Early Saturday morning, the troop headed east into Georgia for its first camping trip at Lawhorn Scouting Base, a facility of the Flint River Council, which is based in Griffin, Ga. The 2,400-acre facility, based in Molena, Ga., includes three program areas: its traditional camping facility, Camp Thunder; multi-use wilderness Pine Mountain Backcountry area; and the destination for Troop 50's visit, the Flint River Adventure area. Scouts began preparing for the trip earlier in the week at its weekly meeting, when the Buck Patrol offered an overview of safety afloat and canoeing basics.
Scouts and leaders suited up and ready to hit the water!
Soon after arriving at Lawhorn Scouting Base, Scouts and leaders went straight into "canoeing mode" by grabbing their PFDs and paddles, taking the bus to the take-out spot, and pairing up in their canoes for the nearly three-mile stretch of the Flint River. While the morning started out overcast, the early-morning cloud cover meant lower temperatures for the start of the trek. By the time the troop stopped for lunch about an hour and a mile and a half into the trip, the clouds gave way to blue skies, which added even more to the river's picturesque landscapes.
Scouts broke into patrols to enjoy the lunches prepared before departing camp. Following lunch, the troop waded into the river and explored the various rock groupings in the middle of the river. The cool water took some adjusting to, but the now-sunny skies helped take some of the chill out of the water. The group returned to the canoes for the second leg of the trip. Some Scouts got adventurous by tipping, then draining, their canoes.
Before we knew it, we were on the banks of Lawhorn Scouting Base and the end of our journey. The troop made its way back to its lakeside campsite by foot to pitch tents, finish setting up camp, and enjoy a leisurely afternoon of fellowship and some impromptu football. Not totally roughing it, a small group (of Scouts and leaders) huddled around some portable technology to monitor the afternoon and evening's various college football games and scores.
Scouts enjoy time to socialize over hot dogs and chili dogs.
As evening approached, both patrols, as well the group comprised of Leadership Corps members and leaders, began preparing their respective dinners. Coincidentally, both patrols planned identical dinners centered around chili dogs. Pooling together a few items from personal freezers, the adults cobbled together a dinner of venison shish kabob, corn on the cob and potatoes. There was an attempt at troop-wide campfire, but as the two skits revealed, Troop 50 might be challenged severely if it ever makes a run for America's Got Talent.
how to use a broom!
Sunday morning included breakfast preparations and campsite cleanup. Taking a break to continue allowing the tents wet with morning dew to dry, the troop gathered for a devotion. Led by Mr. Tullier in his role as troop chaplain, Scouts and leaders discussed being in and getting out of the slumps of life in the context of Psalms 13. With tents rolled up and the trailer packed, the troop headed out around 10:30 a.m. CT for arrival in Auburn around noon.
At the troop's Patrol Leaders Council meeting Monday evening, the members of the PLC gave high marks to the Lawhorn Scouting Base's facilities, including our campsite, its pavilion and nearby bathhouse (with warm water!); other facilities the troop might go back for, such as the "playground" with Scout-oriented physical and team challenges close to our campsite, and the lake waterfront with inflatable iceberg; and, of course, the canoeing and the great morale everyone had while on the water. Youth leaders will work to ensure some elements — such more challenging and innovative menu planning, more organized duty rosters, and better coaching for younger scouts — are incorporated in upcoming campouts.
To view additional photos from the campout, visit the troop's online photo album.


The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) presents its case to government for a new air traffic control centre and system. The operational date is set in stone as 1996, by which time it is said that the London Air Traffic Control Centre will have reached the end of its life.
The management strategy for the project is defined during 1989 and 1990. However, the Nats project team estimates a minimum eight-year programme - two years longer than agreed.
An independent consultancy, Mitre Corporation, engaged to assist with the scoping of the project, estimates that it will take 13 years to build a fully-operational system of the type envisaged, giving an operational ("O") date of 2003. Yet the project is authorised to proceed on the basis that it will go live in 1996.
An audit report finds later that National Air Traffic Services (Nats) senior management was keen to demonstrate a "can-do" mentality and was unwilling to retreat from the 1996 date.
By the end of 1991 a competitive system definition contract is let to IBM and Thomson CSF. The New En Route Centre (NERC) is needed to "yield a 40% increase in capacity".
IBM and Thomson have largely exhausted the £1m given for the project definition phase. They are unwilling to invest further significant sums themselves. With a substantial number of requirements still undefined, a systems implementation contract is let to IBM. IBM enters into the contract without firm offers from subcontractors which include Siemens Plessey, Logica and Frequentis.
Based on IBM's RS/6000, AIX-based architecture, on a Token Ring network, the system comprises about 200 workstations, displaying both aircraft data and radar information. However the requirements have been set by a small group of air traffic controllers who are not considered as representative of them all.
Computer Weekly warns that there are serious system problems but the Civil Aviation Authority denies this.
US company Loral acquires IBM's air traffic division and conducts a secret audit of the Swanwick systems, revealing 21,000 defects in nearly two million lines of code. The whole NERC project, including the Swanwick building, is said to cost £350m. For years MPs assume this to be the total cost of Swanwick, when in fact it is only what is drawn from capital funds.
Although the system works well on 30 workstations, it proves impossible to scale it up on the full operational configuration. By November acceptance tests of the New En Route Centre (NERC) system are halted.
A quarterly progress report from Nats to the Department of Transport states that "NERC will be online to meet the traffic demands of Summer 1997", although it is already well known to the Nats project team and to the contractor that there are potential problems in the schedule.
Details of the problems emerge in public. The contractor submits a plan showing a system acceptance in August 1997. Nats rejects this and says acceptance must be by June 1997 with December 1997 as the revised "O" date.
Lockheed Martin acquires Loral. By the end of 1996, the December 1997 "O" date is put back to March 1998.
Despite the original fixed-price £132m IT contract, the sums paid to Lockheed Martin rise ultimately to £337m. Of the 160 individual payments to the contractor only 15 are for software originally specified. The rest is for additional options taken up by Nats after award of contract. The IT contract is nearly half the total cost of Swanwick.
In September 1997, Nats approves a new "O" date of November 1999.
In March 1998 Computer Weekly staff are called to give evidence to the Commons transport committee. We argue for an independent audit of the Swanwick systems, against fierce opposition from Nats. The committee calls for an audit which gains government approval. By October the Government announces that the "O" date has been put back to the winter of 2001-2.
In June 1999 a confidential paper for a Nats board meeting refers to an audit by Arthur D Little of the finances and management of Swanwick.
It warns, in essence, that the audit has found that the cost to completion of the project will be £180m more than has been announced so far.
As well as revealing that tens of millions have not been included in the Swanwick costs, now about £700m, the auditor's report attacks the culture which "inhibited open debate of potential problems in the project within and outside Nats".
In 2001 Nats installs well-written software releases which reduce drastically the number of bugs in the Swanwick system from hundreds to zero. Fourteen years after the CAA first presented its case for a new centre and system, the operational date of January 2002 is confirmed.
27 January 2002: The Swanwick safety case is approved by the Civil Aviation Authority and the NERC becomes operational.
As many European centres are facing major problems with air traffic control systems, the UK is one of the first to have a "new" system in operation.


