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TA toolkit session #2: Equitable and inclusive teaching
Key strategies for enacting a more equitable and inclusive classroom
Building community and trust
Guiding voice: Jeff Camarillo, Associate Director of STEP (Stanford Teacher Education Program)
Facilitators: Josh Weiss, GSE Director of Digital Learning Solutions; Eric Abrams, GSE Chief Inclusion Officer; Emily Schell, GSE Teaching Fellow, and Fourth Year DAPS Doctoral Student
Presentation slides: TA Toolkit Session #2 Slides
Recording of the session:
Think about how are you lifting marginalized cultures and voices and untold histories and narratives in your class, regardless of the subject matter or theme of your course. How are you leveraging the diversity of your classroom community to bring forth representation in your space? (17:26)
We have to be the ones to act, to shield, and protect our communities from these subtle — and sometimes not-so-subtle — forms of racism that may emerge in our classroom spaces, and that is critically important work. (21:04)
In our class, we give our graduate students an opportunity to complete an exit ticket in a Google Form that really allows them to share how they are experiencing our classroom, our community, and our teaching. (23:18)
Create more representation around culture, identity, and history in our spaces. One of the things we're doing at STEP is what we call "cultural shares"… We've created an on-ramp by leveraging the heritage and history months to hold space in our seminar for students to share about their cultures, identities, and traditions. (34:33)
We are trying to find ways to connect with other programs at the GSE to think about cultural and historically themed talks and workshops… I would encourage you to think about how you can integrate [culturally and historically themed talks and workshops] themes into your program or school, wherever you're teaching or working at Stanford. (38:08)
Take-aways:
Vigilant self-awareness
As a model for students, try to be vigilant, self-aware, and metacognitive. Consider being transparent and visible so that students can think about what this means for themselves as they get ready to enter into the field as reflective practitioners.
Acknowledge mistakes in one's teaching practice and model what learning and growth looks like from those mistakes, as anti-racist teaching is a life-long journey.
Give students an opportunity to complete an exit ticket (e.g, via a Google form) to share how they are experiencing the classroom, community, and teaching.
Unpack feedback with the teaching team. Analyze the data and what it means to iterate towards equitable practices.
Value the experience of all of our students and center on the experience of BIPOC (black, Indigenous and people of color) students and what they are experiencing.
Representative history
Consider what it means to train and prepare teachers for studying and teaching representative history that is applicable to all spaces. For example, start class with a land and labor acknowledgement to acknowledge that Stanford is built on indigenous land, and that Stanford was built and financed by labor from predominantly Chinese and immigrant laborers.
Students hold tremendous vibrancy around their cultures and lived experiences. Lift that up as a starting point to create more representation around culture, identity, and history in our spaces.
Utilize heritage and history months to hold space during class sessions and to give students who represent the celebrated identity an opportunity to share.
Leverage relationships and trust, and engage in that two-way conversation. Ask students what they think their history and culture should look like.
Cultural shares
Consider how we can honor the diversity of identities in the class via engaging diverse scholarship at every point in the curriculum, and not just limited to a given day or week. Regularly integrate culturally themed readings or assignments.
Take 15 minutes out of class to provide affirmation for students to learn about the vibrancy of each culture present.
Consider family lineage through examining one's own history, as well as talking about immigration patterns for broader historical context. Share family traditions, rituals, and narratives of each culture. Engaging in food and cultural practices.
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Suggestions, stories, and resources come from conversations with students and instructors based on their experience, as well as from external research. Specific sources listed are only for reference and will evolve with the evidence base.
For inquiries, please contact instructionalsupport@stanford.edu.


With the start of a new school year, there can be worries that your child may be bullied. It's not a thought that goes through every parent's mind, however, it's important to be aware that there's a possibility of bullying occurring at school.
A child can be bullied at any moment no matter the circumstance. However, children who are visibly different, are part of a certain group (LGBTQ youth, a child with a disability, race, etc.) or may be socially isolated are common risk factors for a bully to begin picking on them.
There is no exact reason or methodology a bully uses to choose their "victims." Sometimes it can just be that the bully likes seeing whose buttons they can push and they will continue to push those buttons if they see that it upsets the other person.
It's important to address bullying with your child. Even if you think they won't ever be bullied. Talk to your child about why bullying is wrong. Let them know that if they see it happening they should let an adult know or say something that will put an end to the bullying.
Children are easily influenced by their peers so it's important to tell your child that they should not blindly follow their friends. Especially if they are doing something that is knowingly bad or at the very least feels bad.
Some children may think that they have things under control and every once in awhile they do make fun of a classmate or laugh when that classmate is being picked on. But as mentioned it's important to talk to them and let them know that although things may never get as heated, their words or laughing along to the joke can hurt the child who is being picked on.
There are some visible warning signs to pay attention to figure out if your child is being bullied or is bullying another classmate. Typically, children who are bullied will try to brush it off by following along and laugh at the bully's joke, too. Or they will try their best to ignore the bully and their comment.
Most of the time, the child will not let an adult know about the bullying. So it's important to also talk with your child, ask them questions- let them know that they can confide in you in any problems they may have in life. Building a bond and foundation of trust with your child will make them feel more comfortable in speaking about their problems.
Visible signs that your child is being bullied is if they come home looking and feeling down all the time. If you see dramatic changes, mood swings, loss of appetite, if they are always feeling sick, and if they begin an irregular sleep pattern. Of course, there are more signs, but those are just a few.
Signs that your child may be the one bullying are if they are increasingly aggressive, are competitive in an unhealthy manner, get into physical and verbal fights frequently, and/or don't accept responsibility for their actions.
Bullying is an increasingly relevant topic, with more than one out of every five students reporting bullying in 2016. And with 64 percent of children not reporting their bullying and 36 percent reporting the bullying, it's important that as a parent you talk to your children about the issue.
Bullying may come off as kids being kids, but at a certain point, it can cross a major line. It can lead children to become depressed and deal with anxiety issues. It can also lead to suicide or them hurting others because of the pain they had to endure. Bullying is not something that parents or teachers should take lightly, it's a serious issue and should at all times be taken seriously.
If you think your child may be dealing with bullying talk to them. If your child is not opening up to you taking them to see a therapist can also help. Talking about their problems with a stranger can be easier for them and it can help them open up more easily than it would to talk to a person they know.
Talk to your child before the start of school and let them that you are there for them and if they ever feel bullied or see bullying happen to tell an adult who can resolve the issue.


