When it comes to parenting little ones, I have literally done it all. In over a decade of parenting, I have followed the Baby Whisperer, joined the Huggies subscription at Target, used Similac, had an induction and an elective C-Section, and used every type of hormonal birth control available. If this is you mama, I'm not hating. We all have our preferences. There are also those of us who've had decisions made for us. Without our consent. Against our wishes, or without giving us the proper information. It's happened to me. And it may have happened to you or someone you care about. That's not fair. And there is where I find my mission with my own mindful parenting now: to be present in every decision that's made regarding my children and my family; to get as much information as possible for making decisions that I feel comfortable with, without feeling pressured by others, regardless of their authority.
After two hospital births and several visits with an OB/GYN who couldn't remember my name, or that I had actually read more than What to Expect When You're Expecting, I'd had enough. By the time I was 34 weeks along with baby #3, I decided I wanted a natural, non-medicated VBAC, and when my doctor refused, I moved on. I found an amazing midwife, and had an absolutely incredible experience. So incredible, that I did again a little more than a year later! It's not for everyone, but I had no risk whatsoever and was the picture of health, so it was the perfect option for me. You can read about my home birth experiences here, here, and here.
And while all of those things sound like the makings of a perfectly crunchy mom, I can assure you they fit much better in the world of mindful mothering, that is, they are distinct lifestyle choices that make sense for our family, based on our own research and understanding, and on living in our current season of life. Baby-led weaning works for us because it means I'm not buying extra food at the grocery store, or spending a lot of time making separate meals for the older kids and the younger ones. Cloth-diapering means less garbage and less money invested from us over the long term, and it means those times I forget to buy diapers at the store don't give me unnecessary anxiety. Fertility Awareness vs. the pill means I don't have to deal with side effects like mood swings, headaches, weight gain, and worse.
That's not all. In the last year, we've ventured into minimalism, with a goal of reducing everything we own by half. And in the world of being mindful, it's not just having less stuff that we're after…it's having room for what matters. So we don't do big birthday parties or holiday celebrations- just minimal versions of those. That doesn't always make me feel like the superstar mom at the neighborhood block party, but it absolutely makes me happy with how our little family is coming along. We've done something similar with discipline, toilet-training, and homeschooling, and ultimately the tactic is the same: what feels right, given all the information in the situation, for our family in this season of life? It's not always popular, it's not always successful, but it's definitely the best way for us to live in the moment with our children, without feeling that we're less than the other parents around us, who are probably in the same boat.


MARDAN: Twenty-six people were killed and more than 50 others wounded on Tuesday after a suicide bomber struck a regional office of the National Database and Registration Authority in Mardan, 60 kilometres to the southwest of Peshawar.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Haroon Bacha told Dawn that the bomber, who was on a motorcycle, tried to force his way through the main gate of Nadra office, but detonated his suicide vest when a guard stopped him.
"At the time of the attack, the office was closed for lunch break. When the bomber tried to force his way inside, the guard stopped him, a scuffle followed and there was an explosion," Mr Bacha said.
"Nothing remains of the suicide bomber. All that remains is the guard's charred body. The brave man tried to stop the bomber and lost his life," he said.
A senior police official in Mardan said the bomber appeared to be in his early or mid-twenties. His vest was laden with eight to 10 kg of explosives.
It was not immediately clear why the bomber wanted to attack Nadra's regional office other than inflicting civilian casualties.
"It was an unlikely target," the police officer said.
Mr Wazir said there was no specific intelligence warning about a possible attack on the Nadra office. "There have been intelligence and threat alerts of possible attacks on security installations, but Nadra was not on the radar," he told Dawn.
Nevertheless, police had issued two advisories to Nadra's regional office in January and October, asking it to beef up its security and install surveillance cameras, the RPO added.
A report by a local police officer informed his high-ups that the organisation's regional head had refused to take the advisory.
Dr Imran Sheikh, Deputy Commissioner of Mardan, confirmed the death of 26 people, including a 10-year-old girl, and said that 56 others, three women among them, were critically injured in the blast.
Gohar Ali Khan, who was injured in the blast, said he was standing in a queue and waiting for his turn to receive his renewed identity card when the explosion took place.
Sajjad Khan, an employee of Nadra's regional office who has received multiple injuries, said he was busy dealing with visitors when the deafening explosion shook the place.
Police denied there was any presence of militants in the district, but the Nazim of Mardan district, Himayatullah Mayar, claimed that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan's Khyber and Mohmand groups had been active in different parts of the district.
TTP OFFSHOOT: Jamaatul Ahrar, an offshoot of the TTP, said Nadra was targeted for its important role in the war against terror.
In an email to media outlets, its spokesman Ehsanaullah Ehsan warned that all state institutions, directly or indirectly involved in the war, would be targeted.
Tuesday's suicide bombing is the first in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since a group of militants attacked a former US airbase in Badabher, on the outskirts of Peshawar, in September. Twenty-nine people were killed in the attack on the base, now run by the Pakistan Air Force.
He said there had been intelligence about a possible terrorist attack, but there was no specific alert against Nadra.


