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Fall Film Series 2015
Did you know that as a member of the TRU Students' Union you are automatically a member of the Kamloops Film Society? You also get access to student pricing! You can purchase $5 student tickets to any Kamloops Film Society Film at the Members' Services Desk in the Students' Union Building!
This fall the Kamloops Film Society has moved it's Film Series to every week! All showings take place at the Paramount Theatre at 7PM. Check out some of the upcoming films below! For a full list of the Fall Film Series 2015 click here.
Fall Film Series 2015 – Kamloops Film Society
October 15, 2015 Grandma
Comedy legend Lily Tomlin (Netflix's Grace and Frankie) shines in this spirited and touching film from director Paul Weitz (About a Boy), a sharply observed comedy-drama about intergenerational relationships and how our past is never really left behind.
October 22, 2015 The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Set in the backdrop of 1970's san Francisco in the midst of the underground comic book movement, this unique and unconventional coming of age story explores a young woman's navigation of her budding responsibilities and sexual awakening in the face of her complex affair with her mother's boyfriend.
October 29th, 2015 Infinitely Polar Bear
Cameron is a man who grapples with bipolar disorder. After a breakdown forces him to leave his family and move into a halfway house, he attempts to rebuild a relationship with his two daughters, and win back the trust of his wife Maggie (Zoe Saldana). When Maggie decides to go to business school in New York, they decide that he will move back in and take care of the day-to-day care for the kids. Due to his mercurial nature, this leads to a series of quirky, funny, and sometimes frightening episodes. Infinitely Polar Bear screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
November 5, 2015 Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it's a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
November 12, 2015 The Second Mother
Val spends 13 years working as nanny to Fabinho in Sao Paulo. She is financially stable but has to live with the guilt of having left her daughter Jessica, in Pernambuco, in the north of Brazil, raised by relatives. As college entrance exams roll around, Jessica wants to come to Sao Paulo to take her college entrance exams. When Jessica arrives, cohabitation is not easy. Everyone is affected by her personality and candor and Val finds herself right in the middle of it.
November 19, 2015 Phoenix
A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Jerichow). Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn't recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation's tragedy and a woman's search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.
November 26, 2015 The Wonders
Rohrwacher's richly textured sophomore feature centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in central Italy. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenaged boy taken in as a farmhand, and a production crew recruiting local farmers to participate in a cheesy televised celebration of ancient Etruscan culture presented by the mysterious Milly Catena (Monica Bellucci). Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, Gelsomina, who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher manages to convey her adolescent sense of wonder and confusion with characteristically graceful naturalism.
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Brian Cole: 'It's Raining, It's Pouring, Are You Snoring?' – Part Three
This week's message from Pastor Brian Cole
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Sunday, September 1, 2019 | Updated Sep 01, 2019 2:43 pm CDT
Every Sunday, DrydenWire.com publishes a submitted article in a weekly series from Pastor Brian Cole. If you would have a question for Brian or would like to learn more about him, visit his website or his official Facebook page.
Gen. 7:6- 8:22 - IT'S RAINING, IT'S POURING, ARE YOU SNORING?? – Part 3
Read Part One
In Genesis 8:6-17, Moses writes, "After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so, it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark. When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry. Then God said to Noah, "Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it."
We can almost hear the "Hallelujah Chorus" playing in the background! What a day of rejoicing that must have been! God had been faithful to see Noah through.
In 8:18-19, Moses writes, "So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another."
Verses 18 and 19 may seem like needless repetition to us, but they document Noah's obedience to God's words, which Moses stressed in the entire flood narrative.
Our section closes in 8:20-22 with these words: "Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
What is the first thing that Noah does when he gets off the ark? Does he tend for food, find water, and create shelter? The first thing that Noah did when he left the ark was to build an altar and offer God a sacrifice. (What's the first thing we do when we come out of a traumatic situation, a life altering, life changing event in our lives...?)
This demonstrates his dedication and gratitude to God. Noah's "altar" is the first mentioned in the Bible. His "burnt offerings" were for worship. As the head of the new humanity, Noah's sacrifice represented all mankind.
So, we have covered 7 chapters that log the events of the first age of man. 7 chapters covering a little more than 1,600 years.
The rest of scripture, the remainder of Genesis, 38 other books of the O.T. and 27 books in the N.T., all relate the sovereign care of a holy God bringing about reconciliation of the Godhead to man, and the constant message of the Good News.
We have only covered 7 chapters, yet so far, within the short pages we have covered, are written the very foundations of all that follows.
Only 7 chapters, but the Creator draws us back time and again through the rest of scripture, that, because He is the Creator, you and I have every reason and hope of redemption.
Only 7 chapters, but in them we can see reflected the awful end of sin let loose and the terrible impact of the lying and the murderous heart of the enemy: Satan.
Only 7 chapters, nevertheless the clarity of Satan's strategy and the foolishness of Eve's deception are laid bare for all to see.
Only 7 chapters, still rarely read and more rarely applied, in which the longsuffering of the Creator's heart aches for His image to return willfully to His love, but finally only "Noah found grace in His sight."
The first age ends. God's longsuffering towards those who had everything placed in front of them is finished. The flood of destruction buries the world in a grave of mud and water. The age is over. Our age has begun.
"Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God." (2 Cor. 5:20).
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Last week the new George Washington dollar was released to circulation. This week come the first reports of errors. Topping the list was a report of one of the new dollars without the edge lettering. On a regular coin, the edge carries the date, mintmark, "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum." An Arizona collector, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported it. He truly has a "Godless" dollar coin. Other reports of errors are coming in. What is not an error is the changing direction of the edge lettering. On some coins the tops of the letters are close to the obverse. On others they are close to the reverse. This is normal. It is not an error.
I also got an e-mail from a bank teller in Tallahassee Florida who has found 10 dollar coins with the missing motto. A local coin collector bought $2100 dollars worth of them from one of the branches there and only got about 25, so at least on that batch, it's about a 1% error rate.
If anyone has any more news on the error, let me know.
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CASTLETON—The Vermont State Colleges System (VSCS) Board of Trustees announced Friday, Dec. 1, that Castleton University's Spartan Stadium will be renamed Dave Wolk Stadium in honor of his 16 years of visionary service as University President.
Governor Phil Scott was on hand to read the official VSCS resolution, which lauded Wolk's vision, values, passion, and dedication. The resolution highlighted the nearly $100 million in infrastructure improvements as well as the additions to athletics, the arts, and academic offerings during Wolk's tenure.
Designed to pay tribute to the region's rich railroad history, the stadium's architecture mimics that of the historic railroad depots in the area and is the crown jewel of the Castleton Student Initiative, a $25.7 million project designed to enhance all aspects of the student experience.
The multi-use, artificial turf facility with 1,600 seats and a capacity for 5,000 fans is one of the finest in New England and has hosted not only hundreds of Castleton sporting events, but also countless high school state championships, all-star events, and youth camps and clinics.
The official renaming and grand reopening of the facility will take place just prior to the start of the 2018-19 sports season.
Rendering of proposed signage, to display a new name.


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Q: PowerShell - ParentContainsErrorRecordException when specifying default string parameter I am trying to write a powershell script which needs a few different parameters to be specified when executing it (some mandatory, some not). Some of those parameters have a default value that should be used when the user did not specify any other value instead of the default value.
For some reason I just can't figure out how to do this. My current code looks like this:
param
(
    [Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory)]
    [string[]]$TemplateNames,
    [Parameter(Position=1)]
    [string]$Mode = "d",
    [Parameter(Position=2)]
    [string]$Log = $env:TEMP
)

With this code I always get the error "ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException" in the line where I define the Mode parameter and an exception message telling me that the expression is invalid because the assignment operator must be an object which can accept assignments. What am I doing wrong? This should be fairly simple and easy to do but I just don't understand how I am supposed to do this.