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I think Archie Panjabi is the best part of The Good Wife. Was she born in India?
—Anjali Priya, Brooklyn, N.Y.
The Emmy voters agree with you as to her talent, last year awarding Panjanbi, 39, a statuette for outstanding supporting actress in a drama. Actually, the daughter of schoolteachers was born in London, but her parents are from Mumbai, India, and she spent part of her childhood in that country. She said in a recent interview, "I feel like I have one foot in New York [where The Good Wife films], one foot in London and one foot in India." Before landing the role as investigator Kalinda Sharma on The Good Wife, Panjabi appeared in the movies Bend It Like Beckham, The Constant Gardener, A Mighty Heart and Yasmin.
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HB221: Immunization bill held in House
Kayla Goodson
SALT LAKE CITY— A controversial bill that would amend children's immunization requirements failed to pass through the Legislature after 10 substitutions.
Rep. Carol Moss spent six months researching immunizations and working with doctors and parents to craft HB221. (Lauren Hanson)
Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D–Salt Lake City, sponsored the bill that would have created new regulations for students seeking immunization exemption. HB221 would require families to work with the local health departments for exemption and would also implement an online education module.
Moss explained that this bill is needed because the number of vaccinated students is decreasing, which has changed the dynamics of the public health situation. 87,000 children in Utah are not vaccinated. 181 are unvaccinated for religious reasons; 1,450 are unvaccinated for medical reasons; and 34,610 are unvaccinated for personal reasons. As a result, Moss said, Utah is losing its "herd immunity."
"The state, medical community and health departments [have a] responsibility to protect all people, particularly children who can't protect themselves," Moss said.
As a former high school English teacher, Moss has seen her fair share of illness in the classroom. In 2011, for example, there was a measles outbreak in Utah. The health department spent $250,000 trying to fight the outbreak, and many students and teachers were put at risk, Moss says. One student in her daughter's class, for example, had leukemia when exposed to the measles. The student then missed two weeks of school right before taking the A.P. test.
Moss noted that the purpose of this bill, however, is not to convince parents to immunize their children. "I want to respect parents' rights, but they must understand the risks to their child and to others," she said.
Understanding is why Moss intended to implement the online module. In line with her vision, parents would complete the 20-minute module at home three times, starting when their children enter kindergarten and finishing when their children graduate from high school.
Currently health departments across the state teach different things about immunizations. This online module would have helped standardize learning by giving everyone the same information. This education would also have helped the community form a plan in the case of an outbreak, which would include excluding unvaccinated children from classes for 21 days.
Had the bill passed, upon completing the module, parents would print the certificate and bring it into the local health department. After being approved by the health department, parents would bring the exemption form into their child's school. This exemption would need to be renewed every five years.
Kim Lowe, a school nurse in Alpine School District, testified on behalf of Utah school nurses in front of the House Health and Human Services Committee. She said that school nurses support HB221 because it would standardize vaccination training and would prepare parents for a call from the school nurse in the event of an outbreak. Lowe emphasized that school nurses respect parents' right to exempt their child from immunizations, and HB221 would not take away this right.
Lacey Eden, a pediatric nurse practitioner who teaches immunizations therapy at BYU, also expressed her support of the bill. "Right now what is being done at local health departments is not working. The standardized education will make it the same whether you live in Logan or whether you live in St. George. All parents who are exempting their children will get the exact same education on how to protect their child and to decrease the spread of infection in their community," Eden said.
Some representatives and community members, however, were hesitant to support Moss's bill.
Community member Kristen Chevrier worked with Moss on the bill but did not support the amended version. She gave two reasons for opposing the bill. First, the bill neglects the fact that blood titers can be tested to determine immunity and additional need for vaccines. Secondly, vaccines are not necessarily safe or effective. According to Chevrier, the FDA estimates that only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported. She then presented 50 letters that she received from pro-vaccine parents whose children were injured by vaccines and then qualified for a medical exemption.
Gayle Ruzicka of Utah Eagle Forum explained that her opposition was based on the bill's reliance on the health department. The requirement to go to the local health department to get the exemption form puts an undue burden on parents, especially those in rural counties, said Ruzicka.
Rep. Michael Kennedy, R—Alpine, stated that the language of the bill was too general when parents need specific guidelines. He noted that the bill is "a great step in the right direction" but suggested it be sent back to rules for interim study. Several other representatives, including Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, and Rep. Norman Thurston, R-Provo, had similar feelings.
"I think we're really close," Ray said. "Immunization is important, but I want to make sure the parent has the choice."
HB221 made it through the House, and the Senate amended the bill. The House then struck the enacted clause in the final hours of the Legislature.
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Actionstep: having software that incorporates all of our practice areas such as VA, Medicaid, EP, and Probate and Administration has been a game-changer by giving us the ability to handle a higher volume caseload.
Positively – my team has bought in after attending the practice retreats and have been fully onboard going through the difficult transition of changing billing software and drafting software, etc. I feel encouraged by having a nationwide network of attorneys and team members that can provide insight and perspective to improve systems and processes.
I am a Libra and like to take long walks on the beach – those are both true but I meant them tongue-in-cheek which doesn't translate well into print (you have to add all this extra language)! I am married, our two children are adopted from Ethiopia, one has autism, I enjoy playing video games and have a blog: www.saintequipment.com.
Tao Te Ching – pound for pound, the best single source of wisdom literature ever compiled.
The Bible – indescribably great compilation of writings from a wide variety of literary types containing many of the most important stories, sayings, ideas, etc. in the Western World.
The Lord of the Rings – given to me by my fourth grade teacher that summer, my life hasn't been the same since!


Cal men's tennis is coming home this weekend to play two nonconference matches in what should be an easy 2-0 sweep for the No. 43 Bears. Cal is coming off two disappointing losses last weekend and is scheduled to face off against Nevada and Saint Mary's in a Sunday doubleheader.
Last weekend, however, the Bears faced a tough matchup against No. 6 Baylor and fell in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas Open Collegiate Tennis Challenge presented by Oracle. To make matters worse, Cal suffered its first unranked loss of the season to then-unranked Arizona State in a consolation match.
The tournament propelled the Sun Devils to No. 35 this weekend, while the Bears slumped from No. 31 to No. 43. In the most recent doubles rankings, two Cal duos also fell — Jacob Brumm and Kikuchi fell to No. 13, and Paul Barretto and Can Kaya dropped more than 45 spots to No. 79.
On Sunday, Cal will face Nevada at 10 a.m. and Saint Mary's at 2 p.m. Both teams are unranked, and neither team has a ranked singles player or doubles pairing.
In Cal's last matchup against Saint Mary's earlier this month, the Bears effortlessly swept them 7-0. Since then, the Gaels have beaten Army, 5-2, and lost to then-No. 25 BYU. Nevada has started its season 6-2 with losses to UC Davis and No. 24 Oregon, and the Wolf Pack did beat Pacific, 4-3, and Saint Mary's twice.
Of the teams that Cal will face Sunday, Nevada will definitely be the better of the two, but neither should be difficult for the Bears to defeat.
"This team is a good team and has the ability to go very, very far and very deep. We don't know how far, we don't know how deep, we're just going to put our heads down. We're going to work hard to get one day better and see where that takes us," Wright said.
These will be some of the last nonconference matches for Cal this year, the only other being against UC Santa Barbara on April 8. So this will be one of the Bears' last opportunities to experiment with their lineup, and they will have to get it right to win matches in a tough Pac-12 conference.
Trilok Reddy covers men's tennis. Contact him at [email protected].


