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Florida Still Using an Old Katherine Harris Trick to Purge Black Voters
Florida's up to its old tricks again, using dubious lists of felons and computers that come up with criminal mismatches to rob votes from people of color.
This is a prime example of how the vote heist first mastered by Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris in 2000 works: In yesterday's Florida election, an African-American attorney named Thomas Joseph Brown, who lives in Tallahassee, had his vote stolen. When he showed up to his polling station in Leon County, he was told he'd been purged from the rolls. When he took the matter up with the Election Supervisors they said it was because his name "matched" that of a felon called Thomas Jerald Brown, who lived 200 miles away in Daytona. Seems the fact that the middle names, addresses, and other identifying information didn't match wasn't an impediment for the state when it came to stripping a citizen of his or her right to vote. Fortunately, as an attorney, Thomas Joseph Brown knew exactly how to steal his vote back, but most people in his position would've had their vote irrevocably snatched by the state.
It's the same exact scam that stole the race from Al Gore in 2000. I demand y'all watch this cartoon about the original theft of Florida. It's by Keith Tucker who drew Who Framed Roger Rabbit and is featured in my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Case Of The Stolen Election. View the clip here then watch the whole move available for FREE on Amazon Prime or with a donation from our store.
Below a full account of events as written by Thomas Joseph Brown, Esq.:
I am a licensed Florida and Texas attorney who was wrongfully removed from the voters list and not allowed to vote. I was removed because of the felon list and documents (see criminal judgment of conviction of another attached) provided by the State of Florida to the Leon County Supervisors of Elections. This was both embarrassing and upsetting to be denied my fundamental right to vote as a U.S. citizen and Florida resident – a right that I cherish and exercise faithfully considering how my ancestors and others fought for African Americans such as I to vote. Upon presenting my valid Florida Driver's License with my full name "Thomas Joseph Brown" at my voting precinct, I was told that I had been purged from the voters list and could not vote.
After traveling to the Leon Country Supervisor of Elections Office and speaking to the Supervisor and staff, I was provided a copy of a criminal Judgment from 2005 for a "Thomas Jerald Brown" whose address was in Daytona Florida which is more that 200 miles from Tallahassee, Florida as support for purging me from the voters list. Again my improper removal from the voting list without notice to me, a registered Leon County voter since 1990, is a clear example as to why I and others are against Florida's unfettered use of the Felon list to purge voters, including lawfully registered voters such as I, from the voting list.
Although my rights were re-established due to my actions, I am deeply concerned for other citizens who are not lawyers and may not have known how or had time to re-establish their voting rights to be able to cast a regular ballot before the polls close at 7:00 p.p.. It was embarrassing to be purged as a convicted felon, unable to vote, especially when a colleague noticed that I was not allowed to vote and asked if he needed to vouch for me.
With kind regards, I am
Thomas J. Brown, Esq.,
BROWN AND BROWN
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The Bulletin sports reporter Melanie Plane and Olympian turned advertising representative Kym Ireland tested out the Crazy Coaster at the Rockhampton Show yesterday. This video is at twice the speed the ride goes at and could make some people sick watching it.
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Window shopping is easy at Walt Disney World, not only because there is a gift shop on every corner, but also for due to the sheer quantity of merchandise available. Today's safari however, has nothing to actually do with shopping and everything to do with retail displays, more specifically window displays.
The shops of the Downtown Disney Marketplace are spacious, but don't have opportunities for guests to really see what is happening inside without actually stepping into the store. That doesn't mean they don't know what they're walking into. Thanks to cleverly designed and applied window boxes, signage and shop names, guests have a good idea whether or not the souvenirs they are looking for can be found within.
Today, we're peeking in the windows of Tren-D and Mickey's Pantry. Prepare for some stylish, stylized villainesses promoting fashion, while Mickey and friends endorse specific food lines and designs.
I also love the windows over at The World of Disney, especially the princess gown made of Barbie dolls! Whoever does these window displays are amazing! This is a great post, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I have to agree, the minds and eyes behind the displays in the Marketplace create simply awesome imagery!