A: I don't see anything wrong with this param block. Just to be sure, I tested this in powershell core 7 and it worked fine.
param
(
    [Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory)]
    [string[]]$TemplateNames,

    [Parameter(Position=1)]
    [string]$Mode = "d",

    [Parameter(Position=2)]
    [string]$Log = $env:TEMP
)

"TemplateNames: {0}" -f ($TemplateNames -join ",")

"Mode: {0}" -f $Mode

"Log {0}" -f $Log

# only pass templates
.\foo.ps1 a,b,c
TemplateNames: a,b,c
Mode: d
Log C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp

# pass templates and mode
.\foo.ps1 a,b,c X
TemplateNames: a,b,c
Mode: X
Log C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp

# pass templates, mode and log path
.\foo.ps1 a,b,c X c:\temp\foobar
TemplateNames: a,b,c
Mode: X
Log c:\temp\foobar

Remember that if you wanted to pass log and templates, but NOT mode, you'd have to use named parameters (because of the strict ordering of positions)
.\foo.ps1 a,b,c -Log c:\temp\foobar

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Zapoge (; ) is a  settlement in the Municipality of Vodice in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Name
Zapoge was attested in written sources in 1330 as Zapaum (and as Zapozech in 1426, Sapokch in 1436, and hof zu Sepach and Sapose in 1458). The name is of uncertain origin. Based on medieval transcriptions, the current name originated as a plural accusative. In the local dialect, the settlement is known as Zəpge. In the past the German name was Seebach.

Church
The local church is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and contains one of the oldest surviving pipe organs in Slovenia.

Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Zapoge include:
Matija Bilban (1863–1937), Catholic priest and missionary to the United States

References

External links

Zapoge on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Vodice

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A Supreme Court ruling could change health insurance for millions of people covered by President Barack Obama's health care law. If the court invalidates subsidies under the law, an estimated 8 million people could lose coverage. In this Yahoo! News article, Tom Daschle explains that, if subsidies are invalidated, the law's requirement to carry insurance would probably become the biggest target for repeal.
"My guess is there would be overwhelming political support for the elimination of the individual mandate if people can't afford the premiums," said former Senator Daschle.


