On September 26, 2011, the California Insurance Commissioner's Verified Ex Parte Application for Order Appointing Conservator was heard as an ex parte matter by the Honorable STEVEN L. PERK in Department C32 of the Orange County Superior Court. Present on behalf of the applicant, THE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, was Elisa B. Wolfe-Donato, Deputy Attorneys General. Appearing on behalf of respondent AMERICAN STERLING INSURANCE COMPANY, was NO APPEARANCE.
The California Insurance Commissioner is prepared to commence conservation of American Sterling Insurance Company, with (i) David E. Wilson serving as the Special Deputy Insurance Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Conservation and Liquidation Office ("CLO") of the California Department of Insurance, and specifically as the Conservator of American Sterling Insurance Company, and (ii) Scott Pearce of the CLO, serving as the Conservation Manager for American Sterling Insurance Company.
The California Insurance Commissioner is hereby appointed as the Conservator of American Sterling Insurance Company ("AMERICAN STERLING"), and is directed to conduct the business of American Sterling or so much thereof as he may deem appropriate. The Conservator is authorized, in his discretion, to pay or defer payment of some or all proper claims, expenses, liabilities, and obligations of American Sterling, in whole or in part, accruing prior or subsequent to his appointment as Conservator.
The Conservator is authorized to assume, reject, or modify any executory contracts including, without limitation, any lease, rental or utilization contract or agreement (including any schedule to any such contract or agreement), and any license or other arrangement for the use of computer software of business information systems, to which American Sterling is a party or as to which American Sterling agrees to accept an assignment of such contract. The Conservator is directed to effect any such assumption, rejection, or modification of any executory contract not later than 120 days of the date of this Order Appointing Conservator, unless such date is extended by application to and further order of this Court. All executory contracts not expressly assumed by the Conservator shall be deemed rejected.
The Conservator is authorized to take possession of all assets of American Sterling, including books, records, property (both real and personal), accounts, safe deposit boxes, rights of action, and all such assets as may be in the name of American Sterling, wheresoever situated.
Title to all property and assets of American Sterling and of its five subsidiaries (American Sterling Productions, Ltd.; Gold Fish LLC; American Sterling Communications, LLC; American Sterling Capital Corp.; American Sterling Productions One, LLC), including deposits, securities, contracts, rights of actions, books, records, and other assets of every type and nature, and including both those presently in American Sterling's possession and those which may be discovered hereafter, wheresoever situated, is vested in the Conservator or his successor in office, in his official capacity as Conservator. The Conservator is authorized to deal with these assets in his own name as Conservator or in the name of American Sterling. All persons are enjoined from interfering with Conservator's possession and title to these assets.
The Conservator shall have all the powers of the directors, officers, and managers of American Sterling, whose authorities are suspended except as such powers may be redelegated to them by the Conservator.
The Conservator is authorized to terminate compensation arrangements with employees, and to enter into new compensation arrangements with employees, including arrangements containing retention incentives. The Conservator is authorized to hire employees on such terms and conditions as he deems reasonable.
Except upon the express authorization of the Conservator, American Sterling, its officers, directors, agents and employees are enjoined from transacting any of the business of American Sterling or its five Subsidiaries, whether in the State of California or elsewhere, or from disposing of using, transferring, selling, assigning, canceling, alienating, hypothecating, or concealing in any manner or any way, or assisting any person in any of the foregoing, the property or assets of American Sterling, or property or assets in the possession of American Sterling, of any nature or kind, including claims or causes of action, until further order of this Court. Further, such persons are enjoined from obstructing or interfering with the Conservator's conduct of his or her duties as Conservator.
All persons are enjoined from instituting, prosecuting, or maintaining any action at law or suit in equity, including but not limited to actions or proceedings to compel discovery or production of documents or testimony, and matters in arbitration, against American Sterling, or against the Conservator, and from attaching, executing upon, redeeming of or taking any other legal proceedings against any of the property of American Sterling, and from doing any act interfering with the conduct of said business by the Conservator, except after an order from this Court obtained after reasonable notice to the Conservator.
American Sterling and all officers, directors, agents, and employees of American Sterling shall deliver to and immediately make available to the Conservator all assets, books, records, accounts, records, information, computers, tapes, discs, writings, other recordings of information, equipment, and other property of American Sterling and its Subsidiaries, wheresoever situated, in said persons' custody or control, and further, the aforesaid persons shall disclose verbally, or in writing if requested by the Conservator, the exact whereabouts of the foregoing items if such items are not in the possession custody, or control of said persons.
All officers, directors, trustees, employees, or agents of American Sterling, or any other person, firm, association, partnership, corporate parent, holding company, affiliate, or other entity in charge of any aspect of American Sterling's affairs, either in whole or in part, and including but not limited to banks, savings and loan associations, financial or lending institutions, brokers, stock or mutual associations, or any parent, holding company, subsidiary or affiliated corporation, or any other representative acting in concert with American Sterling, shall cooperate with the Conservator in the performance of his or her duties.
The Conservator is authorized to pay all reasonable costs of taking possession of and conserving American Sterling (including but not limited to the Conservator's pre-conservation costs in examining American Sterling's financial condition, and preparing to take possession and conserve American Sterling) out of the funds and assets of the American Sterling.
The Conservator is authorized to pay all reasonable costs of operating American Sterling as Conservator (including direct and allocated direct costs, direct and allocated general and administrative costs and overhead, and all other allocated costs) out of any and all funds and assets of American Sterling, and if there are insufficient hinds, to pay for the costs out of the Insurance Fund pursuant to Insurance Code section 1035.
All funds and assets, including certificates of deposit, bank accounts, and mutual fund shares of American Sterling, in various financial depositary institutions, including banks, savings and loan associations, industrial loan companies, mutual funds, or stock brokerages, wheresoever situated, shall be vested in the Conservator and subject to withdrawal only upon his order.
All persons who maintain records for American Sterling, pursuant to written contract or any other agreement, shall maintain such records and deliver to the Conservator such records upon his request.
All agents of American Sterling or its Subsidiaries, and all brokers who have done business with American Sterling or its Subsidiaries, shall make all remittances of all funds collected by them or in their hands directly to the Conservator.
