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George Burns Sep 19, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Cuento Le Gusta", "Train Back Home", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "Wotcher (Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road)", "I Won't Dance", "World's Most Powerful Explosive", "Medley"
Madeline Kahn Oct 3, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Happy Feet", "Feet", "Drum Solo by Animal", "Swedish Chef", "New York State of Mind", "Pigs In Space", "The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away", "Sunny Day", "Muppet Newsflash", "Up and Away", "Wishing Song"
Edgar Bergen Oct 10, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Baby Face", "Consider Yourself", "Muppet Newsflash", Gonzo's Act, "Pigs In Space", "Show Me a Rose", Fozzie's Act, "Time in a Bottle", "Down at Papa Joe's", Edgar and Charlie perform
Dom DeLuise Oct 17, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way", "Merdlelidop", "Drum Solo by Animal", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "Henrietta's Wedding", "Don't Blame the Dynamite", "Animal Shelter", "We Got Us"
Nancy Walker Oct 24, 1977 Kermit is at home sick so Fozzie has to run the show and proves how bad he could be by having Crazy Harry of all people have an opening skit "Target Practice", then getting "Vets' Hospital" and "At The Dance" on the same stage at the same time, causing a lot of trouble for the bear and his costars.
Steve Martin Oct 31, 1977 Kermit auditions new acts for the next show. Songs/Sketches: "The Garbage Can Can", "Swannee River", balloons, "Tie a Yellow Ribbit Round an Ole Oak Tree", Baskerville auditions as comedian, Lenny Lizard auditions for emcee, The Four Fazoobs, "Gonzales & Yolanda", "Old Man River", "Ramblin' Guy", "Varisity Drag", "Yes, We Have No Bananas", "Jugglin' Guy", "Flying Zucchini Brothers", Steve plays with Lubbock Lou & the Jug-Huggers.
Bernadette Peters Nov 7, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Loved You When You Know I've Been a Liar All My Life", "Take a Little One-Step", Chickens playing piano, "Veterinarian's Hospital", "The Sheik of Araby", "The Ant and the Grasshopper", "Just One Person", "Swedish Chef", "Muppet Labs", "I'm Five", "Muppet Newsflash", "Apple Jack"
Milton Berle Nov 14, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "There are Millions of us Who are Ugly", Milton Berle's monologue, "Pigs In Space", "The Entertainer" (Milton Berle), "The Entertainer" (Miss Piggy), "Who", "Top Banana"
Rich Little Nov 26, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Chan Son D'amour", Rich impersonates the Muppets, "At the Dance", "The Boy in the Gallery", "Inchworm", "Veterinarian's Hospital", Gonzo and Lolita (a chicken), "Medley", A Salute to Hollywood musicals
Don Knotts Nov 28, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Cuento Le Gusta", "Train Back Home", "Chattanooga Choo Choo", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "Wotcher (Knocked 'Em in the Old Kent Road)", "I Won't Dance", "World's Most Powerful Explosive", "Medley"
Teresa Brewer Dec 5, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Cotton Fields", "Pigs In Space", "Wild Thing", Gonzo's Act, "At the Dance", "Cheese Cake", "Muppet Labs", "At the Hop", "Spinning Wheel", "Nickelodeon"
John Cleese Dec 5, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Somebody Stole My Gal", Gonzo's Act, "Muppet Newsflash", Rowlf plays piano, "Pigs In Space", "At the Dance", "Waiting at the Church", "We Got Each Other", "Koozebanian Spoobol", "The Impossible Dream"
Zero Mostel Dec 13, 1977 Sketches/Songs: "Chopin's Polonaise in a Flat", "What do the Simple Folk Do?", "At the Dance", "Muppet Labs", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Fears", "Drum Solo by Animal", "Lady Wrestling"
Rudolf Nureyev Jan 23, 1978 Sketches/Songs: The Electric Mayhem, A Wagner opera performed, "Swine Lake", "Something's Missing", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "It's Cold Outside", "Clair De Lune", "Top Hat"
Judy Collins Jan 30, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Leatherwing Bat", "Pigs In Space", "An Editorial by Sam The Eagle", "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly", "Muppet Newsflash", "Talk to the Trees", "Koozebanian Phoob", "Do-Re-Mi", "Swedish Chef", "Send in the Clowns"
Elton John Feb 6, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Crocodile Rock", "Swedish Chef", "Benny and the Jets", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "Any Old Iron", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Pigs In Space", "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
Bob Hope Feb 13, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "The Pig Calypso", "For What It's Worth", "Muppet Newsflash", "Swedish Chef", "Muppet Newsflash", Rowlf plays piano, "Long Long Ago", "Muppet Labs", Rowlf plays piano, "Don't Fence Me In"
Julie Andrews Feb 20, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "The Lonely Goatherd", "Muppet Newsflash", Gonzo's Act, "Moonlight Sonata", "Won't Somebody Dance With Me?", "Borneo", "When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish", "An Editorial by Sam The Eagle", "Muppet Labs", "I Whistle a Happy Tune"
Peter Sellers Feb 27, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "A Gypsy's Violin", "When", "Down Memory Lane", Masseur sketch, "It's Not Easy Bein' Green", "Muppet Labs", "Cigarettes & Whiskey"
Jaye P. Morgan Mar 6, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Tweedle Dee Dee", "Swedish Chef", "At the Dance", "English Country Garden", "Talk Spot", "Pigs In Space", "Muppet Newsflash", "An Editorial by Sam The Eagle", "That Old Black Magic"
Lou Rawls May 1, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Groovy People", "Muppet Newsflash", "Veterinarian's Hospital", "Swedish Chef", "At the Dance", "Ukelele Lady", "Sonny Boy", "Bye Bye Blackbird", "Muppet Labs", Fozzie's Act, "You're the One"
Petula Clark May 8, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Tweedle Dee Dee", "Swedish Chef", "At the Dance", "English Country Garden", "Talk Spot", "Pigs In Space", "Muppet Newsflash", "An Editorial by Sam The Eagle", "That Old Black Magic"
Cleo Laine May 15, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "Limbo", "Ain't Got That Swing", "Pigs In Space", Bruce Schwartz, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "Swedish Chef", "(I Wonder Why) You're Just In Love", Fozzie's Act, "If"
Cloris Leachman May 22, 1978 Sketches/Songs: "That's Entertainment", "My Hero", Fozzie's Act, "Swedish Chef", "Vedgetarian's Hospital", "Muppet Newsflash", "Pigs In Space", "Just in Time"
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I heard Romo had decided to retire and travel the world smoking weed with Rickey Williams.
VK will be so disappointed.