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Microsoft is back
By Raven Jiang on January 29, 2015
For much of the past decade, Microsoft's importance in shaping the evolution of consumer technology has been on a steady decline. With Apple slowly chipping away its dominance in the desktop and laptop operating system market, Microsoft's abortive attempts at capturing market share in the growing mobile sector, one full of Apple iPhones and Google Androids, have all failed to bear fruit. Xbox, its most hopeful venture in the consumer sector, got off to a rocky start in its latest iteration and is playing catchup to the PlayStation 4. Microsoft Kinect, the motion controller for Xbox once considered innovative, was unceremoniously cast aside last year. Even Microsoft's own investors think that the writing is on the wall and want the company to kill its Xbox, Bing and Surface divisions, essentially completing the transformation of the company into a pure enterprise service provider.
But last Wednesday, Microsoft received a much-needed boost to its public image as a tech innovator when it announced the HoloLens. This product needs some visual aids to fully explain, but essentially it is a true augmented reality visor that renders 3D graphics directly into your field of vision. Fans of cyberpunk science fiction would find the concept familiar. You can be looking at a table in real life and see virtual 3D animals running around on top of it. As you shift your head, the perspectives of the 3D renderings would change in real-time to maintain the illusion that these virtual objects are really sitting on the table in front of you. A writer at Ars Technica who got to try the live demo called the HoloLens "flat-out magical." Various other tech bloggers described the experience as convincing, commenting that the renderings looked solid and believable.
Microsoft's demos included a floating Skype window and Minecraft in your living room. This suggests that in spite of all the criticisms levered against Microsoft for not having a coherent vision for its forays into consumer technology, someone in the company has put some thought into how the disparate elements of the tech giant can fit into a new unified computing paradigm. As many commentators put it, suddenly Microsoft's acquisition of Minecraft last year now makes a lot more sense.
Microsoft's woes in the consumer sector have not all vanished in an instance. It will still be an uphill battle for Microsoft to win back the market share – and mind share – that it has almost completely lost to Apple and Google. However, one thing is certain: Virtual and augmented reality will be a huge area of growth for consumer electronics in the coming decade. While Microsoft has a track record of releasing impressive tech demos that they ultimately fail to develop into commercially successful products, the technical capabilities of the HoloLens demo appear to be cutting edge, putting the company in an extremely strong position to lead the coming virtual reality revolution.
Microsoft is not the only tech giant to stake a piece of the coming virtual/augmented reality market. Facebook did that when it spent $2 billion to acquire Oculus, followed by Google, which led a $542 million investment round in the augmented reality startup Magic Leap. By most accounts, Magic Leap is building a headset that does the exact thing that Microsoft demoed with its HoloLens. This essentially leaves Apple the odd one out, but Apple is also known for its ability to keep projects secret until the time is right.
With Microsoft's HoloLens and Facebook's Oculus Rift, it seems that the display technology for immersive virtual technology is rapidly approaching maturity. The main remaining challenge – and it's not a small one – will be to figure out a new control paradigm that works well in a 3D virtual environment. Keyboards and game controllers are clearly not going to cut it. In Microsoft's HoloLens demo video, wearers use hand gestures to interact with the virtual objects they are looking at. However, anyone who has ever used a Kinect can tell you that while motion capture technology is very cool when it works 90 percent of the time, the remaining 10 percent of the time make the technology completely unappealing when traditional controllers are more versatile and reliable. There are many hardware-based projects that are trying to solve the problem of accurate and granular motion capture today, but nothing seems to approach the maturity of personal 3D display technology that we are seeing from Oculus and Microsoft.
For those of us who grew up in the science fiction world of William Gibson, the coming decade will be an exciting time. With so much resources being poured into virtual and augmented reality, the future is bright. And for Microsoft, this brave new world will be perhaps a final chance to redeem its status as a consumer tech company.
Contact Raven Jiang at jcx 'at' stanford.edu.
Raven Jiang
Raven Jiang '15 is a senior majoring in Computer Science. He grew up in Singapore and continues to use metric units. Having grown up with Asimov and Clarke, he lives in the future more than he does the present. You can contact Raven at jcx@stanford.edu.

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Q: Javascript Won't run correctly Been trying to get this code work but I can't seem to get the javascript correct.

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A: Ok. I think I got it working for your. Here is functional code (I think).

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http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_if_else.asp
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What it's Like to Fly to Antarctica for The Day
There is great excitement as the continent comes into view - sheer jagged ice cliffs and flat-topped bergs that look like the swimming platforms you might find anchored in Mediterranean beach resorts. We're on a flight from Brisbane on Australia's east coast. It's the only country in the world that offers day flights to Antarctica and pre-Covid, people would come from as far away as the US to make this trip. The flights have been operating for around 20 years, in the southern hemisphere summer, taking about 4 hours to reach Antarctica from Brisbane - less of course from Australia's more southern cities: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Hobart. It's a charter flight, using the 787 Dreamliner and Qantas staff, (including captain Lisa Norman). The stewards tell us they are thrilled to be back in the air for the first time in a year. There's also a glaciologist on board, who gives us frequent updates on what we're seeing and lots of other interesting information, including the history of famous expeditions. We also have a phone call with the station leader at Casey (we interviewed last year's station leader, Alison Dean on the podcast, you can listen here) who told us all about life on the station. I was surprised to hear just how many countries have stations in Antartica – Australia is a major player, but there are 50 stations in total, belonging to countries from South Africa to Japan. There is major concern over China's interest in the region – they are currently developing their 5th station. Peter, the glaciologist touched on the fact that China is currently constructing a mega Antarctic krill-fishing ship which is a big worry. This article in The Atlantic about it is worth a read. We spend around 3 hours in total over the ice cap and it really is awe-inspiring. I'm surprised at how mountainous the region is and the sheer scale of everything - Peter tells us that there are icebergs as big a France - it's utterly incomprehensible As well as mountains like Mount Melbourne, who we're told is particularly clear on our trip we see spectacular glaciers that look for all the world like ski-smoothed black runs, ice-floes, crevasses that can be hundreds of metres deep and fields of pristine ice. Despite the many research stations based there, it's humbling to see mother nature's power and gratifying to see there is one place that mankind has yet to trash. The rarity of that is very moving and I think affects us all. As Alison Dean says in our podcast, when we asked her if she was against tourism to Antarctica, it is only if people come to see the wonder for themselves will they be inspired to want to save it and fight for action for climate change. Would I prefer to be down there photographing emperor penguins and crunching my way across fresh snow? You bet! But these are unusual times and the idea of 'travelling' by simply observing from a distance rather than being an active participant doesn't seem as strange as it once would have. These days, I feel like getting just on a plane is a great privilege. How it Works People who've paid extra get a window seat but have to exchange it for an aisle or middle seat halfway through. In theory, it means that everyone who's paid extra gets a view one way, but in practice, due to the route, the right-hand side get a far superior view, as the left-hand side as you reach the continent is water while the right is land. There also seemed to be many more sights on the right. Constant grumbling from the left as there was yet another "and on the right…". Classes & Seats I wouldn't bother at all with "Explorer Economy" class – seats are windowless and the tiny windows near the galley on the Dreamliner at the back don't make for great viewing. If you're travelling as a couple and don't mind being separated (perhaps a couple who have been together for a loooooong time!) I'd book separate seats, as if there is two of you, only one will get a window seat one way (that was lucky me, poor husband was stuck in the middle, then on change around, an aisle.) I presume that premium economy gets more leg room, but they and 'standard' economy look over the wing. "Superior economy." presumably the next level down in comfort, has better views. Even business class and business class deluxe have to give up their window seat half way though, but if you can afford it, this is how to do it! https://www.antarcticaflights.com.au/


Learn why Darrelle Revis could be making a position change in the future.
New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis might not be lining up against the NFL's top receivers for too much longer.
No, the 31-year-old isn't retiring from football—he's considering moving to safety for the latter part of his career.
No, the 31-year-old isn't retiring from football—he's considering moving to safety for the latter part of his career.
"There will be conversations in the future about maybe moving my position to safety," Revis told NJ.com on Thursday. "But as of right now, I still feel I can play at a high level, and play the cornerback position at a high level."
Revis remains one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL. He was tied for sixth in interceptions last season (5), and he was named to his seventh Pro Bowl. He is also a four-time first team All-Pro.
It's not uncommon for veteran corners to switch to safety. In 2012, Charles Woodson made the switch for the Green Bay Packers, and from 2012 to 2015, he totaled 11 interceptions. Woodson retired last season from the Oakland Raiders after playing 18 years in the NFL.
Besides Woodson, Rod Woodson and Ronde Barber also made the switch to safety. Rod Woodson, who moved to the position in 1999, had seven interceptions that season, and from 1999 to 2003, he tallied 24 picks. Barber switched in 2012, picking up four interceptions in his last season.
Except for Barber, who retired after one season at safety, Rod and Charles Woodson were able to extend their careers by making the switch. After making the switch in 1999, Rod Woodson played 4 more years, retiring at the age of 38. Charles Woodson played until he was 39.
Revis switching to safety could extend his career, but he would still have to get used to the position. For now, he is more effective at cornerback.


