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Finding YOUR Community At Private School: It's Not That Easy!
March 12, 2011 May 14, 2013 admin Leave a comment
If all goes well, hopefully many of you will have a child starting private school this fall. It's an exciting time but also a big adjustment for kids and parents alike After all, this is LA, where meeting other moms can be a Sisyphean task under the best of circumstances. Private school is no different (at least it wasn't for me and a lot of my friends). The first day of school may be eye-opening for a bunch of reasons. You might observe:
Unnaturally thin moms
Mannies or bodyguards/drivers for kids
Lumpy cheekbone implants and terrible nose jobs (spectacular duck lips too!)
Talk of fabulous art collections, construction of multi-million dollar homes, summer vacations to exotic locations
Your favorite designer clothes being worn by somebody else (gasp!!!)
Hermes Birkin handbags
One or two really nice moms who invite you to join them for coffee while you wait for your kids.
But, this was just my experience. Yours may be totally different.
I've learned that the issue of "community" at your child's school is one that means different things to different people.
Some moms will say, "I don't want to hang out with parents at my kid's school, I have my own friends."
Others will expound on the virtues of having a close group of friends at their kid's school, saying "we love our school because we feel such a sense of community with the other families."
But what is "community" at a private school? For me, it's moms who get together for coffee or lunch. It's dads who get together for "guys night out." It's about being able to call a mom in your kid's class to ask advice or just vent without being judged. It's families who have dinner together. It's about a mom calling to say, "I saw your daughter on the yard today and she looked so happy." It's more than a quick "hi" at morning drop-off. It's knowing each others names.
I was talking with a Willows mom recently and she brought up what she perceives as the school's lack of community. Her kids are not in the same grade as mine. She was lamenting the lack of community, but she told me it does allow her family to maintain their privacy. "Nobody is in your business, because nobody is interested,"she said. "True." I responded. What she's talking about isn't a clique. It's the opposite of a clique.
It's not that I want the epitome of a sorority. But, community at my kids' school is very important to me. I want my kids to feel like they belong to a community of families. It hasn't happened overnight, but I've made a few very good mom friends at school. My kids have made some close friends too. But, it hasn't been easy. Our first year at The Willows was difficult for a number of reasons. My daughter was bullied by a girl in her class, which made her transition more difficult than it would have normally been. It was (and still is) a geographically fragmented 4th grade. This has been one the biggest obstacles to building a sense of community with other families. The other obstacle, quite honestly, is that my daughter's grade has a lot of parents who fall into the category of "I don't want to hang out with parents at my kid's school." Some of them still don't know each other's names after having kids in the same grade since kindergarten. Friendships, in my opinion, tend to be very superficial among the majority of moms. Many have older siblings and are busy with their activities.
The lack of community in my daughter's grade has been the single biggest challenge with our school. I had hoped for a closer knit group of families. Now that my kids are in 2nd and 4th grade, it's less important than it was the first few years. By this age, my kids are picking their own friends. By secondary school, I imagine I'll be looking for other qualities in a school like academic offerings and athletic programs.
I'm baffled by the mom who has been saying to me for the past 5 years, "let's get the kids together for a playdate." We had one playdate set up several years ago. She cancelled five minutes before I left the house to drive my daughter to her side of town. She asked again recently. I contacted her, but they weren't available. I give up!
I'm in a parenting group run by parent educator Betsy Brown Braun. When I brought up this issue in the group, she gave me very reassuring advice: "Christina, it doesn't matter whether your daughter's friends are from school or not, it just matters that she has friends."
A mom who is new to the school this year confided in a friend of mine that she and her child were having trouble meeting families (and kids) at the school. I immediately called her and we had lunch with our kids. To me, that's what a community is about.
This might be a good topic to think about when you pick a school. If I had it to do over again, I'd make sure to ask the question of the admissions directors, parents and anyone else who might know: "Does your school have a strong sense of community?" What kind of events does the school have to give parents a chance to get together? Does the school emphasize community? If so, in what ways? Do parents here develop meaningful friendships?
Ultimately, if you want a school where there is more than the mere illusion of community, you'll have to find a school where that exists. Or, create it yourself once your child is there.
To its credit, The Willows has begun to make an effort to help moms get to know each other. "Willows Wednesdays" is a new event for parents to meet for coffee each week. After all, our school has the word "community" in it's name. The Willows Community School.
Here's a great article called "The Other Mothers" on the Power of Moms blog. The perfect piece as you begin to meet other moms in the private school world. Then if you want a really good laugh, like LOL… read the insanely popular Bloggess as she talks about mommy business cards at the park.


Q: Greg, what are 1966 to 1970 Buick GS coupes worth? I�d love to buy one. I want to buy one that�s either already been restored or in good driving condition. I see them on the TV auction shows, but those are priced too high for my wallet. Can you give me some advice? Steve L., Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania.
A: Steve, I�ve mentioned in my columns before that there has always been a special place in my heart for Buick brand automobiles. As the first official make sold by General Motors way back when, my love affair started in my grandfather�s garage, where there sat a black 1948 Buick Special, four-door straight-eight with a manual transmission. Of course, I utilized his car as my playroom from 1952 (when I was three) to 1958, when we packed up and moved away. My grandfather then made a U-turn from his love of Buicks, and purchased a brand new, blue 1962 Ford Falcon. As for me, I owned a 1951 two-door Special that I bought in 1969 for only $300 and a 1983 all-white Park Avenue, which I bought used and drove until it had 115,000 trouble free miles on it.
As for Buick when it comes to muscle cars and specifically the GS models you seek information on, these cars made some strong impressions on me during my high performance years. Many a Chevelle SS396, Plymouth Roadrunner, Dodge Super Bee or Pontiac GTO got a good look at the rear quarters of many a Buick GS, especially from the years 1967 to 1971. These Gran Sports, and especially the Buick Stage I and GSX models, not only looked good, they ran like the dickens. In 1969, my buddy�s 400-inch Stage I model was running sub 13-second quarter miles regularly, and all we did was add a set of headers (an additional 20 horses) and I let him use my 3-barrel 950 cfm Holley carb, which we needed an adapter to work on his aluminum intake. His rear end was a 4.33 posi, and he needed some good M&H Racemaster slicks to hook up the horsepower. I think he ran a best of 12.85 at about 108 of memory serves me correct.
As for current pricing, the nicer the car, the more you�ll pay. A fully restored 1970 Buick GSX 455 Stage I will run $75,000 and up to over $100,000, so this one is probably out of your reach, However, I�d browse the Auto Roundup and Hemmings Motor News publications first as Buick GS models, including the GS350 and GS400, from 1965 to 1970 in driver quality can be parked in your driveway for $10,000 to $20,000. I checked the eBay offerings, and there are many nice ones to choose from, some numbers matching others not. But overall, if you buy a muscle car era Buick GS, you�ll attract a lot of attention at the car shows.
Remember that price guides are just that and many times don�t really do justice to the current market as the buyer and seller determine what a car is worth. Good luck, and if you buy one, please send us a photo! By the way, if you hit the lottery, the 1970 GSX is the best of the bunch. It could outrun a Hemi Roadrunner if both were in factory trim.
Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now, BestRide.com and other GateHouse Media publications. He welcomes reader questions on collector cars, auto nostalgia and old-time racing at 116 Main St., Towanda, PA 18848 or at greg@gregzyla.com.