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Connecting the Digital World to the Outdoor Industry
Why Use Data Backed AI Ad Targeting and Customer Segmentation?
It's a vast landscape out there for you to seek a path to effectively spend your ad dollars online. Picking the right path will allow you to achieve your goals like my friends were doing on their Utah adventure (Image courtesy Darian Westrick). Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools help you better target and spend your ad dollars to significantly increase your return? There's a lot to think about regarding new technology that has AI and machine learning built into them to improve your sales and marketing. The fact is the use of AI to target, place, optimize spend, and enhance ad content are four of the top six current and projected uses of AI for digital advertising.
Although you may not be totally comfortable with exactly how and what it does, you should not turn a blind eye to the possibilities AI presents and fail to adapt because your competitors are using it.
Let's quickly clear up terminology.
Artificial Intelligence: The science behind making a computer do something that would normally require human intelligence.
Machine Learning: Making machines smart by feeding them loads of data and letting them learn over time through experience. An example of this would be Netflix. The more movies and shows you watch and rate, the better Netflix's algorithm can deliver personalized recommendations.
Deep Learning: Similar to the human mind, scientists refer to this type of AI as the "neural network" of machine learning. With this, machines can discover complex patterns by using layers of correlations.
There is more and more data available to us to use in making better decisions. However even the most talented humans on your team are finding it harder and harder to scan, analyze, and discover insights in meaningful ways. We need machines to help and that help is readily available with technology using AI and machine learning. In a May 2018 survey of 400 digital advertising professionals worldwide conducted by Econsultancy and MediaMath found that two of the most popular ways marketers are applying AI is for ad targeting and audience segmentation.
You are already aware of programmatic advertising through your efforts to use search engine marketing on channels like Google AdWords, Facebook or Twitter.
At its most fundamental, programmatic advertising is simply the automated process of buying and selling ad inventory through an exchange. It's all about real-time bidding for inventory across mobile, display, video, social, and televisions. The best tools to assist you in getting better ad spend are based on AI-enabled insights.
"When AI is applied to programmatic advertising, it can do impressive things, such as navigate on its own within the environment, as well as provide you (and itself) with granular insights that make the economic path that connects advertisers and publishers clearly and significantly more visible, useful and profitable.
It does this by supercharging data and targeting. Its intelligent algorithms empower advertisers and publishers, so they can exponentially improve the effectiveness of their campaigns.
And intelligent algorithms are continually learning; they're fully capable of modifying or customizing their actions via their learned 'experience,' so your initial investment is quickly made back, and you receive the benefits of a gift that keeps on giving."
Algorithms can analyze a site visitors behavior to serve up personalized ad content in the moment. That information is likely being gathered and used to inform future optimizations and ad content creation, as well. Demand and supply-side platforms (DSPs and SSPs) and data management platforms (DMPs) collect all kinds of first and third-party data, to inform decisions on personalization and ad purchasing. Programmatic can serve as an even more targeted and focused way to reach consumers with more relevant messaging, thus encouraging more attention to advertising.
This type of automated learning and execution helps companies like SRAX focus more intensely on outcomes and on helping their clients achieve greater ROI through personalizations driven by ever-increasingly personal data. Through AI, psychographics will pick up where demographics leaves off, to give greater insight into the motives, needs, and purchasing behaviors that drive consumers in their decision-making moments.
Using AI in your programmatic advertising can assist by:
Improving how and where you spend your money (managing your budget)
Improving the content and creative look of your ads (real-time dynamic optimization)
Improving your insights into marketing and customer behavior (predictive analytics)
Speaking of SRAX, we have been successfully using a series of tools offered by them (@srax_digital and @sraxdigital) to develop and deliver significantly improved results for clients. The platform's capabilities include autonomous media buying, as well as AI-powered ad testing and optimization.
The company's first product, GroupAd, is a brand loyalty platform that provides instant rewards and feedbacks for consumers. The backbone of loyalty shows brands who their influencers are so that they can utilize this information to further hence their marketing efforts. GroupAd as a consumer facing product is a suite of marketing applications.
The second product released by the company is SRAX, a platform built to aggregate and optimize the disperse real-time bidding channel so that publishers could utilize this revenue channel more effectively. Early on it focused on the selling side of the Programmatic Advertising market and it built its capabilities and expertise on the buying side as well by developing state of the art algorithm and practices to optimize the bid and targeting relationship.
Both Social Reality businesses complement each other. Brands' advertisement attains their social marketing campaigns through traditional media purchased through the buy side of the SRAX platform. GroupAd provides extensive audience data that brands can target for their ads through the SRAX platform. Ultimately SRAX and GroupAd merge toward Social Reality vision which is to both automate and make digital ads available, affordable and efficient for all brands' markets and businesses of any size.
More use of AI to develop an understanding of what is going on in the marketplace and make recommendations to buyers on where, when and how to use paid amplification.
For many brands, the biggest obstacle to adopting more AI products is integrating the technology into their everyday workflow. In a BrightEdge survey of 500 content, digital and search marketers worldwide conducted in February 2018, nearly a third of respondents said that applying AI in their current role was the strongest barrier to adoption.
Our partnership with SRAX is an example of what we do as a digital marketing and e-Commerce agency in developing good partnerships with "best of breed" technology companies to help outdoor brand companies improve the performance of their content and deliver customers who engage and purchase. It's also critical in establishing a good partnership with the outdoor brand companies we work with to get the most out their digital marketing spend. SRAX takes a holistic approach to executing in this space.
Humans develop the campaign objectives, the original content, and ad spend. Instead of taking each task and executing it as an individual one, this AI driven tool initiates, monitors, modifies, and adjusts in an ongoing, integrated, and continuous manner. It includes multi-variant testing and optimization, targeting, segment development, media buying, analysis, and recommendations.
Here's a Specific Example of Its Effectiveness
Does it work? We believe it does. Recently we ran a program for one of our clients, ALPS Brands. We worked with the client to set the goals and the channels in which to execute the strategy. For this effort, we used the SRAX tool to target the channels of programmatic desktop and mobile display for FaceBook and Instagram their email.
We used the programmatic piece to draw audiences into a re-targeting pool to funnel them into converting within the three channels selected and to reduce the prospecting costs for new customers. Re-targeting them allowed us to get a head start on paid social, so we were able to drive the ultimate cost per thousand (CPM) down on social channels for audiences that were converting. Some highlights from the effort were
For the email channel we guaranteed a Click Through Rate (CTR) of 1% and delivered 11% CTR
We achieved a 5:1 Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) for paid social
Reduced the overall cost per customer acquisition cost to $15, while the average price point for a product sold averaged was between $105 - $110 (see chart below)
We were one of the first to work with Amazon to tie back CTR from paid social to conversions in Amazon's Shopping Cart
Besides our own example, here is another one from a recent article published by the Artificial Marketing Intelligence Institute. An Australian company, RedBalloon, They started out shooting for a 500% return on ad spend and now average a 1,100% return.
The founder (Naomi Simson) of RedBalloon, noted, "Your team doesn't have to be scared they're going to lose their jobs, instead, it's more like they get an upgrade. At RedBalloon, people who were previously responsible for executing paid advertising campaigns now oversee Albert and make strategic decisions. Albert does the grunt work far better than humans, freeing up the team to invest time and resources into more valuable tasks."
How has programmatic advertising provided benefits to brands in general? For example, here is one from Shopify that is an outdoor brand. VentureBeat's recent machine learning article highlights some of the craziest wins advertisers have had since letting machines take over their ad spending.
Volkswagen found that using AI for its ad buys in Germany resulted in better performance than even its agency could provide. Whenever Volkswagen uses the recommendations from Blackwood Seven, a Danish media agency that uses AI and predictive analytics to forecast ad spend decisions, it sells more cars than it would have if it had gone with its media agency's recommendation, the head of marketing for Volkswagen's passenger cars in Germany told Digiday. In some instances, the difference between the algorithm's and its agency's car orders have been as high as 20 percent.
Give It a Shot
"Used correctly, AI could boost productivity by up to 40% by 2035 and increase your average profitability by 38%.
Through the use of AI technologies, programmatic advertising will improve efficiency and make better budget decisions for you. The use of AI with programmatic advertising, segmentation and content improvement is now so fundamental it is unlikely we will ever see them operating separately again.
It can work for you as part of your digital sales strategies for the outdoor industry.
You need to get the right tools in place using the right data and arming your team with the right training. These things don't happen overnight.
AI might seem like magic once it works. But getting it working is just like any other serious software implementation. You need to commit for the long haul. You can begin testing tools and learning what's possible even with just a basic understanding of the technology.
Whether it's your team or partnering with an outside agency to leverage the tools and staff you have, this is a tool you should be using now.
As for teams, look for hybrid marketers with equal parts agility, technological proficiency, and inherent accountability, who can think and perform strategically across multiple disciplines. The ideal marketing professional in an AI-charged environment is able to move seamlessly from the creativity of content and social to the science of optimization and analytics.
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March 21, 2009 by Ken Ward Jr.
Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press has another story out today, with more questions about the safety of injecting coal slurry underground.
I've posted the story on the Gazette's Mining the Mountains page here.
Regulators in a handful of Appalachian states that let coal companies inject slurry into abandoned mines say they're confident the practice is safe, but an Associated Press survey shows they lack scientific data to answer citizens who believe aquifers, water wells and their own health are at risk.
None of the five states contacted by AP has studied the chemical composition of slurry, a byproduct left when clay, sulfur and other impurities are removed from coal to make it burn more efficiently. For decades, slurry has been injected into abandoned, underground mines in Appalachia as a cheap alternative to building massive dams or filtration and drying systems.
But hundreds of West Virginians are suing coal companies in two cases, claiming chemicals and metals in the slurry have leaked into aquifers, contaminated well water and caused health problems ranging from kidney disease to cancer.
An e-mail survey of environmental regulators in West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Ohio found none of the states track exactly how much slurry is pumped underground.
Jason Bostic, vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association, told Smith that injection sites are chosen with health and safety — not just geology — as primary concerns. If the practice weren't safe, he adds, EPA wouldn't allow it.
In the Prenter area of Boone County, lawyers for resident this week asked Circuit Judge William S. Thompson to order a halt to underground slurry injections. Attorneys John Sutter and Roger Decanio note that Mingo Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury issued a similar order in the Rawl area.


