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The way normal Governmental business is supposedly being carried out in Canada
Tags: Bad RCMP, Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Conservatives, Corruption, ex MP Vic Toews, Government of Canada, Jason Kenney, Jim Prentice, Justice, law & order, leadership, Liberal Party of Canada, Liberals, LOSS OF CREDIBILITY, Michael Ignatieff, new Conservatives, News and politics, Ottawa, perversity, police, Public Safety, Quebec, RCMP, Security Minister, Stephen Harper, TARNISHED REPUTATION, Useless Preston Manning
Predictably too now since neither main parties tend to still look after the real good welfare of all Canadians but tend still to mainly look after their own good welfare mostly.. OTTAWA – Canadians are looking more favourably at the NDP as they become increasingly disenchanted with the two main political parties, a new poll suggests. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates support for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives slipped to 29 per cent amid the furor over the Guergis-Jaffer affair. That's the first time in a year that the governing party has dipped below the 30 per cent threshold. But the beneficiary this time was not the Liberals — who usually gain when Tories lose ground and vice versa. Indeed, the Liberals were stalled at 27 per cent. Rather, it was the New Democrats who rose three points to 20 per cent — a level of support the party hasn't enjoyed since shortly after the last election in October 2008. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100426/national/poll_tories
Too many persons are complaining even on the net that there seems to be Abundance of Liars, Imposters, Pretenders in our governments, civil and public services too.. and thus it is no wonder no federal political party can even expect to have a majority.. even because of the too many really bad justice ministers.. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/canadas-too-often-bad-justice-ministers/
I really do love now all my wordpress blogs for they not only do they allow me to exercise my own right of free speech, and allow my right to be heard by others too now! https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/our-politicians-file-excessive-and-unreasonable-claims-canada-wide-now-too/
Canada gets 'black eye' Montreal Gazette – Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have cut their financial support to a tobacco-control program run by a federal crown corporation because its chairperson was a director of Imperial …
Grant lost over chairwoman's tobacco links Toronto Sun
Gates charity miffed by alleged conflict-of-interest involving federal official The Canadian Press
New York Times – Seattle Times
So the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's partner on the project is Canada's International Development Research Centre, a federally funded agency whose chairman is former Tory external affairs minister Barbara McDougall. When the Gates group now found out that Ms. McDougall was until last month on the board of directors of Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., it promptly pulled the remaining funds from its initial $5.2-million (U.S.) grant. The foundation said in a statement that it is "deeply disappointed" that Ms. McDougall held both roles, and "this conflict is unacceptable as we work to support meaningful tobacco control programs in Africa." Barbara McDougall another Coinservative Con job and one of PM Stephen Harper's own job appointees too.
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/the-conservative-party-that-firstly-promised-to-be-different/
The way normal business is supposedly being carried on also by by the Liberals in Quebec, is no wonder my local Liberal MLA and the others too never write back to me or acknowledge any of my serious, critical, important letters to them still. So what I too do now have to first give a large donation to the Liberal party before my MLA will next consider reading any of my complaints? It sure seems so!!!
MONTREAL – A former Quebec justice minister has levelled a stream of bombshell allegations against Premier Jean Charest's government, accusing it of serious ethics violations. Marc Bellemare says the Liberal premier was well aware of them. Bellemare suggested the governing Liberals routinely flouted fundraising laws and also took orders from party bagmen on whom to appoint as judges. He says he was pressured, on three occasions, to name a judge requested by influential donors. Bellemare also says stacks of cash were forked over by construction company bosses and funnelled into party coffers. In the interview, Bellemare never used the word 'illegal' to describe the practices, preferring to describe them as 'irregular.' But Quebec's landmark fundraising law, introduced by Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois government in the 1970s, forbids donations over $3,000. Bellemare says he warned the premier after witnessing those big cash transactions – and says he was ignored. He says he also confronted the premier twice – in the fall of 2003 and the spring of 2004 – when pressured by influential financiers to make appointments, including judgeships. "I asked, 'Who names judges? The justice minister – or this guy and that guy who'd raised lots of money,"' Bellemare said in the interview. He says he ultimately wound up naming those judges. "Because it was an order by the big moneymen of the party – and the premier was in agreement with it," he said. "I complained to the premier. But that, apparently, was the way things went."
In yet another allegation, Bellemare says even the government's legislative agenda was shaped by its fundraisers. He says certain bills were killed at their request. Bellemare says influential moneymen "expected payback" for all the cash they pumped into the Liberal party. The premier's popularity has plummeted spectacularly in recent months, partly due to allegations of ethics violations.
An unpopular budget loaded with tax hikes compounded those problems, with tens of thousands of protesters now regularly taking to the streets. Two newspapers had front-page pictures Monday of protesters holding up signs saying, "Damned liar." One poll listed dissatisfaction with the Charest government at a whopping 77 per cent. Just a few months ago, Charest was seemingly on cruise control, basking in the height of his popularity and frequently being cited as a possible future prime minister of Canada. That was before the first controversies broke. The troubles began with a scandal about Mafia involvement in the construction industry, and that industry's influence over political fundraising at the Montreal municipal level. Radio-Canada reported that construction companies colluded to jack up the cost of public works contracts, shared their profits with the Mob, and intimidated rivals. Word that those same construction companies had helped raise money for political parties rocked Montreal's mayoral race last fall. But Charest steadfastly refused demands for a public inquiry, when almost every major player in the province was asking for one.
Bellemare left politics only one year after the Charest Liberals were first elected. He says his abrupt exit stemmed from those ethics violations. "It disgusted me – and that's why I left in the spring of 2004." As for rampant rumours that construction bosses illegally pumped cash into Liberal party coffers, Bellemare says the allegations are true. The premier shouldn't feign surprise today at word of fundraising irregularities, Bellemare said. "I can tell you he (Charest) was very well informed." http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100412/national/charest_scandal
Even Ignatieff flip-flops on health-care user fees amid Liberal grassroots revolt The brewing liberal young people grassroots revolt prompted an abrupt about-face from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on Quebec's proposal to impose health-care user fees. After first declaring Quebec's plan legal, Ignatieff has reaffirmed the long-standing Liberal position that user fees are a violation of the Canada Health Act. "I want to make it very clear that our party, and I personally, am a passionate defender of the Canada Health Act," "If the government of any province were to introduce user fees, it is our belief that that would be in contravention to the Canada Health Act and we would oppose it." Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. The act now something of a sacred cow for Liberals since it was introduced by the Trudeau government in 1984 does explicitly prohibits user fees and empowers the federal government to financially penalize provinces that impose them. Ignatieff's about face comments were in stark contrast to the initial thumbs up the Liberal leader appeared to give Quebec's plan to charge $25 for each visit to a doctor's office. His response infuriated many rank and file Liberals . Samuel Lavoie, president of the Young Liberals, fired off a letter to party president Alf Apps, expressing his "shock" and "disappointment" over the leader's embrace of the "obscene" user fee proposal.and he said that the proposed fee amounts to an "utterly immoral" tax on disease. He said it would unfairly penalize the poor and chronically ill and potentially risk the lives of those who put off seeing a doctor to avoid paying the fee. Moreover, Lavoie noted that support for Premier Jean Charest's government has nose-dived since the budget was unveiled. He questioned why the federal Liberal party would want to embrace "the most unpopular measure of a very unpopular budget," Lavoie spearheaded a motion, approved unanimously Tuesday by the Young Liberals' national executive, urging the party to "vigorously oppose health care user fees and any other actions which violate the law, purpose and spirit of the Canada Health Act." The same motion was adopted Tuesday night by the executive of the British Columbia wing of the party and various other party groups were considering following suit. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jOJpStNCtxlE-6xwcTZzmaSs0Kzw
Isn't nice that according to the Canadian Charter of rights I too now can write to absolutely now any one I want to still, all news editors, all politicians too, and that if they do not want to read my emails they can just delete them too.. or they can first take their email of the net and stop requesting people to write to them. I would have thought that they too knew that by now too.. funny.. What do any of them still think they or you are the only one who can tell, write and post the truths even on the net still? and the rest of us cannot? https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/control-freaks
It seems you cannot trust the federal or the provincial, municipal governments in Canada still.. do we all do these days too do keep on getting media revelations of abuses, corruptions, lies etc.. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/toronto-councillor-adam-giambrone-lies/
I do also have to say I was amazed so readily myself. How in my last few decades of Canadian experiences how quickly the too apparent crooks it seems are the first ones who threaten to or do sue, even how they do try to shut up the truth from the public exposure, a subject that I have often written about..
Free speech is still only mostly available to the BIG crooks or the the people with loads of money, influential friends, or the persons who hold a political office it seems, and for the cops as well.. and by the way for all the liars as well it seems..
Our governments and the courts clearly are firstly very slow to enforce prosecutions of the really clearly bad persons such as the bad cops, bad civil and public servants, too many tax evaders, thieves, tax payer's money abusers and undeniably as well but what the very apparent crooks can too readily sue the others.. .. falsely can attempt to suppress, obstruct justice from being carried out?
And there are still too many for my liking in Canada crooked professionals such as even crooked realtors, bad Real estate firms, bad Accountants, bad lawyers, bad Pastors and priests now too, bad cops, bad medical workers, bad civil and public servants, too many tax evaders, even too many bad telecommunication, internet firms guilty of false, misleading advertising and customer abuses too such as Bell..
When the bad guys generally in a state of denial, shock at the public exposure of their wrong doings cannot face the truth now they next do try to resort to false suppression, false personal attacks on the author, put unnatural pressure on persons around him and so forth, all showing still their own incomplete repentance, and their false reactions. Police falsely still like to investigate first their accusers, and/or delete their blogs.. RCMP included.
Free speech too often is a right mainly for the rich, the bad guys, crooks, not the decent folks. I also do I know that bad guys and gals such as the crooked cops, crooked pastors, crooked politicians, crooked anyone do not like me to use my right of free speech.. too bad for them.. Clearly just because some thing someone writes offends someone else does not mean firstly that it is even "hate", immediately prosecutable by law, the courts or the Human Rights Commission. There is still a separation between appropriate speech and inappropriate speech, a separation between freedom of speech, expressing one's views, opinions and the delivered, deliberate conscious propagation of hatred towards a specific group or person. https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/bullies-free-speech/
Mon May 3, 7:57 PM CALGARY (CBC) – An appointee to an Alberta advisory committee on health has stepped down following revelations she is a registered lobbyist for drug company, Eli Lilly. On April 29, the province announced the start of consultation on the province's new Alberta Health Act and named the nine advisory committee members who would assist the chairman, Fred Horne, a Edmonton Progressive Conservative MLA. In the news release, Patricia Bayne was identified as a "community member" but did not disclose that she is the senior manager for policy and government affairs with Eli Lilly. Last Thursday, the Alberta NDP announced it had also found Bayne's name on the province's lobbyist website. On Monday, the party took credit for forcing her to resign. Mason called the government "deceptive" for not disclosing Bayne's affiliation and said her inclusion was part of a push to privatize the province's health care system. Bayne was also a member of the Minister's Advisory Committee on Health last fall. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/100503/canada/canada_edmonton_edmonton_ndp_advisory_committee_resign
https://thenonconformer.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/do-you-belive-the-crap-they-hand-out-still/
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Papurio (latino: Papurius o Papyrius o Papirius; greco: Παπούριος) era una fortezza in Isauria, utilizzata in epoca imperiale come prigione.

