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Cubs Weekend Headlines: Crosstown Meat Loaf and Keeping Tabs on Utley
August 16, 2015 11:15 pm By Neil Leave a Comment
The Cubs ran the winning streak to nine games before the string ended at the hands of Chris Sale on Sunday afternoon. The Cubs won the series on the South Side and even with the loss, Joe Maddon's team is 15-2 in the last 17 games.
Off the field, MLB Pipeline ranked the Cubs as the fourth best organization in baseball. And a lot of time was spent following the all of the reports and rumors about Chase Utley.
Here are the headlines from the last three days, and a couple of videos, with all of the news, notes and rumors.
Giants Reportedly One of the Teams to Make an Offer to the Phillies for Chase Utley
The Chase Utley rumors increased late Thursday, especially after GM Bobby Evans confirmed the Giants made an offer to the Phillies for Utley.
The Cubs remained in the mix and were believed to be one of the likely landing spots for the veteran second baseman.
Utley was expected to be dealt to a new team by Friday, and as it turned out, the Angels thought they were close to acquiring him. But the deal did not happen.
Cubs Down on the Farm Report – 08/14/15
Home runs down on the farm highlighted the end of the week for the prospects. Jonathan Martinez, Tommy Thorpe and Dallas Beeler were very good on the mound … while Pierce Johnson had a solid outing, just not up to the standards he has set this year.
The Daily CCO: Cubs News and Notes Before Three on the South Side
While waiting for the Phillies to trade Chase Utley, it was time to shift to the pending series on the South Side. The Cubs completed the sweep of the Brewers and were playing good ball. But it was the forced series with the White Sox that has not worked out well for the Cubs, especially at The Cell, since Interleague play started.
Jon Lester was a big topic of conversation after his throwing issues made headlines again. Tommy La Stella was activated and played for Iowa.
Dexter Fowler stayed hot at the plate and posted a few numbers to back up what the eyes have been seeing.
Report includes all of the news, notes, links and This Day in Cubs History.
Coghlan and Rizzo Out Slug the Sox, Cubs Win Eighth in a Row – Cubs 6, White Sox 5
The weekend on the South Side started with the Cubs eighth win in a row. The Cubs outhit a really poor outing from Kyle Hendricks. Clayton Richard beat Jeff Samardzija thanks to three home runs and an excellent job by the bullpen.
Chris Coghlan went deep not once, but twice off Samardzija and drove in four runs. Anthony Rizzo's solo shot was the difference in the game.
Pedro Strop upset the purists with his celebration after he was taunted by Alexei Ramirez.
The bottom line, the Cubs took care of business to start the series with the Sox.
Cubs Upcoming Homestand Features Throwback Jerseys and New DraftKings Fantasy Sports Zone
Cubs return to Wrigley Field on Tuesday for the start of a seven-game homestand. The Tigers are in for two (Aug. 18-19), followed by the Braves (Aug. 20-23) and the homestand wraps on Monday with a makeup game against the Indians (Aug. 24).
The Cubs and Tigers will wear throwback jerseys on Aug. 19 to commemorate the 1945 World Series and the end of World War II. And '90s Day returns to the bleachers on Friday, Aug. 21.
MLB Pipeline Ranks Cubs System Fourth Best In Baseball
MLB Pipeline updated its organizational rankings with the in-season call-ups and prospects that changed hands at the trade deadline.
Kyle Schwarber is still considered the top prospect in the organization, but the Cubs have talent throughout the organization. Would not be surprising to see 18-year old SS Gleyber Torres ranked as the Cubs best minor leaguer in the off-season.
The Daily CCO: Cubs Keeping Pace in NL Wild Card Race, Jackson Signs with the Braves and Other News
The Cubs winning ways helped keep the Giants looking up in the NL Wild Card race, but with the Pirates and Cardinals refusing to lose, Joe Maddon's team had not picked up any ground in the division.
Edwin Jackson signed a Major League contract with the Braves. Jackson was added to Atlanta's bullpen and will be at Wrigley this week.
Javier Baez started at second base as he tries to get back on track for a September call-up. Zac Rosscup was activated and optioned to Iowa.
Report includes updates on Arismendy Alcantara, Pedro Strop, Joe Ortiz, Ian Happ and Rafael Soriano … plus all of the news, notes, links and This Day in Cubs History.
Chase Utley Update: Down to Cubs, Angels and Giants?
Chase Utley wants guaranteed playing time from the team he waives his no-trade rights for and approves a deal. Most see the Cubs, Angels and Giants as the only three teams that can assure him he will not spend the next six-plus weeks in a back-up role.
Utley appears to be leaning toward a West Coast team … but the Cubs remained in the mix as of Saturday.
Two-Out Hits Lift the Cubs Over the Sox – Cubs 6, White Sox 3
The Cubs won a rather ugly game behind Jake Arrieta, who did not have his best stuff, on Saturday night. The Cubs took advantage of a really bad White Sox team and posted their ninth straight win.
Four different Cubs drove in runs with two-out hits. And Addison Russell, the Cubs' 21-year old rookie shortstop, doubled twice with two outs and scored the first two runs … and for those teams that did not get the message, don't underestimate 'Fast Hulk' or walk anyone intentionally to face Kyle Schwarber.
The Daily CCO: Nine Times, Painting By Numbers and Other Cubs News and Notes
Some days are oil paintings for the young Cubs, some are not and some games that are won have the same artistic ability as paint by numbers. And that is how Joe Maddon described Saturday's win over the Sox.
Kris Bryant is doing pretty darn good at the plate and no one is noticing … and Addison Russell, too.
Kyle Hendricks and Chris Bosio found a mechanical issue in his delivery, which could really bode well for the Cubs.
Report includes updates on Dan Vogelbach, Ryan Williams, Jake Stinnett and Daniel Bard … plus the news, notes, links and This Day in Cubs History, there is a new Cubs book on the market.
Cubs Strikeout in Finale, Settle for Two of Three on the South Side – White Sox 3, Cubs 1
Chris Sale was lights out in the most important, and biggest game, of the season for the White Sox. The Southsiders retained the Crosstown Cup, after one of the few aces in baseball tied a career-high with 15 strikeouts.
Jorge Soler homered with two outs in the ninth. And if just one less ball left the park off Dan Haren, the ninth inning would have been a lot more interesting.
Follow Chicago Cubs Online on Twitter: @TheCCO and @TheCCO_Minors
Filed Under: Cubs Regular Season Notes Tagged With: Anthony Rizzo, Chase Utley, Chris Coghlan, Clayton Richard, Jake Arrieta


The jaw-dropping extent of North Carolina's incentives package for this "transformative" project would have eclipsed its benefits for North Carolinians.
The Mercatus Center explains why Amazon chose where it did for its HQ2(s) — and what lessons cities need to draw from it. Those lessons will sound familiar to JLF readers.
Seven out of 10 executives from incentivized companies didn't even know their companies were getting an incentive from North Carolina.
The Raleigh City Council keeps enforcing a revealed preference against disruptive innovation and playing protectionist for the 20th century modes.
Is it bad South Carolina is out-corporate-welfaring us?
So South Carolina is beating us in this made-up game. How are we comparing otherwise?
A bill to sweeten the pot with more government giveaways for "big boys with deep pockets" only gives good-government, free-market advocates pause, it seems.


SRINAGAR, Aug 24: A group of militants on Friday forced their way into a temple's guard post in Budgam district and beat up the guards there.
Police sources said a group of militants entered a temple guard post in Budgam's Ichgam village and thrashed the guards inside.
"Three guards posted at the temple were thrashed by the militants. The militants did not find any weapon inside the guard post," sources said.


