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TClayts needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 113 designs submitted by 25 freelance designers.
Open Discount Club
Our club has grown internationally because we offer fantastic special low rates on hotels worldwide which are not available to the public. We want to make sure our club keeps an exclusive, professional image. We need a bold smart logo with a hint of exclusivity (e.g. American Express Gold) to replace our current design and image - see http://www.opendiscountclub.com Also as a thank you to all designers considering our contest, we welcome you to access our and use our club
Travellers all over the world - both on pleasure or business which book their travel online. The hotels we offer start from budget (3 Star Hotel reduced to USD$5 a night in mediterranean locations like Marmaris, Turkey) and go up to luxury 5 Stars in big cities at special discounted rates all negotiated to be especially low due to our large number of international users, their friends and families.
We need a symbolic icon to symbolise our club and logo.
The club is for people that travel internationally so please, nothing cheap or "supermarkety". The club works by invitation only so the image must be exclusive but nothing too fancy like the Davidoff logo.
Our tag line should be included in one version of the logo as well:
Special Rates, by Inviation Only
You can use any upper or lower case mix you think is apropriate for the tag and logo.
The logo should not be in anyway a direct reference to hotels. e.g think american express - the head on the gold card is nothing to do with banking. in a similar way we want the logo of the open discount club to be an icon - symbolising status, privilege, international access, history, established institution. We can always place the logo on a travel image later to assosciate it with travel or hotels. Another example - the logo for star alliance, the airline network - it does not have an airplane but a star as the logo, but it works. Be original though, please.


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Feb 29,2008
OSU software spinout company launches first product
by Gregg Kleiner
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A start-up software company based on technology developed over a 10-year period by computer scientists at Oregon State University today launched its first commercial product.
RedRover Software, Inc., was officially founded in 2006 by OSU professors Margaret Burnett, Martin Erwig and Gregg Rothermel, who were searching for ways to build confidence among spreadsheet users and reduce the costs associated with auditing and error detection of spreadsheets. The company was based in OSU's new Kelley Engineering Center for almost a year.
The new technology addresses the need to reduce spreadsheets errors, which cost businesses and individuals millions of dollars annually. A single "cut and paste" error cost Trans Alta Corporation $24 million in profits, and a $655 million budget error was made at NASA, an industry group has reported.
Errors are easily introduced when users build spreadsheets and they are difficult to detect, especially for large workbooks. Finding and correcting spreadsheet errors also represents a major cost to businesses in terms of personnel time and auditing expense.
"Programs like Excel make it very easy for people to create spreadsheets, however, this same accessibility and ease-of-use makes it difficult for companies to impose quality controls on spreadsheets," said Erwig. "RedRover's tools help users find errors in their spreadsheets. These tools are based on analysis techniques that have been employed successfully in tools for professional programmers to detect and remove errors from software."
RedRover's leading product, RedRover Audit, is designed for people who build, review, or certify Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. It runs on the desktop as a complement to Excel, visually guiding users, tracking progress cell by cell, and enabling point-and-click navigation to flagged cells.
Starting in 1995, the OSU faculty members became intrigued by the idea that spreadsheets are programs – and spreadsheet software, such as Excel, are actually programming systems ¬– yet most spreadsheet users have not been trained as programmers. So the professors decided to bring software quality control concepts into the spreadsheet domain. By studying actual human behavior, they developed tools to enable average users to build and use spreadsheets with greater confidence and accuracy.
After more than 10 years of spreadsheet and user behavior research, the trio co-founded RedRover Software, which operated for almost a year in the Kelley Engineering Center, a 153,000-square-foot building designed to foster new company spinouts based on OSU research.
"This is exactly what we hoped would happen in the Kelley Engineering Center," said Ron Adams, dean of engineering at OSU. "The entire building is constructed to encourage communication and collaboration, which leads to new ideas, innovation, and ultimately results in new companies, like RedRover. We're thrilled the company is well on its way, and its first product has the potential to help millions of spreadsheet users."
RedRover Software outgrew its on-campus incubator space and relocated to an off-campus office building, where it now retains 23 people, seven of whom hold engineering degrees from OSU.
"The drive and ingenuity found in OSU engineering grads is a rare find," said Matt McLaughlin, RedRover CTO and vice president of engineering, who received his bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from OSU. "Oregon State engineers have been key innovators in the success of RedRover technology. We will continue to actively recruit the top talent from OSU."

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The USD 481 Board of Education voted 6-1 to combine the athletic departments of its two schools, Hope and White City, after a public meeting Jan. 23. The schools already are combined under one superintendent in the Rural Vista school district.
According to Hope Principal Mike Teeter, the two schools will maintain separate football schedules next year, but junior high and high school volleyball and basketball will be combined under the name Rural Vista. Football will be combined the following year.
"A lot of details still have to be worked out," Teeter said.
Hope and White City are members of the Wheat State League along with Centre, Goessel, Peabody-Burns, Elyria Christian, Solomon, Little River, and Wakefield.


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When it comes to Atwater Village's main commercial streets, Fletcher Drive has lagged way behind Glendale and Los Feliz boulevard in attracting new shops and businesses. How can the approximately six-block stretch of Fletcher between the Los Angeles River and Casitas Avenue be revitalized and be made more attractive? That was the question posed to some of City Council District 13 candidates*who appeared at a forum in Atwater Village last week. Responses included the creation of business improvement districts, increased public safety and the building of a riverside street car line connecting Fletcher, Glendale and Los Feliz boulevards.
The answers also reflected the candidate's approach to the much broader issue of economic development. Click on the link below for their responses.
John Choi, Former Board of Public Works Commissioner & union organizer.
"We need to look at what are the investments that the city can give, things like facacde improvements, street improvements, planting more trees. These are some of the basic things that the city can provide to actually help encourage the continued growth, to encourage more folks to come out to actually walk tthis strip of a very important commercial corridor."
Emile Mack, LAFD Assistant Fire Chief. Candidate website
We have good businesses already there. We need to talk to them [to find out] who has the potential to grow? Who has the potential to give more jobs? What does the community need on Fletcher Drive that's going to make it a place for the local community to shop, to eat, to really have a commercial zone and start either expanding the businesses or bringing in new businesses. And that's part of my job … to find the financial institutions that are willing to fund those businesses that are coming here and obviously working with the city on how do we unify Fletcher Drive so that it is on par with Glendale and Los Feliz
Matt Szabo, Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Villaraigosa
With the demis of the Community Redevelopment Agency, Szabo recommended creating another local agency that target investment in places like Fletcher Drive. In addition, he proposed extending a street car line north from downtown and along the Los Angeles River into Atwater Village "that would make Fletcher and Glendale and Los Feliz destinations."
Sam Kbushyan, East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Board member.
Kbushyan said that Fletcher Drive could be revived with the creation of a business improvement district, in which property owners tax themselves to pay for additional security, clean up and promotion, and taking advantage of a state enterprise zone, which provides tax credits for new jobs.