All persons having possession of any lists of policyholders or escrow holders of American Sterling shall deliver such lists to the Conservator. All persons are enjoined from using any such lists or any information contained therein without the consent of the Conservator.
The Conservator is authorized to initiate such equitable or legal actions or proceedings in this or other states as may appear to him necessary to carry out his functions as Conservator.
The Conservator is authorized to appoint and employ special deputies, estate officers and managers, other professionals, clerks, and assistants, and to give each of them such power and authority as may be deemed necessary by him. The Conservator is authorized to compensate these persons from the assets of American Sterling as he shall deem appropriate.
The Conservator is authorized to divert, take possession of, and secure all mail of American Sterling and its Subsidiaries, in order to screen such mail, and to effect a change in the rights to use any and all post office boxes and other mail collection facilities used by American Sterling and its Subsidiaries.
American Sterling and its officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, successors, assigns, affiliates, and other persons or entities under their control and all persons or entities in concert or participation with American Sterling, and each of them, shall turn over to the Conservator all records, documentation, charts and/or descriptive materials of all funds, assets, property (owned beneficially or otherwise), and all other assets of American Sterling wherever situated, and all books and records of accounts, title documents and other documents in their possession or under their control, which relate, directly or indirectly to assets or property owned or held by American Sterling or to the business or operations of American Sterling.
Except with leave of court issued after a hearing in which the Conservator has received reasonable notice, all persons are enjoined from obtaining preferences, judgments, attachments, or other liens, or making any levy against American Sterling or its assets or property, and from executing or issuing or causing the execution or issuance of any court attachment, subpoena, replevin, execution, or other process, for the purpose of impounding or taking possession of or interfering with or creating or enforcing a lien upon any property or assets owned or in the possession of American Sterling or the Conservator, wheresoever situated, and from doing any act interfering with the conduct of said business by Conservator.
Except with leave of court issued after a hearing in which Conservator has received reasonable notice, all persons are enjoined from accelerating the due date of any obligation or claimed obligation; exercising any right of set-off; taking, retaining, retaking, or attempting to retake possession of any real or personal property; withholding or diverting any rent or other obligation; doing any act or other thing whatsoever to interfere with the possession of or management by the Conservator of the property and assets, owned or controlled by American Sterling or in the possession of American Sterling, or in any way interfering with the Conservator or interfering in any manner during dependency of this proceeding with the exclusive jurisdiction of this Court over American Sterling.
Any and all provisions of any agreement entered into by and between any third party and American Sterling [including by way of illustration, but not limited to, the following types of agreements (as well as any amendments, assignments, or modifications thereto): financial guarantee bonds, promissory notes, loan agreements. security agreements, deeds of trust, mortgages, indemnification agreements, subrogation agreements, subordination agreements, pledge agreements, assignments of rents or other collateral, financial statements, letters of credit, leases, insurance policies, guaranties, escrow agreements, management agreements, real estate brokerage and rental agreements, servicing agreements, attorney agreements, consulting agreements, easement agreements, license agreements, franchise agreements, or employment contracts] that provide in any manner that selection, appointment, or retention of a conservator, receiver, or trustee by any court, or entry of any order such as hereby made, shall he deemed to be or otherwise operate as a breach, violation, event of default, termination, event of dissolution, event of acceleration, insolvency, bankruptcy, or liquidation, shall be stayed, and the assertion of any and all rights and remedies relating thereto shall also be stayed and barred, except as otherwise ordered by this Court. This Court shall retain jurisdiction over any cause of action that has arisen or may otherwise arise under any such provision.
The Conservator is authorized to invest American Sterling's assets and funds in such a manner as to him may seem suitable for the best interest of American Sterling's creditors, which funds are not immediately distributable. However, no investment or reinvestment shall be made exceeding the sum of $100,000 without first obtaining permission of this Court; except, the Conservator may make investments or reinvestments in excess of $l00,000 without prior approval if such investments or reinvestments are made pursuant to the investment guidelines of the Conservator's Conservation & Liquidation Office, a true and correct copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by this reference. The Conservator shall file quarterly reports of such investments in excess of $100,000 with the Court, with notice to all persons on the service list. Such reports shall be filed within 60 days of the end of each quarter.
The Conservator is authorized to conduct an analysis of the business and financial condition of American Sterling to determine, in the best judgment of the Conservator, whether it will be possible to correct the problem that led to the order of conservation and restore the insurer to private management and normal operations, or whether American Sterling should he placed into rehabilitation or liquidation.
The Conservator is authorized to pay for his costs and fees in bringing and maintaining this action, and such other actions as are necessary to carry out his functions as Conservator, out of the funds and assets of American Sterling.
All Persons are enjoined from the waste of the assets of American Sterling.
Fixed income securities and other fixed income obligations of any type which may be issued or guaranteed by (i) the U.S. and the agencies, instrumentalities, and political sub-divisions of the U.S., and (ii) U.S. corporations, trusts and special purpose entities. Such securities must be traded on exchanges or in over the counter markets in the U.S. No emerging markets' securities are allowed.
Portfolio duration will be maintained within a range of (+/-) twelve months of Barclays Capital US Government/Credit 1-3 Yr ex Baa (the Index) under normal market conditions. There will be no restriction on the duration of any single security. Duration will be calculated adjusting for any optionality in securities as well as adjusting for the expected prepayment level of mortgage-backed security pools.
The benchmark for the Portfolio will be the Barclays Capital US Government/Credit 1-3 Yr ex Baa or better, (the "Index"). The objective of the Portfolio will be to maintain safety of principal and maximize available yield while assuming a minimum of risk through a balance of quality and diversification within the portfolio.


Gucci just committed a huge fashion gaffe with a new item in their collection. Will this "offensive" sweater (see photo below) turn fans away or will Gucci be hotter than ever?
Without a doubt, the fashion name that's the hottest around is Gucci. With uber expensive prices, the Italian brand sells everything from perfume to tennis shoes.
The tennis shoes sell for over $500 and just look like bedazzled Adidas sneakers.
Gucci is known for its edgy style and over the top bling on just about everything.
Remember when Kellyanne Conway wore a quirky Gucci dress to President Trump's inauguration? It was a military style dress with a bit of whimsy.
First lady Melania Trump has also worn Gucci from time to time. She wore a beautiful Gucci dress with a yellow butterfly belt during her visit to Helsinki.
