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New Delhi: Upholding an order of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), a Delhi court here has asked an employer to pay a compensation of Rs 60,840 to a minor maid for making her work for eight months without wages.
"I have no hesitation in holding that the Child Welfare Committee was well within its powers to award compensation to the child victim even if it had misspelled the said term of 'compensation' as minimum wages and thus, no illegality or infirmity can be found in or inferred from the impugned order on this score alone," Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma said.
While dismissing the appeal of M C Pandey, a Vasant Kunj resident, the court directed him to hand over a demand draft of Rs 30,000 to the child victim on November 24, 2014.
The rest of the compensation amount will be paid in due course. Pandey had filed an appeal against the order of CWC, which directed the employer to pay Rs 60,840 by way of demand draft in favour of the minor child, who was employed as a domestic help.
CWC had also ordered registration of an FIR against him for offences under Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act. Pandey had contended that CWC, constituted under the JJ Act, was not a competent authority and did not have jurisdiction under Minimum Wages Act to issue directions to pay salary.
Citing a Delhi High Court verdict, the judge said, "The Child Welfare Committee has all the powers to summon the employer and also to direct him to pay wages and impose fine or direct the employer to pay compensation to a child victim, where severe injury was caused to the minor during the course of employment."
The court also held that CWC was well within its rights and powers to facilitate the registration of FIR in the present case and "no illegality or infirmity can be pointed out on this account".
According to the prosecution, the 12-year-old girl was allegedly employed by Pandey at his residence at Vasant Kunj as a domestic servant for a period of about eight months from February 2013 to September 2013 but no wages were paid to her.
It was alleged that the accused and his wife used to beat her up on finding faults in her work.
On a written complaint of the victim's father, an FIR was registered against Pandey under section 26 of the JJ Act (exploitation of juvenile or child employee) at the behest of CWC.


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Chef O'Neill has become recognised for his culinary excellence in recent times. In February, he worked with Ruth Wood-Martin, head of nutrition for the IRFU, in providing for the nutritional needs for Joe Schmidt and the Irish senior rugby team. Plus, last June Eoin prepared a delicious local dish - pickled Lough Ree brown trout with new potatoes and Carty's ham salad - for TV3's Alan Hughes. So, your little VIPs will be in good hands on the day!
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CES Welcomes Oceanographer and Educator
as Deputy Director
Douglas Levin started in July of 2011
Center for Environment & Society at Washington College welcomed veteran marine scientist and educator Douglas
R. Levin as Associate Director. Levin, who was selected after a national search, started his new post on July 1 of 2011. Based at the CES offices in the Custom House, on the
waterfront in historic downtown Chestertown, Levin assists with the day-to-day operations and connect the CES more fully with
the science of the Chester River and Chesapeake Bay. He will help Washington College connect students with the water not only
through academics and technology, but also through culture, recreation and special programs. Among his goals is to make
the Chester River the best understood river in the country through the use of technologies he's been working with for over
thirty years.
In announcing the hire, CES director John Seidel said Levin brings "a very
strong and varied background that includes work in private industry, academia and the federal government, along with an energy
and entrepreneurial bent that fits wonderfully into CES and Washington College. Doug's practical experience and strong
scientific background will be a great benefit to the Center and to our students," he added.
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This might ease Beliebers' jealousy a bit! When asked about her makeout session with Justin in his video, Xenia tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that "it was more of a professional kiss" and that "it's just a job, it's work." They could have fooled us! Their chemistry was off the charts in the music video! However, Xenia couldn't help but add that the kiss "tasted nice." Ooo la la!
While Xenia made it clear that the kiss was professional, that doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of chemistry between the two. In fact, they didn't even rehearse before getting right into it! "No we didn't practice, we just started right away and it naturally came very easily," Xenia continues. "He's not shy, I'm not shy so this is how we made it."
Xenia Deli Reveals Why She'd Never Date Justin Bieber: 'I'm A Jealous Person'
While Xenia and Justin are good friends, don't expect them to become boyfriend and girlfriend. Xenia actually admitted that she wouldn't want to date the singer! "I need a man with a different job, this for me is too much," she told Access Hollywood. "I am a jealous person. I just need someone who is sitting in an office with a man secretary."
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you jealous that Xenia got to kiss Justin? Let us know!
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Welcome to
Trulteskogen kennel
A small breeder of quality Pugs in Norway
World Dog Show, Paris 10.07.2011.
I had two dogs with me.
Trulteskogen's Bacchus Born For Fun in junior class
Trulteskogen's Akilles The Great in open class.
Large halls. It is entered 21,546 dogs, 21,334 meet up :-)
Trulteskogen's Akilles The Great.
Excellent, and was taken out to the semi-finals in the open class, fawn pug.
Judge: Sylvie Desserne.
We are waiting ......
There were many beautiful dogs ....
Clever boy.......
Akilles does as he should. Stand nicely :-)
Akilles wonder if he gets some chicken ....
Tangetoppen's Xclusive Rolex and Trulteskogen's Achilles The Great.
Tangetoppen's Xclusive Rolex and Trulteskogen's Achilles The Great.
Soon it will be our turn.
In the move .....
In the move .....
Trulteskogen's Akilles The Great.
Here we relax a bit and is not as tight as we should :-))
Akilles does what he should. Stands nicely.
Achilles is being studied by the judge.
We were finally chosen as one of 7 to the semifinals.
30 (36 were entered) dogs in the open class, and 23 of them got Excellent.
Trulteskogen's Bacchus Born For Fun.
Excellent, junior class, fawn pug.
Judge: Frank Kane.
Three Norwegian dogs.
Bjørn Erling with Tangetoppen's Mysterious Ihle Grande, Elisabeth with Tangetoppen's Wild Hero
and Philip Williams with Trulteskogen's Bacchus Born For Fun.
A small round before getting up on the table.
Three good friends.
Waiting for his turn.
Bacchus and Pilip.
A new round and a little more waiting.
Bacchus finally got Excellent, but was not selected for the semi-finals.
18 dogs was shown in junior class (fawn) today.
Diplomas they received :-)
Trulteskogen's Akilles The Great.
Trulteskogen's Bacchus Born For Fun.
Tangetoppen's Unbreakabel News
Tangetoppen's Unbreakabel News
Martha BOB, BIG 1 and finally BIS 2
Congratulations to Tangetoppen with all their fine show results in Paris :-)
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I love this. so glad you all shed the shirts!!
this is a warm. --brown/black and white
yep. so glad we shed the sweaters for this. so sweet and tender. they love their brother!!
Everything in just the right place to cover up what needs to be covered up!! Yea, Quinton, you nailed this shot!! Oh and the lips are sooo cute.
ahhh! love it.
this is a tighter crop of the previous pix.
I love this pix so much I did some different things with it. this is the regular color print. It just screams "DAD".
this has a photo shop action called topaz applied to it. It only works on certain pix. I love it on this one.
regular black and white.
topaz black and white.
regular brown/black and white.
knit me
Yea, this is the one I said we could not have arranged. Both of his litle hands up there with yours and the feet too. so precious.
This will print as a verticle 5 x7.


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Blog Archives
The Emperor Is A Betaboy, An Idiot, And A Failed Wannabe Tyrant.
In what is the last and, most likely, final victory against the fakedemic, the British Government has decided that the last piece of tyranny that remained (the planned compulsory vaccination of care workers) will be scrapped.
The Regime wants you to believe that the scrapping is due to how good said Government is (they were very fast on boosters) and to the sudden, world-shattering discovery that Omicron is not as bad as initially advertised.
However, everyone with a brain understands that the real reason is hidden in these two numbers: 90,000+ vacancies among care workers, and 80,000+ employed care workers determined to lose their job rather than comply with their tyrannical government. In a country of 66 millions this is an awful, awful lot of people.