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It was announced today that Iowa City will be changing their park benches. Current park benches in Iowa City have an arm rest in the middle which obviously doesn't allow anyone to lay down on the bench. Iowa City is going to replace their park benches with benches that do not have an arm rest in the middle so the homeless can lay down on the park benches. Iowa City will be using $10,000 to replace 14 of their 70 park benches.
At first thought, it seems like a good idea to allow the homeless to lay on the benches instead of the much colder ground. But after reading the comments it sounds like the benches that had armrests in the middle of them were to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. So it sounds like a change of heart as far as the city goes.
But one other point that was made was the fact that that money could be used to improve shelters that would make them more enticing than sleeping on a park bench.


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We travelled to Bunbury yesterday for my shoulder injections and to do a bit of shopping. After an excellent and cheap lunch at the Marlston Chinese Restaurant in Bunbury, we drove on to Mandurah to stay overnight at the just-opened Sebel Hotel, on the spot where the old Peninsula Hotel used to be.
The Sebel is doing some excellent opening deals at the moment. It was my husband's birthday last Sunday, so why not? We got one of the bigger rooms for an opening special price of $122 for the night — an EXCELLENT price for a 4+ star hotel.
The fittings and finishings were what I'd expect from this star level hotel, and quite minimalist as is the fashion these days. And although there's no restaurant in the hotel, there's one in the same building on the ground floor. We didn't eat there though — instead we walked along the boardwalk into town and had a light meal at Murphy's Irish Pub, followed by some good music from Billy Neal(e), a one-man-band guy.


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December 14, 2017 at 12:04a.m.
The clock is ticking again on Team Sanders, the nonprofit organization by William and Kiisha Sanders of Warren, to put a deserving family in a new home for Christmas.
For the third-consecutive December, Team Sanders is in the midst of a renovation project, this time for a family of five who has fallen on hard times but should be moving into a two-story century-old home on East Market Street near Linden Avenue by Dec. 21.
Wednesday, William and Kiisha and two other volunteers were hard at work removing staples that held down carpeting over hardwood floors, but there is still a lot more to do, and donations are needed to meet the deadline.
"It's really crunch time," Kiisha said as she led a tour through the home, showing a kitchen not yet equipped with cabinets and counters and a floor needing to be replaced. Donations are also needed to pay for the kitchen flooring, and they need a handyman or two as well.
A work party is planned for Saturday to focus on replacing the floors, but the upstairs bathroom still needs the walls surrounding the bathtub to become a shower, Kiisha said.
There are other wall projects to finish, and there's lots of work needed to install donated insulation and drywall in the attic to provide the family with a fourth bedroom or play area. The couple is expecting a fourth child in about six months.
Team Sanders got a donation of siding, but is seeking a donation to install it.
Like the previous two years, Team Sanders acquired the home at no cost through the Trumbull County Land Bank.
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"We want the people to know we want them to pay it forward," William Sanders said of the families receiving the donated home.
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Insight Turkey > Reviews > Book Reviews | Updated: Monday, April 1, 2013
After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics Within the Successor States
Reviews | Insight Turkey Spring 2013 / Volume 15, Number 2
Yugoslavia was established after World War I as the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. Although the name of the newly-founded state bore the names of Croatians and Slovenians, the administration until World War II remained primarily under Serbian rule. Even the change of the country's name in 1929 to Yugoslavia (the Land of the Southern Slavs) did not mean that Serbian rule had ended. The country was invaded by the Axis powers in World War II. During those years, the pro-Axis Ustasa Croatian state was formed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.
Yugoslavia was established after World War I as the Serbian-Croatian-Slovenian Kingdom. Although the name of the newly-founded state bore the names of Croatians and Slovenians, the administration until World War II remained primarily under Serbian rule. Even the change of the country's name in 1929 to Yugoslavia (the Land of the Southern Slavs) did not mean that Serbian rule had ended. The country was invaded by the Axis powers in World War II. During those years, the pro-Axis Ustasa Croatian state was formed in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. During the war, Cetniks and Communist Partisans fought not only each other but also the invaders and the Ustasa state. The winner of the confrontation that claimed the lives of more than a million people during the war was the Partisans, and 1946 witnessed the establishment of the Socialist Yugoslavia under the lead of Josip Broz Tito.
Being a Communist leader, Tito, in the first years of his rule, saw the USSR as a model. The Yugoslavian Constitution of 1946 was drafted with inspiration from the Soviet Constitution of 1936. After 1951, however, Tito's relationship with the Soviets deteriorated. Still, the communist practices and the centralist model were retained. The model Tito had formed was based on a federation that consisted of six federal states and two autonomous regions. Tito's rule continued until 1980. It was a period in which Yugoslavia had seen its most peaceful times since the Ottoman Empire. In the post-Tito era, Yugoslavia began to march towards fragmentation. The Serbian-Croatian war that broke out in July 1991 upon the simultaneous independence declarations of Croatia and Slovenia continued until January 1992. In the meantime, Macedonia declared independence in November 1991. Upon Bosnia–Herzegovina's declaration of independence in the spring of 1992, Serbia and, to a certain degree, Croatia—along with the local people—fought in the war in Bosnia. A ceasefire was finally achieved with the Dayton Peace Treaty after three and a half years.
Milosevic's military offensive against Kosovo in the spring of 1999 and the NATO intervention that followed increased the likelihood of the independence of the autonomous region, and Kosovo declared its independence on November 17, 2008, following an eight-year temporary UN/EU rule. Meanwhile, Serbia and Montenegro, which had been left as the remnants of Yugoslavia, were peacefully divided in 2006. The six federal republics and the Kosovo autonomous region that once had formed Yugoslavia now become independent states.
The book After Yugoslavia: Identities and Politics Within the Successor States, which was co-edited by Robert Hudson and Glenn Bowman, examines the issues of identity and ethnicity in the post-Yugoslav states. The book mainly analyzes the situation that emerged after the Dayton Peace Treaty in 1995, and identity problems from linguistic, religious, ethnic and sectarian differences as well as pro-hegemonic and separatist identities are examined. The book consists of 14 articles that study the problems of new states that are connected with other former Yugoslav states and their shared history. It does not seem possible to state that the individual articles carry a sense of entirety in themselves. Although the authors of the articles have put efforts into being neutral, their identities/nationalities inevitably cast their reflections on their point of views.
There is no doubt that the book, in its current condition, will make a contribution to the literature. That being said, it must also be acknowledged that the book fails to reflect on the actual situation in the post-Yugoslav environment. In the book, the problems of the post-Yugoslav republics are analyzed with rather a sociologic perspective. It must be stated that those who would review the book with an expectation of evaluation or analysis based on the international relations discipline will be disappointed. Let us take a brief look at the articles in the book.
In the study by Vojin Dimitrijevic, the problems caused by ethnic nationalism's organic roots in the constitutional base are covered. While some states, due to pressure from the EU, managed to undertake changes regarding this issue, others failed to realize such changes. After Milosevic's fall from power, Serbia was unable to make a constitutional change. In the next article, the status of Kosovo, which was an autonomous region under Serbia, is elaborated in terms of both the pre- and post-independence eras. It is argued that the case of Serbians who remained within the borders of Kosovo after 2008 bears resemblance to the state of Kosovo in Serbia in the pre-independence era. The author maintains that the division of the regions which are populated by Serbians and Albanians will not provide a solution because division will be a bad example for Macedonia and the Sancak, areas that are both ethnically complicated. The solution, according to the author, is a participatory democratic model with a broad recognition of minority rights. In the third article, it is questioned whether or not the resistance movement in Kosovo, which rejected violence, could be a model for countries and people in similar circumstances. Whether or not the stance of the Kosovo Democratic Union under the lead of Ibrahim Rugova bore any fruit is debated. Did the attacks by the Serbian regime and the emergence of the pro-violence groups setback the unarmed resistance? Or should today's Kosovo be viewed as an outcome of the struggle undertaken by Ibrahim Rugova? The author argues that Rugova had contributed to the process of independence in a positive way.
In the next two articles, the reflections of the Kosovo problem on Macedonia are studied. Partially irredentist tendencies of Albanians that constitute one quarter of the population in Macedonia, and the fact that the conflicts concern states in the region other than Albania, are elaborated in the article. In the sixth article college students' demonstrations are explained, and the next article deals with the problems seen in Bosnia regarding the compatibility of ethnicity with the citizenship that has its roots in the Dayton Treaty. In Irena Sumi's study identity problem in Slovenia are examined. Slovenian nationalism, the EU membership process, and the role of the church in Slovenian society are analyzed. In the study prepared by Slavko Gaber, it is suggested that Slovenia has managed to maintain a peaceful co-existence of moderate nationalism with the process of EU membership that requires a partial reduction in sovereign rights. It is also suggested in the article that this practice can be viewed as the roadmap for Serbia on its path to Brussels.
An example of the traumas caused by the processes of integration with international society and by nationalism, two experiences that have been seen from the 1990s to the present, is examined in the article "The Fear that Replaced Nationalism: Untamed Capitalism", prepared by Renata Salecl. In the study by John B. Allcock, it is questioned whether or not academics are capable of scrutinizing the Yugoslavia model and its practice without their identities and prejudices. In this context, the meaning of the war correspondents' phrase that "Truth is the first casualty of war" is questioned in connection with the academic life. The problems seen in the neutral examination of the theory and the practice Yugoslavia state are also covered.
After Yugoslavia is, despite its shortcomings, an important work. The book primarily serves the purpose of drawing attention to Balkan geography. In its current scope, the book seems to lack a sense of entirety, and fails to capture all of the ethnicity and identity problems in the region. A disorganization of the approaches and analyses of numerous authors, some which occasionally drift towards subjectivity, is in fact inevitable in most studies that involves editorship. At this point, one should see the glass half-full, instead of half-empty, and acknowledge that the book has been both a means and a pioneer for future original studies that will be undertaken in this field.
Identity Problems
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Dayton Peace Treaty
Balkan Geography
İrfan Kaya Ülger
Robert Hudson and Glenn Bowman
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Join the noble fight to bring Bob Marley Ben & Jerry's to America
By Kristin Hunt
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After giving Gilly her own ice cream earlier this summer, Ben & Jerry's is closing out the season with another tribute pint, this time to the man who's graced every college dorm room wall in America: Bob Marley.
Since Marley's album Legend turns 30 this year, Ben & Jerry's decided to mark the occasion with a special pint called Satisfy My Bowl. It's a banana ice cream with a caramel/cookie swirl that's dotted with tiny chocolate peace signs -- and before you ask, no, those peace signs have not been injected with any mind-altering substances. The treat was made in partnership with the 1Love Foundation, with proceeds going towards a youth empowerment program in Jamaica. But guess what? It's only available in the UK.
A bunch of banana ice cream-hungry fans in America have already started a petition to bring Satisfy My Bowl stateside. Right now, they're at 3,852 signatures, which is pretty close to their goal of 5,000. Once they hit that goal, the group is planning to beg Ben & Jerry's via email to make the pint a global flavor. We wish them the best of luck, but just in case, someone should really put out the distress signal to Snoop Lion.
Kristin Hunt is a food/drink staff writer for Thrillist, and still can't believe the Liz Lemon Ben & Jerry's flavor was fro-yo. Follow her to character assassinations at @kristin_hunt.