ROSEMONT, Ill., (Feb. 05, 2018)—The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recently welcomed Anna Salt Troise as the new Chief Education Strategist.
As a member of the AAOS executive team, Troise will direct all the Academy's education and peer reviewed publishing activities, as well as its newly implemented strategy.
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Is the suspended General Secretary of COSATU not his own worst enemy?
– He is tweeting, remarking, apologising, clarifying, pronouncing and defying himself into a status of former general secretary –
Niklos, on the subject of arrogance concluded "arrogance is a stray bullet from an unloaded gun", I thought of this when I look at the unfolding saga of the General Secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi and him in a sense spiralling out of control into a free fall of history.
Let us attempt to unpack the saga in pursuit of where Vavi blundered, to see if there is substance in my claim that Vavi is his own worst enemy.
Firstly, it is perhaps important to ask again, who took this issue of Vavi's inappropriate relations with a staff member to the media and for what reasons? It is clear that Zwelinzima Vavi took this matter to the media we may only surmise what he had hoped to attain in sympathy embrace.
We are told this incident transpired in January 2013 yet it only surfaced late July, this means the objective of involving the media was not something contemplated in January or throughout the span of the transpired six months. In fact, there was no need for any of us to know about it until someone felt it important to draw the media into it.
Secondly, Vavi by no pressure from anyone in COSATU Leadership context admitted to an illicit affair exemplified in graphic 'quickies'. He went to length to explain where and how this took place in definition of incident. Please note we are not dealing here with the affair, we dealing with the incident that Vavi provided the gory details. The affair is not in question because anyone may proverbially fall and prove particularly vulnerable in breaking morals one hold dear. One therefore seek not to condemn Vavi or the woman in question for falling, that would not make sense.
The issue is not an affair in morality of definition; the issue is the admitted incident of inappropriate sexual relations of staff members of COSATU on COSATU premise.
It was correct for him to admit the affair it was equally correct for him to admit the details of the specific incident yet in doing this he was preoccupied with the issue of a threatened rape claim. It is clear that in his mind the rape – claim threat naturally weighed heavier than a disciplinary hearing in organisational context.
Thirdly, Vavi proverbially shot himself in the foot since in targeting to disprove the claim of rape he volunteered in sharing information such as where the incident took place, his concern at the time was to argue against the rape claim, which he correctly aimed to prove soluble yet in the process he admitted to the case he must face in organisational context.
The admission on the part of Vavi may not necessarily be sincere because it came as part of his defence against the rape claim. It could easily be argued that if there was no claimed rape and admission of misconduct may never have surfaced.
The fourth aspect where Vavi blunders is made evident in his prism of thinking on the subject matter of forgiveness, at least what forgiveness means, and how it must apply in this his incident. He unilaterally invokes a sense of morality mirrored in the construct of "forgiveness" as the correct response to his error. He constricts forgiveness in a one-dimensional sense stripped bare from any consequence. For Vavi forgiveness literally means, once I confess you must forgive and we move on, there is no case, no issue we back in the trenches dealing with COSATU issues.
His suggestion that his family and relatives can deal with this issue better is not wrong as it relates to his personal morality on the home-front context, yet he commits a fundamental error in superimposing this morality on COSATU as an organisation. He negates COSATU's right to institute a constitutionally framed disciplinary process to deal with the issue of his indiscretion.
The suspended general secretary either has forgotten that COSATU as an organisation prescribes to certain codes and procedures on how to deal with this type of incident if it occurs in its environment. Alternatively, the suspended general secretary arrogates a right to be treated different to others only informed by his popularity.
One is not sure if Vavi is oblivious or suffers of selective amnesia as to how COSATU has dealt in time past with issues of this nature? If COSATU always accepted only an apology then Vavi is correct to assume an apology is all that is needed. If however COSATU's policies and processes guided previous similar cases then can we allow the policies to dictate devoid of any inferences or loose emotional claims of victimhood?
The fifth leg of Vavi's personal war against himself is his love for pronouncements, public notifications, and expressing of views on the issue of his suspension even when it is not necessary. Vavi resorted to his tweeting once the rape claim faltered.
His tweets as much a confirmation of his apology for the error of his ways, in no veiled sense expressed buoyancy and almost a victory salute.
He committed two errors with this. The first is that he did not respect the independent assessors to pronounce on the developments of the case. He took it upon himself to pronounce on the status of the case. He acted as eyewitness news-reporter in attempt of almost giving his followers an immediate live coverage on the hearing. Secondly, he proved less sensitive to the seriousness of the charge in respect of organisation in assuming if he poked holes in the rape claim he will walk free from any claim of accountability for a deed he admitted performing during office hours on the premises of COSATU as an office bearer with a junior staff member.
It was not prudent of Vavi to engage in this regardless to how tempted he may have been to get even with his detractors.
Perhaps Vavi spoke as the spokesperson of COSATU with one major difference he was in question and his misdeeds the subject of scrutiny making it not his place to speak.
Vavi should have desist the temptation to pronounce because it conflates him as one who sees himself bigger than COSATU the organisation he was elected to serve.
Perhaps his tweeting and pronouncing send the wrong message that he was not sincere about the wrong he committed at the COSATU office.
Vavi did not stop tweeting, his tweeting immediately after the controversial CEC confirms again the issue of him pronouncing when he in the same breath apologises but takes a pungent snipe at those whom he claim don't want to forgive him.
"I committed an error & have profusely apologised to everyone hurt by my indiscretion. That was a right thing to do," "I am relieved so many have accepted that apology and recognise that some remain unforgiving. Know others celebrating and rubbing salt." "Thank you for the support – will say more later."
Vavi's sixth error was his force-focus of the disciplinary hearing on political conspiracy rhetoric hanger. This appears a faulty attempt to railroad COSATU's right and legitimacy to institute a due disciplinary process on two of its employees. There is no question that in our murky political environment of conflated party and organised labour context, there are both friends and enemies.
So whilst this may be the case that some are laughing at his demise, and had hoped for this day to come, as a thorough political animal Vavi is all too aware of the environment he chose to make a career. He is not the first neither the last to experience this and simply could not have dreamt that the entire SA citizenry or at least everyone in the COSATU madly in love with him.
Vavi's seventh blunder is he taking his political conspiracy theory to another level in making public the scantily clad in evidence and bereft in substance though salacious and sensational driven secret intelligence report. This 'intelligence' report conflates a string of names of people straddling the judiciary, former public officials / technocrats, politicians as all part of a group of people financed by apparently a USA based NED Organisation. The report it is claimed concerns itself with the destabilising of South Africa's political landscape in apparently funding individuals and organisations to challenge the ANC – Zuma led administration.
I am not at liberty to advance an opinion on the veracity of these so called 'intelligence' reports, suffice to say this cannot become the epicentre of the COSATU disciplinary hearing but should serve in a different forum.
Vavi was suspended or put on special leave, pending the receiving of the report of the independent assessors. One of the conditions of suspension or special leave restricts Vavi from addressing any COSATU affiliates, yet Vavi swayed by the energy of the NUMSA's General Secretary Irvin Jim and others to address a NUMSA gathering. Vavi did this he claims in his personal capacity. We still do not know what that means, but it is more important to ask what Vavi says when he addresses these forums.
Lastly, Vavi simply cannot resist the need to pronounce, or to pass a remark. This past weekend, the suspended general secretary and erstwhile spokesman of COSATU took the liberty to speak in his vernacular in the Eastern Cape. This time the object of his vituperative remarks in reference on the woman, he shared inappropriate relations included the IsiXhosa word 'nopatazana', a word that for gender activist Nomboniso Gasa refers to 'a street woman of loose morals'.
As soon as the suspended COSATU general secretary realised his mistake he apologised. Yet his apology rings hollow and remains rejected in some circles that he least expected he may get challenge from. Gasa challenges Vavi in her response tweet in highlighting the dichotomy when Vavi can apologise for the remark in saying 'it is interesting that you speak of consensual sex & yet you refer to her as a girl. Is your use of "girl' to emphasize your power/ seniority? I am concerned, in some way, with absence of modicum of respect'
Others like Mbuyiselo Botha the Sonke Gender Justice official said of Vavi's remark, "It does not help in the fight against the abuse of women…. The statement is demeaning, sexist, insensitive, and humiliating to women."
The Commission for gender Equality spokesperson, Javu Baloyi cautions those in position of power must desist from making statements that undermine the dignity of others'.
It appears the suspended COSATU general secretary simply cannot resist the temptation to speak, tweet, or pronounce on the very matter he brought to the media. He seems trapped without a microphone and flashing cameras in this turbulent season of labour politics and wage negotiations a time Vavi usually was very visible and captured the news bulletins of the SABC and all other independents news media.
One cannot help but assuming no one regrets his misdeed more than Vavi himself, perhaps not for genuine remorse as to be expected but from being gagged to speak what he for more than 14 years have done on behalf of COSATU.
At this rate, that the suspended COSATU general secretary is going we should expect many more remarks, tweets, clarifications and many more apologies because Vavi does talking best and being denied that is torture of the greatest degree.
It seems Zwelinzima Vavi is talking, remarking, tweeting and defying himself out of the labour world into what I choose to call a free fall of historic labour leadership at least if COSATU is the structure.
Will we soon be talking of the former general secretary of COSATU; at the rate Vavi is rattling, it seems he is talking himself into that status with relative ease.
In the end, it seems justified to argue Vavi is perhaps is own worst enemy and in the quietness of the moment, he warrants admitting to himself, jaa-neh you really gagged yourself…
Clyde N.S Ramalaine
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Privatizing Public Schools Not the Answer
This guest post is written by our ICPE-MCSCI co-founder and retired educator, Mike Walsh:
Before the Legislature jumps headlong in support of our governor's proposal for more vouchers and charter schools, would it be prudent to ask them to examine some history?
Let's take Milwaukee, which has offered vouchers since 1990. Seventy-five percent of students who started in a voucher school left before graduating. The annual attrition rate is 33 percent. Wouldn't our solons wonder why? In 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress ranked Milwaukee at the bottom of the five lowest-performing districts nationally.
The preponderance of credible research finds virtually no impact for vouchers in raising achievement above public school levels. So why are our legislators and governor forging ahead to expand vouchers when they currently take more than $15 million from public school funds and 95 percent of them go to sectarian schools?
I contend that it is primarily the ongoing effort to privatize as much of public education as can be gotten away with. Vouchers, along with private for-profit charter school groups now have access to public tax dollars. No less a person than Rupert Murdock has referred to education as "a 500 billion dollar sector." Any wonder that the corporate world has leapt into the "reform" movement? Any doubt that the primary function of voucher expansion is political?
As for charter schools, begin with the encouragement of private for-profit organizations by the governor with the blessing of the legislature to take over "failing" schools. Imagine an outside group being hired to "turn around" Fairview School.
There is little or no transparency in charter school operations. Local control is lost because taxpayers do not elect charter school board members; they are appointed. Nor is there local control over management, including what they are paid or the percentage of profit. The public has no input on how charters are staffed, run, administered or evaluated. Open meetings or public reporting of academic achievement are at the discretion of the charter school.
In 2010, a U.S. Department of Education study showed charter schools underperformed compared with public schools with the same demographic. Without that inclusion they performed about the same. What we have is an expanding, unneeded, multitiered education system: public, charter, voucher — all pulling from the same pot of funds.
Our governor is committed to expanding vouchers, which reduce public school funds which push communities of organize and fund referenda to make up for the critical loss of public school dollars, and by doing so, gives the legislature a convenient excuse to avoid the challenges facing public schools by not themselves raising taxes.
It is very difficult in this era of a supermajority with all save one state office controlled by one party to watch what seems to be a continuous attack on our public schools, but one would hope that people understand that privatizing our public education system is a terrible move and that they express this to their representatives, the governor, and the IDOE board. Unless they perceive a growing concern for their actions, the assault will continue.