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Unusual Settlement Caps Sex-Discrimination Case
Observers laud the fact that the agreement lets Heidi Weissmann and her former employers keep their controversial debate alive Despite a recently announced out-of-court settlement in medical researcher Heidi S. Weissmann's seven-year-long sex-discrimination case against her former employers, each side still insists that it would have prevailed had the case gone to trial. While it is debatable whether the $900,000 settlement--notab
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Observers laud the fact that the agreement lets Heidi Weissmann and her former employers keep their controversial debate alive
Despite a recently announced out-of-court settlement in medical researcher Heidi S. Weissmann's seven-year-long sex-discrimination case against her former employers, each side still insists that it would have prevailed had the case gone to trial. While it is debatable whether the $900,000 settlement--notable for the large amount and the absence of a confidentiality agreement--helps or hurts the cause of women's advancement in science, most observers agree that the parties' freedom to discuss the highly publicized case may help to further a public understanding of the issues involved.
Weissmann, formerly an attending physician at Montefiore Medical Center and an associate professor of radiology at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y. (R. Kaufman, The Scientist, Sept. 14, 1992, page 1), says she hopes the settlement of her United States District Court suit against the two institutions will "let women [pursuing discrimination cases] know they can have the courage of their convictions and be successful in the end."
Says Catherine Didion, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Association for Women in Science (AWIS): "The more we get this on the table--the good and the bad--the more we can be able to address it and get on with the science."
According to the settlement agreement, $35,000 of the amount constitutes back pay, $540,000 compensates Weissmann for pain and suffering, and $325,000 represents legal fees and expenses. An attorney for Weissmann, Edward S. Rudofsky of New York, says that the plaintiff's lawyers "agreed to accept fixed fees instead of their time charges to accommodate the settlement and see that Dr. Weissmann received a substantial recovery for her injuries and damages."
Weissmann has estimated the value of legal services rendered in her case at more than $1 million.
Montefiore officials say the institution's insurance covers the entire settlement amount. The institution also paid for the legal expenses of Weissmann's former lab chief incurred in an earlier copyright-infringement suit she had filed against him, a central issue in the sex-discrimination case. Weissmann won the copyright case on appeal.
As part of the settlement, Weissmann has agreed not to seek employment at Montefiore, Einstein, or any of 29 affiliated institutions.
Philip R. Forlenza, an attorney for Montefiore, says that, despite the agreement to settle, he believes his clients would have won had the case gone to trial. "We wanted to be vindicated," he says.
Now that her seven-year-long sex-discrimination case against her former employers, Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has been settled, nuclear medicine and radiology researcher Heidi S. Weissmann must decide what to do with the rest of her life.
Although she has not yet been successful in finding a job in her field, Weissmann says, "things are slowly progressing in a positive direction": Since last January, she says, she has been invited to give talks in her field to professional groups, such as the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists; last year, she was also asked to lecture at a teaching hospital.
In addition, Weissmann says, "I have been invited to lecture on issues of medical ethics, scientific misconduct, and the glass ceiling."
Weissmann says she intends to use a portion of her settlement money "to establish a network and resource center for other women who find themselves in a situation [similar to the one] I found myself in, and [to help] men and women who were whistle-blowers."
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Weissmann's lawyer, Rudofsky, says District Court Judge Lawrence M. McKenna's findings in response to a motion filed by another Weissmann attorney, Eleanor Jackson Piel, "indicated that Dr. Weissmann had a very strong case and had already satisfied most of the elements. The issue was whether the other side's justification of it would stand up before a jury."
Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which supported Weissmann, says the plaintiff's success in her copyright case strengthened her claim of discrimination. "You seldom get a sex-discrimination case where the plaintiff has already won in court," Smeal says. "It was a slam-dunk case."
Despite his clients' confidence that they would win, Forlenza says, the institutions decided to settle after years of failed attempts to go to trial, which he attributes to Weiss-mann's repeated changes of attorneys and other delays caused by the plaintiff. "I was convinced Dr. Weissmann was never going to take the witness stand," he says.
Meanwhile, For- lenza says, Mon-tefiore and Einstein were receiving "very severe criticism launched by the people and organizations supporting Dr. Weissmann. They said, `You're waging a battle of attrition; you're wasting funds that could be put to better use.'" Faced with such criticism, which was well publicized, "the top people in the institutions went through a soul-searching exercise," ultimately deciding to settle. "But," he says, "there was unanimity in their belief that the institutions had not acted improperly."
Weissmann blames the defendants for the delays. "They'll fight you to the bitter end," she says, "and if you're still around seven or 15 years later, they'll offer you a settlement. What do they lose by first trying to run you out of steam?"
Smeal, whose organization provided Weissmann with funds and office space, says the group took on her cause because "we felt that she was the kind of plaintiff that was going to hang in there, no matter what."
Weissmann first filed discrimination charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in April 1987. The EEOC complaint alleged that she had not been promoted to chief of service in 1986 and had received an unfavorable performance review in January 1987 because she was female, according to court documents.
Regarding Weissmann's allegations that her negative performance review was motivated by sexism, Forlenza says, "All the criticism was substantiated by documents and attendance rec-ords." Both sides acknowledge that in June 1987 Weissmann was denied a 5 percent raise given to virtually all members of the department.
In a separate but related case during this time, Weissmann charged that on two occasions, her former lab chief, Leonard M. Freeman, represented a book chapter she had written as his own. She filed for a temporary restraining order in August 1987 and later filed a copyright-infringement suit in the same U.S. District Court, in New York. The court found for the defendant in May 1988. The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the decision in 1989. Later that year, Freeman's appeal to the Supreme Court was denied.
In January 1988, Weissmann filed her discrimination suit against Montefiore and Einstein. Her third amended complaint, filed in September 1993, alleged that on the day of the hearing on her application for the temporary restraining order, she was escorted from her office by security guards and asked to relinquish her keys. Her attorney at the time wrote to the hospital's lawyers that the action constituted a firing.
In October 1987, according to the complaint, Weissmann received a dismissal letter from Montefiore, which maintained that the key episode was not a discharge and that her failure to return to work constituted a resignation. Weissmann alleged in her complaint that the incident and the denial of the raise were retaliation for the EEOC filing and the copyright suit. That same month, it was announced that Freeman, now chief of nuclear medicine and radiology at Einstein, had been promoted.
Montefiore denied Weissmann's charges, noting that the raise would have been given retroactively when she submitted a grant application she was to have been writing. Mon-tefiore further maintained that Weissmann was asked for her keys because the hospital had evidence that she was removing patient rec-ords from her office.
Letty Lutzker, a former colleague of Weissmann and Freeman's who is now chief of nuclear medicine at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., says the case damages the feminist cause. "There was no discrimination; there was no exploitation of a young scientist as far as I can see," says Lutzker. "Dr. Freeman is not someone who exploits people; he's one of the most gender-neutral people I have known."
Adds another former colleague, Corine Yee, physician in charge of nuclear medicine at Kaiser-Los Angeles, "I know that there is discrimination that is more covert than overt, but you can't just turn around and cry discrimination at every turn if you don't get what you want. I think what she was asking for was unreasonable."
Lutzker and Yee, who confirm Montefiore's assertion that they were first offered the chiefship that Weissmann contended she was denied because she was a woman, say the plaintiff's professional advancement was hindered because she had not completed her boards in nuclear medicine or radiology.
Says Rudofsky, Weissmann's attorney: "Dr. Weissmann was board eligible; documents discovered in the hospital files indicated that she was being billed as a specialist. "She claimed she was not encouraged to take the boards; in effect, she claimed, she was programmed for failure. Board certification only became an issue when she complained about discrimination."
Weissmann says Montefiore's department chairman did not fill out the forms she needed to take the boards in time to meet the deadline. Forlenza, Montefiore's attorney, denies the charge, saying that the chairman had urged her to take the boards for several years.
According to Rudofsky, Weiss-mann's refusal to accept a confidentiality agreement was "a major impediment to settlement." Had it not been for this stumbling block, he says, the case might have been settled as early as 1989.
"I don't doubt that cost her hundreds of thousands of dollars," says former National Institutes of Health fraud researcher Walter Stewart. "It proves that she's a public hero, not just someone with a private grievance."
"I don't think these things should be kept confidential," says former Montefiore researcher Yee. "Montefiore is not at a disadvantage for having something open like this."
A 1989 settlement offer from the institutions, under which Weissmann would have been paid $150,000, included a provision that neither side disclose the terms. In speaking to others, each party would have been required to use a statement saying that the dispute was "caused largely by inadequate communication."
"They wanted me to make a public, written statement exonerating Dr. Freeman and to vacate the [copyright] judgment against him," says Weissmann.
"My integrity and First Amendment rights were not for sale," she says. "I couldn't live with accepting what they wanted." Regarding the statement and proposed confidentiality agreement, she says, "I could not accept money and become part of their whitewash and coverup."
Forlenza, calling the 1989 confidentiality agreement "very, very standard," says the institutions had no problem deleting the provision from the final settlement. "The first time [Weissmann and her lawyers] complained about it, we backed off," he says.
According to the Feminist Majority, the $900,000 payment is one of the largest for a single plaintiff in a sex-discrimination case against a medical institution. Nonetheless, Rudofsky says, "I would have liked to see her reinstated, and to recover more for direct and indirect losses."
Houston attorney Thomas H. Padgett, Jr., who represents plaintiffs in sex-discrimination suits, speculates that Weissmann might have been awarded more had the case gone to trial. In one discrimination case he handled involving a medical researcher, he says, the jury awarded $100,000 more than the plaintiff had asked for. "Where did that extra hundred come from? Just from them being mad," Padgett says. "That's the same kind of thing that could have happened in this case."
Smeal says it's disturbing that Montefiore's insurance covers the settlement as well as Freeman's expenses in the copyright case, even though Weissmann sued him as an individual. "Why does the university feel obligated to support him if he made a mistake?" she asks. "The person who's aggrieved has a tremendous financial burden in fighting the case."
Weissmann's supporters contend that, in light of her previous accomplishments--she did pioneering research in biliary imaging,receiving the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1980 and the Tetalman Memorial Award of the Society of Nuclear Medicine in 1982--it is unfair for Montefiore to insist that she not apply to any of its affiliates. "We as American taxpayers should question why a scientist who obviously has excellent qualifications and obviously did not bring a frivolous lawsuit should not be allowed to work for them again," Smeal says.
Montefiore's attorney, Forlenza, says that an agreement not to seek reemployment is "a very common provision in these kinds of cases." Noting that the list includes several nursing homes and similar facilities, Forlenza says, "Most of these are small operations; there are scores of institutions she can apply to."
Weissmann says the case has hurt her prospects of returning to her field. "For seven years, I have not been able to get a job in private practice, academia, or industry," she says (see accompanying story).
Freeman, who was cleared in three internal investigations by Einstein and Montefiore (a fourth was disbanded before reaching a conclusion), says that, other than the consumption of an "inordinate amount" of his time, "in terms of my relationships with people, [the case] has had no impact whatsoever. People have felt it important to rise to the occasion and come to my assistance, to refute these allegations," he says.
"The scientific community, I think, realized it was a minor, trivial type thing blown out of proportion." Noteworthy, Freeman says, is that "women have been among my greatest supporters."
Freeman, coeditor of Seminars in Nuclear Medicine and editor of Nuclear Medicine Annual, says that "I have no problems getting people to write articles for my journals. I almost find people more anxious--to show that there's no change" in the way he's regarded.
Furthermore, he says, "I have received two major awards from people well aware of what's going on." In June 1993 he was presented with the Society of Nuclear Medicine's Distinguished Educator Award; in 1990, he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary fraternity.
AWIS's Didion cautions female researchers who feel they have been discriminated against not to be too hasty in following in Weissmann's footsteps. "We don't necessarily feel that litigation is the avenue that women should explore," she says. Noting the length of Weissmann's case, Didion says, "She had the stamina and the emotional and financial support to stay this long. Most womendon't realize the type of commitment that is. We counsel women to be as informed as possible about what the costs are and what the alternatives are."
Furthermore, she says, if highly publicized discrimination cases persist, men may overreact by declining to interact with women in mentorship or collegial roles: "We need to be careful that we don't allow this to be the only example of women in science."