Why would he have to travel the world? If he wanted he could, retire, come here to Colorado and smoke all the weed he wanted! Well, maybe it's because he'd have to limit his weed purchases to only 1 ounce a day? Aw. Ain't nobody but Peter Tosh could ever smoke that much!
There are still some reports from sources that think he ends up with us, so I am still hopeful.
What would really **** me up was it (and I know it's not) it did happen on this day because I wouldn't believe it.
I would be so tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo orn!


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If you ride a cruiser, then comfort is of utmost importance to you. When you're going out to enjoy a weekend cruise, you want the right Honda motorcycle grips to give you the extra relaxation you need. These Avon Boss ergonomic grips are fashioned from seamless rubber. Not to mention that getting new grips is an easy way to change up the appearance of your ride.
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2017-18: Saw action in eight matches in her first year with the Crusaders ... played a total of 185 minutes off the bench, including a season-high 59 minutes in win over Chicago State Sept. 28 ... scored first career goal in the 33rd minute against the Cougars ... totaled five shots on the season, three of which were on goal.
2016-17 [Carthage]: Did not play soccer ... member of the Lady Reds' basketball team ... appeared in three games.
Prep: Played two seasons of high school soccer for Crown Point H.S. before transferring to Andrean ... was an Honorable Mention All-Area and All-Conference selection ... helped Bulldogs to semistates as a freshman ... named team's rookie of the year ... played club soccer for Eclipse Select East ... helped team advance to State Cup finals ... an All-Conference selection in basketball for Andrean ... member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Anna is the daughter of Frank and Nancy Eksten ... major is nursing.


A couple of weeks ago, I turned 32. This is the first birthday where I am starting to feel like getting older is not so fun. I recently touched up my roots for the first time, I've had arthritis for the past four months and I'm starting to really notice signs of aging in my skin. Oy!
My skin has always been troublesome for me. In my adolescent years and through college I struggled with acne. I did EVERYTHING. They had me on birth control pills, I did two runs of Accuntane (no longer on the market due to the dangers to your body), regularly sought treatments from a dermatologist and even tried that Proactive line. Nothing worked. Finally, it got better when my Hashimotos disease was diagnosed and my thyroid was regulated. It was causing a lot of hormonal imbalance problems, and thus causing my skin to be out of control.
Now, my skin challenges aren't as much about acne as they are about scars, discoloration and wrinkles. When I saw that everyone and their mom (seriously) was selling Rodan + Fields skincare I was very reluctant to buy into it because it was created by the same people that brought us Proactive. Anything that claims to have one solution for all makes me skeptical, so I ignored the hype. However, recently, a friend of a friend asked if she could send me several full-size products free so that I could share an unbiased review of the line. She believed in it so much that she was willing to risk the cost of the product. I said I would take the challenge and give my HONEST, personal feedback.
Below, you'll find all of the products I have used over the past four months. Before and after pictures and my thoughts on what is worth your money and what's not.
After doing an online consult that asked various questions about my skin I was recommended the Reverse Regimen to help with discoloration and dullness. I was also recommended a a few products from the Redefine regimen: night renewing serum, lip renewing serum, redefine eye cloths, multi-function eye cream. I also tried the micro-dermabrasion paste.
I started the whole skincare line on April 5th. Above are my before pictures, and below are the after.
You can definitely see that there has been an improvement in the brightness and texture of my skin. It looks smoother and more even. However, I wouldn't say you need all of these products to get this result.
I would say the 4 Step Reverse line is great, and all of the credit goes to this group right here! My skin is a bit sensitive, so I found that using the face wash every other day is better for my skin. I also enjoyed the redefine lip serum. My lips always felt incredibly moist the next morning.
I could not use the micro-dermabrasion on my skin. It was too harsh even after one application, especially when I was already using the Redefine line. I also didn't care for the eye cloths. They didn't get the makeup off very well. The redefine face serum was hardly enough to apply to my face at night and I never really saw or felt a different the next day. I had similar feelings with the eye cream.
This is my personal view and my experience after four months, and not a sponsored post. I'll post an update on my skin in another four months to let you know how it's going just because honest reviews of products can be helpful. If you have any questions about Rodan + Fields you can ask Erin Lizotte. She is the one that sent these products to me.


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Scoop: What stars should be thankful for
Designer clothes, lavish cribs, hot groupies — celebrities have a lot to be grateful for. But do they really appreciate the unique gifts that make their lives better than those of non-A-listers? Here are some of blessings we think celebs should be thanking their stars for this Thanksgiving.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart: "Twilight" Fans.
OK, we understand that sudden fame can be a little overwhelming. (Well, we'll take their word for it.) But couldn't the "New Moon" stars act just a little bit appreciative of the hordes of admirers who are putting their future kids through college? After all, the brooding duo must realize they're lucky to play Edward and Bella, who have a built-in fan base regardless of the actors who inhabit them. Oh, wait, maybe that's why they're bitter.
Kate Gosselin: Jon's girlfriends.
When their marriage first unraveled, many people were sympathetic to Jon Gosselin, thanks to his overbearing wife and her rather frightening hairstyle. But then he took up with Hailey Glassman, Kate Major and maybe the nanny, while all of them accused him and each other of lying. Meanwhile, public opinion swung in Kate's favor as she took care of the estranged couple's eight kids — looking like the long-suffering jilted wife while Jon looked more and more like a jerk. (Kate should be thankful for Ed Hardy shirts, ATVs and Michael Lohan.)
Neil Patrick Harris: Second acts.
Who says former child stars have to be relegated to rehab and VH-1 series (sometimes at the same time)? After skewering his own image in the "Harold and Kumar" movies, Neil has reinvented himself as an out-and-proud gay man who plays a shameless skirt-chaser, and a charming award-show host beloved by all audiences. Just don't call him "Doogie."
The Kardashian sisters:
The magic of reality-TV 'celebrity.'
Remember when stars actually had to do something to become famous? Kim and her sisters Kourtney and Khloe got lucky thanks to being born rich and pretty, and being associated with someone else rich and pretty (Paris Hilton, rumored to be understandably jealous that her former friend has eclipsed her in tabloid ubiquity). Now they rake in big bucks by having their every move televised, including Khloe's whirlwind wedding — bankrolled and filmed by E!
Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz: Each other.
Criticism of their talents, their figures, their rumored cosmetic enhancements — some warranted, some just vicious — abounds in the media. But these sisters are each other's biggest fans and always quick to defend each other. It's nice to see that even in cutthroat Hollywood, blood is thicker than … er, bloggers.
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo: Each other.
Now that they're back together, they're getting a little bit of media coverage again. While they were apart? (Sound of crickets.)
Lady Gaga: Her early flops.
