before the injury, . . . unless the average weekly wage of the employee is less than the minimum weekly compensation rate, in which case said weekly compensation shall be equal to his average weekly wage."
Under G. L. c. 152, § 34A, as amended through St. 1991, c. 398, § 60, where the injury proves to be both "permanent and total," the employee is entitled to "a weekly compensation equal to two-thirds of his average weekly wage before the injury, but not more than the maximum weekly compensation rate nor less than the minimum weekly compensation rate."
[Note 2] The controlling differential is not that the employee suffered the injury while working for the uninsured, as opposed to the insured, employer. This is so because even had the employee been injured while working for his insured employer, the question of the calculation of average weekly wages would still pose the same issue, viz., whether the employee's concurrent wages would include wages from both the insured and uninsured employer.
[Note 3] General Laws c. 152, § 65(2), as amended through St. 1991, c. 398, § 85, provides, in pertinent part:
"There is hereby established a trust fund in the state treasury, known as the Workers' Compensation Trust Fund, the proceeds of which shall be used to pay or reimburse the following compensation: . . . (e) payment of benefits resulting from approved claims against employers . . . who are uninsured in violation of this chapter . . . ."
General Laws c. 152, § 65(8), as amended through St. 1991, c. 398, § 88, provides, in pertinent part:
"If the trust fund pays compensation to a claimant pursuant to clause (e) of subsection (2), it may seek recovery from the uninsured employer for an amount equal to the amount paid on behalf of the claimant under this chapter, plus any necessary and reasonable attorney fees."
[Note 4] General Laws c. 152, § 1(7), as amended through St. 1986, c. 662, § 5, defines and includes a self-insurer with the class of insuring entities: " 'Insurer', any insurance company, reciprocal, or interinsurance exchange, authorized so to do, which has contracted with an employer to pay the compensation provided for by this chapter. The term 'insurer' within this definition shall include, wherever applicable, a self-insurer . . . ."
[Note 5] We note that in 1985, when the Legislature amended G. L. c. 152 by adding § 65, establishing the trust fund as a mechanism to provide compensation to injured workers employed by uninsured employers, see St. 1985, c. 572, § 55, the Legislature did not contemporaneously amend § 1(1) to add references to uninsured employers to the calculation of "average weekly wages."

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Although there doesn't seem to have been much going on here, I have infact been busy; though too busy to actually write about any of it!
In regards to the Sprytes, I have been working away quietly with them, altering the pattern Spryte by Spryte. I had a little break though, as we began work building the workshop, the place from where all future Sprytes will come from. It really is a beautiful space, and I can't wait to share it with you. We have the main frame, the 'Skeleton' done; I just need to put down the flooring and kit out the inside.
I am hoping to get my eager hands on my great-grandmothers Singer, which has been hooked up to electricity, and, after a service, will be the perfect machine with which to brings Sprytes to life.
In other news, I have been exceptionally busy with Halloween, Christmas, and a thousand DIY projects. I built a built in bookcase! I've also built a bed, wardrobes..... My partner is very much looking forward to all these projects being moved into the Workshop...!
Oh, and, as you can see, I have had a bit of a makeover. I renamed the blog, as it isn't all about me, anymore. The Workshop In The Woods seems to be a better 'Umbrella' term for all the things I will be blogging about from now on. I would love to hear what you think, by the way!
Well, I think that's about it. The new year looks very exciting, and I am eager for it to begin.
I hope you all had a Merry Yule, and, A wonderful new year.
All You Need Is Love,
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Sony Pictures has set an official release date for Quvenzhané Wallis' star turn as Annie, for December 25, 2014.
The long-in-development remake of the Broadway musical, is produced by Will Smith and his Overbrook Entertainment partners, Jada Pinkett Smith, and James Lassiter, while Jay-Z (also a producer) will score the film.
And if you missed my most recent post on this, and wondered, yes, Ms Wallis can sing! That was always the one question I didn't really have an answer for. But apparently, she can not only sing, but she can dance as well, and has range, the press release stated.
Also, the film is being overseen at Sony Pictures by none other than our man Devon Franklin and Andrea Giannetti.
So we've got a long way to go before December 25, 2014 – almost 2 years, really, to wait. Although, as studios love to do far in advance, expect some early teases, maybe later this year, when the film is scheduled to start shooting. A photo here; or even a teaser/coming soon trailer there.
