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Title: Act 1 - Relapse Of Reason
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Label: A2Z Records
Catalog Number: LC 3219
guitar and lead vocals
Anthony Antz Trujillo
guitar, keyboards and vocals
drums, percussion and vocals
bass and vocals
|1. ||Everytime (I Close My Eyes) ||4:25|
|2. ||Through The Years ||3:50|
|3. ||Stand Or Fall ||4:47|
|4. ||Two Hearts ||5:28|
|5. ||These Eyes ||4:05|
|6. ||No Heroes ||5:45|
|7. ||Relapse Of Reason ||4:46|
|8. ||Steal Another Fantasy ||4:21|
|9. ||The Fall ||4:29|
|10. ||Who Will You Run To ||4:43|
|11. ||Changes ||4:48|
|12. ||Silent Soldiers ||5:42|| ||Cover: Axe|
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|Total Running Time:|| 57:09|
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||Date: December 10, 2001 at 19:27|
|A MUST HAVE. GREAT SONGS WRITTEN WITH TOP NOTCH TALLENT. AMERICAN MADE BUT NOT AMERICAN KNOWN. CHECK OUT THEIR NEW NAME OF GUILD OF AGES. SAME BAND WITH GOOD SOLID ROCK THAT YOU WON'T HAVE A HARD TIME REMEMBERING.
|From: 9 CHAMPIONS A 1
||Date: July 28, 2002 at 11:52|
|Quizas un poco empalagosillos estos Cita,bastante influenciados por Def Leppard(Adrenalize)y el ultimo de Michael Morales,reconozco que tienen buenos temas pero a la larga se hacen un poco pesaitos.
|From: MALLORCA�S ROCK
||Date: December 27, 2002 at 16:14|
|Coincido totalmente con 9 Champions a 1 solo decir que me gustan mas que con Guild of ages
||Date: January 26, 2003 at 20:32|
|Excellent hard rock/AOR. This band went on to become Guild Of Ages, another great hard rock outfit. 'Everytime (I Close my Eyes)' absolutely rocks. High praise.
||Date: January 26, 2003 at 22:20|
|Ahora SE LLAMAn GUILD OF AGES,'VERDAD? jo, 3 cambios d nombre, por q eran los CAUGHT IN THE ACT... Q FOLLON!!! a mi no me convencen mucho la verdad, tengo 4 discos d ellos y no se, diria como Champions: empalagosillos. Habra q escucharlos mas...
|From: TYNO / BRAZIL
||Date: April 22, 2003 at 17:27|
|IF YOU LIKE GREAT AOR SONGS, NICE HARMONIES. NICE VOCALIST , THEN THIS CD IS FOR YOU . NOTHING HERE THAT CAN MAKE YOU REGRET. BUY IT NOW. 10/10
||Date: July 12, 2003 at 23:00|
|This is a solid cd...every song is great. The backup singing choruses are excellent. Highly recommended. And this cd rocks. Don't let the AOR classfication fool you. It's got edge! And the total time makes it a great value. Buy it now!!
|From: AOR freaky
||Date: December 16, 2003 at 9:29|
|Indeed a solid AOR/hardrock release. Maybe even their best one, although it's difficult to say this ! Anyway, good band !
||Date: February 25, 2004 at 1:38|
|Awesome heavy guitar crunch in 'Stand Or Fall' if the rest of the album is like this i agree with evryone,A MUST HAVE!!! 10 out of 10
||Date: March 27, 2004 at 11:02|
|Brilliant AOR CD ! A Must Have ! With every rotation in my player,this one is better and better !!!
|From: Border Rat
||Date: May 18, 2004 at 9:31|
|Brilliant cd.This band changed its name to GUILD OF AGES and produced 3 additional cds under that monicker.Both CITA cds are very well played Bon Jovi type music with a slightly heavier edge. Great guitar solos and great harmony sing along songs are the order here.These cds get regular plays in my cd player and this shows just how good this band is.It is a shame that we will have no more work from this great band.
||Date: October 21, 2004 at 7:21|
|Eh... Caught In The Act was a Dutch boysband also...
||Date: February 8, 2005 at 15:30|
|Superb album !!!
||Date: March 6, 2005 at 5:23|
|This has some of the best melodic rock songs I've ever heard. 'Everytime (I Close My Eyes)' is as good as melodic hard rock gets, and 'Through The Years' is just as good. Two sensational tracks of melodic perfection and the rest is all very good melodic hard rock. Obviously not as good, overall, as what was to come, but the first two tracks match anything they ever did.
||Date: April 13, 2005 at 8:44|
|to any and all CITA/GOA fans out there. The band has reformed with the original members of CITA, and has signed a deal with MTM music to put out another album. Due out sometime late 2005. Keep checking on the MTM web site for further details.