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Once just a remote-control toy for civilians, drones (also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) have matured into valuable project management tools. Their cameras provide project managers access to big-picture views of project sites, allowing project teams to more easily assess progress, identify risks and manage stakeholder expectations.
Potential project benefits go well beyond aerial photography, however. Organizations increasingly are turning to drones to boost data gathering and worker safety. Indian Railways deploys drones to help generate detailed construction site status reports more quickly for project sites across the country—which helps ensure those projects stay on schedule. Global mining giant Rio Tinto uses drones to inspect equipment and project sites, particularly in difficult-to-reach and dangerous areas that imperil human inspectors, and when larger tools (such as helicopters) would increase cost.
these sectors leverage drones to drive efficiency.
Yet the rapid adoption also presents unique challenges for project leaders, says Brett Hoffstadt, PMP, a project management and aerospace engineering consultant from Sacramento, California, USA who helps organizations integrate drones. Regulatory uncertainty and rapidly evolving technology mean drones fly project teams into uncharted territory and force them to prepare for unknowns.
Organizations' attraction to drones is driven in part by an appetite for data, says Jesper Falk, market director and head of section for mapping and surveying at global engineering consulting firm COWI in Copenhagen, Denmark. When connected to the right mix of computing power and sensors, drones can provide project managers with deep insights to sharpen and speed decision-making and reduce project surprises.


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This morning your anchors interviewed University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger on President Obama's plan to reduce speculation in oil markets. Mr. Greenberger's answers revealed his own confusion.
Most obviously, Mr. Greenberger repeatedly objected to persons investing in oil futures "passively" – as he said, "with no interest in actively controlling these assets, just hoping to make a buck when their prices rise." Ummm…. Does Mr. Greenberger own stocks only in companies that he actively manages? If not, why is it okay for him passively (and speculatively!) to buy, say, a few dozen shares of Microsoft "hoping to make a buck when their prices rise" but not okay for other persons to speculate in oil for the very same reason?


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Q: Error in installing Bad Piggies game through Wine I am trying to install Bad piggies game using Wine but the following is appearing in the Terminal:
vmlinux@ubuntu:~$ wine uninstaller
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:richedit:ReadStyleSheet skipping optional destination
err:msi:ACTION_InstallFiles Failed to copy L"C:\\users\\vmlinux\\Application Data\\Rovio Entertainment Ltd\\Bad Piggies 1.3.0.0\\install\\9D1A059\\updater.exe" to L"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Rovio Entertainment Ltd.\\Bad Piggies\\updater.exe" (2)
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallFiles" returned 1603
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1603

The installation failed. What may the problem be?
(I have Ubuntu 13.04).Thank you.

A: Yes, it is possible to install it but only the initial release (version 1.0.0).
According to winehq.org that is.
Instructions to make it work can be found here: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=26748
You are trying to install version 1.3.0.0 which is confirmed to NOT work on wine. You can however use a VM (virtual machine) to get it to work.