While I call this Ms Wallis' most significant role (since the film that launched her career, Beasts of The Southern Wild), there's certainly a possibilty that she could be cast in something else that opens before Annie (or several other projects), such that, by the time Annie is released, mainstream awareness of her will be even broader.
Up next for Ms Wallis is a film that's already generating debate even though it won't be out till the fall, Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave. She also stars in Frances Bodomo's short film Boneshaker, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last month, and is currently touring the film festival circuit.
It's a tad too early to start making projections on what kind of career she could have. As it stands, she's young, and at the stage in which most of us start to experience growth spurts. Also, from what I hear, her mother has firm control over what her daughter does, and the career choices made for her, and she's been very careful with those choices. So, I think she's in good hands. So far, she's made some good decisions for her, and it's really a matter of what's available to her, as she continues as an actress, assuming both she and her mother have plans for her to be a career actress.
But an X-mas day, and given the people behind this, Annie should open very wide, meaning millions will get to see her. I'm sure there'll be questions about how white audiences might recieve a black Annie. But, again, too early for that. Let's first get a look at what the Smiths and Sony are going for with this.
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America must continue to be a force for freedom and security in the world, and to do so, our nation needs a strong military. All Americans can agree on that, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. Unfortunately, former Senator Chuck Hagel, the President's nominee for Defense Secretary, supports policies that would leave our nation weaker and less able or willing to support liberty abroad. The Senate should not confirm Senator Hagel.
Our military cannot defend our nation and support free nations worldwide without the resources they need to do their jobs. However, when asked one year ago about the impact of huge cuts to defense due to sequestration – which takes effect in March – Senator Hagel appeared to welcome such cuts, saying the defense budget was "bloated" and the Pentagon "needs to be pared down." But indiscriminate sequestration wouldn't just trim the fat; it would gut the very muscle of our defense. In fact, one of the President's close allies, former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton, said Hagel would make "huge cuts" as Defense Secretary.
The Department of Defense is already facing hundreds of millions of dollars in proposed cuts by the Administration. Sequestration cuts defense by 18 percent across the board – $500 billion over the next decade. These cuts will affect all defense spending, without prioritizing; our war in Afghanistan, our operations in the critical Persian Gulf region, our soldiers' benefits, and equipment maintenance – all will be hit by these cuts. We will have the smallest army, navy and air force levels in decades. These are the consequences of the kinds of slash-and-burn defense cuts that Senator Hagel seems to back.
But don't just take my word for it that the cuts Hagel supports are foolhardy – listen to current Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who testified before Congress last year that sequestration "guarantees that we are going to hollow the [military] force and devastate our national security." Panetta later testified, for good measure, that sequestration is "a nutty formula and … it's not something, frankly, that anybody who is responsible ought to put into effect." Panetta's successor needs to work with Congress to avert these looming cuts, and quickly. While nominee Hagel now says he opposes sequestration, there's no reason to think that a Defense Secretary Hagel, once confirmed, won't revert to his old ways and make such reckless cuts a reality.
Speaking of unsound cuts, Hagel also wants to cut our nuclear weapons arsenal all the way down to zero. He even co-authored a report supporting unilateral American nuclear disarmament as an option. While no one likes nuclear weapons, unilaterally eliminating our nuclear stockpile would remove our deterrent even as Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea continue to have nukes, and as the Iranian regime rushes to cross the nuclear arms finish line as well.
Not only would a Defense Secretary Hagel choose to have a weaker U.S. defense force, he could not be relied upon to stand with our free allies and against the enemies of freedom. Hagel has strongly criticized our democratic ally Israel, wrongly saying Israel "keep[s] Palestinians caged up like animals" and engaging in moral equivalence by blaming Israel as much as a terrorist group like Hezbollah for "sickening slaughter" in the 2006 war in Lebanon, which Hezbollah instigated and worsened by using civilians as human shields.
In contrast to his harsh views on a free democracy and U.S. allies like Israel, Hagel has repeatedly opposed sanctions against dictatorships and enemies like Iran, Qaddafi's Libya, and even Cuba. In fact, Hagel said Jimmy Carter was "exactly right," agreeing with the former president in opposing U.S. pressure on the Communist Cuban regime. Hagel labeled Castro as a "toothless old dinosaur" in 2002, and soon thereafter the regime executed three young Cubans for trying to escape the country, began the most extensive repressive sweep in the modern history of the Americas (known as the "Black Spring") and has had thousands of peaceful activists tortured and arrested. The Castros are no less toothless than Hagel's comment was offensive.