Storia

In origine era una collina dell'Isauria che fu scelta dal brigante Papirio il quale la fortificò; era nota come castellum Papirii e da questa terrorizzava le zone circostanti.

La fortezza passò al figlio di Papirio, Indaco Cottunes, il quale continuò l'attività di brigantaggio del padre. Nel 469 il magister militum per Orientem Zenone (in seguito divenuto imperatore) inviò delle truppe per tentare di sloggiarlo dalla fortezza.

Nel 478 vi fu imprigionata Verina. La vedova dell'imperatore Leone I aveva infatti assoldato un sicario per uccidere l'influente generale Illo; fallito l'attentato, l'imperatore Zenone era stato costretto a mandare in prigione a Papurio la suocera.

Nel 479 vi fu inviato Marciano, figlio dell'imperatore romano d'Occidente Antemio, che si era ribellato all'imperatore Zenone, ma che era stato sconfitto dal generale Illo. Poco dopo il suo arrivo, il prigioniero riuscì a fuggire dalla prigione.

Nel 483 Illo si ribellò a Zenone, si recò a Papurio a liberare Verina per farle incoronare il suo prescelto, l'usurpatore Leonzio; Verina fu però nuovamente rinchiusa nella fortezza-prigione, e qui morì poco dopo. Le forze di Zenone riuscirono a sconfiggere i ribelli, e, nel 484, Illo e i suoi sostenitori (tra cui Leonzio e Indaco) furono assediati nella fortezza isaurica; l'assedio durò quattro anni, fin quando, nel 488, Papurio cadde per tradimento di Indaco.

Bibliografia
 «Illus», in William George Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume II, 1849, pp. 569-70.
 «Papirius», PLRE II, p. 831.
 «Indaco Cottunes», PLRE II, pp. 590-1.

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The 1880 chapter/Zhang chopped a thousand!
Su Hanshan's speed was simply too fast, a single step, he had already arrived, he didn't even have time to react!
Until Su Hanshan had already arrived before him, the old man finally awakened!
His cultivation base erupted, was a Grade Five False Heaven Stage, grabbed the Phoenix Sect disciples to leave.
But Su Hanshan was waved his large hand, grabbed the disciple's shoulder to grab, and then it suddenly shook!
A powerful force from Su Hanshan's hand surged out, instantly pierced through the disciple's shoulder, but he did not make the latter suffer the slightest injury.
That power, as if it was through the Phoenix Sect disciple's shoulder as a medium, quickly passed, in the end, with a bang, use the old man stretched out his arm.
With a kacha' sound, the arm was immediately broken, Fresh Blood spurted out, could see the white bones!
After seeing this scene, when the old man is first stunned for a moment.
In the next instant, the intense pain from his arm, from above, a sharp miserable screech, was immediately called out to him.
"I said, you will regret it, You all will regret it!" The Phoenix Sect disciple laughed coldly.
"You go first." Su Hanshan towards him with a smile.
For Su Hanshan's smile, the disciple was obviously extremely flattered, hastily respectfully withdrew.
As one of the Normal disciples, everyday, Su Hanshan didn't even have a chance to glance at him, much less to speak with him, still smiled and said.
Looked at the disciples left, Su Hanshan finally turned his head, his gaze landed on the old man's body.
Currently, the elder was still holding the severed arm, began to scream in pain.
He was terrified as looked at Su Hanshan, Obviously to Su Hanshan's true strength, felt intense fear.
Only by someone's body, Furthermore, he was not hurt the other people's situations, his arm shattered, This old man if he were foolish enough to think that Su Hanshan is only a Normal of Second Grade False Heaven Stage, then he wouldn't have reached this level.
In his terrified, behind the many people, they were somewhat pale.
They were a Void God Realm. Most of them were only rank one, Second Grade.
If even the powerful Grade Five False Heaven Stage, directly broken his arms, they dared to provoke them?
Su Hanshan clearly wasn't patient here talking nonsense with him, he waved his hand, causing a huge Illusion hand condensed out, towards the old man grabbed onto it.
The Illusion on the palm of the terrifying pressure, the old man's breathing was about to stop.
He knew, he was this hand, there was no resistance Power!
Su Hanshan's eyes immediately became cold.
He naturally knew that Han was a student who was Occult Blood Sect Sect Master!
Su Hanshan smiled coldly, that palm with rumbling sounds, directly slammed against the old man's body.
Even old man laid down a lot of Defense, but still didn'tseem to have any effect.
Hand, Layers of Defense shattered, the old man's body exploded, The Yuan God by Su Hanshan grabbed, sealed his cultivation.
Su Hanshan to this old man's Yuan God is thrown into the Saint Child's spatial ring, he slowly looked up, landed on the other person's body.
Seeing him look over, those people's bodies trembled, revealed a frightened expression.
They knew, Su Hanshan's cultivation had already reached an they absolutely couldn't contend against the extent, Even if they were thousands of people, but the human sea tactic to Su Hanshan, it would be useless!
Words fell, Su Hanshan's palm flipped, Divine Blade Extreme Night immediately appeared.
Not waiting for them to speak again, Extreme Night suddenly waved his hand, moved towards the crowd, slashed down!
Saber Light shot into the sky, At this moment expanded rapidly, and there was a Golden light filled the air, like a huge cage, to these people, all of them were enveloped within it!
Golden light enveloped him, these people, there was no way to escape.
They screamed continuously, he tried his best, wanting to rush out of the halo of light surrounded him, but in the end, everything was to no avail.
The terrifying Saber Light finally slashed down, the Saber Light below them, were all sliced in half, only Yuan God existences.
The Saber Light on both sides of the person, it was the terrifying impact, even breathing didn't even have the time to, A bang' sounds continuously sounded, A body, had been killed!
Saber Light followed closely after, a giant palm swept over.
Everything in the Yuan God, had all been hit, his cultivation is almost dissipated, Su Hanshan used force, all of it entering the Saint Child's spatial ring.
The entire Spirit Crystal Mine earlier, At this moment, had completely calmed down.
All of the disciples were stunned as they watched this scene.
The old man's cultivation was too strong, they could clearly sense the wasn'tsomething that they could compare to.
However, such a thousand experts, it was Su Hanshan's strike, even a palm, his body collapsed, Yuan God was sealed!
Su Hanshan's strength, he was strong to such extent?
Phoenix Sect disciple, At this moment, all of them knelt down, a respectful expression, His eyes were burning with passion.
Heavenly Mountain Pavilion disciples might not have reached this level, he was impressed by, unable to extricate himself.
Bai Yi's figure, the Sunlight reflected, fell into vision, it was like a Divine Spirit as a towering, cannot be blasphemed against.
The disciples on the neck and howled, It was as if it is afraid that Su Hanshan could be heard.
Su Hanshan shook his head with a smile, his figure flashing in, entered the Teleportation Formation.