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Thin-walled and not bullet-proof, Windermere police headquarters in the small but affluent town 15 miles west of Orlando wasn't built to withstand even a Category 1 hurricane, defined as having maximum sustained winds of at least 74 mph.
As police headquarters go, Windermere's facility is uniquely designed — and that's not a good thing.
"It's one of the only police departments in Central Florida you can crawl under," Town Manager Robert Smith quipped.
Quaint but thin-walled and not bullet-proof, Windermere's police headquarters is part of an aging town office complex, originally designed as a schoolhouse more than 80 years ago in the small, affluent town 14 miles west of Orlando.
In addition to picking candidates to fill three Town Council seats, voters will go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to let the town build a sturdier, more secure police station.
That proposal is included in a referendum asking voters whether the town should borrow up to $5.2 million to also build a public works facility and administrative office.
The poorly vented current police building reeks of weed after marijuana busts, Police Chief David Ogden said.
Crime-victim interviews are sometimes interrupted by foot-stomping music from a dance studio next door or the gossipy banter of dance moms waiting in rocking chairs on the porch for lessons to end.
"I think everyone knows it's time," he said of the proposal to replace the old structure with a new one.
But Windermere can't build the new government offices unless voters say so.
Its charter forbids council from spending more than 12.5 percent of the municipal budget on a capital project — roughly $600,000 — without first getting prior authorization from the electorate.
Town leaders have outlined Windermere's vision for a new complex on the same site but with modern secure spaces for police, public works and town administration.
The cheapest of two options would cost $5.12 million, according to a cost estimate included in a PowerPoint presentation.
The town asked voters to waive the charter mandate two years ago, but the measure was defeated by 100 votes.
Mayor-elect Jim O'Brien, who has served eight years on council, and all the council candidates support the referendum, arguing the Police Department can't achieve national accreditation without a hardened headquarters.
Windermere Mayor-elect Jim O'Brien will succeed Gary Bruhn, who had to resign because he is relocating to a new home just outside town limits.
"You have to make sure you're always working toward excellence," O'Brien said. He soon will replace longtime Mayor Gary Bruhn, who had to resign because he is moving to a new home outside of town.
O'Brien became mayor-elect last month when the only other candidate who had qualified to run for mayor withdrew from the race.
Also Tuesday, six candidates will be on the ballot to fill three council seats. The town doesn't pay council members, each of whom serves two years. The top three vote-getters are the winners.
Liz Andert, 44, a Minnesota native who has worked in communications for nonprofit groups, is making her first bid for elected office here.
"I feel like I could be a good steward for protecting the town's character," she said.
Mike Hargreaves, 55, a former Orange County deputy sheriff and owner of an Orlando-based private security company, cited public safety as his top issue.
"I want to serve to help," he said.
Bill Martini, 56, who works for Volunteer Florida, lists traffic among the town's top concerns.
"We need to make it safer for our residents," he said.
Bob McKinley, 73, seeking his third consecutive council term, served 22 years in the Army.
He said he wants to focus on solutions that untangle traffic and give residents the option to tap into municipal waterlines.
Another sitting council member, Richard Montgomery, 66, a Florida resident since 2007, works as a risk manager for Florida Municipal Power Agency, which provides electricity to cities.
"I like being involved in how the town prepares for the future," he said.
Dina Pryor, 52, who has lived in Windermere for 14 years, would bring a different perspective. The council currently has no women members.
"I honestly just want to be the person who listens and gets the job done," she said.


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Howdy all. Here's where we're at.
Our fourth album is well on its way now as half of the songs have been recorded. Still lots of planning and headway to be made before it's ready to go but everything is falling into place quite nicely.
Our first show at the ever so popular 'Ottawa Blues Fest' is in July, not long after our two show gig at the Rochester Jazz Fest in late June. Lots of stops, post and prior, so be sure to take a looksy at our Upcoming Shows list to the right.
A great big thanks to everyone who contributed to our crowdfund as we managed to raise over 5000$ that will serve to facilitate the costs that are incurred in making the new album. We appreciate each and every donation or pre-purchase that was made. Cheers.
Again, please continue to support live music.
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Meet the Winner of Draw 388
"We can finally do everything we've ever wanted to do."
Imagine starting your day like any other – and becoming a multimillionaire by noon!
That's exactly what happened to Highland Park chef Darren, whose busy day took an "incredible" turn when he was told he had the winning ticket!
10 or 15 minutes' worth of convincing later... "I told everyone in the kitchen, we grabbed a sixpack from downstairs and celebrated and called the wife on speakerphone."
"I thought he was having me on," Darren's wife, Jodine, says. "There was lots of, 'Oh my God, are you serious? Oh my God, are you serious?'
"There were tears, there was jumping, there was shock and there was shaking! It was a real surreal moment."
The $3 million dream choice
Would you take the keys to a breathtaking three-bedroom Gold Coast apartment with panoramic ocean views, or would you take $3 million in gold?
Darren, Jodine and their two boys now have that $3 million choice to make. And whichever they choose, they'll pocket an extra $50,000 in gold for purchasing a $50 ticket book!
"We were leaning towards the [$3 million] gold," says Darren. "But now that we've seen the house… The house is beautiful. The view is spectacular. We're going to have to have a serious think about it. It's a tough, tough decision."
Darren describes the win as "life changing".
"It's going to give us freedom, choices and set our kids up. We can take the time to enjoy life and do things that we want to do and not that we have to do."
All for a good cause
A VIP Club member since July 2020, Darren has been buying a $50 ticket book each month to help our deserving veterans.
"In the end I was like, it's going to a good cause. These people that have done great for our country – if it feeds someone or houses someone, I can afford to put $50 towards that."
"We do that rather than buy a lotto ticket," Jodine explains, "and look what's happened!"
"Somebody's got to win it!" Darren says. "We're proof of that."
Big congratulations, Darren, and a heartfelt thank you to all our amazing supporters.
The winner of the Draw 388 was drawn at 10am AEST on Wednesday, 25 August 2021.

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LearnPad can browse the contents of standard Windows Network shares and DFS namespaces. In order to do this, you should follow the procedure below.
1. In the management web portal, click on Shares in the menu on the left hand side, under ADMIN.
2. In the Actions box on the right hand side, click on Add New Share.
3. The Add Network Share dialog box will pop up, and you should enter a name for the share in the Name box. Make a note of this name, it will be used later to create a LearnPad Resource that refers to the share.
4. Once a name has been entered, click on Add Share and the new share will be displayed with all properties empty apart from Organisation.
5. Click on the pencil icon next to Host, and enter the host name or IP address of the server which hosts the share. If using a host name for the server, please be aware that Android can only resolve the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host. In general, it is usually easier to use an IP address.
6. Click on the pencil icon next to Share, and enter the name of the Windows network share. It is important that the share name entered is capitalized in exactly the same way as the share on the server. If required, a subdirectory can be specified here using forward slashes as the path delimiter. For instance, if the name of the network share is MainShare and you want the Resource to start in a subdirectory called SubFolder then this field should contain MainShare/SubFolder.
7. You can choose to leave the Username and Password fields blank, in which case a user will be granted access to the network share, only if they are logged in to the LearnPad and their Active Directory user has the required permissions to access the share. If you do specify a Username and Password for the share, then this will override the user's permissions and access will always be granted using the credentials specified.
8. Click on the pencil icon next to Domain, and enter the name of the Windows Domain in which to authenticate the user that will be entered further down. This entry should contain the NetBIOS domain name not the DNS domain name. This value is only required if the user to be entered below can only be authenticated against the specified domain.
9. Click on the pencil icon next to Username, and enter the name of the user to authenticate as with the server.
10. Click on the pencil icon next to Password, and enter the password of the user specified above.
11. Hit Enter to submit the password.
12. Next click on Resources in the menu on the left hand side, under CONTENT.
13. In the Actions box on the right hand side, click on Add New Resource.
14. The Add Resource dialog box will pop up to allow you to enter a name for the Resource. This name SHOULD NOT be the same as was entered in step 3 above. This is the name that will be shown on to the user on the LearnPad, so it is suggested that it should be clear and descriptive.
15. Under Type, expand the drop-down list box and select Folder.
16. Click on Add Resource. The settings for the new resource will be displayed.
For instance, if the share name specified in step 3 was myshare, the Path entry in the Resource should be <myshare>.
18. Once the Resource is created, it can be added to any LearnPad category. Please see the LearnPad support pages for more information on managing categories.