What Can a Hijacked IoT Device Do to Your Network?
"I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way." This remark by American writer and poet Carl Sandburg seems to capture what's going on at the moment with the Internet of Things (IoT). It is growing at such breakneck speed that nobody can pinpoint how extensive this growth will continue to be. Take, for example, a forecast by Gartner, which anticipates 20.8 billion connected IoT devices will be in use for 2020 – and compare it to the significantly higher prediction by IHS forecasts, which anticipates no less than 30.7 billion connected devices in the same period.
Whatever the statistics, one thing is clear: The widespread adoption of IoT is a development that brings with it the promise of value to many organizations. On the other hand, it also creates security challenges by increasing the attack surface for organizational networks.
This reality was starkly illustrated in the Dyn cyber-attack at the end of October last year, notoriously known as the first robot-based digital assault involving millions of IoT devices operating in concert.
How can your corporate organization prepare for this new kind of threat?
One aspect of the challenge that CISOs face in the age of IoT involves handling a glaring and somewhat shocking lack of visibility into 100% of devices that access a network.
With the BYOD phenomenon, IT cannot afford to ignore the question of how to securely manage virtually invisible devices that are connecting to corporate networks. Devices that IT cannot see create blind spots, which prevent an organization from successfully maintaining the ongoing vigilance necessary to protect the network.
While visibility is an essential prerequisite to security, it's not only a question of visibility: it's the ability to control and manage permissions for each device.
Sensible protection from attacks on IoT devices means developing new techniques for network hygiene, and forcing IoT devices to a defined segment of the business network – in order to ensure that the rest of the network remains out of reach.
Let's take a step back, and talk about why both visibility and network access control are so essential.
Say, for example, a hacker hijacks an employee's IoT device – a device that is connected to your company's network. You might think this is a difficult task, but the reality is that it does not take much sophistication.
The problems start when the hijacked device – which, don't forget, is already connected to the network – is turned into a bot that runs automated tasks over the Internet. If the bot is used for malicious purposes, the hacker can probably do pretty much anything – from creating an APT or DDoS attack, to stealing sensitive data.
As pointed out in Portnox's eBook, The Top 5 Misconception of IoT Network and Device Security, IoT devices are possibly the most problematic aspect of a corporate network. This is partly because, generally, they are not set up securely.
Frequently, devices are connected to networks with their default configuration intact. Most users don't know it is important to change the default usernames and passwords. As a result, once IoT devices are connected, it is not hard for hackers to hijack them.
For hackers, there's always the question of avoiding quick exposure.
Experienced hackers won't hijack an employee's PC. That's because PCs are in frequent use and are "owned" by a single individual, so it doesn't take much time for an employee to figure out there's a problem. Normal actions take longer or become difficult to do.
In contrast, if a device such as a printer or IP camera is hijacked, employees might not notice. These devices are not used as intensely and they are generally accessed by multiple individuals, so there's less chance of rapid exposure.
The security problems inherent to IoT open up a shocking range of opportunities for cybercriminals. As pointed out by this article on TechCrunch, the threat even touches everyday areas of activity including car safety and medical care.
According to Forbes, global spending on IoT products and services by enterprises is expected to reach $253 billion in 2021, attaining a 16% CAGR. With this degree of IoT technology integrated into corporate environments, the old approaches of maintaining security are no longer relevant.
The Portnox system meets today's growing challenges and protects networks from resulting vulnerabilities, providing a holistic approach to security that works for any user, any device, and any network – anywhere.


The Columbia Nobel laureate says that who the International Monetary Fund chooses as its next leader will determine who will pay for the world's economic crisis: banks or ordinary citizens.
After being arrested in New York for the alleged sexual assault of a hotel maid, the head of the I.M.F., French national Dominique Strauss-Khan, quickly resigned his post. Currently, the world's most powerful sovereign wealth fund is looking for a replacement. Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz thinks the current front runner, Christine Lagarde, France's current economic minister, is a good match for the job: "She has been an outspoken advocate of financial-sector reforms, and has won the respect of all of those with whom she has worked."
Who the I.M.F. should choose to replace Strauss-Khan has opened a debate about the practices of the world's most powerful financial institutions. Appointments to top posts are typically made behind closed doors with much of the bargaining pre-arranged. The I.M.F. and World Bank are a case in point. Western powers have agreed that the I.M.F. will be headed by a European and the World Bank by an American. Stiglitz calls for more transparency in the appointment process and is encouraged by the public vetting of candidates he currently sees.


If you should ever forget the enchantment that a book can cast on a child, Su Blackwell's paper sculptures will bring it back to you in a moment. Her fragile, intricate creations—carved from and mounted on the pages of the books that inspired them—are worlds in miniature, beckoning you to shrink to Lilliputian size and wander into them.
Readers of Intelligent Life will recognise her work from Robert Macfarlane's "Landscapes of the Mind" column, for which we commission and photograph a sculpture by Blackwell for each issue. Several of these are on display in her new exhibition, "Dwellings", which is at London's Long & Ryle gallery until October 9th. Among them is "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", in which a tiny submarine is suspended among impossibly delicate fronds and jellyfish, while the curling tentacles of a giant squid reach up out of Jules Verne's classic. Another piece, "To Kill a Mockingbird", shows the street on which Scout Finch and her family live, with a cluster of houses—complete with verandas, picket fences and fallen leaves—overshadowed by the tree which Boo Radley uses as a postbox.
Her equipment is simple—a surgeon's scalpel, jeweller's wire, glue and tweezers—but the level of detail achieved is mind-boggling. For "The Stork Wife", based on a Japanese fairy tale, she gave the bird a wire frame and then cut out scores of tiny feathers, which she stuck on individually to make the wings and body. It is not surprising that a single sculpture can take her up to six weeks to create, and that the prices in the exhibition start at £5,000.
She is adamant that she cannot just work with any old book; it is the text, illustrations and associations that inspire her. The most personal piece in the show, "Tarn Hows", is a landscape fashioned from a book about the Lake District published in the year her father was born: the tarn (lake), which she has recreated by hollowing out the pages, is a place he loved, and where the family scattered his ashes.
I'd assumed that Blackwell must work with a magnifying glass, but no. When she adds that she doesn't even wear spectacles, I begin to wonder whether these extraordinary tableaux are really the work of human hands. It seems far more likely that she has made a pact with a sorcerer, and that every night at midnight a team of white mice descends on her studio, ready to nibble second-hand books into exquisite works of art.