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'Window shopping inspires me' Equestria Girls Tales of Canterlot High S1 Ep1: Dance magic
When My Little Pony was first created, little did people know that grown men would one day make up a significant proportion of the franchise's audience. The support of these 'bronies' has no doubt contributed to the success of the modern My Little Pony series 'Friendship is Magic', which spawned the spin-off 'Equestria Girls' series. Equestria Girls is a reimaging of the My Little Pony characters as teenage human girls. Alarm bells should be ringing in your head – this has the potential to be creepy.
And your concerns may well be justified as the series opens with the teenage pony-humans washing a man's car. Combine that with the amateurish Flash-style animation and this show bears an uncanny resemblance to an unlicensed fanfic. But the anthropomorphic abominations have altruistic intentions. The carwash is just the latest in a series of fundraising schemes to raise money to repair Camp Everfree, which presumably is a place from an Equestria Girls series before Tales of Canterlot High.
Despite their best efforts they are nowhere near their fundraising target, but team leader Rarity spots an advert for a music video competition that would give them twice as much money as they need to save the camp – what a coincidence!
Rarity runs into a team from rival school Crystal Prep Academy and tells them her creative vision for the music video. For a moment I thought one of the Crystal Prep girls was a human version of Derpy Hooves, the My Little Pony character beloved by fans because she was accidentally drawn with wonky eyes. But I don't think this is intentional – the animation is just bad. The dastardly Crystal Prep students steal Rarity's idea and get ready to submit it first.
The Canterlot High gang try their best but they're no good at dancing and they can't come up with another concept for their video. Rarity is driven to a nervous breakdown from the stress, collapsing in her chaise-longue and weeping bitter tears of defeat. She drowns her sorrows at the ice cream parlour, where she overhears that the Crystal Prep team are having troubles of their own.
Although they're good dancers, Crystal Prep are rubbish at singing and they can't submit their music video without a song. So Rarity suggests the rival teams combine their talents and make a video together. It ends with a song and dance, and the rival teams become friends.
This story was riddled with clichés – entering a talent competition to raise money to save the camp/youth club/church from closing is a story we've seen a million times before and this episode adds nothing new. And it's all so girly. The characters worry about the carwash damaging their hair, get distracted by sparkly dresses and end the episode by discussing what they're going to wear to a party. The message of friendship, teamwork and recognising the strengths of others was a wholesome one, but from what I've seen this series is for diehard bronies only.
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History of the National Women's History Project, Role Models for Girls #nationalwomenshistoryproject #rolemodelsfor girls
Women's History Month Theme
Hello and welcome to the Focused on Story Blog!
Last week, I highlighted International Women's Day, May 8, "a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day is also a call to action for accelerating women's equality."--National Women's History Project website
International Women's Day is an event through the National Women's History Project (NWHP).
According to their website, this organization "was founded in 1980 in Santa Rosa,
California, to broadcast women's historical achievements. We convinced Congress and the White House of the need for our nation to celebrate and recognize women's role in history on an annual basis. As a result of our efforts, the week of March 8th (International Women's Day) was officially designated as National Women's History Week. In 1987, we led the successful campaign to have the entire month of March declared National Women's History Month."
Now an international event, Women's History Month is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8, and during October in Canada.
Thank you to the NWHP for keeping women's history alive for future generations to learn about the amazing lives of those who have gone before them. Truly inspirational stories for the girls and women of tomorrow.
It was my privilege to interview sixteen remarkable women for my non-fiction book for girls, Girls Succeed: Stories Behind the Careers of Successful Women. The stories shared by each woman reveal how she aspired to a career when she was a girl and worked to make that dream come true. Middle School age girls will be inspired and entertained as they interact with the eBook filled with online links to videos and resources about each career. The paperback is available for classroom teachers and home school educators with a Reader's Guide included at the end of the book.
Below is an excerpt from Girls Succeed! about Dr. Catherine Bradley and her grandmother. They fit the 2022 theme of Women's History Month, Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.
Dr.Catherine Bradley
" 'From as far back as I can remember, I knew I wanted to be a doctor, and I had no doubt that I could do that since my grandmother was one,' said medical doctor Catherine (Cate) Bradley.
Cate's grandmother received her medical degree in 1937. At that time, it was unusual for a woman to be a doctor. She cared for her patients in a small town in Vermont. She was important to the members of the community and always went outof her way to help.
Cate's grandmother received an award from the American Cancer Society for her work in medicine and was respected as a physician, wife and mother of three daughters."--excerpt from Girls Succeed! Stories Behind the Careers of Successful Women, Chapter 4, Dr.Catherine Bradley
Cate's grandmother was a trailblazer for women in the field of medicine offering care and hope to her patients and her community.
Girls Succeed: Stories Behind the Careers of Successful Women is available at major online booksellers.
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Thank you for stopping in! Do you wish to recognize someone who fits the theme of this year's Women's History Month? Please leave a comment below.
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Hey, J. Q. Oh, my goodness the quote is so awesome. Thanks so much for including that in your post. I've shared the blog and hope many people will read it. Very inspirational. As is your book, GIRLS SUCCEED. Happy St. Paddy's day to you. :)
I'll second your gratulations for the NWHP's efforts. Great post to boost National Women's History.
Thank you, Marsha. I appreciate your kind words. And your sharing the post!
Thanks so much. Yes, NWHP is doing important work.
Thanks, Pat. This was inspiring to read.
Thank you, Joylene.
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I stumbled upon a fabulous little FREEBIELICIOUS Linky Party and just knew I had to join in! Who doesn't love FREEBIES? Or LINKIES?
So, I'm here to share a FREEBIE that I hope will come in handy this time of year. It's a "Holidays around the World Suitcase" file. Click the picture below to head over and pick up the freebie!
Most years, we travel around the world in December learning about each continent and holiday traditions of certain countries within each continent. As we "travel" students collect (create) souvenirs from each of their stops to bring back home with them. Of course, we need a way to carry all of those souvenirs, so we create our very own little suitcases!
Students each bring in a cereal box with one of the long, skinny side-panels cut out. We paint or wrap them in brown, add handles and tags, and then collect country stamps to paste on our suitcases as we travel!
I'm constantly changing up the crafts (souvenirs), here are a few pics of some we've done in the past.
We often start here at home and talk about our Christmas traditions. Students make the "oldie but goodie" reindeer to hold their own traditions writing.
We use glitter glue to create firework ornaments from Brazil.
We create Christmas crackers (poppers) from Australia. These are probably a favorite! We use toilet paper tubes and wrap them in student-designed wrapping paper. The tubes are filled with candy and prizes that they can enjoy when they "pop" them open on Christmas day!
We create finger drums using styrofoam cups hot-glued together. Students cover the openings with masking tape (two layers, one in each direction) and then we use shoe polish to antique them before decorating.
Paper lanterns are created after visiting China!
In Germany, we create 3-D Christmas trees with spiders hanging down after learning about the tradition of tinsel.
We end our travels in Greenland, "Santa's country" before coming back home.
Click on the passport above if you'd like to see the entire unit used. I hope the suitcase freebie helps you "organize" your holiday crafts and travels!
Aww...thanks, Linda! That means a lot coming from you! I always look forward to your link ups with the great things happening in your classroom!