"We can make it like anything you want. If we can make it like Hollywood Boulevard if you want it," he said. "The next councilman has to be the chief cheerleader in order to promote … the tucked away corners of the city, of the district."
Alexander Cruz De Ocampo, Senior Director of Saban Family Foundation.
Ocampo stressed the need to providing financial incentives, phasing out the city's gross receipts tax and streamlining the permitting and zoning process to attract more businesses. He also pledges to designate a staff member as a small business director and form joint partnerships with foundations to invest and revitalize the area.
"I believe you have to be the chief salesperson of the district, and I believe that I can go to investors and say 'Come to this area. We are open for business.'"
Jose Sigala, Former President of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council
In addition to focusing on the economic development of neighborhood commercial corridors and supporting small business, Sigala said that safety remains a paramount issue.
'We need to make sure that people feel safe," he said. "We need to make sure that everyone feels safe as they walk down the street, down Fletcher."
Robert Negrete, District Director for State Senator Alex Padilla
Negrete described longtime complaints about drinking and gambling in public as well as the opening of a new restaurant that reduced parking on adjacent residential streets.
We need to make sure we look at this as a big, big approach and make sure we bring in the right businesses to the corridor plus have a public safety perspective of cleaning up the neighborhood."
Josh Post, State Deputy Attorney General.
"It really starts from the ground up. You have to fix the sidewalks. You have to get the things like the sofas and mattresses off the street corners quicker. You have to make sure people feel safe walking down that neighborhood. When you create a walkable community, you are going to have businesses that thrive in that community. We can in fact have what's on Glendale [Boulevard] right on Fletcher and it's going to be really a great thing."
Mitch O'Farrell, Former Senior Advisor to Councilman Eric Garcetti
While serving as a staff member for Councilman Eric Garcetti, O'Farrell said he worked on a master plan for Fletcher Drive that calls for improvements to the public rights of way, including pedestrian-scale lighting, more landscaping and bump outs to improve pedestrian safety.
How do we fund this? "We need tax increment financing. We have not done that in the City of Los Angeles yet. I will pioneer that and we will do that in the 13th City Council District first."
Want to hear more from the candidates? The Echo Park Improvement Assn. is hosting a forum on Thursday, Feb. 7 for candidates in Council District 1 and Council District. 13
* Nine of the 12 candidates running in the Council District 13 race were invited to speak at the forum organized by the Atwater Village Chamber of Commerce.
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The conventional thinking is this is a throwaway season with the Mets not being able to compete until 2012 after the team clears its books of Oliver Perez, Carlos Beltran, Luis Castillo and possibly Francisco Rodriguez.
However, that's not a given.
While the Mets should have more financial flexibility next winter, they'll have a wide range of holes to fill including an outfielder to replace Beltran, at least two starting pitchers and possibly a closer if they don't bring back Rodriguez.
There's also the possibility of needing a second baseman and maybe a catcher if Josh Thole doesn't pan out.
Take away those four contracts and the Mets will have $54 million to play with, but that's only for one year. That's probably enough to fill four spots, but will the Mets make four long-term signings?
That doesn't appear to be Sandy Alderson's way of doing things.
Another potential hole could be shortstop if Jose Reyes walks after the season.
The bottom line is the Mets could still have a lot of work to do after this season, and possibly next year as well.


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Founded in 1984, when James Currey left Heinemann Educational Books, this independent imprint continued his personal engagement in African publishing, which began with his first job at Oxford University Press, Cape Town, and continued through his role as publisher of the Heinemann African Writers series (an account of those exciting years can be found in his book, Africa Writes Back, available in the UK from Boydell & Brewer).
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Egypt and the Candle
Yasmine Mahmoud Fakhry
Alexandria, Egypt
"While there may be conspiracies by governments, there are no boundaries for love and friendship to grow among people."
I didn't know when my Italian friend Elisa gave me a candle as a symbol of friendship that this candle would be more than just a souvenir. For years, I have stored the candle to remind me of the good old days I spent in Italy during the cultural exchange. I bet Elisa herself never thought when she gave me that candle it would light up the corners of my living room many years later.
As I was watching the candle burn, I remembered how I felt when I arrived in Italy and although Islamophobia was on the rise, I received a warm welcome that was carved in my memory for good. Sitting in the darkness of my living room, the tiny spark of the candle reminded me of Carpineto Romano. In this small town, which is about 80 km south of Rome in the middle of the Lepini mountains, I learned that love and kindness are not necessarily found at home, by the people who look like us, or those we grow up with, but sometimes it is found far away from home. It was the first time I had been to Europe, and I was unsure how Europeans would react towards a Muslim woman who wore hijab and looked completely strange to them. I didn't know that in this small town which was far away from home I would meet my forever best friend Anna, from Portugal, and Omar who is originally from Carpineto Romano, and that we would be the three Musketeers.
Many will say that the West is responsible for much of the darkness, investing in chaos across the Arab World. The truth is, the havoc wreaked on the Arab World by the West has been supported and upheld by Arab dictators who hold equal responsibility. While there may be conspiracies by governments, there are no boundaries for love and friendship to grow among people. At the time when our own people who share the same language, culture, history, and race became intolerant and indifferent, and while our regimes have become unresponsive to human needs, the light from this candle was the hope that I survived on. Elisa's candle stands for the friendship, love, solidarity, and compassion that grew between us. The smoke from the candle has created a gentle warmth that makes me recall the sense of love and warmth that have once touched the bottom of my heart.
As the candle was melting quickly, the memories disappeared and I realized that the darkness will soon be absolute and I will be deprived of the light. The flickering flame coming out from the small block left from the candle made me gloomy as I thought, how long will it take Egypt to light up again, and what else can dictators or a corrupt regime do to make our lives more miserable than before?
We were brought up to think that Egypt was the cradle of civilization. My parents told me that no matter how far Egyptians traveled away or wherever they lived, Egypt was the place they called home. How can this place be called home if it is not cozy, warm, or full of love, and how can this be called a civilization when people are left to stumble in the dark?
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The University of Richmond grieved Sunday even as its graduation ceremony went on after two of the school's key athletic figures died in a hot-air balloon accident Friday.
The university confirmed that associate head women's basketball coach Ginny Doyle and Natalie Lewis, head of women's basketball operations, were killed when the balloon caught fire and crashed Friday night in Virginia's Caroline County.
Balloon pilot Daniel Kirk, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served in the military for 37 years, also died. Kirk had more than 30 years of ballooning experience, according to his father.
Searchers found the remains of the last victim at 11 a.m. Sunday about 100 yards from where a second body was found Saturday.
The finding came just hours before the University of Richmond's 2014 graduation ceremony.
"As alumnae, classmates, and colleagues — and as invaluable and devoted mentors for our student-athletes — Ginny and Natalie have been beloved members of our community," President Edward Ayers said in a written statement. "Their leadership and friendship will endure in the lives of so many."