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For example, with HP SDS you can reboot or configure devices, as well as turn off printer messages indicating low toner and ink levels to prevent the end user from replacing consumables before it is necessary – all done remotely.
HP SDS also allows dealers and service providers to diagnose errors in HP devices, often before the end user is aware of them.
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Acquiring a new furnace and A/C unit is a major investment and Sunbeam Service Experts Heating & Air Conditioning recognizes that. But, when you consider your options, there are several essential questions that you need answered in order to assure you have an energy-saving and cost-effective option for your Buffalo area home. So let's outline what you should be familiar with about a new home comfort system.
In some Buffalo area homes, a heat pump may be used rather than a furnace and condenser. Heat pumps remove indoor heat in the May – September time-period and add outdoor heat in the colder months. Operating via the thermostat, these primary components monitor your indoor environmental comfort level. Like the engine of a automobile, the home comfort system is the engine of your home that 'drives' your family's indoor comfort each day.
Picking the right equipment for your home depends upon the size of the home itself. The quality of the installation is extremely important in that process. If the installation is poor, the equipment, energy-efficiency and your comfort level is hampered significantly. It doesn't matter how much or how little you spend, the equipment will suffer from frequent repair problems in the future if the install was bad. So it's absolutely critical to work with an HVAC contractor that can back-up their installation quality.
There are a myriad of makes, models, features and options of comfort equipment available to select from. You are best served by researching every option to assure your home's air quality, humidity level, temperature and energy-consumption perfectly fit for your family's comfort and health needs. A decent home comfort company will help you determine your family's specific comfort needs and desires, then just walk you through all the options available that will meet those needs for you. When they're completed, you should have all the resources you need to make a choice that fits your budget and satisfies your family's needs.
A reputable home comfort company will also perform what's called a heating and cooling load calculation and an energy-efficiency analysis on your home. These calculations not only determine the proper type of equipment needed, they show how you can benefit from the extra savings of high-efficiency heating and air conditioning products.
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In Print — Winter 2020
How Republicans Can Keep Rebuilding the COVID Economy
Trump's tax cuts and deregulation are a great base to build on.
by Grover Norquist
Bill Wilson studio
Donald Trump and the Republican Congress brought the U.S. economy to life after Barack Obama gave us eight years of the weakest recovery since World War II. The partial shutdown of the economy driven by COVID fears reversed those gains, and yet by Election Day 2020, unemployment had fallen from a high of 14.7 percent to 6.9 percent, the stock market rebounded, and GDP growth exploded with a V-shaped recovery.
Republicans turned the economy around once, and then again. What will it take to keep us on pace to keep China and Europe in the rear-view mirror?
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When President Trump was elected in November 2016, the S&P 500 jumped 5 percent before he even took office. Investors knew he planned to reduce business and individual taxes and that the threatened spending, taxes, and regulations of a Hillary Clinton presidency had evaporated.
The late 2017 tax bill brought the corporate tax rate from 35 percent — the highest in the world — to 21 percent, below China's 25 percent but above Ireland's 12.5 percent. The Trump tax cut also ended the U.S. policy of a worldwide corporate income tax that taxed profits of American companies when they brought their earnings back to the U.S. and after they had already paid taxes on those earnings in other nations, such as France or Japan. Several trillions of dollars in U.S. profits held in limbo overseas were made available for investment in the United States.
The lower corporate income tax drove stock prices up, and investment capital flowed to U.S. firms. Employers created new jobs, expanded operations, and increased wages, benefits, and bonuses. Walmart raised its starting wage to $11. No minimum wage law required — rather real, sustainable growth.
Individual tax rates were reduced at every tax bracket. The per-child tax credit was doubled from $1,000 to $2,000 and extended from twenty-two million to thirty-three million American families. The median income family of four received a $2,000 tax cut. The median income single parent with one child got a $1,300 tax cut.
Repealing the Trump tax cut would gouge the American middle-class family.
With Trump, regulations were significantly reduced, and the Obama–Biden–Clinton plans for ever more regulatory costs were brought to a halt.
The good news after the 2020 election is that a likely Republican Senate means Biden cannot repeal or reduce the pro-growth value of the 2017 tax cuts. Some of those tax cuts were enacted for ten years, and some, like the corporate income tax rate reduction, were made permanent. That is the base of a strong pro-jobs, pro-investment environment upon which we can build.
For the next two years, a Republican Senate will likely stand between Biden and Pelosi and their ability to repeal the GOP tax cuts. Executive orders and regulations will dribble out, slowing growth and killing too many jobs. But in 2022, Pelosi's House, with its greatly reduced Democrat majority, will run for reelection with the millstone of their radical rantings and House legislation that never passed the Senate around their necks. As in 1994 in reaction to Clinton's leftward lunge and 2010's reaction to Obama, the Republicans will retake the House and strengthen their majority in the Senate.
Then, when Biden wants anything, the Republicans will have a wish list of pro-growth policies that they can demand for any spending plans Biden hopes to enact.
The following policies have wide support in the Republican caucus and would help us build on the GOP's and Trump's progress on tax reduction and deregulation:
End the taxation of inflation in capital gains. Today, Americans pay capital gains tax on the gain they earn when they sell a home, building, land, or stock. They pay tax on the real increase in value and the accumulated inflation. By executive order the president could rule that capital gains taxes would only be levied on the real, non-inflation gain of any sale.
End the double taxation of Americans who work abroad. We fixed the double taxation of American companies earning profits abroad. But individual Americans who work in, say, France pay both French income taxes and American income taxes. Only two countries do something that stupid: Eritrea and the United States. Ending this would make Americans working overseas more competitive.
Protect the three million students now in charter schools from the teachers' unions' demands that charter schools — free of union control — be defunded. Republicans saved the Washington D.C. Opportunity Scholarships from Obama. They can save charter school students across the nation from Biden and the NEA.
Don't allow infrastructure spending without reforming the permitting process to reduce the time to build a new road or bridge. This would greatly reduce the cost of new construction.
Protect independent contractor laws from the demands of labor unions that everyone has to have a boss and be a target of unionization. Labor unions and Democrats enacted Assembly Bill 5, the California law banning ride-sharing and delivery drivers from being self-employed, independent contractors. Californians sent a shot across the bow of the Democrats and union bosses by scaling back that law through the initiative process on Election Day 2020.
End or restrict the Jones Act and the Davis–Bacon Act. The Jones Act increases the cost of shipping goods between American ports, and the Davis–Bacon Act mandates union wages on any federally funded construction.
Rein in the runaway cost of entitlements with the Paul Ryan reform that blocks grants for all welfare programs to the states and limits their growth to the increase in wages (once we have a GOP House, Senate, and White House). This would have happened already, but we lost that Senate seat in Alabama, weakening the Senate majority.
Put a knife in the politics of envy and class hatred by expanding the investor class. Already there are more than one hundred million Americans with a 401(k) or IRA. Fifty-three percent of U.S. families have such an account, and they see that the strength of corporate after-tax earnings is highly correlated with the increase in their lifetime savings. One hundred million owners of IRAs or 401(k)s are a less appealing target than "the 1 percent."


Valdosta City Schools is excited to announce for the 2018-2019 school year, our schools will use CareDox for all student health registration, medication and treatment authorization, and school nurse record keeping. We will no longer use "paper" clinic consents or medical authorization forms in VCS. All information will be collected digitally via CareDox.
Parents will sign up for CareDox via an email received from noreply@caredox.com and will include CareDox support contact information. Parents will be able to complete all health records and medication/treatment plan documents via CareDox. These records can be reviewed and updated by the parent at any time throughout the year from a computer, smartphone, or tablet.
If parents/guardians do not receive an email, they can use the following registration link to get started with CareDox: https://secure.caredox.com/enroll/https-www-gocats-org. To complete this registration link, the address and phone number used in CareDox must "match" what is listed Infinite Campus. Should the information need to be updated to complete CareDox registration, parents must contact the school office to update their address, phone, and email in Infinite Campus. This is to ensure only parents/guardians receive access to HIPPA protected information in CareDox.
The following video shows you how a parent navigates CareDox.


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45 Years Ago: 'Slap Shot' Punches Its Way to Cult-Classic Status
Tyler Sage
Tyler Sage Published: February 25, 2022
Silver Screen Collection, Getty Images
When Slap Shot was released on Feb. 25, 1977, it was a middling success.
Despite mostly negative reviews that tended to focus on what they saw as the film's glorification of violence, it eventually went on to earn $28 million at the box office against a $6 million budget. In the following decades, its popularity exploded as it became a textbook example of what makes a cult-classic movie.
The film was conceived of by screenwriter Nancy Dowd, whose brother Ned was playing for the Johnstown Jets minor-league hockey team in Pennsylvania. Her access to this world gave the film an immediate feeling of authenticity. She had him carry a tape recorder when he was around his teammates so she could get the feel of the way they talked. She used several real-life minor-league hockey events – from fights that took place before the game started to players going into the stands to fight fans – to spice up the screenplay.
Director George Roy Hill cast Ned in the film (as one of the main antagonists), along with several of his hockey teammates, all of which gives the proceedings a sense of realism that shines through the comedy.
Watch the 'Slap Shot' Trailer
The movie's plot is centered on Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman), an aging player and coach of the Chiefs, a minor-league hockey team in the fictional town of Charlestown in New England. When Dunlop gets news that the town's steel mill is going to close, he knows that the resulting economic devastation is going to force the team to be sold, ending his career and that of many of his players. In a desperate attempt to prop up the popularity of the team, he starts giving playing time to the notorious Hanson brothers (played by actual minor-leaguers) who wrap their knuckles with tinfoil before every game to give them an edge in the fights they inevitably start.
This new, violent style of hockey disgusts the Chiefs' best player, Ned Braden (Michael Ontkean), but it delights the fans, and the team's popularity surges. Things change when Dunlop finds out that the owner plans on folding the team anyway, despite this newfound popularity, to take the tax write-off. Suffering a crisis of conscience, Dunlop decides to go back to trying to win by skill instead of fisticuffs, only to realize that the Chiefs' main rival, Syracuse, has brought in a bunch of fighting goons for the championship game, including the notorious Ogie Ogilthorpe, played by Ned Dowd.
Predictably, the final game descends into an all-out brawl. Revolted by this, Braden decides to derail the fight by doing a striptease on the ice, in one of the most famous scenes in sports-movie history. Outraged, the Syracuse captain gets into a fight with the referee, which results in Syracuse getting disqualified. The Chiefs win the championship.
Watch Striptease Scene From 'Slap Shot'
Like virtually every cult-classic movie, Slap Shot abounds with great lines. Some of these are bawdy, like Steve Hanson's expletive-laden reminder to a referee that he's trying to listen to the national anthem. Others are sly, like an opposing team's radio announcer (Paul Dooley) telling his listeners during a brawl that if only he could, he, too, would be fighting the marauding Chiefs players.
Quote one of these lines to a fan of the film, and they'll come right back at you with two more; it's exactly this kind of endlessly repeatable dialogue that enables some movies to outlast their original moments and become beloved by later generations of viewers.
The second element of the film's cult success is the fact that it has great characters, embodied by talented performances. Newman was at the moment in his career when he would increasingly shift from playing young heartthrobs to playing aging curmudgeons. His down-and-out character here anticipates his later roles in classics like The Verdict or The Color of Money, but with a comedic turn that was always an underrated part of his abilities.
The rest of the cast rises to the occasion as well, including the hockey players - a tribute to Hill's ability to work with actors, even amateur ones. Every character manages to feel both slightly outrageous and somehow true-to-life, which, like the great dialogue, allows the film to bear repeated watching, an essential element of cult-movie success.
Watch the Hanson Brothers in 'Slap Shot'
Plus, the film convincingly sells its setting. The world of minor-league hockey and the gritty, blue-collar existence that characterized so much life in the '70s are both incredibly well-realized. The comedic action and zany characters are foregrounded against real-life struggle. The people in the film are surrounded by economic devastation, and many of them have no life options outside of hockey.
Yet at the same time, they're not pessimistic about their situation. Mostly, they just want to drink some beer and play their sport. This makes the world of the film feel fully realized, a place that one can dip into again and again, and find oneself immersed.
All of this has allowed Slap Shot to reach massive stature among a certain strand of movie fans, and it often places high on lists of best cult movies. Not bad for a film that started with a screenwriter chronicling her brother's minor-league hockey experiences.
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The body and neck are in great physical shape, just a couple small dinks here n there, but…the finish is worn off in places under the (horrid) paint job so its a total refinish from bare wood, including the neck as it had been re-varnished at some point. The gain circuit functions ok.
I got all my gear together to start sanding this down. Apart from a few deep seeped stains the body is in great nick, the brasswork has had a first coat of clear too. Definitely going for an oil finish, the high gloss poly job is just going to be too expensive and time consuming, plus I have the oil here.
It looks like this has had 3 paint jobs over the years, black, blue and that last silver horror show, some was undercoated, some not. I'm happy to leave the dark remnants in the grain there as it'll have a black wash and sandback before I colour it, I could keep sanding forever trying to get that out!.
I mixed the black stain with the grain filler, and applied.
Then sanded it back to wood and sprayed on the very last of my sand sealer.
I don't think I'll give it a black stain as the stained filler seems to have done the required job.
Sanded back the sanding-sealer and applied blue stain, sanded back again as I missed quite a few patches of sealer!
More blue, waited an hour then one more coat and that's what you see here. Since these pics they've had 3 super thin coats of Tru-Oil which has obviously taken the blue to a vague green hue, almost the teal I was after…almost.
Is there any truly clear linseed based oils on the market like this Tru Oil?
Here after 3 or 4 extremely thin coats of oil, another couple of the same then wire wool.
Another coat on the neck drying in the sun…it's outrageous how good this tru-oil is, self leveling up to a point, dries so fast and feels beautiful, love it.
The bridge and saddles cleaned, polished a bit and lacquered, the knobs are Gretsch copies, same dimensions and look rather good.
Notice the woodworm's lunch between the pickups here?
I'm really happy with how this turned out, thanks to all you fellas for your suggestions, help and comments.