Gucci has pulled a sweater from their stores that received huge backlash for appearing as though the person wearing it is in "blackface". Gucci also issued an apology after the sweater was pulled.
How could the people at Gucci not see that this would cause a backlash?
Did they know it would be controversial and that's the reason they did it?
The person who designed this ridiculous piece of clothing should be fired. It's offensive because it costs $890.
The "blackface" thing is getting to the point where people are interpreting everything to be blackface. This is just an ugly, overpriced sweater that resembles a balaclava. Are balaclavas (see photo below) going to be outlawed now?
Do we ban everything black on the face now because it might offend someone?


It is safe to say that open-worlds have become this generation's defining gameplay feature. Immersive worlds, diverging paths, exploration; these buzzwords and phrases characterize a large portion of the AAA gaming space. Games like The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Grand Theft Auto 3 paved the way for The Witcher 3 and Metal Gear Solid V to capture the time and imaginations of the gaming community. The success of these titles has caused the feature to percolate into the rest of the industry, leading to a landscape dotted with sprawling worlds and open air.


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L'uomo dei no è un singolo di Giovanna pubblicato nel 2014 dalla Kicco.

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L'uomo dei no (Paolo Limiti, Andrea Ferrante)

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Last Friday, we had our monthly meeting for our new Cookbook Club. Each month, one of the girls hosts a dinner party in their home and the rest of us bring one recipe from the pre-selected cookbook or cooking magazine of their choice. Over the past two months, each hostess has also taken the opportunity to write about their cookbook selecting process, what they did to prepare for their guests, or whatever else was on their mind. This month, Tami was excited to host Cookbook Club in her new home and selected one of her favorite DIY gurus (Martha Stewart, of course) and her magazine as the starting point for this whole event. So without further ado … we introduce our very own Tami!
Ever since I moved into my new place, I have been excited to get the opportunity to host. I also feel like these types of events are great motivation towards making sure your new home is ready for guests. A big part of my preparation was putting up pictures on my walls, accessorizing properly, and purchasing my last pieces of furniture. I chose Martha Stewart's Living as my "cookbook" and the rest is history.
I knew right away that I wanted to use this magazine for more than just its delicious recipes as this particular publication is packed full of decor ideas as well. I began by creating a "Friendsgiving Menu" on craft paper (just like Martha's on page 25) which instead of being placed on my wall acted as a runner on my dining room table. I also used page 84 as inspiration for my overall color scheme and the way I displayed each candle and flower arrangement.
I was immediately drawn to this wheat which I purchased at Gelson's for it's seasonal appeal with a little edge.
Small flower arrangements were added throughout the front part of my apartment as well as lit candles to make my guests feel at home.
Many delicious recipes were used from this month's magazine as well as other traditional Thanksgiving side dishes.
As the host, I felt the need to make a main dish. I felt like it would have been nice to make an actual turkey, but settled for a turkey sandwich instead. Someday, I will be brave and cook a turkey, but this was not that day. The monte cristo sandwiches, however, were delicious!
As December is sure to be a busy month for all, our Cookbook Club decided to resume in January. Though this does not mean you have to do the same. If you happen to continue during the month of December, good for you! No really, that takes a large amount of determination, and we want to hear all about it! What cookbook or magazine are you planning to use? Check back with us later this month and we will announce our pick for January. Until then … keep on cooking! Happy Thanksgiving from Side by Side Design!
Tami is a single girl in the city (LA that is!), and a few months ago she found a new apartment to call her own. Although she loved living in Brentwood, Tami knew that she needed a little bit more space, a less cluttered more adult home, and above all … a kitchen! She did have one before, but it is not the easiest thing in the world to cook without counter space and a full size oven. Therefore, she began looking elsewhere and found what she was looking for in Sherman Oaks (not to mention crown moldings, all new appliances, and granite counter tops).
Next, Tami got excited for changing up her home decor. She ditched her old couch, added a new dining room table and chairs as well as a fun gallery wall (seen on Monday's post, DIY: Create a Gallery Wall), and bought a few new accessories to finish off her overall Parisian look. Luckily, Tami knew just who to ask for advice when choosing throw pillows and bar cart accessories. With the help of Lauren, they made this apartment (which already had beautiful finishes) into a home that truly fits Tami's style.
This chamsa collection brings Tami good luck as she enters and exits her space.
A soft place to rest after a long day is very important to this city girl. Therefore she knew she had to switch out her stiff Ikea couch for a nice new sectional. Not gonna lie … she got a great deal as well! It pays to have an Interior Designer for a sister. She knows all the best places to shop! A gorgeous new lamp and white linen shade along with a tray full of candles and a few pictures in frames adds a Parisian fullness to this black lacquered end table.
Funky fur, ruffled, and sequin pillows add to the eclectic nature of Tami's space.
A collection of photos are paired with large silver candle stick holders and a fun canvas print on Tami's mantle. This adorable antique stool was found by our father. We added spotted fur to make an extra place to sit.
A low media cabinet fits perfectly under Tami's gallery wall and is just the right height for her TV. We love how shiny the bright white finish is.
These chairs weren't meant to go with this awesome table, but we love how unexpected of a combination it is. How can you go wrong with lacquer, leather, and fancy acrylic legs? This antique silver mirror followed Tami from her last place. It is one of her favorite flea market finds.
Another awesome flea market find turns into Tami's new "bar cart". Wine bottles and accessories are paired with a vintage decanter, beautiful silver goblets, a shiny black cake stand, and lots of candles.
Tami feels like she waited too long to have a "real kitchen" again, and this one truly makes her happy. It has plenty of cabinet space, counters to prepare meals on, and a brand new dishwasher. You might not think any of these things are a big deal, but you would be surprised that in LA many apartments come without.
In honor of Tami's new kitchen (and newly decorated space), she invited the girls over for Cookbook Club this past Friday. We cannot wait to share the details with all of you and showcase how Tami dressed up her Parisian living space even more than it already was to entertain her guests. Check back with us on Friday!
About a year ago, Tami took on a really fun project. Gallery walls are all the rage right now, and she was dying to add one to her space. Since then (as you know) she has made a move to a new apartment and her gallery wall that she had started collecting for is finally complete, but that is not to say that the process was an easy one. In this post, we would like to take you through Tami's steps towards creating her own gallery wall and give some tips along the way for those of you hoping to create your own.