Doyle, 44, earned all-conference honors twice as a Richmond basketball player and held the NCAA women's record with 66 consecutive free throws until 2011. Before becoming associate coach at Richmond, she was an assistant college coach at Rhode Island and East Carolina.
"Words cannot begin to express our sorrow," said Keith Gill, director of athletics. "We are all stunned by the tragic news. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their loved ones."
A spokeswoman for Lewis' family, Julie Snyder, called Lewis "an amazing person and a strong person, an athlete engaged to be married."
Lewis, 24, swam for the University of Richmond and was a two-time team captain. After graduating in 2011, she was hired to direct the school's women's basketball operations, according to The Buffalo News. Lewis had been a star swimmer at Buffalo's Nardin Academy before being awarded an athletic scholarship at Richmond. Scott Vanderzell, her former coach with the Tonawanda Titans swimming program, said Lewis "was one of the elite swimmers to come out of western New York.
The incident happened after several hot-air balloons took off from Meadow Event Park, about 25 miles north of Richmond, as part of a preview of the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival on Saturday. Two balloons landed safely, but as Kirk's balloon attempted to land, it struck a power line and burst into flames.
"It contacted power lines, caught on fire and crashed in a wooded area," said Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.
An air-safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board said a preliminary report on the crash would be released in 10 days. Heidi Moats of the NTSB said investigators were seeking records on the balloon and the pilot.
Steve Hoffmann, who said he built the Eagle balloon that Kirk was piloting in Doswell and taught him to fly, called Kirk "one of the nicest guys in the world" and a consummate professional.
"He was not a hot dog, not a risk taker," Hoffmann said. "It's so unbelievable that everyone's in shock."
Hoffmann said he was shocked when he learned Kirk was the pilot of the balloon that crashed.
"He was very careful," Hoffmann said. "Something definitely went wrong. This is not the kind of flying Dan would do."
Saturday's festival was canceled.
Twenty balloonists from the Mid-Atlantic region had been set to participate in the weekend event, said Greg Hicks, a spokesman for Meadow Event Park.
"It's just a shocking situation for everyone," Hicks said.
Based on witness accounts, Kirk tried to regain control of the balloon and manage the fire. Witnesses recall hearing an explosion, and the fire continued to spread. The basket and the balloon then separated.
"As soon as we looked up, the thing blew up right there," witness Debra Ferguson told The Free Lance-Star of Fredericksburg, Va. "All I heard was, 'Oh my God, Oh my God,' and all you saw was the top of the balloon still flying, but all of the basket was gone. All of the flames just disappeared. … It was like a match — poof — and then it was gone."
Carrie Hager-Bradley said she saw the balloon in flames on her way home from the grocery store and heard people yelling, according to WWBT-TV.
"They were just screaming for anybody to help them," the station quoted her as saying. "'Help me, help me, sweet Jesus, help. I'm going to die. Oh my God, I'm going to die,'" Hager-Bradley said she heard one person screaming.
There have been hundreds of hot-air balloon accidents in the U.S. and overseas, according to records from the National Transportation Safety Board.
The majority aren't fatal. However, in February 2013, at least 19 people died after a hot-air balloon flying over Luxor, Egypt's city of pyramids, caught fire and plunged down into a sugar cane field.
"Ballooning is normally a very safe, routine activity," Glen Moyer, editor of Ballooning magazine, the in-house publication of the 2,200-member Balloon Federation of America, said after the Luxor crash. "It's an activity that thousands of people participate in all the time and do so safely."
Troy Bradley, former president of the Balloon Federation of America, said most serious balloon accidents — including fires, electrocution and baskets becoming severed — happen after hitting power lines. Most of the time it's due to pilot error, he said.
In the U.S., hot-air balloons — which use propane gas to heat the air that rises into the balloon and lifts it — are built to standards approved by the FAA, Moyer said. In order to get a license, pilots must demonstrate a proficiency in emergency skills as well as the ability to operate the balloon. They must go through a flight review every two years, he said.
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Liverpool look set to sign Sunderland goalkeeper Simon Mignolet after the two clubs agreed a fee in excess of £11 million, according to Sky Sports.
The Premier League duo have been locked in negotiations for weeks after the Belgian stated that he wants to play at a higher level and fight for Champions League football.
And now the Black Cats have agreed to Mignolet's demands, having agreed a fee with Liverpool after lengthy discussions, with the former Sint-Truiden stopper set to undergo a medical next week.
The Belgian international made the move to the Stadium of Light back in 2010, with Sunderland spending just £2 million to acquire his services.
Mignolet has two years left on his current deal in the North East, so Sunderland were in no hurry to sell one of their prized assets.
But an £11 million deal seems to suit both parties, as Paolo Di Canio's side look to make five times what they originally paid for the player.
The imminent arrival of Mignolet will surely increase speculation around the future of Liverpool's current number one, Pepe Reina.
The Spainard has long been linked with a move to Barcelona and the signing of Mignolet may push Reina closer to the Anfield exit.
With both 'keepers at the peak of their careers, there will not be room for both in the first-team next season.
Barcelona keeper Victor Valdes has recently stated his desire to see out the remaining year of of his contract at the Nou Camp, so a switch to La Liga is by no means certain for Reina.
Last week, Reina claimed he wants to stay at Anfield, before conceding a move to a big club would be a "good opportunity" - and they don't come much bigger than Barcelona.
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Donating blood platelets or plasma has always been a noble pursuit to help those in need. In recent years, finding suitable donors has become increasingly more difficult, causing a drastic supply shortage. The American Red Cross has been encouraging more people to come forward, but a lot of willing donors are being turned away.
Determining your Eligibility
One of the reasons for this is because of the increasing popularity of body art – if you've had a tattoo or piercing within the last year, you are not eligible to donate blood in most states, according to their.
- Piercing Eligibility Guidelines
"Acceptable as long as the instruments used were sterile, one time use. Wait 12 months if there is any question whether or not the instruments used were sterile and free of blood contamination. This requirement is related to concerns about hepatitis."
- Tattoo Eligibility Guidelines
"Wait 12 months after a tattoo if the tattoo was applied in a state that does not regulate tattoo facilities. This requirement is related to concerns about hepatitis. Acceptable if the tattoo was applied by a state-regulated entity using sterile technique. Only a few states currently regulate tattoo facilities, so most donors with tattoos must wait 12 months after tattoo applicationbefore donating blood. You should discuss your particular situation with the health historian at the time of donation."(American Red Cross website)
When you go to a blood bank to give plasma, they ask you a series of questions to determine if you are eligible to donate. Obviously, they don't want to risk accepting contaminated blood, so they will ask about your sexual history, current health status and other related questions, including whether or not you have gotten a tattoo or piercing within the last twelve months.
All blood that is donated is screened for diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis, Syphilis and other common blood-born ailments.