The extremely stoopid, extremely tyrannical clown government of Boris "bring your own booze" Johnson had to capitulate to an army of nurses and, certainly, a number of doctors, telling him in no uncertain terms where to shove it.
What does this tell me? It tells me what a shaky ground Democracy rests on in the oldest major democracy of the modern world. All safeties of freedom have failed bar the last one: the people. Neither the British Government, nor the British Parliament, much less the totally useless Crown Prosecution Service, have done anything to protect the British people from tyranny. Boris Johnson is currently being investigated by the police for parties given whilst we were all prisoners, but no one investigates him for keeping us all prisoners or half prisoners, for many months, without any respect for our freedoms.
This may seem trivial, but it isn't. The same people who rage against Fascism accepted something no Fascist regime ever dreamt of imposing. The same people who criticise Putin fail to realise that a Government thinking it can tell you whether you can get out of your home isn't much better than Russia's "managed democracy". Scariest of them all, a sizeable percentage of the British population clearly do not care for freedom, nor do they understand it, preferring instead a tyranny of the (assumed) majority in which everything at all, even compulsory mass medical experiments explicitly forbidden by human rights conventions, can be imposed on the (thinking) minority.
At the centre of this debacle and failed attempt at freedom deprivation, Boris Johnson has covered himself in shame twice. Firstly, for even entertaining the idea of tyrannical restrictions like those currently in place in Italy. Secondly, for flaunting the very rules he was imposing on us.
I doubt he will be made to resign. The rot runs very deep in the Country, and the very understanding of what it means to be free has been deformed almost beyond recognition. Plus, too many Members of Parliament do not want that the sheep start posing themselves questions about what they, the MPs, did to prevent the tyranny.
No, he will not be made to resign.
But the entire Country can now see that the Emperor is a betaboy, an idiot, and a failed wannabe tyrant.
It is an obvious consideration that what people are ready to give up at the first obstacle, was not so important to them in the first place.
Let us take the United Kingdom and the elections. Last year, the elections for London Mayor were postponed for one year.
Imagine that. Imagine, for a moment, Trump saying that, due to the Chinese Virus, the US Presidential elections would now take place in… November 2021. Unthinkable, and yet carried out, in the case of London, without much noise. Mind, the Mayor of London is the totally despicable Mr Khan, a mean who redefined the meaning of "failure" and a member of the Labour Party. Therefore, Boris Johnson knew he would not be accused of steering the Country towards a self-serving decision. However, the main issue was happily ignored by most: it's not about whether the decision is self-serving, it's about whether you believe in Democracy. To decide that one can go to buy groceries, but cannot go to vote, was a perfect example of the deterioration of the popular support for Democracy in the UK. The vote, the very foundation of British political institutions, was deemed less important than virtue signalling on a (very) nasty flu.
A very similar situation happened with the Mass. When churches were shut down all over the Country, and all over the West, there wasn't much opposition at all from our heroic Bishops. I suspect Francis was even happy! As in the case of the vote, our clergy showed where their priorities lie. To sacrifice the Mass to the desire to appear "caring" and "concerned" is another blatant example of what is important to the Church of the XXI Century; and no, it is not Christ.
What is deemed not important is easily sacrificed. The very tepid churchgoer starts drifting out of the Church by deciding, at the very first sign of headache, or in case of rain, that he is not fit – or the weather is too bad – to attend. He will, methinks, barely stop and reflect about the very many other things which he likes to do, and by which neither rain or light headaches can hope to stop him. Similarly, the distracted voter, for which voting is a chore rather than a right bought at the price of blood, and to be defended at all times no matter the price in blood, will start to even clamour for the suspension of such an important right, because health.
We are losing the proper understanding of the very concept of democracy. We are losing the proper understanding of the very concept of Eucharist.
We are even losing the right to get out of our home for a walk.
We risk, as a whole, to see our religion and our rights sacrificed to the man-made deities of the XXI Century: health and, even more importantly, virtue signaling. This is what people do when they don't believe in heaven, don't believe in Democracy, and don't believe in basic freedoms.
Our beliefs drive our actions. Our Bishops, and our elected representatives, have showed to us where their beliefs lie.
The saddest thing is that most of their voters, and faithful, actually agree with them.
Churches And Democracies.
I do not know of any pre-1989 Western Democracy where Christianity is not rapidly declining and unChristian or antiChristian legislation is not on the march. I do not know of any pre-1989 Western Democracy where democracy itself is not being used to damage or destroy Christianity.
Let us now turn our attention to the Country those very same pre-1989 Democracies loves most to hate, and whose oh so unEuropean ruler attracts the secretly excited rage of overweight feminists and males thinking they are females trapped in a male's body: Putin.
Putin has been supporting the local Church (a Schismatic church, granted; but Christian nevertheless) from the start of his activity as President. This is both a cultural and a political operation as it is a religious one, but this does not make it one iota less good. The mingling of religious and political power, the emphatic non-separation between church and state, has been for many centuries a very distinguishing trait of Czarist Russia. This happened to a degree unknown to us for the last several centuries. Few people know that the Kremlin in Moscow was the seat of the highest religious as well as the highest political authority. This wasn't a coincidence, and it indicated that the one does not go without the other. May it be that this collaboration led at times to the wrong results (it's a schismatic church anyway), it can't be denied that it was at the root of the traditionally very deeply felt religiosity of the Russian people before the end of the Czarist regime.
Intelligently, Mr Putin has recovered this tradition. It is obvious that a lot of money and energy has been invested by the Russian government to not only tolerate or not obstacolate, but to positively promote the re-Christianisation of Russia after 70 years of Bolshevist rape. Whilst this is a task that will need more than one or two generations, it can't be denied it is proceeding at very good speed and with excellent results.
Now a trebling of St Petersburg's churches is proposed. I do not know any Western European (pre-1989) Democracy where such requests are made. Do you?
Nor can you say that Christianity is a pure instrument of power for Putin. Once built, a Christian mentality cannot be undone via ukase. Not even Stalin managed to destroy it completely, and Putin isn't Stalin. No, when Putin pushes for a Christian country, he knows that these very Christians will turn on him if he betrays Christianity. The deal is very clear, and very Russian. Christianity is not only a pillar of whatever autocracy Russia now has. It is, at the same time, the price this however accomplished autocracy has to pay, and this will become more and more so as the decades pass, the old Bolsheviks die, and a new Russia slowly emerges.
Please also note the paradox: the once Christian Democracies yell without cease at a Country where Christianity is actively promoted, and bash it without end for its being… Christian, which is now generally expressed with the word "homophobic".
The West has forsaken Christianity and has now embraced new gods: democracy and sexual perversion. Putin has a very Russian understanding of the first, and a very Christian attitude towards the second. Strangely enough, Putin's understanding of democracy seems extremely liked by the Russian people, and they are being extremely responsive in embracing Christianity too, at least at a superficial level of Christian mores and understanding of moral boundaries. In short, their model works and it is largely accepted. Ours does not work and it is largely despised.
We sell our churches. They might (in places) treble theirs. We become a bunch of heathen. They become (slowly, but at a beautiful pace) more and more Christian. We hate and despise our politicians, and do not trust a word of what they say. They support and admire their own leader in a way unknown in Europe or the U.S., and like him the more when he asks them to suffer more deprivation for the sake of the Fatherland.
And we criticise the Russian government and people, and tell them that they are not good enough, because they do not conform to the gold standard of worship of democracy and sexual perversion as we, the ungodly worshippers of democracy, understand it.
More churches in Russia, say I. With God's help, one day the Orthodox will go back to the fold, and it will be all hay of the Only Church. As it stands, the Russian Orthodox are creating an impressive bastion against the satanisation of pretty much everything which our oh so accomplished, utterly satanical democracies want to achieve.