The first step was to collect prints and frames that all went together in one cohesive look. Tami started by purchasing this adorable watercolor flamingo that she had been obsessing over for a long time. Chandeliers have always been a favorite of Tami's, but ironically she has never owned one. However, a few years ago Tami splurged on two photographs of gorgeous chandeliers (seen on our previous post, Revisisting: Gothic Shabby Chic Apartment). To stick with the theme of "Tami's favorite things", she added two more watercolor prints that were LA inspired to last year's Chanukkah wish list. Her family was more than happy to gift these two additions to her gallery wall as they knew it was something she truly wanted. Next, she collected different sized black and white frames from all over (including Aaron Brothers, Ross, and Michael's). She decided to throw in a couple glossy frames for a chic effect.
The next step was to add text to the gallery wall. Tami decided to use a quote that was currently speaking to her life in her new space as a way to tie the whole wall together. Tami hopes to always "be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons". Each letter was hand stenciled by Tami herself onto canvas paper.
Painters tape is one of Tami's best friends. It truly served its purpose in this project as well. Together, we placed tape around each frame and then used it to map out the gallery wall. As this was our first time doing something like this, we definitely learned a lot! Here's a big tip from someone who learned it the hard way: Make sure to measure very carefully ahead of time. We ended up moving the tape several times until it was in the right spot. Luckily painter's tape is easily removed and replaced, and although this was annoying it was worth it in the end.
Once we got each piece in place, we were able to step back and see how it all looks together. We love the watercolor details throughout, the small pops of color, and the all black and white frames. Tami is so excited to finally have this gallery wall as a permanent part of her home and can't wait to share the rest of her space with all of you. Check back on Wednesday for a look at Tami's Parisian living space.
It's Friday! Time for one of our favorite things … food! With Thanksgiving just around the corner, we figured this was the perfect time to share a special pumpkin recipe we created. Last year (right around this time), we used the recipe found here to make pumpkin fudge for a family gathering. Our Brother-in-Law has severe allergies to many types of foods and for some reason we thought this would be a nice alternative for him since he can't eat regular pumpkin pie … boy were we wrong! It turned out he couldn't eat this either, but it's a good thing because we completely botched the fudge! It didn't end up having the consistency we hoped for and ended up just tasting like regular pie filling without the crust. As you know (and we have mentioned in many posts), we do not claim to be the best bakers around, but we do feel we are two very creative girls. So, we took this as an opportunity to take another failed experiment and turn it into a delicious treat.
We began by filling the bottom of small plastic cups with broken up graham cracker to create the crust we were missing.
A layer of the pumpkin "fudge" was added to the middle. To skip a step, just add your favorite pumpkin pie filling.
Each individual cup was topped with Cool Whip and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
We ended up serving these pumpkin pie shots at another family gathering and we are so glad we did! They tasted amazing and were super easy to make. We hope you have enjoyed this edition of our weekly Food Fridays post, and that we have even possibly given you a new treat to try this Thanksgiving. Do you have a favorite pumpkin recipe that you would like to share? Leave a comment below with the link or your own unique recipe. We can't wait to hear from you! Have a great weekend from Side by Side Design!
Now that we have officially showed off our new website, we have had lots of people inquiring about our business model and what Side by Side Design is actually all about. Although we could sit here and recite our mission statement word for word, that is not necessary. When we say that we do Interior Design, most people can relate and understand what that means. However, while planning for our business, we knew that we wanted to add another component to take this kind of design one step further. We have found that almost all of our clients love to entertain and choose to dress up their space for each event they are having. Besides the fact that we already loved event planning, we figured who would better know our clients' tastes and needs when it comes to styling their own homes for a special day, and that is where the Side by Side Design concept began.
We decided to create a fictitious home dinner party in honor of Thanksgiving to show off this very concept. We also plan to use this post to show our process and give you a few buying tips for a project like this.
The first thing we do is to pull inspiration photos for how we envision the finished event. We love this inspiration photo for its classic elegance. There are so many fun details yet it looks effortless. The house is the perfect backdrop for this gorgeous table setting.
Our next step would be to find some sort of special detail that makes this event unique. We felt these pheasant plates from Pottery Barn (now on EBay) added to the natural quality of the design and created some interest at each place setting.
Once we have the key design elements in place, it is time to select our rentals. Town and Country was the perfect fit for this event as they had just the chair we were looking for.
We loved the table cloth so much in the inspiration photo, that we knew we needed to find that shade of linen. Luckily Sferra had it in their Festival line.
We found this idea at Martha Stewart Weddings and thought it could be fun to tie in name cards with lavender bunches for each place setting.
If this were an actual project, we would of course hire our favorite florist Kayla from House of Magnolias to make flower arrangements reminiscent of this gorgeous tablescape. We would periodically place one of these marble footed bowls filled with fruit to fill in the space.
Every elegant table deserves lots of gorgeous candlelight, and we like the mix of these tall gold candlestick holders with the dark gray glass votives.
We hope this helped clear up some lingering questions. Of course, as this is meant to be a Thanksgiving dinner table and there's no place for food on the table, we would come up with an equally gorgeous buffet for each dish to be properly displayed. If you still have questions about us or our design work, please leave us a comment below or fill out our client inquiry form on our website's contact page. We are looking forward to next week's festivities and hope that all of you have a beautiful Thanksgiving.


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Black Ink Monday
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has declared today "Black Ink Monday":
Over the last 20 years, the number of cartoonists on the staff of daily newspapers nationwide has been cut in half. In the last month alone, the Tribune Company (owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and a half-dozen other prominent papers), has forced out well-known and award-winning cartoonists at the LA Times and Baltimore Sun, eliminating their positions entirely. [...]
In an open letter to Tribune CEO Dennis FitzSimons, AAEC President Clay Bennett recently wrote: "There are few journalists in a newsroom who can define the tone and identity of a publication like an editorial cartoonist does. By discarding those who make a newspaper unique, you rob it of its character. By robbing a newspaper of its character, you steal its spirit."
You can view 100 editorial cartoon protests at this page of the AAEC website.