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Jan 25, 2018 by Olivia Dupree	in Politics
On Monday, Jan. 24, the three-day government shutdown ended when Congress compromised to pass a short-term spending bill despite the uncertain fate of DACA recipients.
While no consensus has been reached on who caused it, just about everyone can agree that the government shutting down for any amount of time is generally a bad thing. The government shutdown adversely affected the performance of "non-essential" government programs, like NASA, the IRS and the United States Air Force Academy.
In the aftermath of the shutdown, pundits have attempted to assign blame. Although public opinion seems split equally between blaming Senate Democrats and President Donald Trump, most of the media comes down on the opposition party, or at least agree it puts the Democrats in an awkward position.
"While they may not be able to admit it publicly (or even to themselves), it's clear that the Democrats have deliberately manufactured a government shutdown," wrote Thomas Binion, an opinion contributor for The Hill.
"As has been the case in each and every policy debate so far, compromise between the parties has been elusive," he continued. "…Democrats, exerting the leverage they have over what can pass the Senate, will block any compromise.
"The media consensus is in: The Democrats got their butt kicked," commented Fox News' Howard Kurtz. "Left-wing groups are furious with [Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer] for caving in, and he barely got anything from the Republicans in exchange for stopping the shutdown."
GOP trolls Dems with "I shut down the government" t-shirts https://t.co/xvKacfyFK2 pic.twitter.com/2E5na5OL9k
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"After prepping their activist base for a long shutdown fight, key [Democratic] party elites surrendered to fears that the White House was winning the messaging fight," wrote The Week's David Faris, suggesting that the Democrats will now have a fundamental problem reinvigorating their base and being taken seriously.
"The overarching problem is that even if Democrats can get everyone in their caucus on board for another fight in February, their opponents on the other side of the aisle now have credible reason to believe that they are bluffing," Faris warned.
In the wake of what seems like endless political pettiness and partisan bickering, some question if these necessary deals can even happen in such polarized times.
The New Yorker's Susan Glasser challenged the notion that these great compromises are possible.
"Both Bush and Obama spent months in search of elusive "grand bargains". … They didn't get them," she wrote. "Obamacare happened with Democratic votes alone. The Trump tax cut was purely a product of the Republican-controlled House and Senate."
Nobody knows for sure that the Republicans & Democrats will be able to reach a deal on DACA by February 8, but everyone will be trying….with a big additional focus put on Military Strength and Border Security. The Dems have just learned that a Shutdown is not the answer!
Glasser goes on to blame Trump: "As Congress careens toward its next shutdown, few have any idea what Trump will do next, and the initial talks on Tuesday seemed to suggest the sides were even farther apart then before the shutdown started."
Getting the next continuing resolution through Congress by Feb. 8 may even be a harder deal than usual.
According to Business Insider, congressional leaders will have to agree on "funding levels for defense and nondefense programs over the next year and a half," something that is guaranteed to be contentious.
While the concept of big compromise may be dead, short-term deals on the fate of 800,000 DREAMers and military programs ultimately need to be addressed, forged and passed through Congress.
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Should Griezmann stay or go?
Luke Taylor ponders whether Antoine Grizemann should stay with Atletico Madrid or make a move to Barcelona this summer...
Rumours linking Antoine Griezmann to a move to Barcelona in the summer are continuing to feature in both the Spanish and French Press, and there is no sign of them stopping. AS recently reported that Barca have already agreed the €100m move with the French forward and Marca have claimed this week that Griezmann's wife has already begun house-hunting in Catalonia.
Nonetheless, it was widely expected that he would leave Atletico Madrid last summer, only for him to stay. So as this season heads towards its final stages, will he once again stick around in Madrid or will he head for the headier heights of Barca?
The 26-year-old's form has been some of the best of his career as of late. At the end of February he scored seven goals in the space of a week and on Sunday led Atleti to victory with a goal and assist in their 3-0 win over Celta Vigo, which means he now has 21 goals and 11 assists in all competitions. The reason for this upturn in form is thanks to his new strike partner, Diego Costa. With the Spanish striker playing as the focal point of Los Rojiblancos attack, Griezmann is free to feed off him and have more influence on the game in a slightly more roaming role.
When asked about his thoughts on Griezmann's future after that game, Diego Simeone did not give much away.
"I talk about realities, and not suppositions," Simeone said, according to ESPN. "He is playing fantastically well, there is communion with the fans, he scored a great goal, gave a fantastic assist, worked hard for the team. I speak about today, but tomorrow is tomorrow."
Griezmann's career really will be at a crossroads this summer. It is quite surprising that he has never won a major trophy as a player, notwithstanding the Spanish Super Cup. So it all comes down to whether or not he believes that he can win trophies in the years to come under Simeone, as it is more than likely that he will win titles if he was to sign for La Blaugrana.
Playing with Costa, keeping together this relatively young Atleti squad and winning the Europa League are all factors that could persuade the Frenchman to stay. Los Colchoneros President Enrique Cerezo seems quite calm with the whole situation.
"He has not told me at all about wanting to move away so it would surprise me a lot of this was his desire," Cerezo told reporters, as cited by Marca. "What is certain and what I can tell you is that he is under contract and this means no other sign can sign him without our permission, and it is a long contract. We should not be nervous about this, I believe he is happy and wants to continue to play for Atletico beyond this season."
Griezmann has a big decision to make. Does he up sticks for Barca, where he will join an already packed forward line of stars but have a guarantee of winning trophies or does he once again stay loyal to the club that helped become one of the world's best in the hope that he can achieve things there? Over to you, Grizi.
iloveGrizi
He has to stay!
on the 6th May, 2019 at 6:04pm
BALLWORLD
Grizi better go... just my 2 cents.
on the 19th June, 2018 at 10:21am


Published: Dec. 8, 2012 at 09:00 p.m.
Updated: Dec. 8, 2012 at 10:23 p.m.
NEW YORK -- Johnny Football just got himself a way cooler nickname: Johnny Heisman.
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football's top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut.
Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a Heisman race with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te'o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.
Manziel drew 474 first-place votes and 2,029 points from the panel of media members and former winners.
"I have been dreaming about this since I was a kid, running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flutie, throwing Hail Marys to my dad," he said after hugging his parents and kid sister.
Manziel seemed incredibly calm after his name was announced, hardly resembling the guy who dashes around the football field on Saturday. He simply bowed his head, and later gave the trophy a quick kiss.
"I wish my whole team could be up here with me," he said with a wide smile.
Te'o had 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points and Klein received 60 firsts and 894 points.
Just a few days after turning 20, Manziel proved times have truly changed in college football, and that experience can be really overrated.
For years, seniors dominated the award named after John Heisman, the pioneering Georgia Tech coach from the early 1900s. In the 1980s, juniors started becoming common winners. Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win it in 2007, and two more won it in the next two seasons.
Adrian Peterson had come closest as a freshman, finishing second to Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart in 2004. But it took 78 years for a newbie to take home the big bronze statue. Johnny Football really can do it all.
He's the second player from Texas A&M to win the Heisman, joining John David Crow from 1957, and did so without the slightest hint of preseason hype. Manziel didn't even win the starting job until two weeks before the season.
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First time parents often observe the very tiniest details their firstborn indulges into from the very beginning. When babies are born, they spend most of their time sleeping. Most babies can sleep up to 18 to 22 hours a day. As babies grow older, they tend to move more often. The first few years of a baby are the ones where he/she learns and grasps most of their knowledge of being in this world. Every day can be a new milestone.
The first thing a baby plays with while growing is his own hands. And your baby's arm movement can tell you important things about what he is experiencing. This is a way your baby interacts with the world around him. It is a beautiful sight to see an adorable baby moving its hands and feet constantly, but this can be alarming to parents if the odds are not set aside.
Is it normal for a baby to move hands constantly?
It is completely normal for babies to move their hands constantly. There may be three basic reasons as to why they do so. However, in order to rule out any problems, you should always share your concerns with your baby's pediatrician.
Constant hand movement increases your baby's muscle strength which brings improvement in his motor skills. Movements such as taking hands into the mouth, waving around toys, grasping and then letting go of them are all part of the hand to eye coordination which is a healthy step in his physical growth and development.
You may have noticed some sharp hand and feet movement in your baby, like extending the hands in the air suddenly when he hears something loud. This is known as a startle or Moro reflux. Babies also tend to get startled by their own crying sound sometimes. This is completely a normal phenomenon for babies to go through and nothing to worry about.
Babies tend to get excited when they are playing. They get excited while seeing moving objects like a fan or when seeing flashing lights, and when going through such excitement, they constantly move their hands and feet. These are uncontrolled movements when they are 2 to 3 months of age and begin to become more meaningful when they grow older.
It's the things that your baby isn't doing at the right time rather than what he is that may be a cause of concern. If your baby isn't able to reach certain milestones at the time when they should occur, you should share your concerns with a doctor.
Many people fear that their baby's constant hand movement might have something to do with autism. It is always better to evaluate with a doctor. But, all babies tend to move constantly. And the earliest signs autism involves the absence of normal behaviors, not the presence of abnormal ones.
Some early signs of autism include an absence of eye contact by the baby by 2 to 3 months, he doesn't smile by three months, he doesn't laugh by 6 months, or he is taking a considerable amount of time to cover milestones than other babies. There are many other symptoms of autism which get easier to detect as your baby gets older.
Doctors' advice parents to keep a close check on their babies' progress from the beginning. Early diagnosis and intervention are critical for children with autism. The earlier autism is detected, the earlier its treatments can be started. If you suspect that something isn't right, don't wait and get it evaluated right away during this crucial developmental period.


