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OTTAWA — "You'll need to volunteer yourself for this," reads a tag line at the bottom of a GIF the Liberal party used to mobilize young Canadians during the last federal election.
The GIF is a scene from "Arrested Development," the critically acclaimed television show, in which socially inept Buster tells his brother, Michael: "Mom volunteered me for the army. Just because the fat man dared her to."
The GIF on the party website includes only the first part of that quote, but it is one of several pieces of content the Liberals used last fall to connect with and encourage young voters to cast a ballot.
Six months after the last election campaign, the impact of the Liberals' outreach to 18- and 24-year-olds — a fully developed media campaign that addressed young Canadians on issues such as marijuana legalization, youth jobs, the environment, affordable post-secondary education and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning and two-spirited people, otherwise known as LGBTQ2 rights — is getting more attention.
A new survey out Tuesday from Abacus Data suggests young Canadians were critical to the Liberal party's majority victory on Oct. 19.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau addresses students and staff during a campaign event at St. Thomas University Wednesday, October 7, 2015 in Fredericton. (Photo: Paul Chiasson/CP)
Forty-five per cent of Canadians aged 18 to 25 voted Liberal, compared with 25 per cent for the NDP and 20 per cent for the Conservative Party, the online poll of 1,000 suggests.
More young people voted for the Liberals in every region of the country, including in Alberta, than for any other party.
The Liberals' gains came mostly at the expense of the NDP, the Abacus survey indicates. Forty-three per cent of young voters who had gone NDP in 2011 voted Liberal in 2015, while 29 per cent of young Tory voters switched to the Grits.
The online survey of Canadians aged 18 to 25 was conducted between Feb. 8 and 15. The margin of error for a comparable probability-based random sample of the same size is +/- 3.2%, 19 times out of 20.
'Young people coalesced around one option'
"Young people affected the last election in a way they haven't in the past," David Coletto, the CEO of Abacus Data, told The Huffington Post Canada. "We see much higher evidence of a higher turnout among those under 34, and, really for the first time since 1997, young people coalesced around one option."
Coletto said he believes "young people really gave the Liberals a majority."
"The Liberals probably would have won, had [youth] turnout been what it was in 2011, but I think [the increase in the youth vote] really pushed them over."
While the Liberals' vote grew by double-digits across all age groups, Coletto's survey suggests that the increase in support among young people was most impressive as it represented a 30-point swing among voters aged 18 to 29 and a 31-point swing among those aged 30 to 44.
His findings are similar to a Statistics Canada survey from February that also reported a 12-point increase in voter turnout for youth aged 18 to 24, and an 11-point increase for those age aged 25 to 34.
Youth influence not so 'trivial'
Back in 2013, when HuffPost first wrote about then newly elected Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's efforts to reach out to young people with a pledge to legalize marijuana and by making numerous campus visits, pollsters Frank Graves from EKOS and Darrell Bricker of Ipsos Public Affairs cast doubt on the strategy.
Young people have a "trivial influence" on election outcomes because of their declining voting rates, Graves told HuffPost.
"If the youth voted, it would change a lot," Bricker added. "But you first need them to show up."
Young people, he said, don't vote because they don't think their vote matters.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau poses with Caitlynn Charteris, Jay Cee Hebron and Tory Shynkaruk as he visits the Saskatchewan Roughrider practice field on Friday, July 5, 2013, in Regina. (Photo: Roy Antal/CP)
During the 2011 election, Elections Canada estimated, less than 39 per cent of young Canadians cast a ballot. In 2008, the agency's best guess was that 37 per cent of 18- to 24-year-olds had participated.
Canada's chief electoral officer, Marc Mayrand, was particularly concerned about the low turnouts.
"If young people understood their collective influence and started to vote at the same rate as the general population, then that would mean 700,000 more votes at the election. That is bound to have an influence," Mayrand told HuffPost.
While it may not have been a sure bet, Liberals did set out to engage what they believed would be a core demographic for their electoral strategy, and they devoted considerable resources to involving young people, especially in the last weeks of the 2015 election.
Betting on youth proved expensive
At the outset of the campaign, the Liberals found identifying young voters online to be expensive, said Tom Pitfield, the person responsible for the Liberals' digital campaign and the current head of the think tank Canada 2020. So the party focused on other segments of voters, while it knocked on campus doors and pushed its message out to young people through shareable campaigns.
As HuffPost first outlined in a piece about the Liberals' winning strategy immediately after the election, Trudeau's team designed a campaign titled #matters that focused solely on young people's issues. A microsite, built by Pitfield's team of 20-somethings, included compelling digital videos featuring real people, some of which went viral and helped the Liberals spread their message beyond the youth demographic to their parents, teachers and siblings.
A few days before on-campus advance polls opened on Oct. 5, the Grits made a big and expensive push on Facebook, Youtube, and Vice, among other sites, to get their message out, Pitfield said.
Trudeau also sat down for with Vice for a town hall in which he urged young people to head out to the polls, a key point of the #matters campaign, telling them "Stephen Harper doesn't want you to vote." The clip went viral.
One of the best explanations for the importance of voting that I've ever heard. And I would have given kudos to Harper or Mulcair had they said it too.
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"We hit hard," Pitfield said. "We spent a lot of money doing it and reaching out to [youth] based on the content that they engaged in."
The Liberals were also aided by having a party leader who was, in Pitfield's words, "likeable" and who connected well with young people.
"We did use it to our advantage in any way we could."
The Liberals' electoral strategy depended on bringing new voters to the polls, and they did. Voter turnout rose from 61.1 per cent in 2011 to 68.5 per cent — the highest since 1993.
"I think the lesson is: Don't write off young people. Don't write them off as being apathetic and unengaged."
— David Coletto, Abacus Data CEO
Getting young people out to vote was also helped in part by an Elections Canada pilot project that included new polling stations on some university campuses and in community centres.
Another reason for the higher voter turnout among young Canadians, Coletto suggests, is all the get-out-the-vote campaigns by organizations such as Apathy is Boring and the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, which commissioned his survey. More than one-third, 37 per cent, of the voting youth reported being encouraged to vote by an organization working to increase turnout among younger voters, the Abacus survey suggest.
Millennials a force in 2019
So what does it all mean?
Coletto believes the young people — millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000 — could constitute the largest voting group in 2019, becoming an influential and powerful block.
"I think the lesson is: Don't write off young people. Don't write them off as being apathetic and unengaged."
For Trudeau's government, keeping young voters happy and engaged is key to a successful re-election strategy, Coletto added.
So far, he sees signs the Liberals are listening to their younger demographic of voters. Trudeau appointed himself minister of youth, and the federal budget included many policies and programs aimed at youth employment and affordable post-secondary education, he noted.
"It's not easy to get young people engaged and get them to turn out again, so I think the results suggest that as we head towards the next election, as far away as that is, this government, probably more than any government before, has a real motivation to keep young people engaged … and I think that's a fundamental change."
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Hartley Bay, B.C. — "As we were walking around in this very very small Northern B.C. town, a woman spots the boss walking by through her window and quickly invites him in to say hello. "I didn't really care to go into her house, that was somebody's home and he was invited and we weren't. I happily stayed outside and ended up getting this great photo through the window with this wonderful woman that he ended up meeting."