Why should you care about this? Some might put it this way: "It's the First Ammendment, Stupid." Others might note that this "downsizing" trend is happening throughout America; as corporations continue their absorptions, mergers and monoplies, lining their CEOs' pockets by demandinge more work from fewer workers for less cash, the next position to be eliminated could be your own. Still others might take an historical approach, noting that editorial cartooning played an important role in the founding of this very country:
That, of course, is Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join, or Die" cartoon from the May 9, 1754 edition of Franklin's newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette. It's considered the first editorial cartoon in what would eventually become the United States. By trampling on the editorial cartoon tradition, the Tribune Comany tramples on a fundamental piece of what makes America, America.
Here's a story about the recent acquisition of an original print of this cartoon by none other than Steve Geppi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Comic Distributors. Insert your own joke about monopolization here...
Update: Curiously, there's nary a mention of Black Ink Monday in today's Houston Chronicle; after all the complaints I've heard in Houston about how "liberal" the Chronicle is, I was hoping to see some coverage. They didn't forget to include the Editorial Page's daily "Bible Verse," though. (Curiously, the Bible Verse seems to be just about the only portion of the paper not reproduced on its website. Hmmmm...)
Update Nummer Zwei: For more background on the reasons for Black Ink Monday - and to learn that editorial cartoonist Paul Revere understood the power of revision - check out this animated editorial cartoon by past AAEC President Milt Priggee. It takes a few minutes to watch/read, but it's worth it to get a sort of panoramic view of the current situation. And be sure also to read the enlightening essay "In Defense of Editorial Cartooning" by Chris Lamb (entry for December 9 at Daryl Cagle's blog). Thanks to the Ever-Amazing Elena Steier for telling Milt Priggee about the Blog Machine!
Labels: blogs, cartoonists, editorial, history
posted by Gene Kannenberg, Jr. at 12/12/2005 09:15:00 AM Links to this post
Yeah, the Houston Chronicle is so liberal they've supported Bush in the last two elections. Maybe we're just too backward looking as actual print readers, but this monopolization has already had a deleterious effect on the "news" we get -- in what ever format.
Like the supposed "War on Christmas" the powers-that-be promote, the general public gets treated to sleight-of-hand tricks which ask them to concentrate on non-issues while real power and real money gets looted from their pockets. Ask people in New Orleands (or Darfur, for that matter) how that's going for them.
dj sciz said...
Gene, I read this just before I left for LA, and it's been on my mind ever since. Over lunch, a few of us uninformed idly wondered just how much a role comics play in newspaper sales. The only reason my husband and I get the newspaper is to read the Sunday funnies. Yet they shrink in size and get less interesting. And now the depletion of editorial cartoons comes to light. Why *do* people read newspapers? Maybe there's a place for editorial animators on the 24-hour cable channels, which are a snore and a half. Maybe some editorial animation would perk them up!
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"Then I'd tell America to plead the Fifth Amendment."
Monday night's Presidential Debate was, um, interesting in the Chinese curse sense. Analysis of who won the debate itself is all over the spectrum, because no one knows anything anymore about what, if anything, is going on in the minds of voters. So Hope n' Change will share our honest and considered opinion, but it hardly matters - rationality is no longer a major factor in this race. Nor a blessing to those still afflicted with it.
In our view, we saw a largely out-of-control contest (nice moderating, Lester!) between a master schemer and a stream-of-thoughter. Hillary wore a robotic smile as she lied and lied with well rehearsed, entirely scripted answers. Trump seemed somewhat unclear on the idea that "answers" should be at least tangentially related to the "questions," lacked anything remotely like specifics, but did not disappoint in the bombast category.
There were multiple opportunities for Trump to utterly destroy Hillary - and he unfortunately missed every one of them. He was like a man at a buffet who had no plate. In the future, he needs to listen harder to what Hillary is actually saying so he can take advantage of her more ludicrous statements.
All of that considered, Hope n' Change still believes it's vitally important to vote against Hillary on election day. Largely unchallenged, she spouted nonsense like Reagan's economic policies being the cause of the 2007 financial crash, Rudy Giuliani's "stop and frisk" policies in New York being ineffective (they dramatically reduced crime), the tremendous "success" of the Iran nuclear deal, the idea that jobs will be magically created by making the evil rich pick up the bill for meaningless "free" college educations, and the implementation of new, draconian training programs to force all police officers to deal with their "implicit racism."
In recent weeks, we've actually seen considerable improvement in Trump's demeanor and rhetoric at rallies, so it's possible that debates simply aren't his thing. For that reason, Hope n' Change isn't devoid of hope - but we are looking forward to more change in Mr. Trump's next debate appearance.


Man and Society are as old as the world in which the two occupy some space. From ancient societies through millennia of evolution, man and society have continued to subject themselves to series of transformations.
Man and Society are as old as the world in which the two occupy some space. From ancient societies through millennia of evolution, man and society have continued to subject themselves to series of transformations. In this part of the world, man's society is influenced and dominated by the capitalist economic production relations.
At this juncture, the notion that man is the product of his society or man creates the society he lives becomes a conflict to be resolved through logical deconstruction. Karl Mark asserts that; "man consciousness is shaped by the social realities of his society" as against the idealist notion; that man's ideas and consciousness shape realities.
Today, the dominant socioeconomic force is the capitalist production relations that promote profits above social welfare. Therefore, the world today lives witness to alarming chasm in the income distribution between the very rich 1percenters, the poor and very poor 99percenters. The growing inequalities across social barriers brings to the fore the inherent weakness of man exhibited through greed in every human society.
I will begin to discuss addictions in all ramifications and its negative consequences on man and his society. There are three types of addictions revolving around man as the centerpiece of attentions and castigation, Substance addiction, behavioral or process addiction and position addiction.
While substance addiction involves drug abuse, alcoholism etc, behavioral or process addiction is mood altering behavior such as gambling, sexual activity, eating disorders, spending spree and over indulgence in entertainment. Without forgetting the most intoxicating of them all, position addictions. This is a kind of addiction associated with power, influence and affluence. It is the type Nigerian politicians cultivate do or die mentality to acquire through the ballot and the military through the barrel of the gun.