There's only room for one Stefani in pop, and that's Gwen Stefani. So it's actually a good thing that nobody remembers the musical offerings of one Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — the artist now known as Lady Gaga. It's hard enough to pull off looking like a pantsless platinum-blond space alien, so better that nobody has a mental picture of La Gaga back when she resembled a human being. (But do a Google image search, just for giggles.)
Lindsay Lohan: Her early work.
True, it's pretty sad that we're still referring to her as "the star of 'Mean Girls,'" which came out five years ago. But we're still pulling for her to find the comeback role that will deliver on her long-dormant potential as an actress.
Taylor Swift: Kanye West.
She was already a rising country-crossover star before the infamous incident at MTV's VMAs. But the public outrage about the rapper interrupting her acceptance speech made her America's sweetheart overnight. (The incident paid off PR-wise for Beyoncé, too.) Ironically, having those few moments in the spotlight stolen led to Taylor getting many, many more.
Scoop: Penelope, Javier may be getting married
Not-so-sweet riesling still tasty

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Q: Is the following usage of "I got" correct?
I'd expected to see some live or embalmed animals. Instead, I got
  plastic chairs, square tables, and a whiteboard.

"I got" in this case means "I saw" or "this classroom had". Is this usage of "I got" common among native English speaker? Why or why not?
Note: the speaker is just visiting the classroom.

A: Yes, this is pretty common usage of got in a casual, conversational context. It's not incorrect, but it is informal. In writing, this usage is generally only appropriate if the author is deliberately evoking an informal, conversational tone.
In general, one would instead use found, saw, or another more traditional verb.

A: It's grammatically valid.
As MrTheWalrus says, it's somewhat informal, because the person did not really "get" the tables and chairs. The wording would be literally correct if he was talking about something he received. Like, "I expected to receive a cash bonus, but instead I got a letter of congratulations."
So yes, in your example, the writer is saying what he expected to see, and then describing what he actually saw. So it would be more accurate to say "instead I saw ..." But the meaning is clear, and I don't think it would be questioned in any but the most formal writing.

A: This is not a common use of the word "got".  There is a subtle mistake happening here.
Firstly, the informalities.  The correct usage of the word is "I have got", we leave the "have" to be informal.  The other informality is the way "got" is being used.
Here is the common way "got" is used informally:
"Do you see my name on the list?"
"I've got Sarah, Jacob, Leslie, and Tom, but you aren't on the list"
And:
"There is ice outside."
"That can't be true, I'm getting 70 degrees on the thermometer."
The responses can be made even more informal, by eliminating the second half of the sentence:  "I've got Sarah, Jacob, Leslie, and Tom, but not you" and "That can't be true, I'm getting 70 degrees"
Finally, the reason your question isn't common is because when you add the second half of the sentence, it is an odd thing to say:
"I expected to see that, but instead I got this as the things that I see."
Nobody talks like that.

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A Soul-Searching Trip to Egypt
"Life is not against me. Life is absolutely on my side." -- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Uptown Magazine
Imagine that "Everything that happens is for your good. Is it hard to wrap your mind around that" I must admit, some days this concept is completely foreign to me.
I am lost in the world of mundane to-do lists, stressing over the kids' activities, cleaning house, and paying bills. Before long, though, my spirit calls. I am drawn to certain books, places, people, and they give me the message to return to love. To return to my passion. To remind me that life is absolutely on my side.
Anita Kopacz and Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith at Abu Simbel[/caption] I spent several days in the deserts of Egypt with my most profound spiritual teacher, Michael Bernard Beckwith. Every single day, I was gently pushed to remember who I really am. As I gazed upon the magnificent structures, the pyramids, temples, birthing chambers, and goddess sanctuaries,
I was encouraged to look upon them as if I were a part of the energy that created them. The excellence, the precise execution of artistic genius, the devotion, the mastery. I was to look upon these wonders as if they were my mirrors. That little voice inside of me that usually barks, "You're not good enough!" was silenced. My stories of lack, of unfairness, of being molested and mistreated, all burned away in the heat of this arid land, as I was constantly reminded by everyone around me that I am a queen. The desert fire initiated me into my greatness. It reminded me that regardless of how hot the fire, life is not against me. Life is absolutely on my side.
Rev. Beckwith, Akili Beckwith, Rev. Cheryl Ward, and Josephine Keita so graciously led our group through the land of Khemet. Each day a new adventure awaited us, from meditating in the Pyramid of Giza to flying a hot air balloon over the Nile River. Come with me as we travel through the ancient civilization of Egypt and remember who we truly are.
At dawn, we travel to Cheop's Pyramid, one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, the Sphinx, and Valley Temple. Built over 35 centuries ago, the towering pyramid stands majestically on a desert plateau with two slightly smaller pyramids erected to preserve their bodies and treasures for the afterlife. East of the Great Pyramid is the Solar Boat Museum, housing the spectacular funerary boats placed at the disposal of the king for his journey of Day and Night in the afterlife with the Sun God Ra. Then we proceed to the Necropolis of Sakkara, the city of the Dead, to see the famous Step Pyramid of King Zoser and the Wall of Cobras. Lodging: Nile Fairmont Hotel*
We woke up at 3 a.m. in order to arrive at the pyramids before they opened. As the bus slowly made its way up the dirt road, the majestic structures revealed themselves on the horizon. I could hardly contain my excitement as we drew near. Rev. Beckwith led us into the main pyramid like an exodus to the Promised Land. The stonewalls arched around us as we walked through the entrance. Up ahead, I saw a few people shaking their heads refusing to continue. The walls led to an underground tunnel with a steep incline to journey deep into the belly of the pyramid. We explored the ins and outs of this ancient structure, ending up in the King's Chamber. There, Rev. Beckwith and Akili led us in meditation. It was an epic beginning to the trip that would eventually transform my life.
Morning transfer to Cairo for our flight toAbu Simbel*, site of the magnificent Temples of Ramses II and Queen Nefertari. This is a breathtaking experience. An engineering marvel, the great temple was moved up the hillside to save it from flooding when Aswan's High Dam was built. Fly to Aswan and transfer to the hotel. Lodging:* Aswan Moevenpick Hotel
The Temple of Rameses and Queen Nefertari were indeed breathtaking. The massive statues towered over us in all their glory. The Nubian guides ushered me to secret nooks and crannies that had sacred symbols. They would demonstrate simple rituals to do with certain hieroglyphic characters. For example, when I came across a winged sun disk, I should touch the disk then place my fingers on my third eye in the middle of my forehead, then touch the disk again, and touch my heart. This ritual keeps you connected to your intuition and feelings.
Aswan Nile Cruise. Transfer to your cruise ship that will be your floating hotel for the next three nights. After lunch, we sail aroundElephantine Islandand visit men, women, and children in the Nubian village. Lodging:Moevenpick Royal Lilly Ship Before we departed for our trip to Egypt, Josephine Keita had asked us to bring an extra suitcase full of items that the Nubian children could use. I stocked up on backpacks, shoes, clothes, notebooks, diapers -- the list went on.