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I know, I know. I was the one screaming the loudest and the longest about local news hyping first the Microsoft system upgrades and the the latest iThing of the moment, but this ain't no news program and I am promoting this for a reason. I try to get you guys interested in music, which isn't always easy, and the I have to listen to the "there ain't no good music anymore" and "it's all been done before" excuses. Well, here we are, then. I have some music for you which not only precludes the music that was good before good became bad, but it's on sale. That's right. Until October 2nd, Real Gone Music is pumping some of my favorite music, this time not of the day but of the past. Sale items are CDs, folks. Whether you like them or not.
The label is one of the dreaded reissue labels many of you know or have heard about and I say dreaded because so many people avoid such sites like the plague (while being perfectly fine with purchasing anything through Amazon). Some have claimed quality standards on some pieces are not high enough and others just don't trust the sources and I understand that, to a degree, after seeing compilation after compilation of supposed hits containing alternate or redone versions of the hits time and time again. But these guys are not those guys. These guys love the music and want people to find it, even if it is the third or fourth go-round for some titles. They want you to understand what you missed, either because you just plain missed it or were born to late. And I can attest to that fact. You don't hunt for artists like Amazing Rhythm Aces and early Clover (sold out, folks) and Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac) and Shoes without good reason and for me that reason is the music. Their catalog, in fact, contains many of the cornerstones of my personal record collection of which I am damn proud, let me tell you, because whilst the masses fed off the pablum of The Eagles, I was listening to Cowboy, and when they were ga-ga over the hits, I was hip deep in tracks many of them would never hear and could, even today, have cared less about.
Well, that is not the way it works in Gutcholaville, sports fans. You want the really good stuff, you have to dig, dig? So allow me to break a rule I normally live by— not shilling for labels or distributors— to help you find the cool stuff. At least, the cool stuff Real Gone has available.
I first noticed the label a few years ago when I searched Clover on the Net. Only a small percentage of people know Clover at all but I was a big fan of just about everything coming out of San Francisco for a number of years after the Summer of Love. Again, my friend Gary Haller at the House of Records in Eugene threw me a bone. In a kind of 'you might dig this' way. These were the days that the band had signed with Fantasy Records and long before their trip to the UK and the success they deserved. Before they signed with Mercury in The States and before their connection with Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True). They were the springboard for Huey Lewis (pre-News) and probably reached a level professionally that they thought unreachable, at least at the beginning. To me, they were the guys who put out intriguing and simple versions of both Wade In the Water and Shotgun. My favorite song of theirs, though, was the title track of their second album, Fourty-Niner. The two-albums-on-one-disc (Clover and Fourty-Niner) offering by Real Gone gained them credibility for just releasing it at all. No, this is not a sale title. In fact, it is presently out-of-print. I use it as an example of how deep catalogue is important to me.
Remember, sale titles are only on sale through October 2nd. FYI. The reason I am writing about them is that they are in my collection (most of them) for a reason.
COWBOY/Reach For the Sky and 5'll Getcha Ten— I shake my head every time I think of The Eagles and how massively important they were to the youth of Los Angeles. I liked them all right but they were hardly the keeper of the country rock flame. I preferred others, possibly because it was impossible to get away from them down there, the songs played at every level of radio and in just about every record store. That was okay, though. I used them to sell albums I thought Eagles fans might like by the likes of Pure Prairie League, Poco, Uncle Jim (or is it Uncle Jim's Music) and Heartsfield. And, of course, Cowboy. Everyone thought the band was from Georgia, thanks to lack of information, but they were in fact from Florida. That somewhat famous (or infamous) album which surfaced on Bold Records which featured Duane and Gregg Allman was not an early Allmans record but an attempt by Scott Boyer, David Brown, and Butch Trucks to fulfill the second album of a two-record deal their band, The 31st of February, had with Vanguard Records. And contrary to popular opinion, it was not a favor that the Allmans joined that band. There was a possibility of the lineup becoming permanent. At least as permanent as Hour Glass or Allman Joys. In fact, when The Allman Brothers Band were conjured up by the musical gods, it was Duane and Gregg who talked Capricorn Records into looking at Boyer's new band as possible artists for the fledgling label. Phil Walden sent Johnny Sandlin down to Florida to take a listen and the rest, as they say, is history.
To my mind, Cowboy was the original band. Boyer & Talton took the name after the band dissolved and they were absorbed into the Capricorn Rhythm Section (meaning they were studio slaves), but the band was gone. Those two would reform the band in the late seventies and would use the name, but the original six— they were Cowboy.
Which is what you get in the two albums Real Gone has reissued. The first, a bit more pickin' and grinnin', the second smooth as a baby's behind. I dated a girl who loved that second album. Called it soft rock, did that pretty but delusional lady, but she loved it almost as much as I did myself. I think of her whenever I hear that album and even smell her perfume, which was as light as a hint of lavender.
But I digress. Cowboy has remained a key album in my country rock collection since I first heard it. That hit by, who was it? Eric Clapton? Please Be With Me? A Boyer-penned Cowboy song from5'll Getcha Ten. As pretty a song as I've ever heard.
FANNY/Charity Ball and Fanny Hill— When friends ask me about all-girl bands, Fanny immediately comes to mind. Again, I have to give credit to Haller because he had this unerring ability to pinpoint my ever-expanding musical tastes. I followed the girls through their Reprise Records days which ended with what I consider to be their coup de grace, Last Night I Had a Dream, a work of real substance. Not that the other albums did not have their moments. Many excellent ones, in fact. But the coherence of Last Night was something else. I remember sitting in the old house on West 3rd in West Eugene and hearing Charity Ball, courtesy of the disc jockeys at KZEL Radio and thinking, man, life doesn't get better than this. The two in the header are the ones on sale but all four are available for purchase.
FREDDIE KING/The Complete King/Federal Singles— About the only Freddie King things the younger set has picked up on outside of the real R&B enthusiasts are the later recordings. Of those, his biggest seems to have been Going Down, his version being easily one of the best. In the early days, though, he fluctuated between the blues (or R&B) and rock. He had a string of songs which got massive airplay in certain cities, especially in The South, and he had immense influence for the many bands which relied on guitar-driven instrumentals. Ever hear of Hideaway? You should.
GEORGE JONES & TAMMY WYNETTE/Songs of Inspiration— I must have inherited my love of hymns from my father. He always said that if they sang more and talked less, he would have gone to church and I agree. My favorites of vocal bluegrass and country are the inspirational songs. Of course, that assumes that there are harmonies. And who has better harmonies than Jones and Wynette? Harmonies sent down from Heaven, as it were. If Dad was still alive, we would listen to this one a lot.
JOHN HARTFORD/Aero-Plain and Morning Bugle: The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings— Good ol' John Hartford. KZEL in Eugene used to play this guy a lot. Of course, the song that went over the best was Boogie but that may have been the heavy huffing and the fade-out capabilities. Yes, even in Underground Radio of the early seventies, an instrumental or short song was sometimes needed to lead-in to the news. Some DJs played the other tracks from Aero-Plain a lot, too. No wonder he did so well when he came to town.
THE NEW CHRISTY MINSTRELS/A Retrospective: 1962-1970— During the modern folk era, there were few bigger acts than The New Christy Minstrels. They were easily as big as The Kingston Trio or Peter Paul & Mary or The Limelighters. So big, in fact, that Randy Sparks evidently put together more than one group under that name and sent them to different areas of the country to play concerts. My parents bought us one of their albums when I was young. We wore it out. Yeah, Green Green was the big hit in Oregon, but I much preferred Denver. Those were strange days. In fact. The whole folk thing was a mite strange. Enjoyable, but strange.
COMPILATION: Cameo Parkway Vocal Groups Vol. 1— Label compilations can be a very good way to find the older singles of rockdom and Cameo Parkway Records had some of the best singles of the sixties. Or at least the best artists. The cool thing about comps are the buried treasures that you find. This comp has oddball tracks by groups such as The Turbans, The Dovells, The Skyliners, The Tymes, and The Rays. I like comps like this so much that I used to collect them. Must have had well over a hundred. And, yes, Cameo Parkway was in the mix. Not this one, though. If they had it back then, I would have scarfed it up in a second.
RICK NELSON/The Complete Epic Recordings— I saw Rick Nelson play live twice, once at the Palamino and once at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe WA. Both shows were exceptional in that Rick went out of his way to accommodate his fans. In Monroe, he played a good two-hour set which included him twice going to the front of the stage while the band was playing to talk with and sign autographs for fans. To his credit, he stayed until every dingle one had had a chance to shake his hand or get an autograph. He was signed to Capitol at that time but went to Nashville to work with Epic not that long after. This two-disc set has everything he completed during that time. When I got the chance to review this album, I jumped at it. If you're interested in Nelson at all, this is worth a listen. You can read my review, written a few years ago, here.