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Q: Routing to a simulated network running inside an AWS Instance So, we're running a simulated network on a server in AWS and i'm trying to figure our how to enable routing to that simulated network both from inside AWS and from our remote offices.
Our VPC CIDR is 10.10.0.0/18
The Simulated network is 10.10.128.0/20 (just outside the range of the CIDR associated with the VPC
Our server is sitting on 10.10.10.5
BGP is avertising the 10.10.0.0/18 route to our offices and I can access the server (not the simulation network) from within AWS and from remote office sites.
Within the routing table associated with the VPC, I can add a route to 10.10.128.0/20 via the network interface of the server. This works, and allows traffic from AWS servers to the Simulated network. However, remote sites cannot, as 10.10.128.0/20 is outside 10.10.0.0/18 that is advertised through BGP.
I cannot add 10.10.128.0/20 as a CIDR associated with the VPC, without removing the routing entry from the routing table. I've tried this, and 10.10.128.0/20 gets advertised to remote sites but there is nothing inside AWS to tell the traffic to go to the server interface, so anything to 10.10.128.0/20 addresss gets "effectivly" blackholed.
While the simulation network CIDR is added to the VPC, I cannot add a static route for the same CIDR to route via the Server Interface. While the simulation network CIDR is added to the routing table through through the intances eni, I cannot add the simulation network CIDR to the VPC.
I'm stumped where to go next...

A: You need to add a static route at your remote sites to forward traffic to 10.10.128.0/20 to the address of the AWS bgp peer.  Redistribute that route inside your remote site(s).
You could also consider NATing your simulated network (maybe just management interfaces?) to something in the VPC range.


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Assistance Dog Helps Veteran Transition Back to Civilian Life
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By: Colleen Murphy
Friday, November 11, is Veteran's Day. Here's a story of one veteran, Carl Ringberg, and how his assistance dog is helping with his transition back into civilian life:
In 2013, Ringberg and six-year old golden retriever, Jed, were the first graduates of Helping Paws PTSD, a program to help train assistance dogs to help veterans who are affected with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Ringberg had served in Afghanistan from February to August 2002 and in Iraq from February 2003 to February 2004, the Helping Paws website said. According to Ringberg, he did a lot of research into service dogs for veterans with PTSD and searched for the right dog for two years.
"When I heard about a local pilot program at Helping Paws, I decided to go to their facility and look at their dogs," Ringberg said in
an email. "My dog, Jed, wasn't going to be placed because he has 'separation disorder' that Helping Paws thought would be a drawback. But once I tried working with Jed, it was clear that he needed me and I needed him. He needs constant contact, loves to be touched, and for me, reaching out to Jed was exactly what I needed, too. It is a perfect fit."
Jed now assists Ringberg in his job as a senior district fleet manager at Waste Management in Minnesota. There, Ringberg oversees maintenance and parts for a fleet of 84 trucks and a team of 12 technicians and operations associates, according to the company. Jed is there to help keep Ringberg calm, manage workplace stressors and fight off emotional numbness associated with living with PTSD. Waste Management said that Jed even brightens the day of the veteran's colleagues.
"I start the day off with a good attitude—no depression, no anxiety," Ringberg said in an email. "Jed wants to go with me wherever I go. He is with me when I have conversations with the mechanics and he just generally brightens up the workplace. If I have a flashback moment or lose focus, Jed keeps me in the present—he senses that I need him and he knows how to keep me on task and in the moment."
Jed now accompanies Ringberg to veteran hiring fairs and local hiring events with hopes of finding other veterans that can benefit from employment with Waste Management, the company said.
"Before I got Jed, I was afraid to go out of the house. I couldn't go to the grocery store, school activities for my kids—I would hide," Ringberg said in an email. "Having Jed has changed my life. While he isn't with me every day, he is still there for me when I need him. It has changed my life at home, too. Reaching out to Jed transfers to reaching out to my kids. Jed has broken down the emotional numbness brought on by PTSD and he has allowed me to live a much fuller life."
Dogs like Jed provide key assistance to veterans suffering from PTSD, and it is estimated that, today, one in five veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan—nearly 300,000 veterans—have PTSD, according to Waste Management.
And it is service dogs like Jed that are helping today's veterans, including the 16 in the Twin Cities area who have been helped by service dogs from Helping Paws, Hopkins, Minnesota, Ringberg said.
"These dogs have helped veterans make the transition to civilian life," Ringberg wrote. "In the military, we have to work as a team, we have to lean on each other. That isn't always the case when we get back home… sometimes we are on our own and afraid to reach out to others. Jed has helped me through that, and I am grateful that I have an employer like Waste Management that has been patient with me through my day to day struggles."
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Record early start of southern hemisphere NLC season
Monday, November 28, 2016 Friday, March 4, 2022 Updated on Friday, March 4, 2022 18:26 UTC
The southern hemisphere noctilucent clouds (NLC) season has started early this year and tied with 2013 for the earliest southern hemisphere season on record.
The 2016/17 southern hemisphere noctilucent clouds season started on November 17 and tied with 2013 for the earliest southern hemisphere NLC season in the CIPS data record, said Cora Randall, a member of the AIM science team at the University of Colorado. "This was not at all a surprise," she added, "as the southern hemisphere polar stratospheric winds switched to their summer-like state quite early this year."
Credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU LASP / AIM
At the end of the 2014/15 season, in March 2015, Randall reported that the season was clearly different from the rest in an 8-year-plot of the Antarctic noctilucent cloud frequencies.
"This season [2014/15] was not like the others. The clouds were much more variable, and there was an enormous decrease in cloud frequency 15 to 25 days after the summer solstice. That's when the clouds are usually most abundant."
These data come from the AIM spacecraft, which was launched in 2007 to monitor NLCs from Earth orbit. The curves show the abundance ("frequency") of the clouds vs. time for 120 days around every southern summer solstice for the past 8 years.
Previous research shows that NLCs are a sensitive indicator of long-range teleconnections in Earth's atmosphere, which link weather and climate across hemispheres. The strange behavior of noctilucent clouds in 2014/15 could be a sign of previously unknown linkages.
"Preliminary indications are that it is indeed due to inter-hemispheric teleconnections," Randall said.
According to Dr. Tony Phillips of the SpaceWeather.com, there is growing evidence that noctilucent clouds are boosted by climate change. In recent years they have been sighted at lower latitudes than ever before, and they often get started in earlier months as well.
NLCs in action
Below is, by far, the best noctilucent clouds timelapse we've seen so far.
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Credit: Adrien Mauduit
Featured image: Southern hemisphere noctilucent clouds (NLCs) on November 24, 2016. Credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU LASP / AIM
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The Fiery Heart is the fourth book in Richelle Mead's  Bloodlines series and was released on November 19, 2013. It is told from both Adrian's and Sydney's perspectives. As from the start of the series, Sydney Sage is an Alchemist who been assigned to protect the Moroi princess, Jillian Mastrano Dragomir, from the assassins who would like to overthrow Vasilisa (Lissa) Dragomir, the Queen of the Moroi, from her throne.