Give me one Putin and I will give you Merkel, two Renzis and three Hollandes; and to add some real value I will throw in Van Persie, half Messi and Pogba on loan for two years. *
* you don't get this? Ahiahiahi!!….
The Nazi Next Door
It should be evident to many already – and it will be more, I am afraid, in the years to come – that Western democracies are becoming the biggest threat to Western freedom.
In a world more and more devoid of Christian values, and made more and more stupid by lack of proper education, freedom is dying a slow death.
In Anglo-Saxon countries, millions of young men and women think they are educated because they have a degree, though they cannot even write. Their cultural horizon stops at the X-Factor and Lady Gaga. They inform themselves from the crappy free "newspapers" they find at train stations. They are children making children – outside of marriage, now almost as a majority; but hey, "who am I to judge?" – who would not be able to assess any situation other than by following what the army of equally ignorant sheep around them does.
Add to this that, more than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of Communism as a global threat, the West has remained without any significant external enemy, and even the wave of highly-organised Islamist terrorism has been, if we are realistic, almost completely destroyed and certainly reduced to a social irrelevance in less than a decade by virtue of smart intelligence work, and determined military action.
As a result, the already dumb sheep, unable to even spell but – other than the illiterate of centuries past – with an extremely high opinion of themselves, have never experienced a real threat to their societal structure, and have never had in front of their eyes the spectacle of a vast number of European countries deprived of elementary freedoms. They have, therefore, neither the intellectual not the practical instruments to understand the value of freedom.
To these people, other perceived "values" are more important than freedom. Not believing in God, they make gods of themselves and need to be utterly persuaded of the fundamental goodness of the little gods they think they are. Everything that threatens the perceived picture of their own goodness will have to be sacrificed in order for them to continue to feel good with themselves.
At this point, words like "hate crime" begin to emerge; the sheep, too stupid to understand that in a free society hate – even the real one – can never be a crime, will soon run to the help of the allegedly "hated", firstly because they feel like as many little gods of niceness, and secondly because they desperately need to feel they are not the dumb idiots they in the end know they are. In an orgy of self-satisfaction, the measures against "hate" will become more and more harsh, and their application more stringent. "Hate" will become everything the majority of dumb sheep clearly sees as different from themselves. All this, cela va sans dire, in a perfectly democratic manner; then when the majority doesn't care for freedom, their democracy will make the work for them without the need for any blood to be spilled.
This society – the society the West is creating every day – will be eerily similar to Nazism, at least to the Nazism perceived by the usual German sheep in the Thirties: nice, harmless, friendly people loving their beer and pretzel, and seriously persuaded they are actually the best people on Earth whilst living in the middle of abortion, euthanasia, heathenism, and ferocious thoughts-control. It will be instructive to keep in mind that, though certainly in different circumstances, the Nazis went to power in a fully democratic way.
It is a legend that democracies protect freedoms. Democracies do not protect freedoms. People do. If a people's understanding of basic freedom deteriorates, their democracy will soon reflect the change.
If you think we are very far from a situation like this, I seriously invite you to think again. More likely than not, some of yours neighbours already wouldn't really object to you being put to jail for expressing "hate" if they think it is a serious threat to the image they have of themselves (say: by being a Christian, and saying it). The number of such people is clearly on the increase. They might not necessarily oppose your faith as long as it remains in your bedroom, but will consider it not tolerable – and worthy of detention – if it goes against the pagan god of their own goodness and, astonishingly, tolerance. They are stupid, and illiterate. They do not understand freedom, much less Christianity. They are in love with themselves, and will desperately cling to their love until the day they will have to die, and their friends will "celebrate" their "goodness". This cult of one's own goodness requires the "intolerant" to be punished without any… tolerance.
Some people think the usual Nazi of the Thirties was a "hating" beast filled with hate for a world or perceived enemies. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nazi Germany was a perfectly ordered, peaceful, prosperous society enjoying their tranquility and defending themselves against the, erm, "haters"; haters clearly recognised as such by society and one's better, and therefore uncritically accepted as such whilst enjoying one's tea and scones (or rather, beer and pretzel).
Do not make the mistake of thinking your own neighbour is much different that the friendly lady or lad in Nazi Germany. Your own neighbour already accepted "hate" legislation and homosexual marriage, and would say to you "bullying" is so very bad, it must be severely punished, surely? They might soon start resembling their counterparts in, say, Magdeburg circa 1937. It will merely take more time.
The world was freed from the horrors of Nazism by kicking and bombing their ass to the tune of around, if memory serves, eight million dead when both soldiers and civilians are added (the number might be different, but you get my drift). But there is no seeing what earthly power can be a threat to the extremely wealthy, technologically advanced, and militarily powerful Western societies, now slowly sliding toward Nazism out of lack of faith in God, and a strong belief in their own goodness.
We must pray, and pray more. We must stop being appeasers now, if we want to have some chance of becoming the persecuted of tomorrow. Most of all, we must resist this horrible climate of political correctness, and stop being nice with the Nazis.
If you think yourself too fine to say "faggot", you will one day have to be fine enough to have them instructing your children, making your laws, ruling your life, and oppressing your religion.
Still is not too late. But the number of Nazis next door is growing. Only a robust cultural offensive – also consisting in the rejection of political correctness – will stop the Nazi sheep.
How Democracy Works
I have written on another post that if the Catholic clergy dared to wage open war on sodomy, their efforts would not fail to be crowned with success. Let us see why.
One of the greatest fallacies of democracies is the diffused thinking that as every head has one vote, every vote was born equal; this is simply not the case.
In England as in every other democracy, a politician looks for the approval of lobbies and pressure groups, and tries to follow the popular fashion. What terrorises him is a negative press. This counts, and nothing else. The vast mass of voting sheep do not interest the politician. He doesn't care for the fact that most people abhor sodomy, because this abhorrence is diffused and not organised; it' s not opposed by any organised group threatening to put an end to his career, nor is it a fashionable issue able to give him some nice headlines.
Homos, on the other hand, do have organised and vocal pressure groups, and they have managed (through the cowardice of the common man and the silence of religious authorities) to create a narrative that lets them appear –incredibile dictu – in a favourable light. The professional politician, who in the end is often nothing better than a better dressed prostitute, registers all this, and acts accordingly.
How do you, therefore, persuade this kind of person to follow the Christian line? By following the rules mentioned above. He must be terrified of the flak that will be unleashed against him if he does not comply, and the Christian group must be recognisable as a biting organisation determined to get his scalp. Do this, and you are assured to get the attention and the compliance of the majority of your MPs and local politicians.
If you think that it does not work, please reflect about the influence gained by fringe groups of perverts: they did not do it through numbers (which just aren't there) but through the powerful (if effeminate) voice their being organised and ready to fight gives them.
Now please reflect: if your MP is scared of a tiny minority of perverts, how terrified will he be of the Catholic steamroller moving towards him? The steamroller doesn't have to be fast: it is sufficient that everyone should know the Church has time, and once a fight has been picked it will be continued until the flattening of her opponent. Imagine being an MP who has just noticed the Church will fight him to his complete atomisation (this means: taking care he can't even be elected to represent a borough, and can't be put in a quango to save his backside unless the government is looking for trouble) and think the effect this will have on all his colleagues. Being (the concept is a bit harsh; but again, life is…) whores, the said elected representative will run to espouse those principles the opposition to which is so dangerous to their political survival, and will do so more and more as the Church slowly starts getting a grip on the Catholic masses.