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Canadian Olympic gold medalist disqualified from curling tournament for drunkenness
By Nancy Gillen
Olympic gold medalist Ryan Fry and his curling team were disqualified from a tournament in Canada for poor behaviour and drunkenness.
Fry won gold at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as part of the Canadian rink that beat Great Britain in the men's final.
He and his team at the Red Deer Curling Classic tournament, consisting of Jamie Koe, Chris Schille and DJ Kidby, forfeited their final game after fans and opponents complained of their drunken behaviour.
"They went out to curl and they were extremely drunk and breaking brooms and swearing and just unacceptable behaviour that nobody wants to watch or hear or listen to, and it was just 'enough was enough,'" Wade Thurber, the facility manager of the Red Deer Curling Centre, told CBC Sports.
"There was some damage in the locker room and other teams were complaining about their stuff being kicked around in the locker room."
My official statement regarding the 2018 Red Deer Curling Classic. pic.twitter.com/FUEbW92dG5
— Jamie Koe (@JKnwt) November 19, 2018
Fry and Koe have since apologised for their behaviour.
"I wish nothing more than to apologise to everyone individually," said Fry.
"I will strive to become a better version of myself while contributing positively to the sport and curling community that I love so much."
The Red Deer Curling Classic is an annual tournament which is part of the World Curling Tour and counts towards the Canadian team ranking system.
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November 2018: Scotland's defence of women's title at European Curling Championships rocked by two defeats
November 2018: Defending champions Sweden win tight opening match at European Curling Championships
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November 2018: Title sponsor for World Men's Curling Championships announced
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Anatomy and Physiology: Sympathetic: Yikes!
Sympathetic: Yikes!
The Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
You've Got Some Nerve!
Gyri and Sulci
The Control Center
Sensory and Motor Control
Thalamus: The Switching Station
Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerves
Parasympathetic: Aaaaaaaaaaah!
Our autonomic nervous system (ANS) is responsible for our unconscious control of our body, as opposed to our somatic nervous system, which is our thoughts, our basic conscious perception of the senses, and our movements and other reactions to those senses. The ANS is a very old section of the brain, which, despite all that it controls, does not require as much energy to function. Much of this control is centered in the medulla oblongata, which is at the base of the brain stem, just superior to the spinal cord.
Although the processing is centered in the medulla, other sections of the brain are involved. The thalamus, as a switching station for sensory input, and an emotional center (due to the limbic system), sends input to the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus is the real control center, sending instructions to the pons (higher respiratory function) and the medulla, which in turn sends instructions along the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways. In the simplest sense, the body needs to be able to gear up in response to periods of stress or danger. Equally important is the ability to slow down when the danger is over, in order to focus on those areas ignored when under threat.
Gearing Up Organs
If you were in my classroom I would either suddenly scream out loud or surreptitiously drop a large metal lab stool. Anything to make you jump! That loud surprise is enough to get the average person's sympathetic division kicked into high gear (I could release a live tiger, but I want to keep my job!). Think about your body's reaction to such a jump, especially these organs: heart, lungs, and brain (at least that part associated with alertness).
Myoglobin? Hemoglobin? It might help if you remember that hemoglobin has four subunits, each of which carries a single O2 molecule (four in all). Each of those four subunits is similar in structure to a myoglobin molecule, which of course can carry only one O2 molecule. Incidentally, the higher quantity of myoglobin in beef than chicken is what makes red meat red!
Here's where you need to put the pieces together. I'll get you started. One of the connections in the sympathetic pathway involves stimulating the adrenal glands to release epinephrine (adrenaline). It is the epinephrine that gives you that sense of terror: elevated heart rate, deeper respiration, heightened senses (enough to make you jumpy). You've experienced the what, but why does it happen? To answer that, you need to think about oxygen and glucose, our quick energy source.
Have you ever felt like your intestines are all knotted up when you were under stress? Those cramps are the result of peristalsis, or the movement of food along the GI tract coming to a halt. You can blame it on the sympathetic division of your ANS!
Since oxygen is so important for extracting energy from glucose, it makes sense that you would breathe deeply: The more deeply you breathe, the more oxygen you get. The more oxygen, the more energy. So why the fast heart rate? Easy! To get the oxygen to the muscles and to get rid of all the carbon dioxide you are releasing from your muscles. As a matter of fact, oxygen is easier to take up in the muscles due to the presence of myoglobin, which functions, like hemoglobin, to carry the oxygen.
You might remember that the body stores some of the excess glucose as the polysaccharide (multiple sugar) glycogen. In times of stress the majority of the glucose is used by the muscles, so it makes perfect sense that glycogen is stored there, especially with all that myoglobin.
The other place where glycogen is stored is the liver. Glycogen is released as a result of the action of epinephrine from the adrenal glands, which are also stimulated by the sympathetic division. Epinephrine also works to dilate the airways in the lungs and increase the heart rate. In addition to all these subconscious actions, the brain becomes more alert, no doubt to anticipate and react to danger.
Not all organs are stimulated, however, as certain actions need to be set aside during an emergency in order to place the energy where it is most needed. The kidneys are put on hold, leaving the filtering of waste until later. It may seem paradoxical, but the digestive system spends the inning in the dugout, too. On the surface it seems that such an action is foolhardy, as you need energy in an emergency, but the energy you can absorb in a short time is very small, considering the energy needed for the rest of the digestive process. For this reason, the body opts for using energy reserves (glycogen).
Sympathetic Pathways
The sympathetic pathways follow the general arrangement of the spinal nerves, but after leaving the spinal cord they decide to go their own way (see Figure 20.10). This makes a certain amount of sense, as the spinal nerves have branches that do need to reach the skin, stimulate the muscles, and so on. The sympathetic branches are concerned with the other organs, such as those in the thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities.
Remember those pesky anterior and posterior roots, and how the spinal nerve branched off in front, making a sympathetic ganglion (called a paravertebral ganglion)? All the nerve fibers before the ganglion have the rather unromantic name preganglionic fibers. The postganglionic fibers (after the ganglion) are also called sympathetic nerves! As if that's not enough, the ganglia are connected vertically, forming a pathway parallel to the spinal cord called the sympathetic chain (or trunk). Along the way, a cardiac and pulmonary plexus can be found, as well as three ganglia (called prevertebral ganglia): the celiac (to and from the stomach, pancreas, liver, and adrenals), the superior mesenteric (to and from the small and large intestine), and the inferior mesenteric (to and from the rectum, kidneys, urinary bladder, and reproductive organs).
Figure 20.10 Note the parallel pathways and redundant pathways, through each ganglion and plexus, innervating the various organs.
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Anatomy and Physiology © 2004 by Michael J. Vieira Lazaroff. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Frieda Wishinsky (born July 14, 1948) is a German-born Canadian educator and author of children's books.

The daughter of Polish-Jewish parents, she was born in Munich and grew up in Manhattan. She received a BA in International Relations from City College of New York and a MSc Special Education from Ferkauf Graduate School. She has taught special education for children and adults in the United States, Israel and Canada. She now lives in Toronto.

Wishinsky's first book was Oonga Boonga (1990). Her work has been translated into French, German, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Korean, Spanish and Catalan.