Depart the USA for Thailand. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment for your journey.
Arrive in Bangkok and transfer to your hotel.
This morning meet with your tour manager for an orientation. Then continue with an afternoon city and temple tour, introducing you to Bangkok, the �City of Angels�. Drive through Chinese Town, the Indian Market, and the Wholesale Flower Market. Visit Wat Po (Temple of the Reclining Buddha), the oldest and first school for people in the olden days. See the famous golden Reclining Buddha statue, 150 feet long and 40 feet high, before continuing to the Royal Avenue where most of the Government offices are located and the Palace of the Present King.
Full day at leisure or you can choose our OPTIONAL tour (Half Day Grand Palace & Emerald Buddha). Half day morning tour of Wat Phra Kaew, the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, and the adjoining Grand Palace. Together they form what is perhaps the greatest spectacle for the visitor to Bangkok. Wat Phra Kaew consists of over 100 brightly colored building, golden spires and glittering mosaics, and dates back to 1782, when Bangkok was founded. From Wat Phra Kaew head to the Grand Palace. Despite the proximity of the two, there`s a distinct contrast in style between the very Thai Wat Phra Kaew and the more European-inspired designs of the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace is used only for occasional ceremonial purposes and is no longer the royal residence.
This morning, travel to the town of Mae Sai, the northern-most point of Thailand on the border of Myanmar. Here you will have the opportunity to cross over into Myanmar (Visa fee into Myanmar, at own expense). After the morning excursion, we will stop at the infamous Hall of Opium. This tour combines a museum of the history of opium and the impact of illegal drugs, with an information center for research and extension education on opium, opiates and other narcotics. Later, visit the night bazaar for an evening of shopping the local wares of Chiang Rai.
You can choose our OPTIONAL tour (Half Day Mae Salong Hill Tribe). Your tour begins with hour drive from Chiangrai City. Upon arrival, change transportation to the local Thai Combi which will take you up to the Doi Mae Salong to visit the hill that is still inhabited with the hill tribes. See the unique way of life & culture of the various tribes that is still maintained today. As you ascend the hill, you will have the opportunity to visit several different hill tribes before arriving to the peak.
Enjoy the morning at leisure to explore Chiang Mai independently. Chiang Mai is a city known for culture, nature and handicrafts. This afternoon, visit the handicraft street of Sankampang for on site demonstrations of how the silk, lacquer, silver, wood and bronze wares are made. Later today, visit the world`s largest gem factory, where you will learn about gem stones, visit the mining area and watch while stones are cut and set.
Afternoon at leisure or you can choose our OPTIONAL tour (Half Day Mae Sa Elephant Camp with lunch). Travel northwest along the Mae Sa Valley, with its scenic botanical gardens and ten-tiered waterfalls, to visit the Mae Sa Elephant Training Camp. Here you will see elephants bathing in the running streams or demonstrating their daily feats of skill and strength in a show with music and dance, a soccer match, or an abstract painting demonstration. Even more impressive is the camp`s goal to protect the endangered Thai Elephant by controlled breeding, a program which has flourished since it was established in 1995. At an additional charge, you may choose to ride on the back of a Thai Elephant, making for a truly memorable experience. Enjoy time at leisure to walk the exhibition greenhouses, gardens and nature trails.
Land only price does not include departure transfers, but does include Chiang Mai - Bangkok flight.
Nov 6, Nov 20, Nov 27 and Mar 26 will be accommodated at the Classic Kameo Ayutthaya in Ayutthaya.
Nov 6, Nov 20 and Nov 27 will be accommodated at the Sukhothai Heritage Resort in Sukhothai.