Lenin really was right in this: that democracy or not, the organised and motivated minorities are those who call the shots. The vast majority of voters are a herd of uneducated lazy me- too followers without own opinions, who will gladly absorb whatever trend and dominant "climate" they see around them. Do you want proof? Three years ago every cretin was an environmentalist; what has changed now is not that they have become smart, but that environmentalism is not the attitude that one must have to be deemed smart anymore…
Finally, let us consider that whilst perverts are a tiny percentage of the population, Catholics are a much vaster cohort; not only in sheer numerical terms, but in the speed with which they can make it "uncool" for the herd to oppose them. To do so you don't even need to mobilise the 5 million Catholics in the UK, or the 1 m weekly churchgoers. Perverts don't mobilise even a tiny part of their (very scarce) basis! What would suffice is to give your average politician a taste of what is rolling towards him; instant conversions to the arguments of the Catholics will be the result.
There is a time for peace and a time for war. Dear Catholic clergy, please lead us in battle instead of endlessly waffling about peace.
Meet Bishop Lionheart
"Cordileone" is clearly a dialectal version of the Italian "Cuordileone"; that is: cuor di leone; that is: Lionheart.
Nomen omen, you would say as Cordileone is the name of the Bishop of Oakland, California. Bishop Cordileone is the author of the most assertive, argumented, aggressively Catholic attack to the neo-paganism en vogue among the Washington so-called elites and part of the judiciary I have ever read. The man truly is astonishing and his clear desire to tell the entire Catholic Truth irrespective of any possible accusation of "engaging in politics" (which, let us remember, in the US can have heavy tax consequences; a good excuse for cowards btw) does him great honour.
You find the link to his intervention here, but I'd like to report some excerpts for your convenience and, so to speak, as an appetiser.
It is a curious irony that in this moment of history, when people in a number of countries in the Middle East are agitating for change from dictatorship to democracy, here in our own country, the oldest democracy with a written constitution in the world, there is a movement of the ruling class toward taking more and more power into its own hands. The flashpoint for this movement? The hot-button issue of our day: marriage.
In an explicit denial of his public duty, the then attorney general of the state of California (now governor) refused to defend the law of the state in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case concerning the constitutionality of Proposition 8. His reason? He is personally opposed to it.
Irony No. 2: after decades of hearing Catholic legislators (whose job, admittedly, is to make the law, not enforce it) claim that they could not let their personal views on a public issue (in this case, abortion) influence their public role, we now have the chief law enforcer in the state doing exactly that.
When the City Council of Washington, D.C., passed a local ordinance to allow same-sex "marriage," the citizens organized to put it to a vote so they could decide for themselves. The City Council obstructed them from doing so every step of the way. Bear in mind that the city of Washington has a very large African-American population. […]
Thus, irony No. 3: a small group of political elites (almost all of them white), in a claim to expand rights, deny one of the most fundamental rights in a constitutional democracy — the right to vote — to the masses of black citizens.
Irony No. 4: During the presidential campaign, Obama stated that he favored preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In a change of course, he more recently had said he favors the repeal of DOMA, but asserts it should be done through the legislative process, not the courts. Now, he has taken an action that does exactly that, i.e., repeals DOMA by the decision of a federal court judge.
[……] irony No. 5: In the court case challenging the constitutionality of the legislation that allowed the revival of cases of sexual abuse of minors by clergy that had expired long in the past, the federal district court judge ruled against the plaintiffs. With regard to the argument that the Church was targeted, he did not deny this claim (the evidence was apparently too overwhelming that we were). Rather, he argued that it is not unconstitutional to target a religious group, as long as their access to worship is not impeded. Why, then, would it be unconstitutional to target a sexual minority (which defining marriage in the law does not do, anyway) as long as their freedom to engage in sexual activity as they choose is not impeded?
The fact of the matter is, wherever "gay marriage" has become the law of the land, it has happened in a way that avoids the democratic process, and sometimes even goes directly against it. On the other hand, whenever the people have had the chance to vote on marriage, they have consistently affirmed it. And this, despite the proponents being outspent (sometimes by huge margins), facing opposition from the cultural elites and enduring strong media bias
Regardless of one's position on the marriage issue, these and so many other moves by our public officials should give cause for concern about the fate of democracy in our country. I urge all of our people to inform themselves of the facts, to inform their consciences from the natural moral law and Church teaching — understanding that marriage is not discrimination against anyone, but benefits everyone and that we must treat those who disagree with us on this issue with respect and compassion — and then to take action by speaking truth to power, advocating for this fundamental good of our society and voting their conscience at the ballot box.
I so wish we had one (nay, half; nay, one quarter!) of these good men of God among our bishops.
Pink Judges and Proposition 8
As already anticipated yesterday, I'd like to say one or two words about the Proposition 8 sentence. The sentence is very long, so I am going to isolate and comment those parts which have been most commented.
Beforehand: please note that Judge Walker – who has decided over the legitimacy of 7 million people to decide whether he is a pervert or not – is himself an outed homosexual.
Anyway, the most relevant phrases found are the following:
"A private moral view that Same-sex couples are inferior to opposite-sex couples is not a proper basis for legislation."
This is absurd judicial activism and is wrong on so many levels that one doesn't know where to start
1) It is not for a judge to decide what is a proper basis for legislation. If this be so, the judges of this land would squarely invade the role of the legislative organs as they would just decide that every principle they don't like is "not a proper basis for legislation".
2) The expression "private moral view" has no sense at all. Every moral view is private and the sum of the private moral views is what constitutes public morality. That incest be bad is no more and no less a private moral view than that homosexuality be bad. But the fact that the majority believes that it is so gives a social moral dimension to the issue.
3) I'd love to know which piece of legislation going beyond the purely technical and involving people's behaviour is not the fruit of a moral view. What is forbidden is, in his essence, what is considered immoral. There's no way one can take morality out of the equation.
4) I'd love to know what is, according to Mr. Walker, a moral view which is "not private". Not stopping at a red light? Not paying taxes? Murdering people? Why should the evaluation of all these behaviours be anything else than the sum of private moral views?
5) I don't know whence the judge takes his idea that same-sex so-called couples be "couples", but discriminated because considered "inferior". Same-sex couples are an abomination, "inferiority" is nothing to do with that. Two siblings happily screwing each other are not a "couple" being "discriminated" because considered "inferior". They are two perverts, period.
Basically there is not a single word in this hallucinated phrase which does not show a total lack of respect for people's morality, and for democracy. The only thing we read here is that a homosexual doesn't see the right of other people to democratically decide what is moral.
"Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals."
This is another astonishing feat of ideological bias. I'd like someone to show me where the American Constitution (in light of which Mr. Walker was called to rule about Proposition Eight) has been amended saying that marriage was once, but is now nothing to do with gender anymore. This is pure activism. Legislation from the bench. It reminds me of the pretori d'assalto in the Seventies' Italy, an ideological aberration rapidly corrected in the following years. It is obvious that the United States are suffering the same problem (ideologically motivated judges wanting to reshape legislation according to their wishes) now. Again, with this logic "marriage" should be extended to incestuous couples as "equals". This goes to show what happens if you allow a homosexual to decide about sexual matters.
"Because of Proposition 8, same-sex couples are not permitted to engage in sexual activity within marriage".
More absurdities: if you don't allow perverts to marry, it is obvious that they will not have "sex within marriage". With the same train of thought, Judge Walker could complain that forbidding incestuous marriages is unconstitutional, because it does not allow siblings to engage in sexual activity within marriage.
This seems to me enough (for the moment at least) to properly consider the baffling amount of bench activism going on here. That it comes from a judge who is himself affected by the same perversion against which his fellow Californian have voted makes the entire process even more absurd, as it is absurd to think that his own perversion has not played a decisive role in his ruling.