Selected work
 Each One Special (1998) illustrated by Werner Zimmermann, shortlisted for a Governor General's Award
 Please, Louise! (2007) illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, received the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award
 Maggie Can't Wait (2009) illustrated by Dean Griffiths, received the Christie Harris Illustrated Children's Literature Prize
 You're Mean, Lily Jean (2009) illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton, shortlisted for the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award
 Explorers Who Made It…or Died Trying (2011) illustrated by Bill Dickson
 Halifax Explodes (2011) illustrated by P. A. Lewis-MacDougall
Profiles: Freedom Heroines (2012) was named a top ten book for the Amelia Bloomer Book List in 2014
 A History of just About Everything (2013) with Elizabeth MacLeod, illustrated by Leng Qin, finalist for the Norma Fleck Award and was named a Best Book by the Bank Street Children's Book Committee
 Avis Dolphin (2015) illustrated by Willow Dawson, shortlisted for the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire Canada Violet Downey Book Award

References

External links

1948 births
Living people
Canadian women children's writers
People from Manhattan
German emigrants to Canada

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Q: Custom Messages in Bean Validation using Spring's Validator interface I'm using Spring Boot 1.3.5 with Rest Controllers and everything is working fine.
I am also using Spring's validation sample techniques from the official documentation (JSR-303 Bean Validation API and Spring's validator interface, i tried both and faced the same problem) and the validations are working, but I am not able to configure custom messages.
I have configured a messages.properties file, and I can access the messages on this file just fine. However this validation seems not to be capable of reading or accessing my messages source (messages.properties) configured automatically via spring boot.
I can access the messages directly from the messages source object injected in controller via @Autowired (there's a comment in the code). However, the binding result of the Spring's validator interface or the JSR-303 Bean Validation seems to not be capable of accessing the messages.properties loaded in MessageSource. The result I have is that my errors have codes but don't have default messages.
Here is my Application class:
@SpringBootApplication
@ImportResource({ "classpath:security/cas-context.xml", "classpath:security/cas-integration.xml",
    "classpath:security/security.xml" })
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = VelocityAutoConfiguration.class) // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32067759/spring-boot-starter-cache-velocity-is-missing

public class Application extends SpringBootServletInitializer {

@Override
protected SpringApplicationBuilder configure(SpringApplicationBuilder application) {
    return application.sources(Application.class);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
}

@Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean cxfServlet() {
    return new ServletRegistrationBean(new CXFServlet(), "/services/*");
}

@Bean(name = Bus.DEFAULT_BUS_ID)
public SpringBus springBus() {
    return new SpringBus();
}

@Bean
public Nfse nfseService() {
    return new NfseImpl();
}

@Bean
public Endpoint endpoint() {
    EndpointImpl endpoint = new EndpointImpl(springBus(), nfseService());
    endpoint.publish("/nfseSOAP");
    return endpoint;
}

}
Here is my Bean:
public class Protocolo {

private Long id;

@NotNull
@Min(1)
@Max(1)
private String protocolo;

private StatusProtocoloEnum status;

public Long getId() {
    return id;
}

public void setId(Long id) {
    this.id = id;
}

public String getProtocolo() {
    return protocolo;
}

public void setProtocolo(String protocolo) {
    this.protocolo = protocolo;
}

public StatusProtocoloEnum getStatus() {
    return status;
}

public void setStatus(StatusProtocoloEnum status) {
    this.status = status;
}

}

Here is My rest controller:
@RestController
public class ProtocoloController {

@Autowired
private MessageSource messageSource;

@Autowired
private ProtocoloDAO protocoloDAO;

@RequestMapping(value = "/prot", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void testar(@Valid @RequestBody Protocolo p) {
    Authentication auth = SecurityContextHolder.getContext().getAuthentication();
    System.out.println(auth.getAuthorities());
    System.out.println(messageSource.getMessage("protocolo.tamanho", null, null));
// IN THIS PART I'M ABLE TO PRINT THE MESSAGE IF VALIDATION IS DISABLED
    System.out.println(p.getProtocolo());
}

}
So, this code works fine and the method is not called since i'm calling the method with a invalid Protocolo. However, my angularJS client receives the response with the errors codes populated but with all the default messages empty since the validation is not seeing my loaded messages.properties.
Is there a way to make my Spring validation Interfaces or JSR-303 validation incorporate the loaded message.properties (messagesource) in spring boot ? How can i correct this ? If it's necessary i can paste my code sample of Spring Validation interfaces also.
Thank's a lot,
Tarcísio.
TEST CODE:
@RestController
public class ProtocoloController {

@Autowired
private MessageSource messageSource;

@Autowired
private ProtocoloDAO protocoloDAO;

@RequestMapping(value = "/prot", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void testar(@Valid @RequestBody Protocolo p, BindingResult bindingResult) {
    System.out.println(messageSource.getMessage("Min.protocolo.protocolo", null, null));
    if (bindingResult.hasErrors()) {
               System.out.println(bindingResult.getFieldError().getDefaultMessage());
System.out.println(bindingResult.getFieldError().getCode());
    }
    System.out.println(p.getProtocolo());
}

}

A: Edit:
Known Bug in Spring Boot 1.5.3 see https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/8979
In Spring Boot since 1.5.3 you need to do this
@Configuration
public class ValidationMessageConfig {

    @Bean
    public LocalValidatorFactoryBean mvcValidator(MessageSource messageSource) {

        LocalValidatorFactoryBean factory = new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
        factory.setValidationMessageSource(messageSource);

        return factory;
    }
}

and then it will work.
With version 1.5.2 and before you can extend WebMVcConfigurerAdapter
@Configuration
public class ProfileMvcConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    private MessageSource messageSource;

    @Autowired
    public ProfileMvcConfig(MessageSource messageSource) {

        this.messageSource = messageSource;
    }

    /**
     * This method is overridden due to use the {@link MessageSource message source} in bean validation.
     *
     * @return  A Validator using the {@link MessageSource message source} in bean validation.
     */
    @Override
    public Validator getValidator() {

        LocalValidatorFactoryBean factory = new LocalValidatorFactoryBean();
        factory.setValidationMessageSource(messageSource);

        return factory;
    }
}

also see the documentation

A: In Spring Boot applicaton MessageSource is configured with a MessageSourceAutoConfiguration and you don't need to autowire it. For jsr303, create proper key-value pair in the messages.properties file. For "protocolo" field, you should have following values in property file.
NotNull.protocolo.protocolo=Field cannot be left blank
Min.protocolo.protocolo=Minimum value must be {1}

You can also check messages from property file like below in your code.
public void testar(@Valid @RequestBody Protocolo p,BindingResult bindingResult) {
if(bindingResult.hasErrors()) {
    System.out.println(bindingResult.getFieldError().getDefaultMessage());
    }
}

A: you should have following values in property file:
Min.protocolo.protocolo=Minimum value must be {1}

then in the controller you obtain the message by calling function getMessage from messageSource object
Test code:
@RequestMapping(value = "/prot", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public void testar(@Valid @RequestBody Protocolo p, BindingResult bindingResult) {

    if (bindingResult.hasErrors()) {
        bindingResult.getFieldErrors().forEach(fieldError ->
            System.out.println(messageSource.getMessage(fieldError, Locale.getDefault()))
        );
    }
    System.out.println(p.getProtocolo());
}

A: I solved this in custom message in Spring validation read the last part of my answer.
Check this example as well.
I used a custom validator with custom annotation. I needed to change code in my custom validator.
public class PersonValidator implements ConstraintValidator {
    @Override
    public boolean isValid(final Person person, final ConstraintValidatorContext context) {
        if (somethingIsInvalid()) {
            context.disableDefaultConstraintViolation();
            context.buildConstraintViolationWithTemplate("Something is invalid.").addConstraintViolation();
            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }
}