However, it goes without saying that it is a waste of the blood bank's and the donor's time to harvest blood that is tainted and thus worthless. In order to avoid wasted time, they ask these questions to screen the potential donor. And although tattooing and piercing are much safer than some medical professionals like to indicate, there is still always a chance of getting and carrying a disease unknowingly. Especially Hepatitis, which has been the object of many heated arguments and stringent regulations.
If you should happen to contract a disease from a tattoo or piercing, it should show up in a screening after 12 months, which is the reason for the waiting period. Yes, maybe it's a little over-precautious, but would you want to be the one on the receiving end of dirty blood? If there is even a slight chance, it is better to be safe than sorry.
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The only exception to the waiting period rule is if the tattoo was received in a state that regulates the tattoo industry. Currently, on a few states do this, but laws are always changing so contact your local blood bank to find out if you live in one of these states. In more recent months, some blood banks have relaxed their eligibility rules in regards to tattoos, so there is also the slight chance one of these donation centers are in your area. Contacting them is always the best way to know for sure.
So, if body art and blood donation are both important to you, you have a very important decision to make. Sacrificing your own desires for the benefit of others is always commendable. If that is your wish, you might have to put the tattoo or piercing off for a while. On the other hand, it doesn't make you selfish to decide in favor of body art, as long as you don't forget that helping others will always provide you with even more satisfaction; and there are certainly other ways that you can be of assistance to those in need. So, if you can't give your blood, enjoy your art and reach out to someone with your money, time and your love instead.


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Cottonseed quality over much of the South last year was "lousy," he says. "Almost all the seed east of Texas was in pretty rough shape."
Wedengaetner says Cotton Incorporated researchers "tried to bring a bit of reasonableness into the discussion" with California officials regarding free fatty acid content in cottonseed used in cow feed.
"We had done a feeding study and found that 12 percent, perhaps as high as 15 percent, of free fatty acid was fine, with no adverse effects on cows or production. We have data showing that as much as 18 percent is OK."
To bolster their position, he said, a feeding study was arranged early this year with a New York dairy operation, involving three groups of 100 cows each that were fed cottonseed with free fatty acid levels ranging from about 12 percent to 34 percent.
"It looks like 34 is probably too high," Wedengaetner says. "The cows actually ate it with no problems, and produced milk just fine, but preliminary data indicate there was some slight drop in butterfat." Another study is being done in Georgia to generate more data.
Free fatty acid can increase in the field if there's a lot of rain that causes sprouting of seed in bolls, he notes.
"If there's a high free fatty acid level in the field and that cotton is ginned, cooled, and dried properly, the seed will be OK for cow feed. But if high moisture, high free fatty acid seed is ginned, isn't cooled and dried, and goes into a seed pile somewhere, you can end up with hot spots that affect the protein quality of the seed – and that can cause problems in feeding."
Some nutritionists have found that if they feed additional protein along with high free fatty acid cottonseed, "It works just fine," Wedengaetner says.
Unfortunately, he cautions, "The free fatty acid issue in California is going to be a big deal."
He said the Southern Regional Research Laboratory at New Orleans has developed a simple, quick test kit, to determine free fatty acid levels in cottonseed.
"We want to look at it a bit further and be sure it will work with free fatty acid in the 12 percent to 15 percent range, so those who ship seed to California will be able to quickly determine if the seed is exceeding those levels."
Wedengaetner says Cotton Incorporated is going to conduct more research on the problem and concentrate more effort on educating the dairy trade that cottonseed with as much as 12 percent free fatty acid can safely be fed to cows.
The New York feeding study, he says, demonstrated that high free fatty acid seed "is pretty good for cow feed, and that can be a pretty good place to move it. The drawback is that we've had a lot of really bad seed as a result of last year's wet harvest, and some of that is coming back to bite us in the form of the California regulations and some lawsuits.
"We all hope we won't see another year like last year's. It was nothing but headaches and stress."
Revenue from cottonseed historically generated $300 million to $400 million annually at the grower level, Wedengaetner says.
"We saw fairly good increases in the price until the late '90s, when there was a big influx of Australian cottonseed into the West Coast. It got as high as 300,000 tons, which had a negative impact on the price for U.S. cottonseed."
But, he says, with the decline in recent years of the drought-plagued Australian crop, and increases in exports of U.S. cottonseed to Mexico, "we're beginning to see some strengthening of price."
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The Holocaust can be studied as part of the Social Studies curriculum. The topic fits in with a number of conceptual strands:
The guidelines on how to fit these into Achievement objectives are also on the Social Studies curriculum page.
The Holocaust can also be included in the Senior History curriculum. The topic raises some searching questions about the significance of the past, change over time, and continuity in times of change, and Cause and effect. There are useful lesson ideas on the Senior History curriculum page.
Book in a visit to the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand, let your students listen to an account of the Holocaust by a Holocaust survivor.
Zvi Civins, the Educational Director of the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, quoted that in a recent survey 13% of British children thought "Auschwitz" was a beer!
The good news, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is that:
"Most students demonstrate a high level of interest in studying this history precisely because the subject raises questions of fairness, justice, individual identity, peer pressure, conformity, indifference, and obedience—issues that adolescents confront in their daily lives. Students are also affected by and challenged to comprehend the magnitude of the Holocaust; they are particularly struck by the fact that so many people allowed this or any genocide to occur by failing either to resist or to protest."
Teaching a topic such as the Holocaust is possibly the most rewarding teaching and learning that can take place in your class room. The very nature of the event lends itself to drawing a range of emotions from students, and can help them grow as citizens. However, in many cases the Holocaust is taught inappropriately, inaccurately, and without suitable provision for the age of students – who at times can be presented with disturbing material.
The key is – don't be afraid to tackle the Holocaust as part your teaching programme! It is an important human story that informs both the past and the present. However, it is vital that as teaching professionals we are aware of the nature of the subject material, our own limitations, and the care that needs to be taken in teaching it effectively to young people.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website states that as a result of effective teaching of the Holocaust, students should come to realise that:
As educators we need to teach the what before we embark on the why or how. In order for students of any level to make sense of the Holocaust, they need a solid grounding in facts and accurate history. The best way to do this is through the evidence – use a variety of artefacts and primary sources to clearly show the facts of what happened, and to emphasise the human story.
Zvi Civins also recommends starting with at least one lesson on the Jews: What are Jews? Why were the Jews oppressed, and who else was oppressed? How do the Jews fit into broader European history?
Civins also emphasises the importance of students understanding key terms: Genocide, Holocaust and Anti-Semitism. Students must have a solid grounding in these words before they can effectively engage with the history.
Yad Vashem has an excellent website, and essential reading for understanding the do's and don'ts of Holocaust teaching.
Their key ideas in summary are:
Try at all times to give a human face to all involved: perpetrators/victims/ bystanders/rescuers
Emphasise that the Holocaust took place in modern times and in modern societies
Try and teach students about the 'youth' in the Holocaust: who were the Jewish youth? What are the similarities and differences between them, and the youth of today?