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Christian Wolmar Throws His Hat Into The 2016 Mayoral Ring
By Rachel Holdsworth Last edited 100 months ago
Rachel Holdsworth Christian Wolmar Throws His Hat Into The 2016 Mayoral Ring
The dust has barely settled on the Mayoral election and we've already got a declared contender for Labour's candidate in 2016, hot on the heels of speculation about whether Boris Johnson will be heading back to Parliament after (or even before) his term ends.
If anyone can be described as a transport expert, Christian Wolmar is that person (though he prefers the term 'leading transport commentator'). With 20 years' experience writing about how we get around, and a couple of books under his belt, he's evidently lost patience with politicians and decided to try and change things himself.
His website Wolmar for London (no chummy Boris or Ken first name terms here) lays out a vision of London with an integrated transport policy. Neither previous Mayor, he says, had an overall plan, bottling or fudging real change and distracting from the real issues with election battles over bendy buses and fares. His plans for central London include reducing the number of cars coming in, more pedestrianised areas, 20mph zones, priority for buses and a one hour bus ticket (allowing changes for one fare), "permeable routes for cyclists" and a more focused congestion charge zone.
In outer London he wants to create better public transport to reduce car use – which would, in turn, reduce congestion for business and people who have to drive. He also has big ambitions for making cycling safer and more popular, to catapult London past Amsterdam and Copenhagen as the posterchild city for bikes.
It's a utopian vision and the thing about Wolmar is that not only does he clearly feel strongly about it, you know he has the experience and knowledge to back it up. So far the website is all about transport, but previous jobs at Release and Shelter indicate he's not just a one-trick pony. But is he well enough known to win an election that has always been a popularity contest? He's hardly a household name and (a shallow test, we know) he has just over 5,000 followers on Twitter. Perhaps that's why he's starting early. At least if Wolmar gets the Labour nomination (Alan Johnson is reported to be mulling over a bid) he won't be battling Boris, who's promised not to stand again in 2016.


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A short story by Rebecca Sloan
Maudie's neighborhood isn't what it used to be. In the old days, the entire area bordered by Clark Street two blocks to the east, Palmer Street two blocks to the south, Russell Street two blocks to the west and Harrison Street which ran up the hill in front of her own house was her playground. She roamed freely up and down the tree-lined, black-topped streets with nothing to fear, usually atop her blue Schwinn riding into the breezes, letting the fresh air caress her face and fill up her lungs. Those were the days when lots of different kinds of folks made up the population–the old and the young, the sick and the healthy, the poor and the not so poor, black folks (in those days they were still colored) and white folks (who are always white), though mostly white folks because black folks had not yet encroached upon the north side of Fort Williams in great numbers. They lived nearby, though, just on the other side of Palmer Street which was beyond Maudie's limits and she was only vaguely aware of those whose lives were starved for nice houses, indoor toilets and enough money to buy food for the week.
The neighborhood that Maudie knew had back yards full of apple trees of several varieties, cherry trees, grape vines, strawberry and rhubarb patches, all yielding pleasures to the pack of youngsters that lived within the confines of Clark and Palmer and Russell and Harrison and who roamed as free as Maudie and who were all her friends. They went to school together, church together, traded comic books and bubble gum cards amongst each other and ventured to the movies on Saturday afternoon when fifty cents would pay for the ticket, buy popcorn and candy and still leave money for bus fare. They played hide and seek until after dark, hopscotched up and down the cement sidewalk and played softball in the vacant lot across the street from Maudie's house. In winter, Fort Williams was often socked in by harsh weather and the neighborhood kids mostly stayed inside the warmth of their homes. Summer, however, was another matter and the warm, often hot, and sometimes humid, weather beckoned to Maudie and her friends, actually luring them to the out of doors and accompanying them on their excursions.
The Magee family fell into most of the neighborhood categories. Maudie was the youngest in her household and presumably healthy. Grandma Bertie was very old and not so healthy. The family was not rich, but not as poor as many and Papa was town's only black doctor which made him something of an enigma to many of the good town folk but also made him something special to others. Doc Magee moved to Fort Williams when things were not so good for black folks anywhere but better there than lots of other places he had lived and he decided to take a chance. The chance being that he could have a better life and provide the same for his family. It was a risk that had more or less paid off and after twenty years of hard work, he was comfortable and respected. Papa, Mama, Grandma Bertie, sisters, Lessie, Margaret, Julia and Camille, brother, Walter Jr. and, of course, the youngest, Maudie, all lived together in a big white house on the corner of Harrison and Merchant. Papa had waited a long time to acquire such property and once acquired, he settled into the notion that he was at last successful. It was not an illusion but it was just a little on the naive side considering the times, but if you measured success in Papa's understanding of the term, then he had, indeed, achieved success. No one spit on him any longer or called him boy or threatened his life. He could move through space freely, breathe easily and take care of his family. And he loved his work. He didn't want for much more.
Maudie idolized her papa and when she was very young nothing pleased her more than to go to his office on a Saturday morning and wait for him to finish seeing patients. He would then come out into the waiting room, taking off his white jacket and say to her,
"Well, I'm finally through here, Sweetie. Did you get tired of waiting?" It was a routine so familiar that she knew what he would say before he even opened his mouth.
"No, Papa," she would lie. She didn't want him to know that she had a hard time sitting with restless six-year-old legs and only the anticipated pleasure of spending the afternoon with him made it possible to endure.
"You're an awfully patient young lady, I must say. What do you want to do this afternoon after we make house calls?" He said "we" just as if they were going to do it together, as if she was actually an important part of the team.
"Can we get some ice cream?" That was a pretty standard request, though sometimes it was to the swings in the park, to the lake to feed the ducks or to the drug store to buy a new comic book. These were all wonderful adventures with Papa, small pleasures, small treasures to be tucked away in memory for a lifetime.
"You bet we can. Now let's get out of here before someone thinks we're still open for business."
House calls were often made south of Palmer Street and from the inside of the safety of Papa's car was virtually the only way Maudie was exposed to the poorer side of Fort Williams. Very rarely did he take her inside a home with him, rather leaving her in the car to wait while he made brief visits to those who were too sick to come to the office. Sitting in the car bored and sometimes a little frightened was often preferable to the houses of strangers and the pleasure of having Papa all to herself for a few hours away from the family made it worthwhile.
In the neighborhood, every adult was a parent to every child, so to misbehave away from home was the same as doing it in front of Mama. One time, when she sassed a grown-up two blocks from home, Mama was at the door waiting for her as she came upon the porch.
"Maude Ellen, come in here," she said in a stern voice.
"Yes, Mama." Maudie knew at once that she was caught and the best defense was acquiescence.
"Mizz Jackson just called and said she told you not to eat the apples off her tree because they were too green. Do you know what she says you said?" Her voice raised at the end of the sentence and Maudie knew she was truly angry.
"Yes, Mama, I know." Mama was a firm believer in respecting elders and to do what Maudie did was tantamount to a mortal sin.
"Did you say it, Child?" Uh-oh. Moving from Maude Ellen to child meant that Mama was furious.
"Yes, Mama." Fessing up was the path of least resistance because to deny the obvious would only lengthen the sentence about to be imposed.
"Mizz Jackson was only looking out for your welfare and I don't appreciate you calling her an old biddy. I want you to march right back up there and apologize to her and when you come home, we'll decide what your punishment will be."
There was that "we" again, but Mama didn't mean it like Papa did. Mama meant business and Maudie knew it. She dragged her eight-year-old legs up the hill to the yellow house with a white, picket fence surrounding the yard. In the back of the house were the apple trees that had gotten her in trouble. Ordinarily, she was free to help herself, so she didn't understand why Mizz Jackson had suddenly turned on her. She could see for herself that they were not too green and when Mizz Jackson had yelled at her, she yelled back, "you old biddy." She knew as soon as she said it that she was in trouble but it was too late. The words were out and circled in the air freely and inevitably landed on Mizz Jackson's ears. Now she must say she was sorry and in most ways she was. Especially that Mama would be at home waiting for her.
"If it isn't Maudie Magee," Mizz Jackson said when she answered the door. "I didn't think you'd have the nerve to show your face again." She wasn't going to make it easy.
"I..I..I..just came..to..apologize to you." She stumbled over the words but eventually a whole sentence came from her lips.
"I'll just bet you did," Mizz Jackson said sarcastically.
"Yes, Ma'am." Politeness seemed the best approach.
"Well, you tell your mother that I don't want to catch you in my yard again, do you hear me?"
"Yes, Ma'am." Under her breath, the words "old biddy" lurked again but this time did not escape.
At home, Maudie's punishment was light compared to being forced to apologize. Mama said to stay out of Mizz Jackson's yard from now on and to stay close to home for a few days. It was typical of Mama. She got real angry but the actual punishment was never as severe as her demeanor.
Maudie was in the fifth grade when Papa died. Mama was devastated and went into a kind of shock. The whole family hovered around her and tried to ease her pain. Friends of the family gathered and many of the neighbors brought food to feed the hungry crowd. Even Mizz Jackson brought a plate of fried chicken and stayed long enough to express her condolences.
"Doc Magee was such a good man," she said to Mama and she meant it. Papa had helped her more than once when she didn't have enough money to pay for her office visits. Papa helped a lot of people that way and quite often he brought home fresh chickens, sweet potato pies, home-baked breads and garden vegetables which he had accepted in lieu of payment. Now the recipients of his benevolence all came to pay their respects.
"Thank you, Mizz Jackson." Mama tried to smile but the tears that washed her eyes forced her lips downward.
"Yes, sir, a good man," she repeated. "I know he's in heaven and I know he'll be all right."
Mama nodded her head in assent. Yes, she knew he'd be all right, too, but she wanted him all right beside her not all right in his grave. At least Papa had prepared for the future and Mama would not have to worry about money; she could save her strength for other things.
Maudie was lost for awhile after Papa was gone. Mama was heart-broken, Grandma Bertie had to be put into a nursing home, Lessie and Margaret went back to college, Julia and Walter, high school, Camille, junior high and Maudie, fifth grade. Life settled into a routine that seemed to carry itself out as if Papa had never lived. Maudie could hardly stand it. No one, she was sure, missed Papa as much as she did. She hurt, she ached and she cried herself to sleep at night. But time takes pain and buries it in the past or hurls it into the future. Either way, it slowly dissipates and allows one to move through the days and nights more easily. Eventually, this happened to Maudie. Eventually, she could think of Papa without feeling his loss so keenly, taking comfort in the closeness they shared. Eventually, she grew up and left the house on Harrison Street, left the boundaries of Clark and Palmer and Russell and Harrison streets, left her childhood friends, left Fort Williams, left everything behind that had sustained her growing up. She took nothing with her and yet she took everything.
In the years that followed, Maudie returned home often to visit Mama. As the neighborhood moved toward the twenty-first century, however, it began to change, subtly at first as time slipped silently through the years with a steady, relentless pace, then over night it was a different place filled with strangers. Strangers to Maudie and strangers to each other. The houses that were once occupied by white families filled up with black families who, as more and more blacks escaped to Fort Williams and finding that they could not all live south of Palmer Street, moved quietly and almost without notice across the invisible border into the north of town. The poor were displaced by sheer and utter poverty and there was a large crop of those who just didn't give a damn. Drugs and drug dealers moved in and pride moved out. Vacant lots grew weeds where houses once had flourished and many of the structures that survived the bulldozer were ravaged with time, dilapidated and in disrepair. Only the big, white house on the corner of Harrison and Merchant, itself showing signs of age, still stood as a tribute to a time that was no longer possible.
"Mama, why don't you move," Maudie asked her over and over again.
"It's my home, Maudie," she said as many times. "The house your father bought and loved. Besides, who would buy it and where would I go?"
"I don't think you're safe here any more," Maudie protested on one such visit.
"I'm as safe here as anywhere. Everybody knows me here. Nobody would bother me," Mama said with conviction.
"I hope you're right, I hope you're right." There was no talking to Mama when she had made up her mind. Maudie knew it and Mama knew it. So they talked of other things and Maudie helped Mama with chores and small repairs. Then they had supper together in the old dining room on the "good dishes" because both Maudie and Mama liked a certain amount of tradition. After dishes were done, they sat on the porch with the screen door locked and enjoyed the breezes of the cool evening and watched the dazzle of a fiery sunset. Nearly forty years had passed since Maudie and her friends wandered freely between Clark and Palmer and Russell and Harrison Streets. It was a lifetime ago and yet as current as the recollections of a fine-tuned memory. For a long time she sat quietly immersed in what had been and what was never to be again.
As the sun began to fade and the orange sky turned to shades of pink and gray, Maudie wasn't sure but she thought she heard the noise of children laughing and playing hide and seek. There were no youngsters to be seen and it was such a curious sound, strange and distant and faint as if from another time and yet as familiar as just yesterday. She listened carefully trying to determine the source of such incredible chants. And then she knew. It was, of course, the voices of the ghost children who roamed the streets and alleys and backyards of her old neighborhood hoping to protect those who were no longer safe to roam on their own.