Amherst, N.S. — "This is a great story of how interconnected we are as Canadians to different parts of our country. The photo in the background is the prime minister meeting this woman in Calgary at the Stampede and the photo was taken in Nova Scotia, and she showed up saying 'Hey! I'm the one on your bus.' I think we saw her one more time in the campaign in a totally different area as well. Each time, it was just a magical moment, because this woman was just so excited to see him, meet the team and now she actually got to be a part of it, in a way she could only have imagined as the setting of a great campaign bus wrap."
Hamilton, Ont. — "Here's a picture from one of our rallies with former prime minister Jean Chrétien, and he is a force all on his own to get people riled up and very, very excited. But it was fun to watch the two of them work in tandem and then see Mr. Chrétien stand aside and listen to the prime minister deliver his remarks in his speech and get the crowd worked up. I think this expression on his face really says it all without having to caption it."
Calgary, Alb. — "This is from the early days of the campaign. We were a very ragtag small team flying coast to coast. We were still flying commercial at this point. We ended up getting to Calgary in this room which — we were only expecting about 150 people — ended up having three or four hundred. And there are even more people waiting around out back in the parking lot. Of course, everybody wanted to be inside, and we crammed [in] as many people as we could. As soon as you cross this point where these kids and their father are standing, you actually got hit by a heatwave — just because it was so warm and humid inside with all the bodies."
St. Thomas University, Fredericton, N.B. — "Here is a photo of Meghan Gulliver out East in New Brunswick. She actually got a tattoo that reads: 'Just watch me' with the maple leaf on it. And it’s a photo of her showing me her tattoo with the prime minister in the background, which just reminds me how much of an impact we can have on people's lives and how meaningful he is to some people, which is a great reminder of why we are in this job in the first place."
Brampton, Ont. — "Here we are at the Brampton rally, with about 7,000 supporters, in the last month of the campaign. It was absolutely amazing to see a hockey arena filled up with well-wishers and to see the family move throughout the crowd. A lot of what we do on a day-to-day basis is not just tell you know here's a photo of the PM — or the candidate at the time — it is the story around him. What did the event look like to other people. Here is a great example of how enthusiastic people were just to be there."
Calgary, Alb. — "I love [this one] because of the hands. Everybody wants to meet him, everybody wants to shake his hand. Everybody wants to share a story that they've had, either with him or with a family member of his, whether it is his mother or his father, and they just want to be a part of that — and I think it really comes across in this. And it also comes across in terms of how open he is, and how engaged he is in meeting people. He could stand in one spot for two or three hours shaking hands in this manner. And he will be just as high energy at the end as when he started."
Calgary, Alb. — "This is the inside of the previous photos event. After having moved around the room a bit and gotten some of the typical photos that you would need from these events, I moved to the back of the room as that is how he had planned to exit and then my camera started fogging up. There were, I think it was 2,000 or 3,000 people inside, and you can see the lens flaring. And what I would have to do is take a photo, wipe my camera lens, take another photo and then it would fog up by that time again. And at that point, I think it really hit home that something crazy was about to happen."
Toronto, Ont. — "It was primarily myself and the EA Tommy [Desfossés], travelling around with the boss. It’s a very barebones team. He would always remind us that if you see something wrong, try to fix it, don’t expect other people to come along and fix it. And sure enough that is displayed here, when he noticed that somebody unbeknownst to them had a flat tire, and he ended up getting out as we were at a red light to let them know about their flat tire. It's just a comical moment illustrating who he is and 'do have fun in your job, but also try to help others as much as you can, no matter what that is.'"
Ottawa, Ont. — "This is just a photo of my father, who was visiting me on the Hill one day for lunch, and of course, is just happy to see me at work doing the same job that he did in the halls of Parliament and also happy to run into the boss. "He asked if the prime minister liked his Mickey Mouse tie, which is a family mainstay for us. We all like Mickey Mouse ties to try to lighten the mood and remind ourselves to have fun every day."
Ottawa, Ont. — "They let me be there for private moments. It enables me to do my job to the best of my ability, and it means that, for the historical record, there is a thorough telling of the story but also, for themselves, they have great memories to look back on. And certainly for the kids, they have great memories to look back on. And especially in day of iPhones and Samsung Galaxies at least this allows them to have a very good quality image as opposed to a just dinky camera phone. "Everybody always says 'Oh, it’s just for the photo op,' but really what I try to do is recognize people as much as I can. I wouldn’t be with him if I didn’t like him as an individual. How he fathers his kids, and how he works as a team with Sophie, is a measure of how great people they really are. How down-to-earth they are."
Manila, Philippines — "Here's a photo from one of our meetings. It's not so much about the one or two key players in the meeting but it's a story around the meeting and who else is taking part and what else is going on. "For example, I have my mother's last name simply because my parents decided to give me my mother’s last name. Growing up, I have always been very attuned to women in the workplace, as my mother was the breadwinner for the family for a while and it’s given me a different perspective of many of the things that we do. And this is just one of those moments where one side of the room had a lot more women than the other. And it hits home. It’s nice to be able to illustrate that in an artistic way without necessarily meaning anything from it, as opposed to pointing it out and saying this is still a reality."
Ottawa, Ont. — "This is a more lighthearted moment from the past year, where our office had been given a bunch of old negatives from a TV show that had gone into archives and copied them. But old negatives are not necessarily true colours, so what you need to do is you need to take an iPhone, invert the colour and then you can look at the negatives themselves as how they were shot. So this is a fun photo of old technology meets new and a reminder how things used to be done in this job and what goes into the job now. "He loves to learn about new technology, so any fun fact or fun work-around, whatever you call it, he likes to learn it. They are photos of Mr. Trudeau senior, and some of Justin, but not many, and it’s all stuff that we scanned and put away on hard drive for future reference…. Most were taken by the first person to be photographer to a PM, Robert Cooper."
Montreal, Que. — "Here is a picture of him working on his speech before his nomination in Papineau in November of last year. And I think Ella is drawing alongside him on a different piece of paper. It's always great to have the kids around, it reminds us to relax a little bit, have some fun, have a couple of laughs, and they are a great calming influence on us all because they remind us of those things."
Ottawa, Ont. — "This is a picture of the candidate at the time, Mr. Trudeau, being informed by Air Canada staff that Prime Minister Harper did, in fact, call the election as we were on our way to Vancouver to walk in the Pride parade as well as launch the campaign on the West Coast. "We'd asked the cabin crew if they could radio down to ground control, and ground control notified them as soon as anything had happened. We got a little printout, teletext message or telegraph message, as to what had happened and when we would actually vote. … We were all relieved to finally get things kicked off in a more official manner."
Iqaluit, Nunavut — "This was our second to last week, flying out of Iqaluit heading home, and just the beauty of it. We actually managed to take off in the evening, and we saw the northern lights from the plane. Seeing the Northern Lights is one thing, but seeing them from the plane is an entirely different experience."