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Q: prevent swf games to open new browser windows I have some free swf games and I want like to put them on my website. some of these games are opening new browser windows and I would like to find a way to stop it.
Is there any solution usng javascript or maybe by an swf loader to prevent opening new browser windows?
Thanks,
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A: It seems there is no way to block flash's calls to the method navigateToURL() without editing the application itself. Loading it into another SWF will result nothing.
Publishing the SWF file with parameter < param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" /> has no effect as well.
You best choice is to re-compile the SWF after removing all the navigateToURL() calls.

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Separating facts from fiction about Joseph Smith's death
byDeseret News | Sep. 02, 2010
Opinions & Features
The size of the bullet hole in John Taylor's pocket watch that was with him in Carthage Jail was the last detail Joseph Lynn Lyon needed in his research about the 1816 muskets that were likely used by the mob.
The pocket watch had been damaged during the shootings that resulted in the deaths of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum and the hands had stopped at 5:16.
The answer he received: "There isn't a hole in John Taylor's watch."
That started a new search to separate the facts from the myths surrounding the events of that day in Carthage, Ill., on June 27, 1834, Lyon said during a BYU Campus Education Week presentation on Aug. 16.
"Some well meaning people want to enhance such an event by adding the miraculous," Lyon said. "While others want to attack it to destroy faith."
Fortunately, there is still evidence from the shootings, including the jail with the original doors and the room still intact, the death masks of Joseph and Hyrum, and photographs of their skulls, Hyrum's clothes and watch, John Taylor's watch and statements from those who survived or treated the men.
John Taylor's watch
To see how a watch would withstand being shot, Lyon, a University of Utah professor, began buying old watches for a Mythbuster-style test.
Read the rest of this story at deseret.com
Opinions & Features ,Opinions & Features


Nintendo Australia is rewarding dedicated Mario fans for surpassing the total global count of five hundred billion coins. To celebrate the milestone, the publisher is rewarding each player who has collected one million coins with an exclusive New Super Mario Bros. 2 certificate.
To redeem this certificate, participants must submit a photo of themselves and their Nintendo 3DS screen showing the one million coin tally to the official website. Players who wish to collect more coins can download the Gold Classics Pack for Coin Rush Mode, which is free to download until January 31, after which it will be available to purchase.
Additionally, two final Coin Rush course packs for New Super Mario Bros. 2 are also available for download. The Mystery Adventure Pack and the Impossible Pack feature labyrinth courses and tougher challenges respectively. Course packs can be purchased from the in-game shop menu in New Super Mario Bros. 2 on Nintendo 3DS and 3DS XL.
New Super Mario Bros. 2 was praised in GameSpot's review for precise controls and nostalgic gameplay, but criticised for its level design. The game was released exclusively for the 3DS in 2012, selling 240,000 copies in its initial week of release in the United States.


This heartbreaking story about a Montreal photographer reminds me how our work as photographers is basically data, collections of bits and bytes, and easily lost.
I can imagine how it would feel to lose a single shoot, never mind a years worth of images.
It's not just client shoots either – a lot of us have huge collections of family photo's on our computers, so some sort of security is just as important to the casual photographer.
Last spring I shot a wedding and flew home with my images just on the camera's flash cards and it totally stressed me out.
I usually download the images to a laptop and a portable hard drive in the hotel room that night. I sleep way better knowing I have three sets of images.
On this trip particular trip the laptop stopped working, and so there I was, with just the original images until I got home. The cards never left my person, but I never really relaxed until they were safety downloaded.
At home I have three hard drives with my data on it.
One's the working hard drive, and two are back-up hard drives.
One of the back-ups stays at home, backing up every hour and one goes to an 'undisclosed' location.
If the unthinkable ever happens I should always have atleast one copy.
None of this guarantees my data is protected, but it does, I think, reduce the probability of data loss to tolerable.
I feel for this poor photographer though, because with the best laid plans and systems we've all been in a situation where we're vulnerable to theft and other disasters.


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Q: C switch case label value already appeared Why IDE thinks there is an error ?

"case label value has already appeared in this switch at line 9
C/C++(1578)"

int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
    for (int i = 0; i < argc; i++)
    {
        switch (*argv[i])
        {
            case 'drow': printf("drow detected");
            break;
            case 'drows': printf("drows detected"); //line 9
            break;
            case 'rows': printf("rows detected"); //error at the first apostrophe '
            break;
            default: printf("Unknown arg, skipping.");
            break;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

A: You are using a multibyte character constant as a label
case 'drow':

Its value is implementation defined of the type int.
The C Standard,  6.4.4.4 Character constants.

The value of an integer character constant containing more than one
character (e.g., 'ab'), or containing a character or escape sequence
that does not map to a single-byte execution character, is
implementation-defined.

So it seems the constants 'drow' and 'drows' have the same integer value.
The compiler could issue a message that the constant 'drows' is too long for its type.
On the other hand, the expression used in the switch statement
switch (*argv[i])

is not a multibyte character. So in any case the switch statement does not make a sense.
Instead of the switch statement you could use if-else statements. For example
if ( strcmp( argv[i], "drow" ) == 0 )
{
    //...
}
else if ( strcmp( argv[i], "drows" ) == 0 )
{
    //...
}
else if ( strcmp( argv[i], "rows" ) == 0 )
{
    //...
}
else
{
    //...
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Oh, God!
Jerry Landers is living an ordinary life working as an assistant manager at a grocery store until he's approached by a bespectacled elderly man -- who turns out to be God. Suddenly, Jerry's existence becomes anything but ordinary.
George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy, William Daniels, Barnard Hughes, Paul Sorvino, Barry Sullivan, Dinah Shore, David Ogden Stiers
Comedy, Classic Comedies, Religious Comedies & Satires, Faith & Spirituality
English, French, Spanish (Neutral), Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Thai
Common Sense rating OK for kids 10+
Parents need to know that Oh, God! is a comic fantasy in which the Almighty, disappointed with the way things are going, travels to Earth in the guise of a human to deliver his most important messages. He chooses a nonbeliever, an ordinary man to carry those precepts to the world. The teachings are "faith-based," not preaching any particular belief system, but hoping to inspire responsibility, compassion, and care for the earth and one another. The movie asserts only that there is one Creator (in this case, a whimsical and funny one) and that it's entirely up to the world's inhabitants to take advantage of everything he has put in place for them. Fine for kids and families who can accept this lighthearted approach to faith and who will appreciate the honesty and value of the ideas it presents. Profanity includes "hell," "crapshoot," "humping the checkout girls." There's some minor sexual content (skimpy nightgown, man getting out of shower naked from the waist up).
Married couple cuddles in bed. Comic scene shows hero passing a couple embracing in a supermarket; her skirt is up. Female lead appears in skimpy clothing (babydoll PJs, a slip). Man is shown getting out of the shower, naked from waist up until he puts a towel on, and is embarrassed by his nakedness. A mention of menopause.
Security guards grab hero in a church service and carry him out of the room.
"Hell," "crapshoot," "humping the checkout girls."
Simple messages work for any belief system: The world has everything in it to provide full, good lives for everyone; it's up to the people who live there to make it work. And, if help is needed, they must turn to each other. Key decisions must be made: Choose cherishing and nurturing the planet and each other instead of killing and ruining the earth.
Coca-Cola and some TV stations.
Two scenes show hero drinking a beer.