Carol is a 50-ish woman whose misophonia started in childhood with her brother eating pancakes and smacking his lips. At the start of treatment, her worst triggers were all related to her husband. 1) eating crunchy bread, 2) eating Italian ice, 3) scratching his beard, and 4) visual of him scratching his beard.
Carol was treated before the release of the Trigger Tamer, so all treatments were done with Tom Dozier using a sound editor to play short trigger clips (by Skype/VSee). The homework was done with prepared audio files created each week by Tom.
Her initial Misophonia Assessment Questionnaire (MAQ) total score was 41, and her severity of each trigger was an 8 on the MPRS. In 2 weeks, the MPRS on the first trigger was a 2, and her MAQ was 17.
The second trigger was treated the next 2 weeks, and the MPRS dropped to a 2 on that trigger. Her MAQ total score dropped to 7. The third trigger was treated in the next 2 weeks, and the MPRS dropped on that one to a 2 also. The MPRS for the first trigger was not a zero. This meant that she heard her husband eating bread, and she had no misophonic reaction.
To our surprise, the visual trigger of bringing a hand to the face was very stubborn. Tom could easily trigger her by Skype/VSee. Video files were created for the homework. After 9 weeks, she was no longer being triggered by this. But is was a lot of hard work to get rid of this trigger. She did her homework regularly (3-4 times a week) and had her weekly live treatment every week.
So, after 15 weeks of treatment, her first 2 triggers had MPRS ratings of zero (no misophonic reaction) and the other 2 triggers had ratings of 2 (can be ignored). Her MAQ score remained at 7, which means she is occasionally concerned or bothered with sounds.
This did not eliminate all her triggers. She has others, but has smaller reactions to those. She may occasionally leave the room. She has learned that she should not stay and endure a trigger, because it only makes the misophonia worse.
As for long-term follow-up, that remains to happen (but will)… Well, I emailed Carol a few months ago, which was a little over 3 years since the treatment began. She reported that she could not remember the last time she experienced a misophonia trigger. Part of this improvement may be attributed to us realizing that her initial physical response to triggers was a gasp for breath, with her windpipe closed. By consciously breathing during triggers, she continued to "repattern" her brain and reduce her trigger response.
For more information on this case, see the article published in Clinical Case Studies, at http://ccs.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/20/1534650114566924.abstract. A copy of the manuscript is available for free at https://misophoniatreatment.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Case-Study-Counterconditioning-Treatment-for-Misophonia.pdf.


