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A review of Long Way Home, by Cameron Douglas
September 10, 2020 knottybook reviews, Cameron Douglas, drug addiction, drug dealing, Kirk Douglas, Long Way Home, memoirs, Michael Douglas, prison, prison life, true crime, true stories
I'm not sure what prompted me to read Long Way Home (2019), written by Cameron Douglas, son of Michael Douglas and grandson of Kirk Douglas. I think it's because I read an article or maybe even a book by someone who met him when he was a child and thought he was a nice kid. Nice kids, unfortunately, go off the rails sometimes, particularly when they grow up too privileged and lack discipline. That's what happened to Cameron Douglas, who has spent a significant part of his life behind bars.
I grew up watching Cameron's dad, Michael Douglas, in movies like Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, and Fatal Attraction. I always liked Michael Douglas. I especially liked him in Romancing the Stone, though the sequel to that film, The Jewel of the Nile, sucked donkey balls. It's hard to believe that a movie star like Michael Douglas, who is also the son of the late movie star, Kirk Douglas, could produce a son who would get in so much trouble with the law. But Cameron, who is also the son of Diandra Luker, chose a different, destructive path. Now aged 41, he seems to have turned over a new leaf with his partner, Viviane Thibes, and their daughter, Lua Izzy Douglas, who was born December 17, 2017.
Cameron Douglas seems like he should have had an easy life, but by the time he was thirty years old, he was a drug addict, a thief, and in deep trouble with the law. When everything came crashing down in Douglas's life, he was sentenced to five years in prison. Five more years were also added to his sentence due to incidents that occurred while he was in prison.
There were signs Cameron was going to be in trouble long before he wound up in federal lockups around the country. When he was growing up, he went to private schools, a couple of which were known for dealing with disciplinary cases. He mentions Provo Canyon School, which was recently in the news because Paris Hilton was sent there when she was a teen. Hilton said that the school was "torture" for her and Cameron Douglas also mentions that it's a place where kids don't want to be sent. He went there in handcuffs as a teenager, encountered the mostly Mormon staff, and ended up having an affair with a staffer named Cynthia who had initially invited him to play chess.
From there, Cameron's life only got more complicated. His stints in rehab and arrests became more and more serious until he was finally busted for dealing drugs in 2010. At one point, he was even the subject of an intervention by famous interventionist Candy Finnegan, who is well-known for being on the show, Intervention, on the A&E network.
Through it all, Douglas describes how his family reacted. Michael Douglas seemed to want to help his son, although sometimes he did so in bumbling ways. For instance, Cameron had a dog named Junior that he shared with his then girlfriend, Erinn, who apparently shared his drug problems. Cameron's dog was bred with a female dog Michael owned. Michael tried to keep Cameron's dog, claiming that Cameron was too messed up to care for the dog properly. Naturally, that pissed off the younger Douglas. Junior, whom Cameron loved very much, eventually died of cancer. Cameron broke up with Erinn, in part, because she hadn't properly taken care of his dog by getting him to a vet before the cancer got too bad.
Michael Douglas also tried tough love, interventions, "kidnapping" his son and taking him to rehabs… none of it worked. Finally, he sort of withdrew, after divorcing Cameron's mother, who had caught him cheating. He married Catherine Zeta-Jones and had two more children, Dylan and Carys, while his eldest son, Cameron, was incarcerated.
Cameron's mother, Diandra Luker, is described as sort of a free spirit who grew up in Mallorca, Spain. She married Michael Douglas when she was just nineteen, having only known him for six weeks, and they stayed married for seventeen years. Throughout their marriage, Michael abused alcohol and had "flings", including with his former co-star, Kathleen Turner. I got the sense that Diandra is a bit flighty, although she had Cameron when she was very young and they sort of "grew up together". Basically, it sounds like Cameron's parents were focused on a lot of other things, rather than raising their son properly. But it's hard to judge them, given the lifestyle they had. Maybe it would have been noble for Michael Douglas to stop acting in movies and take care of his son, but it probably would not have been realistic.
Much of Long Way Home, written historical present tense, is about Cameron's time behind bars. He admits that he's intrigued by prison culture and attracted to it. Prior to his time in prison, Cameron kind of played around at acting without much success. He tried to be a D.J., too, but he often messed up those opportunities by abusing drugs and blowing his professional obligations.
I didn't really like Cameron's use of historical present tense, although the book is pretty well-written. I don't know why that style was so irritating to me. It's the way I used to write papers about books I read when I was an English major. Maybe that's why I didn't like it.
I was kind of impressed by Cameron's comments about his parents and grandparents. I was especially impressed by what he has to say about his dad, who really does seem to care a lot about Cameron, as well as Kirk Douglas, who was proud of Cameron, even though he'd done seven years in prison. Cameron had a tattoo made of himself, Michael, and Kirk. Michael was reportedly uncomfortable with it, but Kirk, who died a few months ago at age 103, reportedly thought it was very cool.
Cameron Douglas has apparently changed his way of living. He got out of prison and is now working to better his life. The change seems to have occurred when he was in prison and he realized what a waste of time it is. He started keeping more to himself or hanging out with people who didn't want to go back to prison. He started to meditate, quit drinking prison booze, stopped using heroin, and began reading excellent books by renowned writers. It was as if he learned to use his time wisely as a man in his 30s instead of in grade school, when most people learn.
I mostly liked this book. I think Cameron Douglas is very honest about his struggles and I never got the sense that he doesn't realize how very privileged he is. He admits that he has advantages the most people will never have, and getting out of prison and integrating into a more law abiding lifestyle is easier for him than it is for most people who are incarcerated. He includes some photos, too, which were interesting.
Although I know that he has a lot more help than most people do, I'm glad that he's trying to change his ways. It would have been better if he had shown more respect for his privileges when he was much younger. A lot of people will judge him because of all he has. Personally, I find it hard to judge him. I don't know what it's like to be him, or what it was like to grow up with a father who is a movie star. It may seem like that would be awesome, but the reality of that lifestyle may be that it's empty and fake. Money can't buy happiness, and the more money a person has, the more likely it is that he or she will be surrounded by people who aren't "real".
I think some people failed Cameron when he was growing up, although I find it hard to judge them, too. They were caught up in the chaos of fame and money. Ultimately, it's sad, because so many "normal" people look at the wealthy and envy them. But they have problems, too… and that kind of an empty existence can make the escape to drug use attractive, particularly for someone who lacks discipline and strong role models. I commend Cameron Douglas for waking up and changing his life, even if he wasted years in prison. On the other hand, maybe the time wasn't really wasted if he learned something and straightened himself out. I'm glad to read that his parents and stepparents didn't abandon him. Catherine Zeta-Jones, in particular, seems to have been pretty decent to Cameron, even though he was incarcerated. His family did visit him while he was in prison, including his much younger half-siblings.
I'm not one of those people who thinks people who get in trouble should automatically be thrown away. I think most people have some redeeming qualities and deserve a chance to change their behavior. I have noticed a lot of people think Cameron's book is "self-serving" and "whining". Frankly, I'm not sure why those people would read this book in the first place. They don't seem to have any empathy for people who screw up– (and everyone does, to some extent). As long as he's done dealing drugs and committed to raising his daughter, I don't begrudge Cameron Douglas for sharing his story. Maybe someone will learn from it or relate to it.
I would recommend Long Way Home, but only to those who aren't going to dismiss Cameron Douglas out of hand for being born to "Hollywood Royalty". He can't help that. And yes, he should have spent his time as a youth more wisely, but again– as long as he's learned from his mistakes, it's all good, as far as I'm concerned.