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Nymph - Mixed media Portrait
What can I tell you, beside the immense pleasure that I felt, creating this painting. It was created during the night when the house was quiet and I was able to listen and to feel more. It´s a Nymph!
I hope you like it as much as I do :)
It can be yours here.
Thanks for stopping by.

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A million tenants every day pick up a tin of beans and say yes that’s me!
As yet another two private registered providers – that’s the correct name of housing associations – announces yet another merger to make a new monolithic feudal landlord today I am wondering when the social tenant became such a mere commodity, a tin of beans, as they are now?
On the same day the Housing Ombudsman announces an 18% increase in social tenant complaints too! … but then is that typical HA … oops private registered provider comms or just an another example that they done give a sh*t (or should that be f*rt) about what they have the gall to call customers in social tenants?
I am especially wondering why the 5.5 million of so parents of voting age that are social tenants in the 4.3 million UK council and private registered provider homes have never mobilised and united as a lobby or power bloc as they would be extremely powerful on the political stage and frighten the you know what out of these self-proclaimed social (sic) landlords who treat the social tenant as a unit, as a commodity?
Who are you social tenant? (And yes Roger Daltry really did this!)
You are feckless. You accept whatever crap your landlord throws at you and they are throwing crap with increasing regularity at you for years and still you remain apathetic and silent.
Yesterday Karen Buck MP re-introduced a Bill to make all homes fit for human habitation and to drag landlords kicking and screaming into the 18th Century never mind the 21st! How did it ever come to pass that so-called social landlords do not even have to offer up housing that is fit for human habitation!
Why have you social tenant let the wonderful 1948 Welfare State creation of public housing to slay the giant of squalor lapse back to a state of feudal landlords of which 63% of what we laughingly call social landlords are private registered providers aka housing associations – who by virtue of being private have no statutory duties to house and rehouse those most in need?
Yes that’s right 2 in every 3 of what we call social landlords (sic) have no duties whatsoever to house those most in housing need. Why have social tenants and the unions, the Labour movement, activists and the general public allowed this cancer on the Welfare State to happen?
How can the rest of mainland Europe have far more private rented housing than the UK yet not have the massive housing crisis of affordability that we have in the UK? They regulate all landlords is the answer yet here in the UK no landlord has to even ensure properties are fit for human habitation!
Hopefully (!) in the context of minority government and the catalyst of Grenfell in terms of the safety of housing this fit for human habitation Bill has a much greater chance of being made law than it did when originally presented and rejected by the last Tory government. How f*cking disgraceful is it that a chance of the law ensuring where 37% of the UK public live – that is 24 million men, women and children – is fit for human habitation is dependent on the perverse political context we now have?!
Everybody now finally recognises that the UK has a housing crisis (more correctly a series of interlinked housing crises) and is that because the public, the electorate, only see housing as a bricks and mortar investment and not as a place of stability where we can raise our children in health and safety? There is a plethora of academic discourse going back decades on how much more poor quality housing costs the NHS and by extension everyone’s taxes yet nobody has been frankly arsed to even read it let alone consider and act upon it.
The cost of everything and the value of nothing has been cynically applied to rented housing by all concerned and for too long.
… the 4.3 million social (sic) housing properties will contain around 5.63 million parents and some adult children eligible to vote and who, if mobilised and united, would become one of THE strongest and most powerful lobby groups we have and would reverse decades of apathy towards all forms of rented housing especially public sector and genuinely affordable housing, and who would frighten the shit out of any government and ensure that our children and their children would have a fit for human habitation and a safe and secure roof over their heads which everyone must agree is a basic human right in the 21st Century!
The answer is there and its way past time for apathy and inaction
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Sami Tannoury promoted to Associate of EVOQ
December 10, 2015
EVOQ is proud to announce that architect Sami Tannoury has been promoted to Associate of the firm. He joined the firm in 2007 and has proven to be a creative thinker and an innovative designer for projects in the far north. Sami’s understanding of cultural and socio-economic factors facing Inuit and First Nations communities is reflected in his designs which are embraced by local people.
Sami is an effective project manager with exceptional planning skills, recognized for his collaborative approach with clients. The Salluit Community Pool and housing projects with Makivik Corporation are great examples of his contribution to the development of northern communities. Congratulations Sami!

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Goneril is one of the complex and fascinating characters in William Shakespeare's renowned tragedy, King Lear. As the eldest daughter of King Lear, she plays a significant role in the dramatic events that unfold throughout the play.
Described as cunning and ambitious, Goneril initially presents herself as a loving and devoted daughter to her father. She professes her undying love for him during the infamous love test, where Lear asks his daughters to express their love for him in order to divide his kingdom. Goneril's eloquent words win her a substantial portion of the kingdom, along with her sister Regan.
However, as the play progresses, Goneril's true nature is revealed. Her love for power and her thirst for control become apparent as she begins to undermine her father's authority. She challenges Lear's authority in her own home, disrespecting him and his knights. Goneril's actions display her manipulative and deceptive personality, as she plots to gain complete control over the kingdom.
Goneril's transformation into a villainous character is a significant turning point in the play. Her actions not only anger Lear but also contribute to the tragic downfall of the entire kingdom. She joins forces with her equally conniving sister, Regan, in their cruel treatment of their father. They strip him of his power, leaving him vulnerable and exposed to the harsh elements.
Despite her wickedness, Goneril is not without complexity. Shakespeare provides glimpses of her internal struggles and the consequences of her actions. She is torn between her desire for power and her strained relationship with her husband, the Duke of Albany. As the play progresses, Goneril's ambition consumes her, leading her to commit heinous acts in pursuit of her goals.
Ultimately, Goneril meets a tragic end, as her thirst for power leads to her downfall. She becomes entangled in a web of deceit, betrayal, and violence, which ultimately consumes her. Her story serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unchecked ambition and the destructive power of deceit.

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If you wish to take a various type of trip this year with your better half, take into consideration a romantic escape at an inn in Breckenridge. This town lies in Colorado at the base of the Rocky Mountains so you can be certain of having an outstanding view of nature if you visit this area. If you and your partner love huge journeys of the great outdoors in the morning and after that delighting in a relaxing dinner over a glass of wine at night, then this place is the ideal one for you.
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A former conservative commentator for Fox News, who ran a $4 million super PAC against the Democrats in 2012, has started a new super PAC apparently to make independent expenditures against former Secretary of State and former Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. Hillary Clinton has not announced she is a candidate.
Dick Morris’ Just Say No to Hillary PAC was registered at the Federal Election at the end of this week. The treasurer is Nancy Watkins in Tampa, Florida. She is a specialist in campaign finance law and provides accounting services to many political committees. Watkins also registered a second PAC, Just Say No to Hillary PAC.
Dick Morris was a political adviser to Bill Clinton when Clinton was Governor of Arkansas and President, but is now a strong critic of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Political MoneyLine reported earlier that Super PAC for America had donated $150,000 in 2013 to super PACs supporting the 2014 re-election of Sen. Mitch McConnell. Super PAC for America reported $158,771 cash on hand as of 6/30.