To have a homosexual decide about the right of homosexuals is the same as to have a paedophile decide about the legality of pedophilia, or to put the fox in charge of the henhouse.


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The Problem of Poverty in Schools: Helping Kids Get School Supplies
Many kids head out to school each day lacking the proper supplies. Thankfully there are ways you can help.
Keyword(s): average cost of school supplies
Every year in the fall, over 56 million kids return to grade schools and high schools. Around the same time, parents receive a notice from those schools about what supplies their children will need. The days of throwing some No. 2 pencils and a couple of notebooks into a back are long gone.
Now, parents receive extensive lists that can include multiple types of pens, pencils, craft supplies, and even USB drives. For cash-strapped families, these supply lists often prove a huge financial burden.
You may wonder what you can do to help. Before we jump into what you can do, let's take a quick look at the average cost of school supplies and the number of kids in poverty.
Average Cost of School Supplies
While the cost of school supplies will vary from school district to school district, the average cost hovers around $700 per student. That means a family with three kids headed back to school faces a $2100 bill just for supplies. That comes before any other back-to-school shopping.
To put those numbers in some kind of context, the national average for a mortgage payment runs around $1000.
Childhood Poverty
Understanding why so many kids need help getting school supplies begins with understanding just how many kids live in poverty. The exact definition of poverty varies by family size, but an example can help shed some light. A four-person family with two kids lives in poverty if the parents earn around $25,000 or less a year.
About 17.5% or around 9.8 million school-age kids live in poverty. For our family of four, school supplies will cost about $1400. That's around 68% of their monthly income before taxes, assuming they make $25,000 a year.
How to Help
That brings us back around to how you can help kids get their school supplies. If you know a family that's struggling financially, you can suggest that you'll get the kids their school supplies. This is best done by saying you want to support their education.
You can also make donations of common school supplies to local charities. These charities often help families living in poverty get their kids ready for the school year.
If you're looking to make a bigger difference, you can work with organizations that prepare school kits in bulk. You can take advantage of the cost savings from bulk purchases and donate the lot to a specific school or organization.
Parting Thoughts on Helping Kids Get School Supplies
Nearly 10 million kids live below the poverty line and even more in low-income families. That means the average cost of school supplies can prove a difficult barrier for families.
Fortunately, this is a problem that lets you take direct actions to help.
You can help individual families by buying the kids' school supplies right off their lists. You can donate specific items to local charities. You can even buy pre-made school kits in bulk and donate those.
InStock Supplies Inc. specializes in pre-made kits for school, hygiene, and institutional needs. For more information about school kits, contact InStock Supplies Inc. today.


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Schools can operate a virtual book fair at any time of the school year. As with in-person events, this online opportunity allows teachers to host a classroom-specific fair and earn money to pay for classroom supplies.
"As a way to supplement our in-school events, we offer an online shopping experience for friends and families who can't attend their book fairs in person," says Alan Boyko, president of Scholastic Book Fairs. "Online, we offer additional titles that aren't available at the in-school book fair, such as early series installments, so students who are just finding their way to a popular series can read them all."
Scholastic has offered an online ordering platform since 2012. However, the company does not consider the virtual store as a replacement for the in-school fair, and does not offer stand-alone virtual fairs to replace in-school events.
The Scholastic Store carries books and educational products, games and gifts. Schools earn 25% of online sales and 2% on all other purchases throughout the rest of the year.
Follett Books e-Fairs
Follett plans to launch Follett Book e-Fairs this fall as a complement to the in-person book fairs. Through an online portal, teachers will be able to initiate an e-fair and customize the selection of titles.
"It's a digital experience in which they can take advantage of the curation that Follett provides, off the shelf, or customize it," says Britten Follett, senior vice president of marketing for Follett School Solutions. "Teachers can add books if they know they're going to be teaching a particular topic or lesson, or add books that they know their classroom is especially interested in."
Educators can also recommend specific books for particular students through the book ordering portal, and parents can see those options when they log in.
Fifty percent of every online order goes back to the teacher who will be able to use the money to purchase classroom products on a rewards site that the company is now building. The site will offer paperback books first and later include other items such as furniture and bulletin board decorations, says Britten Follett.
"We see book fairs and e-fairs as a great alternative to fundraising," she says. "Schools have a lot of different fundraising options—everything from candy bars to wrapping paper. This fundraising tool gets books in the hands of kids and helps parents build home libraries—similar to physical book fairs. E-fairs extend the physical book fairs all year long."
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Investing Has a Role to Play in Ending Systemic Racism
The way you invest matters.
The way you invest matters.
| Editor's note: Read the latest on how the coronavirus is rattling the markets and what investors can do to navigate it.
Systemic racism doesn't only have to do with how African Americans are treated by police and our justice system. That's one dimension of a much broader problem. It is also responsible for the pandemic disproportionately impacting African Americans. And it's responsible for deep-seated economic inequalities that we as a nation have failed to address.
To better understand the scope of the wealth gap, this Washington Post article, with its insightful charts, is a depressing but absolute must-read. As is this Brookings Institution report from February. And Christine Benz has compiled a comprehensive collection of statistics on the intersection of race, income and wealth.
Here are some highlights:
The Way You Invest Matters
Change has to come from many directions. If you are fortunate enough to be an investor, keep in mind that the way you invest matters. You have the means to contribute to change via your investments. I'm not saying the only action you should take is becoming an ESG or impact investor, but don't fall for it if your financial advisor waves you off and urges you to just invest the way it's always been done and give some of your gains to charity, as Ric Edelman did in Marketwatch earlier this month.
That's a terrible and naive argument. Terrible because you can generate at least as much in returns via sustainable investing as you can by conventional means, leaving you with as much or more money for charitable donations.
Terrible, too, because it doesn't recognize how much sustainable investors can impact corporate decision-making through direct engagement and proxy voting.
Naive because it suggests that corporate behavior isn't connected to creating or solving societal problems. Corporations are not just money-makers for investors, who can take that money and, if they choose, use it to help solve societal problems through philanthropy. Corporations have a tremendous impact on the way we live our lives and they have helped structure--and have benefited from--the system we have now.
Through engagement and proxy voting, sustainable investors can push for change at the corporations they hold in their portfolios. Sustainable investors press companies on their diversity and inclusion policies, on the composition of their boards, on the way they compensate employees--particularly lower-wage workers whom we are more fully recognizing as essential during the pandemic, on labor relations generally, and on where corporate lobbying and political expenditures go.
Over the next year, you can bet that sustainable investors will closely question what corporations are doing to fight systemic racism.
Investors have the means to drive change. An all-out attack on systemic racism requires every tool in the box.
Here is an example of how one prominent asset manager, Calvert Research and Management, intends to engage on systemic racism with companies it owns by asking companies to:
Provide the information required to accurately assess their racial diversity.
Provide pay equity disclosure across race and gender.
Publicly state what they are doing to combat racism and police brutality, including action taken to address failures in our education system.
My colleague Jackie Cook wrote last week that employee welfare and political influence are among the big ESG issues that have been voted on at company annual general meetings so far this year.
With another month still to go in this year's proxy season, a record number of environmental and social shareholder resolutions have passed with majority shareholder support in 2020. Since April, 17 resolutions have garnered at least 50% support:
From Nia Impact Capital's founder and CEO Kristin Hull, seven actions investors can take to push for racial justice.
Finally, here's something every public company in the U.S. should do beginning right now:
Encourage every employee to register to vote and make it easy for them to do so.
Educate employees on their location's voting rules, poll locations, hours, early voting, absentee and mail-in voting, especially in those parts of the country that have erected barriers to voting.
Make sure every employee is given the time to vote, including paid time off if necessary. This is key because a conflicting work schedule is the biggest reason why people say they don't vote.