Hagel also said that labeling Castro as a threat was "just goofy." Perhaps Hagel should remember that the Cuban regime continues to harbor anti-American terrorists and fugitives from U.S. justice and now holds hostage an innocent U.S. civilian, Alan Gross.
Some argue that Hagel's record is not important because only the President's policies really matter. But not only do presidential appointments impact policy, they reflect the President's priorities. If Obama had chosen former California Governor Pete Wilson as Secretary of Homeland Security, everyone would be rightfully questioning the President's commitment to immigration reform.
Supporting deep cuts to defense and America's nuclear arsenal… Condemning Israel but opposing sanctions on rogue regimes… This is the Hagel record in the past; this could be the Pentagon policy in the future if he is confirmed. For the sake of our country and people everywhere who seek freedom, we can and must do better. The Senate must reject Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
Mauricio Claver-Carone is a board member of Americans for a Strong Defense (ASD).


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It is a dual sim card phone but I messed up with the system so it's now showing an invalid imei.
The only sim card that is working is SUN sim. Everything is all right with this phone aside from that one.
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Yesterday, I was honoured to accompany the artist and now also my friend Karen Bailey to a human rights art exhibit. The painting that Karen did of my guide dog Tulia and me was selected for the exhibit. This is an interview conducted by a woman interviewing all of the artists at the exhibit. She talked to Karen and I about our picture.
One of the things I love about Karen is that she is good at describing and describes in a very vivid way. She wants to paint more pictures of us too so stay tuned.
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EARTH 2 #10 - the reluctant host of Dr Fate, along with Flash and his looks-way-too-young mother, are trapped by Wotan and, after a display of power, the two heroes are forced to enter the Tower of Fate to retrieve Fate's helmet. Elsewhere, Alan Scott tries to find out who targeted his lover for death and eventually asks Hawkgirl for help.
A slower issue here as Khalid - the new Fate host - and Wotan spend a fair amount of time explaining what magic and the Tower of Fate are, but it's still a fine issue.
GREEN LANTERN #18 - Simon Baz wakes up in the land of the dead to find Jordan and Sinestro waiting for him, the latter of whom is more than willing to steal Baz's ring to get back to the land of the living. Elsewhere, the newly released old Guardians fight Black Hand and together with B'dg manage to swap Black Hand for Baz, with Sinestro tagging along, leaving Jordan in the land of the dead.
Sinestro slides towards being a villain once more as his urge for revenge against the Guardians comes to the fore while Jordan is undone by his concern for Carol. It's a good issue, on the whole.
HUMAN BOMB #4 - Michael and Joan are trapped on a moon of Jupiter, facing an alien horde intent on invading Earth. Just as they find a potential means of escape, Joan gets shot by the aliens, prompting the Human Bomb to go on a rampage, destroying not just the aliens and their base, but the entire moon as well. He gets picked up by Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and later meets Uncle Sam and the rest of his team.
Not a bad ending to the miniseries though of all the new versions of the Quality heroes, the Human Bomb seems the most one-dimensional at the moment. Hopefully Joan will make a comeback at some point in the (please, please make it official) Freedom Fighters series that was hinted at on the last page.
NEMO: HEART OF ICE - a tale of Nemo's daughter Janni who heads to the Antarctic in an attempt to prove herself above piracy and better than her late father. She's pursued by the agents of a certain citizen of America, a Mr Kane, and the two groups converge among the deserted ruins of an enormous city that will be familiar to readers of H.P. Lovecraft.
There's the usual round of sly nods to older works, some more obvious than others, but at its heart, this is a done in one adventure story with cracking dialogue and the lovely art of Kevin O'Neill. Splendid stuff.
THE PHANTOM STRANGER #6 - still on the trail of who abducted his family, the Stranger heads to Las Vegas which is apparently full of hookers and gamblers. He unwillingly guided by Dr Thirteen to a room where the sons of Trigon are playing a poker game, one which he enters in order to find out their involvement in his family's disappearance. With a hidden ally, he discovers they had nothing to do with it although he earns their enmity and ends up being recalled to Thirteen's hideout on the orders of someone else.