How will Betsy DeVos' Policies Impact Charter Schools in 2018?
It's no secret that Betsy DeVos is a major proponent of school choice - particularly school vouchers and charter schools. The first reaction, thus, is that her policies are likely to be good for charter schools.
Her strong support for charter schools is controversial - many feel that putting an emphasis on charter schools benefits a few students at the expense of the majority and, in some cases, charter schools seem to be causing a return to segregation. Her actual policies are likely to start being reflected in the upcoming legislative session.
So far, DeVos has not actually made any major steps to create real change, slowed by Washington bureaucracy (in fact, some people think she may step down). Her goal of funneling public school funding into charter and private schools has come up against the fact that the federal government does not control much public school funding. Her first budget would have slashed multiple school programs to direct money to school choice - but it was rejected by a Republican-dominated Congress.
What she has achieved is to shrink the department of education, shedding 8 percent of staff and offering buyouts to over 200 more in November. Her proposed strategic plan puts "educational choice" as the number one priority - but the current posted plan which runs through 2018 is still the one from her predecessor.
All of this makes it hard to work out how any plan she puts through will really affect charter schools, and in June she reminded the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools that charter schools are not the only option. She has long been an advocate for school vouchers to allow kids to attend private or religious schools, and she might make that more of a priority than charter schools, especially as charter schools are generally better funded and somewhat less controversial.
So, what can charter schools actually expect from Betsy DeVos? With little data on what she might do, the best thing to do is look at what she has done and achieved in the past. To do this, the best place to "go" is Michigan, where she has long been involved in school reform. Her family has donated large amounts of money, some of which have gone to Detroit's schools of choice program, which has resulted in poor quality education and poor regulation of charter schools. She is involved in the Great Lakes Education Project, a PAC which lobbies for charter schools.
So, the most likely consequence, assuming DeVos manages to achieve her goals, is more public money going to charter schools, although not as much as she likely hopes. This money will not necessarily go to the best schools, but savvy school administrators may be able to claim some of it for their own. She is also likely to attempt to convince states to lift caps on charter schools, as happened in Michigan, allowing more schools to open and operate - again, though, she is finding the power of the federal government distinctly limited. She also attempted to get the Michigan constitution amended to allow school vouchers, but failed. Any policies she implements should be expected to reduce oversight of charter schools - a good thing for schools attempting to experiment. This could be leveraged into allowing charter schools to produce higher quality education, but could also result in more low-performing schools that give the entire charter industry a bad name.
With months behind her, it's still not clear exactly what DeVos is going to do for and to the department of education and with her only solid achievement to be to reduce the workforce, charter schools and their advocates are left guessing, at least until the next strategic plan is released some time in 2018.
To find out more about how to improve your charter school - and how to use inventory tracking to keep control over school inventory contact GoCodes.


3-BDR 2-BTH Condo - Pet Friendly - Garage - INTERIOR PHOTOS ARE OF A SIMILAR UNIT. NEW PHOTOS COMING SOON!! 3-bedroom 2-bath condo located in DeWitt, MI. Lansing school district. First floor unit with tall ceilings. Built in 2007. Kitchen is fully equipped with stainless steel appliances including range, oven, refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave. Carpet in living room and bedrooms. Laminate flooring in kitchen and bathrooms. Gas fireplace in living room. Linen and laundry closet in hallway. Washer/dryer hook-up (electric). Master bedroom with walk-in closet and en-suite. Master bath has stand-up shower. Second full bath has tub/shower combo. Other amenities include central air and patio. Garage available for additional $75/month. Trash and lawn/snow maintenance included. Tenant is responsible for gas, electric, water and sewer. Pet friendly. Two pets allowed (dogs less than 30 lbs). $200 non-refundable pet fee. $25 monthly pet fee. No smoking allowed. Section 8 not accepted. $35 non-refundable screening fee per applicant over the age of 18. Credit check will be ran. Security deposit will be 1.0-1.5 times rent depending on application score. The advertised rental amount includes a $50 rent discount for rent paid prior to the 4th of each month.
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Perhaps one of the most neglected areas of assisting veterans and their dependents is in helping them prepare for emergencies that can arise in almost every family situation, referring to military discharge records and other essential documents and information needed when applying for benefits before and after the death of the veteran. All veterans should take the time to sit down and discuss with their spouse and family the benefits that they may be entitled to from the Veteran Affairs (VA) before the veterans' death.
It is particularly important, that the surviving member of the family know the location of important family documents such as; military discharge payers, certificate of marriage, certificates of birth, divorce decrees and other important documents.
Urge all veterans to have their military discharge papers recorded in the office of the local veterans' services department in their city or town or the town clerk's office.
In addition, tile veteran should inform his or her spouse and family of any prior marriage or divorce and the location of such documents in that connection. Such documents and records should be kept in a place that is protected from fire and theft, yet, readily accessible.
Family members should be advised to immediately contact the local veterans' service agent of the city or town of residence in the event of the death of the veteran.
By assembling these documents and discussing them now, the veteran will save his or her family and loved ones from an unnecessary burden at a time of emotional stress.


The Head Coach provides leadership, supervision and coaching to the Women's Basketball intercollegiate athletic team of the College. The Coach directs training and practice programs for the team, and teaches skills and strategies to student athletes. An employee in this position monitors the academic progress of team members, and arranges for appropriate guidance and/or assistance to contribute to the academic success of the student athletes.
Review of applications for this position will begin April 26, 2019 and continue until a candidate is selected. Interested candidates must submit a Florida State College at Jacksonville online application. A resume will not be accepted in lieu of submitting an online application. Please visit https://Jobs.FSCJ.edu to learn more about this position and to complete the required online application.
At a minimum the selected candidate will have an Associate's degree from an accredited institution supplemented by a minimum of five (5) years of related coaching experience. Additionally the preferred candidate will have a Bachelor's degree from and accredited institution supplemented by successful recruiting experience, the ability to develop talent and assist students to the next level and the ability to assist student athletes with academic success.
Founded in 1965, Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ), then known as Florida Junior College (FJC), opened its doors during the height of the nation's community college movement to proudly serve the Northeast Florida region as the first public, postsecondary educational institution in Duval or Nassau County to exist on an integrated basis. Over the next 20 years, the College would proceed to open the five campuses that are still occupied today and make up the current Florida State College at Jacksonville. FJC reached a big milestone in 1986 as it registered its 500,000th student and changed its name from Florida Junior College to Florida Community College at Jacksonville (FCCJ) in response to community input and engagement. During the next two decades, the College continued to grow exponentially and expanding the programs and courses it offered students. In 2007, the College received accreditation to offer baccalaureate degree programs. In 2009, Florida Community College at Jacksonville announced the name by which it is known today, Florida State College at Jacksonville (FSCJ). From an initial enrollment of 2,610 students in Fall 1966 to the current enrollment of 50,000 stud...ents, the College has grown to offer 13 bachelor's degrees, 45 associate degrees and more than 100 technical certificates and workforce certifications. The Florida State College at Jacksonville BlueWave Athletics Department is proud to feature six teams: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, softball, women's cross country and women's volleyball. After the 2015-16 academic year, 18 student-athletes went on to play at a higher level (NCAA or NAIA). In addition to a legacy of competitive teams that compete in the National Junior College Athletic Association, we also have a strong history of achieving great academic success. In 2015-16, 27 of our student-athletes made the All-Academic Team for the Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA) with a 3.30 GPA or higher. Twenty of these student-athletes then went on to make the All-Academic National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) team with a 3.5 or higher GPA. Additionally, our baseball team was second in the state with a cumulative team GPA of 3.27. We recently implemented a BlueWave Life Skills program to enhance student-athlete success. The program focuses on five areas: academic success, athletic success, community service, personal development and career/financial success. Student-athletes attend seminars to enhance their life in areas such as leadership development, building healthy relationships, communication and financial literacy while continuing to be the best students they can be in the classroom. In addition, coaches and teams represent FSCJ in service endeavors throughout Duval and Nassau counties and our College community. We welcome the public to our athletic and community events including the upcoming summer programs such as camps and high school league tournaments.