1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus arrived in Bethany, where Lazarus lived, the man whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
2 There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
3 Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
6 He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.
9 When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
11 since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.
12 The next day, the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem.
16 At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.
17 So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify to what they had seen.
18 The crowd was going out to meet Jesus because they had heard that he had performed this sign.
20 Now some Greeks were among those who had come up to worship at the festival.
22 Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23 Jesus told them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24 Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces a lot of grain.
25 The one who loves his life will destroy it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
27 "Now my soul is in turmoil, and what should I say—'Father, save me from this hour'? No! It was for this very reason that I came to this hour.
30 Jesus replied, "This voice is for your benefit, not for mine.
31 Now is the time for the judgment of this world to begin. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
33 He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.
35 Jesus replied to the crowd, "The light is among you only for a short time. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. The person who walks in the darkness is in the darkness and does not know where he is going.
36 As long as you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light." After Jesus had said this, he went away and hid from them.
41 Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.
42 Yet many people, even some of the authorities, believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not admit it so they would not be thrown out of the synagogue.
43 For they loved the praise of human beings more than the praise of God.
44 Then Jesus said loudly, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me only, but also in the one who sent me.
45 The one who sees me sees the one who sent me.
46 I've come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won't remain in the darkness.
47 If anyone hears my words and doesn't keep them, I don't condemn him, because I didn't come to condemn the world, but to save it.
49 because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.
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CPEC sound foundation for modernization of Pakistan's economy: Moin ul Haque
BEIJING, Dec. 4 /DNA/ – China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), as one of its most prominent and successful flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative, had laid a sound foundation for modernization of Pakistan's economy.
This was stated by Pakistan's ambassador Moin ul Haque while addressing opening ceremony of the 11th International Infrastructure Investment and Construction Forum (IIICF) in Macao, says a report published by China Economic Net (CEN) on Friday.
"In the next phase, the convergence of traditional and digital infrastructure would be essential for unleashing the potential for growth in diverse areas such as agriculture, science and technology, industrial relocation and vocational training", the Ambassador said.
CPEC's growth and success had highlighted the centrality of modernizing infrastructure to achieve the sustainable development goals.
The Ambassador called on enterprises and private capital to play a greater role in enhancing international connectivity alongside governments, financial institutions and MDBs.
At the invitation of the China International Contractors Association (CHINCA), Ambassador Moin ul Haque participated in the opening ceremony and spoke on the theme of "Challenges and Opportunities: Outlook on International Infrastructure Development in post-COVID-19 era".
Ambassador Moin praised China's positive economic growth, which he said was reflective of its effective pandemic control and prudent economic policies.
He expressed confidence that China would continue to drive global economic growth and recovery after the pandemic.
The Ambassador noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had changed the modes of life and work, and new modes of infrastructure investment would play a key role in post-pandemic recovery.
The opening ceremony and theme forum were addressed by the Chief Executive of the Macao SAR, Vice Minister for Commerce, as well as senior executives from MDBs and enterprises.
A video message from Chairman CPEC Authority, Asim S. Bajwa, was also played at the event.
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Avaya CTO Brett Shockley keynoting at Avaya Evolutions San Francisco.
Fletch: I always love coming to Avaya Evolutions because they're really intimate settings, and you can have a lot of great conversations with customers.
Shockley: You're absolutely right. I mean, we have an opportunity here to talk to over a thousand customers. We're able to talk to our partners. And it's a great opportunity to have conversations about what's happening in our businesses, in our industry, and a number of different verticals.
I had a great conversation with a healthcare provider over lunch. They're really on the leading edge of delivering video for telemedicine. They're using Scopia video conferencing to deliver it. They have told us that it works better than any other technology on the planet that they've ever tried, including all of our major competitors because of the way we focused on this virtualized conference room infrastructure and ease with bringing lots of people in from different places on different devices.
Fletch: That's a product with an incredible use case across a huge number of industries, like public safety, which I'm very involved with. Scopia is really going to change the way that we communicate.
Shockley: Our industry is changing at a very rapid pace. Mobile, video, cloud, big data analytics, the impact of consumer communication applications, they're driving what is expected from an enterprise experience. For the first time in our history, our employees are telling us what device they're going to use at work. We have our customers telling us how they're going to communicate with us. This changes the nature of our business and changes the nature of conversations that we're having. What it really means is that we can't just focus on the traditional world of communications, but instead need to think about the business outcomes from improved communication, improved collaboration. Leveraging what we're seeing work in the consumer world in the use of things like mobile and video. It means that we have to deliver much better and more tailored experiences.
Also read 'The Entrepreneurial CTO' Q&A in December's Avaya Innovations.
You know, one of the things that I'm having a lot of fun talking to folks about is the customer journey and the ability to identify that customer from the first time you're prospecting with them all the way through the work that you're doing with them in acquiring, delivering and managing the account, and carrying it on through the lifecycle to when they buy from you again. New technologies are being used to do that, and they're technologies that Avaya is very much a leader in. Things like data grid technology for Big Data analytics. We have an application called the Context Store that we've started delivering for some of our larger customers. It's the same kind of technology that's being used in financial trading applications. You can imagine they have to have very low latency, very large scale, and we're applying that same technology to the Contact Center. One of the things that it does is provide a real-time store of information about the customer, sort of a 360-degree view of that customer. And think about it like a cache: it could live for a minute, an hour, or a week, and all the different applications that are being used to interact with the customer are reading and writing their information to this Context Store.
What that does is it lets us tie all those touch points together into one comprehensive experience regardless of whether they email you today, instant message you tomorrow, or call you the day after that. So we're really tying all these things together, and what's exciting about it is that it's a different kind of conversation with the customer to achieve this. It's not about, "Do you want to upgrade your phone system?" It's not about adding to sort of traditional technology, speeds and feeds, features, etc. It's about business use cases. You take a step back. You talk to a health care provider about how it can do an effective job of delivering health care through a community outreach service. Things like telemedicine become key there. How do they deliver a specialist to someone who has a chronic health care problem? It's a single mother who unfortunately might have a child with cancer. You start thinking about solving those kinds of problems and bringing our technology to the table to be able to solve those problems. That's a really different kind of conversation, and it's an opportunity for us to really change not only the business of our customer, but the relationship that they have with their customers. And at the end of the day, that's what's going to make the difference in their business success.
Fletch: I think that's a really noble thought, and I think that's what's driving the change that I see. I've been in this industry for two or three decades. I've seen a lot of different things come and go. I see this whole new Avaya emerging right now that just has been building and building and building. It's just the time that it finally came out.
Shockley: Absolutely. We have been a leader in the unified communication and contact center space, the services that surround that, absolutely undisputed. Take a look at any analyst's report. We're in the upper right hand corner of the quadrant – thought leader, we deliver. But as we really grow the company we have to think beyond that. Some of the core areas of strategy for us this year: rapid growth in applications, both in terms of delivering end applications to customers that support the kinds of things I was just talking about, as well as the tools for people to create their own applications. So the work we're doing with Collaboration Environment, as an example, that allows ISVs, VARs, our customers' developers to quickly create very meaningful applications that are connected directly to the infrastructure associated with Avaya Aura. So you've got this ability to create scalable applications without really having to understand a lot of about communications. If you're someone who's recently out of school and you have some great web programming skills, you're going to be able to step right into it and be able to do that. And if you think about why does that matter. Well, in our industry, forever we've had this challenge that if you want to program with our products or any of our competitors, to be honest, using technologies like CTI (Computer-Telephony Integration), it requires some very specialized and unique tools to be able to do that and it's complex.
As a result, three kids out of college can't go start a company and start selling to large enterprise customers. They have to basically go buy a half-million dollars worth of equipment, train themselves on new things that they didn't learn in school. They have to hire some sales people that are going to convince our sales people that they're worthy of being introduced to our enterprise accounts. A lot of barriers to growth, as compared to web world, for example, or the app world on mobile devices where a couple of guys can go create some amazing new application and they can get it distributed in a frictionless way. Well, you think about something like Collaboration Environment and now we have a world, especially where we have these cloud-based collaboratories, sand boxes in the sky, if you will, where, small groups of developers can come together. They can create applications that are meaningful in a business sense, and not worry so much about the underlying technology infrastructure. And because they can create them in the cloud-based collaboratory, they don't have to go buy that half-million dollars worth of equipment to get started in writing applications.
The cloud provides a way for us to allow people to try new things, test new things, it's much easier for us to connect that developer that created some cool new small application with a large enterprise, for example, or a mid-market enterprise that needs an application like that. And the technology allows you to string applications together. So this group creates one application, this other group creates another, we string them together and now we're doing something totally different and very meaningful. So imagine bringing together workflow, SMS and text, notification of people, video, all of these things that are powerful, powerful collaboration tools. But in the past you sort of had to be really specialized to do it. Now we're putting it into the hands of not just thousands but literally hundreds of thousands of developers potentially.
Fletch: So you're taking the collaboratory and you're changing BYOD from "Bring Your Own Device" to "Build Your Own Device".
Fletch: I think that's kind of cool. That's really cool. It's just another example of the innovation that Avaya brings to it that quite frankly makes me proud to be an Avaya employee. As our technology leader, thank you. It's incredible vision and strategy.