As our boat neared the harbor, beautiful Nubian women in traditional garb walked back and forth on the deck. Some were holding handmade dolls, shawls, dresses, and small statues which they were eager to sell. When they saw our suitcases full of gifts, the women did a traditional call of excitement. We brought our gifts to a small school in the middle of the village. They served us tea, water, and hibiscus juice (yum!). We did not anticipate the mayhem that would follow. The women ran into the school frantically grabbing and claiming the gifts. Amidst the chaos, a musician began to play his drums. I walked up to him and started dancing. Three Nubian women surrounded me and started to show me their moves. I was better able to process my "Black Friday" experience with the beautiful sounds of the Nubian drum.
Morning sightseeing includesAswan's High Dam*, the ancient* Granite Quarries*, and the* Temple of Philae-- the temple of love, music, and dance. We sail toKom Omboto visit the Greco-Roman-styleTemple of Sobek*, the Crocodile God. Standing serenely on a hilltop, the site offers an incredible view over the Nile. Tonight we will have a Nubian, Galabeya, and Pharonic Costume Party. Lodging: Moevenpick Royal Lilly Ship* The Temple of Philae is dedicated to the goddess Isis, the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.
As I stepped foot into the temple, I instantly felt at home. Although we were not ?allowed? to pray, an armed guard took me to a side room to meditate. He told me that it was a birthing room for Isis. I gathered a small group and we spoke into existence the dreams that we wanted to birth.
Morning visit toEdfu*, an exhilarating carriage ride takes you through town to the Temple of Horus, the Falcon God. Return to your ship and sail to* LuxorandKarnak Temples*, a holy city of pylons, hypostyle halls, colossal statues, and obelisks built over many centuries and dedicated to the God Amon-Ra, his consort Mut, and their son, Khonsu. Lodging: Moevenpick Royal Lilly Ship*
Luxor Temple Luxor was particularly special for me. The sphinx-lined path, goddess chamber, massive obelisks, and magnificent statues kept me in awe. There was a hieroglyph on the wall of the goddess chamber that depicted a young woman and man being held up by four women. I was reminded of how my sisters and girlfriends have supported me throughout rough times. I sat at the foot of the picture in gratitude of my journey.
Early morning, we visit the complex ofKarnak Temple*, a vast open-air museum, and the second largest ancient religious site in the world, after the Angkor Wat Temple of Cambodia. We then cross the Nile to "Thebes"Luxor's West Bank. Sightseeing includes theValley of the Kings and Queens, where some 64 of Egypt's Pharaohs had their palatial resting places hewed into the sheer rock. Lodging:* Luxor Achti Hotel The sun beat down on us as we took a tram down a dusty road to the Valley of the Kings and Queens.
I covered my head with a white scarf to shield me from the sun as we walked up to the tombs. The management only opens four tombs at a time because the humidity from people walking in and out of the rooms significantly deteriorates the structures. I stopped in my tracks when I walked into the first building. All of the original paint remained on the numerous hieroglyphics decorating the walls, tombs, and statues. With this reference, I was better able to imagine how the other temples might have looked 2,000 years ago.
The morning begins with a hot air balloon ride over the Nile River. Later we will meander through the once throngedTemple of Hathor*, Goddess of Love. Lodging: Luxor Achti Hotel* The Temple of Hathor was magnificently well kept. We visited secret rooms that were once filled with treasures and saw an ancient sundial on the roof.
Many of the sites that we visited had statues and carvings that were defaced. The Temple of Hathor was decorated with so many faces of the goddess that the invaders must have tired from defacing each depiction of her and left several for us to admire.
After breakfast, we transfer toHurghadaby bus. Upon arrival check-in at the resort. The remainder of the day at leisure. Lodging:Moevenpick Resort Hurghada The Red Sea magnificent. White sand beaches and turquoise water framed the Hurghada beach resort off the coast of the Red Sea. The next few days were packed with water sports, sailing, snorkeling, parasailing, jet-skiing, and lounging at the beach.
Before our departure back to the U.S., we paid another visit to the Pyramid of Cheops. Rev. Beckwith, Akili, and Rev. Ward led us in prayer and meditation throughout the trip. Our final meditation took place in the King's Chamber. Rev. Beckwith urged us once more to remember who we really are. As we sat on the stone floor, many of us felt the power of remembering our true potential. Images of the many temples, pyramids, tombs, goddess chambers, and obelisks ran through my mind. At that moment I felt that life was absolutely on my side. I felt that this journey helped me remember that my ancestors built miracles - and I am here to do the same.
*The itinerary was lovingly prepared by Josephine Keita of Nubian Tours.
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Sublease up from 1.227 M to 1.282M sf an increase of 55K sf.
From the initial report approx 100,884 sf have been leased or removed from the report.
The SW subsector continues to lead the market with 454K sf which is 36% of the market.
The next report for 3/1/2009 will be out Monday, March 2nd. Thank you again for your support.
What we have seen over the last 6 months is the slowdown in the economy brought on by the financial collapse of mortgage backed securities. As to be expected serioius layoffs and downsizing of local corporations has brought on 500K sf increase in sublease space in the Austin Market. This does not even include the Freescale campus of 282K sf which has been added to the already swollen office market with a vacancy of 18% and rising.
We should all batten down the hatches because its only going to get rougher from here. My experience with previous markets is that even the smart operators get burned because of the domino effect of failed clients, slow paid or unpaid bills, and bankruptcy.
History will tell whether we can spend our way out of this financial crisis.
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The Threat of Adoption for Separated Migrant Children
Are the children separated from their parents in the border crisis and put in the federal government's care at risk of international adoptions?
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U.S. Border Patrol agents take into custody a father and son from Honduras near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 near Mission, Texas.
When news reports first began to emerge that 81 of the migrant children recently separated from their parents had been sent into the care of one of the largest adoption agencies in the country, the response was swift alarm. Was the government planning on creating "social orphans" out of the children, then offering them up for adoption?
Horrified observers had already drawn parallels between the separation crisis and the blatantly assimilationist treatment of Native American children, starting with their mass removal to boarding schools in the late 19th Century and continuing through the Indian Adoption Project, which from the late 1950s to early 1970s removed 25 to 35 percent of all Native American children from their families. Or how U.S. slavery systematically broke apart families, selling children away from their parents. A number pointed out that the forcible transfer of children from one group of people to another fits the United Nations definition of genocide.
Many advocates worry that children being placed in foster care could end up staying there so long that they would be made available for adoption through the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act.
Some former officials fear the administration could overstep and begin to consider making migrant children available for adoption.