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Saratoga est un duo folk québécois, originaire de Montréal. Formé en 2015, il est composé de Chantal Archambault et de Michel-Olivier Gasse.

Biographie
Avant la formation de Saratoga, Chantal Archambault avait une carrière solo en tant qu'auteure-compositeur-interprète. Active sur la scène québécoise depuis 2009, elle a fait paraître les albums La romance des couteaux (2010), Les élans (2013), L'amour ou la soif (mini-album, 2014) et À hauteur d'homme (mini-album, 2016). Michel-Olivier Gasse l'accompagnait à la basse, elle ainsi que d'autres artistes comme Vincent Vallières et Dany Placard, en plus d'avoir fait partie du groupe Caloon Saloon.

Ils s'unissent pour former le duo Saratoga. Leur premier EP éponyme paraît en 2015. Le recueil de cinq chansons remporte le prix du EP folk de l'année au gala des GAMIQ.

Le premier long-jeu du duo, Fleur, paraît en . L'album est applaudi par la critique et leur vaut deux nominations au gala de l'ADISQ 2017, dont celle de « révélation de l'année ». Le couple entame ensuite une tournée de plus de cent-cinquante dates au Québec et en Europe, un mois à peine après la fin de la tournée de son EP.

Ceci est une espèce aimée, un album gracieux et bienveillant, sobre dans toute sa splendeur, voit le jour à la fin 2019. Le spectacle nommé script de l'année 2020 à l'ADISQ confirme la raison d'être de Saratoga: faire le bien à petite échelle et à voix basse.

Membres
 Chantal Archambault - auteure-compositeur-interprète. Elle est active sur la scène québécoise depuis 2009. On lui doit les albums La romance des couteaux (2010), Les élans (2013), L'amour ou la soif (mini-album, 2014) et À hauteur d'homme (mini-album, 2016).

 Michel-Olivier Gasse - auteur-compositeur-interprète. Il a longtemps accompagné Chantal Archambault, Vincent Vallières et Dany Placard à la basse, en plus d'avoir fait partie du groupe Caloon Saloon. Également écrivain, il a fait paraître deux romans, Du cœur à l'établi (2013) et De Rose à Rosa (2014), aux éditions Tête première.

Discographie
 2015 : Saratoga EP (Ambiances ambiguës)
 2016 : Fleur (Duprince)
 2019 : Ceci est une espèce aimée (Duprince)

Notes et références

Groupe québécois de folk rock
Groupe canadien de pop
Groupe musical formé en 2015
Groupe musical de Montréal