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Great opportunity to acquire Retail & Delivery Licenses in San Francisco, CA (Population 3M+). These licenses are located in one of the major markets for cannabis consumption in California. Currently the owners have city approvals in hand and have not applied for the state license. Representing a greater value, this way the new owner could simply apply for the state license under their information, removing the extensive transferring process and making it a smoother transition. Owners also have approved building plans that the new owner could use, making this project construction ready! The business is not operational, the new owner must complete the buildout and licensing phase in order to become operational.
Earlier in the month, the City of San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance to suspend the Cannabis Business Tax for the 2021 and 2022 Tax Years!!!
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I'm Not Naughty - I'm Autistic: Jodi's Journey
Bisher € 24,79
Besorgung - Lieferbarkeit unbestimmt
BeschreibungWritten by his mother but told from Jodi's perspective, this is an insightful account of growing up with autism. The difficulties faced by 13-year-old Jodi and his family (obtaining a diagnosis, seeking support and, above all, learning to live with autism twenty-four hours a day) are not underplayed, but are recounted with empathy and humour.
InhaltsverzeichnisForeword by Jean Shaw. Jodi's Journey by Jean Shaw writing as Jodi Shaw. Final Word by Jean Shaw.
PortraitJean Shaw, the mother of two children, is a housewife and full time carer. She hopes that the story of her autistic son will reassure and help many other ordinary families and also educate the general public about the problems associated with autism.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBL INC
Erscheinungsdatum: Juni 2002
Seitenanzahl: 128 Seiten

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The best stock is like beauty - it is in the eye of the beholder. Your ugly duckling might be my beautiful swan and visa versa. That is why it is important not to blindly follow others - even stocks we discuss on this site. You must do your own research to find the best stock for you.
This tweet from Ian Cassel, founder of the MicroCapClub provides insight:
Because your goals and circumstances are different from mine, the best stocks for your portfolio may be different from mine.
With that disclaimer in mind, there are many characteristics that we look for when selecting our "Best Stocks" and we hope these discussions will inform your decision making as you search for the best stocks for your portfolio.
But be warned, finding your best stock is not enough. Buying it at the best price will have a big impact of how much money you make from investing in stocks.
So we will encourage to to put together a list of at least 10 best stocks (you will find over time this list will grow to 20 or 50 or 100) of stocks you want to buy at the best price. Then you strike opportunistically when a stock enters the "Best Price" zone.

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Time to Get Real on Climate Change
Season 3 Episode 18 | 24m 42s Video has closed captioning.
This week, as the White House issued a landmark report detailing the frightening effects of global warming on our country, Bill Moyers talks with a scientist who has sounded the alarm for decades. David Suzuki, host of the Canadian TV series, “The Nature of Things,” believes that the current situation is not hopeless but says, “Our politicians should be thrown in the slammer for willful blindness.
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How much food do you throw away? Chris discusses with Jen the problems of global food and water waste in this week's 6 Minute English.
This week's question:
How much food is wasted every year around the world? Is it:
a) 5,000 tonnes
b) 1 million tonnes
c) 1.3 billion tonnes
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme.
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come to the end of the acceptable time to eat
badly organised, wasteful
- take their toll
have a bad effect on
- food for thought
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Sales executive and author Larry Kendall to speak at College of Business Administration's Distinguished Lecture Series
Monday, Sept. 29, 2014
MANHATTAN — Larry Kendall, founding partner of The Group Inc. and author of "Ninja Selling," will be the fall 2014 speaker for the Kansas State University College of Business Administration's Distinguished Lecture Series.
Kendall's lecture will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in the ballroom at the K-State Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public.
An expert in sales training, Kendall has been engaged in the real estate business for 41 years. His company, The Group Inc., has 200 sales partners in six offices in northern Colorado. Realtor magazine has named The Group Inc. the most productive real estate company in the United States as measured by transactions per sales associate.
Kendall's sales training system, "Ninja Selling," has more than 40,000 graduates in the United States, Canada and Spain, and is taught in the College of Business Administration's National Strategic Selling Institute.
In addition to his professional success, Kendall and his wife, Pat, who are both Kansas State University alumni, have been key contributors to the College of Business Administration. In 2008 they established the Kendall Scholarship for Overseas Experience, which provides 35-40 College of Business Administration students each year with financial assistance for studying abroad. They also have provided substantial financial support for the National Strategic Selling Institute, including funds to send students to sales competitions and the purchase of advanced technology for the sales labs.
"Larry has been a tremendous mentor to me and our students,” said Dawn Deeter, director of the National Strategic Selling Institute. "The institute would not be the success it is today without the help and generous support of Larry Kendall, and we are thrilled to have him on campus for our Distinguished Lecture Series."
The College of Business Administration's Distinguished Lecture Series brings successful business professionals to campus. Lectures are given every semester and are sponsored by Commerce Bank and the William T. Kemper Foundation.


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Guernsey ahead of the game on GDPR preparations, Carey Olsen conference told
Guernsey is ahead of its competitors in preparing for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which could provide the island with significant opportunities in the data sector.
This view was reflected at a fully-subscribed Carey Olsen conference where Data Protection Commissioner Emma Martins said that GDPR is ensuring that we do not “hurtle headlong into a digital future” without appropriate protections. Ms Martins said that, rather than being regulatory red tape, GDPR provided an opportunity to respond proactively to the “datafication” of individuals’ personal and business lives.
Work has begun on drafting a Guernsey law which will be broadly equivalent to the EU regulation and which will assist in maintaining the current adequacy status which allows data flow between the island and Europe with minimal barriers.
States of Guernsey Chief Information Officer Colin Vaudin said: “Guernsey is probably the most proactive of jurisdictions preparing for GDPR. We are well ahead of our competitor jurisdictions and this is being recognised. Whilst there is no room for complacency it does provide an opportunity to enhance our reputation as a secure, well-regulated place to live and work.”
Carey Olsen counsel Richard Field said: “Guernsey engaged with the EU from a very early stage, they can see we are making progress and we have had positive feedback. The feeling is that we are ahead of many European countries in terms of our preparations.”
He said it was important that the business community engaged with the working party consulting on the new law, collaboratively working across sectors.
“I’m keen to hear of any issues so that we can take them into account and feed them back to Government,” he said.
Mr Vaudin said that Guernsey was one of the first “third countries” to engage with the European Commission data protection unit and had been represented at meetings with the Department for Exiting the European Union and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Carey Olsen partner Mark Dunster said: “The future of regulatory standards across Europe is uncertain, so we want to be at the front of the queue to maintain adequacy and keep our good reputation. The island has long been somewhere where we pride ourselves at being at the top end of the regulatory track. People can rely on us for secure transactions and good standards of business.”
“If you are not thinking about GDPR already, you really ought to now. Businesses will need guidance on both the legal and technology fronts. We have an experienced team and are happy to work with businesses to prepare and put them in touch with other providers if the issue requires a technology solution.”