One scholar notes that adoptions of unaccompanied minors do sometimes take place — not directly from ORR facilities, but rather after the child has been reclassified as an unaccompanied refugee minor.
To adoption reform advocates, who monitor unethical and abusive practices in child welfare, it looked like any number of adoption crises in the past, like the airlifts out of Haiti in the wake of its cataclysmic 2010 earthquake. Then, masses of unaccompanied children were suddenly labeled orphans and became the focus of a deafening campaign in the U.S. to rescue them through inter-country adoption, even as Haitian adults were being warned not to try to come themselves.
Fears of a new adoption rush in today's border crisis weren't groundless. There was reason to be concerned. The former head of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama warned that some of the children who'd recently been separated would remain separated "permanently" and potentially be adopted. Reports surfaced of mothers who were told that their children would be adopted as an incentive to "behave." On Tuesday night, the Daily Beast reported that the threat of adoption has become weaponized, as a Guatemalan mother detained by Customs and Border Protection earlier this month was allegedly presented with the ultimatum that if she didn't abandon her asylum appeal, she would be jailed for a year and her daughter put up for adoption. And conservative figures deeply hostile to immigrant families, like Fox News provocateur Laura Ingraham, herself an adoptive mother, toggled between mocking the detention of children as akin to "summer camp" and calling to "make adoption easier for American couples who want to adopt these kids."
What policies and laws might apply to the children was so unclear that even many child welfare experts and former officials weren't sure how to think about the threat. When migrant parents were taken into ICE custody at the border, their children became wards of Health and Human Services, specifically its Office of Refugee Resettlement, which facilitates the care of "unaccompanied alien children." Although they'd arrived with parents, upon separation, the children had been officially transformed into unaccompanied minors with immigration cases distinct from the adults they'd arrived with. And it was already becoming clear that, despite its protestations to the contrary, the government had no real plan for bringing them back together.
"Thus far, we've seen no evidence that any system has been put in place by the government to ensure these families are communicating or connecting."
Children, including infants, began arriving at care facilities around the country, sometimes in the dead of night, sometimes without being told where they were going, sometimes without paperwork noting their parents' detention locations or even their names.
"Thus far, we've seen no evidence that any system has been put in place by the government to ensure these families are communicating or connecting," said Wendy Young, president of Kids in Need of Defense, on a recent media call. "Some of us have been trying to reconnect the children, but it's incredibly hard." Young added, "It feels like our legal aid staff have become private investigators, working from what you have — a name, a birthday, an 'A' number" — an alien registration number.
Kathryn Joyce was interviewed on Seattle's Morning News with Dave Ross, WMC Live with Robin Morgan, WBEZ's Worldview and XRAY In The Morning.
Sometimes authorities claim they don't have any information either: On a form filled out by a detained parent requesting a phone number to reach her daughter, an ICE official responded tersely, "I do not have this information."
It was a system that Suzan Song, head of George Washington University's child and family psychiatry division and a former humanitarian protection adviser for youth and families of forced migration with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said was more poorly organized than the process for reuniting refugee children who'd fled Syria. "With this policy, the focus is really on the separation part," said Song, "and it seems there's very little planning or foresight about the complex processes for family tracing and reunification that has to happen."
Part of the context for the advocates' alarm over adoption is that international adoption as an industry has been in free fall for the last decade. Country after country has suspended or shrunk its adoption program, leaving a greatly reduced supply to meet a U.S. demand for adoptable children that hasn't waned. At its peak in 2004, some 23,000 children were sent from abroad to the U.S. to be adopted, including thousands from Guatemala, the home country of many of today's detained migrants.
International adoptions finally slowed down amid a pattern that replicated itself, country by country, of adoption booms, followed by ethical scandals, then the closure of that nation's international adoption program. The scandals were as diverse as the countries supplying the children: coercion or baby buying in Vietnam; recruitment from poor, rural families in Ethiopia; even cases of outright kidnapping in Guatemala. The adoption programs of several frequent source countries were suspended over ethical concerns, in addition to other factors like the solidifying middle class in China, which provided stability and its own domestic adoption market, and political retaliation from Russia, which ended international adoptions to America after the U.S. passed the Magnitsky Act in 2012. International adoptions today are down nearly 80 percent since 2004. Some adoption agencies went out of business, and one adoption lobbying group closed shop as well.
As the family separation crisis unfolded on the border, adoption reform advocates noticed that the agency facilitating the foster care of some immigrant children in Michigan, Bethany Christian Services, announced a waiver of its $550 international adoption application fee for the month of June in a since-deleted Facebook post. The dissonance struck the anxious reformers as absurd on its face.
"Why in hell would they be lining people up for international adoption right now?" asked Karen Smith Rotabi, author of "From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers" and a professor of social work at United Arab Emirates University. "There's no way that lining people up for international adoption is ethical, because there simply isn't the flow of children." (Bethany Christian Services declined to comment for this story, but has stated that the children will not be offered for adoption and that it will continue to try to reunite children with their families.)
A Honduran mother holds her two-year-old as U.S. Border Patrol as agents review their papers near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.
Bethany, which is caring for some of the separated children under a grant with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to offer transitional foster care for unaccompanied minors, has repeatedly said that they oppose the family separation policy and are involved because they believe that the children will suffer less in a family setting than in an institution. In a statement on its website, Bethany argued, "Nobody benefits from creating more orphans." But reform advocates familiar with numerous allegations regarding Bethany's domestic adoption program, relating to coercive and misleading practices with birth parents — some of which I wrote about in my 2013 book, "The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption" — worried that the agency was finding in the separated children a new adoption supply.
Writing at Medium, Kimberly McKee, a Grand Valley State University professor and assistant director of the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network, predicted, "Bethany Christian Services is laying the groundwork to turn these children into adoptable objects — transformed into disciplined bodies acceptable to white America."
On June 20, protesters stood outside Bethany's office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, holding signs that read, "No profit for kidnappers" and "End the contract," a reference to their agreement with the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Bethany's director of refugee and foster care programs, Dona Abbott, responded by telling Fox17 West Michigan that "it would be hard to say we're profiting off of them for adoption when we've not placed any of these children for adoption. And it's so early on to say whether these children will be available for adoption at all."
"If the kids aren't reunified, what would the adoption process even look like?" asked Linh Song, a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work who described avid interest on adoptive parent listservs to take in the children. "Would it be international adoption? Would they have to petition for an orphan visa while being fostered in West Michigan?"
Given that the status of the children was so ambiguous, it remains unclear what policies would apply. Many worried that children being placed in foster care — not just with Bethany, but also other Office of Refugee Resettlement grantees around the country — could end up staying there so long that they would trigger a mechanism within the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act that was intended to keep children from languishing in foster care for years. The law provides that if a child has been in foster care for 15 out of 22 consecutive months, except in cases of relative foster care, child welfare agencies must stop working toward the goal of reunifying the child with their parents and instead, move to terminate parental rights and make the child available for adoption.