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Chilly morning but should be warmer after we start. This will be an excellent ride for entry/intermediate riders and will be a nice tune-up ride before we head into the mountains this season. For safety we try to keep the pace reasonable. As always not everyone is comfortable so please ride your ride and we will never ride off and leave you. If we keep going straight we will keep going but when we turn, we stop and wait for the last rider to catch up.
The weather should be pushing 70 so let's take advantage of it! Ride around Monroe (White Store Rd) to Oakboro (Buster, Rocky and Tithe) maybe Morrow Mountain, then late lunch. Call if running late so we can arrange a meeting spot.
Plan on arriving after ten and depart at 10:30 am at the QT gas station on the North East corner of Independence Blvd. and Sardis Church Road in Indian Trail. If you are coming east along Independence your GPS will tell you to go past the station and make a U turn. Instead turn left at the light and then immediately right into the station.
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Nation Current Affairs 21 Oct 2018 Protestors removed f ...
Protestors removed from Amritsar rail tracks, train services resumed
Published Oct 21, 2018, 1:13 pm IST
Updated Oct 21, 2018, 4:07 pm IST
Earlier, agitated protestors resorted to stone-pelting and clashed with security personnel.
A Punjab police commando and a photojournalist were injured as the protestors, who were staging a sit-in at the site, started pelting stones and indulged in brick-batting. (Photo: ANI screengrab)
Amritsar: Over 40 hours after the accident in Amritsar in which 61 Dussehra revellers were mowed down by a train, protesters were cleared off the tracks and services resumed on Sunday afternoon, a railway spokesperson said.
The railways got the clearance from local authorities at 12:30 pm, the spokesperson said. "First goods train started from Manawala to Amritsar at 1416 hours," said Northern Railways spokesperson Deepak Kumar.
This train will be followed by mail/express trains, he said.
Senior Divisional Security Commissioner (Railways), Firozpur Division, S Sudharkar told news agency PTI, "Train services have resumed on the affected rail track (Joda Phatak). A goods train was allowed to run on this track."
Earlier in the day, the Punjab Police cleared the track off the protesters who were staging a sit-in. When they were removed, the agitated protestors resorted to stone-pelting and clashed with security personnel, officials said.
A Punjab police commando and a photojournalist were injured as the protestors, who were staging a sit-in at the site, started pelting stones and indulged in brick-batting, they said.
The protestors were raising slogans against the state government and demanding the resignation of Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu
Officials said that personnel from the Punjab Police and Rapid Action Force have been deployed alongside the state police commandos.
The clash started minutes after the security forces removed the protestors, numbering in hundreds, from the track to clear it for traffic, the officials said.
Also Read: Amritsar train tragedy: Trace those missing, give adequate aid, demand protesters
Local residents have been protesting at the site and blocking the railway track since Friday evening when 61 Dussehra revellers were mowed down by a speeding train.
The district administration has said that out of 59 people who were mowed down by the speeding Jalandhar-Amritsar train Friday, 40 have been identified.
#WATCH Amritsar: Protesters being chased away by police at Joda Phatak after they pelted stones on them when they (police) asked them to clear the railway tracks where they were sitting in protest against #AmritsarTrainAccident. #Punjab pic.twitter.com/tAPkOB5fc2
Tags: amritsar train accident, punjab police
Location: India, Punjab, Amritsar
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The Wisconsin Hundred Thousand: Scott Walker, the White House and ISIS
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Theme: Police State & Civil Rights, Religion
"We are going to remember what they did to us today."
-Stephanie Bloomingdale, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer, Mar 5, 2015
The United States features the broadest of churches in terms of political views. European critics have taken issue, historically, with its crude commercialism, a seemingly entrenched philistinism that tends to characterise imperial politics. Ancient Rome, after all, was not much better, as the days of glory waned, so did the calibre of politician.
Which takes us to Wisconsin, where Governor Scott Walker has proven to be quite a headline maker of late. He is even bubbling up the ranks as a possible GOP contender for the White House, though such early pitching is bound to end badly. Name them early, and slay them later. For all of that, his focus remains on Wisconsin, a state he has been seeking to transform, and impair, in his own image.
The nature of Walker's conduct prior to his governorship, with its imperial overtones, is worth noting. As Milwaukee Count executive, his staff oversaw a clandestine email system, and created a "secret wireless router in Walker's government office that commingled government and campaign business on private Gmail and Yahoo email accounts" (The Daily Beast, Mar 4).[1]
In January 2012, two staffers who had been with Walker during his county executive days were charged with doing political work while being funded by that good old creature known as the taxpayer. But the decay in the workplace under Walker seemed extensive. One of the clandestine website webmasters, Brian Pierick, was convicted for enticing a minor while Timothy Russell received two years for pilfering from a veterans group and swanning about on funded trips to the Caribbean and Hawaii.
Before this fetid scenario, Walker took out the washbasin and began cleansing his hands – vigorously. "Scott Walker expected everyone to follow the law and made that clear publicly and privately."[2] But "Team Walker" suggests that the secrecy strain in certain political figures prove hard to hide.
Such behaviour on the workplace provides a window, even if a little smudged, into the character behind such an environment. A state within a state will find threats everywhere, spawning like frenetically charged bacteria. Little should be surprising, then, about Walker's latest foray into the populist world of anti-union slander.
In the United States, the unionised worker is devil and fiend, the scrutineering counter against rampant capital. The Wisconsin governor certainly thinks so, and his statements pertaining to that express an acceptable perversion of American politics. It also provides the backdrop for the anti-worker legislation being debated in the Wisconsin assembly that would prohibit employees from a requirement that they join a union or pay dues under union contracts. This "right to work" measure is copied, almost word for word, from the American Legislative Exchange Council's model.[3] It is bound to pass comfortably.
For Walker and those of similar ALEC ilk, the worker – remunerated at unjustly high rates insulated by union protection, and the opportunistic, beheading terrorist, are cut from the same cloth. The Walker mind, with its dark corners and conspiratorial alleys, came out before the Conservative Political Action Conference. There, he was asked how he would deal with ISIS militants in the event that he was elected president. "For years I've been concerned about that threat, not just abroad but here on American soil."
In 2011, when Walker assumed the reins of power, some 100,000 people in Wisconsin gathered and marched, breathing a certain vitality into the free speech and assembly provisions of the Constitution. "Thousands of people," explains Brendan Fischer, "occupied the capital building, around the clock, for two weeks straight, without incident."[4] But it was those hundred thousand that seemed to prey on Walker's mind – he had, it must be remembered, promised a vision of union division to GOP billionaire and financier Diane Hendricks[5]. Delivery to his corporate puppet masters was the forefront of his mind. "If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world."
Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, could merely state the obvious fact obscured by such calculated lunacy.
"To compare the hundreds of thousands of teachers, students, grandmothers, veterans, correctional officers, nurses and all the workers who came out to peacefully protest and stand together for their rights as Americans to ISIS is disgusting and unacceptable."
Walker, having used the same tarnishing brush, qualified how, exactly, the protesters of his state could be equated to the foot soldiers of an organisation that has been deemed a "death cult". "Let me be perfectly clear, I'm just pointing out the closest thing I have to handling this difficult situation is the 100,000 protesters I had to deal with."
Such hysterically bizarre conduct on Walker's part do not show the punishments of a confused mind. They show, rather, a disturbing creature in training, readying himself for a harsh, cruel stint in higher office, one filled with union bashing and smothering. Those wanting him to fall flat on his face will be hoping for more stumbles. The fear, rather, will be whether "Walker derangement syndrome" will earn votes rather than demerit points.
Dr. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: [email protected]
[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/04/it-s-not-just-hillary-scott-walker-s-email-controversy.html
[2] http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/doe27-6q3v4uj-138159264.html
[3] http://www.prwatch.org/files/wi_rtw.pdf
[4] http://prwatch.org/news/2015/02/12753/according-scott-walker-what-terrorist-looks
[5] http://www.thenation.com/blog/167840/scott-walker-promised-500k-donor-he-would-divide-and-conquer-unions#
Copyright © Dr. Binoy Kampmark, Global Research, 2015
Articles by: Dr. Binoy Kampmark