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I just returned home from the 2013 National Conference of AATOD (American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence, Inc.) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it was an energizing, inspiring and informative experience. I would be hard-pressed to even begin to disseminate all of the amazing information I absorbed, the wonderful people I met & the hope I now feel in a single blog entry, so I am going to focus here on one, specific and extremely life-changing experience with which I was blessed during the conference.
Dr. May Jeanne Kreek, who (along with Dr. Vincent Dole & Dr. Marie Nyswander) was one of the original researchers and founders of methadone maintenance treatment, offered a session at the conference titled "50 Year Follow-up of Methadone Treatment for Opioid Addiction" along with Elizabeth Ducat, NP, and Brenda Ray, NP, from The Rockefeller University in New York, New York that provided a historical overview of the evolution of methadone treatment based on a discussion of the work of Dole, Nyswander and Kreek. The establishment and expansion of methadone treatment nationally and internationally (as well as prisons and jails, the development and disappearance of LAAM and the growing use of buprenorphine and naltrexone) was reviewed by the presenters, chief among them Dr. Kreek. It was quite amazing to hear the early research, evolution and current state of methadone treatment from one of "the horse's mouths" through this presentation. There are simply no words for the enormity of the emotional and intellectual gratification that this opportunity afforded me and many others who were also blessed to share in this experience.
...I stood there speechless and in awe as one of the most famous researchers in opioid addiction treatment and medication assisted treatment told me that I was the reason she kept going. As I saw her cry, and I no doubt began to tear up as well, it really made me realize - like I never had before - that this treatment was born out of a labor of love. Doctors Dole, Nyswander and Kreek were indeed accomplished physicians and researchers, but the driving force behind their work was a desire to change and save lives. The patients are what mattered and matter most to them, and it couldn't have been more clear to me than it was in that moment. She held onto my hand, despite the line of people behind us waiting to meet her, as though no one else in the room mattered. She wanted to talk to - and love - the patients whose lives have been transformed by this miraculous breakthrough in science and medicine more than anything or anyone else.
It wasn't until after this experience that it really dawned on me how she ended her presentation. The last words she said before closing out the session were, "...the love and care of patients." For too many years - decades - the "us versus them" mentality of patients and providers alike has driven a divide in our community. We are in this together. Lives are at stake. As patients we have a responsibility and duty to profess the transformative nature of medication assisted treatment (or, as they say in New York, "medication supported recovery") so that all those who are afflicted and affected by the debilitating disease we know as opioid addiction might know and experience the hope with which each of us have been blessed. Providers have a responsibility to remember why they are doing what they are doing - and the many lives that are affected by their work. We must remember that patients are individual, soul-filled people that deserve dignified treatment and respect. As Dr. Kreek said at the end of her presentation this AATOD Conference it's about the "love and care of patients" above all else.
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Not really. But getting ready to go on vacation is. We spent two weeks on Oahu over Thanksgiving. We'd been promising our daughter a trip to Hawaii when she finished high school, and this was it. Since the budget process at UIC was in full swing in November, that meant that everything had to be done before I left, not to mention all the usual packing and getting the house ready for a prolonged absence issues.
We got back (with the whole unpacking/laundry extravaganza that meant), only to leave in a week for upstate New York to visit my family for the Christmas/New Year's holidays. That brought its own flurry of baking stollen to give in Barrow before I left, packing, Christmas shopping, etc. There was also the travel to arrange for the conferences in Europe that Glenn & I are going to in January, which is almost done.
All this by way of explaining the lack of posts for the last little while. I was on the computer so much for all of the above (except the baking, laundry & packing) that I really couldn't face more screen time, even if there had been spare minutes.
Now we're here after a 20+ hour trip fortunately unaffected by the bad weather happening across much of the country, so I should have a bit more time to write.
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Yes, believe it or not, I'm at the Magic Kingdom for Leap Day 2012. The park is open for 24 hours (6am to 6am) for the One More Disney Day bi-coastal event. I don't know if I'm going to make it all 24 hours, but you have to be here early, like I was this morning, in order to give it a try.
My main goal is to get as much of the Sorcerers of The Magic Kingdom finished as possible. I'm not the only one with that idea. The queue for Space Mountain was shorter than SotMK for a while this morning.
As I go through the day I'll come back and add any commentary or breaking news to this thread. I'll be in the park overnight (at least that's the plan). If you're in the park and you see me tweeting as @TheDisneyBlog, please come over and say howdy.
Mickey & Minnie look like they just woke up. Or are those Light Magic costumes?
A sea of special event Mickey Mouse Ears as the opening show began..
The fog, it ate Cinderella Castle.
Cinderella Castle looms gently in the morning fog.
A little later, the morning mist makes for a pretty picture.
Lines at SotMK were longer than attraction lines in the early hours.
Some of the goodies I got in the morning.
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The laws concerning DUI offenses in West Covina come with severe punishments that DUI offenders in West Covina have to face if charged with impaired driving. In such cases, it is always advisable to contact an experienced and reliable DUI Lawyer.
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Both the police officers and the prosecutors will do everything in their capacity to ensure that you do not beat stiff sentencing and penalties. In such a case the best option that you have is to seek the help and support of a top notch DUI lawyer who can get you out of trouble and save you from the consequences of a second offense DUI. We at West Covina DUI Lawyer have a team of DUI lawyers who with their experience and skill will ensure every flaw in the case is found out and will make sure that the declaration of human rights have been scrupulously followed in your case.
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ENACOM approves Claro, Movistar pay-TV plans
Argentina's National Entity for Communications (Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, ENACOM) has confirmed that it has authorised mobile duo Claro and Movistar to enter the country's pay-TV sector. As per a press release issued on 5 January, Claro has been awarded a 'Servicios de Radiodifusion por Suscripcion' (Subscription Broadcasting Services) concession covering Hurlingham, Moron, Tres de Febrero and Vicente Lopez (all Greater Buenos Aires), alongside Salta in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, CABA). Movistar, meanwhile, has been granted a 'Registro de Cable' (Cable Registration) licence covering Buenos Aires, Godoy Cruz, Guaymayen, Lujan de Cuyo and Mendoza.
As previously reported by TeleGeography's CommsUpdate, ENACOM's December 2017 decision to approve the merger between Telecom Argentina and Cablevision included permission for the enlarged operator to launch pay-TV in the Area Metropolitana Buenos Aires (AMBA), Rosario and Cordoba.
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I Am Me and I Am Okay
"I am me," is a powerful, timeless declaration of self-esteem written by Virginia Satir more than 30 years ago.
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Virginia Satir's Most Memorable Words of Wisdom
This week, Fatherhood Channel is celebrating Virginia Satir's 97th birthday with some of our favorite Virginia Satir quotes. PAIRS Foundation, where Virginia Satir served as founding chairperson, is offering 14 free posters featuring many of Virginia Satir's most notable quotes.
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Supreme Court's Same Sex Marriage Ruling Just the Beginning for Fixing America's Marriage Problems
The late Virginia Satir, considered the mother of family therapy, would have turned 97 today. Thirty years ago, she recognized that the basis of marriage had shifted from security, stability and raising children to sustaining love and intimacy -- seeds to significant social change. The Supreme Court's landmark ruling extending equal benefits to married same-sex couples represents a renewed opportunity to tackle America's real marriage problems.
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Miguel Marquez: "No Veteran Left Behind"
"More than one Veteran has talked about having it all one day and then finding himself living on the streets, a car, storage unit, bus stop, train station or abandoned building the next, having lost everything," says Miguel Marquez, Outreach Specialist for Operation Sacred Trust.
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Dianna Nash was raised in a single-parent household. "Because of that lifestyle," she says, "I always wanted to be apart of a two-parent family." But as an adult, Ms. Nash says her relationships failed. "Because of my failures, I sought love in the wrong places and for the wrong reasons." Today, through Talk It Out Relationship Services in Roseville, California, Ms. Nash is helping couples and singles learn to build healthy, vibrant relationships by "talking it out."
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"Relationships are everything," says Charlotte Michie, a Cary, North Carolina marriage and family therapist. "If you have a good relationship with your spouse, you have it all even if you are sick and without money." Next month, with assistance from her husband of 34 years, Charlotte will begin offering evidence-based, skills building weekends to help couples learn to create and sustain happy, successful marriages.
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Our paper, "Implementing Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits in California" has been accepted to the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT'09) Workshop. Read the paper: arXiv, SSRN, PDF.
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'Good Omens': The Story Behind What's Possibly the 'Longest Cold Open in the History of Television'
"I have no way of measuring that, but there can't be many that are longer," director Douglas Mackinnon tells TheWrap
Jennifer Maas and Tim Baysinger | May 31, 2019 @ 10:00 AM	Last Updated: May 31, 2019 @ 4:54 PM
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for "Good Omens" through Episode 3)
The third episode of Amazon's Prime Video adaptation of Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett's "Good Omens" starts off with the longest cold open in the history of television — as far as TheWrap and the stars and creative team behind the series can tell.
"I have no way of measuring that, but there can't be many that are longer," director Douglas Mackinnon told TheWrap of the segment, which is comprised of several scenes telling the story of how the demon Crowley (David Tennant) and the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) became friends over millennia on Earth.
Counting from the beginning of the episode until when the title sequence kicks in, the cold open accounts for 28 minutes — half of the episode's 57-minute runtime.
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Here are the nine places in time they hit during those scenes:
Garden of Eden – 4004 B.C.
Mesopotamia – 3004 B.C.
Rome – 8 years later
The Kingdom of Wessex – 537 A.D.
The Globe Theatre, London – 1601
Paris – 1793
St. James's Park, London – 1862
London – 1941
Soho, London – 1967
Now, we've done our due diligence here and cannot find another series that had a cold open which took up more than 50 percent of an episode before an actual title sequence, not just a title card or opening credits over a scene, ran. (If you can, please let us know.)
Mackinnon says the lengthy window without titles wasn't planned from the start, but kind of just happened serendipitously while they were editing the co-production between BBC and Amazon.
"I was the one who put the title sequence in the middle to start with and we had a screening with Neil and he didn't say anything about it, so I didn't say anything about it," he said. "We sent it over to Amazon for them to have a look at and make a comment on. I think it was a complete understanding, from both the BBC and Amazon execs, that the title sequence in the middle of the show was a temporary thing, and eventually we would see the light and put it at the normal place in the front."
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"Then eventually, we were starting to finish it off and, I cant remember which exec said, 'So when are you going to move the titles into the right place,' and we said, 'They are in the right place,'" Mackinnon said. "To be fair, all the Amazon execs immediately said, 'OK, that's cool. That's just funny.'"
Tennant and Sheen told TheWrap they had as much fun shooting the scenes throughout Crowley and Aziraphale's history that make up the lengthy segment (which Tennant is for sure calling "the longest cold open in the history of television" and "trying to get that to take off as a meme") as Mackinnon did with the credits placement.
"It was definitely one of the most enjoyable parts of filming for me," Sheen said. "First just reading it on the page, it was incredibly satisfying there, and you think, 'Well, I can't wait for us to do this.' And then to see David walking out of the trailer every day with different hairstyles, that was so enjoyable for me."
Yeah, Tennant and Sheen go through several costume and wig changes over the 28-minute opener to Episode 3, seeing as they are repping their characters from the beginning of time through the present.
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"The scenes were sprinkled quite randomly through the shooting schedule," Tennant said. "Because we had one director, the whole thing was shot by Douglas, and every few days there would be another time period you'd get to visit, and you'd kind of look forward to them, because it was like dressing up. And I think the art department, every corner of production, looked forward to it. We all got to play, whether it was a suit of armor or a strange bit of facial hair."
"And going inside the Globe Theatre for the Shakespeare!" Sheen added.
The rest of the episode — as you readers who have watched it (and should not be reading this post unless you have), will know — takes place back in the present day, where Aziraphale and Crowley are trying to stop the young Antichrist from ending the world.
Mackinnon said that, "because it's a such a diversion into that journey through centuries and time, when we rejoin Story A after the front titles, you kind of get the point of why we did that."
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This is a list of the vehicles and vehicle upgrades available to various Astra Militarum regiments.
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Crassus Armoured Transport variant, Long-range missile platform.
Smaller heavy tank, largely replaced by the Leman Russ Battle Tank and its variants.
Anti-infantry tank, equipped with a Vulcan Mega-Bolter.