It's not bad on the whole, though the poker game's a little too drawn out. The last page, though, shows the Question holding the Spear of Destiny which, from the solicits for next month's titles, will soon end up piercing the Stranger's side.
STORMWATCH #18 - the Engineer takes control of OMAC and has him attack Midnighter and Apollo, bringing them back to Stormwatch HQ where she offers the the choice of being lobotomised and controlled by her, or being killed. Suffice to say, they refuse the easy route and are inadvertently helped by the Eminence of Blades who overcomes his programming to free Jenny Quantum who sets the world to rights.
It's not a bad wrap-up to Peter Milligan's run on the title; I'm not a huge fan of his but this works, tidying up his storylines and leaving the place in a mess for next month's arrival of Jim Starlin.
SWAMP THING #18 - sent back from a future world where the good guys lost, Swamp Thing finds Arcane about to kill Abby and literally tears him apart before she reveals the only way to stop Arcane for good is for her to become the avatar of decay. She takes on the power just as the future Arcane arrives and kills Swamp Thing before she, in turn, kills him. There's a final meeting between Abby and Alec which is a little poignant before things come to a close.
Despite Rotworld going on for far, far, too long, this was actually a good finish to Snyder's run. It alters the status quo a little and leaves things in place for the new team to pick up.
WORLDS' FINEST #10 - Power Girl goes on a rampage, destroying Michael Holt's businesses while still making it look like natural disasters were to blame, even going so far as to cause a small earthquake which she then has to help out with by saving innocent civilians. Huntress, meanwhile, uses her tech skills to find out what Holt was up to before PG informs her of Robin's recent death. While she deals with that, narrowly missing Batman, Holt - last seen captive on Earth 2 - appears to be back.
I've given this title a bit of leeway when others have knocked it but this issue really annoyed me, principally Power Girl causing an earthquake. Seriously, Mr Levitz? That's a really crappy move for her to pull and not to be that bothered about it.
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HOWARD YOUNG, CDCR #F-44590, PLAINTIFF,v.LARRY SMALLS, ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: Hon. Dana M. Sabraw United States District Judge
ORDER DISMISSING THIRD AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR FAILING TO STATE A CLAIM PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(20 & 1915A(b)
On November 10, 2009, Howard Young ("Plaintiff"), a state prisoner currently incarcerated at Kern Valley State Prison located in Delano, California, and proceeding in pro se, filed a civil rights Complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Court issued an Order on January 19, 2010 dismissing Plaintiff's Complaint for failing to state a claim pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) & 1915A(b). The Plaintiff was notified of the deficiencies of pleading and provided an opportunity to file a First Amended Complaint. However, on that same day, Plaintiff filed his First Amended Complaint [Doc. No. 12].
Because Plaintiff could not have received the Court's Order in time to correct the problems the Court identified in his previous pleading, the Court dismissed Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint and gave him leave to file a Second Amended Complaint. On April 5, 2010, Plaintiff filed his Second Amended Complaint ("SAC") [Doc. No. 21]. The Court, once again, dismissed Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint and gave him an opportunity to file a Third Amended Complaint. On June 24, 2010, Plaintiff filed his Third Amended Complaint ("TAC").
II. SCREENING PURSUANT TO 28U.S.C.§§1915(e)(2)&1915A(b)
As the Court stated in its previous Orders, the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA") obligates the Court to review complaints filed by all persons proceeding IFP and by those, like Plaintiff, who are "incarcerated or detained in any facility [and] accused of, sentenced for, or adjudicated delinquent for, violations of criminal law or the terms or conditions of parole, probation, pretrial release, or diversionary program," "as soon as practicable after docketing." See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2) and 1915A(b). Under these provisions of the PLRA, the Court must sua sponte dismiss complaints, or any portions thereof, which are frivolous, malicious, fail to state a claim, or which seek damages from defendants who are immune. See 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) and 1915A; Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1126-27 (9th Cir. 2000) (en banc) (§ 1915(e)(2)); Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 446 (9th Cir. 2000) (§ 1915A); see also Barren v. Harrington, 152 F.3d 1193, 1194 (9th Cir. 1998) (discussing § 1915A).