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Little Voice season 1, episode 8 recap – what happens in "Sea Change"? Not coping.
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The penultimate episode sees Bess's life continue to spiral as she's struggling to cope with her father's disappearance.
This recap of Apple TV+ series Little Voice season 1, episode 8, "Sea Change" contains spoilers.
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How does Little Voice season 1, episode 8, "Sea Change" open?
Bess wakes up and grabs Samuel's hand; the birds are chirping. She wants to go look for her father and Samuel offers to go with her. Bess thanks him but she refuses his help. She then walks back to the apartment and accepts his help. It's almost like she's refusing is help at first because she can sense that he has feelings. The pair look around the city and Bess cannot find him. She then looks around the city and Prisha assures her that it's not her fault.
Bess meets Louie and reveals that their father cannot make it, which means they cannot go to Broadway. She insists that they will need to do Louie's birthday another time. Then there's a knock on Louie's apartment door — it's their mother. Their mother managed to find them because she saw Louie on his vlog. Bess is clearly irritated that their mother is here even though Louie is pumped to see her. Bess and her mother agree to meet later.
Ethan has gone
Bess and Louie go to a care home and Bess sings for the elderly. Its someone's birthday. Afterwards, she heads to the storage units and she learns that Ethan has left. He left her a message — "Songbird". It's just getting more and more painful for Bess as the series wears on.
Repairing the relationship
Bess meets her mother for a coffee and it's general chit chat but it's clear Bess is still not coping. Her mother tells Bess that her father used to be a difficult person back then and that she's healed — she's willing to stay as long as she needs to in order to repair her relationship with Bess. There's plenty of history implied in this conversation.
Pretending to be in a relationship
Prisha's current date tells her he cannot see her anymore because he's in love with someone. She admits to the man that she's gay and feels relieved that she's finally said it. The man has fallen in love with a non-Indian woman so they both agree to pretend to be together for their families. Prisha's girlfriend doesn't like this arrangement as she feels like she is hidden — she's absolutely right.
At work, Bess is still not coping. Benny tells her about another label that looks promising but she's not interested. She suggests to Benny that he's doing it for him but not for her and tells him to let it go. Bess's manager keeps seeing her take shots and brings up her father — he advises not to throw her life away.
How does Little Voice season 1, episode 8, "Sea Change" end?
And then Ethan turns up and explains he left his girlfriend and he wants to talk. Bess walks outside with Ethan and tells him she is not an item on a menu. Ethan says he is here now for her. She tells him to leave. Samuel is looking from a distance. Is this going to end very messy this love triangle? It looks like it…
Bess returns into work with tears running down her face. Meanwhile, Prisha lays in bed at home and she's upset at the situation she's in; Bess's mother puts a photo up of her children; Louie stares into the rain — everyone is depressed at the same time! The penultimate episode sees Bess's life continue to spiral as she's struggling to cope with her father's disappearance.
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If you are looking for solid scientific information on the latest research and treatments for disease, then the following journals and search tools will be helpful. These research sources focus on alternative medicine and holistic research, along with nutrition and general science. This isn't light reading, but it is empowering to learn the information right from the source!
General Research Tools
www.cochrane.org – detailed reviews of clinical trials to analyze broad topics (i.e. does sodium really raise blood pressure).
www.doaj.org – a source for scientific journals provided free of charge.
http://scholar.google.com/ – a special search engine just for scientific research articles.
www.medscape.com – a resource from WebMD which is less advertisement-driven and more focused on medical research and education with content reviewed by a medical professional advisory board. *Site requires registration to gain free access.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ – a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that provides research articles on biomedical topics.
PubMed Health
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ – a subset of PubMed which provides consumer-friendly information on medical conditions and treatments.
World Health Organization (WHO) – Publications
www.who.int/publications/en/– an excellent resource for research on international health topics. Via the site's database you can search for studies by topic.
Alternative Medicine Journals / Databases
Advances in Mind-Body Medicine
www.advancesjournal.com – explores the relationship between mind, body, and health.
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
www.alternative-therapies.com – an evidence-based, peer-reviewed journal on alternative topics in medicine.
AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine)
www.ovid.com/site/catalog/DataBase/12.jsp – mostly European titles of more than 500 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) journals.
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM)
www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/ – an international, peer-reviewed journal on complementary and alternative medicine.
Explore Journal
www.explorejournal.com – "The Journal of science and healing." It offers research in alternative modalities in topics such as spirituality, consciousness, and general science.
Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal (IMCJ)
www.imjournal.com – "provides practitioners with a practical and comprehensive approach to integrating alternative therapies with conventional medicine."
Journal of Scientific Exploration
www.scientificexploration.org/journal/ – a quarterly scientific journal from the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) a group of scientists concerned with the study of "unexplained phenomena" and alternative medicine.
MANTIS (Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System)
www.healthindex.com – covers chiropractic, osteopathic, herbal medicine, homeopathy, PT, and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Natural Medicine Journal
www.naturalmedicinejournal.com – an excellent source for the latest research on herbs, nutritional supplements, and natural healing modalities with articles typically written by naturopaths.
Nutrition Journals / Databases
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
www.ajcn.org/search.dtl – the site has a box for "Search across hundreds of full-text journals" that offers access to other CAM journals.
CARDS (Computer Access to Research on Dietary Supplements)
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Research/CARDS_Database.aspx – A comprehensive source for research on dietary supplement ingredients and health outcomes.
PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset
http://ods.od.nih.gov/Research/PubMed_Dietary_Supplement_Subset.aspx – a tool for researching PubMed articles that are strictly on dietary supplements.
The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease
www.functionalfoodscenter.net/The_Journal_of_FFHD.html – a journal investigating the role of foods in disease prevention.
Scientific Journals & Magazines
Autoimmunity Reviews
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/15689972 – a journal on autoimmune conditions.
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (IJPSR)
www.ijpsr.com – a journal covering a variety of pharmaceutical applications including herbal treatments like this review of Anti-Arthritis Plants (vol 3, issue 4)
Top Medical Journals
A review of the top medical journals from HealthWriterHub.com
Yale Scientific Magazine
www.yalescientific.org – the magazine, whose articles can be read online, provides the latest research from Yale University researchers and physicians.
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Let's get real. The "snap out of it" advice doesn't get it!
Let's get real! How often do we hear people who've never been depressed tell people depressed to just "snap out" of their depression? Answer? Too many times.
In our Manual, Depressed Anonymous, 3rd edition we read "I don't believe you can snap out of your depression, or suddenly and dramatically get your life turned around by going to one Depressed Anonymous meeting, or reading the 12 steps five times an hour. It just doesn't happen that way, especially if you have lived with your depression for any length of time. Even though we emphasize that depression is not a disease, we do want you to know that depression over a long period of time can cause physical problems and upset the metabolism of the human organism. More and more, doctors see how positive feelings, attitudes and emotions can help cancer patients maintain a remission and stay free of a recurring cancer condition. Unpleasant emotions such as fear, anger, resentment, tension and depression all work against recovery.