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Was the system adopted by the Ottomans Islamic? (The Ottoman Caliphate (2/4))
Headline Islamic Civilisation — 14 November 2013
Click here to read part 1
The hanafi scholars guided the system implemented by the Ottoman Caliphs. In summary, it follows the following structure.
At the Head was one of the "House of Osman". The laws of succession were not rigid, and the most competent son was usually chosen as the next caliph (as opposed to the eldest).
The system was run by the Sadr-i-Azam (commonly known as the grand wazir), who reported directly to the Caliph. The Caliph could choose to appoint several Wazir's if the need required, but they would report to the Grand Wazir (sadr-i-azam). They appointed Governors in each region to look after the general affairs of the people.
The Sipahi's or Cavalry officers collected the taxes, and they were later augmented by the deviserve (janissaries) – comprised of Christian youth converted to Islam.
From the 16th Century, the kalimiye (bureaucratic system) grew to deal with the vast expansion of the State. This system standardized documentation, and established processes and protocols that can be unified around the entire state. Given the vast size of the state at the time, this was a huge feat of organizational excellence and is studied to this day by the best management schools as a case of best practice.
The highest officials met regularly in the palace council (divan), which made decisions on policy. Local government decisions were made by the (sancak) and sometimes grouped together in larger provinces (eyalat). Both forms had government representatives reporting back to the Sultan and scholars ensuring that the decisions were based on shariah.
This system they implemented is consistent with the principle of ruling laid out by the Prophet Muhammad (saw), with the same checks and balances, source of ruling and enactment of the people's authority.
There are three specific questions about the Islamic system:
1) Ba'yah (contract of ruling) – amid what appears to be a kingship. There was never a question of ba'yah being refused by the influential people or the general people, hence this area need no further elaboration here.
2) Sulaiman al-Qanuni adopting legal canons, as explained above. This gave rise to the administrative system that ruled the Ottomans for centuries afterwards. This is strangely cited as an example of secular rule, despite the fact that Sulaiman al- Qanuni's reign ended some 200 years before European secularism took root. One can assume this is due to the secular viewpoint of lawmaking, and the Islamic system being an unknown, unknown!
Albert Hourani, provides the clearest documented view on this:
"Like previous rulers, the Ottoman sultan found it necessary to issue his own orders and regulations in order to preserve his authority or ensure that justice was done. He did this by virtue of the power which the shar'iah itself gave to rulers, so longs as they exercised it within the bounds of shariah"[1]
Hence, rather than a secular application, he was merely exercising his right as the Caliph. The pity is that the thinking receded soon after him, but that is another discussion.
3) Tanzimat reforms. Tanzimât emerged from the minds of reformist sultans like Mahmud II and Abdülmecid I, and pioneered by Grand Wazir, Ahmed Rashid Pasha, as well as prominent reformers who were European-educated bureaucrats who recognized that the old institutions and practices no longer met the needs of the Caliphate in the modern world.
Most of the symbolic changes, such as uniforms, were aimed at changing the mindset of imperial administrators. Many of the reforms were attempts to adopt successful European practices. The Napoleonic Code and French law under the Second Empire heavily influenced the reforms. Changes included universal conscription; educational, institutional and legal reforms.
Though these reforms proved to be a major problem for the Ottoman Caliphate, they never understood nor adopted the secular basis of law making, nor the democratic system of government. Hence rather that adopting values and ideas, they imitated solutions. The prophet (saw) gave a clear description of when a state becomes un-Islamic, in the famous hadith:
Al-Bukhari narrated: "… He said, the Messenger of Allah (saw) called upon us and we gave him the Bai'ah, and he said, of that which he had taken from us, that we should give him the pledge to listen and obey, in what we like and dislike, in our hardship and ease, and that we should not dispute the authority of its people unless we saw open Kufr (kufr buwah) upon which we had a proof (burhan) from Allah"
Open Kufr cannot be committed unless there is an understanding by the one who commits it of what they have committed. In this case, they were not at a level to understand what the underpinning values were, but rather imitated solutions.
This is exemplified by the statement of Shaykh-ul Islam Mustafa Sabri who worked for Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the last Shaykh al-Islam of the Ottoman Caliphate. He was exiled to Egypt by the Kemalist regime. He said:
'Caliphate i.e. succession to the Messenger of Allah means: obliging the adherence of the rules of the Shari'ah over the Muslims by the one who assumes authority, it by this way one is successor to the Prophet. And the abolition of the Caliphate is abolition of this adherence….This has actually happened in Turkey after the abolition of the Caliphate. So what has succeeded it is a secular government.'[2]
The point here is that he considered the Ottoman state, even in its weakened state, Islamic in its basis until it was destroyed. This view was agreed upon by Sheikh-ul-Hind Maulana Mahmud Hassan. He was the then head of Darul Uloom Deoband and direct student of Maulana Qasim Nanautavi, the founding father of the Darul 'Uloom) in the 1920's. He mentioned a fatwa regarding saving the Ottoman Caliphate from the enemies of Islam. The respected Maulana said:
'The enemies of Islam have left no stone unturned to strike against and harm the honour and prestige of Islam. Iraq, Palestine and Syria that were won over by the Prophet's companions and his followers, after in numerous sacrifices, have once again become targets of greed of the enemy of Islam. The honour of Caliphate is in tatters. Calipha-tul- Muslimin, who used to unite the entire community on this planet; who is the vice-regent of Allah on this earth; used to implement the universal law of Islam; who used to protect the rights and interests of Muslims and used to preserve and ensure the glory of the words of the Creator of this universe be preserved and implemented, has been surrounded by enemies and made redundant.'[3]
To conclude this section, we can see that despite some areas of weakness, the Ottoman State was based on Islam, motivated by Islam and never ceased to implement Islam. The allegations of secular implementation are often malicious and politically motivated.
[Click here to read part 3, Ottoman Brutality]
[1] Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
[2] Mawqif al-'Aql, p322
[3] From the Fatwa of Sheikh ul Hind Maulana Mahmood Hassan, 16th Safar 1339 AH, October 29 1920 CE, page 78 of English translation of 'The Prisoners of Malta' by Maulana Syed Mohammad Mian, published by Jamiat Ulama-I-Hind
The Ottoman Caliphate and its European legacy (1/4)
In the first part of a four part series, Muhammad Jilani discusses the motivations of the Ottoman caliphs. The Caliphate system...