"[W]hen determining whether a complaint states a claim, a court must accept as true all allegations of material fact and must construe those facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff." Resnick, 213 F.3d at 447; Barren, 152 F.3d at 1194 (noting that § 1915(e)(2) "parallels the language of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6)"). In addition, the Court's duty to liberally construe a pro se's pleadings, see Karim-Panahi v. Los Angeles Police Dept., 839 F.2d 621, 623 (9th Cir. 1988), is "particularly important in civil rights cases." Ferdik v. Bonzelet, 963 F.2d 1258, 1261 (9th Cir. 1992). However, in giving liberal interpretation to a pro se civil rights complaint, the court may not "supply essential elements of claims that were not initially pled." Ivey v. Board of Regents of the University of Alaska, 673 F.2d 266, 268 (9th Cir. 1982). "Vague and conclusory allegations of official participation in civil rights violations are not sufficient to withstand a motion to dismiss." Id.
A. 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Liability
Section 1983 imposes two essential proof requirements upon a claimant: (1) that a person acting under color of state law committed the conduct at issue, and (2) that the conduct deprived the claimant of some right, privilege, or immunity protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. See 42 U.S.C. § 1983; Nelson v. Campbell, 541 U.S. 637, 124 S.Ct. 2117, 2122 (2004); Haygood v. Younger, 769 F.2d 1350, 1354 (9th Cir. 1985) (en banc).
1. First Amendment and RLUIPA Claims
In this Third Amended Complaint, Plaintiff alleges that his First Amendment rights and rights under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA") have been violated because prison officials refuse to provide him with a kosher diet. (See TAC at 5.) Plaintiff claims that instead he has been provided with a "religious vegetarian diet" which is unsanitary and fails to provide him with adequate nutrition. (Id.)
As to either Plaintiff's First Amendment or RLUIPA claims, he fails to allege facts sufficient to state a claim. "The right to exercise religious practices and beliefs does not terminate at the prison door." McElyea v. Babbitt, 833 F.2d 196, 197 (9th Cir. 1987) (per curiam). In order to implicate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, the Plaintiff must show that their belief is "sincerely held" and "rooted in religious belief." See Shakur v. Schiro, 514 F.3d 878, 884 (citing Malik v. Brown, 16 F.3d 330, 333 (9th Cir. 1994).
In addition to First Amendment protections, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc-1 et. seq., provides:
No government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution . . . even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the government demonstrates that imposition of the burden on that person -- [¶] (1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and ...
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An Inconvenient Truth, 1974
Hat tip to the boys at Power Line for reprinting these excerpts from Time Magazine's July 29, 1974 edition:
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Welcome to the end of March and another fun link party!
With the Easter holiday just a short week away, I thought it would be fun to do a link party featuring anything pertaining to Easter. Whether it be crafts, decorating, recipes or entertaining tips – anything goes!
Of course you can still link up your rustic, shabby chic or recycled projects as well. I always love to see what you have been working on!
There were some great projects linked up last week. Here are some of the highlights:
This book page banner made by Lauren at My Wonderfully Made is such a fun shabby chic accessory. Check out where she used this in her decor!
You have to go and check out all of the great details to Janice's Junk Gazebo over at Gypsy Farmgirl. Most everything, including the actual gazebo, has been reclaimed or recycled!
Another trash to treasure item from Pollyana Reinvents! I just love these steampunked spring birds. See what she used to put this together!
This repurposed hutch
by Sunday at A Sunday Afternoon
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Make sure to check out her before
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This Ikea coffee table makeover by Jazmine at Keep It Crafty gets a whole new look with the great French graphic!
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3. I would appreciate a link back to this blog to help get the word out about the party. You can grab my button from the sidebar or simply put a text link at the bottom of your project post.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009
Plastic fantastic!
I found this wonderful craft book at the local second hand shop "Plastic the wonder handcraft" I just had to buy it.
How nice would crochet plastic earrings and a lovely spray of plastic flowers on a brooch back be? not very, me thinks!
But am I dismissing this too soon? I tend to think melting and crafting plastic would be the least likeable craft activity, just think of those fumes! and I'm yet to see a good picture of plastic craft, so maybe I'll reserve judgement
Anyway it's all fun and the lady on the front cover looks pretty impressed with her plasticy bouquet! I'm guessing this booklet is from the 1950s? There is no date, and the lady on the front is the only real clue!
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- Sal said...
I suppose,when it first came out,plastic was novel.
I hate it.. but do concede that it has its uses.
(Lego for instance!)