That law has become such a pivotal point in the child welfare process that parents whose children are taken into state custody are sometimes shown a video titled "The Clock Is Ticking," emphasizing how quickly they could lose their parental rights if they don't meet the requirements of their child protective services case plan. While in practice, many, many children do still remain in foster care for years — without either reunification or adoption — the law has also meant that parents who receive even short prison sentences for drug offenses may be left with far too little time to meet case plan objectives, such as making court or visitation appointments, and finding employment or housing.
"At a conference I was at several years ago, someone said we shouldn't be surprised to see this as another avenue for adoption."
The same principles could apply to the children separated at the border, legal analyst Danny Cevallos speculated last week on MSNBC. "The initial goal is always reunification and state law usually requires that," said Cevallos. "But the parents can't meet any of the requirements such as visitation if they are detained or removed from the country." He added that, in cases in which foster parents develop an attachment to the child they're caring for and seek to adopt, they often have a leg up on parents who have been separated from their children. Whereas foster parents are in the area and have access to the court system, he said, separated parents "may not even know anything about the process. And by the time they find out, it's possible that parental rights have already been terminated by a court." If court battles do ensue, he continued, the attachment that may have developed between foster parents and their wards could be taken into account by judges who are tasked with making decisions in the "best interest" of a child.
While there does exist an ICE directive that provides detained parents the right to be notified of any custody proceedings regarding their children, ICE isn't required to notify a state child protective agency of a detained parent's location so they could actually be informed. Nor does ICE have to transport parents to custody-related court hearings. Advocates worry that judges or caseworkers may wonder why parents went AWOL and aren't showing up to fight for their child, and may eventually terminate their rights.
JaeRan Kim, a University of Washington professor who researches issues around child welfare and an adoptee herself, recalled that several years ago, as reports began to arise about family separations at the border, some adoption scholars began to worry about exactly this scenario. "At a conference I was at several years ago, someone said we shouldn't be surprised to see this as another avenue for adoption."
Amid massive public outrage, President Donald Trump backtracked on the family separation plan on June 20, indicating that he'll instead seek to detain families together and ultimately overturn the federal settlement, known as "Flores," that mandates that children not be held in detention facilities longer than 20 days. After initial wavering from the administration about whether the at least 2,300 already separated children would be "grandfathered in" to the order came news that either 522 or "several hundred" children had been reunited with their parents. Simultaneously, a New York Times report cited the Department of Homeland Security in explaining that "some children will remain separated from the adults they were traveling with if a family relationship cannot be established or if there are concerns about the children's safety with those adults." And on Wednesday, a week after Trump issued his executive order, the New Yorker reported that migrant families who have arrived at the border since the policy change are still being threatened with separation as a deterrent to applying for asylum, including through being shown videos of crying children being taken away from their parents and of adults dying in immigration detention facilities.
"What's the legal status of the kids down the road?" asked Linh Song. "The longer they stay, will there be foster parents who will contest for custody and adopt? It would be one thing if the kids are going as unaccompanied minors or teens. But if you have an infant with you, I bet there are parents who won't want to give that child up." She said, "What's the likelihood of an indigenous Guatemalan mom fighting a family in western Michigan with access to law firms and large, conservative Christian megachurches? It's really daunting."
"What's the likelihood of an indigenous Guatemalan mom fighting a family in western Michigan with access to law firms and large, conservative Christian megachurches?"
At present, any potential efforts to adopt these children don't have the support of some of the most influential voices in the adoption world. Jedd Medefind, president of the Christian Alliance for Orphans — an umbrella group that once led a movement of evangelicals advocating widespread international adoption as a religious calling, but now focuses more of its efforts on other child welfare issues — said that within his community, there was "concerned speculation" about the implications of the family separation crisis. "Because clearly if a child's temporary separation from their family became permanent, that is a profound tragedy for all involved."
Chuck Johnson, president and CEO of the National Coalition for Adoption, an adoption industry interest group, was even more forceful. "Not only do we not believe these children are candidates for adoption, but as we understand the policies, they would never be considered for adoption." The coalition just wrapped up its annual conference in Washington, D.C., he said, and among the hundreds of child welfare professionals in attendance — including from groups that have contracts or grants with Health and Human Services — "I didn't hear of anyone who said that they'd be willing to work with any family toward completing adoption processes for these children."
"These children — the reason they've come here, the purpose, what's happened to them — I think it would send the world a terrible signal for them to be adopted," Johnson said.
Several former officials with Obama's Health and Human Services Department said they believed that the threat of adoption doesn't track with how they understand federal law to apply. At least as the Office of Refugee Resettlement functioned under Obama, they said, there was no provision for adoption for children in Health and Human Services custody. The forms of foster care offered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement — typically short-term care for young and special needs children, and longer-term care for teenagers who lack U.S. sponsors — are both distinct processes from state foster care and lack a mechanism for adoption. The Adoption and Safe Families Act, they believe, doesn't apply.
State foster care is a child welfare program, which is fundamentally different from the Office of Refugee Resettlement's mission to care for and reunite unaccompanied minors, according to Maria Cancian, the former deputy assistant secretary for policy at Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, which oversees the refugee resettlement bureau. While the latter uses some foster home placements, in addition to a lot of congregate care, such as group homes, Cancian explained, "The mandate is different, the rules are different, the funding is different. It's a really different program."
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Dozens of women, men and their children, many fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador, arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 23, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.
"In [regular] foster care, the kids are typically in state custody because the state has determined that parents are doing an inadequate job keeping the kids safe," said Cancian. "The mission of ORR is principally to reunite children with their parents, where the presumption is that parents are appropriate and adequate parents to provide for their children. It's the circumstances that separated the kids, so it's not like the parents have something to prove in the way that they usually do in a child welfare setting."
On a practical level, Cancian added, state foster care systems are unlikely to want to take in this population, given that they're chronically overburdened already, with many states already lacking enough foster care homes to accommodate the U.S. kids in their care.
Under the Obama administration, the former officials said, the Office of Refugee Resettlement focused on moving children quickly out of government custody into a ranked list of possible guardians: close relatives, who received the vast majority of children; followed by more distant relatives; then family friends. Longer-term stays in foster care were reserved typically for youth who didn't have U.S. guardians to sponsor them. One former official, Marrianne McMullen, the former deputy assistant secretary for policy and external affairs at the Administration for Children and Families, said that although she didn't have a complete overview of the agency's work, she could only recall one adoption that had taken place out of Office of Refugee Resettlement custody, under unusual circumstances.