I would call the sadness that has been with us for as long as we can remember, a learned way to respond to certain negative stimuli. What you will be doing when you come to a Depressed Anonymous meetings is to get involved in your own healing. You will find other men and women who are struggling with the same pain as you are. You will discover that the first step in coming to grips with depression that won't quit is for you to surrender it, quit fighting it. Let the God, as you understand God take over your life and help let it restore you to sanity, peace and understanding of the way in which you can find the path out of your depression and pain. Depressed Anonymous works if you begin the work of the spiritual program that we're going to outline in this book. Depression is a moral problem and as such there needs to be a moral solution, one part of which is to admit that we are responsible for ourselves and that we can't blame it on genes, psychological predispositions or one's spouse or some other situation. We are going to take charge. We choose to un-depress ourselves. Today! One day at a time!
…But let me warn you — it isn't easy to do something different from what you have been doing most of your life. This is especially true when it comes to the way we see ourselves, our world and others. There are no magic pills and no easy answers to bring us immediately out of this inner pain and anguish. It does take time and work.
If you really want to leave behind your painful sadness, the daily tears, and the feelings of worthlessness, then begin now to admit the unmanageable mess of your depression. You have had it with feeling out of control!
SOURCES: (c)Depressed Anonymous, 3rd edition (2011). Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville. Pgs. 31-32.
(c) I'll will do it when I feel better. (2015) Hugh Smith. Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville.
(c) The Depressed Anonymous Workbook, (2002)(Depressed Anonymous Publications. Louisville.
VISIT THE STORE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON DEPRESSION AND THE HEALING POWER OF THE 12 STEPS.
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On-site Counselors
West Side Presbyterian Church has entered into a relationship with Samaritan Center of Puget Sound and has on-site counselors available for our congregation as well as the West Side community. Samaritan Center provides high quality, spiritually integrative, affordable counseling for individuals, couples and families in 15 locations in Seattle.
Heidi Gray
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Heidi has a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Seattle Pacific University and a Master's degree in Pharmacology from the University of Washington. While at SPU, she completed additional coursework in Medical Family Therapy, a field that integrates family therapy with medical care to more holistically support families managing serious medical conditions or disabilities.
Heidi lives in the Highland Park neighborhood of West Seattle with her husband and son. As a child, Heidi was raised in the Lutheran church and throughout her youth witnessed family members dedicate their time in service of the church and congregation, her mother as youth director and grandmother on the alter guild. Heidi currently attends Peace Lutheran Church and has come to view her therapeutic work as a faithful response to God's redemptive grace. She finds great joy in watching her son grow in relationship with God, in socializing with family and friends, listening to live music, reading, and cooking with food picked from the garden.
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http://www.samaritanps.org/therapists/heidi-gray
206-527-2266 X 393 | [email protected]
Rob Erickson
Rob has two Master's degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA, a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy and a M.A. in Theology. He also has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and worked for many years as a highway designer. He has worked the last 20 years at Samaritan Center of Puget Sound (formerly Presbyterian Counseling Service). He is a state licensed counselor and sees individuals, couples and families. He leads Samaritan Center's divorce recovery group.
Rob grew up in Burien and attended a Bible-teaching Presbyterian church from childhood through his college years. Christian faith has always been central to his life and he finds it rewarding to work with clients that seek spiritual/faith answers in their therapy work. He has 4 grown children and lives in the Morgan Junction neighborhood of West Seattle. His hobbies are varied and include: backpacking, gardening and cooking.
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RELEASE: NEXT GENERATION TO LEAD PREMIER FREIGHT'S FUTURE
Premier Freight Management Corporation, a West-Michigan based shipping, logistics and warehousing company, today announced 50 percent of the company has been acquired by Jonathan Laning and Kyle Walcott, sons of founding partners, Doug Walcott and Mark Laning. The transaction comes following the retirement of the elder Laning, who will receive a buyout by the sons of his shares.
As of October 1, when the deal officially closed, Jonathan and Kyle each now own 25 percent shares of Premier Freight Management Corporation and its subsidiaries, including Premier Freight, Premier Freight Systems and Premier Asset Leasing. Doug Walcott will continue as the company's CEO and plans to stay with the company for the foreseeable future.
Premier Freight specializes in full-service logistics, with an emphasis on transporting large, complex and unique items for manufacturers throughout the United States. The company is renowned in the transportation and supply chain industry for its attention to detail and customer service. Jonathan and Kyle have cumulatively spent 19 years learning the business, from operations to sales, and how to carry on these traditions, while innovating and incorporating new best practices.
"The driving force behind Premier Freight is our laser-focus on the customers' needs. Mark worked tirelessly to add value, exceed their needs and provide unmatched quality, and we know our sons will do the same," said Doug Walcott, CEO of Premier Freight. "Kyle and Jonathan have watched Premier Freight grow, and they will do great things to move the company forward."
Premier Freight is growing quickly. With an expanding customer base in both transportation and warehousing, the company recently completed a long-term lease of 75,000 sq. ft. warehousing space at Holland's Federal Square Business Park. Distinct among logistics providers, Premier Freight offers premium, "One-Touch" service, a supply chain program that spans all aspects of the fulfillment process from transportation, to warehousing, to customer acceptance.
"Today's logistics market is as competitive as when Doug and I started the company, and more change in the industry is on its way," said Mark Laning. "Now more than ever, customers want smarter services paired with and an exceptional level of personal service, that is what has differentiated Premier, and it is exactly what Jonathan and Kyle will continue."
Walcott and Laning started Premier Freight with their first delivery 14 years ago, having already had 25 years of experience in logistics management. They created Premier Freight to be a different kind of 3PL: the trusted partner for businesses, to make supply chains the most competitive aspect of a business, and to exceed the needs of every customer – every single time.
About Premier Freight
Premier Freight is a Holland-based, full-service logistics and warehousing company, specializing in innovative solutions to complex warehousing and transportation needs, which extend to 48 states and internationally to Canada. Currently boasting 105,000 square feet of warehousing inside the Life Savers building in Holland, an additional 75,000 square feet will be added in May inside the Hart & Cooley building. Premier has a strong commitment to personable interactions, with the experience necessary to meet and exceed customer transportation and warehousing needs. For more information, go to ShipPremierFreight.com.
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We took the show on the road! The road back to Southern California from Mammoth that is.
Jeff Biblically assaults Scott unintentionally. Turns out Scott was in a cult for a few weeks. Did that turn him into a legalist? We explore that a bit before responding to superfan Dave's suggestion to "tame the tongue". Is there a line to cross for "course jesting" and can Zack see Scott from the other side of it? Also, should there be a church for beer fans?
Caucus? Damn near killed us! Super Bowl predictions. The Panthers have a secret weapon! Jeff's 6th grade class thinks Bernie Sanders is racist? Is Trump just saying what the rest of the field wishes they could? Why do Republicans have to establish Jesus cred? Why legislating morality is stupid. Is Ted Cruz doing an impression when he prays?
Featured Song: "Let Me In" from Ryan Kirkland's album "Awake" Get it HERE!
Is Jesus gender fluid?!?! Christians get trolled again. An old woman takes "If you see something, say something" too far. Does swearing on the Bible really matter? Christians submitting to authority? Iron clad answers coming your way (actually just opinions). Also, Matt's 3rd car gets towed and the only possible reason is spiritual attack...?
Franklin Graham said He's never doubted God. Zack has a problem with that, which leads to a discussion on our own doubts (if any, Jeff!). Miscommunications with Siri, and Zack and Lisa recap their baby making discussion with their oldest daughter.