Given the sky-high prices of new recreational vehicles and their quick depreciation, it makes sense for buyers to put their money into salvage recreational vehicles. Although investing in a damaged motorhome for sale can be a wise decision, you still need to be careful when it comes to making your pick. Many of the used recreational vehicles and damaged motorhomes available may have certain latent problems. To help you make the right choice, we share a checklist of the things to check when buying damaged motorhomes for sale. Read on.
Tires are easy to inspect. Look for small cracks in between the treads. Although some of the cracks may be superficial, they can deteriorate the tires over time. If the tires are cracked or worn out, you need to replace them to avoid breakdowns and accidents. In such cases, include the cost of replacement in your budget.
As many recreational vehicles gather dust for extended periods, there is always a risk of rodent damage. When buying a damaged motorhome through an RV online auctions, it is important to look for any signs that may point towards the problem. Pull up seat cushions and look in storage spaces. Rodent droppings can be a health hazard and can also damage the interiors and circuitry of motorhomes.
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Comedy, Rebirth, Rags to Riches, Tragedy, The Quest, Overcoming the Monster, Voyage and Return – these seven plot archetypes can be seen at work everywhere, from global news stories to the smallest interaction (see Christopher Booker's The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories for a better idea of what these archetypes involve).
Pick three of the seven archetypes and create a static or moving image for each one that tells a story from the modern world. Look to unexpected places, find the dramatic in the seemingly banal, the emotion and humanity that underlies the routine of our daily lives. In a fast-moving, digital world, having the time and space to unfold a story is a luxury not often available. How do you distil the essence of it down to something that can be captured in a single moment?


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It's 2019, baby! Word on the street is, this is going to be a good year. I've heard it just has good vibes, and that it just has to be better than 2018 and also my mom told me personally that 2019 has big things in store for me. So why argue with people? I'm embracing it. This is going to be a BIG YEAR for Gregory and his little Shipwreck Baby. But before I talk about all the things I have planned for 2019, I'd love to have a gander at 2018. Celebrate all the things I accomplished (and there's some real good ones in there). Talk about what disappointed me, and what I can do better right now. This my friends, is a year in review.
2018 was the year I quit my job and started working on Shipwreck full-time. But the way in which I left my job, had some baggage. I quit because the conditions of a job I had loved for a long time, had soured. Some of the people in positions of power, had made the environment pretty toxic. So, I took it as a sign that this was the right time to try the full-time, small business owner life. It was pretty exhilarating, but in January, after the initial high of being the MASTER OF MY DOMAIN wore off, I felt a bit unsure. With essentially the whole year looking me in the face, and no real set schedule, I quickly fell into a rut. I focused on Instagram. I worked on creating more content and figuring out how to grow my following. I experimented with post frequency, bought a class on how to grow my following, and eventually landed on a schedule and some principals that I still use today. And that strategy doubled my followers in 2018 (800->1600). Bravo!
But I quickly realized that my numbers didn't really add up. The ones that you can use to buy things, that is. Money numbers. I scheduled photo shoots, designed new stickers, signed up for craft shows, and eventually hired a company to help me break into the wholesale market. And all these things added up quickly. In the spring I realized, these may have been things I should have done before I quit my job. These are early days steps. The sowing of the seeds. And they are hard to pay for without a steady stream of income. And I had a stream! Only maybe it was more like a rain barrel. I did a lovely craft show (Greenpointers) with a couple new designs, and got a better response than I had in ones of the year before, but I didn't get the response to my new designs that I had hoped for. In fact, people didn't seem to take to it. Things felt good, but also very much the same. I had put in a lot of work, in the first three or four months, but none of it seemed even a single step away from increasing my income. And then came summer.
Summer was the breaking point. I had saved up quite a bit of money before quitting my job. And I felt, what is your savings for if not for giving you the flexibility to try and better your life? To take a trip, to cover a surprising expense, a move, an investment. And it was in the last one, that I finally pushed myself to take the leap with Shipwreck. But as investments go, this was a pretty loose one. Without concrete goals and sales-driven ideas, I was simply buying myself time to figure things out. And in June, time ran out. I had become so poor that I couldn't focus on anything. Every decision suddenly became an opportunity to turn things around, or to fully sink the ship. I was frozen. I had to get a job. It felt like a huge defeat.
My self esteem was very low. I was proud of my work as always, I knew that I was a talented maker, but I felt I knew nothing about business and what people actually want (despite reading multiple books and taking singular class!). I didn't feel like I could take a vacation, or sign up for another class or program or craft show or anything. I was completely stuck and about as anxiety ridden as I've been in years. It's hard not to take this business stuff personally sometimes. Especially when it's your livelihood.
But this is the thing. This is why I was so gung ho about quitting my job. Because without this sense of personal responsibility and well being attached to Shipwreck, it was just never going to grow into anything more than a hobby business. Who knows, maybe it never will, but by jumping into the fray I am committing to it. And this first real hardship of depression summer 2018 made me adapt. After some of the worst weeks I've ever had as an artist and business owner, I made several decisions all at once. And this is where the year began to turn around, though I certainly couldn't believe it at the time.
My sister visited when I was in this very low period and we talked about what I wanted from my life from a money perspective. And we landed on a way for me to make money by following one of my other passions, cooking. And thus Meal Ticket was born. I would cook food for my friends who wanted to eat better and save a little money and who just in general wanted to eat homemade food. At the same time, I finally found a job that seemed flexible enough for me to still focus on Shipwreck properly, I started cleaning apartments. And finally, I started the best thing I've done for Shipwreck so far, Shipwreck Circle, my subscription card business on Patreon. These three projects all started at the same time. And came from the lowest point of my Shipwreck career.
Would I have had this moment without being full-time and feeling the true financial pressure of a point of no return? It's hard to say, but I think not. I think I would have moved some things around, picked up more shifts, and Shipwreck would be miles behind where it is today. The rest of the year was a delightful blur. I cooked 14 weeks of food, cleaned countless apartments and I had a fairly successful launch and have since grown my Circle subscribers to 31, (which I think is really amazing!). I did another new show in December, the FAD Market, using the new designs I had made from SC and got the best response and best sales rate I have ever gotten at a market. And I felt so grateful for the squeeze of summer sadness and how it forced me to push harder.
Because looking back on 2018, I am surprised what I didn't get done. I did A LOT, in terms of very important things that have really shifted my life in a positive direction (see last paragraph). At the end of 2017, I was a server who did a stationery business part time, and felt sort of reserved about it. At the beginning of 2019 I am a stationery business owner, and I have a lot of big plans, a lot of new designs, a lot of momentum, and even some money I made selling things I made. Of course that's the most basic and obvious part of what I do, but it's a lot harder than it sounds. And having figured out how to better connect with people, I am reinvigorated by my decision to do this business in the first place.
I think the real reason I didn't accomplish so many of my goals in 2018 was simple. I hadn't really been tested yet. Without the test, I was just unsure. It was exciting to think in theory about where money would come from, and how the business would grow, but once 6 months passed and all my money with it, it was no longer exciting. It was a big old bummer. And so, starting 2019 with a better standing in all regards, and having made it a full year without going back into the service industry, having transformed the way that I think about myself and my business. I am confident I can accomplish much more this year, both because I am excited again, AND because I am sure. And you know what, I really do think 2019 has big plans for me.
Everything I have is going to grow this year. On top of having dozens more designs through Shipwreck Circle (my design incubator) I am going to travel to craft shows in different areas. I am going to do collaborations. I am going to tidy up my web presence. I am going to dip my toe into more video content. I am going to try teaching paper cutting and card making. I am going to update my line sheet to showcase my growing library of designs. I have been streamlining my cards so that they get ever easier to produce. I am going to find some more creative peers and spend time with and learn from and collaborate with them. I am going to re-discover my love for all this making. And I'm just going to make so much more than I've ever made and become the disciplined artist I've always dreamed of becoming. All while remembering to have fun.