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Maker: Giorgos Gripeos
Paul Keller Advisor copyright policy
Is Dmitry Medvedev a copyfighter?
It is well known that sometimes you need to be an outsider to be able to analyze complex problems in a meaningful way. In the ongoing discussions about copyright in the digital environment Russian president Dmitry Medvedev might turn out to be the much-needed outsider. In the past Russia has not had a very strong voice in the discussion about copyright; it has neither been involved in the WIPO development agenda nor has it been part of the ACTA negotiations. Out of this relatively neutral position comes a somewhat unexpected intervention of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev who used last week's G20 summit to propose an overhaul of the copyright system to the leaders of the G20 member states assembled in Cannes.
Photo: Kremlin (eng.kremlin.ru)
It appears that his initiative was largely ignored by his audience as well as the press (both of them having been too busy 'saving Greece/the euro/the world' or covering the ongoing attempts to do so) which is rather unfortunate since Medvedev's proposal contains a number of really interesting points. First of all, it is really refreshing to hear a world leader state the obvious with regards to the modernization of the copyright system:
Digital technologies and global information networks have made a real breakthrough in information accumulation and exchange. The old principles of intellectual property protection established in a completely different technological context do not work any longer in an emerging environment, and, therefore, new conceptual arrangements are required for international regulation of intellectual activities on the Internet.
It is interesting to note that Medvedev comes to the conclusion that in order to deal with a dysfunctional system, 'new conceptual arrangement are required'. This is in stark contrast to most of his peers who seem to be unable to think outside of the 'more enforcement is always better' box. Now 'new conceptual arrangements' are not exactly popular within circles normally dealing with copyright policy questions. Any proposal that is veering too far from the existing arrangements is usually dismissed with a references to the 1886 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works which is generally interpreted as to make it more or less impossible to change the fundamental rules of copyright protection. This does not really impress Medvedev though. Instead he observes:
Adoption of changes and addenda to the [Berne] Convention fully complies with historical tradition. The Convention, executed in 1886, has been changed and supplemented several times following emergence of new forms of expression and distribution of literary and artistic works. During the 20th century, the Convention has been extended to photographs, sound recordings, cinematographic works, and authors obtained exclusive rights to distribute their works through radio and television stations. However, now the world has finally entered a new era, the era of Internet technology, where an increasing amount of information is stored in the "virtual space", and not on tangible media. To a certain extent, the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty and the WIPO Copyright Treaty, both adopted in 1996, respond to the changes occurred. However, as described below, they do not take into account, to the extent necessary, the interests of users and information intermediaries.
Having established that the Berne Convention can (and must) be adapted to the realities created by the digital environment (or 'virtual space' if you are so inclined) Medvedev identifies three main principles for 'the protection of the results of intellectual activities on the Internet':
The State should establish a certain level of legal protection for the objects of copyright and neighbouring rights on the Internet and give a right holder an opportunity to choose a model of protection of his or her work that suits his or her interests best.
A major element of a new approach to the protection of copyright and neighbouring rights could be the introduction of assumption that the use of objects of copyright and neighbouring rights on the Internet shall be considered free unless the right holder states otherwise. At the same time a minimum level of protection that will not require any declaration from the right holder must be established.
If found guilty, information intermediaries on the Internet (communications service providers, Internet website and domain name owners, etc.) should be held responsible for violation of copyright and neighbouring rights on general grounds, except for specifically established cases (e.g., if they were not aware or were not supposed to be aware of the illegality of content).
The first two points make an argument for reversing a central principle of copyright protection. Instead of assuming that each and every creator of a work that qualifies for copyright protection wants this work to be 'protected' from potential users for 70 or more years, Medvedev proposes to start with the assumption that free use is allowed unless the creator has stated otherwise. This approach (copyright experts call this 'reintroduction of formalities') is generally considered to be impossible to implement as it would violate the Berne Convention which establishes that full copyright protection has to arise automatically and is interpreted not to allow formalities (like making a statement in order to obtain copyright protection). As Medvedev points out, such principles which have been established long before the advent of pervasive digital communication networks need to be adopted to reality. In a world where the majority of content is not created by professionals (who depend on copyright to monetize their creations) anymore, it is more or less absurd to automatically award 100 plus years of copyright 'protection' to all creative works. The internet makes it trivial for authors who do require copyright protection to register their works as a prerequisite for obtaining full copyright protection. The fact that the Berne Convention–drafted in 1886–does not allow this must be seen as a flaw in the Convention and not as a hindrance to a 'new conceptual arrangements' that take into account the changed technological and cultural environment. Of course Medvedev is not the first one to identify the re-introduction of formalities as a solution to the inconsistencies between copyright law and the digital environment. In the past the same argument has been made by eminent scholars such as Prof. Lawrence Lessig and is incorporated as one of the 14 policy recommendations issued by COMMUNIA (Kennisland is a member of COMMUNIA):
In order to prevent unnecessary and unwanted protection of works of authorship, full copyright protection should only be granted to works that have been registered by their authors. Non registered works should only get moral rights protection.
Unfortunately Medvedev's proposal is somewhat ambiguous when it comes to his third main principle. His call to hold 'information intermediaries on the Internet […] responsible for violation of copyright' does sound like a threat to established principles like the 'safe harbor' provisions of the EU's e-commerce directive and the DCMA. At a time when such safe harbor provisions are under increased attack by the entertainment industry, there is a attack, there is a substantial risk that this third principle will be interpreted as a call to increase the liability of information intermediaries. Digging deeper into his proposal it does however become clear that Medvedev is not especially interested in increasing liability but rather calls for international harmonization in this field:
Due to the trans-border nature of the Internet infrastructure and the same trans-border nature of information intermediaries and right holders' activity, there is a need to introduce uniform rules that would regulate their relations and take into account public interest. That being said, it shall be reasonable to bear in mind the need for limiting the information intermediaries' liability. They should not be liable for providing the user with access to the Content that has been illegally published by third parties, provided that the information intermediaries did not know or could not have known about illegality of such publication.
It is remarkable to see such interventions in policy discussions on copyright which have otherwise degenerated over the last years into a stalemate between well established positions on all sides. Medvedev seems to be intent on giving this a serious try and his proposal to the G20 leaders (which includes a comprehensive 'Plan of Amendments to the Berne Convention') is well worth a read in its entirety.
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Business Interruption Insurance (also known as Business Income Insurance) is a kind of insurance coverage that covers the loss of income that a business or follow suffers following a covered loss. The earnings loss covered by the Business Interruption Policy may be as a result Financial Advisor of closing of the business or to the rebuilding course of after a covered loss. The goal of the Business Interruption Policy is to put the enterprise back in the same monetary place it was in prior to the loss. Business Interruption insurance is normally added to the Business Office Policy.
One type of specialized business interruption coverage is for loss of rental earnings that an insured landlord would have acquired however for bodily injury to the property. Proof of such a claim ought to consider past E-Business and anticipated occupancy rates. Another form of specialised protection gives coverage for business losses where an insured peril impairs or prevents entry to the insured premises, even with out an order of civil authority or physical injury to the premises themselves.
The total routine will not be so much different from cleaning your own home. You empty trash, dust surfaces and wipe spills, dust mop floors, moist mop flooring, vacuum carpets, clear rest rooms, refill soap and paper dispensers, and clean entrance doors and ingesting fountains. Provide protecting measures. It's unlikely you could avoid the use of chemical compounds altogether so make sure you and your employees are protected from the risks. For example, put on gloves, lengthy sleeves and a protecting face masks where required. Umbrella policies also cover malicious prosecution , wrongful entry, invasion of privateness and different harms.
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Defendant dies by suicide, canceling child…
Defendant dies by suicide, canceling child sexual abuse trial, according to Mendocino DA's office
DA says that Paradise man was to appear in court Monday
By Ukiah Daily Journal |
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2019 at 12:30 pm | UPDATED: March 26, 2019 at 12:37 pm
The Mendocino County District Attorney's office announced on Monday that a defendant scheduled to begin his jury trial after being charged with allegedly sexually penetrating a nine-year-old victim, a felony — failed to appear in court for jury selection that had been scheduled to commence Monday.
With the assistance of Butte County law enforcement, it was subsequently confirmed that Aaron Douglas Burrows, age 51, of the Paradise area, committed suicide in that area sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning, the district attorney's office said. The Mendocino County Public Defender's Office had represented Burrows. If convicted, the defendant's mandatory sentence would have been 15 years to life in state prison and lifetime sex registration.
Assistant District Attorney Dale P. Trigg, the prosecutor who was prepared to present the People's evidence against the defendant (evidence that was to include testimony from the young victim, as well as testimony from an earlier victim), worked collaboratively with the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, the Butte County Sheriff's Office, the Paradise Police Department, the Butte County District Attorney, and the Mendocino County District Attorney's own investigators.
Arrangements are now underway for further counseling for the defendant's two victims.
Ukiah Daily Journal
PID set to meet Wednesday night
Traffic stop leads to warrant arrest


Our mission is to make all of life, all about Jesus. We have developed a Vision for our church which we aim to achieve with God's Grace by 2022. Learn more about our Vision and our goals here.
Huon Anglican has seven core values which lie at the center of what we believe, who we are, and shape all that we do. Our values also guide how we hope to achieve our mission and form part of our Vision.
The Anglican Parish of the Huon has a long history, beginning in 1839 with the consecration of a wooden church (St Mary's). Our current church building was completed in 1896 and is now heritage listed.
We gather every Sunday from 9:30am at St James in Ranelagh. Our Sunday service is an indispensable part of life at Huon Anglican Church and provides something for everyone in the family. New people are always welcome!
Nicola is married to Tony and they have two children. She grew up in the Huon Valley and has been involved in Huon Anglican for a long time. She has a background in childcare and has a passion for children and their families.
Combining her background and passions, God is now using Nicola to share Jesus with children and families. Nicola is keen to see children included in the church community and to understand how much God loves them. She has a passion for nurturing families and to encourage them in disciplining their children.
Meredith was born in Sydney and raised in Melbourne. She has a Diploma of Fine Art and Education and taught Art for 5 years in an Aboriginal Boarding School in Alice Springs. She then completed a Graduate Diploma in Film and Television (Animation) at the Victorian College of the Arts and spent the following 8 years in the Animation industry. During this time she began part time studies at Ridley Bible College Melbourne. Eventually she graduated with a Batchelor of Ministries. She was ordained as a Priest in St. David's Cathedral Hobart and began work in the Anglican Church in Tasmania.
Meredith lives with her sister, 4 dogs, two donkeys and two horses on acreage in the Huon Valley. She currently works in the Huon Anglican Op Shop where we are developing deeper relationships with our local community, and creating pathways for them to hear the good news about Jesus.