ROD McKUEN/Listen to the Warm— Let me tell you something about Rod McKuen. Every girl on the Oregon campus back in the late sixties had Listen to the Warm. Swear to God. Every one. And every one of them smelled good and were beautiful and were smart and could cook, even if it was only tuna casserole. For that reason alone, I admired McKuen. I had trouble getting one to pay attention. They were too busy listening to McKuen's albums. Sigh.
RONNY & THE DAYTONAS/The Complete Recordings— In the early days of Hot Rod and Surf music in Oregon, besides The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean, there were Paul Revere & The Raiders (who would occasionally dabble in the genre) and Ronny & The Daytonas. I think every kid who had money to spend back then bought a copy of GTO. Ten-to-one, I would bet they would love to have this collection today. This is period music, my friends, guaranteed to spur memories. And in case you don't know, these guys were from Nashville.
THE SHOES/35 Years— Of all the power pop bands I have in my collection, Shoes are my favorite. They are the most consistent and have had a run which makes my head spin. In fact, only The Green Pajamas have had that Shoes have. Smooth but punchy, raucous yet harmoniously together, they have punched my buttons for a number of years. Real Gone went out of their way releasing this compilation— the tracks are from a variety of albums over the years yet blend together perfectly.
SMITH/A Group Called Smith and Minus-Plus—
Lead vocalist Gayle McCormick is legend in the Pac Northwest and I don't know why. I love her voice but she did not play in the area all that much, to my knowledge, but you know what they say— a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Of all the versions of Baby It's You, Smith's did get the most airplay. I liked it but my favorite version was Gary & The Hornets'. Still, every time I hear tracks like Mojaleskey Ridge I stutter-step. These guys were much better than they have ever been given credit. First ever reissue of Minus-Plus.
TEXAS TORNADOS/A Little Bit Is Better Than Nada— What can I say? It's Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers and others laying down some pretty groovin' border music tracks. Add Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez and you have more Texas than most people can handle. What you get in this package are tracks from each of the band's four Reprise Records albums and a few extras. What are they? Does it matter? Doug Sahm had one hell of a run from the days of the Quintet on. The man was a hurricane of musical influences and ended up influencing so many others himself. This is one musician I have gone way beyond the hits for.
THE AD-LIBS/The Complete Blue Cat Recordings— Back in the day, the hits were all most people ever heard unless they bought an album of a group or artist so the deep catalogue remained buried until people developed an appreciation. Like now. Probably the only thing you have heard by The Ad-Libs is their mega-hit The Boy From New York City. This album reaches beneath the obvious to showcase the group's real talents. Worth it for the vocal and band arrangements alone. And they say that these songs are available for the very first time in true stereo. A bonus!
THE BECKIES/The Beckies— This one has received a lot of attention from fans of The Left Banke and Stories because popmeister Michael Brown were members of those groups. If I remember correctly, it was one of Sire Records releases? I'm guessing, but it sounds like something Sire would have backed. Very pop-py in an upbeat sense. Hit the cutout bins so fast it broke the sound barrier. Turns out the sound was a lot better than many would have had you believe.
THE BROWNS/Complete Pop & Country Hits— The first time I heard The Three Bells, I fell in love with the voices. Jim Ed Brown would go on to have a stellar career in country music but The Browns— there was something in the way the voices blended. I was a pathetic mess when I was growing up, probably normal for most guys whose asses are being kicked all over the place by raging hormones, and I took solace in the music of this group. I remember playing Scarlet Ribbons over and over until Dad told me to stop. At the time, I thought it the most beautiful song ever recorded. There are a lot of beautiful songs on this album. Some of the most unaffected music I have ever heard.
THE GRASS ROOTS/The Complete Original Dunhill/ABC Hit Singles— Did you know that there is both a censored and uncensored version of Live For Today? Neither did I and I loved that band's first two albums like you couldn't believe. Of course, the first was more a collaboration of PF Sloan, Steve Barri, and Bones Howe, but the band they put together for the second album was a winner. They have included tracks from the first two as well as singles from that point on. I still pull out early Grass Roots albums when I am in the mood for folk rock. Dunhill Records had the best.
COMPILATION: The Red Bird Girls— I had completely forgotten that Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller even had an interest in Blue Cat and Red Bird Records, let alone owned them. A lot of good music were handed us by those labels, including those of The Ad-Libs, Ellie Greenwich, The Jelly Beans, and Evie Sands, to name only a few. This album is a great overview of what was going on outside of Leiber & Stoller's songwriting empire.
TONY JOE WHITE/The Complete Warner Brothers Recordings— Say Tony Joe White in any tavern in the country and you will get a Polk Salad Annie response. The song was so big that it overshadowed a career which has been going for decades. In the early seventies, White signed with Warner Brothers Records and released three albums packed with White-penned tunes— Tony Joe White, The Train I'm On, and Homemade Ice Cream. No real hits, but today we know that hits is not necessarily the name of the game. First and foremost, besides being a performer, White has proven himself an excellent songwriter. A story-tellin' lyric master is he.
WILDERNESS ROAD/Sold For the Prevention of Disease Only— I love this album for the title alone. But I found Wilderness Road back in the very early seventies when they recorded their self-titled album for Columbia Records which I call the first country rock concept album. True, it was more rock than country, but it told a story of the old west and that was good enough for me. I waited for radio to start playing tracks from that album but it was not to be. It was too early for Underground and not commercial enough for AM. The band disappeared, o at least I thought so, until this album popped up out of nowhere. Not even close to the sound they had before but I had to give them credit for stretching boundaries. I still haven't quite figured out what the album is about, but I will get it. Some day.
X/More Fun In the New World and Under the Big Black Sun— I sold one hell of a lot of these when I worked retail. The kids loved the band.
And, of course, there is Brotherhood, consisting of ex-Raiders Phil Volk, Mike Smith, and Drake Levin. Back around '70 or '71 when I was in the Army and stationed at Fort Lewis, I would occasionall trek into Seattle for the odd weekend. During one of those journeys, Dave Gray and I were driving across the West Seattle bridge where this sign seemed to come out of nowhere stating that Brotherhood was coming or some such message. It would be a couple of years later that I would be introduced to the band. I mean, I had been a Paul Revere & The Raiders fan since Like Longhair and had I known who Brotherhood was, I would have tried to make the show. Evidently, it was a funky tavern somewhere way below the bridge but which had a very high sign. To this day, I have been kicking myself. That was a golden opportunity missed. Oh, well.
I still haven't quite figured out a rhyme or reason as to what the guys behind this label are doing, but it is perfect for me. They have a scatter gun approach to choices which appeals to my musical tastes. You won't find me doing something like this often, but I thought the titles were worth perusing if for no other reason than letting people know that labels like this do exist and sometimes carry titles which you had thought were lost forever. Music is, after all, a journey and with Real Gone, it is an adventure as well.
Perhaps in the future I will look at some other labels which interest me— Now Sounds, Wounded Bird, Green Monkey, Bullseye Canada, Seventh Fire Records… I have always been fascinated by the business side of music. But for now, maybe we should look at what few items I have in the…
Notes….. Dan Phelps, who if you are not watching closely are making a mistake, plays these off-the-cuff concerts recently, usually live from Storyville Coffee House and usually fairly adventurous and ambient (though not always). While scrolling through FB this morning (it is Saturday), I happened upon a Dan-is-playing-live-now notification so l I took a side trip and am at this very moment stretching my brain cells to fit the sounds. Dan has worked on some of my favorite records both as a sideman and a producer and will float to the top of musical influences and innovators when the book is finally written. Right now, after having seen Hymn For Her two nights ago and being overcome with admiration for the talents of both Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing (whose names have been changed to protect the innocent), I know that if I ever record an album I want Dan to produce and want Wayne to play on. Both have talent sweating from their pores.
I sat down to start my column for this next week but I confess to not being able to change channels, as it were. Dan has a history with me, musically, which includes Bill Pillmore of the late-sixties, early-seventies band Cowboy, Bill's daughter Jess, Viktor Krauss and Matt Chamberlain (who played with Dan in Modular) and others.
One day I hope to write about the history of Dan Phelps. He is young yet and it will already be a massive project. We'll see.
The David Olney Band with Brock Zeman? Never saw this coming, though Olney has been known to dabble in Shakespeare and talk in sonnets. The guy can be a poet in motion when he's not pounding the guitar with ham-like hands. Zeman, of course, is a whole 'nother kettle of fish
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Q: How do I get started with a project on Text Summarization using NLP? My final year engineering project requires me to build an application using Java or Python which summarizes a text document using Natural Language Processing. How do I even begin with the programming of such an application?
Based on some research, I've just noted down that extraction-based summarization will be the best bet for me since it isn't so complex as abstraction based algorithms. Even then, it'd be really helpful if someone would guide me in the right direction to go about this.