Alternative solutions to Bankruptcy that you may want to consider.
If you feel that bankruptcy isn't the correct solution for you then there may be alternative solutions available better suited to your circumstances. Bankruptcy is only suitable for people with extreme debt problems and you may find one of the debt solutions below better suits your needs. If you have debts under £15,000 or you are able to afford over £100 per month towards your debts then it may be advisable to consider an alternative solution to bankruptcy. Below are 3 alternative debt solutions that could help clear your debts without the implications imposed by bankruptcy. If you are unsure about which solution is best for you then please either call to speak to a debt expert on 0808 129 2011 or alternatively complete our quick online enquiry form and an advisor will be happy to go through your options with you.
A Debt Management Plan (DMP) can help you re-negotiate your current payments with your creditors into an affordable and often lower monthly payment. A DMP would prioritise your essential monthly expenditure leaving you to pay only what you can realistically afford to pay to your creditors each month. When entering a Debt Management Plan, a debt advisor will calculate a manageable payment for you by going through your income and expenditure. Any surplus money available after your expenditure has been taken into consideration is known as your disposable income. If a suitable payment can be found using your disposable income, the debt advisor will send you out information in the form of a pack to enable you to read through the debt plan advised. Your debt advisor will go through all the payments you will have to make including any fees, and will be able to give you an estimation on how long it will take to clear your debts within the debt management plan. A DMP should mean you are paying one lower monthly payment each month and any interest and charges are frozen for the duration of the plan (though this cannot be guaranteed).
A DMP is often a great solution as it is an informal plan meaning you are not tied into to any agreements though there are also drawbacks. Creditors are not obliged to accept debt management proposals nor freeze interest and charges. Whilst it is rare a debt management proposal is rejected, it isn't certain a creditor will accept the proposal. Your debt advisor should always advise you if there is an issue with any of your creditors and help push the proposal through. If your Debt Management Plan is accepted by your creditors, you will almost certainly be paying a reduced payment each month which can be great, though, as you are paying a reduced payment each month, the repayment term to your creditors is likely to increase and the total sum you need to pay may increase. Again, a debt advisor or debt administrator should advise you if this is the case and will carry out a regular review of your plan to ensure everything is running smoothly.
It is important with a debt management plan to ensure you are comfortable with the monthly payment proposed by your debt advisor. If you fail to maintain your debt management monthly payments then that may lead to the new arrangement with your creditors to be broken. This may lead to your debts increasing if your creditors add any interest or charges for late payments. If you are struggling with your payment on a debt management plan then you must call your debt advisor to see if an alternative solution can be put into place.
You and your creditors have the reassurance of knowing that payments will be made towards your debts from the first month your plan is in place.
An Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) is a very popular way for any individual who qualifies to repay their debt at an affordable amount per month. An IVA is a legally binding arrangement between you and your creditors to repay your debts at a payment you can afford usually over a 5 or 6 year period. The main difference between an IVA and a Debt Management plan is that an IVA is a formal arrangement. If your creditors agree to accept you onto an IVA then they are not allowed to contact you or chase you for money for the duration of the IVA period (provided you maintain your payments) and all interest and charges will be frozen on those debts. All our IVA's will be administered by Revive Solutions UK Ltd.
A Trust Deed is an affordable solution for people whose debts are out of control and is a recognised alternative to bankruptcy (or sequestration). It protects you from your creditors and, on completion, enables you to write off what remains of your unsecured debts. A Trust Deed acts as a formal agreement between you and your creditors, administered by an Insolvency Practitioner, where you agree to pay one lower affordable monthly payment over a fixed period. Once the Trust Deed is completed (normally in just 48 months), your creditors will make no further claims against you, as long as you have stuck to the terms of the arrangement. Your remaining unsecured debts will be written off.
What are the negatives of IVA's and Trust Deeds?
Homeowners with equity in their property may be asked to release the equity to help pay off some or all of your debts.
There is a big effect on your credit rating.
Remortgaging to release equity from your property may result in a higher interest rate on your mortgage.
If you fail to maintain your payments then you may face Bankruptcy or Sequestration.
You must adhere to strict expenditure guidelines during the course of your IVA or Trust Deed.
For an IVA there are two fees which are charged: The Nominee's fee covers the setting up of the IVA and can vary from £500 to £2500 depending on the number of creditors you have and the amount of work required to be carried out. It is usually taken out of the monthly payment you make into the IVA. The supervisor's fee is a monthly fee which covers the specialist work carried out to administer your IVA for the duration of the IVA period (typically a 5 year period). This fee will usually be 15% of the monthly contribution you make, and is included in the calculated monthly payment you make to your IVA.
A Protected Trust Deed will normally charge between £2,500 and £4,500. There may also be additional costs depending on your circumstance but you shall be made fully aware of any charges involved before you enter any agreement.
A Debt Relief Order (DRO) is a great way of clearing your unsecured debts if you owe less that £15,000, have little or no income and don't own your home.
Your are unable to repay your debts.
You owe a maximum of £15,000.
Your total gross assets must not exceed £300.
Your disposable income after normal household expenses must not exceed £50/ month.
You must be a resident of England or Wales, or at any time in the last 3 years you must have been resident or carrying business in England and Wales.
You must not be involved in any other formal insolvency procedure when applying for a DRO.
The fee for applying for a DRO is £90 and is non-refundable whether the official receiver approves or rejects your application. The DRO fee must be paid in cash to the court. If you apply for a DRO then you must provide your official receiver with a full list of assets and liabilities along with the names of your creditors. The official receiver may request for more information about your financial affairs to fully consider your application.
What are the restriction of a DRO?
You may not be involved in the promotion, management or formation of a limited company, nor act as a company director without the courts permission. You will not be eligible to apply for a DRO again for 6 years. If you wish to find out more about a DRO and see whether it is an option for yourself then please complete our enquiry form.
If you wish to find out more about a DRO and see whether it is an option for yourself then please complete our enquiry form.


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Q: Washer method: Find volume of solid revolved around x-axis Let  $\mathbb{R} $ be the region between the graphs of $y=1$ and $y=\sin(x)$ from $x=0 $ to $x={\pi\over2}$. The volume of the solid obtained by revolving  $\mathbb{R} $ about the x-axis is given by.
I think it's $\pi\int_0^{\pi\over2}(1-\sin x)^2\mathrm dx $  but the answer key says a different answer.

A: The volume of a thin disc with radius $r$ and width $dx$ is $\pi r^2 dx$. The volume of a washer with outer radius $r_1$, inner radius $r_2$, and width $dx$ is the volume of the disc of radius $r_1$ minus the volume of the disc of radius $r_2$, which is $\pi (r_1^2 - r_2^2) dx$. So in your case it is $\pi (1^2 - \sin(x)^2) dx$. So integrate this expression from $0$ to $\frac{\pi}{2}$.


These three places you should visit which no tour will include in their itinerary.
5. Broadway Show• I know these show are expensive and you won't consider on that count only then here is one alternative you will love to explore.• It is Broadway Show Ticket Lotteries. Many shows now have ticket lotteries about 2 hours before show time. You show up at the theater, they put your name in a hat, and if its picked you get 2 tickets to that nights performance.• It is worth trying because even if you dont get picked, you still have time to go on the TKTS half price line (7th Avenue & 47th Street) for whatever is still available. Check specific shows websites for details.• Why not try luck when you cant afford a ticket. You can if youre lucky.


You know when your oxygen tubing is stuck and you swear you aren't ever going to get it off? Well kiss those days goodbye with the O2 Talon!
This small tool will give you the ability to effortlessly separate your oxygen cannula from your concentrator, tank, or tubing.


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Home Anushka bollyfmblog Old Stories Ranveer Singh Ranveer Singh is truly, madly and deeply in love with Kareena Kapoor…
Ranveer Singh is truly, madly and deeply in love with Kareena Kapoor…
Newbie Ranveer Singh couldn't stop blushing while talking about Kareena Kapoor. The actor recently was with Karan on his chat show Koffee With Karan. He was accompanied by his ladylove Anushka Sharma.
When asked by KJo as to who his favorite actress/fantasy was, the BBB sensation is believed to have jumped off his couch, going down on his knees to confess his love for Kareena.
"I love Kareena. She is the one whom I have idolised from my adolescent days. She is the one who is responsible for making me from boy to man," Ranveer is reported to have admitted.
The host and co-guest Anushka watched amusedly as the actor did his melodramatic bit.
It is heard that even at Imran Khan's wedding reception party, Ranveer couldn't stop gawking at Kareena who looked like a million dollar in a black sari.
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I have mentioned before that I am a different person than I was growing up. Not just that I was morbidly obese and now I am a healthy weight. But that I think and act differently.
And today I am marveling a little at myself. Because for the past few days, I have been in the middle of change and discomfort. And I have been (mostly) pretty graceful.
The idea that I would choose this is sort of fascinating to me. I am historically a person who avoids change. In some ways I still think of myself as someone with an aversion to the unknown. Markedly unadventurous.
I certainly was when I was a compulsive eating sugar addict. I never anticipated any difficulty. But was explosively furious if even the smallest problem or discomfort should arise.
But one of the things I learned when I got sober from sugar is that life happens. To everybody. To not take it personally.
But I am going to be doing this. Regularly. I am bound to get better at it. And I want to get better. I am already thinking about ways to get better. How to downsize. To figure out what is the minimum I need to be happy and comfortable. And live like that. How to enjoy the adventurous life. Because life actually is an adventure. Even if I'm not looking for it to be. So I might as well embrace it. It's what I've been offered as the best option.
No, I don't have to go. I don't have to agree to it. Getting my eating under control taught me about taking responsibility for the choices I make. And this adventurous life is the one that comes with my Love. And I choose my Love with all of the things that come with it. And I am enjoying it so far. Even the unknown.
That's a gift of getting my eating under control. I actually enjoy life. All of it. I am not just tolerating this moving around. I am looking forward to the next adventure.
And I will tell you that there is one other gift of getting my eating under control. I had all of my food packed in the car. I ate when it was time to eat. I didn't have to worry about where to stop. Or when. Or if I could put it off until the next time we needed gas. Or being ravenously hungry. I didn't have to think about food. The food was taken care of. And I enjoyed the time with my boyfriend.