Plot
The novel begins where The Indigo Spell left off, when Alchemist Sydney Sage proclaimed her love to the Moroi Adrian Ivashkov. That starts their taboo relationship just as Sydney's younger sister Zoe is introduced as an Alchemist tasked to both watch over Sydney and learn from her. The Fiery Heart is told in alternating chapters, between Adrian's perspective and Sydney's. Sydney begins to accept her path in defying the Alchemists by being initiated in Jacklyn Terwilliger's coven of witches, which is named The Stelle. Sydney finds out from one of the witches that the oldest witch in their region, Inez, has had a history with personally fighting Strigoi. Inez claims it was because her blood tasted bad to them. Sydney has been having the same issue, and is immediately curious. She asks her mentor Jackie to take her to meet Inez. Things are further complicated when Sydney receives a call from her father, notifying her of his impending divorce and his expectation that Sydney will testify against her mother in order to win custody over the underage Zoe, and thus ensure that she will stay on the path to becoming an Alchemist.

Adrian continues to struggle with a balance in his use of Spirit, with the ever-looming threat of darkness that envelops him if he uses too much. Previously turning to alcohol and cigarettes to mute Spirit's effects, he and Sydney have made a pact to cut down on their vices (hers being caffeine addiction) in order to try live a healthier lifestyle. An incident with one of Adrian's fellow college artist friends, a student named Rowena, causes a block of concrete to fall on her hand while she is constructing a sculpture. This leads Adrian to impulsively heal her hand, worried that a broken hand would ruin her future career as an artist. After Adrian begins to crash from the high of Spirit magic, he begins to hallucinate hearing the voice of his dead aunt Tatiana, and consequently begins to heavily drink again. Sydney finds him in a disheveled state, and suggests that Adrian begin taking anti-depressants in order to cut him off from Spirit and thus the darkness. Adrian argues that he is not able to cut himself off of Spirit, for fear that those he cares about might need his help.

Zoe begins to grow suspicious of Sydney as she continues to be absent with the excuse for doing work for Ms. Terwilliger. Zoe tells Sydney her constant involvement with the teacher is unnecessary, as is being too friendly with the Moroi and Dhampirs. Sydney retaliates by saying that being involved is necessary for their mission and for their cover. Sydney, Jackie, and Adrian then travel together to see the witch Inez. Inez is at first a little sarcastic and bitter, but eventually warms up to Sydney when she sees how committed she is after making her change her flat tire, and that she has already been initiated into a coven. Inez reveals that the reason Strigoi were not able to drink from Sydney was because she had been using magic, and had thus tainted her blood. Sydney soon learns that magic is bound to the Moroi blood, but that witches have to draw their magic from the Earth. This leads her to get the idea of replicating the tattoo that her friend and ex-Alchemist Marcus Finch created in order to break the magic in the Golden Lily tattoo that all Alchemists possess.

Lissa contacts Adrian and assigns him to inspect a new Strigoi restoration in the hope of being able to discover why those who have been restored are no longer able to turn Strigoi again. Adrian meets the newly restored Dhampir Olive, and senses that there is Spirit magic still lingering in her blood. Spirit continues to leak out of the blood after it is taken from Olive, and Adrian, with the help of Spirit user Nina Sinclair, charms several silver rings to contain it long enough to be sent back to the Royal Court and be properly inspected. Invigorated with his achievement and high on Spirit's power, Adrian attempts to celebrate by surprising Sydney by preparing crème brulée for her, but he begins to crash from his high when he realizes he doesn't have enough money to buy the necessary ingredients. He begins to hear the voice of his late aunt Tatiana again, who encourages him to sell the cuff-links she had once bought him for his birthday. Adrian compromises with pawning one of the rubies that embellished the cuff-links for $200. Sydney cancels their date, leading Adrian to spiral into darkness as Tatiana continues to haunt him, leading him to spend all the money on a drinking binge.

Jill, sensing Adrian's distress, wakes Sydney up and convinces her to help him. Sydney is disappointed in Adrian, and after talking to Rowena, finds him yelling outside the pawnshop for the ruby. Sydney pays the money Adrian owes and breaks down in front of him once she drives him home, telling him she is scared of how far Spirit's darkness might take him over. Jill eventually convinces Adrian to try taking the pills, pointing out that it's not a life-long commitment. Adrian visits a therapist, who diagnoses him with bi-polar disorder and prescribes him mood stabilizers.

Zoe and Sydney meet their father, who has come into town to discuss the details of the divorce. He gives them both folders with photos and information for them to study, wanting them to testify against their mother and make her appear to be an unfit parent. He then updates Sydney on the details of Keith's re-education, and video-calls him to show Sydney the full effect it has had on him. Sydney, frightened that Keith has turned into a lifeless husk of himself, takes the initiative in re-creating Marcus's ink. She tests the tattoo on Trey without having a way to find out whether or not it truly worked, because she does not have access to the golden ink.

Adrian, Sydney and Neil are summoned to Court in order to help with the blood sample, and in the hope that Sydney would be able to create a binding tattoo with Olive's blood. Sydney compiles a list for Abe Mazur to acquire the necessary ingredients, and requests that he get her double the amount in case she were to make a mistake. While waiting, Adrian and Sydney take the opportunity away from Alchemist eyes to spend time together as a couple touring the Moroi Court. The run into some of Adrian's old partying friends while at a diner, who tell Adrian that they would like to "dabble" with Sydney, as she has never had her blood drunk before. Outraged, Adrian orders them to leave. This disappoints his friends, saying Adrian never used to mind before. Sydney overhears the conversation, and Rose reveals to her that "dabble" is the blood equivalent to date rape.

Sydney is disgusted and angered with Adrian, because he used to willingly take part in something similar. After finishing the ink mixture for the blood, Sydney is confronted by Abe, who catches on to the fact that she wanted double the ingredients and senses she needed it for her own purposes. Abe agrees to use Earth magic to charm the vials of Moroi blood in the mix of tattoo ingredients, and promises he won't tell anyone.

Adrian is confronted about his lack of Spirit use when he didn't help the other Spirit users contain the magic in Olive's blood as they were tattooing Neil. He then reveals that he is unable to access his magic due to mood stabilizers. Sydney forgives him after understanding that he is trying to change and that they are now both different people from the past. After walking toward her hotel room, Sydney is attacked by Adrian's old friends, who attempt to drink her blood. She uses some of her magic to startle them and run off. Adrian comes to her rescue, hitting one of the guys with a tree branch. Lissa attempts damage control of the incident by making Adrian, Sydney, and Neil leave Court as soon as possible, anticipating backlash from the Alchemists.

On the drive to the airport, they get caught in a blizzard and Sydney crashes the car into a tree. While waiting for a tow truck, Sydney creates a ball of fire to keep them warm despite the fact that Neil has no knowledge of Sydney's abilities. They stay at an inn while their car is being repaired, and Sydney and Adrian make love for the first time.

Neil confronts Sydney, telling her he would keep her secret but he needs her help to track down a Strigoi in order to truly find out if the tattoo worked. He assures her it is safe by recruiting Eddie for their mission. Angeline begins to grow suspicious of the three talking in secret, and asks Adrian's help to find out what's going on. He dismisses her and says not to worry. He plans Sydney's birthday celebration, leading to Adrian and Sydney making love once again in her car. Zoe later finds Adrian's cellphone in the car, revealing his relationship with Sydney.

Sydney, Eddie, and Neil successfully track down the Strigoi. However, they had underestimated him, previously believing he was a young and inexperienced Strigoi. The Strigoi is unable to drink from Neil, revealing the tattoo worked. Eddie is able to finally kill the Strigoi when Angeline, Trey, and Jill show up to help them.