||Date: April 13, 2005 at 9:00|
|The reformed CITA band is going under the name RELAPSED.
||Date: February 7, 2006 at 14:22|
|If you haven't caught onto the fact that this is a great melodic HR band, then you need to get with the program pronto. This is some insanely well-produced stuff, polished to the point of perfection to permit those pristine hooks to come through and grab you by the ears. There's really nothing bad to say about this CD...it's a melodic rock gem. If you love slick guitars, catchy hooks, shiny production, and endless layers of harmony vox, then you'll quickly get caught up in Caught in the Act.
|From: Vikki Roxx
||Date: June 4, 2006 at 14:57|
|Beautiful melodies, great hooks, catchy songwriting... Amazing. 10/10.
||Date: January 3, 2007 at 15:19|
|Holy crap!!! Did someone slip an unreleased Bon Jovi disc in here by mistake? No. Are you sure, because the vocals and song writing leads me to believe otherwise. Any of this would be at home on any Bon Jovi Album. Hell, I think it could fool some of his own fans. It's that close and that good in spots. The whole thing is not out of the park, but boy, when these guys get ahold of the ball. Head for the fence! Simply stunning AOR with top notch production and very, very recomended!!!
||Date: August 20, 2007 at 0:05|
|GOOD CD 82/100 agree the positives comments above ! But imo they ARE much better than BON JOVI ! They have on this paticular CD some kind of EUROPEAN vibe ,i really like !
||Date: August 27, 2007 at 6:34|
|Very good cd, excellent songwriting.
|From: juan carlos
||Date: June 11, 2010 at 22:38|
|Excellent Melodic Rock/AOR CD. My friend Beto sold me this one many years ago. Yep, this has catchy riffs/tunes/harmonies, it`s quite consistent, plenty of melodies. "Through The Years" "Silent Soldiers" "No Heroes" "These Eyes" "Who Will You Run To" and "Two Hearts" are my favorite tracks. This CD grows on me when i give it more spins. 8.5/10
||Date: January 21, 2011 at 14:43|
|Agree with above comments. Top-notch melodic rock the way I like it. This was the 1st step into releasing some melodic rock gems (CITA or Guild Of Ages). You can't go wrong with any of them!
||Date: November 10, 2011 at 3:51|
|ok with the others comments.this record is a must .a real jewel.all fans of hard fm will love it.
|From: rick kerch vzla
||Date: March 8, 2013 at 16:01|
|The japanese edition of this album brings some live bonus tracks of some songs of the band's 2 releases(this one "Act 1" & "Heat Of Emotion")..."Everytime(I Close My Eyes)","Through The Years"(nice AORish),"Stand Or Fall","These Eyes","Relapse Of Reason","Who Will You Run To","Changes" & the Axe's cover "Silent Soldiers" are good songs by all means but personally talking i liked more their follow up "Heat Of Emotion" of 1996...87/100
||Date: July 22, 2013 at 14:10|
|a little addition to my comment from 2011.the japan reissue on toshiba records offer four bonus tracks live.the sound is absoluty perfect,the voices and the choirs are beautiful.this japan version is impossible to find on ebay but it s symply essential.if one day you find this treasure don t hesitate:buy buy buy.cita plays a top class hard fm.class with a big C!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|From: Ydol eM
||Date: July 28, 2013 at 14:59|
|This album did good credit to Caught In The Act for me, because in the highlight time of grunge they made pomp melodic AOR in a wide range of this kind of music - IMO - from Toto to Ten. I wouldn't compare it to any of Bon Jovi's album. I rather feel some progressive vibes and even some choruses and harmonies remind me my favourite progressive metal band Shadow Gallery. All in all, very nice to listen but surely not at the top of my tree. 80/100.
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The Hope of a Bipolar Christian: Find your path with joy and gratitude (Paperback)
A bipolar brain and a Christian soul seem the least likely of allies, or do they? All of God's children have troubles; none walk through life without challenges. When we are on the precipice of despair, that is when our souls come to our rescue. The Hope of a Bipolar Christian tells of Cindy's journey through the extreme highs and devastating lows of bipolar disorder. Cindy also shares glimpses into her walk of faith, wherein she details many of God's blessings throughout her life - even after her diagnosis in 1994. More than 57 million Americans are dealing with bipolar disorder every day. Cindy's story will strike a famililar chord with many, but the narrative is distinctly her own. Emotions run the gamut, including humorous observations. Yes, humor. A sense of humor is paramount when navigating through this confusing, sometimes formidable, odyssey.