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Disclosure and Barring Service in need of reform
In R (on the application of P) v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2017] EWCA Civ 321, the Court of Appeal considered the revised scheme for the disclosure of criminal records and, in particular, whether it appropriately balanced the aim of protecting the public with an individual's right to a private life.
The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (the 1974 Act) introduced a scheme under which convictions and cautions (including reprimands and warnings) for criminal offences do not have to be disclosed once they have become 'spent'. A subsequent Order removes the protection from non-disclosure in certain circumstances, including in relation to questions asked in order to assess an applicant's suitability for employment in positions such as those that involve working with children and other vulnerable people.
Alongside the 1974 Act, the Police Act 1997 (the 1997 Act) created a scheme for disclosure of criminal records held by the police. Under the 1997 Act, the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) must issue a criminal record certificate (CRC) or an enhanced criminal record certificate (ECRC) when an application is made in the correct form. An ECRC must include information that the police reasonably believe is relevant to the enquiry made and ought to be included (known as "soft intelligence").
The original scheme required a CRC and ECRC to include all convictions and cautions, whether spent or unspent, and whatever the nature of the offence. The DBS scheme was introduced in 2013 to deal with concerns that the original scheme did not strike the right balance between upholding civil liberties and protecting the public. The DBS scheme no longer requires the disclosure of every spent conviction and caution. Instead, from 29 May 2013, the revised scheme requires disclosure of spent convictions only in the following circumstances:
Where there are two or more convictions, they are always disclosable on a CRC or ECRC.
Certain specified offences are always disclosable on a CRC or ECRC. They include more serious offences such as assault occasioning bodily harm (ABH) and all sexual offences.
Any spent conviction in respect of which a custodial sentence was imposed.
Juvenile reprimands (which remain on central records and are subject to lifelong disclosure).
The case concerned the compatibility of the DBS scheme with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Article 8 of the ECHR provides that:
Everyone has the right to respect for his/her private and family life, home and correspondence.
There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.
The issue in the four linked appeals considered by the Court of Appeal concerned the balance to be struck between two important principles of social policy:
Allowing those who have been convicted of criminal offences to be able, in appropriate circumstances, to put their pasts behind them and conduct their lives without reference to what they did, in some cases, many years previously.
The requirement that the public be kept safe from those who, because of their past behaviour, might continue to be a risk.
Each of the four appeals in the present case concerned the 'two or more convictions' rule or the 'specified offences' rule above. Each individual concerned had had past criminal conduct disclosed by the DBS when applying for employment and argued that Article 8 of the ECHR had been violated.
In the case of P, she had committed two offences of shoplifting while suffering from undiagnosed schizophrenia. She subsequently failed to appear in court and was convicted of both the theft offence and an offence under the Bail Act 1976.
At the age of 13, G had engaged in consensual sexual activity with two younger boys. He was given two reprimands, which would be disclosable under the CRC scheme.
In the case of W, at the age of 16 (in 1982) he had been convicted of ABH and received a conditional discharge for two years. He had no subsequent criminal history but was caught by the 'specified offences' rule.
In the case of K, in 2007 she had been witnessed assaulting her three year old daughter by two passing police officers. There was evidence of redness to the face and swelling to the child's arm, who K said she had hit for refusing to do her homework. K was cautioned for ABH.
The four individuals applied to the High Court challenging variously the revised scheme, whether it was compatible with their Article 8 rights and whether the information should have been disclosed in their particular cases. In two cases, the challenges were upheld and the Secretary of State appealed; in the other two cases, the challenges were rejected and the individuals appealed.
Court of Appeal decision
The Court of Appeal concluded that the DBS scheme remained deficient and in need of further improvement. While the concept of the revised scheme did not necessarily breach Article 8 of the ECHR, its application in individual cases might do so. The provisions relating to disclosure of serious offences and multiple offences were not "in accordance with the law" and were in breach of Article 8 of the ECHR. Each was required to have a mechanism for weighing the nature of the offence, the lapse of time and the relevance to the employment sought.
In relation to the 'two or more offences' rule, a more granular filter was required to take into account lapse of time, disposal and the timing and nature of the two convictions. The practicalities of such a scheme were for Parliament to decide.
In relation to the 'specified offences' rule, the Court of Appeal concluded that a mechanism or filter had to be devised to ensure that disclosure was proportionate and linked to the protection of the public so as to be necessary in a democratic society. Without that, it was difficult to see how challenges could be avoided.
Dealing specifically with the four challenges in this case, the Court of Appeal held as follows:
The multiple conviction rule in P's case was a disproportionate interference with her Article 8 rights and was not necessary in a democratic society. P's convictions did not demonstrate a pattern of offending behaviour, which might legitimately be relevant to a potential employer.
In G's case, although finely balanced, the Court found that the lapse of nine years since the imposition of the reprimands meant that disclosure was not necessary in a democratic society. The Court left open the issue of whether it might be justifiable for "soft intelligence" relating to the incidents to be disclosed on an ECRC, depending on the nature of the role applied for.
In W's case, the disclosure of an ABH conviction 31 years after the event was not proportionate or necessary in a democratic society and could not have any relevance to an assessment of the risk he might pose to the public.
K's appeal was dismissed. Her caution was not for a trivial matter and the role K had applied for was a caring position. The disclosure was in accordance with the law and was not disproportionate. Her Article 8 rights had not been violated by the disclosure.
The Court of Appeal was clear that the revised DBS scheme is not compliant with EU law and accordingly that it will need to be revised if it is to strike the right balance between the competing rights. While there was no need for a bespoke system providing an individual right of review, a filtering system for cases 'at the margin' that no longer required disclosure was feasible. The Court gave some guidance on the amendments required in order for the scheme to be in accordance with the law but declined to give detailed guidance on the practicalities of any revised scheme. The Court also noted that it was not a matter for the Court to be prescriptive about what may be required from a legislative perspective.
It will therefore be for the Government to consider appropriate mechanisms of filtering the information to be disclosed on CRCs and ECRCs, however we can expect changes to the existing DBS scheme in due course. Without changes to the scheme, as the Court predicts, it is difficult to see anything other than challenges of this nature being brought again in the future.