Marcus contacts Adrian, setting up a time for them to exchange Sydney's replicated ink. Adrian decides to set the meet up at Ms. Terwiliger's house, as it was unlikely to be monitored by the Alchemists. As they grow concerned when Sydney fails to show up to the exchange on time, Eddie drives up to them and reveals that Sydney has been captured by the Alchemists.

Ms. Tewilliger is unable to scry for Sydney. Adrian is frustrated that he doesn't have the use of his magic to allow him to Spirit dream to find her. The novel ends to Sydney being sensory deprived and subjected to Alchemist mind games as she begins re-education.

Characters

Main
 Sydney Sage - The protagonist of the series. Sydney is an Alchemist and witch, she is highly intelligent and has a natural ability for magic. Initially repulsed with all things unnatural as was taught by the Alchemist, Sydney begins warming up to Dhampirs and Moroi after spending time and helping Rose Hathaway and eventually begins a taboo relationship with Adrian Ivashkov.
Adrian Ivashkov - A Moroi royal in the Ivashkov line, Adrian is charismatic and charming, having a reputation as womanizer and almost always associated with alcohol and smoking.  Adrian cleans up his act as he feels he is not worthy of Sydney. Adrian is one of the rare few Spirit users and has a psychic bond with Jill Mastrano after he brought her back to life prior to the series beginning.
Jillian Mastrano-Dragomir - A Moroi princess and  half sister to Queen Vasilisa Dragomir. Due to certain Moroi laws, Lissa is only able to hold onto her throne if she has one other living relative, those who wish to overthrow Lissa have attempted to assassinate Jill, with one succeeding until Adrian brought her back to life. Jill is shadow-kissed, and is able to see and hear everything Adrian experiences, leading to complications in Sydney and Adrians relationship.
Eddie Castile - Dhampir and Guardian of Jill Mastrano, Eddie is a long time friend of Rose Hathaway. Eddie has feelings for Jill, but does not deem himself worthy of a princess.
Angeline Dawes - A Dhampir from 'The Keepers', a mixed group of Moroi, Dhampirs and Humans who live in a mountain in West Virginia, is assigned to help protect Jill Mastrano. She is from a place where humans, Moroi and Dhampirs all coexist with one another and is often scrutinized for being somewhat uncivilized. Angeline is hot-headed and learning the ways of the world away from her village, often leading her to cause trouble. She's described as strong, blunt, lethal and smart despite her upbringing and young age.
Trey Juarez - A human and former member of the Warriors of Light, a group of humans who hunt vampires. He is good friends with Sydney and works at the local coffee shop Spencer's. At first, Trey struggles against the beliefs of his group, but when the Warriors cut him and his dad off, he starts spending more time with Sydney and against all logic falls in love with Angeline. He finally realizes he was wrong and his new Moroi and Dhampir friends were never the enemy.

Secondary characters
Jaclyn Terwilliger - A history teacher and witch at Amberwood Prep. She is Sydney's mentor in witchcraft and is quick to help Sydney when she needs her on her personal missions without question.
 Malachi Wolfe - Sydney and Adrian's old self-defense instructor. He often tells extravagant and impossible tales of bravery he has achieved. He begins a relationship with Jacyln Tewilliger.
Marcus Finch - An ex-Alchemist identified by an indigo lily tattooed on his face. He is helping those who have seen the deceit and oppressive views of the Alchemists. He helps those wanting to quit by breaking their Golden Lily tattoos and building a rebellion.
Neil - The newest Dhampir Guardian to assigned to protect Jill, he is described as having a British accent and being very uptight and overly dedicated to his job. Neil respects Eddie as a Guardian but also feels a sense of rivalry with him.
Jared Sage - Sydney and Zoe's strict father. He is no nonsense and very cold and critical toward his daughters and those around him.
Rosemarie Hathaway - Dhampir Guardian and best friend to Queen Vasilisa Dragomir. Rose was the one who broke the initial boundaries of Sydney's fear of vampires by asking for her help after she was framed for the murder of the late Queen Tatiana. She is in a romantic relationship with Dimitri Belikov.
Dimitri Belikov - Dhampir Guardian to Lissa's boyfriend Christian Ozera. He is a former instructor and teacher of Rose whilst she was at St. Vladamir's Academy. He was turned Strigoi but was restored by Lissa. He is in a romantic relationship with Rose Hathaway.
Zoe Sage - An Alchemist and Sydney's younger sister. Zoe has an intense need for her father's approval and is more gullible and susceptible to the Alchemist's way of thinking. Sydney does not wish Zoe to be an Alchemist and wishes Zoe was free from her father's influence.
Sonya Karp - A Moroi and ex-teacher at St. Vladamir's Academy. She is one of the rare Spirit users and one who succumbed to the darkness of Spirit, leading her to turn herself Strigoi. She was restored by Robert Doru and is married to Mikhail Tanner.
Vasilisa Dragomir -  Called Lissa by her friends is the Moroi Queen, best friend to Rose and half sister to Jill Mastrano. Lissa is a Spirit user who restored Dimitri from his Strigoi form.
Inez Garcia - A powerful and old witch. She holds vital information for Sydney to uncover a way of replicating ink that would break the Alchemists Golden Lily tattoo.

References

 Mead, Richelle (12 November 2012) "A Bloodlines Birthday". Richelle Mead's blog. Retrieved 19 February 2013.