Real leaders encourage the people around them to do their best work. They don't tread on others, they nurture them.
A real leader perceives the situation as it is, without blinkers, and in alignment with their inner knowing. Their solutions are therefore practical and authentic, not just intellectual - it's very clear what needs to be done.
If you can see where the path ahead leads, and you believe that is for the greater good, then there is no need for doubts.
Transformational leaders communicate a convincing vision of what they aspire to achieve, which stimulates their group to think independently and desire to achieve these aims for themselves.
Richard Branson's top 10 leadership quotes…"


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'The Umbrella Academy' Renewed For Season 3 At Netflix
Whilst we've got a little used to Netflix cancelling shows this year, finally, we have some great news! 'The Umbrella Academy' has been renewed for Season 3 the streaming service has announced!
The wonderfully weird family superhero drama is based in a reality where, on the same day in 1989, forty-three infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by a billionaire who creates The Umbrella Academy and prepares his "children" to save the world. Season 1 saw the six surviving members reunite upon the news of their father's passing and having to work as a team once more to solve a mystery surrounding his death. But the estranged family begins to come apart due to their divergent personalities and abilities, not to mention the imminent threat of a global apocalypse.
The third season will see Ellen Page return as Vanya, along with Tom Hopper as Luther (aka Spaceboy), Emmy Raver-Lampman as Allison (aka The Rumor), Robert Sheehan as Klaus (aka The Séance), David Castañeda as Diego (aka The Kraken), Aidan Gallagher as Number Five (aka The Boy) and Justin H. Min as Ben (aka Number Six).
(SEASON 2 SPOILER WARNING BELOW)
Season 2, which premiered in July this year, saw the family using his Five's powers to escape from Vanya's 2019 apocalypse. Something which The Boy had warned (so, so many times) was risky… It turned out, he was right – the time jump scattered the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas, over a three year period, starting in 1960. Some had been stuck in the past for years, building new lives, certain they were the only ones who survived. Five was the last to land, smack dab in the middle of a nuclear doomsday, which – spoiler alert! – turned out is a result of the group's disruption of the timeline (déjà vu, anyone?). The Umbrella Academy managed to find a way to reunite, figure out what caused doomsday, put a stop to it, and return to the present timeline to stop that other apocalypse… Although, when they did manage to get back to the "present", it seems all their time-meddling had altered 2019… They are greeted by a very-much-still-alive Reginald, and members of "Sparrow Academy", consisting of five different children, a floating green cube, and an also very-much-still-alive Ben as Number One…
Production on Season 3 will begin in Toronto, Canada in February 2021. Steve Blackman ('Fargo', 'Altered Carbon') will return as Showrunner and Executive Producer. He's joined by Jeff F. King (EP/D), Mike Richardson (EP), Keith Goldberg (EP), Jesse McKeown (EP), Gerard Way (Co-EP), and Gabriel Bá (Co-EP). The third season will consist of 10 one-hour episodes and will be produced by UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, for Netflix.
Catch up with Seasons 1 & 2 of 'The Umbrella Academy' on Netflix right now.
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Void Contact
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Void Contact is a studio band founded in the mid to late 80's by David McHenry on vocals, keyboards, and drums, and Carter Scott on vocals, keyboards, and guitars. They independently released two albums: Age of Antiquity in 1989 and Autonomy in 1991, which featured a keyboard and vocal rich progressive pop sound. At that time, their influences
Void Contact is a studio band founded in the mid to late 80's by David McHenry on vocals, keyboards, and drums, and Carter Scott on vocals, keyboards, and guitars. They independently released two albums: Age of Antiquity in 1989 and Autonomy in 1991, which featured a keyboard and vocal rich progressive pop sound. At that time, their influences ranged from Yes, Rush, and Jethro Tull to the more pop sensibilities of Billy Joel and Chicago. Carter eventually left the band for other pursuits while David formed a live band of the same name and played multiple venues in the Nashville area. During this period David recorded 5 songs that were never released. The style evolved into more of a power pop sound, much like The Beatles, Supertramp, Jellyfish, and Toy Matinee. Eventually the band broke up and these songs were shelved when David left the music scene for other pursuits. In 2013, David and Carter both found a renewed sense of inspiration and began writing and recording new songs, continuing that power pop sound. David has remastered and, in some instances, re-recorded certain parts of the 5 unreleased songs. Both sets of songs have been compiled in their newest release "Many Happy Returns". Many great musicians have contributed to this release: Rick Vito (Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, Stephen Tyler) Rich Adams (Jerry Tachoir Group) Mark Horwitz (Tommy Hoehn, The Animal Band) Dale Russell (The Guess Who) John Catchings (Ben Folds Five, Vince Gill, Hoi Polloi, Owsley) Arvel Bird (Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, Louise Mandrell) Bob Teesdale Michel Killen Phil Smiedt (David Kramer) Jim Hoke (Harry Connick Jr., Sheryl Crow, Don Henley, Billy Joel) Mike Roberts Ryan West (Walker Lundee) David's wife and daughters also contributed vocals, bass guitar, and the album artwork.
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Market Square 3:38
Rainy Day 4:18
Round and Round 4:22
Hard For Me to Let Go 3:50
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Love That I Have Found 3:18
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In a decision released on November 27, 2012, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ("BCCA") in Pratten v British Columbia, 2012 BCCA 480, reversed the British Columbia Supreme Court's ("BCSC") decision that provisions of the provincial Adoption Act, RSBC 1996, c 5 [Adoption Act] are unconstitutional as a result of their failure to take into account the rights of people conceived using sperm from an anonymous donor ("donor offspring").
The challenge was brought by Olivia Pratten, who was conceived in 1982 using sperm from an anonymous donor. As per the rules of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC, which allows records to be destroyed six years after the last entry, all records relating to the insemination procedure by which Ms. Pratten was conceived were destroyed.
The trial judge made some important findings of fact in her decision (found at para 111) which were not challenged on appeal. Among them include the fact that donor offspring feel that their health can and may be seriously compromised by lack of information about their donor. Based on expert medical evidence, the trial judge found that these fears are justified. Additionally, she found that donor offspring can face delayed medical treatment because of their inability to give complete family histories and that these stresses can cause sadness, frustration, depression and anxiety in donor offspring. The trial judge stated that donor offspring experience similar struggles and a sense of incompleteness as adoptees, but that they do not have the same institutions and support in the form of legislation that adoptees have.
In the landmark s. 15(2) decision in R v Kapp,  2 SCR 483 [Kapp], the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") set out that in order to save a legislative scheme under s. 15(2), the state must show that the program has an ameliorative or remedial purpose that targets a disadvantaged group identified by an enumerated or analogous ground. This step is undertaken before analyzing the impugned law under s. 15(1); therefore, it is analyzed before considering whether the law is in fact discriminatory.
Given the issues that often arise in s. 15 cases, an argument that s. 7 of the Charter encompasses a free-standing right to know one's biological origins and, further, imposes a positive duty on the state to enact legislation that gives effect to that right, is a manner in which Ms. Pratten could have received the legislative recognition she desired without taking away rights for a similarly disadvantaged group such as adoptees.
Ms. Pratten's argument that s. 7 includes a positive right to "know one's past" is based on Justice Arbour's dissenting reasons in R v Gosselin,  4 SCR 429 [Gosselin], which championed the idea that s. 7 includes positive rights. However, Justice Frankel does not accept this argument, noting that "[t]he positive rights theory advocated by Ms. Pratten necessitates a departure from established s. 7 jurisprudence," which has not yet recognized a positive right to life, liberty and security of the person.