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Not quite the end result we wanted, but we had a team on the ice. AHL games just didn't have the same punch last year.
It was nice to be part of a visiting crowd that was louder than the home crowd.
As Speed noted, we may have scared a few of our players after the game with how loud we were!
My wife and I listened last night to what we had waited for for a long time! Great result too. Congratulations to the Worcester Sharks!


In May 2007, Governor Sonny Perdue signed into law the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Act known as SB-10. Covenant Christian Academy is an approved participating school in this voucher program.
How do I determine whether or not a student qualifies?
For information on whether or not a student qualifies for the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship, please visit the GA DOE website and check via the student eligibility calculator.
What accomodations does Covenant Christian Academy provide for students receiving this Scholarship?
Accommodations are not made for students receiving the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship at Covenant Christian Academy. All students are required to complete the same work. However, Covenant Christian Academy provides a loving Christian environment with small class sizes that allow for students to be more successful in their calling as a student.
I have more questions. Who do I contact at Covenant Christian Academy to learn more?
For more information on Covenant Christian Academy's participation in the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program, please email Headmaster Johnathan Arnold at jarnold@covenantrams.org or call the school at 770-674-2990.


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New appointment for our very own Prof. Brett Paull
ACES Chief Investigator and Electrofluidics and Diagnostics Theme Leader Professor Brett Paull has been appointed as Director of the ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies (ASTech).
ASTech, a partnership between the University of Tasmania and Trajan Scientific and Medical, is pursuing portable analytical separation systems that will enable point-of-sample analysis for complex samples in food, environmental, and clinical applications.
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The appointment draws on Prof Paull's breadth of academic and leadership experience, particularly in roles collaborating with industry and other institutions such as ACES.
He will lead the organisation through a new phase, where the first cohort of Australian Research Council funded students and post-doctoral research fellows are fully on-board, and the Centre expands its capabilities with the inclusion of the University of South Australia.
"We have a highly educated and motivated team of investigators, thriving in the unique industry-academic research environment that is ASTech," Prof. Paull said.
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There is something very powerful about rivers. They have inspired people for thousands of years. At ROW Adventures, we have witnessed the powerful and natural wonder of rivers for 39 years. We have seen, firsthand, spirits soar, lives transformed and relations flourish when people travel through river canyons.
What is it about rivers that makes them so important? So many things, mundane and transcendental. They carry water to the sea; they are the path home for anadromous fish (salmon and steelhead) who in turn bring hundreds of thousands of tons of nutrients from the sea inland that nourish both flora and fauna; they provide water for much of our food; the water for us to drink and to bath; and in many cases they still carry away our pollution. These aspects alone make rivers deserving of our utmost care and protection.
Of course, rivers have an indelible spiritual, transcendent quality that ripple through us all in our own way. As conservationist John Muir once famously said, "The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing." Or perhaps writer Herman Hesse says it best in his masterpiece Siddhartha: "They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming."
Rivers are on every page of American history, and they remain the heart of Americans, the passion of adventurers, the pathways of commerce and the muse of artists. Whatever your inspiration, we invite you to celebrate with us the inspiring accomplishments of the 50th Anniversary of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — working toward its future.
This important Act declares that select rivers—or at least parts of them— known for their outstanding scenic, historic, cultural, recreational geologic and wildlife values shall be preserved in their free-flowing condition. Perhaps more importantly, the Act prevents any hydro projects from stopping their flow. The Act recognizes that there is an intrinsic value in free-flowing rivers and that if we failed to protect the few that were left, soon all would be quieted behind dams in the name of progress.
The Act was sponsored by Idaho's own Senator Frank Church and signed into law in 1968 by President Lyndon Johnson who said, "In the past 50 years, we have learned—all too slowly, I think—to prize and protect God's precious gifts. Because we have, our own children and grandchildren will come to know and come to love the great forests and the wild rivers that we have protected and left to them . . . An unspoiled river is a very rare thing in this Nation today."
When the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act was signed, there were eight rivers designated. In Idaho, these included the Middle Fork of the Salmon (often considered the "Crown Jewel" of the Wild & Scenic Rivers System) and the Clearwater and its tributaries, the Lochsa and Selway. Also included were the Rogue in Oregon, Eleven Point in Missouri, Feather in California, Rio Grande in Texas, Wolf in Wisconsin and the St. Croix of Minnesota/Wisconsin.
As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act, we celebrate that since the original eight rivers were designated, many more have been added. Today, there are 208 national Wild & Scenic rivers in 40 States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, totaling more than 12,700 miles.
While 12,700 miles of protected river may sound impressive, and indeed it is in many ways, this represents a little more than one-quarter of 1% of the nation's rivers. By comparison, more than 75,000 large dams across the country have modified at least 600,000 miles, or about 17%, of American rivers. There are many rivers still deserving of designation that have not yet been protected. Most notably in the American West is the last, unprotected 101 miles of the Salmon River running upstream of Riggins to the confluence with the Snake River in Hells Canyon.
Thanks to the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act and its inspiration to continue the work began 50 years ago, there's hope to restore our and rewild our world. We can thank those who came before us and had the foresight to protect free flowing rivers and their adjacent lands. As William Anderson, Tennessee Congressman said while advocating passage of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1968, "And I count myself more fortunate with each passing season to have recourse to these quiet, tree-strewn, untrimmed acres by the water."
We are the ones who today benefit from the wisdom of those who worked so hard to protect wild rivers. We can honor them by continuing to pursue protection for those rivers still deserving of designation – and there are many. You can get involved by joining your local river conservation group and/or the national voice for rivers.
ROW Adventures feels both blessed and proud to offer trips on 10 designated Wild & Scenic Rivers including: Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon, Clearwater and its tributaries the Selway and Lochsa, St. Joe, Jarbidge/Bruneau, Owyhee and Snake River in Hells Canyon; Oregon's Rogue, Grande Ronde and Owyhee; and Montana's Upper Missouri. In the far northeast corner of Idaho, the Moyie River was nominated and studied, but never designated.
In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.
Choosing to save a river is more often an act of passion than of careful calculation. You make the choice because the river has touched your life in an intimate and irreversible way, because you are unwilling to accept its loss.
A river is more than an amenity—it is a treasure that offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have the power over it.
The song of the river ends not at her banks but in the hearts of those who have loved her.


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Let's drink some wine together.
There's a new wine festival coming to Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, and DESERT magazine is a sponsor.
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There's a new wine festival coming to Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs.
And it's going to be a party.
I am thrilled to announce DESERT magazine is sponsoring the first-ever Palm Springs Wine Fest, happening Nov. 30 to Dec. 2. Founder Christine Soto, who also owns Dead or Alive bar in Palm Springs, wants to showcase a new kind of California vino.
Attending winemakers include Chad Hinds of Methode Sauvage, Kim and Tyler Elwell of Halcyon Wines, Chris Brockway of Broc Cellars, and more. Plus, author and Bon Appétit Magazine wine editor Marissa A. Ross will be there. Want to learn more? I've got the inside scoop here.
Imagine art: The Palm Springs Public Art Commission recently asked local artist Sarah Scheideman to create a felt map of the city's public art. It's on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum until Sunday. I attended last night's unveiling, where Sarah told me it took her a month to create each intricately detailed piece. Want an up-close look? It's on the DESERT magazine Instagram story here.