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Trump: Why allow immigrants from 'shithole countries'
US President Donald Trump has expressed frustration over efforts of some US lawmakers to protect immigrants from Haiti and African countries, asking why America should accept citizens from "sh***ole" countries, triggering protests.
President Donald Trump questioned Thursday why the U.S. would accept more immigrants from Haiti and "shithole countries" in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he discussed a bipartisan immigration deal, according to people briefed on the extraordinary Oval Office conversation.
"Why are we having all these people from sh***ole countries come here?" Trump was quoted by multiple media reports.
The President was referring to African countries and Haiti, and then suggested the US should welcome immigrants from places like Norway, whose prime minister met with Trump on Wednesday.
The President, according to a White House official, also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt they help the United States economically.
Reached for comment about the article, the Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary, Raj Shah did not deny the "shithole" remark, but instead said in a statement that Trump "is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation."
The President's comments were first reported by The Washington Post.
Several Democratic lawmakers slammed Trump for his comments and described them as racist comment.
"President Trump's comments are racist and a disgrace. They do not reflect our nation's values. Immigrants from throughout the world of all races, nationalities, and religions have built this country and are contributing today to its improvement," said House Democratic Whip Steny H Hoyer.
"These comments clearly reflect the President's true feelings on immigrants and make it extremely doubtful that he will work in an honest, decent way that reflects America's best values on legislation to protect DREAMers," Hoyer said.
"As an American, I am ashamed of the president. His comments are disappointing, unbelievable, but not surprising. We always knew that president Trump doesn't like people from certain countries or people of certain colors," alleged Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez.
"Language like that shouldn't be heard in locker rooms and it shouldn't be heard in the White House," said Congresswoman Ilena Ros-Lehtinen.
In a statement, Shah said the President will only accept an immigration deal that adequately addresses the visa lottery system and chain migration – two programs that 'hurt American economy and allow terrorists into the country.'
"Like other nations that have merit-based immigration, President Trump is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation," Shah said.
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Charlene Bach
September 3, 1935 ~ April 14, 2017 (age 81)
Charlene Bach, 81, of Lawrenceville, Illinois passed away Friday, April 14, 2017 at the Lodge of the Wabash in Vincennes, Indiana. She was born September 3, 1935 in Bridgeport, Illinois, the daughter of Raymond and Agnes (Leighty) Moore. She married Ronald E. Stevenson, Sr. on June 12, 1952 and he preceded her in death on June 18, 1963. They were blessed with four children: Nicki, Terri, Jay and Jan. She later married Merle E. Bach on September 26, 1964 and he preceded her in death on July 23, 2015.
Charlene was a nurse at Richland Memorial Hospital, Deewood Nursing Home in Sumner, and then retired from Lawrence County Memorial Hospital. She was a member of and pianist at Pleasant Ridge Christian Church, and a former member of Shiloh Baptist Church. Her hobbies included sewing and crocheting. In earlier years, she worked with Anna Jane Roberts as a cook at the Brookside School. She was active in the Brookside PTA, leader of the West Bond 4-H Girls Club for 10 years and helped teach many girls cooking, sewing, childcare, leadership, etc. She also assisted in supporting the Pleasant Ridge Youth group.
Preceding her in death were her husbands.
Survivors include her two sons, Michael Bach and wife, Ginny, of Lawrenceville, Illinois and Ronald 'Jay' Stevenson of Lawrenceville, Illinois; three daughters, Terri Carr of Macon, Illinois, Nicki Stevenson of Lawrenceville, Illinois, and Janis 'Jan' Coffman of Corpus Christi, Texas; one brother, Jerry Moore of California; 16 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She finished her nightshift and went home to sleep.
Funeral services will be Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 12:00 PM at the Emmons-Macey & Steffey Funeral Home in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Visitation will be Thursday from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM at the funeral home. Burial will be in the Lawrenceville City Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Charlene's memory may be made to Pleasant Ridge Christian Church.
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Movie Review: "Kajillionaire"
By Josh Lasser on September 23, 2020 • ( 0 )
It is a truly impressive feat for a filmmaker to perfectly close the story they are telling just before the credits roll and, at the exact same second, have an audience truly care about what happens next. For such a thing to occur, the film has to be built in exacting fashion and the audience has to be invested in that which came before – both the story and characters. Writer/director Miranda July has accomplished exactly this with her latest movie, "Kajillionaire," a quirky, heartfelt, lovely comedic drama (or maybe dramatic comedy).
The film finds Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins), along with their daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), pulling one small con job after the next. The exact root causes of their lifestyle are barely hinted at, but this is a family that lives on the margins of society, scamming and stealing from anyone they can.
At 26, Old Dolio is a basket of nerves, hating what she does, unable to escape, and never having experienced the kind of love and nurturing environment that many of us take for granted. She has her parents, yes, but they have always been so wrapped up in teaching her their version of the world that eschewed all traditional forms of parental love.
July makes Old Dolio's place in the world clear from the outset, as Theresa and Robert force her to pull these cons and even follow her into places if she's been there too long. Old Dolio is too tense to allow a masseuse to touch her without wincing in pain. It is tragic, yes, but July and Wood give it to us in a comedic wrapping. For the audience, the blow is softened but the wound it causes goes just as deep. We all feel as though there's been a time in our past when we have been just as tense and all know what Old Dolio's response must mean in regards to the weight she's been carrying for years.
That comedic wrapping, the one that lets us in to feel Old Dolio's pain, is there for Robert and Theresa as well. Everything about them speaks of this perfect mix of comedy and tragedy – their actions are regularly funny, but in an undeniably upsetting manner. They have to keep coming up with a way in which to not pay their landlord for the horrific office space they use as a home. As amusing as those shenanigans are, these are still people who simply cannot afford somewhere to live.
Taking place in Los Angeles, a recurrent theme in the movie is that of "the big one," the big earthquake that will knock everything down and take a huge number of lives when it hits the city. During every tremor in the film, the family stops, afraid to touch anything in case it's electrified. Those who have lived in L.A. and felt the tremors know that fear and can empathize (as can so many others), but Theresa, Robert, and Old Dolio take the fear that much further. It is funny, yes, but that humor speaks to an underlying terror. Their reactions may be outsized, but they are real for them – they are experiencing the fear and anxiety, even if it's over the top.
At one point in the film, during a scam to claim money for lost airline luggage, the family meets Melanie (Gina Rodriguez), and the entire dynamic changes. Melanie makes the whole family feel something that has been missing for years – love. As she gets tangled up in their ways, Melanie sees the strains they are all under and finds herself needing to decide how far she wants to go with these folks, and in what fashion she wants to get there.
July makes Melanie our way into this family. Yes, we know the mechanics of the family before that point, but it is through the eyes of the outsider that we truly get to the core of them. Rodriguez is so very good at giving us this character who brightens up the entire space and, in doing so, sheds a white hot light on what is happening.
The film, as great as it may be, is not perfect. Melanie's issues are dealt with to far less a degree than the family's. We know from very soon after we first see her that she's clearly got stuff she's working through, but those issues tend to take a backseat to the others, or, they end up being used as a different way into the family's issues rather than fully explored on their own.
Winger's Theresa, too, ends up on the backburner more than feels right. More than once, "Kajillionaire" feels as though it is going to spotlight Winger in the same way that it gives opportunities to Wood, Jenkins, and Rodriguez, but then, too quickly, it moves on to something else. In those brief half-moments, we get something incredible from the actress and the audience is left desperately wanting more.
Despite its flaws, "Kajillionaire," is still an immensely enjoyable, feel good, rather depressing film. In theaters and on VOD this week it isn't only worth watching, it's worth thinking about after.
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According to the news, the government has been using the IRS to target it's enemies, nearly of all of which have committed the crime of not drinking the President's Kool-Aid. Well, I'm not sure what I did wrong. Made one too many Obamacare jokes? Offended some IRS official who looks like The Fat Guy eating a cheeseburger and took it personally? I don't know but I was just audited. ME! Mr. Blog! Who could be less of a threat to our nation than I am? I am the Teddy Bear of Bloggers©.
Ok, well, it wasn't the IRS and it wasn't the Federal Gov't, it was the NY State Department of Taxation. (But I still blame Obama! It's easy and trendy!) I got a thick letter in the mail telling me I owe them $81 from 2010. It was about 8 pages, 5 of which were nearly incomprehensible and 2 of which were totally incomprehensible. The other page had my name and address, which they got right. So how did they calculate that I owe $81 dollars? I have no idea. There is a chart which shows my 2008 information (consisting of amount owed:$0, amount paid:$0, penalty:$5, and balance:$0) and compared it to my 2010 information, which seemed to be filled with random numbers and Greek characters, and the final box said balance:$81. So somehow, by a seemingly random confluence of my 2008 taxes, my 2010 taxes (what happened to 2009? No idea.) and a lot of Justin Bieber's pot, NY State figures I owe then some money.
So thanks a lot New York! (And you too Obama! I know your hand is in this somewhere!) This is just another reason to move out of this overtaxed and pothole-filled working man's nightmare.