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3 Tips for Creating a Digital First Strategy
Nearly 8 in 10 businesses will invest in digital experience technology in the next 12 months, according to Forrester. The recent pandemic only accelerated this shift in spending. Forced into isolation, people around the globe became more reliant on digital contacts, making it all the more critical that businesses embrace a digital first strategy. Experts predict that the pace of future IT investments has accelerated dramatically and will continue to do so, shaving off several years in some cases.
Covid-19 pushed most companies to think outside the box. As people avoided in-person contacts, few industries escaped massive disruption. Retailers established contactless delivery; restaurants offered takeout-only menus; customer support migrated to fully virtual environments. At the same time, customers still demanded easy solutions, fast responses and personalized service. Authenticity, empathy and a genuine brand connection have remained table stakes.
To meet these ever-changing needs, leading businesses began rapidly moving omnichannel strategies up the maturity curve. The evolution of consumer preferences has only increased the importance of a quality-focused, digital first strategy.
What Is Digital First?
The concept of digital first isn't new. Originally conceived in the communications industry, it's been embraced as a theory in customer experience management. For the last several years, companies have aspired to meet customers where they are regardless of channel preference, time of day or global location. Falling under the umbrella of digital experiences (DX), digital first is a method of managing customer engagements across all journeys and touchpoints. It's complexity requires dynamic and evolving technology infrastructure: All channels need to talk to each other in real time; tech stacks need to be built and optimized; a deep understanding of the customer journey is required. Complete buy-in from all levels of the organization is the only way to succeed.
Since nearly every customer contact now begins digitally, simply adding a new digital channel – like chat or social – isn't enough. Users have to be aware the channels exist, plus how to find them. The channels themselves must be flawlessly functional and interaction data should be seamlessly accessible. Issues need to be uncovered in real time, enabling cross-department escalations. Inside the business, clear ownership and accountability structures should be established and audits put in place to ensure quality standards remain high. All of this necessitates cross-departmental teams working together, and integrated IT systems that span all business lines.
TIP: Employ a Digital First Strategy
Customer support's legacy is phone-based, live conversations between a customer and an agent. Traditional service interactions involved a customer dialing an 800 number, waiting on hold for an available agent and then describing their issue so the agent could fix it. With the evolution of the Internet quickly followed by mobile innovations, the channel mix expanded to include email and chat. Then customers could choose which channel to start in, and if dissatisfied could channel-hop to to see if it was easier to get resolution somewhere else.
Once nearly every company around the world had an online presence, the need for expanded digital channel offers grew exponentially. Emerging touchpoints like in-app, social media, community forums and online reviews became a pressing priority. Some companies even went to far as to attempt a video-enabled support model.
Despite these industry pressures not every customer support environment is equipped with an integrated channel mix. Each digital channel has its own challenges and when an interaction goes poorly, customers can be unforgiving. Round-the-clock coverage, emphasis on personalization and demands for real-time insights are just a few of the issues companies are grappling with.
Expanding the channel mix also means artificial intelligence and advanced analytics are needed to bring synergy to the entire system – simply plugging in a software platform only goes so far. Experts who know how to leverage the software and analyze the data in ways meaningful to the business are now a necessary part of the plan.
TIP: Ensure Your Channel Mix Spans Digital Options
Digital first doesn't just mean self-service, assisted support within digital channels is commonplace and growing. Chat technology can be deployed as bot-only or agent-assisted, content moderation can be fully automated or agent-driven and email content can be analyzed via text mining or calibrated by a live person.
There's ongoing debate about whether or not technology will surpass the needs for humans at some point in the future, and in the world of customer support, that future state seems highly unlikely. When the hype of speech analytics and automated sentiment first emerged, leaders quickly recognized the value of using automation to mine for customer insights. Word spread in professional circles and a movement gained momentum to evaluate whether speech software could be tuned well enough to replace the need for frontline agents. Despite a lot of effort and resources, it quickly became apparent that computers and software are nowhere near as sophisticated as a human's ability to problem-solve and conduct advanced decision making. Now best practices ensure people and tools are fully integrated rather than one replacing the other.
TIP: Leverage Agents in Higher-Order Customer Issues
Digital first is a broad concept that applies to digitally-enabled contacts. The more interactions that can be self-resolved in-channel by a customer, the better. Yet if a customer inquiry cannot be resolved via self-service, digital or non-digital, the next step is agent-assisted support. Agent-assisted has moved from a first-level approach to today's escalation queue. Most simple customer inquiries are completed via self-service, leaving more complex and complicated inquiries for agents to help resolve.
As complexity increases, so does the sophistication of agent skills needed. To enable assisted digital-first interactions, everything from hiring profiles to training curricula to workstation design must be re-imagined. It takes innovation and foresight to predict next-best options at each stage of the customer journey. The integration of digital first and agent assisted is a winning combination that's here to stay. For more information, contact us today!


The newest addition to the Les Supremes synchronized skating family. Representing C.P.A. Saint-Leonard, Quebec in Canada. This team regroups retired skaters from Les Suprêmes Juniors and Seniors and also welcomes skaters from other teams in the Montreal area. The open category gives experienced skaters the opportunity to keep practicing their passion, while giving new skaters the chance to develop the tools necessary to one day be a part of the Junior and Senior teams.


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BGE announces nine new college scholarships
By Sarah Gantz
Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation along with Baltimore Gas and Electric announced the construction to the Eddie Murray Field at BGE Park. It will be home to James Mosher Baseball, the oldest continuously operating African-American youth baseball league in the country. (Baltimore Sun)
The BGE Scholars Award will give annual scholarships, each worth up to $5,000, to nine students in BGE's service area.
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. announced Monday that it was creating nine new scholarships in honor of the utility company's bicentennial.
The BGE Scholars Award will offer annual scholarships, each worth up to $5,000, to nine students in BGE's service area.
The scholarship program is one of three legacy gifts BGE promised at the beginning of the year as a way to commemorate its 200th year in business.
"BGE wants our legacy gifts to our customers to make a powerful and lasting impact. With our third gift, the BGE Scholars Award, we are excited to help promising students from our region achieve their full educational potential," said Valencia McClure, BGE's vice president of governmental and external affairs, in a statement.
Eddie Murray
The merit-based scholarships will be available to students who are BGE customers or dependents of a BGE customer. Applicants must have been accepted into or enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or post-secondary program, including vocational programs. The application also will consider community service and involvement in civic organizations.
Applications for the 2017-2018 school year will be available January 1 on BGE's website, bge.com.
Central Scholarship, a Baltimore nonprofit, will administer the program.
sarah.gantz@baltsun.com
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I was recently invited to the set of CBS Films' new thriller 7500, which is working towards an August 28, 2012 release date. One of the cast members we spoke with is Jamie Chung, who plays one of the stewardesses on a transcontinental flight where mysterious supernatural events occur.
The actress also spoke about her role in The Man with the Iron Fist, and how director RZA's original cut was over four hours long. Here's what the actress had to say below.
"The original cut was four hours long and RZA was like, 'Let's turn it into two movies!' (Producer) Eli (Roth) was like, 'Eh, no.' So they're really excited and I have complete faith in RZA. He's a complete genius when it comes to these things and he knows the genre so well. So it's cut down to an hour and a half and it's picture locked and now he's working on the music. So I'm pretty exited and everyone's pretty stoked. But it will have that kind of cult feel like 36th Chamber of Shaolin or Five Deadly Venoms. It's definitely a delicacy. It's still fun and awesome and Russell Crowe's doing some crazy things that you would never think you'd see him do. I think it may come out in August."
You can CLICK HERE to read what actress Pam Grier had to say about The Man with the Iron Fist last month.


The UCLA Bruins basketball team shrugged off the recent controversy surrounding the state of the program to defeat the conference leading Washington Huskies 75-69 at Pauley Pavilion last Saturday. Amid the media storm, head coach Ben Howland's job security has never been more tenuous. Rest assured, if the Bruins were making Final Fours like they used to under Howland, there would be no controversy.