Good eats: Wexler's Deli has arrived in Palm Springs, and let me tell you: They're serving up a damn good pastrami burger. It's dripping with gooey Swiss cheese and a rich Russian dressing, but it's the crisp pastrami bacon that's the star. The special house-blend patty is also topped with grilled onion, but seriously, who knew pastrami bacon was so stinking good? It's just one of the exclusive menu items available at the classic Jewish deli that originated in central Los Angeles. Here are the other dishes and drinks I enjoyed. Plus, the restaurant had West Coast artist Gregory Siff create a new mural outside the patio. I was there when he completed the finishing touches. Check out the photos of his black Krink ink piece!
Master chef: There's a $130 million hotel and condo project coming to Indian Wells, and a master sushi chef from LA is slated to set the menu. "The restaurant will most likely be Katsuya, a Japanese concept created by celebrity chef Katsuya Uechi, a master sushi chef in Los Angeles," writes Desert Sun reporter Nicole Hayden. You can find out more about the project here.
Desert Eden: So this isn't really an event, but it's something for you to do this weekend: The maintenance of Palm Springs gem Moorten Botanical Garden "takes a village." You can do your part to care for this horticultural gem! In her latest story, Maureen Gilmer talks about the four years she spent volunteering at the garden, and what she received in return. Read all about it here.
Direct access: OK now this is an actual event and one of the coolest in the high desert at that! This weekend, the 17th annual Highway 62 Open Studio Art Tours kicks off. Throughout the Morongo Basin, more than 90 artists will open their studios and homes for an intimate look at their work. You can find out more information here.
Wicket awesome: I love everything about Shad Powers' latest story about a local 11-year-old who just won the USCA Croquet Nationals doubles title. His partner is 57!! "Most of the competitors in the sport of golf croquet, a lawn game usually associated with the senior set, are in their 50s and 60s," Shad writes. And yet the sixth-grader, who attends Sacred Heart in Palm Desert, is winning at the most elite level. You're not going to want to miss this piece, with great visuals from photographer Richard Lui.
Desert rock: Tonight, Brant Bjork will take the stage at Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace. Just don't expect him to play any songs he wrote as a member of Kyuss, a band that helped spawn the desert rock scene in Europe. Brant is still coming to terms with that legacy, according to Desert Sun reporter Bruce Fessier. "Despite the appetite for Kyuss music around the world, Bjork said he's probably only played one Kyuss song in his 20 years as a solo artist," Bruce writes. "His manager has tried to get him to tap that repertoire. Bjork says he doesn't know why he can't do it." This is a fascinating story about desert music, generator parties, and embracing the past without exploiting it. Read it here.
To new heights: You may soon be able to bring weed to Palm Springs airport, but will it fly? Desert Sun reporter Sherry Barkas says you need to think twice before trying to take it aboard an airplane. "Airport commissioners had their first discussion Wednesday morning about whether to recommend the City Council adopt a policy allowing passengers to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana at the airport," Sherry writes. "They held off on making a recommendation to the City Council until they get more data from city staff." Another discussion is expected at the Nov. 14 meeting. In the meantime, read Sherry's primer on what you can and cannot do.
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In their Crazy Coqs debut, Pixie & The Gypsies will perform music from their charttopping debut album, Honey Trap, alongside a selection of covers from the worlds of pop and jazz.
Their number 1 album debuted in August with the band playing sold-out shows at Pizza Express Jazz Club and Upstairs at Ronnie Scott's. The band performed at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Rye Jazz & Blues Festival, and played 8 gigs at Guinness Cork Jazz Festival in 2018.
Pixie & The Gypsies consists Taylor Notcutt (vocals & accordion), Connie Chatwin (violin & backing vocals), Twm Dylan (double bass), and Matt Wilson (guitar).


Lamb Inn is a family business located in the countryside with lovely views over neighbouring farms and mountains and only 10 km south of the town Akureyri.
Lamb Inn can accommodate up to 38 guests. All the rooms have en suite bathroom facilities and comfortable beds. Room sizes range from a number of double or twin to one large family room for four, easily converted to sleep up to six people. Two bedrooms are specially designed for easy wheelchair access. Lamb Inn Farmhouse offers 6 rooms with shared bathroom - four double rooms, one triple room and a family room that sleeps four. There is a hot tub and free Wi-Fi at Lamb Inn.
The restaurant at Lamb Inn is in a converted barn, where guests can enjoy the chef's speciality, traditional Icelandic lamb dishes. Guests can also order various fish courses such as cod and char along with other quality courses made with local ingredients. Homemade bread is served with breakfast.
The Eyjafjörður area offers a variety of recreational options and interesting places to visit. One can easily spend a whole day touring the countryside, enjoying a mixture of the beautiful landscape, local food and culture. The area boosts some interesting museums and galleries and many of the local churches are pieces of art. Walking trails are widely to be found – a walk along the banks of the Eyjafjarðará River with it's vibrant birdlife is highly recommended.
Lamb-Inn Öngulsstaðir is certified as a 4 star Guesthouse, 4 star Private Home and Bronze-class Environmental by Vakinn, the official quality and environmental system within Icelandic tourism.


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Journalist shot dead in Tonj South County
A reporter with local community radio in Tonj South County of Warrap state has been shot dead.
Marko Agei Makoor was on his way to Tonj South town when he was shot by an unknown gunman on Wednesday.
So far, no arrest has been made but police in Tonj are pursuing those responsible.
Acting Station Manager David Jong Akooi has called on the authorities to act against those involved in the killing of the journalist.
Marko Agei Makoor has worked for Door FM for the last three-years presenting a program of Education, Cultural show and Health programs.
According to Reporters Without Borders, at least 10 journalists have been killed in the country since 2011.
South Sudan is ranked 144th out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index. It is a one-place improvement from last year.
Retired General Bior Ajoh Bior shot dead in Sherikat
Rapper Hot-Dogg blasts Ruweng State Governor,…
Tonj prison releases over 40 inmates due to COVID-19


A clone of the well known game Civilization by Microprose.
Every player is the leader of an imaginary nation. The aim of the game can be to create a prospering civilization with commerce and knowledge exchange or (more often) the extinction of all other civilizations.
To start a new game, first start the server 'freeciv-server,' then start the client 'freeciv-gtk2'. Have fun!


Below, you'll find a general outline of questions for adoption professionals. Please carefully research the adoption professionals you consider and also ask them adoption questions with information specific to their policies and procedures.
Annually, how many of your adoptions are completed in other states?
Does the state in which you are licensed come to your offices and review your files, personnel records and make sure your organization is complying with state law and regulations?
Do you have a Social Service Department on staff? How many are on staff? Can you provide me their credentials? Are they licensed by the state?
If you only have one or two staff members, what happens if they retire, quit, become seriously ill, take a vacation, etc.?
If you don't have a social service department, who evaluates your birth mothers? How are they qualified to do so?
How much money can I lose in living and medical expenses if a birth mother changes her mind?
Have you ever had a client lose more than $10,000 or more in failed adoption expenses? Will you put that in writing and send it to me?
Do your quoted fees include living, medical and legal expenses?
What are typical amounts of living expenses your birth mothers need?
Do your up-front advertising fees expire?
Do you maintain and regulate pictures and letters correspondence with birth parents after the adoptive placement?
Do you handle the entire adoption process from A to Z?
How many placements did you complete last year?
Is your organization certified or licensed? By how many states?
If you remove yourself once the birth mother selects our family, how do you verify the quality of work provided by the other adoption professional?
If you remove yourself from the process, once we are referred to another adoption professional or law firm, how is your organization helpful when the birth mother is wavering?
Is there any financial penalty if we decline a birth mother?
How much money can I lose to the other adoption professional if the adoption doesn't work out?
Are any of your up-front fees at risk? Is there any point in time where I would be required to pay the up-front fee again?