At the "Cucinare" tradeshow in Pordenone there was a display that had Sicilian pistachios in many forms from creams to flours or roasted salted whole pistachios. Of course I couldn't resist the temptation to bring home a bit of that deliciousness.
The cupcake that I propose materialized in my mind after being stimulated by this unique and delicious ingredient. The recipe is a real sin of gluttony with all accessory of calories that come with it. The dessert that I invented was inspired by American bakeries where you find cupcakes that are similar to our "pasticcini".
Break the chocolate in a saucepan and melt it over a water bath (the pot is suspended over a pot of boiling water, the pot should not touch the water).
While the chocolate melts, work the soft butter with the sugar, adding a pinch of salt and the vanilla. When the cream is well mounted, break an egg inside and incorporate it, doing the same with the other eggs. If you have a electric mixer you can use and it will make all operations less tiring and the result will be excellent.
After the chocolate has melted, add it to the butter mixture and continue stirring.
Add the Grand Marnier and the two sifted flour and mix until you form a soft smooth cream.
If you have a muffin mold, insert the paper muffin cups into the mold, otherwise use aluminum muffin molds. Insert the cupcakes into the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Before you turn off the oven, place a toothpick in a cupcake. If it comes out clean the cupcake is cooked otherwise continue cooking for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and let the cupcakes cool.
Meanwhile, prepare the cream. Working with a wooden spoon, mix the mascarpone with the pistachio cream and beat with a mixer for a homogeneous preparation.
Put the mixture in a pastry bag equipped with a large nozzle. Form a spiral over the cupcakes and place half a cherry on top. Garnish with pistachio flour scattered here and there.
In the picture you see that the cakes are rich in cream. With the doses of the cream in the recipe I was able to decorate 15 cupcakes, and the others I left them simple for those guests who do not like the creams in general. If you want to decorate all 24, use a smaller amount of cream. The cupcakes should be stored in the refrigerator.


until they came to a tribe of little people, called "Tsvdigewi". These people had very un usually shaped bodies and were hardly tall enough to come up to a man's knee. They did not ha ve houses but lived in nests scooped out in the sand, which were covered with dried grass. The little fellows were so weak and puny that they could not fight at all and were constantly afraid of the wild geese and other birds that came in great flocks from the south to make war on them. Just at the time that the travelers got there, they found the little men in great fear because there was strong wind blowing in from the south and it blew white feathers up and down the sand so that the Tsvdigewi knew their enemies were coming, and would be there soon. The Cherokee young men asked them why they did not defend themselves and they said they could not because they did not know how. There was no time to make bows and arrows, but the travelers told them to take up sticks and use them as clubs, and showed them where to hit the birds on their necks to kill them. The wind blew for several days and at last the birds came; there were so many that they were like a giant cloud in the air and when they landed, the entire area was covered with birds so that no-one could walk more than a few steps without bumping into one. The little men ran to their nests and the birds followed and stuck their long bills into the nests to pull them out and eat them. But this time the little men had their clubs, and they struck the birds on the neck the way the Cherokee young men had shown them, and managed after several hours to kill most of them. The other birds flew away in disappointment. The little men thanked the Cherokee young men for their help and gave them the best food they had until the travelers went on to see the other tribes. They heard afterwards that the birds came again several times, but that the Tsvdigewi always drove them off with their clubs. But one day a flock of Sandhill Cranes came. They were so tall that the little men could not reach high enough to hit them on the neck and after several hours of fighting the cranes killed them all.


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Redouane Barkaoui (born April 4, 1979) is a former Moroccan footballer.

Club career

Pelita Jaya
Pelita Jaya are delighted to welcome Redouane Barkaoui to the Club where he will help them to challenge for the remainder of the 2009/10 season. Redouane Barkaoui helped Pelita Jaya defend in the Indonesian Super League after win play-off position.

Persela Lamongan
On 5 September 2010, Redouane Barkaoui signed a year contract with Indonesian Super League club Persela.

Widad Fes
Redouane officially joined the Botola League, signing contract with the club Widad Fes.

References

External links
 Profile at liga-Indonesia.co.id

1979 births
Moroccan footballers
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Living people
Expatriate footballers in Indonesia
Persela Lamongan players
Pelita Bandung Raya players
Persib Bandung players
Al-Hilal Club (Omdurman) players
Association football forwards
Wydad de Fès players
Raja CA players


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