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SALT LAKE CITY — Adorable fluff balls of various shapes and sizes run around in little pens, in a room with pastel colors and a fun feel.
The little beings let out yips and yaps, as they hop with puppy energy.
Some would envy Victoria Burgoyne, who played with puppies all day as part of her job at The Puppy Store in Saratoga Springs.
Victoria, who has two fur babies of her own, loves dogs.
“Come here!” Victoria clapped, to her young dog Cowboy, in her living room. Wrangling the energetic Red Heeler can be a bit of a rodeo. Her older rescue dog Timmo, on the other hand, is the calm golden child.
He patiently sat, and gave Victoria a high five on command.
“Good boy!” she exclaimed, praising Timmo.
The dog lover enjoyed her job of working with puppies all day long when she was hired late last summer.
“We gave them vaccines, we bathed them, fed them, cleaned up after them,” she said, adding that they mopped several times a day to keep the store clean and presentable.
Victoria occasionally took pictures and videos of the happy, playful pups. She said she worked in the back of the store.
That meant Victoria saw the dogs when they first arrived to the store. She began to notice a few things, that she found bothersome.
“The puppies arrived at all throughout the night,” Victoria said.
She described how a truck brought the dogs in, often from around the country.
“They’re really dirty when they get there,” she said. “They don't smell the greatest. A lot of times they have diarrhea when they first come in.”
After employees like Victoria bathed and cleaned the dogs, she said they’d put the dogs on the floor for sale, for upwards of $1,000 to $3,000.
If customers asked them where the dogs came from, she indicated The Puppy Store told employees not to disclose exact details.
“They tell us not to give out breeder information, they’re so adamant,” she said.
Eventually, it led to Victoria to do a little research on the dogs.
“Once in a while, I would look at the breeder information on the sheet,” she said. She was shocked by what she found.
The Puppy Store advertises online, social media, and in their stores that dogs only come from licensed breeders with registration and pedigrees.
“We would get them through a broker, which was called J.A.K.’s,” Victoria said.
FOX 13 looked up the company J.A.K.’s, and found the Iowa-based business supplies pet stores across the country with dogs from breeders. Most of the breeders appear to be located in the Midwest.
The company’s business practices have come under scrutiny before, including by the Iowa Attorney General.
The nonprofit organization Companion Animal Protection Society (CAPS) went undercover at breeder facilities that work with J.A.K.’s.
One video is with a man in Wisconsin, who sells various breeds of dogs including Pekingese.
The breeder tells the CAPS investigator that he sells his dogs to a broker, who in turn sells the dogs to pet stores.
“You don`t sell them to J.A.K.`s by chance, do you?” the investigator asks.
“Yeah,” the breeder responds.
They both walk around the man’s facility. Numerous dogs in wire-bottom cages with feces underneath bark and run around.
At one point, the man brings out a mom with matted fur, explaining that she’s about at the end of her breeding years.
“She isn’t used to being on the loose, and just, she’s in the kennel all the time,” the breeder says, explaining why the dog won’t move.
“That`s what she knows, right? Yeah,” the investigator comments.
FOX 13 found the breeder in Wisconsin, as well as other breeders, are up-to-date on USDA licenses. Facility inspection records and violations are not searchable online.
CAPS posted a video at another Wisconsin breeder’s farm. He explains how he needed to build a new building in order to get his facility up to code.
Inside one of the rooms, several puppy litters swarm about in narrow pens in the darkness. The CAPS video makes note of the lack of light in the room.
“You better have a lot of dogs and sell volume, in order to… in order to make it pay off,” the breeder says.
The investigator responds: “Otherwise it’s just not worth it.”
The man explains how USDA regulations are more relaxed, compared to State of Wisconsin regulations for breeding.
He complains that people refer to their operations as puppy mills.
“We’re fully licensed, and we have to do everything by the book,” he says.
Licensed and registered—just like pet stores that sell those dogs, promise.
The Humane Society of Utah argues that just because a breeder is licensed, doesn’t mean conditions for the dogs are ideal, or what some would consider humane.
“Some of them have never even touched grass or been out of that cage,” said Deann Shepherd, HSU Director of Marketing and Communications. “They're just bred over and over.”
Late one afternoon, an HSU team brought in 11 puppies from Nevada and situated them in pens in groups of two to three, in the room known as Tiny Town.
Spenser Betenson, a transfer counselor, walked from pen to pen to check on the puppies. The dogs were various breeds, and Betenson said HSU brought them in from a shelter in Elko, NV.
She explained that shelters sometimes have a hard time taking care of puppies, so HSU was happy to step in and make the several-hour round-trip drive.
“It’s a lot of puppies,” she said, chuckling. “It’s a lot of barking for three and a half hours back to the shelter.”
HSU put the puppies under quarantine, and planned to have a veterinarian check them out before eventually adopting the puppies out.
Shepherd explained that where dogs come from can make a difference in a dog’s health and behavior.
Dogs from a breeding facility, she indicated, can end up with a number of issues.
“They have not been socialized, they have not been treated well,” Shepherd said. “Overall the parents and these puppies have behavioral problems, they can also have medical issues if they've been inbred.”
Problems that can be passed on to the people who eventually take one of the animals home.
Victoria said The Puppy Store never knowingly sold sick dogs, but she did explain that she saw puppies with health problems—including her own dog, Cowboy.
Cowboy comes from The Puppy Store, she explained. She fell in love with him, and after no one had purchased Cowboy for his $3,000 listing price, Victoria said she bought him for the sale price of $500.
According to The Puppy Store, customers can bring their dog to a vet to be checked out for any potential health issues.
That’s what Victoria did, and she said a veterinarian diagnosed Cowboy with luxating patella and hip dysplasia.
“He has stage one right now,” she said, of the hip dysplasia. “You can see when he walks, his hip sway. And when he runs a lot, he’ll start limping his back legs.”
Victoria held up a waiver she said she signed, that excused The Puppy Store from any future medical expenses in light of Cowboy’s medical issues.
In December, Victoria said she gave her two weeks’ notice, and left The Puppy Store.
Her and Shepherd’s advice: Do some digging before you add a new four-legged family member.
“Any consumer looking to add a new pet to their home needs to do their research,” Shepherd said. “Find where that animal is coming from.”
Fox 13 reached out to a veterinarian, who said that some dogs can have certain health problems no matter where the dog is coming from.
However, the veterinarian said they typically see behavioral issues and an increase in viruses and communicable diseases—like giardia and parvo—in pet store puppies.
The veterinarian suggested reaching out to a local vet for breeder or rescue recommendations, as well as bringing a new puppy into the vet before taking it home.
FOX 13 reached out to The Puppy Store several times over the course of two weeks. A media representative with The Puppy Store said on the phone that they would be happy to provide information on where the dogs come from, but never provided that information.
The Puppy Store sent FOX 13 this statement:
“The Puppy Store is proud to offer the highest level of service to our customer. We provide healthy and happy puppies from reputable, government regulated breeders. We also provide all of our customers with quality health care options.
We are proud of the work we do in the community and will always work with responsible companies that have the best interest of our puppies in mind.”