Are you licensed as a facilitator in your state? Is any government body reviewing whether you should be licensed as a facilitator?
If you are not licensed to perform adoptions in other states, then how do you know the complexities and challenges in other states? For law centers, if your attorney is the expert, what happens if he/she retires?
How do I know your organization isn't at risk of going out of business?
If you typically aren't the organization handling my case, how does joining your organization benefit me?
If I do not adopt within your timeframe, will I have to pay more money for additional advertising? If so, how long is my contract valid before I have to renew services with you?
What does your organization do? If you advertise and locate birth mothers and then refer me to an adoption professional in the birth mother's state, who takes it over from there?
Since being licensed as a facilitator in your state does not mean anyone reviews or inspects your files, what is to prevent your organization from merely shutting down and starting over?
Is your law center able to practice law in other states?
Does the attorney who owns your law center discuss our case with the law firms you will refer our case to? How involved is this attorney in our case?
If you refer our case to another law firm, and if you aren't licensed to perform services in that state then I assume you aren't able to stay involved in the process?
How long has this attorney been running your law center? How experienced were they previously in adoption?
Since Bar certification does not include a review or inspection of your adoption files, and since any attorney can start another unregulated law center, what is to prevent your organization from merely shutting down and starting another one if you are sued by your clients?
How are you different from a facilitator?
Can I adopt more quickly through your organization than with a national agency? How can I independently verify your wait time estimates?
Can you give me the percentage of birth parents working with your agency who decide to parent?
How many attorneys on your staff handle the adoption legal work?
If you have other attorneys involved, can you share their adoption experience?
What percentage of your practice is adoption legal work? How do you balance your other cases when an adoption case is time-sensitive? What happens if four adoptions occur on the same day?
What is your hourly rate? Is the hourly rate at risk if the birth mother changes her mind?
Does your law firm find all the birth mothers, or do you have your clients advertise on their own?
Is your law firm licensed in more than one state?
Is there a time when your law firm would not be able to represent us?
Who handles our case if you become sick or take a vacation? How will that impact our ability to adopt through you?
Do you have clients advertise in states in which you are not licensed? Do you use another law firm to handle the process in that other state? Do they charge an hourly rate? Is that hourly rate at risk if the birth mother changes her mind?
How many adoptions did you complete last year? In how many did you locate the birth mother? In how many did your clients' own advertising locate a birth mother?
How many clients in the past year quit advertising because it didn't work?
Are your agency fees fixed or charged on an hourly basis? Are any of your agency fees at risk if the birth mother changes her mind?
What percentage of your agency's practice is locating birth mothers?
How many birth mothers who placed their child through your agency did your agency locate last year?
Does your agency find all the birth mothers, or do you have your clients advertise on their own?
How much of your adoption practice comprises your home study services?
Is your agency licensed in more than one state?
In how many adoptions—not home studies—has your social work department evaluated and worked with birth parents?
Do you have certain requirements for families joining your agency (i.e. kids in the home, age, religious preference)? If so, why? Can these factors affect my wait time with your agency?
Can I work with multiple agencies?
What percentage of families adopt within your estimated wait time?
Do you charge additional fees for special services such as ICPC or extra counseling?
If I adopt from a different state than where I reside, will I have to get my own attorney? What about ICPC? Is that included in the cost estimates you provide?
How many of your adoption are completed in other states?


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the holy oblation, and of the possession of south side southward, the border shall be the city, over against the five and twenty even from Tamar unto the waters of 'strife thousand of the oblation toward the east in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west bor- 29 This is the land which ye shall divide der, over against the portions for the prince : by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritand it shall be the holy oblation; and the ance, and these are their portions, saith the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst Lord God. thereof.
30 | And these are the goings out of 22 Moreover from the possession of the the city on the north side, four thousand Levites, and from the possession of the city, and five hundred measures. being in the midst of that which is the 31 And the gates of the city shall be prince's, between the border of Judah and the after the names of the tribes of Israel: three border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince. gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one
23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the gate of Judah, one gate of Levi. east side unto the west side Benjamin shall 32 And at the east side four thousand hure 'a portion
and five hundred: and three gates; and 24 And by the border of Benjamin, from one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, the east side unto the west side, Simeon
one gate of Dan. shall have a portion.
33 And at the south side four thousand 25 And by the border of Simeon, from and five hundred measures: and three the east side unto the west side, Issachar a gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of portion.
Issachar, one gate of Zebulun. 26 And by the border of Issachar, from 34 At the west side four thousand and the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a five hundred, with their three gates; one portion.
gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of 27 And by the border of Zebulun, from Naphtali. the east side unto the west side, Gad 35 It was round about eighteen thousand portion.
measures : and the name of the city from 28 And by the border of Gad, at the that day shall be, 'The Lord is there. 3 Heb, one portion.
• Heb. Meribah-kudesh. Heb. Jehovah-shammah. Verse 16. " These shall be the measures thereof."- That is, of the city ; which, it will be seen, was an exact square, measuring 1500 on each side, and being 18.000 in circumference, and each side of the square having three gates, called after the tribes of Israel. The dimensions have occasioned some discussion ; for the measure, in which the estimate is made not being mentioned, has been variously supplied. Many suppose that the measure was the "reed," in which the other measurements were taken ; and our translators appear to have been of this opinion, as they supply the word in verse 8. This, according to the usual computation of Ezekiel's " reed," would make the circumference about thirtysix miles Others suppose the cubit to be intended, which would reduce the dimensions so as not to greatly exceed the thirty-three stades which Josephus gives as the circuit of derusalem. There have however been some who interpret the dimensions in such an extent that, as they state, not all the land of Israel, nor even all Europe, if all the world, could contain it: and then allege this impossibility as an argument for the figurative interpre:ation of the whole account contained in these final chapters of Ezekiel. Luther, for one, makes the circumference of the city to be thirty-six thousand German miles—each being equal to four and a half of our own miles: and this computation is really moderate compared with some that we have seen. Our own impression is, that the ** reed " is the highest measure which can in this instance be taken ; and that very probably the cubit rather than this reed is to be understood. Whatever measure be taken in this instance, must of course be applied to the other parts, describing the lands of the priests, and the Levites, in the neighbourhood of the city. The whole of this, it appears, formed one great square containing five rectangles—thus: that for the priests (verses 9, 10) was 25,000 by 10.000; that for the Levites (verse 13), also 25.000 by 10.000; that for the city and suburbs (verses 16, 17), 5000 by 5000; adding two on each side of 10,000 by 5000 (verse 18). equal to 10,000 by 10,000-making, altogether, a rectangle of 25,000 by 25,000, which would, by Ezekiel's reed, afford a circuit of about 200 miles, but only of about thirty miles by the cubit. This statement serves for little more than to show the uncertainty in which the whole subject is involved.