"It makes sense that they might think that it makes more sense for kids to be adopted by good Christian families in the U.S., instead of deported parents."
She said she couldn't imagine these children being offered for adoption, "but a lot of things are happening that I couldn't have imagined. Could things change? Could the Trump administration overstep? Well, they already have. They're moving out of the realm of child welfare in compromising the welfare of children in order to enforce immigration law. The question is how far will they go in harming children for the sake of enforcing immigration law? It's not alarmist at this point." Given that the Office of Refugee Resettlement's mission has now been further compromised by the demand that they share potential sponsors' personal information and location with ICE — as a recent open letter from one resettlement office counselor details — McMullen added, "It could become such an anti-immigrant police state that [potential guardians] might not claim their own children. It's worth playing out how bad this could be if it's not stopped right now."
"This administration is doing pretty horrific things," said another former official, whose current employer doesn't allow her to speak on the record. "So I can't say that that's not something they'll consider going forward — especially considering they're seemingly paternalistic, with Scott Lloyd's [position] that he's the dad figure and can tell a teenage girl she can't have an abortion" — a reference to the Office of Refugee Resettlement director's maneuvering to prevent minors in custody from terminating pregnancies. "It makes sense that they might think that it makes more sense for kids to be adopted by good Christian families in the U.S., instead of deported parents."
The official added, "I want to be careful to say that could happen."
What such a potential change in policy would require is unclear, the officials agreed. "This was never something that was considered," said the former official. "It goes against the best interests of a kid if the parents did nothing wrong other than being separated." But the 2012 case of Encarnacion Bail Romero, a Guatemalan mother who was arrested on immigration charges while working at a Missouri chicken processing plant, demonstrates that it can happen, as a Missouri judge ruled that the very fact of Bail Romero's illegal immigration made her unfit, since "illegally smuggling herself into the country is not a lifestyle that can provide any stability for the child."
However, Bail Romero's case was also distinct in an important way: She was already living in the U.S. when she was taken into ICE custody and her child ultimately adopted. And that, said Cancian, is likely the more immediate threat when it comes to migrants' children being unethically adopted.
Dozens of women and their children, many fleeing poverty and violence in Honduras, Guatamala and El Salvador, arrive at a bus station following release from Customs and Border Protection on June 22, 2018 in McAllen, Texas.
"I have concerns about everything about this program right now, because of the pressure it's under," said Cancian. When it comes to fears of separated children being adopted, she said, "I would worry about children whose parents have been deported who are in many cases U.S. citizen children." In those cases — where a U.S. citizen child has been living here with her undocumented parents — deportation can very well mean the transfer of the child to state foster care, thereby triggering the Adoption and Safe Families Act timer for how long a parent has to regain custody before their rights are terminated. As the Associated Press noted, a 2017 paper found that, partly due to immigration enforcement, the percentage of Hispanic children in state foster care systems rose by 15 to 21 percent between 2001 and 2015.
Late Tuesday, in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal court in California issued a nationwide injunction to stop the Trump administration from separating families and ordered that all children be reunited with their parents within 30 days. Children younger than 5, the judge ruled, had to be reunited within 14 days. One of the two cases the ACLU brought was on behalf of the Brazilian mother who'd been threatened with adoption if she didn't behave. Whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions appeals the decision, sparking a prolonged court battle, or how the order would be enforced, remain significant unanswered questions, especially as the administration has already conceded that it will have trouble meeting the judge's deadlines. But even if the more than 2,000 currently separated children are returned to their parents within a month, for undocumented parents with U.S. citizen children, that threat — or, in some cases, anxious choice — remains.
"But what happens if a parent is deported to El Salvador and thinks their kid is going to be killed in gang violence and decides it's better for the child to stay in the U.S., and that child is adopted by an American family?"
"If a parent wanted their child back and couldn't find them, and the kid is put in an adoption, that's clearly an inappropriate adoption," said Cancian. "The parent and child want to be together and because we failed to put them in contact, they're not together. That's an easy one. But what happens if a parent is deported to El Salvador and thinks their kid is going to be killed in gang violence and decides it's better for the child to stay in the U.S., and that child is adopted by an American family? How do we think about that?"
"If I were a mother in El Salvador and I had to make that choice, it would really break my heart," she said.
Lauren Heidbrink, an anthropologist at California State University Long Beach and author of "Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State: Care and Contested Interests," is one of the few scholars who has tracked the long-term trajectories of young people who have been in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody, conducting research within the office's facilities from 2006 to 2010. For the last five years, she followed 50 young people who were deported to Mexico or Guatemala after being detained in the U.S. Heidbrink says that adoptions of unaccompanied minors do sometimes take place — not directly from Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities, but rather after they've been reclassified as an unaccompanied refugee minor, rather than an unaccompanied alien minor. (The office of Refugee Resettlement did not respond to a request for comment.) In order for that to happen, migrant children must receive legal status of some sort: asylum, a visa for victims of crime or trafficking, or being recognized as a special immigrant juvenile if they're found to have been abused, neglected, or abandoned.
Cases where children receive the special status deserve particular attention, Heidbrink added, because, unlike asylum applications, crime, or trafficking visas, special immigrant juvenile status is determined by a probate or family court judge seeking to determine the best interests of the child. In those court proceedings, Heidbrink said, "what's presented as abuse, abandonment, or neglect can instead be a parent who was deported or detained."
"When you follow young children for much longer, you see the different trajectories they follow, some of which end in adoption."
While Heidbrink does believe that the federal government has the information necessary to reunite children and parents, she said a mechanism for communication between Health and Human Services's Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the Department of Homeland Security, which detains the adults, is often lacking. "If it doesn't happen, and they're mired in bureaucracy and lack of communication, what I've seen is the parents are deported, they try to find their child in the U.S. foster care system, whether federal or domestic, and it's really difficult to meaningfully participate in those custody proceedings," Heidbrink said. "ORR may say we don't have unaccompanied children being adopted from ORR facilities and that the forced separations we've been seeing at the border won't lead to adoption. But when you follow young children for much longer, you see the different trajectories they follow, some of which end in adoption."
Even in these instances or potential cases in which immigrant children and their parents might want them to be adopted — as a means of securing U.S. citizenship or keeping the child safe — the National Council for Adoption's Chuck Johnson notes that the laws governing adoptees' citizenship have been so restrictively written that they apply only to children who have entered the country for the express purpose of international adoption. It would be unlikely in these cases, he said, that citizenship would then attach to those children.