A: These days, using Neural Net to summarize the corpus is considered state of the art.
Here is an article worth reading for you:
A Neural Attention Model for Sentence Summarization
http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D15-1044

A: Text summarization is still an open problem in NLP.
I guess that you might start by asking yourself what is the purpose of the summary:

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*A summary that discriminates a document from other documents

*A summary that mines only the frequent patterns

*A summary that covers all the topics in the document

*etc

Because this will influence the way you generate the summary.
But as a start you could use in python the NLTK framework to extract basic elements from a text.
For example you can extract the most frequent words, or the most frequent N-grams( N adjacent words) from the text.
Also a simple way to extract the most relevant sentences is using TF-IDF that stands for term frequency, Inverse document frequency. Basically this function gives higher scores to sentences that tend to appear frequently in one document compared to other document.
Some python libraries that you can use :

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*sickitlearn that has more advanced features.

*Also gensim library has a text summarization tutorial (also in python)

*You can also use Dato that has as well a text analysis module.

Some helpful resources:

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*This book: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

*There is also a coursera course that you can enroll in, in order to understand the basics in text mining:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/text-mining

*Also this coursera course from stanford university (TF-IDF is explained in one of the videos)
https://class.coursera.org/nlp/lecture/preview
Hope this helps.

A: there's been some good and comprehensive overviews already posted, so I am going to give a more specific example.  It's short, sweet, and simple... all you have to do is play with the summaryRatio:
def summarizePassage(text,summaryRatio=0.5):
  from gensim.summarization import summarize
  try:
    summary = summarize(text,split=True,ratio=summaryRatio)
  except:
    print "WARNING: Gensim unable to reduce: ", text
    return [text]
  return summary

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Today King World News interviewed a 60-year market veteran who made some absolutely fascinating predictions as we head into the end of 2014. He discussed what to expect in the major markets, including stocks, gold, and silver. Rosen also included an astonishing chart which predicts a gold spike as well as disaster for the global markets. Below is six-decade market veteran Ron Rosen's remarkable interview.
Rosen: "The basis of the chart is the 'Rule of Alternation.' That's a key that cannot be left out. And it has followed the Rule of Alternation ever since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913….
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A FTSE 100 leisure and travel business is looking to recruit an ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified candidate to join its finance function. The purpose of the role is to oversee the Group's consolidated management accounts, plans and forecasts (P&L Cash flow and balance sheet) and well as support the preparation of reports and presentations for the Management Committee and the board to enable sound business planning and decision making.
The role will be responsible for the analysis and review of performance and have a key role in providing robust financial planning and organisational support to the finance managers for the preparation of the quarterly financial results, financial plan and 5-year business plan. You will also support the preparation of reports and presentations for the Management Committee and the board to enable sound business planning and decision making, it will also involve ad-hoc analysis and research.
* Oversee the Group consolidation and prepare elimination entries as required.
* Responsible for preparing and communicating Group reporting timetables, deadlines and issuing assumptions where required.
* Providing support in the organization of the 5 year Business plan and delivery of actions. This will involve ad-hoc analysis.
* Produce PowerPoint presentations on Group performance for the Management Committee and Board.
* Develop a broad understanding of financial aspects of the business.
It is an end to end role so it incorporates analysis, reporting, monthly Management accounting, 5 years business plan and ad hoc projects, with exposure to the CFO.


Any faculty member in an initial probationary tenure status appointment who is not reappointed and who would not in the normal course of events be reviewed for tenure at this stage of his or her career may appeal that decision at the departmental, college, and University levels. [Note: Throughout this document, unless otherwise stated, the word "faculty member" shall mean a non‑tenured faculty member in an initial probationary tenure status appointment who has been denied a reappointment.] The candidate shall be informed of this right, the procedures for exercising it, and the University guidelines and regulations concerning reappointment when he or she is first notified in writing of the decision not to reappoint.
terminal appointment, the appointment shall be extended until the appeal is complete.
cases where an extension is granted at the request of the appellant, the appellant's appointment shall not be extended under I.B. beyond the duration of the normal term of an appeal without the consent of the Provost.
The faculty member may waive the right to written explanations from the department chair and the dean, or may decline to pursue the appeals procedure at any stage. However, the appeal procedures herein described must be followed sequentially.
Waiver of any stage of the appeals procedure shall cause the faculty member's right to proceed further to be forfeited. Thus, failure to request reconsideration of a negative departmental decision (see Section II), or failure to respond to a negative proposed decision at the college level (see Section III), will constitute waiver of further appeal rights.
Any faculty member has a right to receive a timely reconsideration of a departmental decision not to reappoint before that decision is forwarded to the dean.
Within one week after being notified of that decision, the faculty member may request a written statement of the reasons for the decision and the nature of the evidence. If such a statement is requested, it shall be provided to the faculty member by the chair within three weeks of the departmental decision. The statement shall respect the limits set by the need to preserve confidentiality.
If the faculty member wishes to have the departmental decision reconsidered, he or she shall respond to the chair in writing within three weeks of receipt of the chair's statement of reasons. The faculty member may address any issue that he or she deems appropriate, and may present new evidence.
The eligible voting faculty shall consider the chair's statement and the faculty member's response, and a second vote shall be taken. The final departmental decision and the reasons for it shall be provided in writing to the faculty member within three weeks of receipt of the faculty member's response.
Note: In schools and colleges that do not have a departmental structure, "department" shall refer to whatever faculty group makes the decision not to reappoint.
If the department's (or the college faculty's in the case of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Hotel School, and the Law School) final decision is negative, the dean shall, at the request of the faculty member, appoint a committee of Cornell tenured faculty members or tenured faculty members from an appropriate academic institution outside of Cornell to review that decision, if the dean has not already done so on his or her own initiative. No one who has participated in the decision or has taken a position on the reappointment may serve on the committee. The candidate shall make his or her request for appointment of the committee within one week of notification of the department's final negative decision, and the dean shall appoint the committee within three weeks of the candidate's request.
Within three weeks of the receipt of the report of the dean's committee, the dean shall furnish the faculty member with a preliminary written statement of his or her decision, the reasons for it, and the nature of the evidence within the limits set by the need to preserve confidentiality. For a two‑week period following receipt of the statement, the faculty member shall have the opportunity to respond to the dean, prior to the dean's final decision. The decision of the dean shall be furnished the candidate in writing.
For a two‑week period following receipt of the dean's final negative decision, the faculty member may appeal that decision to the Provost. The decision of the Provost, and the reasons for it, shall be given in writing to the dean, the department, and the faculty member. The decision of the Provost shall not be subject to further appeal within the University.
Adopted by the Faculty Council of Representatives, May 13, 1981, Records, pp. 5342‑54C; Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, May 30, 1981, Records, p. 10,808, Appendix D, Records, pp. 10,828‑30; Board of Trustees, May 30, 1981, Records, p. 10,856; Faculty Council of Representatives, October 10, 1984, Records, pp. 5923‑39C; Board of Trustees January 25, 1985, Records, p. 357, Appendix A, pp. 369‑71. Amended by the Faculty Senate, March 13, 2002, Records, pp. 9393-9394S, Appendix 2; Board of Trustees, June 20, 2002.