Just like every other type of addiction, the position addict enjoins his power, influence or affluence at the expense of the less privileged poor masses. In Nigeria today, the society is in the throes of all of these types of addictions. The youths in the face of disillusionment are hook to one brand of substance or the other for escapism. Across the broad spectrum of gender, age and social status, behavioral or process addiction has eaten deep into the people's way of life.
Why is the African continent especially Nigeria the largest market for imported products from industrial countries of the world? We can locate the answer at the doorstep of "Addiction" to foreign products. Today, medical tourism has entered the lexicon of our gluttonous addiction. Political elites, top public and civil servants and religious leaders are culpable of addiction to foreign exotic taste. They caused capital flight by their globetrotting in search of safe haven for their stolen and looted funds.
Where is the African intelligentsia today? Unlike in the days of yore when those confronted with conflict and contradictions generated by western values reacted. They were the educated people imprisoned by the external events in their own indigenous society. They have no alternative than to react violently and relentlessly to the restless moving world in which they are captivated. Such captivated intelligentsia were the communal elites that often fight to liberate their communities from the clutches of imperialism or otherwise become the nationalists who fought the colonialists to attain independence for their countries.
Today, across the continent of Africa, cultural and religious imperialism through media imperialism have inundated the young African youths that they can no longer think and reason straight out of the box. They are imbued with numb sensibility to the social realities of their time. Why? Because they are drowning in myriad of addictions.
Finally, across the spheres of social religious and political divide, the elites are caught in rabid position addiction. Their ultimate goals are power, influence and affluence to the detriment of the poor masses. Central to the fundamental focus of my proffered solutions are; immediate and systematic shift from religious doctrines to emphasis on State ideology stringent State promotion of moral and ethical conducts, promotion of diversity in our heterogeneous culture and national citizenship. Furthermore, enforcement of patriotism, manifesting in respect for national symbols, public properties and strengthening social institutions.
Here lies the war within that had been ravaging the existence of our society, Nigeria.


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We go about our lives almost as if we're in a comatose state at times….like zombies shuffling through time. Alarm goes off…time to get up…take a shower….grab a bite, gulp the coffee…get dressed…get kids organized…and out the door. At work we have occasional moments of freshness and clarity, only because usually something "new" comes across the desk, to do…but overall, our minds are in drone position, designed to operate at an even, uninterrupted pace. And even though we think that this kind of living is reality, it's really all in the mind.
Have you ever sat quietly and let your mind race, to places it wants to go? Artists, musicians, writers and people in the arts in general do this all of the time. It's called "imagination," and it takes us to spaces and heights that others think are unimaginable….but that's the whole point of art…to think beyond the confines of earthly reality…to take us to "another place." This, to me, is the "magic" of art…that it can transport people to other realities.
As a human group, we contain something called a "human consciousness." It is the collective thoughts of all, combined into one overall idea, or image, of the way things are, or should be. If the collective consciousness thinks the world is a bad place, then the world will reflect that. And if one takes a general look around, it's obvious that human consciousness has decided that this place is a mess. Can the same human consciousness imagine, also, that this place can be wonderful? Absoloutely. Everything great that ever came to be on earth, began with imagination. Even John Lennon of the Beatles wrote about it, in his song "Imagine." Because it really is that simple….it really is all in the mind.
Think lovely thoughts,
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Of the people graduating from top engineering programs, 9 percent are black and Latino, but representation at tech firms typically falls around 5 percent, according to the EEOC's recent analysis of the 2014 EEO-1 data the agency collected. That means the current talent pool is being underutilized, EEOC Chair Jenny Yang said today at a public meeting between EEOC commissioners and a panel of experts including Kapor Capital Partner Benjamin Jealous, McKinsey & Company Partner Kweilin Ellingrud, AARP Foundation Senior Attorney Laurie McCann and others.
Orrick Partner Erin M. Connell at the EEOC teleconference in San Francisco. On screen is Benjamin Jealous, partner at Kapor Capital.
The report also outlines a few "concerning trends," like how the tech industry nationwide employed a larger share of white people, Asian Americans and men than the overall private industry, according to 2014 EEO-1 data.
Among leading tech firms in Silicon Valley, 57 percent of executive employees were white, 36 percent were Asian American, 1.6 percent were Hispanic and less than 1 percent were black, according to the EEOC's 2014 data analysis. Among the total employed at top Silicon Valley tech companies, 47 percent were white, 30 percent were women, 41 percent were Asian American, 3 percent were black and 6 percent were Hispanic.
Diversity and inclusion in tech, as it turns out, is a top priority for the EEOC. That sentiment was made clear today in Yang's opening remarks and in the EEOC's latest report. Although the meeting took place in Washington, D.C., I was able to sit in at the teleconference at the EEOC's San Francisco district office, where Connell participated via the livestream.
Ultimately, today's meeting was a big brain-picking session around issues relating to diversity and inclusion, with the intention of bringing the topic to the mainstream and getting commissioners focused on it. The next step for the EEOC is having conversations with tech companies, though, the solution Jealous put forward to create a national mandate is one that could be really effective.
"At the end of the day, it comes down to companies being reluctant to change," Jealous said during the Q&A portion.
Be sure to check out the EEOC's full report here.


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Canadian tuition prices continuously rising as government funding declines
By Haeley DiRisio
November 23, 2020 / 0 Comments
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The cost of university in Canada has been on the rise for the last few decades. More recently, there has been a steady increase of tuition costs in the past few years. A report that Statistics Canada released in 2018 showed that the cost of tuition for full-time undergraduate programs for the 2018-19 school year was $6,838, on average. That marked a 3.3 per cent increase from the previous academic year.
The most expensive average tuition fees in undergraduate programs for the 2018-19 academic year were seen in dentistry ($23,474), medicine ($14,780), law ($13,332) and pharmacy ($10,746). Statistics Canada reported that "these four programs accounted for 3.6 [per cent] of all Canadian undergraduate students."
Kayla Weiler is the national executive representative for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), an organization that represents 550,000 students across Canada and advocates for the rights of students. Weiler said that "one of the main pillars of the organization is advocacy for funding for post-secondary [fees]."
Particularly in Ontario, there has been a shift in funding when it comes to post-secondary schools. In the 2003-04 academic year, there was a government-mandated tuition freeze.