That recalls a key fight around the time of the Haiti adoption airlifts, when Americans clamored to adopt Haitian children by the thousands, even as Haitian adults were being told — at the U.S. Embassy, through a U.S. Air Force plane broadcasting messages in Creole, and in the form of a fleet of Coast Guard ships patrolling the waters outside Port-au-Prince — not to attempt to flee themselves. To facilitate those adoptions, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., sponsored the Help HAITI Act, a bill that would have ensured that evacuated Haitian children who were adopted by Americans receive U.S. citizenship — something that, as many adult adoptees at risk of deportation know, is not guaranteed. The bill almost didn't pass when rumors flew that Democrats were considering tying it to Obama's DREAM Act, thereby also creating a path to legal residency for undocumented children whose biological parents had brought them into the country. At the time, the website Rightwing News responded with outrage: "Think of it … if Republicans vote against the DREAM Act," a post on the site said, "they would also be voting AGAINST the orphans."
Then, as now, it was a potent illustration of the duality at the heart of discussions of immigration and adoption: of which sorts of people — adults or children — and even which sorts of children — infants or teenagers, those who are brought across the border by white adoptive parents or their brown biological ones — are viewed as worthy of help.
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Kimberly McKee's academic affiliation. She is a professor at Grand Valley State University.
This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, now known as Type Investigations.
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Consolidating defined benefit (DB) pension schemes could cut employers' costs by £500m per annum collectively, according to JLT Employee Benefits (JLT), a leading UK pensions and employee benefits consultancy. Scheme consolidation is one of the recommendations JLT is making following publication of its latest white paper titled, 'How do we get out of this Pensions Black Hole?', which attempts to find a lasting settlement on ballooning DB pension deficits.
The £500 million savings would result from a reduction in administration and investment costs , as well as lower actuarial, covenant and legal costs, by consolidating the 5,500 smaller DB pensions schemes with less than 5,000 members to 500* larger schemes as proposed by the PLSA. This would equate to total savings of £10 billion over 40 years, which is the estimated time by which all DB pension schemes will have closed entirely.
savings on buy-out and buy-ins, because simpler schemes are more attractive to insurers.
In the last ten years, the gap between the assets and the liabilities of DB pension schemes has almost doubled. The total deficit is now £900 billion which is the equivalent of £83,000 for every member of the remaining 5,800 or so DB schemes. In 2016 alone, the deficit per member has jumped by 14%.
John Wilson, Head of Technical, JLT Employee Benefits, comments: "With the prospect of millennials being the first generation to have worse pensions than their parents, the chance to try and escape this pensions 'black hole' and to address the intergenerational unfairness of legacy DB pension schemes is an opportunity not to be missed. Therefore, all stakeholders, including employers, trustees, members, policy makers and the pensions industry, should act together and explore the options for achieving a lasting DB settlement.
* Research assumptions: The estimated total running cost for all private sector DB pension schemes with less than 5,000 members is £1bn p.a.. The calculations assume the cost savings if all schemes with less than 5,000 members merged to form schemes with 5000+ members, therefore incurring similar costs to those incurred by such larger schemes. As schemes would be segregated, the valuation costs of the merged schemes and the levies they pay would not change.
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Franz Brentano (1838-1917)
A Life
Brentano's Youth
Brentano on Aristotle
As a Lecturer in Würzburg
Wiener Lebensjahre
Selected Bibliography on Brentano
Brentano's Works
Italian Translations
Franz Brentano Centenary Conference 2017
International Conference on Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Brentano and his context
Franz Brentano's Life and Work
Franz Brentano in Münster
Franz Brentano in Italy
Brentano's Bibliography: Works in German
The School of Brentano
Heinrich Denifle
The Viennese pupils
Other pupils
Family Brentano in Europe
Lujo Brentano (1844-1931)
Heinrich von Brentano (1904-1964)
Johann Christian Michael Brentano (1888-1964)
Ida Lieben Brentano (1852-1894)
Ignaz Lieben (1805-1862)
Ignaz L. Lieben – Preis
Ignaz-Lieben-Gesellschaft
Emilie Genger Brentano (1810-1882)
Christian Brentano (1784-1851)
H. Newman and Brentano
John H. Newman on Franz Brentano
A New Franz Brentano International Journal
Antonio Russo cv
Antonio Marturano cv
Card. Walter Kasper on Antonio Russo
Max Seckler on Antonio Russo
During his first course in History of Philosophy, in Würzburg, in the winter semester of the academic year 1866-67, Brentano gave a long introduction to the concept and method of philosophy. The conclusion he reached, and which he always maintained, was that, in order to respond to the criticisms addressed to philosophy and overcome his state of indigence, it is necessary to highlight criteria for interpreting the events of the history of thought.
In order to fully understand these instances, which then branch out in a variety of ways and implications, it is necessary here to keep in mind once again the personal and scientific context in which they arise, that is where they are conceived and elaborated as expressions of the speculative development of the personality of Brentano in the years immediately preceding Vatican Council I. In other words, it is necessary to grasp in its essential features the dense fabric of relationships that intervenes to connect the unitary and underlying needs of Brentano's thought in the years of its formation and teaching in Würzburg, to be able to understand the various elements that make it up. Before trying to clarify the question of the method in Brentano, it is necessary, therefore, to keep in mind not only his dissent and the highly critical analyzes of Schelling, but also the further developments and the ex-positive reasons of his argument, in an attempt to identify a canon of speculative and historical justification of the correct method to be applied in philosophy. Here it is a question of the meaning and importance of his interest in Stagirita, that is, ultimately of Brentan's attempt at a renewed rereading of Aristotle and his best medieval disciple and commentator.
But what is the meaning, in this context, of the return to Aristotle for Brentano? To answer this question it is necessary to keep in mind the various periods of the history of philosophy and the constants in the stages of rebirth and speculative luxuriance, comparing them with each other and, finally, obtaining indications for the future fourth period, to which the same Brentano hints here and there.
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Serval - Field testing of arsenic in groundwater samples of Bangladesh using a test kit based on lyophilized bioreporter bacteria.
Field testing of arsenic in groundwater samples of Bangladesh using a test kit based on lyophilized bioreporter bacteria.
Siegfried K., Endes C., Bhuiyan A.F., Kuppardt A., Mattusch J., van der Meer J.R., Chatzinotas A., Harms H.
A test kit based on living, lyophilized bacterial bioreporters emitting bioluminescence as a response to arsenite and arsenate was applied during a field campaign in six villages across Bangladesh. Bioreporter field measurements of arsenic in groundwater from tube wells were in satisfying agreement with the results of spectroscopic analyses of the same samples conducted in the lab. The practicability of the bioreporter test in terms of logistics and material requirements, suitability for high sample throughput, and waste disposal was much better than that of two commercial chemical test kits that were included as references. The campaigns furthermore demonstrated large local heterogeneity of arsenic in groundwater, underscoring the use of well switching as an effective remedy to avoid high arsenic exposure.


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