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Announcing IDRA's 2020 Virtual Conference
We are excited to announce that our Virtual Conference will take place November 11-13, 2020 from 12.00 p.m.-5.00 p.m. ET. Since 2014, IDRA has organized an annual meeting on the latest thinking on research and data in indigent defense. This year, our seventh annual gathering will be virtual! We expect to schedule three 80 minute panels on each day, for a total of nine panels. We are also hoping to keep our Zoom room open for informal gatherings, breakouts, and conversations until 6.00 p.m. ET each day. Go to 2020conference.indigentdefenseresearch.org to see the complete schedule. We hope to "see" as many of you there as possible!
Notable Recent Publications - December, 2020
Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Articles Bernardo Oliveira Buta, Adalmir de Oliveira Gomes & Carolina Menezes Lima, Proposal of a Performance Index for the Public Defender's Office , 16 Revista Direito GV . 1. "The Public Defender's Office is essential for the Justice System functioning, so that evaluating the performance of this organization is fundamental to improving the provision of justice services in the country. This article aims to propose and test an index of performance for the Brazilian Federal Public Defender's Office [DPU]. The data were collected through interviews with defenders and managers and on secondary official bases of the organization and analyzed through content analysis and exploratory and confirmatory factoria
Notable Recent Publications - November, 2020
Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Articles Andrew Davies, Victoria Smiegocki and Hannah Hall, The Court is in Recession: On the Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Indigent Defense Spending. Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. "What is the likely effect of the recession brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic on indigent defense budgets in the United States? To look forward, we look backward. We examine data on county-level spending on indigent defense in Texas during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Redistributive policies – those which use tax payer funds to support individuals who themselves pay little or no tax – are particularly susceptible to cuts during times of fiscal stress. Yet our analysis shows indigent defense policy, measured in terms of
Notable Recent Publications - October 2020
Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Articles Pamela Metzger, Criminal (Dis)Appearance , George Washington Law Review. "Across the United States, thousands of newly-arrested people disappear. They languish behind bars for days, weeks – or even months – without ever seeing a judge or an attorney. Yet, the Supreme Court requires more constitutional process for the seizure "of a refrigerator, . . . temporary suspension of a public school student, or . . . suspension of a driver's license," than it does for a person who has just been arrested and detained. A new arrestee has no clearly-established constitutional right to a prompt initial appearance procedure. As a result, there is no constitutional doctrine that guarantees her the right to appear promptly be
Notable Recent Publications - September 2020
Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Articles Matthew Clair, " Being a Disadvantaged Criminal Defendant: Mistrust and Resistance in Attorney-Client Interactions " Social Forces. "Researchers have documented the power of legal officials to administer sanctions, from arrest to court surveillance and incarceration. How do those subject to punishment interact with officials and attempt to subvert their power? Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations among 63 criminal defendants and 42 legal officials in the Boston-area court system, this article considers how socioeconomically and racially disadvantaged defendants interact with their defense attorneys, and with what consequences. Given racialized and classed constraints, many dis
Notable recent publications - August 2020
Notable Recent Publications features the latest empirical research and data related to indigent defense. Should you have suggestions, ideas for work that should be included, or trouble accessing any of the articles featured, please write to albdavies@smu.edu . Books Sara Mayeux, Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth Century America . University of North Carolina Press. [From the website:] "[T]he modern American public defender has a surprisingly contentious history--one that offers insights not only about the "carceral state," but also about the contours and compromises of twentieth-century liberalism... First gaining appeal amidst the Progressive Era fervor for court reform, the public defender idea was swiftly quashed by elite corporate lawyers who believed the legal profession should remain independent from the state... Gideon v. Wainwright enshrined the right to counsel into law and the legal profession mobilized to expand the ranks of p


Sure, rock and roll never died. Meanwhile, post-rock is enjoying a rebirth.
The Northwest Post-Rock Collective, an online group of several hundred musicians, bookers, sound engineers and fans, has organized a group tour of bands from Seattle, Portland, Eugene and San Francisco to introduce fans to the different styles within the genre.
In Portland, NWPC has put on a series of events and festivals, including a 15-band blowout earlier this year.
Gazelle(s) plays with Wander, Long Hallways and You May Die in the Desert 9:30 pm Saturday, Nov. 17, at Hi-Fi Music Hall; $7, 21+.


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Consecutive international win for OSM Camerata
18 September 2018 Photo Hanno Otto
The OSM Camerata is once again a winner, sharing the first prize in the Ictus International Music Competition with the Oklahoma State University.
If Einstein's string theory had a musical undertone, one would think it is because of the sweet melodies of the Odeion School of Music Cameratas' (OSMC) violins and cellos. It should therefore come as no surprise that OSMC won the 2018 International Ictus Music Competition, again. The ensemble has been paving the way to numerous successes since its inception in 2012.
This year, however, the OSMC is sharing the first prize with the Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr Thomas Dickey. The OSMC's competition recital for 2018 was conducted by principle conductor, Xavier Cloete. Acclaimed violist Elsabé Raath, joined the OSMC artistic team in 2017 as string clinician.
OSMC the jewel in crown
The OSMC is based at the Odeion School of Music (OSM) at the University of the Free State UFS) and was strategically founded as the OSM's flagship ensemble with the main objective, creating a catalyst for excellence. "From a pedagogical perspective, it serves as a feasible incubator to nurture fully-rounded musicians who are thoroughly prepared for the demands of their trade as orchestral musicians, soloists and conductors," said Marius Coetzee founder of the OSMC.
"Ms Raath also made her debut as conductor during the 2018 Ictus Music Competition where she conducted O Sacrum Convivium by Olivier Messiaen," said Coetzee, founder of the OSMC. Elsabé was also conductor during the 2018 Ictus Music competition.
The OSMC's concert programme for Ictus 2018 also consisted of works by Jacobus Gallus/Lance Phillip, Béla Bartók, Peteris Vasks/Keith Moss, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach.
Ictus an ideal platform
The Ictus International Music Competition is an online music competition for wind bands, orchestras and solo trumpet. It has been described by David Bilger of the Philadelphia Orchestra as "democratising music competitions". Ictus was founded to make international music competitions more accessible though eliminating prohibitive travel costs, conference fees and visa issues. This was made possible through having the application and adjudication take place online only.
You can listen to OMSC Ictus submissions here:
Duo Seraphim Jabobus Gallus/Lance Phillip
Romanian Folk Dances/ Román népi táncok Béla Bartók
Kekatu Dziesma (Carnival Song) Peteris Vasks/Keith Moss
Centre for Africa Studies goes quadruple
The Centre for Africa Studies at the UFS hosted a book launch on 27 August 2014. Prof Heidi Hudson expressed her excitement as she welcomed the audience and authors that evening, "This has not happened yet at our department where we launch four books at the same time, thus it is a happy and glorious moment for us."
Book 1: Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities. Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa. Edited by Paul Post, Philip Nel and Walter van Beek.
This book deals with the fundamental changes in society and culture that are forcing us to reconsider the position of sacred space, and to do this within the broader context of ritual and religious dynamics and what is called a 'spatial turn'. Conversely, sacred sites are a privileged way of studying current cultural dynamics. This collection of studies on sacred space concerns itself with both perspectives by exploring place-bound dynamics of the sacred spaces in Africa and Europe.
Book 2: Understanding Namibia. The Trials of Independence. Written by Henning Melber.
This study explores the achievements and failures of Namibia's transformation since independence. It contrasts the narrative of a post-colonial patriotic history with the socio-economic and political realities of the nation-building project.
Book 3: Peace Diplomacy, Global Justice and International Agency Rethinking Human Security and Ethics in the Spirit of Dag Hammarskjöld. Edited by Carsten Stahn and Henning Melber.
This tribute and critical review of Hammarskjöld's values and legacy examines his approach towards international civil service, agency and value-based leadership, investigates his vision of internationalism and explores his achievements and failures as Secretary-General. The book is also available in print. Melber is a Senior Adviser and Director Emeritus of The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala, Sweden. He is also Extraordinary Professor at both the University of Pretoria and the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State.
Book 4: Au commencement était le Mimisme: Essai de lecture globale des cours de Marcel Jousse ( In the beginning was mimism: A holistic reading of Marcel Jousse's lectures). Written by: Edgard Sienaert
This publication allows us to hear the voice of Marcel Jousse, professor of Anthropology of Language, who taught in Paris between 1931 and 1957. Edgard Sienaert, after having edited and translated in English all publications of Jousse, returns here to Jousse's one-thousand lectures, synthesised through the lens of an anthropology of human mimism. Jousse's train of thought leads us to question our own thought categories stuck in antagonisms: spirit and matter, concrete and abstract, body and mind, science and faith. Sienaert is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State, with an MA and PhD in Romance Philology. He published widely on medieval French literature and on orality.