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Arch Alfred Moore (* 16. April 1923 in Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia; † 7. Januar 2015 in Charleston, West Virginia) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker (Republikanische Partei). Er war 1969 bis 1977 der 28. Gouverneur und von 1985 bis 1989 der 30. Gouverneur des Bundesstaates West Virginia.

Frühe Jahre und politischer Aufstieg
Arch Moore besuchte das Lafayette College in Easton und die West Virginia University in Morgantown. Anschließend trat er der Anwaltsfirma seiner Familie in Moundsville bei. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges diente er in der US-Armee. Moores politische Laufbahn begann im Jahr 1953, als er in das Abgeordnetenhaus von West Virginia gewählt wurde. Dort verblieb er bis 1955. Zwischen 1957 und 1969 war Moore Abgeordneter im US-Repräsentantenhaus in Washington. Im Jahr 1968 wurde er als Kandidat seiner Partei zum Gouverneur von West Virginia gewählt.

Gouverneur von West Virginia
Moores Amtszeit begann am 13. Januar 1969. Durch eine Verfassungsänderung war es ihm als erstem Gouverneur von West Virginia seit 1872 möglich, für eine zweite, zusammenhängende, Amtszeit zu kandidieren. Er machte von dieser Option Gebrauch und kam nach einer erfolgreichen Wiederwahl im Jahr 1972 auf insgesamt acht zusammenhängende Amtsjahre. In dieser Zeit wurde die Verwaltung umgebaut. Dabei baute er teilweise auf Plänen auf, die von Cecil H. Underwood in den Jahren 1957 bis 1961 aufgestellt worden waren. Dazu gehörten die Einrichtung eines eigenen Ministeriums für Fernstraßen und der Bau von Transitverkehrswegen. Auf dem Gebiet der Bildungspolitik wurde der sogenannte Board of Regents ins Leben gerufen, eine Art Schulaufsichtsbehörde, die den Auftrag hatte, die Hochschulen des Landes zu leiten und zu kontrollieren. Der Bau von zusätzlichen öffentlichen Kindergärten wurde ebenfalls vorangetrieben.

Gouverneur Moore musste sich auch mit Arbeitskämpfen auseinandersetzen. Er vermittelte einen Kompromiss bei einem landesweiten Streik der Minenarbeiter im Kohlebergbau. Auf der anderen Seite entließ er streikende Straßenbauarbeiter. Im Februar 1972 kam es im Logan County zu einem Dammbruch, bei dem 125 Menschen ihr Leben und 4000 weitere ihr Hab und Gut verloren. Eine Untersuchung ergab, dass die Unfallursache illegale Bergwerksaktivitäten in diesem Bereich waren. Die Pittston Coal Company wurde zu einer Entschädigungszahlung an die Opfer von 13,5 Millionen Dollar verurteilt. Obwohl der Staat die Firma auf 100 Millionen Dollar verklagte, ließ sich Gouverneur Moore auf eine Million herunterhandeln. Im Jahr 1975 wurden Moore und sein Wahlkampfhelfer wegen Erpressung angeklagt. Damit wurde er der erste amtierende Gouverneur von West Virginia, der sich einer Anklage ausgesetzt sah. Allerdings wurden beide Angeklagte freigesprochen.

Zwischen den beiden Amtszeiten
Nach Ablauf seiner zweiten Amtsperiode am 17. Januar 1977 war Moore als Rechtsanwalt tätig. Im Jahr 1978 scheiterte ein Versuch, in den US-Senat gewählt zu werden. Ebenfalls erfolglos war seine Kandidatur um eine Rückkehr in das Amt des Gouverneurs im Jahr 1980. Vier Jahre später hatte er mehr Erfolg und er schaffte nochmals den Sprung in die Gouverneursvilla von West Virginia.

Zweite Amtszeit
Durch seinen Wahlsieg wurde Moore der erste Gouverneur seines Staates, der drei jeweils vierjährige Amtszeiten absolvierte. Seine neue Amtszeit begann am 14. Januar 1985. Er löste Jay Rockefeller ab, der 1977 sein Nachfolger geworden war. Seine dritte Amtszeit war von einer Wirtschaftskrise überschattet, die zu einer hohen Arbeitslosenquote vor allem im Kohlebergbau führte. Die Regierung reduzierte damals den Arbeitgeberbeitrag zur Sozialversicherung. Ansonsten widmete sich Moore dem weiteren Ausbau des Verkehrsnetzes. Im Jahr 1988 kandidierte er erneut für eine weitere Amtszeit; diesmal unterlag er aber seinem demokratischen Herausforderer Gaston Caperton.

Weiterer Lebenslauf
Im Jahr 1990 geriet Moore mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt. Dabei ging es ähnlich wie im Jahr 1975 um Erpressung und Korruption. Diesmal ging es um eine Summe von über 573.000 Dollar. Moore bekannte sich zunächst schuldig, widerrief dieses Geständnis dann aber wieder. Er wurde schuldig gesprochen und verbrachte über zwei Jahre im Gefängnis. Diese Vorgänge haben das Bild des Gouverneurs im Nachhinein verdunkelt. Seine Tochter Shelley Moore Capito war von 2001 bis 2015 für West Virginia Mitglied im US-Repräsentantenhaus. Seit 2015 sitzt sie im US-Senat. Arch A. Moore starb am 7. Januar 2015 in Charleston im Alter von 91 Jahren.

Weblinks

 Arch A. Moore in der Datenbank der National Governors Association (englisch)
 Die Gouverneure von West Virginia (englisch)

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Gouverneur (West Virginia)
Vorsitzender der NGA
Mitglied des Repräsentantenhauses der Vereinigten Staaten für West Virginia
Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses von West Virginia
Mitglied der Republikanischen Partei
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Kriminalfall 1990
Kriminalfall in den Vereinigten Staaten
Verurteilte Person
Person im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Vereinigte Staaten)
Rechtsanwalt (Vereinigte Staaten)
Korporierter (Miami Triad)
US-Amerikaner
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Gestorben 2015
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Local governments have a huge diversity problem
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A report from the New American Leaders Project shows that Asians and Latinos are badly underrepresented in state legislatures in almost every state in the union.
This interactive by the NALP shows how many new minority legislators would be needed for each each state to achieve proportionate representation.
The United States has an immigrant population of 70 million (native and foreign born consisting of mainly Asians and Latinos), which accounts for nearly 22 percent of the country's populace and is the fastest growing among all groups. This will soon begin to dwarf other communities. The Pew Research Center estimates that by 2050, only 47 percent of the US population will be non-Hispanic white. This increasing shift in demographics has not been reflected in the election of government officials, but it could be an indicator of things to come.
Although Asians and Latinos are well represented in border states like California, Arizona and New Mexico, representation is more uneven in the East, which also has a areas of concentrated foreign-born population.
Larger minority representation doesn't always mean that interests will be looked after. Arizona, for example has strict border enforcement laws, and its Hispanic base wasn't able to stop the state's 2010 bill, Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, which imposed high penalties on immigrants. Rather, they were only able to dilute some of its extreme clauses.
The political alienation of Asians and Latino interests has kept them out of local government, but in time, growing immigrant populations could mean larger minority representation in government.


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Comes with a USB cable.
Ideal for shooting small products, such as toys, jewels, and watches, etc.
1. Please allow 0.1-0.5cm difference due to manual measurement.