Present the idea of 'choiceless choices' – Holocaust victims had many moral dilemmas or choices, which were not really 'choices' at all
Focus on the process of how the Holocaust unfolded – not just the results
The Holocaust had a special language, often seen through primary sources. Also take note of the "language" of the Final Solution
The stories of survivors and the difficult transition to life after the Holocaust, especially in Israel
Resisters are seen to have a higher 'emotional intelligence'. What does this mean?
Teachers need to present the Holocaust in a safe, age-appropriate way.
The key to any good unit on the narrative of the Holocaust is to concentrate on its evolution, after putting all the groups involved into historical context (ie: 20th century European, and particularly German, history). During and at the end of the unit, the Holocaust lends itself to many appropriate assessment opportunities.
Zvi Civnis recommends a 4 stage sequence for teaching a narrative of the Holocaust:
This is just a broad outline – be aware that there can be a lot of overlap (eg, ghetto's and camps existed simultaneously). Also, don't forget that lots of people suffered – not just Jews. Be sure to avoid playing comparative suffering. Each story stands on its own.
The teaching ideas and unit plans in this website are based broadly on the philosophy and sequence offered above, starting with a solid foundation of historical context.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website and the Holocaust Task Force site have an excellent set of guidelines to be aware of before you start teaching – highly recommended reading. It is vital to have a firm idea of your own philosophy behind why you are teaching the Holocaust. A thoughtful reading of these guidelines can help:
USHMM Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust
These International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Holocaust Task Force guidelines provide support and direction to educators in the field of Holocaust education.
What to Teach About the Holocaust
How to Teach About the Holocaust
Guidelines for Study Trips to Holocaust-Related Authentic and Non-Authentic Sites
Revised Guidelines on Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites
Preparing Holocaust Memorial Days: Suggestions for Educators
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Roughly 10,000 racist slurs are posted daily on Twitter, according to a U.K. group that sees value in analyzing the multitudinous chatter on social media.
Based on a nine-day survey of the Twitter feed in November, the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media of the London-based Demos think tank recorded 10,000 racist or ethnic slurs, or one in every 15,000 tweets. The list of slurs includes such words as "nigga," "white boy" and "spic."
The Demos report clarifies that "slurs are most commonly used in a non-offensive, non-abusive manner: to express in-group solidarity or non-derogatory description."
"There were very few cases that presented an imminent threat of violence, or where individuals directly or indirectly incited offline violent action. We estimate that, at the very most, fewer than 100 tweets are sent each day which might be interpreted as threatening any kind of violence or offline action."
However, the study underscores the importance of studying conversations on Twitter and other social-media platforms, which Jamie Bartlett, the study's co-author and the center's director, says is a gold mine for academic and public-policy research.
"We could use this incredible amount of data which has tended to be colonized by marketing and advertising companies," he tells MarketWatch. "We think there's value for understanding society. There's a big win here for social science research."
The Twitter study underscores this point. The group initially wanted to conduct a study on hate speech on the microblogging site.
"But we found the limitations of hate speech," Bartlett says. "Hate speech does not necessarily require nasty words. So much comes down to context."
So Bartlett's team narrowed their focus to racist slurs as a step toward more in-depth analysis of the way people communicate in social media. This is particularly valuable in trying to understand the way people react to news and key events, such as a change in immigration policy or laws affecting specific groups, he says.
Drilling down on chatter on Twitter, Bartlett says, could offer insights into "why misconceptions of certain groups come to be formed."
"Suddenly, you have this activity of people talking about what they care about, and we can see it for the first time," offering up data that could make "policy-making slightly more informed and more reflective of what's going on," Bartlett says.
Still, there's such a deluge of information to work with that through, in-depth investigations are crucial. In fact, the report on racist slurs notes that "even though racist, religious and ethnic slurs tend to be used in a non-derogatory way on Twitter, this does not mean that hate speech is not being used on this platform."
"We therefore do not make any broader claims about the prevalence of hate speech on this platform, an issue that warrants further study," the Demos report says.
Bartlett\'s team also has studied the use of the word \"rape\" on Twitter. In an op-ed published in January in the U.K.\'s Telegraph newspaper, Bartlett said his team identified a disturbing trend.
\"Just under 30% of tweets were people using the word as a metaphor, possibly as a joke: a sort of \'casual\' use. For example, a significant proportion were using rape in a colloquial or, in my view, extremely poor taste, \'humorous\' manner.\'\"
Among the examples he cited were such Twitter posts as, \"Wow, he\'s so cute, I wanna rape him!\" and \"That was my famous rape face LOL Joke.\"
"If rape becomes just another verb to be cast around in everyday language, the danger is that it sanitizes the concept and blunts the uniqueness of the crime it describes," he wrote.
Could that also be a risk when it comes to racist slurs?
"Yes I do, absolutely," he tells MarketWatch. "But that doesn\'t mean we should ban any of it."
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While I'm usually patient enough to see the season through - or at least beyond the All-Star Break - I've been known to tell people that they can ask me for my opinion on the state of the club sometime after June 1st. Sure, it's still too early, but maybe we'll have seen enough to at least discern something vaguely meaningful out of the season a third of the way in, right?
As Aaron Neville might croon in falsetto, I don't know much. But here's what I think I've gleaned about this team after 58 games.
You Can't Live Without Starting Pitching: It doesn't matter how many additions the Jays make to the roster, or how many new arms have been brought in to reinforce the pitching staff if they don't have good health.
If your pitchers are inactive (Josh Johnson, J.A. Happ, Brandon Morrow) or ineffective because of injury (again, Morrow as well as R.A. Dickey), there's no amount of pre-season optimism that can backfill the gap left by these diminished returns and absenteeism.
Whether if it is bad luck, a small sample or nagging injuries that are irritating the Jays' starters, the output has been far below expectations so far. Of the five pitchers in the rotation on Opening Day, only J.A. Happ has managed to keep his ERA below 5.00, and that's by a very slim margin indeed (4.91).
Weirdly, their best starter - in a small sample and purely based on ERA - might have been Chad Jenkins in his three unexpected starts last month. That's probably not the way they drew it up in the front office.
Don't Hold Your Breath on Ricky Romero: Without speaking in absolutes about whether if Romero's career is over - because that seems to be the perpetual question - it's safe to say that there are profound issues with the pitcher who was once the Jays' Opening Day starter.
At the end of the 2011 season, it seemed as though Romero lost something, and I wrote it off to fatigue. I also probably gave him credit for gutting it out and persevering through when he didn't have his best stuff.
But the ensuing season and this spring's near-meltdown only serve to reinforce that there is something amiss with Ricky Romero that mechanical tweaks and minor league assignments likely won't fix.