Around the time of utilitarianism another philosopher is going to introduce to the world a philosophical idea that will profoundly shape the world from the time of its creation until the present day. Marxism not only inspired revolutions around the world, most notably in Russia and China which are to this day not fully capitalist, but was influential in the formation of the modern welfare state that we find in Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc. The most basic idea of Marxism is that we must eliminate poverty by ending "class struggle." He proposed to eliminate poverty by eliminating "private property in the means of production." His ideology is called communism because he proposed common ownership of the means of production. He claimed that the history of the world was a history of class struggle. He felt that the newly created capitalism was no better than the monarchies of the past that Europe had revolted against. Marx's work begins a discussion that is still on going about the morality of economic inequality. Most industrial nations have done much to reduce economic inequality (public education, social security, free medical care for the poor, etc) but economic inequality has been on the rise in recent years, especially in the United States. And most of the world still lives in poverty.
The main reading for this weeks is Marx's communist manifesto. I've provided some notes for the key ideas I want you to be familiar with and link to the wikipedia page for Marxism. There are also numerous documentaries and sources online that you can use if you are not clear on any of the concepts.
Aside from its historical influence the other reason to be interested in Marx's ideas is that the questions he raised are directly relevant to our time. While extreme poverty has been going down in the world overall, we still live in a world in which the worlds' richest 8 people have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people, just to use one statistic as an example of how extreme economic inequality is today around the world.
The genesis for Marx's ideas came from the successes of the enlightenment and from the failures of the enlightenment. By this point in history, England, France, and the United States are democracies but economic inequality is as high as ever. The enlightenment revolutions provided equality of liberty but there was no material equality. If you were born poor you were going to die poor, and the vast majority of society was born poor, just like throughout the entirety of human existence.
Marx comes to view history through the lens of class struggle. He famously said, "History is a history of class struggle." What he meant was that throughout history the names of the different social classes had changed one constant remained. There were two classes, the rich and the poor, and rich oppressed the poor. Under capitalism, the classes are the "bourgeoisie" or the capital-owning class, and the "proletariat" or the working class. The bourgeoisie own some sort of property like a factory or a natural resource or a corportation that allows them to earn large amounts of money without actually performing any labor. The proletariat or the working class must sell their labor to survive. Therefore they are at the mercy of the bourgeoisie and are vulnerable to oppression in the form of wages below what is needed to live and unsafe working conditions.
The means of production are any sort of property that allows a person to earn income without laboring. This could a natural resource like oil, it could be a large amount of land that can be farmed, it could a factory or some other type of business or corporation that employees people. There are two basic ways in which resources can be owned commonly. A resource can either be owned by the government and the benefit of that resource can be shared amongst all citizens. This approach makes the most sense when dealing with natural resources of the country. The other method of common ownership is "employee owned." If a business is employee-owned then it means that all the employees own a share of the business and therefore share in the profits. This approach can work with small businesses and large international corporations as well.
Marx predicted that capitalism would collapse as workers would rebel against the tyranny of capitalism. The transition stage from capitalism to pure communism he called "socialism." This, of course, raises the very interesting question of whether Marx was right. The answer is "Yes and No." Marx failed to anticipate the extent to which capitalism could accommodate many of his suggested reforms. For example, Marx calls for an end to child labor and universal education for children. This right has become well recognized around the world and in fact even "capitalist" countries like the United States provides universal education. Most capitalist countries, like those in Europe, also provide free health care. WOrker's rights movements secured decent pay and safe working conditions and limits on hours that companies can force employees to work. You can thank Marx for the weekend! Marx also called for a graduated income tax, which the United States and every other country in the world has. Marx called for the abolition of the right of inheritance and the right to own land. While Western democracies have not instituted those policies we do have something similar in the form of inheritance taxes and property taxes. And governments have taken very strong measures to regulate business in so many different ways (environmental regulations, corporate taxes, labor regulations, anti-monopoly laws, etc.) So, from one perspective he was wrong in that he didn't foresee the extent to which capitalism could accomdate his demands. ALthough from another perspective he might look at our society and argue that he was right. The soceities of Western Europe and the United States could easily be described as socialist, based on the above discussed changes in society. One thing is certain, capitalism looks nothing like it did in Marx's time.
What kind of economic system do we have in the United States? What kind of economic system does the rest of the developed world have? Is it capitalism? Is it socialism? It's something in between. Something that has sometimes been called "social democracy," although more recently 2016 democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called it "democratic socialism." The key thing is that while Western Europe and the United States did not embrace communism it did embrace the idea of a welfare state, a state in which the government takes an active concern in reducing poverty through a wide range of government programs funded by taxes on the wealthy and on large corporations.
Economic inequality in the United States has not been as high as it currently is since the time of the great depression, or the late 1920s and early 1930s.
What I think these video's, and recent popularity of democratic socialist candidate Bernie Sanders show is that Marx's idea are still just as relevant as ever. Not to say he was right about everything, or even anything, but the issues of economic inequality are still largely unsolved.


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"We chose The Sabres to provide musical entertainment at our wedding, and they were absolutely fantastic. From the first minute, they delighted all of our guests, fans of Pop & Rock music like the others, and all generations. Even our musician friends were amazed! You can trust Damien, Stéphan and Hervé with your eyes closed. They are exceptional musicians, extremely professional, who were very accommodating and took all necessary precautions to make our party a real success. For us and for our guests, their concert will remain without a doubt a highlight of our evening! Thanks to them with all our hearts!"
– Adrien Girard, 1 January 2023, wedding in Saint-Germain-de-Calberte, Lozère, Occitanie, France
"We hosted 90 of our friends and family from England for our special day in France and we cannot recommend highly enough The Sabres for your wedding band. They have a fantastic repertoire of songs and they can get a crowd in the mood to party. Switching from rock and indie hits like the arctic monkeys to mainstream pop from the likes of Bruno Mars is no trouble for the band. They can play anything and sound great doing it. They kept the dancefloor full at all times and were a pleasure to have involved with on our day. We even booked them for a 90-minute acoustic cocktail set after the ceremony and people were dancing in the sun before the dinner had even started. Thank you for an amazing evening."
– Adam Elborn, 11 October 2022, wedding in Gers, France
"Hi Damien, We are back from honeymoon now and we wanted to say a massive thank you for playing at our wedding. You and the band were absolutely fantastic and a real highlight of our weekend. So many of our guests have said how much they enjoyed your set and it was really a pleasure working with you beforehand on the arrangements. We'd be happy to recommend you to anyone – particularly as you catered so well to our audience with the mixture of rock, pop and Bhangra! Thanks very much again and all the best, Natalie."
– Natalie & David Granger, 6 October 2022, wedding at Château de Maillac, France
"Bonjour Damien, Encore merci pour cette super soirée! Nos invités ont adoré. J'ai donné aux propriétaires du château vos coordonnées afin de pouvoir vous enregistrer dans la liste des prestataires. Bonne continuation et encore merci. Aurore et Olivier."
– Aurore & Olivier Lefebvre, 1 June 2022, wedding at Château de Caloué, France
"Hi Ed, Sorry for the late reply, we've been super busy these last few weeks. Just wanted to say a huge thank you to the band, they were incredible. Extremely talented team and they really created a great atmosphere. Everyone was impressed with their playing and with their songs, even the vendors asked me for their details. Hope they all had a good time, apologies for some of the delays when they arrived. The waitresses had a lot on their plate. Thanks again for the amazing memories. Capucine and Rob."
– Capucine Madern, 10 March 2022, wedding in Six-Fours-les-Plages, France
"Dear Damien and The Sabres…I know I said it on the night (but I was a little intoxicated at that point) so I just wanted to send you a little note to say a HUGE HUGE thank you for all of your efforts on our wedding day. SO many people have come up to say how utterly fantastic they thought you were. I know we seemed like a 'peculiar' bunch of people, wanting old school garage – often on repeat (cringe), for most of the night (and in hindsight I don't think the oldies knew what to make of most of us either! ha) but I can honestly say that everyone had the most fantastic time and that is down to the effort that everyone, including yourselves, put in. You were so efficient in getting back to me Damien, you put my mind at rest COMPLETELY in the lead up to the wedding, and I can't tell you how grateful I was for that. The party was a really important part of the day for us – hoping that everyone would have a good time, and when so much is being organised and going on it was so settling to know that you had everything under control and was SO SO very accommodating. I appreciate that not everyone would accept a playlist of a million and one songs to download for the day!! You were incredible. I'd book you again no matter where in the world we were partying! Huge HUGE thanks, Laura and Grant xxx"
– Laura & Grant Pelletier, 2 September 2021, wedding at Manoir de Longeveau, France
"Hi Damien, Nicolas, We hope you are well, and have been enjoying the rest of your summer. I'm sure you've been very busy performing at many weddings this summer! Mitch and I have been reminiscing about our wedding day ever since July 1 and wanted to extend our complete gratitude and thanks, once again, for everything you did to make the day so special. From the beginning Mitch and I were really excited to have The Sabres play at our wedding, but we had no idea just how much of an impact it would make. Not only did we love you, but all of our guests were blown away by your talent. You really lightened up the dance floor all night long! We had so many guests complimenting your performance. Personally, I will never forget the moment where you played Brown Eyed Girl for the father-daughter dance. It was so much fun, and so perfectly captured my relationship with my dad. This will forever be a cherished memory for me. Another one of our favourite memories was at the end of the night, when all our guests were chanting "one more song!" for the band to continue to play. Nobody wanted it to be over! It truly was the best day of our lives and we are so honoured to have The Sabres as a wonderful memory to look back on. Thank you for helping us create our perfect day. We hope you have an amazing rest of your summer. All our love, Hannah and Mitch xx"
– Hannah & Mitch Lawson, 16 July 2021, wedding at Mas de Montet, France
"It was an absolute success! Damien & The Sabres were brilliant!"
– Anna Williams (wedding planner), 19 September 2019, wedding at Château Valmy, Argelès-sur-Mer, France
"We absolutely LOVED The Sabres! Firstly their manager has been such a pleasure to work with leading up to the event and has been quick in replying and super helpful with any questions we had. The band was super professional as well and even helped set up the video projector and mic for the speeches during dinner. They put on an amazing show and really knew how to get the dance floor started and keep it going all night! Also they were sweet to take any song requests that I had provided them prior to the big day. They really made the party unforgettable and we get so happy when we think about it! Thanks guys! I have attached a photo of them from the event. I'm hoping to receive more, if so I'll forward. Many thanks, Emilie."
– Emilie Schou Raaberg, 15 September 2019, wedding in Saint-Privat-des-Vieux, France
© 2023 The Sabres Wedding Band France