- 11 August 2009 at 17:00
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I write this in retrospect of what was a great Thursday. I have not been able to get to it earlier as we had a very busy weekend, but we had a very special Thursday as it was the first time we host one of our parents to Thursday's at Worth. Our special guests this week were Tamy's parents, so of course the dinner had to be amazing. The menu was set on Wednesday night, once again at around 11:30 I finished writing the last item on the grocery list. This time, however, instead of visiting my favorite Whole Foods market in TriBeCa, I made my way to perhaps one of the best blocks of food in New York; Bleeker between Leroy & Morton street. In this one block you have the Lobster Place (Seafood Market), Murray's Cheese, Faicco's Italian Specialties & Amy's Bread. This place is amazing. I headed there straight out of work on Thursday… first stop The Lobster Place.
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The evening was starting perfectly. I had plenty of time, the menu in itself was very straight forward. The only complicated plate was the dessert which I got out of the way very early in the night. But any good cook will know, the smallest mistake can make or break your plate, and unfortunately I made one of those. My mistake was that I forgot to peel the shrimp before poaching them. It sounds insignificant, but what happened was that the shell stuck to the shrimp and once cooked, made it very difficult to peel. I served the shrimp with shell and only when the guest began trying hard to peel the shrimp did I realize my horrid mistake. It was a bit of a mess. The saving grace was that the shrimp were delicious, the sauce fantastic and the risotto was perfect.
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Yakupov leaves Oilers game with injuryby Dan Myers
Yakupov appeared to sustain the injury with just over a minute remaining in the middle period when he was checked off the puck by Wild forward Matt Cooke. Yakupov hit the ice hard and slid into awkwardly into the boards near the Edmonton bench.
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Once you have the objectives of the podcast clear in your head, you know exactly how to go about scripting each one.
You may just take notes or have the complete script ready with you but, in most cases, the style of your podcast must be conversational.
Create a schedule for your podcast and then have each of the topics ready with you. You may wish to do 15 to 20 podcasts spread over two to three months to get a basic channel presence in place.
Create a landing page for your podcast to showcase it to your targeted audience.
Do a nice introduction of yourself and your business in the beginning of your podcast. You can add a little bit of humor to keep it light-hearted and get the users listening.
You can have a single voice in your podcast, multiple experts hosting a single podcast or you could interview an expert and showcase that. Make a choice depending on your audience and your business objectives. In fact, you could include all three kinds of podcasts in your channel and showcase them alternatively.
Creating and Editing Your Podcasts
This is a free tool that you can use to record the audio for your podcast. You easily can use it for editing, mixing and mastering your audio files. The tool supports 30 audio formats and has a user-friendly interface and support to help create professional podcast audios.
Another easy and free tool for recording and editing your podcasts in Audacity. You can download it for Mac, Windows and Linux. The tool supports some basic audio file formats such as .MP3, .WAV. AIFF, and Ogg Vorbis. You can use sound effects and work on the quality of your podcast with this useful desktop tool.
Getting Your Podcast Hosted
This is a complete free hosting site for all kinds of audio, video and image files. The platform is where you can upload any sort of content for free. The only challenge is with the speed of the site and with replacing files once added.
This is another free to start podcast hosting service. The tool has got a user-friendly interface and allows you to have a profile page and a URL where you can showcase your podcasts. If you wish to analyze the results of your podcasting activity, then the paid version of the tool will be more helpful.
TalkShoe is another really interesting podcast and live radio hosting service that's absolutely free. You can get up to 250 people to participate in your live show and an unlimited audience can listen to it. You can get participants to join in with Skype while you can also promote the podcast on your website. It is a free service and also has a revenue sharing model.
Libsyn is one of the most powerful and popular podcast hosting services. The minimum amount that you need to shell out for using Libsyn is $5/month. With this tool you can have a custom domain and page where you can share your podcasts. It also has a customized player to manage the look can feel of each of your podcasts, helping you make them more engaging. The tool helps you analyze how many people and from which location have downloaded your podcast.
The service also helps you with a custom mobile app for your business podcast, which your listeners can download on their mobile devices. With this platform, you can easily manage your premium content subscriptions as well.
Podcast Distribution and Promotion
Besides your website and your social media pages, there are variety of podcast directories where you can submit your podcast and improve its visibility.
This is the most popular place to submit your podcast. People usually listen to podcasts on the iTunes desktop or the mobile app. There are quite a few other directories like Addict and Downcast which use content from iTunes, so your podcast will automatically be submitted to these once you have added it here.