"Every year since 2005, up until this past school year, institutions had the ability to increase their tuition fees based off of a standard that was set by the government," Weiler said. This resulted in an increase in tuition and decrease in government funding.
"In the 1970s and 1980s, each institution in Ontario had roughly 70 to 80 per cent of the funding from the Ontario government, and the rest was tuition fees," Weiler said. "Instead of that 80 per cent of government funding, it's dropped down to roughly 30 per cent [today]."
Public colleges and universities in Ontario are "publicly assisted rather than publicly funded, since most of its funding comes from tuition fees," Weiler added.
Knowledgefirst Financial, one of Canada's largest Registered Education Savings Plan companies, released a chart that estimated the average national costs of university in Canada from 2022-39. By 2037, the company estimated that it could cost as much as $30,931 for first-year tuition.
David Robinson, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, said that the rising tuition fees would be untenable for most students, which could be a major issue going forward
"Many students will simply not be able to afford these fees," Robinson said. "Given that a university or college education is as important today as a high school education was just a few generations ago, we need to find ways to ensure that any qualified student who wants to attend post-secondary education should not be deterred by costs."
When it comes to tuition fees, students often make decisions based on their financial position and what they can afford. "The sad thing is, there is a trend where people choose school based off the finances, not necessarily going to their dream school," Weiler said. Prior to the 2019 cuts to the Ontario Student Assistance Plan (OSAP), more students were eligible for student loans. Those students are now choosing not to go to school because they did not receive the funding they needed, which they would have qualified for a few years ago.
A 2017 report by CFS about student debt in Canada stated that in 2015, $19 billion was owed to the Canada Student Loans Program. "A student with $30,000 in debt can expect to pay an additional $10,318.87 in interest over ten years," the report read.
As Robinson pointed out, it's not uncommon for people in the workforce, such as his fellow teachers, to struggle to pay off their loans for years after they graduate. "Many of our members today began their careers with large student debt loans that they struggle to pay," Robinson said. "This is particularly true for the growing numbers of teachers who are hired on fixed-term contracts at low pay and with few, if any. benefits."
Students who enter the workforce with large student debts and struggle to find jobs in their fields often choose to take any job that they can get. Weiler said this is another economic issue that leads back to the cost of tuition.
"It hurts the economy," she said. "Debt — public or private — binds people from making those major purchases, such as buying a house or starting a family. There are a lot of people delaying that because of their student debt."
Amid an uncertain economic landscape, advocates like Weiler and the CFS hope to curb the rise of tuition across Ontario and the rest of the country.
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class EnumerateTests(TranspileTestCase):
    def test_enumerate(self):
        self.assertCodeExecution("""
            lst=['a','b','c','d','e']
            print(list(enumerate(lst)))
            lst=['a','b','c','d','e']
            print(list(enumerate(lst,start=-40)))
            lst=['a','b','c','d','e']
            print(list(enumerate(lst,start=46)))
            lst=[('a',4),'b','c',10,'e']
            print(list(enumerate(lst)))
            print(list(enumerate([])))
            print(list(enumerate([], start=10)))
            """)

    def test_enumerate_invalid_start_args(self):
        self.assertCodeExecution("""
            try:
                print(list(enumerate(['a','b','c'], start=None)))
            except TypeError as err:
                print(err)
            try:
                print(list(enumerate(['a','b','c'], start=1.5)))
            except TypeError as err:
                print(err)
            try:
                print(list(enumerate(['a','b','c'], start="start_string")))
            except TypeError as err:
                print(err)
            """)

    def test_enumerate_invalid_iterable(self):
        self.assertCodeExecution("""
            try:
                num=10
                print(list(enumerate(num, start=10)))
            except TypeError as err:
                print(err)
            try:
                print(list(enumerate()))
            except TypeError as err:
                print(err)
            """)

class BuiltinEnumerateFunctionTests(BuiltinFunctionTestCase, TranspileTestCase):
    functions = ["enumerate"]

    not_implemented = [
        'test_bool',
        'test_bytearray',
        'test_bytes',
        'test_class',
        'test_complex',
        'test_dict',
        'test_float',
        'test_frozenset',
        'test_int',
        'test_list',
        'test_None',
        'test_NotImplemented',
        'test_range',
        'test_set',
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North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters Pyongyang might now consider detonating a hydrogen bomb outside its territory.
NORTH KOREA | KIM Vs. TRUMP
US President Donald Trump is "mentally deranged" and will "pay dearly" for his threat to destroy North Korea, Kim Jong-Un said Friday, as his foreign minister hinted the regime may explode a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
In a rare personal attack published hours after Washington announced tougher sanctions, the North Korean leader took aim at Trump over his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly in which he branded Kim "Rocket Man" and threatened to "totally destroy North Korea".
Trump "insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history", Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
"I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the US pay dearly for his speech," which he called "unprecedented rude nonsense".
The dispatch was accompanied by a photo of the North Korean leader sitting behind a desk holding a piece of paper.
"I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged US dotard with fire," he said.
On the fringes of the UN General Assembly in New York, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho told reporters Pyongyang might now consider detonating a hydrogen bomb outside its territory.
"I think that it could be an H-bomb test at an unprecedented level perhaps over the Pacific," he said.
However, he added: "It is up to our leader so I do not know well."
Trump's new executive order prohibits firms from operating in the United States if they deal with North Korea.
The move was the latest effort to tighten the screws on Pyongyang over its banned weapons programmes, following it sixth nuclear test -- the largest yet -- and the firing of two missiles over Japan in recent weeks.
It also came after the UN Security Council agreed a further set of sanctions on North Korea, aimed at reducing its ability to trade with the outside world.
Analysts say the sanctions show no signs of working, and cautioned that the increasingly ill-tempered and personal exchanges between Washington and Pyongyang did not augur well.
"There are some very dangerous things that could come that move this from theatre to reality. This is the time to be heading them off, not making them feel inevitable," said John Delury of Yonsei University in Seoul.
He added that Kim's rare first-person statement could also have been aimed at North Koreans.
"He is telling his country that the American president at the United Nations said he is going to totally destroy us... but I am not going to let that happen," Delury told AFP.
The statement was published Friday in North Korean newspapers and read out on state television by a star news anchor speaking over a still image of Kim at his desk.