IN CONCLUDING the notes to the book of Ezekiel, it may be proper to take some notice of the alleged tomb of this prophet. The tomb is situated a few miles to the south-east of the ruins of Babylon, on the road to Meshid Ali- the place where the Caliph Ali is supposed to have been interred. If we were to allow that the Jews--a considerable body of whom has always been found in this country, from the time of the Captivity till now -- were likely to transmit correctly, from one generation to another, the knowledge of the places where the prophets of the captivity were interred; the presence of this tomb near Babylon, and at a distance from the river Khabour, where the prophet usually resided, might admit of an easy explanation, arising from the probability that he died while on a visit to the metropolis. Be this as it may, the tomb of Ezekiel has been pointed out for ages at the spot indicated It was first described to Europeans by Benjamin of Tudela. He says there were several synagogues at the place, and that behind one of them was the tomb of Ezekiel, under a great and very goodly vault, supposed to have been built by the captive king Jeconiah over the remains of the prophet. That this deposed king, when liberated from prison and treated with respect by Evil-merodach, should have erected a suitable monument to his venerable fellow-captive, is not unlikely; but that this was the VOL. III.
same building which Benjamin saw, we might very safely dispute. However, the account which this Jew proceeds to give, is quite in conformity with existing usages, at those tombs of great prophets which are made places of pilgrimage. " This place is holy even unto this day. And unto that place, at a certain time, many assemble for the cause of prayer, from the beginning of the year unto the feast of expiation: and there they live most pleasant days. And their principal man, whom they call the Prince of the Captivity, with the other heads of the assemblies, come hither also irom Bagdad, and abide all in that field for two and twenty miles together. Moreover, the Arabian merchants come thitner, and the greatest and most frequented fairs are kept there. But at this time a great book, renowned for authority and antiquity, written by Ezekiel the prophet, is brought forth, wherein they read on the day of expiation. And upon the sepulchre of Ezekiel a lamp continually burneth day and night. There is also a certain great sacred temple there, full of books, kept as well from the time of the first house (temple) as of the second : and it is and was the custom, that they who had no children should consecrate their books in this place. Moreover, vows are made in that p ace, to be performed by the Jews dwelling in Media and Persia. The principal men also of the Ishmaelites resort hither to pray, among whom the authority and reverence of the prophet Ezekiel is great. The name of the place is, in their language, Dar melihha, that is, the House of Congregation ; and thither all the Arabians come for cause of prayer." He adds, that this general reverence for the memory of Ezekiel, has preserved untouched, in the midst of frequent and bitter wars, the tomb and other venerated places in this neighbourhood. This account is oue of the best and most consistent statements in Benjamin's book. The present tomb is described by Sir John Macdonald (Kinneir) as "a large clumsy building, without beauty or ornament; and like the tomb of Ezra, on the banks of the Tigris, a short way above Kornah, is much frequented by the Jews." ("Geographical Memoir,' p. 282.)
D A N I E L.
three years, that at the end thereof they CHAPTER I.
might stand before the king. 1 Jehoiakim's captivity. 3 Ashpenaz taketh Daniel, of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
6 Now among these were of the children Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 8 They refusing the king's portion do prosper with pulse
Azariah: and water. 17 Their excellency in wisdom.
7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the
name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of N the third Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; year of the and to Azariah, of Abed-nego. reign of Je
8 g But Daniel purposed in his heart hoiakim king that he would not defile himself with the of Judah portion of the king's meat, nor with the 'came Nebu- wine which he drank: therefore he requested chadnezzar of the prince of the eunuchs that he might king of Ba- not defile himself. bylon unto 9 Now God had brought Daniel into
Jerusalem, favour and tender love with the prince of and besieged the eunuchs.
10 And the prince of the eunuchs said 2 And the unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who Lord gave hath appointed your meat and your drink :
Jehoiakim for why should he see your faces 'worse
king of Ju- liking than the children which are of your dah into his hand, with part of the ves- *sort? then shall ye make me endanger my sels of the house of God: which he carried head to the king. into the land of Shinar to the house of his 11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom god; and he brought the vessels into the the prince of the eunuchs had set over treasure house of his god.
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz 12 Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, the master of his eunuchs, that he should ten days; and let them give us 'pulse 'to bring certain of the children of Israel, and eat, and water to drink. of the king's seed, and of the princes ;
13 Then let our countenances be looked 4 Children in whom was no blemish, but upon before thee, and the countenance of well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and the children that eat of the portion of the cunning in knowledge, and understanding king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with science, and such as had ability in them to thy servants. stand in the king's palace, and whom they 14 So he consented to them in this mat might teach the learning and the tongue of ter, and proved them ten days. the Chaldeans.
15 And at the end of ten days their coun5 And the king appointed them a daily tenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh provision of the king's meat, and of the than all the children which did eat the porwine which he drank: so nourishing them I tion of the king's meat. 1 2 Kings 14. l. 2 Chron. 36. 6. ? Heb, the wine of his drink
Or, form, or, continuance. S Or, the steward & Heb. of pulse. ? Heb. that we may eat, &c.
3 Heb. sadder.
16 Thus Melzar took away the portion 19 And the king communed with them; of their meat, and the wine that they should and among them all was found none like drink; and gave them pulse.
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ; 17 | As for these four children, God gave therefore stood they before the king. them knowledge and skill in all learning 20 And in all matters of 'wisdom and and wisdom: and Daniel had understand understanding, that the king enquired of ing in all visions and dreams.
them, he found them ten times better than 18 Now at the end of the days that the all the magicians and astrologers that were king had said he should bring them in, then in all his realm. the prince of the eunuchs brought them in 21 And Daniel continued even unto the before Nebuchadnezzar.
first year of king Cyrus. 8 Or, he made Daniel understand. 9 Heb. wisdom o funderstanding.
Daniel.–The history of Daniel is contained in the book which bears his name. From this we learn that he was in the first band of Hebrew captives sent to Babylon in the fourth year of Jehviakim, about seven years before the de portation of the second band, which included Ezekiel. It appears from the history that he was quite a youth at this time; and as those carried into captivity on this occasion appear to have been exclusively persons of consideration and youths of distinguished families, there is every reason to believe that Daniel must have belonged to a family of rank and consequence. The Jews indeed go further, and believe that he was of the royal family, and descended from Hezekiah; and therefore cite his history in confirmation of the prophecy of Isaiah (xxxix. 7) to that monarch, "Of thy song which shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away ; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon." Daniel, being one of the youths selected to be brought up for future service at the court of the conqueror, received instruction in all the learning of the Chaldeans. But it was through the wisdom given him from above, and the signal favour of God manifested remarkably towards him before the eyes of the heathen, that be rose to distinction at the court of Babylon, and was held in high consideration by its successive kings, through all the seventy years in which his nation remained in captivity, and whose condition in captivity was probably much meliorated through his influence. As Josephus observes, he was the only one of the prophets who enjoyed a high degiee of worldly prosperity. His life was however not without its trials, disturbed as it was by the envy and murderous plots of jealous courtiers ; but all these served but the more to manifest his righteousness and faith, and in the ead tended to establish him all the more firmly in his high place. Daniel must have lived to a great age. There is an interval of seventy years between the date of his first prophecy (ii. 1) and his last (x. 1). Some suppose him to have been twenty years of age when carried into captivity; he was very possibly younger. However, ten years after, we find him celebrated for his piety and wisdom (Ezek. xiv. 14, 20), which seems indeed to have become proverbial (Ezek. xxviii. 3). At the date of his last prophecy, in the first year of Cyrus, he must have been about ninety years of age; and it is not probable that he survived much longer. There is no record of the time or place of his death; but the pseudo-Epiphanius, who wrote the lives of the prophets, having stated that he died at Babylon, his account has been usually followed, although it would seem quite as probable that he died at Susa. whence his last prophecy is dated. Although he survived the captivity, there is nothing to sanction the opinion that he returned to his own country. His great age might well prevent him; as also, perhaps, the consideration that he was in the way of being more serviceable to his nation by remaining at the Persian court than by returning to Palestine.