The other important platform where you must submit your podcast is Stitcher. The mobile app for Android and iOS helps you easily create a partner's account and add the RSS feed of your podcast. With this tool, you get to know the duration of which a user listened to your podcast.
You can also check out this list of podcast directories for to submit your podcast and make it more popular.
Adding your Podcast To YouTube
Once you have a business podcast that's hosted appropriately and you have submitted it to the relevant directories as well, you can add another channel to promote it. You can easily create a slideshow of your podcast with the Windows Movie Maker tool using relevant images and then upload it to your YouTube channel. This way you can reach out to more of your target group and improve the ROI of your podcast.
Choosing A Microphone
You need to choose professional analog or a digital microphone to be able to record good quality podcasts that your listeners can enjoy. You can check out this list to choose the hardware that best meets your requirements. Your business podcast will reap you long-term benefits and, thus, you must ensure it meets the requisite standards.
Make your podcast engaging and useful for your target audience. Have a definite strategy and start as quickly as possible. Podcasting is a unique channel and has a growing user-base, it is a worthwhile strategy to consider.
Abhishek Talreja is working as a digital marketing manager with Enterprise Monkey. He has a keen interest in technology and small business productivity. Enterprise Monkey helps SMEs and not-for-profits save time and money and increase revenue through automation, optimization and intelligence.


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Friday, 27 December 2013
MR: December 26th Wrap-Up and December 27th TBR
I started reading at 10:44pm, and of course, read straight through to midnight. The book that I was reading was Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, which is my Epic Rec for this month. During the day, I read up to page 14. And then starting at 10:44, I read up to page 122. I found that it was really easy to get through, which was awesome because I was actually really tired last night.
As far as the whole reading experience went... well, it was swell. Sometimes I got frustrated because I just wanted to sleep, but this whole book club thing pushed me to keep on reading. The rest wasn't really different, because I am often up late reading anyway.
The next date that The Midnight Readers will be reading is tonight! I'm really happy and excited because I know that I'm not going to be the only one. Everyone is welcome, no matter how late you join. Smiles.
Tonight, I am hoping to read a bit more than last night, meaning more than 108 pages. I will probably start a bit earlier tonight as well – 10:30 maybe?
I hope that you are having a fantastic week, and happy reading!
Original post: http://booknook24676.blogspot.ca/2013/12/midnight-readers-book-club.html?showComment=1388185901416
Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/121725-the-midnight-readers-book-club
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I love your new blog theme! One thing is that the text is really hard to read in the main section because the background you have is transparent.ReplyDelete
Midnight Readers is such a great idea! I hope to try it tonight.Replies
Thanks for commenting Danika! I was wondering if someone would comment on that, because I tried the "white" background and it turned out to be a grey colour that I really didn't like but oh well... What needs to be done, needs to be done.Delete
I'm so glad that you decided to join! I hope you had fun last night :) Did you write a blog post on your blog? I'm interested to see what you think!
I didn't have a chance to try it last night, sadly. I am sharing a room right now because of company and when I went up to bed, the other was already in bed with the lights out, asleep, by eleven so it didn't work out. But hopefully tonight will work!Delete
And what you changed it to for your theme is much better. (:
Aw. That's too bad! I hope it works out next time!Delete
I'm actually liking how it turned out as well, but I still wish it could be plain white :/


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When I planned my post-camp travels I originally had a travel buddy, however things changed, and I wound up doing the week and a half trip from Texas to Miami on my lonesome. I've travelled alone before in Australia, but this was very different in lots of ways. Australia is designed for backpackers, they are everywhere you go, there are organised ways to meet people and travel with people and everything feels very safe. The US doesn't have so much of a backpacker culture. I found this out pretty early on during camp when my American colleagues said they didn't know what a hostel was. Hostels do exist in the US, but they are few and far between, only accessible if properly sought out. They're also used differently, I met Americans who had just moved and were househunting, I met a few Europeans and a few other post-camp travellers but not many. So not exactly the same carefree traveller lifestyle as Oz.