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James Bell: The Purpose of Conditional Fee Agreements
I have been enjoying the BBC series, "See you in Court". The programme follows the progress of a number of famous and not so famous who have been upset by various media stories. Lembit Opik, Sheryl gascoigne, Uri Gellar have all featured together in this series, together with the cream of Britsh libel lawyers.
Those libel lawyers have not come out of this series particularly well, especially in relation to their costs. In one episode Sheryl Gascoigne's lawyer told her that even if she won she would only recover 65% of her costs, leaving a shortfall on her estimated costs of £200,000. The reason stated to Sheryl was that the judge would only award costs on the standard basis and not on an indemnity basis. Sheryl seemed surprised at this news. The producers cut the scene at that point and the lawyer was not grilled by the programme makers as to how it could be that 35% of his work would be disallowed by the Costs Office and yet still charged to the client. Also, we did not see that Sheryl was advised by her lawyer that she had the right to have her own solicitor's costs assessed by a Judge or the Law Society.
One other case featured the Trustees of the The North London Central Mosque who were seeking damages from the Policy Exchange think tank. Midway through the claim the names of the Claimant's on the Claim form had to be amended as the Claimant on the claim form was not a "legal entity" that could sue for libel. This caused numerous days in the High Court and Court of Appeal as M'Learned Friends managed to turn this issue into 2 days in court. Ultimately the case had to be withdrawn with a costs order being paid by the Trustees of of the NLCM for £20,000.
In both cases I wondered about the costs advice given to these clients. As clinical negligence lawyers undertaking most of our work on a "no win no fee basis" (sometimes called CFA or conditonal fee basis) we do not enter into litigation without arranging After the Event (ATE) cover which fully protects our clients if they lose their case. Also, we offer a 100% guarantee that client's will receive 100% of their damages with no deductions.
James Bell is a Principal Lawyer in the Slater and Gordon clinical negligence team. If you or a member of your family have a clinical negligence enquiry please call our expert clinical negligence solicitors on 0800 916 9049, fill in our short online claim form and one of our specialist clinical negligence team will be in touch.
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Smoke, fog, mist, and other foul weather conditions are a challenge for autonomous driving systems.
MIT Media Lab researchers have now created a system that not only gauges the distance of objects accurately in foggy conditions, better than the human eye could.
This video features a small-scale system test, using objects placed into a 1-meter-long wide box before it is filled with dense fog. A laser fires into the box, with a camera measuring the time it takes for the laser's reflections to return.
Results showed that human sight could discern objects 36cm into the box, while the MIT system gauges depth correctly at 57cm.
This helps resolved critical issue while using autonomous driving systems, one which could increase both pedestrian and occupant safety immeasurably.


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Few folks, it seems, are as prolific as Centro-matic/South San Gabriel frontman Will Johnson. On top of last year's great Centro-matic album Candidate Waltz, Johnson was also 1/4 of the recent Woody Guthrie-covering supergroup New Multitudes (side note: their set was my favorite thing I saw at Newport Folk Festival). Now, Will is ready to unleash another solo album upon us with Scorpion.
The album was produced by longtime Centro/South San collaborator and bandmate Matt Pence...they holed up in a Denton, TX studio for just a few days, enlisting the help of multi-instrumentalist (and fellow C-M/SSG band member) Scott Danbom, Okkervil River's Howard Draper, and Magnolia Electric Company's Mikey Kapinus.
Come see Will Johnson and his friend Anders Parker at our inaugural show in the new upstairs performance space at the New West / Normaltown office this coming Monday, 9/17!
Patterson Hood -- Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance
Patterson really knocked it out of the park with his latest solo album...enough said.

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RCx_TRIM applies trim to the signal received from the RC transmitter. These parameters are automatically set during RC calibration.
PWM_MAIN_TRIMx applies trim to a PWM channel, after mixing. Use that to finely align the control surfaces to default angles before flying.
FW_PSP_OFF applies an offset to the pitch setpoint. Use that to set the angle of attack at which your aircraft need to fly at cruise speed.
TRIM_PITCH applies trim before mixing. For example, if you have two servos for the elevator, it will apply trim to both of them. Use that when your control surfaces are aligned but the aircraft pitches up or down during manual (not stabilized) flight or if the control signal has a constant offset during stabilized flight.
The correct order is then:
Trim the PWM channels (
PWM_MAIN/AUX_TRIMx) your aircraft on the bench to properly set the control surfaces to their theoretical position
Fly in stabilized mode at cruise speed and set the pitch setpoint offset (
FW_PSP_OFF) to desired angle of attack.
Look at the logs and set the pitch trim (
Step 4 can be performed before step 3 if you don't want to have to look at the log or if you feel comfortable flying in manual mode. You can then trim your remote (with the trim switches) and report the values to
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Near me is a beach that has many uprooted trees. I like to head out there with one or two models and do figure shoots.
Friends from across the country getting together for some karaoke.
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I've been shooting nudes on the beach and plan to go to the Bahamas soon with several models.
It is hard to have the ones you love so far...
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The Mary Lomax Ballad Book
Charles Seeger once said that a folk song is not a text and a tune, but a text and a tune and a mode of performance that comes from a singer's life and culture. Mary Lomax (and her sister Bonnie Loggins) embody this threefold hallmark of authenticity. Their repertoire of ballads, songs, and religious songs were learned from their father Lemuel Payne, and they sing them as they learned them: unadorned, without drama, and with honesty and skill. This collection documents a way of life that is rapidly vanishing. It contains the lyrics of 79 songs and 59 downloadable songs from the collection.