Given the likelihood that COVID-19 will still pose a threat to public health, educate employees about how to vote safely.
Our democracy is in peril. Corporations should step up in this moment to make sure everyone can vote, and vote safely, in 2020.
Jon Hale has been researching the fund industry since 1995. He is Morningstar's director of ESG research for the Americas and a member of Morningstar's investment research department. While Morningstar typically agrees with the views Jon expresses on ESG matters, they represent his own views.


text: Sociology is the scientific study of society. As such, it closely examines human interactions and cultural phenomena, including topics like inequality and urbanization and the effects of these on groups and individuals. To do their work, sociologists rely on a philosophy of science called positivism, which you will study in Unit 1. The philosophy of positivism asserts that authentic knowledge, or truth, can only be gained through empirical observations. In other words, we need to be able to experience our observations or use scientific measurement with a form of sensory experience, as opposed to using faith-based or emotional experiences. Another central concept to sociology is that of the sociological imagination. The sociological imagination allows sociologists to make connections between personal experiences and larger social issues. For example, did you know the U.S. has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the industrialized world? In order to understand this trend, sociologists use scientific methods to make concrete connections between social issues like sex education in schools, sexualization in the media, and poverty and the personal issue of teenage sexual activity and pregnancy. This course is designed to introduce you to a range of basic sociological principles so that you can develop your own sociological imagination. You will learn about the origins of sociology as a discipline and be introduced to major sociological theories and methods of research. You will also explore such topics as sex and gender, deviance, and racism. As you move through the course, try to develop your sociological imagination by relating the topics and theories you read about to your own life experiences.


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Director: James McTeigue
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott
Release Date: Now Available on Blu-Ray & DVD
A Review By: Kevin Lovell
Film Rating: 6/10
Disc Rating: 7/10
A Foreign Service Officer (Milla Jovovich) newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the US. After surviving a vicious attack on the embassy, she finds herself framed for crimes she didn't commit and racing to elude assassins while trying to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve.
Kate Abbott (Jovovich) is one of the best in her field and after a notable promotion is now working security as a Foreign Service Officer in one of the best impressive posts possible. After making inquiries into what she had reason to believe might be questionable activity with a group of individuals' Visa's, she soon finds herself marked for death. Unaware of the situation, by mere coincidence she narrowly escapes a deadly bombing intended for her and finds herself on the run through the streets of London pursued by a deadly assassin known only to some as The Watchmaker (Brosnan) who will stop at nothing to finish the job; although what The Watchmaker is unaware of is that Abbott will also stop at nothing to make sure the terrorist plot she is trying to piece together will never come to pass.
James McTeigue (V For Vendetta, Ninja Assassin) directed 'Survivor' from a screenplay by Philip Shelby and McTeigue does a solid job at the helm, guiding the on screen activity quite well, resulting in a film that while suffering in a number of other ways, at the very least looks surprisingly good. The cast is comprised of numerous talented and well known individuals including Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, Angela Bassett, James D'Arcy and a number more, all of whom deliver capable performances in each of their respective roles, although far from the high caliber of which we've commonly seen from them.
'Survivor' looks good and holds up in most aspects of appearance, the movement, settings and most importantly the action all look better than one might expect. It does deliver some entertaining action and chase sequences; a large portion of the film basically consists of a very lengthy chase, but the film fails to deliver much else; most importantly in aspects such as plot or any form of originality. The plot and sequence of events the film follows could not be more predictable and generic, and a lot of actions and reactions from characters throughout the film seem out of place and often contradictory to prior occurrences. Overall, 'Survivor' is certainly not going to win any awards and it's in no way anything spectacular, yet if you're looking for a simple, fun and entertaining thriller that also keeps the blood and other offensive activities a bit tamer than in many similar films, it might be worth your time to check it out, although it's certainly not one that you need to go out of your way to acquire the Blu-Ray (or DVD) and watch immediately.
The Blu-Ray release of 'Survivor' features a full 1080p High Definition presentation utilizing the film's original 2.40:1 Cinemascope Aspect Ratio. The video presentation looks pretty fantastic as a whole and is easily the most impressive aspect of the release. It consistently delivers a rich, detailed and sharp presentation that while suffering some mild banding and other trivial (and nearly unnoticeable) elements holds up admirably, even during the numerous action-oriented and darker sequences so frequent in the film, never causing anything occurring on screen to become to distorted or indiscernible in the slightest. Overall, this is a pretty solid high definition video presentation that should easily please most folks.
While both the rear of the case and the Set-Up section of the menu on the disc list the Blu-Ray release as including a lossless 5.1 channel Dolby TrueHD soundtrack, in actuality the release sadly includes solely a lossy 5.1 channel Dolby Digital soundtrack utilizing a bitrate of 448 kpbs. The lossy audio is unquestionably a disappointment and incomparable with any lossless multichannel soundtrack, although as far as lossy soundtracks go, it sounds pretty decent. It regularly utilizes all five available channels to their fullest in order to surround the viewer with constant bullets or explosive elements and much more whizzing past throughout, while never causing any dialogue which may be occurring simultaneously to become negatively affected or distorted. Overall, while many of the action elements and the score are noticeably contained and almost a bit tinny at times, it's still pretty decent for a 5.1 channel Dolby Digital soundtrack.
The Blu-Ray release of 'Survivor' doesn't include a great deal in the way of bonus content, although it does include a couple of extras. Included on the Blu-Ray release are a number of 'Deleted Scenes' (running just over 10 minutes in length altogether) in addition to 'The Making of Survivor' Featurette which runs approximately 5 minutes in length and includes Behind the Scenes footage and interviews with numerous members of the cast and crew.
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Danish startup Relink has raised $1 million seed round as it is seeing increasing demand from prospective customers and investors.
"The HR Tech market is red hot and 2017 is the year to capitalize on it; scaling Sales and R&D activities to meet existing and future demand," the firm said in a statement.
Relink's technology reads and augments a job description, allowing it to screen incoming applicants and break down their suitability for specific jobs in terms of skills, experience and educational fit.
Relink uses machine learning to grasp the concepts surrounding job positions and how to screen incoming applicants in order to improve the hiring process. Its capabilities come from the intersection between methods from natural language processing, graph theory, recommender systems, and machine learning.
Having read millions of CV's, Relink's technology has domain knowledge about almost any job role out there. This knowledge is represented in graphs that connect occupations, skills and education, based on upwards of 20 million CVs.


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Looks like there's more unfortunate subway news approaching the platform.
A new study revealed that the Toronto Transit Commission has air pollution levels 10 times greater than the levels above ground.
And that's just in Canada.
"We don't really know the health risks of riding subways," Greg Evans, lead author of the study, told Gizmodo. "It's an understudied area."
The air quality in Toronto's subway was three times worse than Montreal's, with Vancouver currently ranking as the country's cleanest. Underground pollution levels in Toronto were as high as 100 micrograms of pollutants per cubic meter – which is as bad as the air in notoriously smoggy Beijing. Outside Toronto's subway, pollution levels are only about 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The US State Department warns that levels above 101 micrograms can be unhealthy.
Evans believes the poor air quality is caused by the wheels and brakes of the subway trains.
"When the train comes into the station, it causes dust and particles to become airborne," said Evans. "Subways are primarily underground, so there's nowhere for the particles to go."
The study suggests that subways look into improving their ventilation systems. Subway conductors could also slow down before entering the station, so dust and other particles aren't blown into a massive cloud of pollutants.
Evans also encourages cities to test the air quality of their subways if they haven't – and most haven't. Apart from Barcelona, Spain and Seoul, South Korea, subway passengers of the world have no idea what they're breathing in.