Is it an injury? He had "minor" elbow surgery in the offseason, in addition to the platelet-rich injections that he received in his knees this spring. His delivery has increasingly looked like a collection of jerky component movements, though it was never the prettiest from the outset.
I still have a suspicion that there is a shoulder issue, as Romero's release point looked to be affected at time last year, and wasn't consistent with the one he used in his better seasons.
Whatever the case, it's probably best not to expect any positive input from Romero in any role with the team any time soon.
You Can Play A Lot of Positions Without Playing Them Well: If there was one aspect of the Blue Jays that excited me in the offseason, it was the notion that the lineup would be tremendously flexible given the number of multi-position players who were acquired.
Add in the number of switch-hitters, and it seemed like a roster that could not be game-planned into submission.
The admiration of this adaptable roster probably had a lot to do with years of playing fantasy baseball, and drooling over players who were eligible to play in a number of position slots.
But what has been striking is the degree to which those players are not actually trustworthy in the field. There was a lot of noise in the defensive metrics for players like Mark DeRosa, Maicer Izturis and Emilio Bonifacio, in part because those numbers are always hard to decipher or trust, and in part because they rarely played any position long enough in any given season to give a decent sample for what their respective capabilities were.
But having seen them in action, it appears that both are best used as marginal second basemen, and in a real pinch, you might be able to swing them into short or third, but not for any amount of time. Bonifacio looked particularly out of place in the outfield, necessitating the early recall of Anthony Gose.
What was a perceived strength is probably a bit of a weakness in the longer term.
Love the Long Ball. Loathe the Long Ball: The Blue Jays are among leaders in home runs, and really, who doesn't enjoy themselves a good tater. With 73 round-trippers, the Blue Jays sit fourth in the majors.
Edwin Encarnacion, José Bautista, J.P. Arencibia and even Colby Rasmus have been around the leaderboard in homers through the first third of the season, and while that doesn't guarantee 40 bombs or anything when it comes to wins, it should put to rest some of the long-standing gripes about the lack of power that the Jays have.
It should, but it probably won't. That's the nature of gripes, I suppose.
On the other hand, the Jays' starting pitchers are all giving up home runs at a rather alarming rate. Brandon Morrow's homer-to-flyball rate has always been a chink in his armour, and one which is glossed over by nerd stats that consider the conversion rate of the former to the latter as something of a streak of bad luck.
Even if you doubt that formula, the fact that this number is climbing for Morrow (15.7%, up from a career rate of 9.7%) is not a happy development.
Among the other starters, Johnson, Dickey and Buehrle are all posting a HR/FB rate in the 13% range (13.8%, 13.5% and 13.1% respectively.)
Brett Lawrie Is An Enigma: But more on that tomorrow.


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Mick sets new 5-K school record
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Ruth Mick broke Lipscomb University's women's 5K record with a time of 18:08 Oct. 8 at the Auburn University Invitational.
Mick placed 38th overall to lead the Lady Bisons to a 15th place finish at Indian Pines Golf Course.
Mick has been the No. 1 runner for the Lady Bisons for the last two years.
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(We talked for a bit about what we each did for a living--she's a teacher and a director of plays, I explained I had sold-out and was doing technical writing stuff.)
Her: So, you don't do philosophy anymore?
Me: Not in any official capacity. I tend to be more interested these days in feminist theory.
Her: Oh. (long pause) I'm not sure I like it when men get involved in feminist theory. I dated this guy who was very into feminist theory, and it turned out that he just had issues with women in general.
Me: Yeah, it's something that I'm constantly second-guessing myself on, questioning my actions and my motives. A lot of men come to understand feminism because of their own issues with interacting with women.
Her: ...yeah.
At that point the woman on the other side of me began talking with me, briefly, and the original conversation was ended--it's too bad in a way, because that's exactly the point where some great follow-up could have been had. But it was also the point at which I felt a wall go up, and I'm often torn about what to do about walls like that.
Thing is, I completely understand her reaction. I've met men like the one she mentioned again and again. I've met that sort of man in myself, from time to time. As much as I'd like to believe that I'm not one of those guys, the truth of the matter is that any of us men who are interested in justice along the lines that feminism is involved with it, we're never going to be one or the other: Enlightened Male Feminists or Hypocritical Nice Guys. Rather, we're likely to always be a mix of the two, jumping back and forth due to our upbringing, the complexities of feminism itself, and our own blind spots.
How does one deal with the skepticism, right off the bat, that one might find out in the world, talking to strangers about being a feminist man? How does one deal with one's own skepticism about one's own motives? For me, the partial answer is: Conversation with others, and with myself. And then more conversation. Another piece of the answer is: doing rather than talking about. If I spend a good deal of my time trying to educate myself and others (especially other men) about feminism, then that really ought to be all I have to say about the matter, in some ways.
But I'm curious to hear what other feminist (or pro-feminist) men have done in similar situations...


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Monday, 17 March 2008
The £24,300,000 robbery - committed without a shot being fired
Happens every day in countless court cases throughout the Western World; man stripped of a huge proportion of his assets by some bitch who contributed fuck all to it. This only hit the news because the guy was famous and the amounts involved were vast.
The bitch's greed is only matched by her snivelling attempts to justify her thievery by declaring its for 'her' daughter and her charities.
The family courts in any sane society - that is, a proper Patriarchy - would have handed the daughter to her loving father and then just given Heather a shiny pound coin for the bus home and then told her to hop it.
29 comments:
- Eman said...
This is terrible news...my sympathy goes out to you, and every country-person in Britain. Ms. Mills has shown her true colors...by being a golddigging whore! Thanks for bringing that to our attention.
- 17 March 2008 at 17:35
Ooooh My vagina said it needed all this money for my vagina charity. Blah Blah Blah... Yup, that is the vagina monologue that happened right after it.
- 17 March 2008 at 17:54
What fascinates me about ALL women, without exception, is when they file for divorce, suddenly "our" children become "my" children, like they managed to do it all by themselves. What they're really doing is latching on to the best and most powerful bargaining chip they're ever going to stumble across.
- 17 March 2008 at 18:21
Thank you feminism and the government. With your incessant bleating about female equality or even supremacy, I absolutely steadfastly refuse to support a woman with my hard work.
The old Aesop's fable has come true, the one about the dog with the meat and the river. Women are dogs.
- 17 March 2008 at 21:53
- Schpengle Carrot-Tripe said...
and just to make us feel nice and snuggly about the whole affair, we have
A nice book, oh and another, both written by women.....and probably for women.
fancy that?
ummm, let me think for a second...
- 18 March 2008 at 01:31
What, she does work for charity? How did you find that out? I mean she never talks about it or anything!
Didn't she also want a gagging order on the whole thing, and then walked out of court and talk to the press for 11 minutes?
- 18 March 2008 at 02:52
"and then told her to hop it"
- 18 March 2008 at 02:54
I expect Heather Mills made Paul's life a misery. Do you think there will be any recompense for that? The only possible bright spot is that Paul was if anything a bit inclined to feminism. May be now he will see things more clearly.