We craft artisan jams, jellies and marmalade. We love being creative and inventing new flavors of jam for you to try. Each jar is filled, caped, polished and labeled completely by hand to preserve the integrity of our products. We promise a homemade taste with a commercial quality. Everything about our process from the space we cook into our recipes and even our labels are inspected and approved by the Utah Department of Food and Agriculture.
Whenever possible we get our produce from surplus sources. The fruits are still perfectly good and fresh but because they are in over abundance they are at risk for being wasted. We pick stuff from markets, distributors, farms, and other places in the community before they are discarded. We make most of our limited edition products using this method. By doing this we have used food waste to create jobs for single moms in tough situations.
When you support O-Town Kitchen you are doing more than getting delicious handmade preserves, you are also committing to do good in the world. You, our customer, are creating jobs for single moms who find themselves in tough situations. You are recognizing that we can't be apathetic about perfectly good food going to waste any longer. Thank you so much for making a difference. Try a jar of our tasty preserves today and join the cause.
I'm addicted to the mango habanero jam. It's so good with cream cheese and crackers!
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David Wilcock: Stunning new briefings > Mass indictments, targeted arrests and disclosure
"There are obviously many fascinating things to explore here. The briefings are far more complex than you may have thought." – David Wilcock
* MegaAnon clarifies position on aliens from Wilcock article, and discusses current happenings
On 12/21, we received remarkable high-level briefings about the takedown of the Deep State now in process.
Hours later we called the now-legendary 4Chan insider Mega Anon, who confirmed almost everything we heard in the briefings as being true.
She added much more detail we had never heard before, almost all of which is included in the second section of this report. I am very glad she reached out and made personal contact with us.
Mass indictments of arch-criminals are already happening. We can prove that 4,289 sealed indictments have appeared just between October 30 and November 22, 2017.
The normal limit is not more than 1000 sealed indictments for the entire year.
We are now also seeing many quiet arrests of lower and mid-level Deep State operatives.
Many higher-level people from the Deep State are apparently now wearing ankle bracelets with GPS monitoring to prevent them from fleeing the country.
[UPDATE: The Deep State is attacking the s–t out of this with hacks. Best bet is to use a Mac and stay away from Google browsers and/or Android phones.]
UFO DISCLOSURE HAS BEGUN
Just as our insiders had predicted, a limited UFO disclosure is now starting to happen as the Deep State's back is up against the wall.
This is the last card they have left to play. They are hoping that they can throw off the 'heat' by getting us captivated in a magnificent new story.
Disclosure is only the latest in a series of very exciting signposts that true change is upon us.
So much new information has come in from high-level briefings that this is only the first of a series that will be at least three parts in length.
This first section illustrates how the Alliance "mass arrest" strategy has evolved – taking the Cabal / Deep State completely by surprise.
The accusations and resignations we are seeing in the open world, such as of politicians and Hollywood figures, barely begins to cover the full story.
This information will certainly trigger mega-hack attacks on this site and increase personal risks – so please help us spread the word ASAP!
And Merry Christmas! Here's some Disclosure under the tree for you to unwrap and enjoy this holiday season.
"SOFT DISCLOSURE" BEGAN ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th
On Saturday, December 16th, the New York Times and Politico both announced that we are not alone in the universe… nor in our airspace.
For really the first time in recorded, modern history, UFOs are being treated with complete seriousness — by whatever is left of the mainstream media [MSM].
This included military films of strange UFOs in flight, as well as statements from Pentagon insiders that unusual, non-terrestrial alloys have been found.
A group of credible experts who are calling themselves "The I-Team" are behind this, and they do indeed have impeccable credentials.
For whatever reason, the entire MSM has jumped on board this story, unlike anything we've ever seen in history. It has been quite stunning to watch.
Also amusing is how little anything has changed. The public has been so conditioned to UFO reality that we really haven't felt much of a pulse in the public.
Here is a list of MSM links that started appearing in email chain letters shortly after this happened — in addition to the New York Times and Politico links we already shared:
MSNBC: UFO Pentagon Program
CBS: Government UFO Program
CNN: We May Not Be Alone
Washington Post: The Aliens Are Coming — And No One Cares
UK Independent: US Gov Recovered Material They Do Not Recognize from UFO
Fox News: Out of This World Encounter
TOP 90s POP STAR HELPS PROMOTE THIS DISCLOSURE
Blink-182 was arguably the top rock band of the 1990s, or at least could comfortably share the title belt with groups like Green Day and Oasis:
Blink 182 is Hugely Significant to Millennials
http://www.laweekly.com/music/its-time-for-critics-to-reevaluate-blink-182-2407624
In fact, to fans of previous musical generations, Blink-182 might be two notches above nursery rhymes in terms of the grand musical canon.
Rolling Stone would call their 1999 album Enema of the State "harmless," which is profoundly wrong.
Simply because there's a huge demographic of college kids thinking hard about music who consider Blink-182 one of the most important bands of all time, in about a decade, the band's best songs will achieve the respectable ubiquity of classic-rock radio.
This trio's former guitarist Tom DeLonge has spearheaded the disclosure effort that just launched its first real volley into the mainstream on Saturday, December 16th, 2017.
DeLonge left the band in 2005 to focus his time on building towards the events now taking place. In 2015, he notably turned down a reunion offer, arguably to remain focused on this goal.
TOM DELONGE'S TWEETS REVEAL EVEN MORE
DeLonge's initial public unveiling of his initiative took place in an event on October 11th, revealing that he did indeed have a team of high-level insiders.
We covered this event here, on this site, when the team suddenly announced it the day before.
Many people complained that they didn't get more information at the time… and Tom De Longe's very next tweet from that same day was quite revealing:
Every word spoken has been planned for months, the biggest stuff has yet to come. Anyone complaining has no clue whats going on at the DOD.
— Tom DeLonge (@tomdelonge) October 11, 2017
Every word [we have] spoken has been planned for months. Very interesting. Planned by who? And for what purpose?
This tweet strongly suggests that the Department of Defense (DOD) was either conducting this as a coordinated effort that went well beyond DeLonge himself, or was actively blocking it.
It may also be that people in the "I Team" believe the DOD is opposing them, when in fact their efforts are being carefully guided behind the scenes.
DeLonge's statement that "the biggest stuff has yet to come" is now prophetic, as the October 11th event was ignored, but the December 16th event lit up the entire MSM like a Christmas tree.
Let's not forget that it is now an "open secret" that the mainstream media is still largely CIA-controlled, just as Congressional hearings revealed in 1975-76.
The CIA is apparently the intelligence agency most directly connected to the Deep State, based upon the testimony of multiple insiders.
THE CHURCH COMMITTEE, 1975-76, REVEALED THE TRUTH
In the aftermath of the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s, public scrutiny was aimed towards the US intelligence agencies.
Journalist Seymour Hersh published a damning expose' of domestic CIA surveillance in 1975. This led to the Church Committee investigating these wrongdoings in Congressional hearings.
In April 1976, the Church Committee published its findings, which included the following revelations about both foreign and domestic media:
Congressional Church Committee Findings on CIA Control of Mainstream Media, 1976
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
For foreign news media, the report concluded that:
The CIA currently maintains a network of several hundred foreign individuals around the world who provide intelligence for the CIA and at times attempt to influence opinion through the use of covert propaganda.
These individuals provide the CIA with direct access to a large number of newspapers and periodicals, scores of press services and news agencies, radio and television stations, commercial book publishers, and other foreign media outlets.[7]
For domestic media, the report states:
Approximately 50 of the [Agency] assets are individual American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations. Of these, fewer than half are "accredited" by U.S. media organizations …
The remaining individuals are non-accredited freelance contributors and media representatives abroad …
More than a dozen United States news organizations and commercial publishing houses formerly provided cover for CIA agents abroad. A few of these organizations were unaware that they provided this cover.[7]
This is just a small taste of what you start learning when you delve into conspiracy analysis.
It is now widely accepted that the mainstream media is a mouthpiece for the Deep State, as the Church Committee discovered over 40 years ago.
Therefore, since the MSM jumped on this story with unprecedented enthusiasm, almost everyone in the existing UFO community is freaking out about it.
THEY HAVE A GUY FROM LOCKHEED WHO WANTS TO BUILD A WORKING INTERSTELLAR SPACECRAFT
That same day, October 11th, DeLonge announced on Twitter that they have Steve Justice, a former Lockheed Skunkworks employee, who can actually build us an anti-gravity machine:
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