The Hebrews always accounted this book as canonical. Josephus calls Daniel not only a prophet, but one of the greatest of the prophets ; adding, that he not only, in common with other prophets, foretold future things, but also fixed the precise time of their coming to pass. Our Saviour also cites him as -- Daniel the prophet." It is important to note this, as, in the Hebrew Bibles, the book of Daniel does not appear among those of the prophets, but in the Hagiographa; that is to say, the Jews fully recognize the book of Daniel as holy writ, but refuse to consider it prophetic, or to regard Daniel as a prophet, and therefore give it no place among their prophetic books. For this they assign many frivolous reasons ; but the real one is conjectured by many Christian commentators to be, that Daniel's famous predictions concerning the Messiah so remarkably corresponded to the history of Christ, and, what is more, to the time of his appearance, that they could not justify their refusal to consider him as the expected Messiah, without altogether dedying the prophetic character of Daniel's book. This was done ; and certainly afler the time of Christ and the destruetion of Jerusalem: for we have not only the testimony of Josephus, as to the belief of the Jews in his time, but koow that so fully did they acknowledge the prophetic character of Daniel, and so accurately calculate the time giveu by him, that at the date of our Saviour's appearance there was a general expectation in the nation that the time for the Messiah's advent was come. And he did come, but they knew him not: he came unto his own, and his own received him not. (John i. 10, 11.)
Verse 4. " Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured."—That a fine person is one of the recommendations for the royal service will be seen in the succeeding note. On this point the following remark may be quoted from Sir Paul Ricaut's · Present State of the Ottoman Empire:'-" The youths that are designed for the great offices of the Turkish empire must be of admirable features and pleasing looks, well shaped in their bodies, and without any defects of nature ; for it is conceived that a corrupt and sordid soul can scarce inhabit in a serene and ingenuous aspect"; and I have observed, not only in the seraglio but also in the courts of great men, their personal attendants have been of comely, lusty youths, well habited, deporting themselves with singular modesty and respect in the presence of their masters."
* Such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace."—The whole of the account here given of the arrangements for these picked Hebrew youths, together with the high distinction which Daniel and some of the others ultimately attained, is very instructive as to the usages of the Chaldean court ; and we have been interested in observing that there is not a single intimation in the account which may not be illustrated from the customs of the Turkish seraglio, till some alterations were made in this, as in other matters, by the present sultan. The pages of the seraglio and officers of the court, as well as the greater part of the public functionaries and governors of provinces, were originally Christian boys, taken captive in war, or bought or stolen in time of peace. The finest and most capable of these were sent to the palace, and if accepted were placed under the charge of the chief of the white eunuchs. The lads did not themselves become eunuchs; which we notice, because it has been erroneously inferred that Daniel and the other Hebrew youths must have been made eunuchs, because they were committed to the care of the chief eunuch. The Becepted lads were brought up in the religion of their masters; and there were schools in the palace where they received such complete instruction in Turkish learning and science as it was the lot of few others to obtain. Among their accomplishments we find it mentioned that the greatest pains were taken to teach them to speak the Turkish language (a foreign one to them) with the greatest purity, as spoken at court. Compare this with ** Teach them the learning and tongue of the Chaldeans." The lads were clothed very neatly, and well, but temperately, dieted. They slept in large chambers, where there were rows of beds. Every one slept separately; and between every third or fourth bed lay a white eunuch, who served as a sort of guard, and was bound to keep a careful eye upon the conduct of the lads near him, and report his observations to his superior. When any of them arrived at a proper age they were in. structed in military exercises, and pains were taken to render them active, robust, and brave. ` Every one also, according to the custom of the country, was taught some mechanic or liberal art, to serve him as a resource in adversity.
When their education was completed in all all its branches, those who had displayed the most capacity and valour were employed about the person of the king, and the rest given to the service of the treasury and the other offices of the extensive establishment to which they belonged. In due time the more talented or successful young men got promoted to the various high court offices which give them access to the private apartments of the seraglio, so that they could at almost any time see and speak to their great master. This advantage soon paved the way for their promotion to the government of provinces
and to military commands; and it has often happened that favoured court officers have stepped at once into the post of grand vizier, or chief minister, and other high offices of state, without having been previously abroad in the world as pashas and military commanders. How well this agrees to and illustrates the usages of the Babylonian court will clearly appear to the reader without particular indication. (See Habesci's 'Ottoman Em pire ;' Tavernier's . Relation de l'Intérieur du Sérail du Grand Seigneur,' &c.)
7. " Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names."—The captive youths of whom we have spoken in the preceding notes also receive new names, that is, Mohammedan names, their former names being Christian. So in the present case, the names are changed from Hebrew to Babylonian. Names are almost everywhere changed with a change of religiou: but, in the present case, we know that no such change took place The circumstance is therefore to be explained with reference to the general custom of changing the native names of foreign slaves, and which is as well
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The Memorial Day holiday on Monday of this week (here in the U.S.) pushed all shows on Rainmaker.FM back one day. Hence, why this week's new episode came out a day late. Upon reflection, I'm not a fan of this strategy we implemented.
I understand why we made the decision, but in our effort to not disrupt our production team and hosts, we disrupted our audience across the network. And that's not delivering a remarkable audience experience.
Our Rainmaker.FM team has already had internal discussions about this, and we've come up with a new plan for future holidays. It will ease disruptions for the audience and simply require a bit of planning ahead for hosts.
In this latest Showrunner Short, I take you behind the scenes and explain how we've already resolved to handle holidays differently in the future.
— Jerod
Showrunner Short: What We Learned From a Misguided Decision This WeekJerod Morris and Jon Nastor
The Transcript
Jerod Morris: This is Rainmaker.FM, the digital marketing podcast network. It's built on the Rainmaker Platform, which empowers you to build your own digital marketing and sales platform. Start your free 14 day trial at Rainmaker.FM/Platform.
Welcome to The Showrunner, where we have one goal — teach you how to develop, launch, and run a remarkable show. Ready?
Hi there. I come to you this Friday morning with this latest Showrunner Short episode a little bit frustrated, a little bit disappointed. Here's why.
The Misguided Decision
We made a collective decision as a Rainmaker.FM team to push all of the shows back for Memorial Day week. The reasons why we did this are pretty obvious. We wanted our production team to actually get a holiday. We wanted to respect that. We didn't want any individual shows to get the shaft by being published on Monday, a holiday, and not getting the attention that they deserved or being delayed a week, that kind of thing.
We decided to push everything back a day. All of the shows that normally go on Monday went on Tuesday, and all the shows that normally went on Tuesday went on Wednesday, and so on. What this meant was The Showrunner episode for Wednesday — we always come out with a new show on Wednesday — got pushed back to Thursday.
Again, I understand why we made the decision that we did. There was obviously thought that went in it. There were legitimate reasons to do that. But upon reflection, I disagree with it. It frustrates me in hindsight that I didn't think about this, that we didn't think about this ahead of time.
In our desire to not inconvenience the production staff, not inconvenience the hosts, we inconvenienced our audience.
There surely were people who came on Wednesday looking for the latest Showrunner episode, maybe you, and it wasn't there. You're thinking, "Wait a minute, these guys are preaching reliability and showing up when you say you're going to and all these other things, and here they are not there on the day they say they're going to be there." Now maybe people who came realized, "Oh yeah, holiday week, they're pushing it back. Let's cut them some slack."
Hopefully those people came back the next day and saw that there was a new episode. It's not like we just went dark for the week or forgot or didn't have an episode. We were ready. The episode came out on Thursday.
We talk about creating a sustainable show and how that's part of creating a remarkable experience for an audience. That means showing up, showing up reliably, and showing up reliably over time. I think what we did with the decision last week — this week, this Memorial Day week — we made one decision that basically shifted everything for the entire week.
That was the big issue, that basically for every show for the whole week, we disrupted the audience. We didn't want to disrupt ourselves as much, our hosts as much, but we disrupted the audience.
That's not delivering a remarkable audience experience.