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Shot Blocked! Kristaps Porzingis Continues Failed Pursuit of Croatian Model
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 27: Kristaps Porzingis #6 of the New York Knicks celebrates his basket in the first quarter against the Detroit Pistons at Madison Square Garden on March 27, 2017 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
New York Knicks phenom Kristaps Porzingis is once again taking a shot at Croatian model Ines Nikic…and getting blocked.
New York Knicks phenom Kristaps Porzingis know how to score on the court. Off the court? Well, he isn't getting so lucky.
Three months ago, Porzingis direct messaged Croatian model Ines Nikic on Instagram in a pathetic attempt at seduction. He stopped pursuing her in May when he found out that she was only 17.
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Now that Nikic has hit the magical age of 18, the Knicks phenom is pulling out all the stops to get her attention once again.
Per Jaclyn Hendricks of the New York Post, "Why does it matters to you that much," Nikic asked the Knicks star after he requested that she follow him.
He replied by saying "Its a matter of life or death. " Even after she agreed to follow him on the 'gram, Porzingis didn't quite get the hint, responding with "I guess you want me to die huh?"
Kristaps Porzingis is a savage pic.twitter.com/1l3KcpzvhC
— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) August 17, 2017
Nikic has yet to follow the Knicks star on Instagram. However, she seems to be having the time of her life trolling the one hot talent on the Knicks.
She even posted a pic of her kissing a man and captioned the pic, "Kristaps who? Are you sleeping peacefully, Kristaps Porzingis?"
@kporzee who?? Spavaš li mirno Porzingis Kristapsu?
A post shared by Ines Nikić (@ines_nikic) on May 31, 2017 at 4:49pm PDT
Now that is cold. Porzingis, you deserve far better than an 18-year-old jerking you around. Know your worth!
However, this isn't the first time that Porzingis has tried to snag a woman while hiding behind the internet. In February, he tried to get with model Abigail Ratchford on Instagram and, much like now, that didn't work out so well.
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KP take the hint, she doesn't want you. Go find someone else to try to date. But don't look for someone online because right now you're 0-for-2 from the field.
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Hello! My name is Jessica Pease and I am excited to be working with your child this year! This is my sixth year teaching in Frederick County. I spent three years teaching fifth grade in Thurmont before coming to work closer to home at Ballenger Creek Elementary. I graduated from Mount Saint Mary's University in 2007 with a degree in Elementary Education and am currently working on my masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction at Hood College. In my spare time I enjoy running, reading, and traveling all over the country to watch my husband play professional baseball. Fifth grade is a very exciting year for your child as they will be preparing to enter middle school. I know that if we work together, we can make this a successful year for your child.


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Drug cartels' battle keeps tourists out of border city
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — A violent war between two powerful drug cartels over control of a lucrative trade route for Mexican cocaine and marijuana bound for the United States has turned many Americans away from Nuevo Laredo and nearly gutted the city's tourist economy.
Once a bustling shopping center for visitors to southern Texas, this Mexican border city of 300,000 on the edge of the Rio Grande has seen a wave of killings that has taken 135 lives this year — including the police chief, a city council member and 13 police officers.
As a result, vendors and merchants on the city's violence-prone streets are stuck with street carts and stores filled with unsold food, watches, belts, wallets and jewelry.
"The people are afraid to come, and it has hurt us very badly," said Eduardo, a local store owner who asked that his last name not be used. "The Americans used to come here in great numbers and spend a lot of money. That no longer is happening."
Although Nuevo Laredo's Office of Tourism and Tamaulipas Gov. Eugenio Hernandez Flores have said the violence is declining and the city is again safe, brazen daylight killings continue — including the death just last week of another Nuevo Laredo police officer, who was fatally shot at a city hospital while questioning a man suspected of being a cartel member.
In one recent 10-day period, eight fatal shootings were reported — four bullet-riddled bodies were discovered at a ranch 30 miles southeast of the city, two men were killed as they sat on their front porch in the city, and two others slain outside a store in the city center.
Just last week, U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said the Justice Department was sending federal agents to Texas to combat violent crime along the Mexican border. The Violent Crime Impact Team will target Laredo, Texas, and focus on firearms violations, gang activity, illegal drug organizations and organized crime.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry also announced last week a new security plan for the Texas-Mexico border, saying the state would "increase the law-enforcement presence in the border region, provide new investigative tools, improve communications among law-enforcement officials and make our border region more secure."
"I offer this plan, not because it is the state's responsibility to control the federal border, but because the state of Texas cannot wait for the federal government to implement needed border security measures," he said.
Much of the violence has been attributed by U.S. and Mexican authorities to a renegade band of Mexican military deserters known as the Zetas. Trained in the U.S. as an elite force of anti-drug commandos, they have since signed on as mercenaries and recruiters for Mexican drug traffickers.
As many as 200 Zetas, including former Mexican police officers, are thought to be involved with the violence. Their hub, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement, is Nuevo Laredo — the most active port of entry along the border. More than 6,000 trucks cross daily from here into Texas, carrying about 40 percent of Mexico's exports.
Authorities said the Zetas control the city despite efforts by Mexican President Vicente Fox to restore order. He sent hundreds of troops and federal agents to the city in March to set up checkpoints and raid suspected Zeta locations.
The Zetas operate over a wide area of the U.S.-Mexico border, and authorities suspect them in at least three drug-related slayings in the Dallas area. They said as many as 10 Zeta members operate in Texas as assassins, protecting a nearly $10 million-a-day drug trade.
The Justice Department said in a report that the organization was spreading from Texas to California and Florida and establishing drug-trafficking routes that it was willing to protect "at any cost." In July, the department warned law-enforcement authorities in Arizona and California to be on the lookout for Zeta members.
Meanwhile, Nuevo Laredo's economy continues to falter, and although the streets are full, few of those rushing up and down the city's pothole-filled streets and crumbling sidewalks are U.S. tourists looking to spend money.
"I cannot remember it being this bad," said Hector Gonzalez, who sells food from a stand just a block from the border. "I am very sad."