- 18 March 2008 at 03:40
You should have heard the broomstick rider Victoria Derbyshire defending Mills on Radio 5 this morning.
Fact is, the meda and politics are full of men hating women who always see women as "victims".
24 million for 4 years of marriage!!!
A decent hooker would have been cheaper and a better shag.
Oh and Duncan I'm surprised you haven't blogged about Harriet Harman's plan to ban white men from certain jobs.
There is just no end to it is their?
- 18 March 2008 at 04:00
This is without doubt one of the best things to happen to the mens rights movement since the very birth of feminism.
I hope EVERY man that reads this and begins to feel that burning sensation in their stomach will direct such flaming hatred towards the scum who approve of this, whether it be newspapers or office blocks, women or men.
I truly believe now is the time for men to actually stand up and say "Enough is enough" and take back society from the hands of a few power hungry idiots who have done nothing but turn good to evil and reward slackers instead of sloggers.
Viva la Revolution !!!
"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom"
--Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 2
- 18 March 2008 at 05:41
All we need now is a slew of articles from all the bitter old spinsters moaning about how men refuse to grow up by committing to them in the form of marriage.
- 18 March 2008 at 07:36
- Captain Zarmband said...
And look at the way she's still whinging that she's hard done by. This is typical of modern women, no matter how much the law favours them they still complain. How much would a penniless man get if he divorced his wealthy wife? Jack shit, that's how much. She also chucked water over Sir Paul's lawyer, isn't that comtempt of court? Hopefully, this is the last we'll see of this greedy bitch who now needs to crawl back under the stone from which she came.
- 18 March 2008 at 09:23
"Eighteen percent of teenage girls screened tested positive [for HPV]," said Hisel, a finding he called "incredible," yet consistent with what he sees locally.
"This is the virus that leads to cervical cancer and genital warts," he said.
Because HPV lives on everyone (on the skin) and is "so common," Hisel seemed somewhat hesitant to consider it an STD.
"Studies have shown that if you take a sampling of 50-year-old women at the end of their reproductive years, 80 percent have been exposed to HPV," cited Hisel. "In other words, if a woman lives long enough and has sex, she'll get it – it's out there."
- 18 March 2008 at 10:10
On the other hand... if 24,300,000 men hearing of this decide to seriously reconsider any long-term plans toward marriage, hard work, saving, sex deprivation, getting bossed around at home etc etc... then that's 1 quid per man to avoid heartbreak and financial ruin later on. Well, for the guys, anyway! McCartney's legacy may be more than his music.
On a similar note, has anyone else heard of the online auction that a British man who'd married an Australian woman is doing? She's divorced him. He's so messed up by it that he's auctioning his life: house, car, toys, job (yes, his boss will take on the winning bidder on trial for two weeks), he just wants to walk out on the past with a set of clothes and his wallet and passport.
- 18 March 2008 at 12:32
Captain Zarmband said...
"Hopefully, this is the last we'll see of this greedy bitch who now needs to crawl back under the stone from which she came."
That's what I hope as well but I don't think it'll happen.
I expect to see her deranged physiog just about everywhere she and her publicist can elbow it in.
* 'Celebrity' Big Brother
* Johnafon Woss
* Richard & Fucking Judy
* 'Celebrity' Jungle Stupidity
* Paul Faggot O'Grady
* Hundreds of cheapo cooking shows
* Graham Faggot Norton
* 'Celebrity' rehab
etc, etc.
The media people will see her, for a few years at least, as a cash cow to be milked and milked and milked.
Plus, all the women who have called her a 'gold digger' and a 'whore' will still secretly hope that one day they'll be in her 'shoe' and have the opportunity to become 'strong & independent' via screwing over a millionaire through the feminist/marxist divorce courts.
- 18 March 2008 at 15:37
I'd never marry an Australian woman. I live in Sydney, and I want out.
- 18 March 2008 at 16:02
You can thank this fucking cunt for that happening: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13223958
- 18 March 2008 at 16:11
Here is the link for the comment on who is to blame for all this horse shit. I should have previewed before posting.
- 18 March 2008 at 16:26
- Hawaiian Libertarian said...
I just spent a portion of my morning reading the 58 page judgement of divorce.
Fascinating reading...the judge basically sides with Paul, he disputes the majority of Heather's claims, and does everything short of explicitly calling her a gold digging liar, and than turns around and awards her 24m.
- 18 March 2008 at 17:16
Of course, when you discuss the Mills affair with a woman, her answer is typically the following one:
- Not every woman is like this! I am not like this!
But you can reply with a fact:
75% of women would marry for money (see http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relat
- 19 March 2008 at 02:41
Eliot Spitzer's whore, "Kristen", has been discovered to have appeared in lesbian 'Girls Gone Wild' footage when she was just 18 years old.
Originally, GGW owner Joe Francis was going to offer $1 million to Alexandra Ashley Dupre to participate in a GGW photo shoot but his staff discovered that they had archive footage of her when she was just an anonymous slut.
- 19 March 2008 at 03:47
What i can't work out..... well my ex was a 'Heather Mills' and she walked off with over 80% of the marital assets.
Now i don't have 400 million quid or whatever. Just your average Joe.
So why did i get screwed money i couldn't afford and Paul McCartney gets away relatively light.
I mean if he has 400 million, what would people be saying if she walked off with over 300 million?
Where the hell did i go wrong?
All i can say...will never marry again and spreading the gospel on that one amen!!
- 19 March 2008 at 06:51
Ms Mills is no different from any other woman in the West. They all come under this single model now.
Take one white woman: any one, then mutiply her 300 million times and you have... Western women.
What one does, they all do. What one thinks they all think.
There you have it in its glory: the hive mentality. One model fits all.
- 19 March 2008 at 09:01
Heather Mills the poster Girl for Skankdom. And why Men are insane to Marry in the West. We have our share across the pond in the States. Women who have no redeemable qualities whose any attributes are whoring themselves out to Men of Means.
There is a web site for Skanks who want to play sugardaddie.com. I kid you not. Wow Heather is just an amplified version of why Men are bailing on Marriage.
- 19 March 2008 at 14:08
I still think the easiest way to defeat Islam in its entirety is to ship our Western Women en masse to those regions. Those poor men will be completely unprepared and will soon have all of their resources taken.
It's winning a war without a single casualty. Well, maybe 1 or 2 men may kill a woman, but then at least 10 of our women will kill their husbands and then claim battered wife syndrome anyway, so we still win in casualties.
Nobody sees the brilliance of my war strategy, but I assure you it will work.
- 20 March 2008 at 00:46
Have a laugh people!!!!