We've already talked about it. We've already put a plan in place for holidays in the future so that we don't run into this again. As you know, if you've been listening to The Showrunner. Shoot, if you're even listening to the New Rainmaker podcast or read Copyblogger, you know we like to give you kind of a behind the scenes, let you know how decisions are made, and what we're thinking because we want you to learn from that.
Even decisions like this one, that in hindsight we disagree with and wouldn't do again, we want to explain to you why the decision was made and then what we're going to do about it.
In the future, our plan for the holidays is, instead of disrupting the whole week, just disrupt that day. It will require a little bit of planning ahead for the production team and for the hosts, but it will make life easier on the audience. That's what it should be.
The audience should come first.
What we're going to do is send out an email. We're going to let all hosts know to look into the future. Obviously, we all know what days we're scheduled on, so we can look ahead and see, "Hey, is my show scheduled on July 4th? Is my show scheduled for Labor Day? Am I scheduled for Christmas Day?" If so, you have a few different options.
You can record an episode, a short episode to go up on that day — or a full episode if you want to — it's up to you. It's important to know that, on a holiday, you're probably going to get fewer downloads and less attention, so you may not want to put your best piece on that day.
Maybe you rebroadcast a classic. Maybe you do a short 'happy holidays' message. Whatever it is, that host gets that show and makes sure it's in early so that it can be scheduled and ready to go and published on that holiday — again, instead of moving all of the shows a day forward, which then disrupts the entire week.
The other option would be to not have a show. That's perfectly fine to not have a show on a holiday. I think people understand, but it's all about expectations.
If people are expecting you to be there on Wednesday and you're not and they show up, there's kind of that subtle disappointment where it's like, "I wanted this. It's not here. Let me find something else."
Just say the week before, "Hey, next week is July 4th and we're not going to have an episode, but we'll be back the week after." Whatever it is, just set the right expectations. That's how we're going to handle holidays in the future. Make sure that hosts plan ahead and either set the proper expectations with their audience or have another episode in the can, ready to go, production ready, published ready beforehand so that it doesn't impact the audience who ends up going there on that holiday.
Remember, holidays are different in one country to the next. So a holiday here in the United States may not be a holiday for our listeners over in Europe. It's important to keep that in mind.
Again, it's about disrupting the audience as little as possible and disrupting the hosts' lives, the productions' lives, as little as possible, too. If someone has to be disrupted, you don't want it to be the audience.
That's our plan, moving forward. I think it will be much better. I think it will avoid what we had happen this week.
I should say, I haven't had one person email me, Tweet me, contact me and say "Hey, there was no show on Wednesday. What's the deal? That was really disappointing." I haven't seen that for any other Rainmaker.FM shows. But just empathizing with the audience, I know that I've gone looking for shows on certain days, they're not there, I know how I feel. I'm guessing even though those notes haven't come in, people are feeling that.
Again, empathy is a very important part of developing that authentic connection with the audience, which is what we want. This is how we think about things. This is how we're doing these things.
As my call to action to end this Showrunner Short, I will simply say, "What is your holiday plan? What are you going to do?" I think it's good. Maybe you already have one. That's great if you do. This would be a good time to revisit it. If you don't have one, to put one in place and say, "OK, let me look ahead. If my show's schedule falls on a holiday, here's what I am going to do."
That way you don't get caught the day before the holiday not knowing what to do. You've thought about it weeks in advance. You've either gotten a rebroadcast episode, you've put up a special episode, or you've let your audience know, "Hey, we're taking this week off," just so they know.
Again, it's about expectations.
For you, it's about planning ahead.
Thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Showrunner Short. We will be back next Wednesday as usual with another brand new episode of The Showrunner podcast. Thank you. Have a great weekend!
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Liberty County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Liberty county was Founded February 5, 1777. Sunbury was first designated the county seat in 1784. In 1797, the seat was transferred to Riceboro and in 1837 it was transferred again to Hinesville.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,453. The county seat is Hinesville. Liberty County is part of the Hinesville, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Savannah-Hinesville-Statesboro, GA Combined Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 603 square miles (1,560 km2), of which 490 square miles (1,300 km2) is land and 113 square miles (290 km2) (18.7%) is water.


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The Feather Merchants*
Inoculating against Canadian genocide guilt
by Bill Annett / January 5th, 2014
Compensation? After we pay the government lawyers, there's about enough left for one good drunk before we commit suicide.
— Johnny (Bingo) Dawson, No fixed address, Vancouver, Canada
Preamble: Questioning Canadian mathematics, as revealed by two news items, albeit separated by a lapse of 107 years.
(1) In June, 1907, both the Montreal Gazette and the Ottawa Citizen reported that Dr. Peter Bryce, a medical director appointed by the Canadian Government, had completed a national inspection tour and concluded that the death rate in 141 Indian Residential Schools among the incarcerated children (eventually totaling 150,000) approximated 50%.
(2) On January 3, 2014, the National Post in Toronto reported that, after five years of diligent research in church and government archives, the staging of five or six public hearings at which a carefully selected cohort of victims and survivors had presented well-coached and edited testimony, the expenditure of $68 million in taxpayers' remittances and the production of a massive 115-page report, Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, stirred into wakefulness perhaps by the recent passing of Nelson Mandela (who along with Desmond Tutu first coined the TRC title), made the startling announcement that as many as 4,000 Indian kids had died in those pesky schools.
I admit that I flunked trigonometry in the 12th Grade, but I'm missing something here. Perhaps Dr. Bryce — who incidentally was fired for his over-zealous tabulation and never worked for the Government again, but retired to a family practice in Mimico — really meant that 75,000 Indigenous kids simply failed to graduate cum laude from their curriculum of scrubbing floors and dodging nuns' knuckles, or even more routinely simply failed to return home. Perhaps, inspired by their surroundings and appreciating the opportunity to become quasi-Canadians, the 75,000 kids had all pursued careers as Mounties, priests and sisters of charity.
In an attempt to unravel this actuarial puzzler, I've re-examined my 500 newsletters as well as the scholarly research of Reverend Kevin Annett [son of the writer — DV Ed], who — shortly after having been jettisoned like a frisbee from the ministerial ranks of the United Church of Canada — produced a Ph.D. thesis on the subject at the University of British Columbia, which had already seen fit to confer on him a Bachelor of Arts, (Anthropology), a Master of Arts (Political Economy) and (a little more spiritually) a Master of Theology.
Strangely, both he and his dissertation were ejected from that center of learning. It seems that his subject matter was not de rigeur since it tended to excoriate the Trustees, the Governors and the Chancellor of UBC, a smattering of whom routinely represent the very same United Church and forestry company that he had exposed as charlatans and thieves, which in turn figure prominently in that university's hefty endowment. I mean, you can't bring a case to a court where the judge is the perp, can you?
Here are my findings:
We haven't heard much from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) lately. I like to think they're winding up for another public hearing, more testimony from church atrocity survivors, an additional societal vaccination extravaganza. Perhaps in Spring Coulee, Alberta or Rat Portage, Ontario.
Whoever has been quarterbacking the TRC, whether it's rez alumnus and Chairman Mr. Justice Murray Sinclair, Commission members Wilson or Littlechild, or somebody even craftier in the Prime Minister's Office, the genius responsible really belongs on Madison Avenue. In hearings to date they've come up with three fool-proof techniques for force-feeding reconciliation for all those Indian rez school survivors and, what's more important, injecting a form of truth serum into the dozing Canadian public. Not to mention the Canadian media, who could always use a little of both T and R.