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'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' is a decent Batman film with a Superman problem
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Friday (neo)Noir: 'Kafka' sends the titular writer into a hypnotic, labyrinthine chase after nightmares
Steven Soderbergh, screenwriter Lem Dobbs, the cast and crew come together to produce one of the more striking films of the director's career, which is saying a lot considering the stunning number of vastly different projects he helmed. It is difficult to peer one's eyes away from Kafka.
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'Beautiful Creatures' a daffy but entertaining 'Twilight' retread
Beautiful Creatures Directed by Richard LaGravenese Written by Richard LaGravenese USA, 2013 What Beautiful Creatures has that the Twilight films desperately needed is a refreshing sense of silly self-awareness. The latter books and films, which clearly inspired the former, were frequently funny, if always unintentionally so. (OK, fine, that Michael Sheen yelp in the last …
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The Words Directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal Written by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal USA, 2012 The effect of watching The Words is akin to hearing someone read a book report that's based off the CliffsNotes of the CliffNotes of a popular book. The sheer laziness on display in this would-be character study/thriller …
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'The Words' is intricately constructed and one of the year's best films
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"Margin Call will illuminate questions about a precarious economy and is sure to intrigue and entertain moviegoers everywhere." Margin Call Directed by J.C. Chandor Written by J.C. Chandor USA, 2011 As the stock market looms on the precipice of collapse, a prestigious investment firm, whose practices are partly responsible for the imminent crisis, fires the …
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The general terms of both calls have been preannounced on 5 March 2018.
To be eligible, scientific proposals should address EuroMarine priorities, as defined in the 2015 summary text on EuroMarine scientific strategy.
Proposals should involve at least three 2018 Full (paying) Member Organisations of EuroMarine, from at least two different countries. (Please refer to the provisional 2018 membership list and the corresponding list of General Assembly representative, both attached to the present call, and do not hesitate to contact secretariat euromarinenetwork [dot] eu for any contact information).
Documents and links relevant to the present call are provided at the bottom of this page.
Please refer to the full text of the call and to the terms and conditions of funding for details on eligibility criteria, eligible costs and constraints linked to funding.
Please refer to the other supporting documents or links to check out EuroMarine priorities or to find potential co-organising EuroMarine partners.
To submit a proposal, please fill in and return the application form (using either the Word or the Open Office template) following instructions therein.
The two sets of proposals corresponding to the above two categories will be reviewed separately using specific criteria and specific pools of referees (EuroMarine volunteers).
The EuroMarine Steering Committee will be in charge of the final selection and moderation to ensure a balance of disciplines and topics within the available budget.
All proposers will receive a notification by the announced deadline and the outcome will be posted on the EuroMarine website once proposers will have confirmed their acceptance of EuroMarine funds.
Activities funded by EuroMarine are open (within budgetary and logistic constraints) to EuroMarine members (beyond those identified by the proposers at proposal stage).
Each of the activities funded by EuroMarine will be described on a specific webpage on the EuroMarine website and will be announced in a timely manner on the EuroMarine mailing list so that EuroMarine members can apply to participate. EuroMarine members can also refer to the online the list of all future EuroMarine activities, which includes all future funded scientific activities.
The EuroMarine Steering Committee made funding decisions based on the outcome of the review process during its 31 Oct. 2018 meeting in Paris.
The outcome of the call was notified to proposers on 5 Nov. and presented to the General Assembly during its 31 Jan. 2019 meeting in Cádiz.
Of 17 applications received, 11 could be funded within the available budget.
The EuroMarine Steering Committee (in charge of the call procedures and the final moderation process) thanks the 17 proposers, as well as the 45 referees from EuroMarine organisations who made the call possible and contributed to a robust referring and selection process.
For details, please refer below to the printable list and online list of the 11 funded activities as well as the report on the call outcome (see the Documents and Links sections below).


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Ann's distinctive style has evolved from emotional responses and historical associations with the landscape. The resulting forms and vessels allude to geological formations, ancient standing stones and the spiral.


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Alliance of Albanians leader Ziadin Sela claims that young doctors are leaving Macedonia in droves, and he blamed the nepotistic hiring practices in the Macedonian healthcare system as one of the reasons why young specialists look to go abroad.
With every new round of hirings, all hope is being destroyed among the healthcare workers who face irregularities and see their results being ignored in favor of partisan influence, said Sela who himself is a doctor.
He blamed public healthcare institutions in Skopje, Kicevo, Bitola and Gostivar for hiring only ethnic Macedonians.
Colleague Vjosa Iljazi from Tetovo ranked second in a bid for an open place in the Tetovo clinic, and the next day she was removed from running with no explanation. The Alliance of Albanians demands that thee scandals in the hospitals are examined and reviewed, and that hospital doors are opened for the best candidates. We need to reduce the emigration of medical professionals, Sela said.
Similar allegations of ethnically driven hiring in the public healthcare system, including in the same Tetovo hospital, are raised from the Macedonian side as well. Only three ethnic Macedonians were hired when the hospital filled the 15 vacancies.