My first stop after leaving LA was Austin, Texas but I had a night stopover in Houston as I booked my flight at a silly time. Not exactly a great first impression of Texas or a good start to being alone… the hostel literally looked like a crackden, it was falling apart and was eerily empty which was so creepy especially because I had to leave the door open for air con. Naaat a good night. Early morning I was up for my megabus and had to wait an hour in a parking lot filled with druggies and homeless people. Safe to say Houston was not on my list of places to return. I finally made it to Austin, in an actual nice hostel called Firehouse, and took a day trip to Barton Springs. Planned myself a nice day of sunbathing, thought I'd get a selfie in the springs and plop I slipped and fell on my ass, bringing my phone down with me. Down down into that water. When will Joy ever learn to keep hold of phones. That is the million dollar question. So that kind of ruined my day a bit, had to find some rice and go phoneless whilst I prayed to the phone gods to save my trusty Samsung.
Being alone with no phone is not a fun time. Whilst my phone was ricing I walked down the famous 6th street where lots of live music was happening which made me happy. This is something London lacks, you would never walk down a street and see loads of bars with free entry and great live music. I watched a bit of blues in Friends with a Guinness but there's only so long you can make one $8 Guinness last, so I was in bed by 10. The next day I went in search of something to entertain me and fill the phone void, and I found a cat colouring in book. That's right. I ate tinned lasagne for dinner, but I splashed $20 on colouring in. Priorities. Trust, it came in useful during later mishaps…
That evening was my overnight bus to New Orleans, still with phone in rice so feeling fairly vulnerable. The first leg was fine but then we stopped off at – guess, only my favourite place – Houston. Midnight in a dodgy bus station in Houston, for reals not my idea of a fun time. I was on edge constantly, hyper aware that I stood out like a sore thumb as probably the only white young woman there, obviously foreign. Back on the bus some man decided it was a great idea to talk to me and warn me about New Orleans nightlife. I lied and said I was meeting friends and he was all 'oh good, just stick with them and you'll be fine'. Great. As the sun came up I began to feel vaguely sane again (what is it about the dark that makes everything more scary and daunting), and arrived at my New Orleans India House hostel so early that all my roommates were still asleep.
Too wired to sleep, I jumped on a streetcar and explored the French Quarter. I got a nice coffee, found an amazing jazz band playing on the street (living up to expectations) and lay in the park doing some colouring in. I then decided the time had come to buy a phone. Jack was bringing me one to New York but I could not wait that long. For safety reasons, obvs. Being reunited with communication was a beautiful moment ❤ I may have spent $50 on a phone but I was still such a cheapskate that I hung around outside Starbucks to steal their wifi rather than buy something. Wifi life, serious.
New Orleans ended up being one of my favourite places in the US. At night I went in search of Jazz and I found many many jazz bars playing beautiful music. I watched a nice lady sing smooth songs at The Spotted Cat and I drank a smooth budweiser. Get me all American and shiz. New Orleans is also famous for seafood so I sampled a shrimp gumbo and it was fantabulous. One of my best moments was at the famous Cafe du Monde where I was served a mountain of beignets (French doughnuts) with a mountain of icing sugar on top, and I ate them all in my tummy. That plus superb coffee = best breakfast. In general New Orleans just had a really good vibe, cool but not hipster, southern but welcoming, creative and colourful with character. But still I didn't feel that I could experience it properly on my own. I saw great restaurants and fun bars and pretty lookouts but I just wished someone was there to see it with me!
I had a similar feeling in Miami, once I got there. The night of my flight was also the aftermath of the hurricane so I got cancelled on, and not wanting to part with more money, I decided to wait out the 14 hours in the airport. This was where the cat colouring in book came in really useful… I sat outside Dunkin Donuts and coloured my life away until some woman was like 'wow, you're really working hard on that, keep up the good work'. I was like do you think colouring in is my job..? I spent a hilarious hour on the phone to Jack and Ryan drunk in Ireland trying to translate their mess into actual language which passed the time. Finally I got my butt on a plane and made it to Miami, the last stop before the big NYC.
I stayed in South Beach at a fairly nice hostel called Beds 'n' Drinks. I guess pretty much everyone goes to Miami for the nightlife but with me being friendless and penniless (okay not penniless but saving for adventures to come), I decided to stay in my little area rather than brave the big bad city alone. The heat in Miami was unreal, two hours on the beach and I felt like the sun had lobstered me already. I alternated between sunbathing, exploring botanical gardens, writing in cafes (yeah I'm one of those), and window shopping. And when I ran out of things to do I went back to my hostel and ate some super noodles in bed. Oh that high life.
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