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"Limitless": Take a pill, become a celebrity
"Limitless" combines awesome effects and laddish porn fantasy -- but can't overcome its irritating star
By Andrew O'Hehir
Published March 17, 2011 1:02AM (EDT)
Bradley Cooper in "Limitless"
Screenplays for Hollywood movies have to be written by somebody, right? And that person could technically be described as a writer. Yet somehow the institutional contempt that the movie business has always felt toward its writers inevitably leaks onto the screen, and we get pathetic losers like Eddie Morra, the wannabe novelist played by Bradley Cooper in "Limitless," which begins as pseudo-realism before descending into weird and mangled wank-job fantasy. Unkempt, unwashed and unlaundered, Eddie sits around his squalid apartment in New York's Chinatown pretending to write the novel for which someone (preposterously) has given him an advance, or goes out drinking in bars where he can't even explain his book's basic premise to a bunch of befuddled working-class mugs. (From the looks of things, he must take the train to Long Island to go drinking, since the beefy proletarian types he encounters are in short supply in lower Manhattan's watering holes.)
Eddie's perky blond girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) gives him the heave-ho, although they never seem much like a plausible couple in the first place. His publisher wants the advance money back, and Eddie knows it's only a matter of time before he's back in his childhood bedroom in New Jersey, selling dental equipment for his dad. Then the skeezeball drug dealer who used to be his brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth, briefly lending some life to the proceedings) gives him a teeny little gelcap, which he claims is an FDA-approved drug making its way to the marketplace. And then: Jumpin' Jiminy, it's Christmas in Joo-ly. Eddie bangs the cute Asian landlady to whom he owes three months' back rent (and numerous other young ladies besides), writes a brilliant novel, learns to speak several languages and becomes a post-Gordon Gekko financial whiz, all apparently before lunchtime the next day. More important still, he gets a $300 haircut and a bunch of high-end designer suits, making him look like far more of an asshole than he did when he was just a garden-variety pretentious failure.
Here's the problem with this reprehensible but moderately entertaining movie, or at least here's a way to get a grip on its many problems: NZT, the super-secret blend of chemicals that turns Eddie into a hyper-intelligent Nietzschean Superman, with total recall of everything he's ever seen, read or heard and powers of observation well beyond that of ordinary mortals, is pretty much the only thing that ever makes "Limitless" fun or interesting. (Yes, that does sound too close to AZT, a well-known anti-HIV drug, and I can't imagine why they chose to go there, except that this movie's veneer of knowing slickness is more than canceled out by a thick, fatty layer of stupidity.)
Dosing up on NZT seems to be like doing cocaine, crystal meth and a shot of espresso all at the same time, then topping that off with half a bottle apiece of Ritalin and top-shelf tequila, and having the buzz last for 12 hours instead of promptly resulting in unconsciousness and/or death. As Eddie muses, it's "a drug for people who want to be more anal-retentive." It's like Scientology in pharmaceutical form. Director Neil Burger, cinematographer Jo Willems and their effects team come up with a tremendously cool look for Eddie's drug highs, enriching the color palette and sending us whooshing through the streets of Manhattan at warp speed or through the synapses of Eddie's brain. At some moments, "Limitless" is like a dumbass American version of Gaspar Noé's hallucinogenic "Enter the Void," with a lot less Tibetan Book of the Dead and a lot more spankin'-the-monkey boy fantasy.
When Eddie's not conquering the world, though, we've got an entirely ordinary rise-and-fall and/or what-doth-it-profit-a-man fable, full of chicks, fancy restaurants, Puerto Vallarta vacations, Russian mobsters and other sinister assailants, and a thoroughly unnecessary and uninteresting supporting performance from Robert De Niro, as a crotchety, Warren Buffett-esque financial tycoon. (Seriously, Bobby: I know the transition to being a late-career character actor is tough, but what are you doing? Picking directors out of the L.A. white pages?) Eddie discovers that the drug has unexpected side effects, including extended blackouts and possible acts of violence, and that nearly everybody else who has taken it has wound up dead. Indeed, "Limitless" begins with a near-literal cliffhanger, as Eddie tells us his story from a ledge outside his luxury apartment building while a bunch of the aforementioned Russian mobsters take a power saw to his steel security door.
But Burger and screenwriter Leslie Dixon (adapting Irish novelist Alan Glynn's "The Dark Fields") lack the conviction or the conventional wisdom or whatever you want to call it to stick with that model either. In fact, I'm guessing that "Limitless" was rewritten late in the process at the producers' behest, since all those plot elements get recklessly pitched overboard as part of a nonsensical conclusion that reasserts the mood of permanent masturbation. Like the abysmal alien-attack flick "Battle: Los Angeles," this movie is meant as porn-fantasy chicken soup for the wounded American soul. We apparently live in a rapidly declining imperial power whose citizens are fatally divided as to politics but share a singular worldview: that they are all destined to become rich and famous. "Limitless" suggests that you don't need talent or hard work or a lightning strike of good luck to do that.
Take the right pill, and you too will be bantering with waiters in Mandarin, discussing Shakespeare's sonnets on the dance floor, wreaking masterful kung-fu vengeance on subway assailants, making millions of dollars a week and shagging skinny French babes in the powder room (in whatever order you favor those things). After Eddie becomes a celebrity pursued by shadowy thugs and New York Post reporters, he hires a pair of beefy security guards, telling them drily: "Wear different colored suits. This isn't 'The Matrix'!" He's wrong about that; this is a version of the Matrix where Neo decides to stay forever, because of all the awesomeness.
There's a further problem with this movie's attempt to turn Bradley Cooper into a movie star, which I'll try to put delicately: He kind of looks like a dick. Cooper is a talented actor, with all the New York theatrical training you could want, and an adept physical performer. He's well established in comedy after "The Hangover" (with the sequel on the way), and has starred on TV in "Nip/Tuck," "Alias" and "Kitchen Confidential." He's certainly a distinctive-looking guy, with big, vulpine features and close-set, startlingly blue eyes. But I respond to Cooper as if he were trying to sell me a Yugo dealership or a condominium that's beneath the waters of the Great Dismal Swamp. That's oddly appropriate to this role, although I don't think it's on purpose: Eddie Morra seems like a mendacious creep as a failed writer, whose personality is not improved by wealth, power, Ermenegildo Zegna suits and supreme studliness. If there were some kind of lesson to be gleaned from this mendacious film ... but forget it, there isn't.
Andrew O'Hehir is executive editor of Salon.
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The below games were all observed at the UCLA-USC football tailgate at the Rose Bowl on November 17, 2012. The most commonly played drinking games viewed in the stadium parking lots were: Beer Pong, Flip Cup, Beer Bong, and Keg Stands.
Beer Pong - One of the most popular drinking games among college students locally and across the nation, "Beer Pong", "Pong" or "Beirut" was the most common alcohol game observed at the UCLA football tailgates in 2012. In a nutshell, the aim of the game is to toss ping pong balls into the opposing team's beer-filled cups. If a player is successful at doing so, his/her competitor must down the full contents of the cup before play may resume. Once one team has successfully landed balls into all the opposition's cups, and the losing side must consume any remaining cups on the table (i.e., all the winning team's remaining cups, which could range from 1 to 10).
Keg Stands - Keg stands are a form of alcohol game that involves a keg of beer and a handstand. Put simply, the person "playing" the game does a handstand on the top of a keg, generally with the help of others (as pictured on right), and is fed beer from the keg hose as long as they can continue drinking. Click here to see a video of a keg stand on the Brookside Golf Course during the Nov. 2012 UCLA-USC game.
Beer Bongs - Beer "Bongs" or "Funnels" are either be single- or multi-person devices designed to facilitate the high speed consumption of beer. These relatively simple devices consist of a funnel connected to a plastic tube or hose. One player generally holds the funnel above the drinker to allow gravity to assist the rapid consumption of the beverage. The aim is to drink the full contents of the funnel as fast as possible. Generally this consists of one or more beers, but may also be mixed with other types of alcohol.
Flip Cup - Another popular alcohol game at tailgating parties is "Flip Cup", which consists of consuming a cup of alcohol as fast as possible, and then successfully flipping it upside down on the side of a table. As soon as one player does so, his/her teammate may begin the same task, and so on until all the players on a team have done so. The team whose players are able to drink and flip their cups with the greatest speed is declared the winner.