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Mrs. Schley has been teaching for 8 years (counting this one)--7 in third grade--and 2 of those years have been at Saunders! She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in both Elementary Education and Spanish and a minor in Deaf Education. After college she taught for two years right outside of DC in Virginia. She met Mr. Schley and they got married 5 years ago. Last March they had a sweet little baby boy named Ransom. Mrs. Schley loves arts integration and is always looking for new ways to bring the arts into the classroom! Outside of school she loves to travel, read, spend time with friends and family, and watch movies.
Favorite Candy: Just about any, but especially dark chocolate, marshmallow candies, or minty candy.


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Q: Need help altering this Jquery code to fix vertical positioning of an element I have everything set up on a jsFiddle page, please take a look at it here: http://jsfiddle.net/ryanjay/bq5eE/
My problem is, when you open the DIV (column), it aligns all the other closed divs to the bottom of it.  Can someone help me by adding some jquery code to make it so when you open each DIV(column) the other divs stay aligned to the top.  Perhaps it has something to do with margin-top, I am unsure.
I am also using a slider that wraps around the columns, so floating them isn't an option.. they just wrap to the next line.  They must have a display of inline-block.
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Here is my Jquery:
$(document).ready(function() {
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            width: '400px',
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        $(this).siblings('.open').fadeIn('150', function() {
            $(this).show();
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And my CSS:
.column {
    position: relative;
    width: 200px;
    border-left: 1px solid #999;
    border-right: 1px solid #999;
    height: 520px;
    margin: 30px 30px 0px 0px;
    display: inline-block;
    text-align: left;
}

.open {
    position: absolute;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    cursor: pointer;
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    position: absolute;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 368px;
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.contentInner {
    position: absolute;
    width: 380px;
    height: 400px;
    font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif;
    font-weight: 200;
    margin: 20px 0px 0px 10px;
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You can always see it on jsFiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/ryanjay/bq5eE/
Thanks!

A: http://jsfiddle.net/bq5eE/7/
Just add a vertical-align style to the .content CSS block:
vertical-align: top;

Alternately, if you need to do it with jQuery, do this:
$(".content").css("vertical-align", "top");