“I’m taking advantage of their expectations for them,” Grace captioned the Instagram image. “That’s their weakness. Not me. Let them all underestimate me … and when their guards collapse and their pride rises, let me kick their ass Please let me. “
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Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilal Farrer, the film starring Grace as Barbara Gordon. JK Simmons, Brendan Fraser and Michael Keaton are also participating.
The studio is a rising star of African Latino and is already very high, following her breakout role. At heights, And sources say her audition sealed the deal as an option.
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Snow is expected to fall across the UK this week and overnight temperatures will drop.
The Met Office said a “prolonged period” of snowfall at higher altitudes is possible in Scotland and parts of northern England and Wales over the weekend.
It will come after “several shots” of Arctic air over the UK this weekend as the jet stream bends south, bringing much cooler and wetter weather.
The mercury could drop as low as freezing overnight over parts of London and the south east, while it remains around 6C (42.8F) during the day on Saturday.
Are you seeing a change in temperature?
Multiple shots of arctic wind en route to the UK this weekend as the jet stream brings much of the south #cold and wet weather
— Met Office (@metoffice) November 23, 2021
Yellow weather warnings are also in place for parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland on Friday, extending to the rest of Britain on Saturday.
The Met Office said “very windy weather” could cause delays in transport, damage to buildings, the closure of bridges and roads and power outages.
Met Office spokesman Graham Madge told the PA news agency: “We’ve got an unstable period of weather over the next few days, with wind warnings beginning for Scotland and Northern Ireland starting Friday.
“This will extend to the whole of the UK except for London and the South East on Saturday, with strong winds.
“There are increasing signs of snow at higher altitudes, with signs suggesting that areas above 200m in Scotland are most likely from Friday.
“In areas such as the Pennines and Snowdonia there may be intermittent spells in other areas of northern England and Wales, although it is unlikely to be heavy enough for settling.”
He said there were “no signs” of snow in the lowlands of England and Wales, but he said “never say never”.
It comes as a cold front prepares to move over the UK overnight, bringing with it cold but clear conditions.
Mr Madge said: “Friday and Saturday, although bright and clear, will be quite cold with the possibility of prolonged snow at the higher levels, but we are not anticipating anything at the lower levels.
“Although there were not exceptionally cold temperatures during the day, it could be freezing overnight at many places.
“Coldest day temperatures for London and the South East will be around 6C on Saturday, although this is not particularly rare for the time of year.”