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National Catholic Register News https://www.ncregister.com/features/how-abortion-hijacked-feminism
How Abortion Hijacked Feminism
Assessing The Abolition of Woman
(photo: Main photo, Shutterstock; book cover)
Patti Maguire Armstrong Books December 1, 2018
The Abolition of Woman
How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women
By Fiorella Nash
Ignatius Press, 2018
234 pages, $17.95
To order: ignatius.com or (800) 651-1531
In The Abolition of Woman: How Radical Feminism Is Betraying Women, author Fiorella Nash identifies the wounds that pro-abortion feminism has wrought.
She exposes the paradox of pro-abortion feminists, whom she first encountered among staff in a Catholic convent's school in England. She found them to be petty and self-pitying and ultimately at odds with pro-life feminists, who elevate women in their entirety without treating the miracle of new life as a hostile takeover.
Nash presents the dichotomy of being pro-abortion and a feminist by showing how that combination undermines women and "paralyzes any significant resistance to injustices facing women that involve abortion."
For the sake of this review, pro-abortion feminists are referred to as "feminists," since it's a title they claim as their exclusive right despite being contrary to the dignity of true feminism.
Bullying Behavior
Women are bullied and vilified if they don't toe the liberal line, according to Nash, thereby going against the notion that women have a right to freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. She points to examples such as the hateful behavior shown to post-abortive women, which is virtually identical to the way abusers treat their victims, blaming and ridiculing them.
Researchers with evidence of the abortion/breast cancer link meet with personal attacks, which have no place in an honest scientific discourse. Although the reputable The British Medical Journal found a link, the radical feminist PR machine discredited that comprehensive study and others.
The abortion machine is very adept at shutting people up. For instance, David Daleiden's undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood illegally selling aborted baby parts were met with a smear campaign against him as a fraud while claiming those involved were innocent victims.
"In a Kafkaesque turn of events, the same court that acquitted Planned Parenthood of selling baby parts charged Daleiden with attempting to buy them, a charge that surely only holds water if there were a seller involved," Nash writes.
Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood employee, was taken to court in a failed attempt to silence her after she became pro-life, too.
Apathy Toward Victims
Radical feminists are not shy about speaking out, yet Nash notes that there hasn't been a peep about China's policy of forced sterilization and abortion of women.
When women are hurt or die as a result of deplorable, unregulated abortion facilities, feminists ignore the facts and cover up the crimes. Why weren't they outraged over the filthy and unsafe conditions at places like Dr. Kermit Gosnell's unregulated house of horrors?
As Nash writes: "The appalling treatment of a woman by an abortion facility should have been met with vocal condemnation by women's groups, but instead it was met with the silence of collusion."
Gendercide is ignored, too, she reports. Due to sex-selective abortion, an estimated 25 million women are missing in India, and in China, there are 40 million more men than women.
"According to the U.N. Population Fund, in Armenia, the sex ratio for a first and second child is more or less normal; the sex ratio for a third child is 175 [boys]:100 girls," Nash noted.
It's happening in developed countries, too. She referred to studies such as in England, where abortion among some immigrant groups led to a reduction of as many as 4,700 females from the 2011 national census records of England and Wales. In addition to the numbers, The Daily Telegraph carried out an investigation in 2012 and secretly filmed doctors at British clinics agreeing to sex-selective abortions, even though it is illegal there.
And yet there is no outcry among the feminists, Nash notes.
She questioned why so much Western money is used to stop pregnancies in some countries rather than toward caring for pregnant women, who often suffer high mortality rates due to inadequate health care. In Ireland, the mortality rate is 8 deaths per 100,000 live births. In Sierra Leone, it's 1,360 deaths per 100,000 live births. "In cultures around the world, the mother is the invisible, irreplaceable lynchpin of the family; and if she goes, the entire family is shattered," Nash writes.
Neither is help offered to girls and abused women who show up under duress for abortions, she explains.
In the case of one trafficked woman, according to Nash, the abortion doctor also paid her pimp for her sexual services. In the U.S. study "Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking," more than half of the women surveyed said they had been forced to have abortions.
Feminists treat prostitution as a choice, Nash contends: "They ignore that the industry is exploitive and dangerous, rendering women vulnerable to injury, disease and violent death." Amnesty International has promoted accepting prostitution as a legitimate job choice, although an "imperfect" one.
"Imperfect is one way of describing a trade built on physical abuse, rape, child sex abuse, sadism and greed," Nash writes.
Childish Arguments
Nash describes the "my body, my choice" argument as childish. To counter the feminists' claim of absolute sovereignty over their bodies, Nash refers to John Stuart Mills' essay "On Liberty." He explained that having sovereignty over one's own body is not a right to do anything without regard to others. Simply put, harming another is not a human right.
Abortion advocates hate ultrasounds and treat them as a pro-life conspiracy, Nash says. "It is difficult to defend why women should be protected from the reality of their own choices in the name of empowerment."
With advances in science and 4-D images inside the womb that highlight the dignity of the tiniest human lives, pro-abortion women have to harden their hearts further to reject little lives.
"This is not the language of feminism, nor is it in any sense the language of social justice," Nash writes. "The argument that the vulnerable should be sacrificed as an act of undeniable violence for the sake of maintaining control is misogynist, not feminine or feminist in any sense of the word."
At the end of her book, Nash challenges two pro-abortion authors by dissecting their books, revealing the shallowness and illogic of their best arguments.
In its entirety, The Abolition of Woman is not merely an attack on anti-abortion feminism; it offers intellectual support for women who desire equality without going against their own consciences. Because "pro-life feminism should be a powerful movement at the forefront of the battle to defend the youngest and most vulnerable lives," she writes. "The alternative is the abolition of woman."
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Patti Maguire Armstrong Patti Maguire Armstrong is a TV talk show host of Ladies of Another View and an award-winning author and journalist. She was managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press' bestselling Amazing Grace series. Her newest books are Holy Hacks: Everyday Ways to Live Your Faith & Get to Heaven and Big Hearted: Inspiring Stories from Everyday Families. She has a B.A. in social work and M.A. in public administration and worked in both those fields before staying home to work as a freelance writer. Patti and her husband, Mark, live in North Dakota, where they raised their 10 children. Follow her on Twitter at @PattiArmstrong and read her blog at PattiMaguireArmstrong.com.
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