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season Seven
Reviewed by: Bill Hunt
Review Date: Dec 22, 2014
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Film/Program Grade: C+
Video Grade: A-
Audio Grade: A
By the time Star Trek: The Next Generation reached its seventh and final season, it was clear that the writers and producers were struggling for good stories to tell. There are really only two standout episodes in the season in my opinion. The first is Lower Decks, which presents a view of life aboard the Enterprise and the main characters as seen by low-ranking members of the crew. The other, of course, is the series finale (more on that in a moment). To be fair, there are a couple of additional episodes that could, with a bit of argument, be credibly called decent, including stories that give Wesley Crusher and Ensign Ro decent send-offs. But there are also a large number of really terrible episodes, with stories that feel like the writers were simply throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Among these are an ill-advised romance between Worf and Troi that never felt natural, yet another visit by the Borg (and Data's brother Lore), and a bit about how the use of warp drive was damaging the fabric of space.
Fortunately, the two-part series closer, All Good Things, remains one of the best finales of any TV show to date, sci-fi or otherwise. It involves the entire cast, ties up the character threads nicely, and manages to bring the show full circle to deliver a genuinely satisfying conclusion. It even finds a clever way for us to revisit a previously deceased character for a well-earned grace note. Fans and TV critics alike gave this finale high marks when it was first aired in 1994. Looking back now on Blu-ray, it certainly deserved them. The finale was written by Brannon Braga and Ron Moore (the latter of Battlestar Galactica and Outlander fame), who were also penning the Star Trek: Generations feature film at the time. The finale is better of the two efforts by a good measure.
By now, almost anything said about the audio-visual quality of CBS' remastered episodes on Blu-ray is going to sound redundant. Suffice it to say that the HD image on these discs is right in line with those of previous seasons, featuring rich color, abundant detail, and light to moderate grain. The show's aspect ratio has been preserved in the original 1.33:1. The remastered visual effects have been wonderfully done and with a light hand, offering a level of detail you've never had the opportunity to see before in the original VFX shots. The audio is available in another great new 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix that's natural and dynamic, with good clarity and staging.
As with the previous Blu-ray seasons, all of the existing DVD extras have carried over here, including all 7 original DVD featurettes (Mission Overview: Year Seven, A Captain's Tribute, Departmental Briefing: Year Seven – Production, Starfleet Moments and Memories, The Making of "All Good Things...", Closed Set: A Tour of the Real Enterprise, and Journey's End – The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation), both Best Buy bonus featurettes (Special Profiles and Inside the Starfleet Archives – Dressing the Future), episodic promos for each episode, and an audio commentary with Brannon Braga (on the episode Parallels) that was recorded in 2008 and released only on the Star Trek: Fan Collective – Alternate Realities DVD set (it's inclusion here is a very nice touch).
Of course, a terrific batch of all-new bonus content has been created for this Blu-ray release, including a Gag Reel (4:53), deleted scenes (from the episodes Descent, Part II, Liaisons, Gambit, Part I, Gambit, Part II, Dark Page, Inheritance, Parallels, Sub Rosa, Thine Own Self, Masks, Genesis, Journey's End, Firstborn, Bloodlines, and Preemptive Strike), and a pair of new audio commentaries for the episodes Lower Decks (with with René Echevarria and Mike and Denise Okuda) and Preemptive Strike (with Echevarria, Naren Shankar, and the Okudas). There's also a great new roundtable discussion video called In Conversation: Lensing Star Trek: The Next Generation (42:13) in which supervising producer David Livingston, director James L. Conway, director of photography Jonathan West, and camera operator Kris Krosskove talk about their experiences working on the show and other related topics. Note that all of the new video features are in full HD and are presented in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio.
By far the best of the new material, however, is the three-part The Sky's the Limit: The Eclipse of Star Trek: The Next Generation documentary. It runs almost 90-minutes. (Geek side note, in case you were wondering: The sub-titles for each part are based on terms used for the shadows cast by planetary bodies in space.) Part One: Umbra (29:43) features new interviews with the show's writers and producers talking about the end of the series. The interviews are wonderfully candid – pretty much everyone admits that they were ready for the show to wrap-up, and that they were having trouble finding new stories to tell. Part Two: Penumbra (28:44) covers some of the same ground with a wide variety of the series' production and visual effects talent, including such seldom-heard-from liminaries as illustrators Rick Sternbach and Andrew Probert. This gets into much more detailed ground regarding production-related matters, and touches upon larger questions about the series too as well as the role of science fiction in general. Finally, Part Three: Antumbra (30:13) gives all of the show's key cast members a chance to weigh in on both the final season and the series as a whole. As a concluding chapter in these great TNG behind-the-scenes documentaries, the material here is damn near perfect.
I have only one caveat about this release: Now that Season Seven is complete on Blu-ray, CBS will almost certainly release the Complete Series on Blu-ray in a single package sometime in 2015. As is often the case with such collections, new material is typically created for inclusion in the box on a special bonus disc. Let me tell you, there is nothing that irritates fans of TV series on DVD or Blu-ray more than finding out, after they've already purchased all of the more expensive season sets as they're released, that the inevitable box set has special content they can't get. It's wrong, it's bad customer service, and it should never happen. This is the single biggest reason why many fans have just stopped buying individual seasons of TV shows on Blu-ray and DVD. They know that if they simply wait, they can eventually spend less and get more. Now… I've said before on The Bits that if Trek fans really want to support CBS in this Trek Remastered Blu-ray effort, they need to put their money where their mouth is and buy the seasons as they're released, because this is a business and it's sales that count more than anything. So here's what I have to say back to CBS now: If you do create such Complete Series bonus discs, you need to reward those loyal customers who have supported you all along by making those discs available to them via some kind of mail-in offer. It's the right thing to do. Anything else is essentially punishing your most loyal customers for their loyalty.
The quality of its stories aside, Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season Seven on Blu-ray is truly a fitting conclusion to an amazing TV BD project that – for a long time – we never thought likely or even possible. On behalf of myself and Next Generation fans everywhere, my thanks to Ken Ross and his team at CBS, especially all those at CBS Digital (and elsewhere) who worked tirelessly to polish every frame, upgrade every planet, and generally make this project look and sound as good as it does. Special thanks once again to my friends Roger Lay, Jr. and Robert Meyer Burnett, for their heroic effort to create all-new and truly worthy, illuminating and just plain enjoyable extras on all seven. I can only hope the fun continues with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine on Blu-ray at some point in the not-too-distant future. In any case, the chance to relive The Next Generation in HD has been a treat. If you're a Star Trek fan, you really owe it to yourselves to get all seven seasons of this show on Blu-ray (and I should note that Amazon has been having some amazing sale prices lately to make that easier for you). Without a doubt, this is the best TV series Blu-ray release of the year. It's highly recommended.
- Bill Hunt
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Security guard remanded for Laing Avenue murder
Oyama Patterson called Shemroy of Hardina Street Wortmanville, Georgetown
By Editor On Nov 25, 2022
A 23-year-old security guard was on Friday remanded to prison for the murder of Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt construction worker, Dexter McFarlane.
Oyama Patterson called Shemroy of Hardina Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates' Court.
Patterson was not required to plead to the capital offence which read that on November 11, 2022, he murdered McFarlane.
Assistant Superintendent of Police, Neville Jeffers told the court the second accused, who is a juvenile, will be charged in the new week for McFarlane's murder.
Prosecutor Jeffers told the court that on the day in question Patterson along with another was involved in an altercation with a group of men.
During the altercation, Patterson was allegedly beaten but managed to escape.
However, Patterson along with another man armed themselves with handguns and returned to the location.
According to Jeffers, the duo opened fire at a group of men which included the victim. The men ran away, but Patterson and his accomplice gave chase behind McFarlane while discharging several rounds in his direction.
The victim was shot and fell to the ground. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital and died while receiving treatment.
The prosecutor disclosed to the court that Patterson and his teen co-accused were nabbed at No.53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice on Monday.
He added that not only is there CCTV footage pinning Patterson to the crime, but the accused also give a caution statement to the police admitting to the murder.
The Chief Magistrate remanded Patterson to prison until November 29.
Patterson was represented by attorneys-at-law Narissa Leander, Edriana Stephens and Shawn Shewram.
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Public money and private education
By David L. Kirp David L. Kirp is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming book ''Just Schools.''
Tax credits to reimburse parents for private school costs may well be promoted as the education panacea of the 1980s. Despite the recent defeat of a $ 1,200-per-child tuition tax credit proposal by the voters of Washington, D.C., the idea has powerful political support both in Congress and the White House. The scheme is at once novel in its ambitions and revolutionary in its implications for American education.
The Washington effort is, in one sense, old hat, just the most recent in a long line of attempts to garner public aid for private schooling. What is new are the terms of the battle over support. The rationale for public involvement has changed markedly over the past quarter-century. The pace of that change confirms how quickly our sense of what government can accomplish gets refashioned. The direction of the change suggests a nation in full flight from the conception of social justice that animated the policies of the 1960s.
The story begins almost 25 years ago with an essay written by conservative economist Milton Friedman. Friedman lambasted public schools as an inefficient monopoly and argued that education would benefit from a healthy dose of market competition. Education should be encourged by giving vouchers to parents rather than spending public dollars on state schools.
In the 1960s interest shifted from promoting efficient government to doing something for poor children. The two leading voucher proposals coupled aid to private education with a response to the needs of the poor.
The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) also got into the act, funding a different but equally redistributionist voucher scheme. Even though everyone would receive a voucher vouchers going to the poor were worth more -- private schools would get more government aid for enrolling poor children than middle-class ones. The elite prep schools would recruit among the disadvantaged -- not exactly their normal clientele -- with the result that a happy diversity would prevail.
Vouchers survived in the 1970s, but the underlying aspiration was different, stressing the salutary features of diversity, with choice as an end in itself.
None of these ideas came close to popular adoption.
Although the voucher proposal will likely appear on future ballots, vouchers seem mildly out of fashion these days. Despite the District of Columbia vote, tax credits for private education have apparently become the preferred instrument of the 1980s for getting money to private schools. Legislation introduced by Sens. Daniel P. Moynihan and Bob Packwood, which would give parents a tax credit for half of tuition costs up to a maximum of $500, has attracted considerable congressional support. The White House, apparently believing that enabling parents to send their youngsters to private schools is part of the famous social safety net, will offer its own version.
Tax credits, like vouchers, help private schools, but there the similarity ends. The tax credit typically proposed isn't substantial enough to enable most families to switch from public to private schools; best estimates are that fewer than 1 family in 10 would benefit. Those whom the experts regard as most likely to make a change are a rather special group, including parents who are unhappy with public schools because they promote integration or pay insufficient attention to religious values.
The big tax credit winners will be the well-to-do, who already pay for private education out of their own pockets; with the tax credit, they may spend less.
The private schools themselves should also do nicely. Although parochial schools and academies won't get much bigger, because the tax credit offers them insufficient incentive for expansion, they will predictably hike tuition. The tax credit does not prevent this outcome. In keeping with the spirit of deregulation, it imposes almost no standards on private schools, which may turn away whom they please and educate their students more or less as they see fit.
Tax credits do not promise more choice or more support or even more efficiency. They are a way of turning the old biblical prophecy -- to them who have, more shall be given -- into its modern form: the more, the more. In that sense, tax credits admirably -- perhaps too admirably -- suit the temper of the times.
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How Japan's Low Carbon Society and Nuclear Power Generation Came Hand in Hand via Japan Focus
While tackling global warming issues has gained popular approval in the names of Eco and LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), in recent years the voices of citizens against nuclear power have been suppressed in Japan's environmental protection movement. It is worth reflecting on the possibility that Japan's eco became warped in light of the fact that TEPCO became its big sponsor.
The Fuji Sankei Group sponsors a prize, the Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award, given annually to a company or a group actively engaged in protecting against global warming and supporting environmental protection. The twentieth recipient to be of the prize announced on February 25 this year was, ironically, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), that is now the party concerned with the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
According to the Sankei article announcing the prize, TEPCO built, at a Kawasaki power plant, a system that recycled the vapor produced in power generation as an energy source. Apparently, judges on the screening committee including Mukuta Satoshi, managing director of Keidanren, highly evaluated this as, in Mukuta's words, "a good example of energy conservation that goes beyond a company's borders."
At this late point, this can only be called a black joke, and in April, TEPCO declined to accept the prize. In fact, the company had won a reputation as a leading Japanese company that invested in nvironmental protection.
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The well known and popular Sands Beach Resort offers a lively club style holiday atmosphere. The apartments are divided into different areas. There is also a private beach front area with a sandy beach and a saltwater lagoon. Enjoy the atmosphere of Sands Beach, its the perfect place for a relaxed, active or family fun-filled holiday.