Have you tried Google Page Removal Request to remove an unwanted link on Google search index, you may have tried several times and failed to do so. The reason for this is Google terms and conditions to have a link removed. They only remove pages you own or control, meaning if the page is hosted on other sites and you are not the owner or author you won't be able to remove it even if you file a lawsuit unless the content violates some other law or rights but freedom of speech is again another law that will keep the content where it is.
Yup Page Removal Service are offered by dozens of companies who help corporations and high profile individuals restores there online reputation by burying, hiding and pushing down the negative press down the search results.
cant it get even more worse than my reputation is now? Yes the worse thing that can happen is that the links becomes so strong that it sticks where it is. Bad methods can may links stick permanently if you hire an in experienced firm to do the job.
So it's very important you hire some one who has a proven method to clear your name or else you will live your entire life with a bad online reputation.


Most of Georgia's capital cases have been interrupted because the public defender's office has run out of money.
Most of Georgia's capital cases have been interrupted because the public defender's office has run out of money. Maryland estimates it cost that state more than $22 million over and above incarceration on appeal litigation. Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley suggested that money for appeals can be better spent to fund additional enforcement and treatment efforts.
All of these monetary arguments against the death penalty have little to do with justice and can easily be remedied by simply narrowing the appeals process from the now average of 20 years to a maximum of one year. Iraq executed Saddam Hussein within the mandated 30 days of conviction.
It costs approximately $50,000 per year to house a death row inmate. The appeals process can cost an additional $500,000. A simple solution would be to set aside the $500,000 immediately after conviction and properly fund the appeals process. One year can then be feasible to file and mitigate all the appeals. This would save the $50,000-plus per year for 20 or more years of unnecessary incarceration. After all, we can all agree that "justice delayed is justice denied"? The family of a murder victim should not have to wait 20 years or more for justice to be completed.
From a strictly practical standpoint, it is ridiculous to suggest that granting a new trial for a convicted murderer after 20 years will make the evidence more clear. Memories fade, evidence gets stale or lost and witnesses die. One year is plenty of time to get the appeals process finalized.
As a former police detective, I can assure you that the death penalty is, in fact, a deterrent in some criminal minds but not in most. Murder is the easiest crime to commit when there is no relationship between the murderer and the victim. If you decide to randomly kill someone today, you can do so with little jeopardy of being apprehended. The murder victim is, in most cases, the only witness to the crime, and if you are successful, the victim/witness is not available to testify against you. In 50 to 75 percent of murders, the parties know each other. The remaining 25 percent are a secondary result of primary offenses involving armed robberies and drug deals gone bad. The main use of the of the death penalty is to elicit a plea deal and cooperation from an accused. One party to a crime snitching on another is the way most crimes are solved. Don't believe what you see on TV.
You cannot stop crimes of passion, but you can control crimes of need. Drug addicts who require money to feed their habits commit most violent crimes. Unless we legalize drugs, violent crimes will continue. You simply cannot stop a drug addict from purchasing drugs. Enforcement efforts only raise the price of drugs and lead to more violent crime.
Dan Insdorf is a Winter Haven resident and frequent contributor to the News Chief's opinion page.


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The PDXchange cohort, Esperanza, has arrived safely in Nicaragua! Despite a night of traveling, they're ready to start their journey. Stay tuned in the next few days for more updates from the group as they settle into language school. In the words of Overseas Educator Greg, "Vamos!".
And They are Off! -Esperanza heads from PDX to MGA!


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Probablemente nació en el año de 1200 (el historiador Chimalpain menciona que "aparece" en este año) en los alrededores de Xaltocan; hijo de una nobleza incipiente, Iztacmixcoatzin su padre es considerado origen de los nahuatlacas y los mexicas. Educado dentro de un calpulli (barrio) de constructores.

Es parte de un grupo que trascenderá históricamente, incluso serán mitificados, hablamos del sacerdote Huitziltzin y del guerrero Tecpatzin. Lo curioso es que sólo buscaban zonas de recursos explotables.

En 1226 se casa con Tlaquilxochitzin princesa de Tzompanco, con la que engendra al siguiente año a Huitzilihuitl I, su sucesor.

A la muerte de Iztacmixcoatzin en 1233 o 1239 toma el mando y al poco tiempo, por sugerencia de Huitziltzin emigra a la Sierra de Guadalupe para explotar el bosque y los yacimientos de andesita, cerca de la rivera del lago de Texcoco, al sur de Ecatepec, a través de la laguna en canoas transportan material de manera más eficiente y continuamente hacen trabajos para Azcapotzalco y sus pueblos dependientes, sin olvidar hacer lo mismo con el señorío de Tenayocan . Piden permiso a este para fundar su primer capital en 1240, Huixachtitlan.

En 1245 Tlotzin se lanza contra Colhuacan y los derrota ayudado por Tozcuecuextli, además se establecen alianzas matrimoniales, que a la larga darán el último linaje colhua y el segundo mexica (Como vemos el primero es xaltocamecatl).

Pantitlán también explota la Sierra de Guadalupe, por lo que en cierto momento sus intereses los llevan a la guerra contra Huixachtitlan, desarrollándose la batalla final cerca de Tecpayocan, los mexitin ganan pero Tecpatzin muere. También poco después muere Huitziltzin, Tozcuecuextli ordena que sus restos se transformen en tlaquimilolli (envoltorio sagrado) y le dan el nombre de Huitzilopochtli.

Tozcuecuextli continua gobernando y su nuevo brazo derecho Huehue Cuauhtlequetzqui (padre del Cuauhtlequetzqui de 1281) lo apoya los siguientes 25 años hasta su muerte en 1272 (más posiblemente murió en 1278).

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There's a new free tool to help PC users root out rootkits. Called Sophos Anti-Rootkit, the software from Sophos will detect and remove both known and unknown rootkits, and it will also warn system administrators if removing the software might harm operating system integrity.
Rootkits are a collection of tools used by hackers to gain administrative privileges on compromised machines. They are typically used to help hide other forms of malware–keyloggers or Trojan horse programs, for example–from antivirus software.
Rootkits Hit the Big Time Late last year, Sony BMG Music Entertainment helped to make rootkit a household word, after the company was forced to recall millions of CDs that used these cloaking techniques to hide its copy protection software. Sony's rootkit, which was installed when customers tried to play CDs, actually compromised PC security. Hackers eventually released malicious software that used Sony's software to hide itself on a PC.
Sophos Anti-Rootkit works with the Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. The software features a graphical interface to help guide users through the process of detecting and removing the malicious software.
Since the Sony fiasco, the security industry has paid more attention to the rootkit problem and there are now a number of free utilities designed to identify this type of software. Other tools include RootkitRevealer, GMER and IceSword.


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Pavi's Platter: Dal Tadka !
Dal Tadka (aka Tempered Yellow Lentils) from the Punjabi cuisine is a prominent dish in every restaurant / eateries / dhabas in India. Even though people love to order other gravy dishes there will one serving of dal tadka or dal fry ordered for sure. It is so simple but remarkable flavors with the generous tadka done on cooked yellow dal with asafosdita, cumin and chillis.
And coming to the difference between dal fry and dal tadka, dal tadka is where dal is cooked with onions and tomatoes and lastly a generous tadka of spices is poured over it. Whereas in dal fry dal is pressure cooked separately, and later mixed with sauted onions and tomatoes with spices. Will post the dal fry recipe too soon.
I have mixed toor dal and moong dal but masoor dal (split red lentils) can also be added to this.
Take both the dals and wash them well.
Chop onions , tomatoes and chillis finely.
Juliene some ginger and crush some garlic and keep ready.
In a pressure cooker, take the washed dal, onions, tomatoes chillis and enough water to immerse the dal. Add salt, turmeric powder and little red chillipowder and pressure cook for 2 - 3 whistles.
Once the pressure settles and check if the dal is cooked well. Dont mash them so much.. you should see the whole dal here and there. Add chopped coriander to this.
In a small tadka pan, heat oil and ghee (or only ghee).
Add hing and jeera followed by the ginger and garlic.
Then add the green chillis and broken red chillis. Turn off stove and add kasuri methi. (just dried leaves, not powder).
Pour this tadka over the cooked dal just retaining a spoon of this tadka for garnishing.
After pouring the tadka close the vessel immediately so that the flavors dont escape and will get infused with the dal.
Serve with rice / roti / naan / kulcha etc.