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Dr Oz: Jillian Michaels Dislikes Biggest Loser Contestants
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Face-to-face personal insults that are likely to lead to an immediate fight are mariage. But this does not include political statements that offend gay marriage amendments and provoke them to violence. For example, civil rights or anti-abortion protesters cannot be silenced merely because passersby respond gay marriage amendments to their speech. Hard-core, highly sexually explicit pornography is not protected by the First Amendment.
In practice, however, the government rarely prosecutes online distributors of such material. Photographs or videos involving actual children engaging in sexual conduct are punishable, because allowing such materials would create an incentive to sexually abuse children in order to produce such material.
Speech advertising a product or service is constitutionally protected, but not as much as other speech. Virginia Citizens Council The government can restrict speech under a less demanding standard big gay out flickr the speaker is in a gay marriage amendments relationship to the government.
For example, the speech of government employees and of gay marriage amendments in public schools can be restricted, even based on content, when their speech is incompatible amendjents their status as public officials or students. A teacher in a public school, for asian gay teen pron, can be punished for encouraging students to experiment with illegal drugs, and a government employee who has access to classified information generally can be prohibited from disclosing that information.
Board of Education The government can also restrict speech under gay marriage amendments less demanding standard when it does so without regard to the content or message of the speech. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. But not all content-neutral restrictions are viewed as reasonable; for gay marriage amendments, a law prohibiting all demonstrations in public amendmente or gay marriage amendments leafleting on public streets would violate the First Amendment.
Courts have not always been this protective of free expression. In the nineteenth century, for example, courts gay marriage amendments punishment of blasphemy, and during and shortly after Gay marriage amendments War I the Supreme Court held that speech tending to promote crime—such as speech condemning the military draft or praising anarchism—could be punished.
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Today, the legal protection offered by the First Amendment is stronger than ever before in our history. Three issues involving the freedom of speech are most pressing for the future: Gay marriage amendments, Politics, and the First Amendment. The first pressing issue amendmengs the regulation of money in the political process. Put simply, the question is this: The Court also recognized, however, that political expenditures gay marriage amendments agy could be regulated consistent with the First Amendment if zmendments government could demonstrate a sufficiently gay marriage amendments justification.
Valeofor example, the Court anendments that the government could constitutionally limit the amount that individuals could contribute to political candidates in order to reduce the risk of undue influence, marriwge in McConnell v. Federal Election Gay marriage amendmentsthe Court held that the government could constitutionally limit the amount that corporations could spend in the political process in order to influence electoral outcomes. In more recent cases, though, in a series of five-to-four decisions, the Supreme Court has overruled McConnell and held unconstitutional most governmental efforts to regulate political expenditures and contributions.
Federal Election Commission ; McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission As a result of these more recent decisions, gay marriage amendments all government gay equality symbol to limit the impact amendmentw money in the political process have been held unconstitutional, with the consequence that corporations and wealthy individuals now have an enormous impact on American politics.
Those who object to gsy decisions maintain that regulations of political expenditures and contributions are content-neutral restrictions of speech that should be upheld as long as gay avatar fanfiction government has a sufficiently important justification.
They argue that the need to prevent what they see as the corruption and distortion of American politics caused by the excessive influence of a handful of very wealthy individuals and corporations is a sufficiently important government interest to justify limits on the amount that those individuals and gay marriage amendments should be permitted to spend in the electoral process.
Because these recent cases have all been five-to-four decisions, it remains to be seen whether a differently constituted set of justices in the future will adhere to the current approach, or whether they will ultimately free gay movie sex xxx or at least narrowly construe those decisions. In gay marriage amendments ways, this is the most fundamental First Amendment question that will confront the Supreme Court and the nation in the years to come.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has taken a narrow view of the low value concept, suggesting that, in order gay marriage amendments a category of speech to fall within that concept, there has to have been a long history of government regulation of the category in question.
This is true, for example, of such low value categories as defamation, obscenity, and threats. An important question for the future is whether the Court will adhere to this approach. Why does amendmentz doctrine matter?
As a result, except in truly gay marriage amendments circumstances, such expression cannot young young gay boy regulated consistent with the First Amendment.
Almost every other nation allows such expression to be regulated and, indeed, prohibited, on the theory that it does not further the gay marriage amendments of free expression and is incompatible with other fundamental values of society.
Suppose, for example, an individual posts naked photos of a former lover on the Internet. This remains an unresolved question. The Supreme Court has held that the government cannot constitutionally prohibit the publication of classified information unless it gay marriage amendments demonstrate that the publication or distribution amenements that information will cause a clear and present danger of grave harm to the national security.
At the same time, gwy, the Court has held that government employees who gain access to such classified information can be restricted in their unauthorized disclosure of that information. It remains an open question, however, whether a government employee who leaks information that discloses an unconstitutional, unlawful, or unwise classified program can be gay marriage amendments for gay marriage amendments so. This issue has been raised by a number of recent incidents, including the case of Edward Snowden.
At gay marriage amendments point in denve gay bathhouse future, the Court will have to decide whether and to what extent the actions of government leakers like Edward Snowden are protected by the First Amendment. Direct contributions to candidates, as opposed to independent speech about them, can gay marriage amendments restricted, as the Court has held.
But I agree these are likely to be heavily debated issues in the coming years. Many professionals serve their clients by speaking. Psychotherapists try to help their patients by talking with them.
Doctors make diagnoses, offer predictions, and recommend treatments. Lawyers give legal gay marriage amendments financial planners, financial advice. Some of these professionals also do things such as prescribe drugs, perform surgeries, or file court documents that have legal effect.
But much of what they bondage gay sex story is speak. Yet the law heavily regulates such speakers. And the law sometimes forbids or compels particular speech by these gay marriage amendments. Many states, hoping to persuade women not to get abortions, require doctors to say certain things or show certain things to women who are seeking abortions.
Indonesia allows its provincial governments to establish certain Islamic-based laws, such as criminal sanctions for homosexuality.
While Indonesia has allowed private and consensual sexual relations between persons of the same sex sinceit has a higher age of consent for same-sex relations than for heterosexual relations 17 for heterosexuals and 18 for homosexuals. The Constitution does not explicitly address sexual orientation gay marriage amendments gender identity. It does guarantee all citizens various marrage rights, including equality before gay marriage amendments law, equal opportunity, humane treatment in the workplace, religious freedom, freedom of opinion, peaceful assembly, and association.
Such legal rights are all expressly limited by the laws extreme boy gay sex to protect public order and religious morality. While homosexuality itself is legal, the Government has taken certain steps to censor films and other media content that is deemed to be "promoting" homosexuality.
The strongest opposition against the recognition of LGBT rights in Indonesia has come from religious authorities and pressure-groups, especially Islamic organisations. The northernmost amndments of Aceh proceeded to enact a sharia -based anti-homosexuality law that punishes anyone gay marriage amendments having gay sex with lashes.
The mike myers gay rumour was set for enforcement by the end of Gay marriage amendments MarchIndonesian Ulema Council Majelis Ulama Indonesia or MUI issued fatwaor religious edict, called for same-sex acts to be punished by caning, and in some instances, gay marriage amendments death penalty. Indonesian People's Representative Council DPR has dismissed that the death penalty law against same-sex acts would be passed, citing that it is quite impossible to implement that policy in Indonesia.
The DPR said that the MUI fatwa is only served as a moral guidance for its adherent, not as positive law with legal power that only possessed by the state. The police then raided the gay gathering, charging the men with violating the national law against pornography, which is very free black gay 3 somes written.
On 21 Maypolice detained people in a raid on a gay sauna, Atlantis Gym Jakarta. Earlier in the same month, 14 men were arrested at a "gay party" in Surabaya. On 14 Decemberthe Constitutional Court of Indonesia gay marriage amendments a ruling rejecting a petition by the conservative Family Love Alliance which sought to amend the Indonesian Criminal Code to make gay sex and sex outside of marriage illegal.
The petitioner sought to erase the term "underage" in articlein order to persecute all same-sex gay marriage amendments conducts of all ages, gay marriage amendments among consenting adults. The court rejected to amend the law, and held that the issue was a matter for the Indonesian Legislature. Indonesian law does not recognise same-sex marriagecivil unions gay massage blackpool domestic partnership benefits.
Same-sex couples are not eligible to adopt a child in Indonesia. Only married couples consisting of a husband and a wife can adopt. As ofno law exists to protect Indonesia citizens from discrimination or harassment on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. In Januarythe Aceh police ransacked a parlor with support from the Aceh autonomous government. The police tortured all LGBT citizens within the premises of the parlor, shaved the gay marriage amendments of transgender women, stripped their shirts and bras, and paraded them in the street while forcing to shout 'to become men'.
The event gay marriage amendments massive outrage from human rights organization throughout the world, from Europe, Australia, the Americas, and to liberal sections of Asia. In Februarythe Indonesian government planned to pass a legislation that would criminalize gay sex. The legislation is supported by all of the 10 political parties of the country, and is expected to pass before Valentines Day.
Indonesia has been branded as the most homophobic country in core Asia, along with Malaysia.
Transgender identity also called waria has long been part of Indonesian culture and society. The status of transvestite, transsexual or other transgender persons in Indonesia is complex.
Cross-dressing is not, per se, illegal and some public tolerance is given to some transgender people working in beauty salons or in the entertainment industry, most notably the celebrity talk show host Dorce Gamalama. Transgender people are allowed to change their legal gender on official documents after undergoing sex reassignment south park facebook gay and gay marriage amendments receiving a judge's approval.
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Christmas, that special time of year. Such a wonderful experience! But what makes Christmas so special?
Christmas morning, we wake up feeling excited. We’ve been making preparations, thinking of others, planning gifts, and arranging visits. Our purpose in preparing for Christmas has been about giving, about connecting with our family members and friends, and about focusing on what means the most to us in our lives.
On Christmas, we focus a lot of attention on gifts. We give gifts to one another because we experience joy in expressing appreciation, affection, value, and love for one another. We give gifts to others because we like to excite them, see them smile, and share joy with them. We enjoy receiving gifts because it means so much to know others think of us, care about us, and want to make us happy.
So, Christmas is about what means the most to us – the relationships we have with others, the time we spend with others, the ways in which we’re thoughtful to others, the ways in which others show they care about us.
And so, if we want to make every other day as special as Christmas, we will want to focus on our relationships with one another, on making time for one another, and on being thoughtful and caring towards one another.
On Christmas, we celebrate the birth of our Savior. Our Savior is God’s gift to us. Our Savior delivers us from our enslavement to sin, from every form of deception, from every addiction, from death itself. On Christmas, we celebrate our Savior’s birth because He went on to live a righteous life, to die in place for each one of us, and to defeat death.
Now each day can be like Christmas. We are able to arise excitedly from sleep. We are able to receive the gift of life. We are able to experience the truth and joy in loving one another. We are able to express our thanks and praise to God through our Savior whose birth we are able to celebrate on Christmas Day and every day.

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In order to do a tune-up on my mothers car, I have to remove the intake to get to the back three cylinders. Do I need to replace just the intake gaskets, or is there more (Much more) to it?
Is There A Model-Year and Engine Size Associated With This Vehicle ?
A service manual would be very helpful for a job like this, and would answer this question and any others that may arise during the tune-up.
http://www.Books4Cars.com is a good source for inexpensive used manuals.
Your local auto parts store or bookseller may also have a manual for your mother’s XG350.
It is a 2004. The Six cylinder (Two engine sizes, 4 or 6 cylinder and I am not any where near the car right now).
Auto parts store says they can not get me a service manual (O’reillys). Hyundai says it will cost $300.00 for them to do the tune-up and I hate to pay that if it is relatively simple.
Thanks for the replies.