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Purpose: To describe patients with sickle cell anemia and ACS (fever, pulmonary pathology and abnormal chest radiograph) who required admission to the PCCU and to compare the effects of simple transfusion (ST) versus exchange transfusion (ET) on their clinical course. Methods: All patients admitted to the PCCU for ACS between 1989-1994 were divided into either Group 1 (ST) or Group 2 (ET). Parameters examined included: clinical presentation, length of illness, fever, hemoglobin (Hb) level, PRISM score, A-a gradient, Respiratory Distress Score (RDS); (0=no distress, 1=tachypnea, 2-tachypnea and retractions), hospital and PCCU length of stay (LOS), need for mechanical ventilation/CPAP, and the presence of pleural effusion (PEF). Data were analyzed using the Student's t-test and Chi-square analysis. Results: 16 patients were treated for 19 episodes of ACS. 7 (44%) were male and 9 (56%) were female. 10 pts received ST (Grp 1) and 9 ET (Grp 2) The mean age was 10.4 years. Results are presented as the mean ±standard error. ST ET p PRISM 3.3±0.5 5.4±1.2 .09 A-a 384±58 280±48 .18 Hb 8.4±0.5 7.3±0.4 .11 RDS 1.5±.22 1.9±.11 .15 ICU LOS 2.6±0.4 5.6±1.2 .03 Hosp LOS 11.9±3 11.8±1.7 .96 MV 2 (20%) 5 (55.6%) .11 PEF 3 (30%) 7 (77.8%) .04 Conclusions: There was no difference between the Crps in Hb, PRISM, A-a gradient, RDS, H LOS, or the need for MV/CPAP. Despite a similar clinical severity, pts in Grp 2 (ET) had a longer PICU LOS. ET does not however appear superior to ST in hastening clinical improvement in children with ACS. A prospective study is needed.
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- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
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Another take on Modular smartphones.
Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, is now taking a stab on the hardware side. The Essential Phone is now ready for primetime with a bezel-less display and a new modular ecosystem to boot.
The Essential packs Qualcomm's latest under the hood, Snapdragon 835 with 128GB storage and a not-so-generous 4GB of RAM. But from what we have heard, the phone uses a very bare operating system to keep it light on resources. The highlight of the smartphone though is the nearly edgeless display, which goes right to the top of the phone. The only relief being provided by the front-facing camera, dead center.
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There is a very small bezel at the bottom though, but this is the farthest we have come to see an almost full-screen front on a smartphone. The design may look quite weird at first, especially the placement of the front facing camera, since the status bar is supposed to be underneath it.
The phone is built using a titanium alloy, which should prove to be much stronger than the aluminum alloys used by Samsung and Apple in their flagships. Another interesting design choice is the lack of any logos or branding on the smartphone itself.
Essential Phone - Detailed Hardware Specifications and Features
Coming to cameras, the Essential phone features dual cameras at the back. The company has gone with monochrome + 13-megapixel RGB sensor modules, similar to the Huawei P9 and P10. The monochrome sensor allows for more light to flow in, and adds more contrast when images from both sensors are merged together. The front 8-megapixel camera too is capable of shooting 4K video at 30FPS. The camera also uses hybrid autofocus, combining phase-detect with laser-assisted for faster focus.
The ceramic back of the phone also houses two magnetic connectors used for the modular accessories along with the fingerprint sensor. The bottom of the phone has the speaker, USB Type-C port but there's no 3.5mm headphone jack here. A USB Type-C to 3.5mm dongle will be included in the box though.
It's not just about specs, but a modular Ecosystem
Essential has bigger plans for its first phone, which starts with modular accessories. The first one is a 360-degree camera which fits on the top of the phone and fits via the magnetic connectors on the back. There is a charging dock as well which comes as part of the standard package.
Modular ambitions aside, the Essential phone does offer a unique and thoughtful design, and what appears to be very solid construction. It will be available in the US starting at $699, and if you want the 360 camera, there is a limited period offer of $749. At present, it will be available in two colors, Black Moon or Pure White, but later we are going to see Stellar Grey and Ocean Depths color options as well.
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The Cutest Ear Piercings
So maybe you haven't heard of this year, but people are taking more of an interest where their ear piercings are, and it has been coined as curation. So rather than return to the piercer and take the natural route of a few in each lobe and one at the top, people are looking at things like stacks in the helix, clusters of studs in the lobe and tragus, a gold industrial piercing and more. It is about what looks good and making it more than just a piercing.
Here are some examples of what types of piercings you might like to check out, and they might even help you decide on your next piercing!
These used to be blasted through with a gun, but you'll find more reputable piercers will use a needle. It has a decent pinch to it when it gets done, and will often swell up, throb and feel a bit tender while it starts to heal. Try to get the opposite ear pierced to the side you sleep on. Stacked slim hoops are delicate and still noticeable. Making it perfect for people with more edge than a simple lobe piercing without having something more challenging to maintain.
Instead of having a run of piercings from lobe to helix and beyond, consider layering them up. Have two studs in the lobe, two hoops in the upper lobe, two in the helix and you could play around with another two in the forward helix if you have the room to do so. Mixing and matching jewelry to have some with gems, some plain, and some studs will look really pretty.
This is one piercing on the ear that you can really get a chunky hoop on. It will sit in the nook between the standard lobe and helix, and looks fantastic. Essentially it is a hoop earring that wraps around the ear. And it looks amazing. If you don't think you can deal with the pinchy pain, then try an ear cuff for a while.
This is a really subtle piercing that not many people will notice unless you have something pretty eye-catching in there in terms of jewelry. Check out these cute conch piercings for an idea of what you can do in that area.
Super cool piercing that goes on the little lip of your ear, closest to your head. You can go for a chunky stud, or a cool hoop, depending on the rest of your ear jewelry.
This became really popular in the last few years because the piercing goes through a pressure point that is thought to help relieve migraines. You'll probably see these with really cool heart-shaped hoops.


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How to Find Clever Hidden Storage in Every Room with Closet Factory
In every home, the demand for more storage, easier organization, and more beautiful solutions for each are a must for every homeowner. Hidden storage is a rare find in each of our homes, and today I sit down with Closet Factory, to find out answers to many of your storage dilemmas. From the the kid's rooms to the garage and laundry room, every room has beautiful storage solutions, and Closet Factory shows you how.
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1.) FRESHOME: The number one complaint about most homeowners is that they don't have enough storage space. What is your advice for those trying to find hidden space throughout their home?
CLOSET FACTORY: Maximize the space of your home as best as possible. Most people do not realize that from the floor to the ceiling can be potential storage space. With the right built-in or custom cabinetry with compartments for smaller items will keep things organized.
2.) FRESHOME: Many small home and apartment owners want to find clever storage space in their bathrooms, especially when they share it with other people! What storage ideas do you suggest?
CLOSET FACTORY: When sharing a space the best practice is to section off different areas for both parties. These sections could be shelving, drawers or even closet space. Then go a step further by adding storage accessories like drawer sections, pull out bins, and even adding additional shelving or double hanging racks to maximize the space.
3.) FRESHOME: Closet Factory has a wide array of organization options for the pantry, but many homeowners think they have to spend a fortune for custom organization, is this true? What kitchen ideas are good for the budget conscious?
CLOSET FACTORY: For the budget conscious the best way is to invest in clear storage bins, that you can find at any mass merchant, to sort pantry items. Use a label maker to keep things organized so you know what is in each container. Try to section the contents of the kitchen pantry by dividing them by type. Keep them organized by grouping a section for spices, dry goods, seasonings, and storage items like tubbleware, sandwich bags and aluminum foil. You can find pretty inexpensive mini baskets to fit inside drawers instead of custom drawer dividers.
4.) FRESHOME: For homeowners that want a higher end, and personalized custom closet, what tips do you suggest for matching their lifestyle to their storage needs?