The Akai AL-1925CI is a great value LCD TV with excellent image qualities and clever functionality. The HDMI input makes it simple to connect BluRay players, games consoles and HD camcorders and the TV even include a VGA input so you can use it as a monitor.
The built in digital tuner lets you watch all your favourite Freeview channels and the TV also supports EPG (Electronic Program Guides). The 12V connector also is great if you have a camper, caravan or boat the TV is also suitable for wall mounting.


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University College Dublin Signs MOU With Leading Chinese Dairy Producer
University College Dublin (UCD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a leading Chinese dairy producer Dairy United. The MOU which will result in multi-million euro contracts for products and services, envisages the development of a China-Ireland Agricultural demonstration farm in Hohhot(Inner Mongolia), collaborative research projects, the provision of education and training services, and collaboration on the creation of a trade corridor to facilitate the introduction of Irish exporters to the Inner Mongolian region. The Dairy United/UCD link was established through contacts made by Enterprise Ireland over the past 18 months.
UCD will be collaborating with a number of Irish agricultural equipment and services companies to deliver an integrated package of education and training, research, services and technology to Dairy United.
The UCD Dean of Agriculture and Food Science Professor Alex Evans comments: "This partnership came about because of Ireland's global reputation in dairy production and the ability of UCD and Irish agri-service companies to offer a complete solution, incorporating education, training, agricultural products and services, that meet Dairy United requirements and will form the basis of a long term relationship."
Julie Sinnamon, executive director of Enterprise Ireland, says: "This MOU is the fruit of substantial work conducted in the past two years, between Dairy United and UCD, with the support ofEnterpriseIreland. The MOU paves the way for a range ofEnterpriseIrelandclient companies across the agri-services sector to provide world-class agri-technology and services to the China market"
Dairy United was founded in 2004 and specialises in dairy production and processing in China. Dairy United has total assets of Eur75 million and operates fifteen 1,000 cow dairy farms supported by over 2,000 ha of forage production land. Dairy United is currently undertaking an expansion strategy which will see it invest Eur360 million over the next five years for the construction of another 35 dairy farms and a modern dairy processing factory. On the completion of the expansion strategy by 2015, Dairy United will have 50 dairy farms with 100,000 dairy cattle and 20,000 ha of forage producing land, and the factory will have a daily fresh milk processing capacity of 500 tons.
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Pork, a common taco filling throughout Latin America, takes well to spices. A slightly sweet fruit salsa helps balance the heat. Serve with lime wedges.
To prepare salsa, combine the first 7 ingredients in a medium bowl; stir until well blended. Cover and chill.
To prepare tacos, heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion to pan; cook 2 minutes or until tender. Add garlic; cook 30 seconds. Add pork to pan; cook 4 minutes or until pork loses its pink color, stirring occasionally. Stir in broth and next 7 ingredients (through chipotles). Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes. Uncover and simmer 10 minutes or until liquid is nearly evaporated. Warm tortillas according to package directions. Serve pork mixture with tortillas and salsa.
One of the best tacos I have ever tasted. Excellent!
Just mediocre. Not much flavor. Followed the recipe with no changes. Salsa was good. Would use the salsa with a better pork/taco recipe or with a spicy grilled chicken recipe.
Yumm, whole family enjoyed these! Made just as stated in the recipe.
Delicious taco with good spicy sweet flavors.
Excellent and unique summertime meal. Have used shredded pork as well as the sliced tenderloin. A side of rice goes well with the tacos. Love the salsa & will make this dish often.
Excellent. served with a flavored rice side dish.
We LOVED it. Nice spice although for kids I would only use one of the peppers in adobe sauce. Also used organic handmade corn tortillas that made this absolutely perfect. This is perfect for a weeknight or weekend or for friends. I served the dish with broccoli (need my veggies) with some of the salsa on top. It was fantastic.
Muy Bueno! We loved these. I can't believe this dish could be rated anything other than 5 stars. I will make this again and hopefully often. 4/13/14 Tonight I made these with just seasoned black beans and guacamole on the side with some (midwestern) flour tortillas - nice and thick and substantial; no pineapple salsa. SO GOOD!!!
Didn't like this at all. There is another CL pork & pineapple recipe that is much better. The salsa didn't turn out as expected. I won't make this again.


Hillside Goddess- Beltane '05- Exclusive to tWV!
The Source of all being, continuum timeless.
The ground of existence, rhyming and rhymeless.
O unity of sky�s spirit and earth�s dust.
From you came our birth, and all birthed who have lived.
She sings of yearning and bliss.
From you came the seed so needed for life which grew in the mother.
kindling the fires of life Her decree.
Author's Notes: Thanks to WaCUUPs for using my ritual and running with it... much love to all of you!


My mother shared her love of gardening with me when I was young, and when she died after a long illness, I planted myself in my garden to tear out weeds and wail to the winds. But I'm not one to wallow in sadness for long. I learned long ago that the fastest way to drown my sorrows is to take a trip. Traveling helps me recenter, and it reminds me how much I can do, how much I can give, and how much beauty there is in the world.
Two months after Mom's death, I tacked a few hours onto a business trip in Los Angeles to make a pilgrimage in her honor to the glorious Huntington Botanical Garden in Pasadena, Calif. I've always felt gardens are a powerful place to lose yourself for a while and rediscover a new, stronger you.
Because Mom instilled in me her passion for roses, I wandered through the 104-year-old rose garden. Closing my eyes, I felt her presence as I inhaled the sweet fragrance of our favorite roses: Peace, Double Delight and Just Joey. Just being still among the roses with Mom was therapeutic in a way her funeral never could have been.
When my brother died after a long battle with cancer, I knew what I had to do. I grabbed my backpack and hiking boots and set off for the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Hiking has always been a direct, physical way for me to release my rage, sorrow and sense of helplessness. Nothing puts my life and mortality into sharper perspective than hiking in the grandeur of mountains and forests. Something about the power and resilience of nature helps me push my life's difficulties to the side and connect me to something bigger than myself.
But when my spirit starts to flag or I'm in a funk (those "menopause moments"), my foolproof remedy is a road trip with my closest girlfriends. Roll down the windows, crank up the tunes, sing or talk it out and let the miles of highway roll behind you.
Nothing compares with the companionship of women who are close friends — from childhood or college, or newer friends. I need the adventure, the laughter and healing power of "girl talk." I'm fortunate to have a husband who encourages me to travel with my friends so I can "talk it over and talk it out" and return to him uplifted and revived.
I'm also lucky to live in the San Francisco Bay area, an easy launching pad for long weekend trips to Canyon Country in southwest Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, where I feel my deepest spiritual connection with red rock canyons and moonlike sandscapes under blindingly blue skies.
One of my favorite pick-me-up road trips is the Grand Circle Loop. Driving through the red rock pinnacles and buttes, thick Ponderosa forests and wide-open desert gives me a sense of liberation unlike anything else. Depending on how much time I can steal, I might stop in Zion, Bryce or Grand Canyon national parks, or Arizona's Monument Valley or Colorado's Mesa Verde.
Sometimes when I'm in need of some deep pampering, I head to a spa and rely on the kindness of strangers for my healing. But my preferred path to healing will always be to immerse myself in the raw beauty of nature, with its vast spaces and silences. For as many reasons as there are to need healing, there are at least as many ways to heal. It's why I say I'll keep traveling until my heart stops.
Marybeth Bond, an expert on world travel (gutsytraveler.com), has visited more than 90 countries, written 11 travel books with National Geographic and Travelers Tales and has appeared on The Oprah Show and CNN. When she's not talking about her children, she enjoys riding her long-distance, endurance bike ("Lightning") across the USA for challenge and charity.