The Center For Disease Control and the World Health Organization couldn't immunize us all better. Here are the three ways to inoculate against the notion that the Canadian version of genocide is still around:
1. Somebody else done it.
2. Exonerating with faint blame.
3. Compensation heals everything.
1. Somebody Else Done It (or The Al Gore Diversion)
The latest testimony from the TRC's earnest seeking after Truth (in order to achieve Reconciliation), was staged and choreographed some time ago in the metropolis of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (proudly named after Queen Victoria's Bavarian bed mate), the home town not only of the late Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, but at the same time one of the most blood-soaked Indian Residential Schools in Canadian history.
In native circles, when you are handed the feather, you are entitled to speak. This is the con job the TRC has been merchandising for five years now.
In Prince Albert, the main guy given the feather and providing the feature performance, was a sure-enough Indigenous, graduate of the rez, but so redeemed and Canadianized that he even had a brief shot at a National Hockey League farm team. No matter. As an effective fed witness, he ranks right up there with Flyin' Phil Fontaine, the former payroll Chief Chief.
To the vast audience of half a dozen or so Prince Albertians and a few slumbering journalists and a CBC cameraperson, he testified as to how he had been raped at the age of nine in the local rez school – by some of the older native boys. Wow.
What's the take-away from this tragic story for the average Canadian onlooker? Well – it's pretty nasty, but boys will be boys, you know. We all got into that sort of hanky-panky down at the old swimmin' hole at one time or another, right?
Priests? Nuns? Catholic janitors and other innocent laypersons? Not on your life. Didn't have anything to do with it. The carefully coached witness went on to add that "the priest could have seen it, and did nothing about it." Well, that's pretty bad, and the priest should maybe have gotten a slap on the wrist from a bishop or somebody, for not being more vigilant over those bad boys. But he probably had heard about Boys' Town and all that. There's no such thing as a bad (Indian) boy. And he did have a lot on his mind, like the turkey raffle. Nothing to get all worked up about.
It reminded me of the feature program not long ago on Al Gore's new TV network, Current Television, dubbed "Rape On The Reservation. " The program effectively made the case that these rez boys are up to no good, but devoted nary a word to the subject of how contemporary native culture got that way, by being traumatized for six generations by a paternal Government and outreaching churches, carefully herded onto the most worthless stretches of the continent that we stole from them.
2. Absolving With Faint Blame
This technique owes its origin to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who originated it in his famous parliamentary soliloquy in 2008, when he apologized for this, that and the other thing, such as misguided assimilation, flawed pedagogy, inappropriate teaching of social skills and the like, but carefully avoided any mention of churches, rape, sodomy, medical experimentation and murder, not to mention the latter-day proselytizing by the government of payroll chiefs and tribal councils and the taking of skid row Indians on one-way rides by the police, and the cover-up of child trafficking in all its delightful forms by politicians, high-ranking judges and law enforcement agencies at the most rarified level.
In other words, it's the old lawyer's trick of copping a minor plea in order to avoid the felony and close the case. The churches took the hint from the PMO, blubbering about outreach while not mentioning the in-grab, healing the victims on white man's terms while remaining in total denial of felony of the most despicably monstrous and universal kind.
Harper's Apology is the most sickening manifestation of absolution with faint blame. A Vancouver skid row alumnus named Bingo Dawson (long dead because he loved to talk about the rez school he was penned up in) pointed out that it was like this: a guy steals your car, and then rings your door bell and apologizes. You say, "Oh, that's okay," at which point he gets back in your car and drives off again.
Perpetuating the felony makes any apology nonsense. And admitting to a misdemeanor, you can walk from a murder rap.
3. Compensation heals everything
But the greatest of all cop-outs is compensation. There has been so much concentration on compensation of late — by both native and white crusaders — that it crowds every other consideration off the stage. And it is performed on a stage, written, directed and produced by lawyers, practising and political.
The libretto is provided by the press, who love to talk about how generous we are:
An Edmonton Journal news item: "A coalition of groups for Indian residential school survivors wants to reopen the $5-billion compensation settlement account…"
The Montreal Gazette: "It's the largest-ever compensation deal in Canadian history…" (Not really, Gaz. That honor belongs to the rip-off of that monstrous red blob on Mercator's Projection, for which our forefathers paid with the Bible and a few Hudson's Bay Blankets anointed with small pox.)
There's nothing like the smell of money to wake up the Canadian media. But the compensation gambit has yet to ask the question: how do you compensate for genocide? It's worse than that. When we talk about compensation, it's understood that everything is fixed, so that no other action is necessary. And the spiritual genocide goes on, the tribal councils get juiced by the feds, the women continue to disappear from skid row, native unemployment remains well over 36% and the Indian Act is still in play.
And as official policy at the Federal level, compensation cleans the slate while government lawyers, such as the Merchant Group in Regina, manage to cream 40% of the total off the top.
The late great Bingo Dawson once remarked: "By the time we pay the lawyers, there's about enough left for a good drunk before we commit suicide." Al Gore's network would comment that these native youths nowadays are an irresponsible lot.
Voila. Three kinds of inoculation, as effective as swine flu vaccine. Except, of course, that the swine flu pandemic was a fraud. The genocide really happened, and continues to happen, for all of us, giving and receiving.
Which one do you believe? Of the four, I'm forced to accept the H1N1 injection as the most credible and least damaging. At least it can't do as much harm as the other three, as wielded by an array of feather merchants.
* My posthumous apologies to the late Max Shulman, whose book with that title dealt with relatively harmless post-war G.I. hustlers.
This article was posted on Sunday, January 5th, 2014 at 7:46am and is filed under Canada, Discrimination, Genocide, Racism.


Jo Woolf celebrates the achievements of West Lothian explorer Isobel Wylie Hutchison who is believed to be the first Scotswoman to have set foot in Greenland.
Modest and quietly observant, Isobel Wylie Hutchison never boasted of her geographical achievements – but in August 1927, when she stepped off a ship at Angmagssalik on the east coast of Greenland, she believed that she was the first Scotswoman to set foot there. It is likely that she was also the first European woman (outside of Denmark) to visit that remote part of Greenland's 'closed shore'.
Permission to visit Greenland was difficult to come by at that time, as the country was still strictly controlled by Denmark: to obtain a visa, Isobel had been obliged to give a valid reason for her visit. Her purpose was botany, and in her luggage she carried collecting cases to preserve her precious finds.
She also carried a bathing suit, but her first encounter with Greenland's voracious midges prompted her instead to purchase a pair of thick sealskin 'kamiker' or leggings, which the Greenlanders wore for protection against bites.
The people who lived in the remote coastal villages took Isobel to their heart, offering simple hospitality and taking her by umiak – a traditional open boat – up into a beautiful fjord to see a sacred grove of birch trees, which she was told were the only trees that grew in Greenland.
The magic of the far north beguiled Isobel for the rest of her life. In 1933, as a million stars glittered overhead, she slept inside a candlelit igloo on her journey through the frozen landscape of Alaska. Her mission was to collect wild flower specimens and Inuit artefacts for museums; as she sped eastwards by dog sled she became the first non-native woman to enter Canada at Demarcation Point, where an obelisk marked the boundary between the two countries.
Isobel Wylie Hutchison received the Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1934, and she features in Jo Woolf's book The Great Horizon (Sandstone Press).
Find out more about the Royal Scottish Geographical Society on their website.
Image courtesy of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.


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Munderi is een census town in het district Kannur van de Indiase staat Kerala.

Demografie
Volgens de Indiase volkstelling van 2001 wonen er 19478 mensen in Munderi, waarvan 47% mannelijk en 53% vrouwelijk is. De plaats heeft een alfabetiseringsgraad van 82%.

Plaats in Kannur