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Green Chile stew – Feliz Baca
Meat of choice, I usually do chicken or pork 2lbs, cut up into cubes
1 bag of roasted green chile, chopped
1 teaspoon of garlic
half a chopped onion
3-5 potatoes cubed
1 can stewed tomatoes
1 can corn
Cover meat with water and cook meat with salt, pepper, onion and garlic to make soup base and broth. Once cooked add the cubed potatoes, stew tomatoes, and chopped green chile. Once cooked through, finish off with the corn, and eat with tortillas or a fried egg and cheddar cheese on top!
Kale and Roasted Vegetable Soup – Laura Blum
3 medium carrots, peeled and quartered lengthwise
2 large tomatoes, quartered
1 large onion, cut into 8 wedges or 4 or 5 slices
1/2 small butternut squash, peeled, seeded, cut lengthwise into 1/2 inch thick wedges
6 cups or more of vegetable broth
4 cups of finely chopped kale
3 large fresh thyme sprigs
1 15 oz can of Great Northern white beans, drained
Roast the carrots, tomatoes, onion, squash, garlic.
Rub rimmed baking sheet with a thin coat of olive oil. Place carrots, squash, tomatoes, onion, and garlic on the baking sheet and sprinkle with a little more olive oil and salt and pepper. Rub the oil over all of the vegetables so that they are well coated.
Roast vegetables about 45 minutes, stirring once or twice, until they are cooked through and nicely browned.
Further cut the squash and carrots
Remove the roasted squash and carrots from the pan to a cutting board. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces and set aside.
Purée the roasted garlic, tomatoes, onions
Remove the roasted garlic from their peelings and place in a food processor. Add the roasted tomatoes and onions. Pulse in the processor until almost smooth.
Deglaze the roasting pan
Add a little water or broth to the baking sheet and scrape up any browned bits.
Start soup with browned bits, broth, puréed vegetables
Add the browned bits, the broth, and the puréed vegetables to a large pot. Add the chopped kale, thyme, and bay leaf to the pot. Heat on high to bring to a boil, lower the heat to reduce to a simmer. Simmer uncovered until the kale is tender, about 30 minutes.
Add roasted carrots, squash, beans
Add the roasted carrots and squash to the soup. Add the drained white beans to the soup. Simmer for 8 to 10 minutes and add more broth or water to the soup if it needs thinning.
Season with salt and pepper. Discard thyme sprigs and bay leaf.
Creamy Green Chile Chicken Casserole – Paloma Mexika
2lbs chicken cooked and shredded
2 cups of roasted green chile, chopped
Broccoli crown, chopped
2-3 cups cooked rice
2 cans of cream based soup (cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, or cream of celery)
1 cup of chicken/vegetable broth
Onion, chopped
Jalapeño, chopped
Cook chicken with water or broth, salt, pepper, onion, garlic and jalapeño. Cook rice. Shred cooked chicken. Combine cream based soup, milk, broth, salt and pepper, and chopped green chile in mixing bowl. Chop broccoli. In a casserole dish, layer cooked rice, shredded chicken, and broccoli bits. Smother with creamy green chile mixture. Top with shredded cheese. Bake, covered, at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. Uncover and bake for another 15 minutes or until the cheese is slightly crisped.
Caldito – Maria Griego
1 tbsp. canola or other cooking oil
2 medium Yukon Gold or red potatoes sliced or diced into bite sized pieces (can be peeled or not).
1/2 white or yellow onion, diced
1-2 tbsp. flour
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 packet of au jus seasoning
4-5 chopped green chiles (or one small container of Bueno or other frozen chile)
1) Sautee potatoes and onions in a skillet with canola oil, then set aside in a bowl. 2) In the same pot the potatoes were cooked in, thoroughly cook the ground beef. 3) Once the beef is cooked, add in the flour, garlic powder and au jus packet mix.4) Add in the chopped chile. 5) Put the cooked potatoes back in the pot and add enough water to cover. 6) Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer for 15-20 minutes.
Best eaten with fresh tortillas!
Nov 30th, 2021 healthcare-medicaid-press-release
New #AskALawyer video series
Introducing NMCLP's new #AskALawyer video series! In these very short pieces, our attorneys will be answering questions the community may have about healthcare, workers' rights, food security, housing, and other topics. Check out our first few episodes linked below and subscribe to our Youtube channel and follow our social media to see more in the coming weeks. Please share with your friends!
Minimum wage (English)
Minimum wage (Spanish)
Public benefits updates
Oct 4th, 2021 healthcare-medicaid-press-release
Rising with our communities, the next generation of lawyering
NMCLP welcomed four law students this summer – Cheyenne Trujillo, Christian White, Kelly Reeves, and Rebekah Peoble. Sharing a passion for justice and a strong commitment to our communities, they worked on key issues of education, workers' rights, income security and housing protections. We extend our gratitude to them for joining us in movement with our communities. They inspired us with their work and advocacy!
Cheyenne Trujillo
Cheyenne Trujillo worked with our Public Benefits team this summer breaking down illegal barriers to basic necessities. She was excited to be able to put her commitment to dismantling systems of inequity into practice. Her work at NMCLP included drafting a civil rights lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Services for illegally denying a Violence Against Women Act self-petitioner's food and healthcare benefits, and failing to provide Spanish-language interpretation. Cheyenne also tracked USDA denials of SNAP and Medicaid benefits for immigrants with humanitarian statuses such as asylum applicants and Special Immigrant Juveniles.
Cheyenne looks forward to continuing to fight for social justice through public interest law. She is also interested in pursuing advocacy in government, environmental, and natural resource law. Before coming to NMCLP she worked for the New Mexico Land Grant Council.
Cheyenne is currently part of the Arturo Jaramillo Program at the University of New Mexico School of Law which promotes opportunities for minorities in the legal profession and encourages their participation in bar programs and activities. She has a BA in criminology and political science, a minor in Chicana studies, and a MA in public administration from the University of New Mexico. She will be graduating from the UNM School of Law in 2023.
Rebekah Peoble
Rebekah Peoble joined our Economic Equity team this summer working to keep as many New Mexicans as possible housed and combating harsh debt-related, court-imposed driver restrictions. Rebekah researched and drafted memos about anti-discrimination protections in state and local housing law and illegal fines charged by property managers in mobile home parks. She also worked on an extensive review and analysis of magistrate court cases in which judges suspended defendants' drivers' licenses as a counterproductive means of coercing debt payments for unpaid parking tickets and other court fines and fees.
Rebekah is the daughter of an immigrant mother. Her experiences and understanding of the disparities of race, class, language barriers, and socioeconomic factors motivated Rebekah to pursue a law degree to improve the lives of children and families by advocating for legal reforms that support New Mexico families and promote social justice.
Rebekah is a recipient of the Child and Family Justice Scholarship for dedicated students who are interested in transformative advocacy to pursue racial equity and well-being for children and families in New Mexico. Rebekah served on the executive board of the Student Bar Association. She has a BA in psychology and political science from New Mexico Highlands University. She will graduate from the UNM School of Law in 2023.
Christian White (Santo Domingo Pueblo and Navajo)
Christian White assisted the Education team in holding the state accountable to its legal obligation to overhaul New Mexico's public education system so it supports the needs of all students. He worked on the Yazzie/Martinez case with a focus on Native American students and culturally relevant curriculum as well as the Tribal Remedy Framework—a comprehensive plan for meeting the educational needs of Native students created collectively by Tribal community members and Indigenous education experts.
Christian's interest in working with Native American communities began as a youth when he was learning about policy and his people's history. He has worked in various capacities within Native education and organizing in his community.
Christian White received a B.A. in political science and Indigenous studies from Columbia University. He also has an M.A. in American Studies, with a focus on Critical Indigenous Studies from the University of New Mexico. He will graduate from the UNM School of Law in 2023.
Kelly Reeves
Kelly worked with the Workers' Rights team on combating payroll fraud, challenging the exclusion of workers paid by the piece from the minimum wage, and supporting workers who experienced hardships with unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kelly began her career in social justice as a caseworker at a refugee resettlement agency in Indianapolis, Indiana. She worked with newly arrived families resettling in the state to ensure they had access to programs and resources upon arrival, and worked with the youth program to make Indianapolis more welcoming to newly arrived kids. She also served in the Peace Corps in Jamaica and Guyana where she taught literacy classes to grades three, four and eight, and supported the community's goal of income generation through eco sport tourism.