The announcement, which was scheduled to be played repeatedly throughout the rest of the evening, was followed by video footage of a giant missile on a launch pad and North Korean soldiers angrily waving fists and guns in the air.
Ri Yong Suk, manager of the Pyongyang Dental Sanitary Goods Factory, told AFP in the North's capital that she had read the statement in the newspaper.
"I am full of faith that everyone will support the dear leader and safeguard our country," she said.
Still hope for peace
Washington has refused to negotiate with Pyongyang, despite appeals to do so from China and Russia, who are both uneasy over Trump's bellicose tone.
However in a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Trump suggested the door to dialogue remained open.
"Why not?" he said, when asked whether there could be talks with Pyongyang.
China wields the most influence on North Korea, providing an economic lifeline. But it also fears the consequences if the regime collapses, such as an exodus of refugees or a US-allied, reunited Korea on its border.
"Negotiation is the only way out and deserves every effort," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the General Assembly.
The sentiments were echoed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who said "military hysteria is not just an impasse, it's disaster".
North Korean envoy Ri is expected to meet on Saturday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who will send out feelers on possible diplomatic talks.
But Chung Sung-Yoon, analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP that the North itself may have shelved the idea of negotiations until it reaches its nuclear goal.
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Infertility, NOT Fertility Drugs, Linked to Raised Risk of Ovarian Cancer
Fertility drugs do not increase a woman's risk of ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.
FRIDAY, July 6, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Fertility drugs do not increase a woman's risk of ovarian cancer, a new study suggests.
It did find that infertility itself is associated with an increased risk of ovarian cancer.
The researchers examined data from more than 58,000 women in Denmark who had infertility treatments (ART, or assisted reproduction technology) between 1994 and 2015. The investigators then compared them with more than 549,000 women who did not undergo ART.
"We found that the higher risk of ovarian cancer among women having assisted reproduction treatment was only present among those with diagnosed female infertility," said study author Anja Pinborg. She is a professor in the fertility department at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, in Denmark.
"And in a general population we saw that ovarian stimulation does not seem to increase the risk of ovarian cancer," she added.
The findings were presented July 3 at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, in Barcelona. The study addresses long-held concerns that the fertility drugs could be a risk factor for ovarian cancer.
In a meeting news release, Pinborg said the results are "reassuring," and added that she "would advise infertile women contemplating ART treatment to go ahead. Ovarian stimulation itself is not introducing any excess risk of ovarian cancer."
Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
SOURCE: European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, news release, July 3, 2018
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The History of Chiropractic
Written by Ron Grassi, DC MS ACFEI; Reviewed by Stephen M. Perle, DC, MS
The understanding that the spine is somehow involved in health and wellness, as well as the practice of using manual manipulation as a source of healing, dates back to the time of the ancient Greek philosophers. In fact, Hippocrates once said, "Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases." The practice of using manual manipulation as a source of healing, dates back to the time of the ancient Greek philosophers.
The First Chiropractic Adjustment
Modern chiropractic, however, marks its beginnings in the late 1800s, when a Canadian living in the US, Daniel David Palmer, a self-educated teacher and healer, performed the first spinal manipulation on a patient.
That patient was Harvey Lillard, a janitor who worked in Palmer's building. Lillard was nearly totally deaf and mentioned to Palmer that he lost his hearing many years before when he was bending over and felt a "pop" in his upper back.
Palmer, who was a practitioner of magnet therapy (a common therapy of the time) was quite knowledgeable in anatomy and very interested in how the spine interacts with the rest of the body's systems. He felt strongly that the two events—the "popping" in Lillard's back and his deafness—must somehow be related.
He examined Lillard's spine and found a problem with one of his vertebra. Palmer manipulated Lillard's vertebra and an amazing event occurred—Lillard's hearing was restored. Today, this procedure is known as a chiropractic adjustment.
Palmer soon discovered that adjustments could relieve patients' pain and other symptoms. These problems with vertebrae have been called chiropractic subluxations.
He began to use these "hand treatments" to treat a variety of ailments, including sciatica, migraine headaches, stomach complaints, epilepsy, and heart trouble. In 1898, he opened the Palmer School & Infirmary of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, and began teaching his chiropractic techniques to others.
Initial Resistance in the Medical Community
The medical community did not immediately embrace Palmer's chiropractic theories and techniques. The called him a "quack" and refused to acknowledge his accomplishments. At one point, Palmer was even indicted for practicing medicine without a license and spent time in jail for his offense.
Research has shown that Palmer was not the ignorant fish monger that some in the medical profession claim. An investigation of this library, which he quoted liberally in his letters, showed that he was up to date in his knowledge at the turn of the 20th century. Of course, his theories, in the light of 21st century knowledge, look uneducated.
Chiropractic Today
Today, chiropractors are licensed in all the US states, Canadian provinces, most European countries, Australia and New Zealand. There are more than 50,000 practicing chiropractors in the US alone. Despite its North American roots, there are now more chiropractic educational programs outside of North America. Chiropractic continues to gain wide acceptance by the medical, legal, and patient communities through its record of beneficial results and ongoing research
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Gaucher-Peslherbe PL. Chiropractic: Early Concepts in their historical setting. Lombard, IL: National College of Chiropractic; 1993.
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Happy Tuesday... It's Day 2 of the NND September Release and today we are sharing a Fun Halloween set called Creepy Cameos and it's Coordinating Dies. There's also an add on Cameo Frame die.
I have a million ideas on how to use this set and that Gorgeous Frame die. For my project today I imagined a Wall with the frames hanging on it. I found some pattern papers in my stash that resembled wallpaper.
I created a Black card base and added the pattern paper after I die cut it with a stitched rectangle die. Then I die cut the Cameo Frame from some Black Glimmer paper twice. I created a background on some Bristol card stock with some Twisted Citron Distress Oxide ink and cut it down to fit behind the frames. Then I stamped the silhouettes onto some White card stock and trimmed them out with my scissors to get a closer cut. I adhered them in the frames with some liquid glue.
I adhered the frames into the background with some foam tape. I stamped the sentiment onto some White card stock in Black ink and used a die to cut it out. I added some foam tape to the banner as well. This is such a fun set and a Halloween must have!!
Your wall hanging is wonderful as a Halloween project. Very creative.
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This is a wonderful card for Halloween! So funny!