- 20 March 2008 at 19:32
Heather Mills didn't get enough money
- 21 March 2008 at 03:44
If Sir Paul was too stupid to marry Mills w/o a pre-nuptial when he has other children and access the the best and brightest barristers; then knocks her up; why shouldn't she get compensation for her and their child? It's a pittance to him anyway; and the child is entitled to a good standard of living- and Mills is the custodial parent- even if the parents can't get along.
- 21 March 2008 at 23:51
- Xaver said...
anonymous 23:51 said..."why shouldn't she get compensation for her and their child?"
Nobody needs £24,300,000 or even £1,000,000 "compensation" for their child. It is extortion, bonehead, that is why.
Women should not receive rewards for dishonorably breaching their vows. Goes to show they have neither integrity nor genuine concern for their kids. Western women use children as moneygrubbing tools for maintaining their gluttonous lifestyles.
Paul reciting, We Can Work It Out would not reach Heather, or the system, as she is a soulless, thieving, divorce-mongering whore. One of the many reasons to stay the hell away from western women is their disgusting entitlement complexes.
Heather Mills deserves and is entitled to NOTHING much less £24,000,000. At 5% interest, that's about £100,000 per month!
Think about it.
With that amount of money, a man could start numerous businesses; help provide work, financial independence and futures for less fortunate men willing to work, who might otherwise rot by the wayside.
Indeed, there's an enormous difference between the downtrodden and bonafide gutter rats… like Heather Mills.
Her greed is boundless so £24,000,000 is not nearly enough! Make no mistake, if permitted she would steal your life savings, take your house and have you thrown into the dirty street.
Do not "empower" Jezebel rats to destroy your goals and dreams on a whim.
Do not marry western women.
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The Wabash College Chamber Orchestra invites you to an evening of beautiful music at 7 p.m., Sunday, December 3 in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
Under the direction of Wabash music instructor, Alfred S. Abel, the Wabash College Chamber Orchestra consists of a diverse group of Wabash College students, faculty, and members of the Crawfordsville community.
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Overture is from the opera Russlan and Ludmilla with a story based on a satirical fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin and its music drawn largely from Russian folk music. The overture, based on music from the opera's final celebration scene, is an audience favorite.
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New Jackson County Sheriff Tony Boggs will head up a committee charged with looking into the feasibility of limiting access to the Jackson County Courthouse to a single, secured entrance.
Jackson County Commission President Tommy Nutter asked Boggs to head up the committee during the county governing panel's regular meeting Thursday morning.
EMS Director Steve McClure (county safety officer), new Commissioner Mike Randolph, IT manager Greg Thomas and Assessor Brian K. Thomas were also named to the committee, along with input from all county elected officials in general.
During the commission's January 10, Family Court Judge Rebecca Cornett led a contingent requesting the panel consider the single secured courthouse entrance.
Cornett suggest the single public entrance be the one into the lobby area across from the Jackson County Sheriff's Department headquarters on Maple Street. The limitation would not affect keycard holders, Cornett said. The single entrance would be monitored by a deputy sheriff or court security officer and entrants would be funneled through a metal detector and the use of a x-ray machine for purses, etc. to enhance security.
The Maple Street entrance is the best one considering it is handicapped accessible and leads to the ground floor elevators adjacent to the County Clerk's Office.
As things stand now, it is impossible to guarantee security in the courthouse, Cornett said. She further stated she has contacted all elected officials and they are in favor of the single entrance request.
"We've been fortunate, blessed that we haven't had a bad incident in all of these years," she said.
Judge Thomas C. Evans said the switch to a single entrance will be an inconvenience to the public, but the flipside is that with all the entrances to the courthouse the potential for armed people entering is a real danger. He added that Mason County is moving to a single monitored courthouse entrance.
"It's a sad commentary, a ready sad problem waiting to happen," said Evans. "I recommend the Counbty Commission seriously consider doing this. I feel a personal obligation to the safety of the people in family court and magistrate court."
Sheriff Tony Boggs said the single entrance would require at least two officers and will be time consuming with search of peurses, etc. An x-ray machine will cost about $30,000, he said. He added that the Maple Street entrance would need to be fortified with barricades since the handicapped accessibility itself there could lead to problems with vehicle drive-up access.
Those in attendance admitted that family court is the most volatile area of the courthouse on a daily basis.
Circuit Clerk Bruce DeWees noted that there is a bottleneck in the hallway which serves the Circuit Clerk's Office, Magistrate Court and Family Court on the second floor of the courthouse.
Others noted that the look of a secured single entrance is a deterrent in itself—an image that "they're ready for me."
Commission attorney Eric Holmes noted there are liability issues involved with regard to courthouse security.
The Supreme Court does courthouse assessments and has recommended a single entrance for the Jackson County Courthouse, Cornett advised.
In Thursday's meeting, Nutter said he has money concerns about a single access with the costs including salaries and benefits for three people to man the entrance around the clock.
A suggestion was made about signage warning against carrying weapons into the courthouse with random searches in force.
Boggs agreed with Nutter about manpower issues, saying his department could not provide the entrance monitors under current staff levels.
Boggs said everyone he have talked to is against the single entrance proposal.
However, Commissioner Dick Waybright said everyone he has talked to is in favor the single secured entrance.
All agreed that the purchase of an x-ray machine to screen purses and such would be a necessity as opposed to manually searching courthouse entrants.
"Going through the secured entrance should be mandatory for everyone including courthouse employees," said Nutter. "It should be strictly enforced. Anyone caught letting someone in another way should be fired on the spot. If we're going to have a secure courthouse, we need to have a secure courthouse."
In other action, Commissioners:
• Acknowledged the promotion of Capt. H.L. Faber to Chief Deputy Sheriff retroactive to January 1, 2013.
• Approved the VOCA grant application with regard to Victims Advocate Megan Shockey. The $31,525 grant requires a $7,882 local match with $3,000 in-kind.
• Acknowledged the employment of David Richardson as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and Marquetta VanHoose as an employee in the Prosecutor's office retroactive to January 1, 2013.
• Acknowledged the resignation of telecommunicator Jamie Hart retroactive to January 4, 2013.
• Heard that an expansion of the Poultry Barn at the county fairgrounds is planned.
• Authorized the list of uncollectable NSF checks as presented by the sheriff's tax office be reconciled back to the General County Fund and noted for the record that an attempt has been made to collect the funds. The cases have been dismissed from Magistrate Court.
• Approved exonerations as submitted by Assessor Brian Thomas.
Approved fiduciary paperwork as submitted by the Fiduciary Supervisor.
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Anyway i am already 22 years old, getting 23 on april So i just wanted to ask you guys, do i have any chances to reach my goal? A lot of athletes of my age group are way better than me and i am feeling anxious about it sometimes, but i still have a great team and motivation and i feel that i can get more better
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Sorry, we are mostly older beginners only jaleous of your times.
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A lot of athletes of my age group are way better than me
1.55/200m - that's only a few seconds off Olympic qualification.. and quicker than the womens gold medallist swam at the last Olympics. You sure you don't mean 1.55/100m...
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