Kelly is a recipient of the Peggy Browning Fellowship for dedicated students who are interested in pursuing work in labor law and workers' rights. She holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from DePaul University where she studied journalism. She has a Master of Social Work degree with a concentration in sustainable development and global practice from the University of Denver. She will graduate from the University of Colorado School of Law in 2022.
Sep 29th, 2021 healthcare-medicaid-press-release
Action Alert: Protect New Mexicans from medical debt!
In 2021, the New Mexico Legislature passed the Patients' Debt Collection Protection Act. Rules are still needed to implement the law, but the proposed rules are currently missing key protections for patients. This is a critical moment for the public to weigh in.
The new law:
Prohibits medical providers and creditors from suing low-income patients or sending them to collections over medical debt.
Requires hospitals, urgent care centers, and other healthcare facilities to check if uninsured patients qualify for public programs like Medicaid and to help them enroll.
Requires the Office of Superintendent of Insurance (OSI) to issue rules explaining how patients show they qualify for the law's protections.
Tell OSI that basic protections must be in the rules!
OSI's proposed rules include several strong provisions. However, to ensure the law actually protects patients from debt, key revisions are needed. These include:
(1) Requiring medical providers and creditors to determine if a patient is low income before suing or sending them to collections. OSI's proposed rules do not require medical providers or creditors to check a patient's income before suing or sending a patient to collections.
(2) The protection for low-income patients should not expire after one year. Patients who have shown that they are low income should not have to submit paperwork annually to be protected from lawsuits and being sent to collections for a medical bill. OSI's proposed rules let this protection expire after one year, which would be burdensome for families and medical providers and leave patients whom the Legislature protected at risk.
How to make your voice heard:
Submit written comments with subject line "RE: SB71 Proposed Rules"by September 27 at 4:00 p.m.
By email to OSI-docketfiling@state.nm.us
By mail to OSI Records & Docketing, NM Office of Superintendent of Insurance, P.O. Box 1689, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1689
Speak at a virtual public hearing on September 27, 2021 at 9:00 am. How to join:
By Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83654595694 Meeting ID: 836 5459 5694
By Telephone: 1-312-626-6799 Meeting ID: 836 5459 5694
Sep 9th, 2021 healthcare-medicaid-press-release
New Mexico workers celebrate paid sick leave victory
SANTA FE, NM—After six years of organizing efforts, workers and advocates celebrate Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's signing of the Healthy Workplaces Act into law today. Effective July 1, 2022, workers statewide will be able to accrue one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked and up to 64 hours annually.
The paid sick leave coalition thanks the sponsors of the bill, Reps. Angelica Rubio, Christine Chandler and Patricia Roybal Caballero and Sens. Mimi Stewart and Linda Lopez, for being true champions for New Mexico workers, and Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham for her support.
Workers have been fighting for this legislation for years, sharing personal stories with lawmakers about being forced to go to work sick or risk losing their paycheck. As a result of this tireless work, paid sick leave is finally a reality and will benefit all of New Mexico's families and communities. This big win illustrates how critical it is for legislators to hear from New Mexicans—the people who stock groceries, care for others' children, harvest and serve food and keep our communities going throughout the pandemic. New Mexico workers showed up and made their voices heard.
This statement is signed by the following:
AARP NM
NM Comunidades en Acción y de Fe (CAFe)
Center for Civic Policy
El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
Enlace Comunitario
Equality New Mexico
National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees District 1199NM
New Mexico Working Families Party
New Mexico Voices for Children
OLÉ, Organizers in the Land of Enchantment
Somos un Pueblo Unido
United Food Workers of America Local 1564
Women Food & Agricultural Network
Statements from workers and organizations across New Mexico:
Carissa Owen, Restaurant worker and NM CAFe leader, (Las Cruces, NM)
"Paid sick leave is long overdue for New Mexico workers. I have seen restaurants fund expansions, marketing, or new concept rollout instead of investments in their biggest assets: their trained and dedicated workforce. This legislation is necessary for the restaurant industry to take employee health seriously."
Rosa del Carpio, Worker and El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos member, (Albuquerque, NM)
"I have been working in Albuquerque for almost 15 years without access to paid sick leave. I tested positive for Covid-19 after having to risk going to work to put food on the table. I was worried about getting tested in the first place for fear that a positive test result would force me to quarantine without any income in order to survive. What I feared most as a single mother was infecting my nine-year-old son. Thousands of workers around New Mexico find themselves in situations similar to mine. Having access to paid sick leave is not only a racial justice issue: it will save the lives of workers and families in our communities."
Marshall Martinez, Director of Equality New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
"Paid sick leave is critical for LGBTQ New Mexicans. Queer and Trans people work hourly jobs disproportionately and already face extreme systemic barriers to healthcare. HB 20 helps with one of those barriers and will help provide LGBTQ New Mexicans the opportunity to be able to afford the time off to see our healthcare providers."
Stephanie Welch, Director of Workers' Rights at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (Albuquerque, NM)
"No one should have to choose between a paycheck and protecting their and their loved ones' health. Yet half of New Mexicans who work for private employers have to do exactly that because their employer does not provide paid sick leave. This law will ensure that workers get this basic right. We thank the workers from across the state who spoke out and advocated to legislators, and who won this victory."
Anamaria Dahle, NM Working Families Party member, (Albuquerque, NM)
"Earning paid sick leave will allow me to obtain treatment to heal my injuries inflicted by my ex-husband over a decade ago. I will also be able to keep up with my doctors' appointments for my autoimmune disease. So often, single parents' health is put on the back burner. Thank you for passing HB 20."
Iman Andrade, OLÉ member, (Albuquerque, NM)
"For me, winning paid sick leave means a safer workplace for me and my coworkers. This means people can actually stay home if they have COVID and not spread it to others. Workers need paid sick leave regardless if there is a pandemic. We can keep people safe from spreading colds and flus, especially in the restaurant and grocery industry. Our workforce is going to be much safer and I am so excited that HB 20 has passed the Senate."
Bellanira Lozano, Somos Un Pueblo Unido member, (Santa Fe, NM)
"I am a single mother of four children and a domestic worker who takes care of elderly people in Santa Fe. The pandemic hit my family hard. We all got sick and didn't get paid. This law means families like mine won't have to decide between getting paid or going to work sick. It's a tremendous victory for New Mexico's workers."
Oriana Sandoval, CEO of Center for Civic Policy, (Albuquerque, NM)
"Today we celebrate the passage of House Bill 20–a statewide Paid Sick Leave program for New Mexico workers. This legislation sends a clear message that families shouldn't have to worry about shattering their family budget and getting buried under healthcare costs because they can't afford to lose a day's pay. We look forward to Gov. Michelle Luján Grisham signing this bold policy into law to take a step forward in ensuring New Mexicans have access to every resource they need to overcome the current pandemic and regain their stability–ensuring the success of our children and future generations."
James Jimenez, Executive Director of New Mexico Voices for Children (Albuquerque, NM)
"Paid sick leave has long been a missing piece of the child well-being puzzle in New Mexico, with about half of our workforce lacking this basic benefit. The COVID-19 crisis has made this need even more critical, as families have suffered with the health impacts and the loss of job security and wages. The passage of this bill is a watershed moment for kids in our state and will go far in ensuring New Mexico parents and their families have the opportunity to live healthy lives and continue to contribute to a strong recovery. We applaud the Legislature for boldly rising to the greatest challenge of our time to secure this long-needed policy that will benefit the health and economy of our state."
Apr 8th, 2021 healthcare-medicaid-press-release
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Container Linux ships with the System Security Services Daemon, allowing integration between Container Linux and enterprise authentication services.

## Configuring SSSD

Edit /etc/sssd/sssd.conf. This configuration file is fully documented [here](https://jhrozek.fedorapeople.org/sssd/1.13.1/man/sssd.conf.5.html). For example, to configure SSSD to use an IPA server called ipa.example.com, sssd.conf should read:

```
config_file_version = 2
services = nss, pam
domains = LDAP
[nss]
[pam]
[domain/LDAP]
id_provider = ldap
auth_provider = ldap
ldap_schema = ipa
ldap_uri = ldap://ipa.example.com
```

## Start SSSD

```sh
sudo systemctl start sssd
```

## Make SSSD available on future reboots

```sh
sudo systemctl enable sssd
```

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