CLOSET FACTORY: Closets have evolved over the years. They are no longer a single hanging rod with a shelf on top. Now you can customize the look of your closet to reflect the rest of the living space in the home. If you love contemporary lines you may go with a sleek modern closet design. If you are more luxurious and ornate in your interiors then there are a number of custom moldings and appliqués that can be applied, not to mention all the color combinations! High end closets should look like a built in piece of furniture in the home. Not only will it look beautiful but will actually bring up the homes value.
When working with a professional Closet Factory designer, they will take an inventory of the contents of your closet. Say if you have dozens or even hundreds of shoes, this storage need will be accommodated with shoe shelving or drawers. If you have lots of hats then custom racks, and hooks can be added to the space. Perhaps you have a lot of laundry sections such as dry cleaning, darks, lights, delicates, etc. We can accommodate your needs by having pull out bins in the closet itself or even transforming a laundry space.
Most master closets are essentially dressing rooms. They have everything you need inside from custom lighting to even a seating area. Some closets even have a flat screen or built in charging stations for phones and small mobile devices.
The great thing about Closet Factory is that we build around each customer and their needs.
5.) FRESHOME: Kids storage of toys and clothes is always a challenge in every home. How does Closet Factory help us organize, but also make it kid-friendly to encourage kids to organize themselves?
CLOSET FACTORY: "The best way to keep your children's stuff organized is to teach them a daily routine as early as possible. Every day they should make the bed, put laundry in a hamper, clean clothes in the drawers, books on the bookshelf and toys in the toy bin. Keep it simple and be consistent," writes Debbie Lillard, professional organizer, author and guest blogger for Closet Factory's Expert Tips Blog on our website.
The key to maintaining a daily clean up routine for your child is having the right organizational systems in place. What I mean by this is that it's a necessity to have a proper storage unit for your kids to put their stuff into, therefore creating a "home" for everything. One of the best kid storage solutions is to have a built-in wall unit that incorporates book shelves, toy storage, possibly some drawers, a bench or window seat and maybe even the inclusion of a desk to help promote good study habits while you're at it.
Safety is one advantage to having a built-in organization system as opposed too a freestanding unit. Built-ins are anchored into the wall and supported by the floor. This allows the built-in shelving to go taller than freestanding bookshelves because it is not dependent on the weight of the items in the shelving unit to help keep the unit upright and weighted in place. Building the shelving and cabinets six, seven or even eight feet tall allows maximum storage and these days everyone needs all the storage they can get.
Another advantage is the adjustable feature of our shelving and storage units. This allows the organization system to be optimized for all types of items including toys, games and books. Every inch and a quarter the shelves can be adjusted. Low shelves are best used for your kid's everyday items that they access themselves and are responsible for putting back when done. Higher up shelves and cabinets can be used for decorative stuff or storage you prefer your kids not get into.
Having the right structural foundation for an excellent storage system along with Debbie's daily routine tip almost certainly guarantees success with a little follow up from you. Closet Factory offers a full selection of durable materials and colors so your kid's bedroom won't be compromising style by going with a built-in.
No space in your child's room for a wall unit? Consider a closet organizer. It is very common to have toy storage and shelves tucked out of sight and in the closet. As your child grows features like shelving, bins and baskets can be traded out for rods!
6.) FRESHOME: In many homes the laundry room or mudroom is an area that has hidden storage possibilities, but tends to get underutilized. What are some organization and storage solutions to help us make the dreaded task of laundry, easier?
CLOSET FACTORY: The sky is the limit to our laundry and mudroom offerings. However my top choices are:
- Cubbies for Mudrooms to hold dirty shoes
- Pull out laundry bins for sorting
- If you have the space a laundry island is a great place to keep hidden drawers and laundry bins
- Pull out racks are great for placing folded clothing or towels temporarily before put away
- Valet rods are a great way to hang up a freshly ironed garment or to place a garment that needs to be steamed or hung dry.
- Hanging rod is a great feature for a laundry or mudroom area
- My favorites are hidden ironing boards that either drop down or are hidden away in a drawer!
7.) FRESHOME: Many homeowners have too much 'stuff'! What are your suggestions for helping them declutter and purge before they try to organize?
CLOSET FACTORY: Well, you have to take an inventory of the contents that need storage space. You may find tons magazines, clothes you don't wear anymore…basically clutter! You have to 1) divide what is trash, 2) should be kept or 3) can be donated (sometime sold).
8.) FRESHOME: Here at Freshome we have showcased some gorgeous walk-in closets! What do you think of the Freshome website?
CLOSET FACTORY: Freshome is a great site that showcases beautiful homes and design concepts. I use this site to see what's going on in the industry and often tweet and post the comments to my Facebook andther social media.
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National Electric Cooperative Kotzebue Electric Association (KEA) recently partnered with Alaska Native Renewable Industries to install a solar project to help matched diesel fuel for the community of Kotzebue, Alaska.
ANRI proposed the 576 kW ground-mounted solar system powered by SolarEdge technology – funded largely locally by the Northwest Arctic Borough village improvement funds, U.S. Department of Energy Tribal Energy funds, KEA capital funds and support from NANA Regional Corporation.
As part of the project, KEA has decommissioned eight of its aging 66 kW wind turbines and installed the same power in its SolarEdge inverters. The SolarEdge power optimizers/inverters and LG bifacial panels have been specifically chosen to maximize energy yield against the snowy ground and to increase system uptime and low O&M costs.
Kotzebue will now get about 25-30% of its energy from renewable sources (solar and wind). This is the second largest solar installation in the state and the largest in rural Alaska.
"Helping rural Alaska lower energy costs has long been a vision for me. By leading the way in clean living and solar jobs for residents of Kotzebue, I am hopeful that other communities across the state will soon follow – we look forward to helping them become more energy independent in the coming years. be," said Edwin Bifelt, CEO of Alaska Native Renewable Industries.
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Starting a home business can be tough; deciding on where you will get your support can be even harder. There are many options for you to consider, you just have to get in there and look
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You might wonder although you really want to start a business, where could you find support for your home business when you have limited start up costs to begin a whole new business? There are many ways to work around this. Here are a few options you can consider.
Consider a loan from a family member. While all family loans are not created equal, you never know who will be your biggest supporter in your new business venture and would gladly loan you a small amount of money for your business start-up.
Investigate small business loans that cater to women and home businesses. Some grants are also available (and you don't have to pay them back!) You must be prepared to undergo credit and reference checks, attend business classes, and disclose financial aspects of your personal and business life.
Try and save in other areas of your life. Not a coupon person? Start using coupons and put the total amount you save with each grocery trip into a special "new business fund". Do you order takeout a couple times a week? Cut back to once a week or once every other week, and put that money into your "new business fund" too.
In addition to financing of your home business you need a bit of advice and tips to get you going. Operating your business without a computer will put you at an immediate disadvantage. They are simply too valuable as a time-saving tool. There are plenty of resources on the internet offering support for your home business. These provide handy information with tips and advice, ideas and many more….
You cannot be an expert on everything. Get assistance early from as many sources as possible. Talk to people who have similar experiences on doing a home business. Talk to your friends, family and who have succeeded in doing home business. Start networking now! The friendships and alliances you build now could become extremely useful in the future when you launch your business.
Seminars dealing with "special topics" have actually been around for decades, and are an older form of marketing and information exchanges. Seminars are simply a group of people coming together for the discussion and learning of specific techniques and topics. There are a wealth of knowledge usually, presented by many speakers at one time in one place. A lot of "learning" at one clip, with most material compressed into two or three days' worth of time.
So don't put off starting your own home business – by investigating some of these alternatives, you may discover that you really can afford to start your own business!
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