Cindy (Rutledge) Butler is from the small town of Heyworth, Illinois, but has seen and experienced more in life, than she could ever have imagined during her shy teenage years. A former Army wife, Cindy lived in Fulda, West Germany (1981-1983), where her only child was born. For over 22 years, Cindy's career was primarily that of administrative assistant and executive secretary for companies in the Bloomington, Illinois area. Failed marriages led to stressors which sent Cindy into a deep depression. In 1994, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she began her journey into the extreme highs and devastating lows of this lifelong disorder. While navigating this new territory, Cindy encountered many caring, supportive people, as well as those who challenged her. They all influenced who she has become today. In 2005, Cindy began her second act. Traveling and making a living wearing a variety of hats: housekeeper, nanny, cook, decorator, designer, writer, and assistant innkeeper to name a few. Having lived on Martha's Vineyard (MA), West Point Academy (NY), Virginia, and Vermont, she developed a great love and appreciation for the natural beauty in Southwestern Vermont. Cindy visited Scotland and Ireland (the land of her ancestors) in 2007, meeting her longtime pen-pal from Edinburgh, Evelyn. Having returned to Bloomington, Illinois in 2011, she became a personal assistant in a local retirement village. The next year, Cindy began her own personal services business, "Errand Angel," and was delighted to be a continuing help to others. With articles in publication (the first told of her beloved, maternal, Irish grandmother), Cindy is an avid non-fiction writer. She is the proud mother of son Paul, a decorated Army veteran who, along with his wife Stephanie, recently gave Cindy the gift of a lifetime; her first grandchild, Isabelle. (Who of course is not in the least bit spoiled - yet.)

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This walk: 2009-3-18. Burrator, dam, gorse, suspension bridge anchor points, earth dam, Longstone Manor, cider press, cider keeves, windstrew - raised threshing floor, slotted gate post, wild daffodils, bracket fungus - all on a clear, blue-sky day with some haze in the distance.
Walk details below - Information about the route etc.
Looking from the centre of Burrator Dam up the reservoir - this is the hazy photograph!
The lake-side walk.
Looking at the dam from the pier where a suspension bridge once stood, which was for crossing the valley as the dam was being built.
Common Gorse in bloom (as opposed to the low-growing Western Gorse).
Anchor points for the old suspension bridge.
Granite block - what was it for? No doubt featured in Block of the Month.
The second, earth dam.
Sheepstor seen in the distance, from the end of the earth dam.
Hero, not needing the lifebuoy.
Canada Goose - maximum zoom and handheld, not very sharp.
Light and shade, in the trees around the lake.
Another lakeside view.
Silhouettes beside the lake.
The submerged road emerging from the lake towards Longstone Manor.
First view of Longstone Manor, abandoned.
Granite cider press, a circular stone trough in which a wheel ran, drawn by a horse. The wheel is resting flat on top of the structure.
A windstrew - a raised threshing floor, reputedly one of only two in the country. Before the trees were planted, this was an open area and the elevated location allowed the wind to take the chaff as the corn was hand threshed with a flail, locally called a drashel (made of two wooden sticks joined by a piece of leather).
Steps up on to the threshing floor.
Another view of the Manor house.
Wild daffodils in the bank along the lane.
Another lane scene.
Looking across towards the lower slopes of Leather Tor.
Light and shade, again.
Two huge stones incorporated into the wall alongside the road.
Finally, some young model in the car park ...........
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The roads via Yelverton and Dousland are main roads. The road to Burrator Reservoir is followed as far as the quarry car park on the left before reaching the dam, marked by the P symbol and yellow cross on the map.
Distance - 5.36 km / 3.3 miles.
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In this economy, in the “new normal,” the most prestigious firm is the one that has given you a job offer. Sure, there are still students and grads who are lucky enough to be juggling multiple job offers from major firms in multiple cities. And to those people we say, “OMG, I hate you, shut up and go away.”
For those experiencing an embarrassment of job offer riches, here are the Vault rankings. Yay. Take a look at them, by yourself, under the covers, where nobody else can see that you have options….
The new Vault list is substantially similar to the old Vault list; number one, once again, is Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz & Awesome. No drama at Wachtell, people are working too hard to generate much drama I guess.
Cravath is in the second spot, but Vault blogger Rachel Marx Boufford says the firm is gaining:
To create the Vault Law 100, we ask associates to score law firms on a scale of 1 to 10 based on how prestigious it is to work for the firm (associates are asked to ignore any firm with which they are unfamiliar and are not allowed to rank their own firm). We then average the score for each firm and rank the firms in order. This year, Wachtell’s score was an impressive 9.083, but Cravath was not far behind at 8.996—the smallest difference in score since 2009.
I’m not sure what that means, but I think it’s something like, “Cravath will once again decide how big of a bonus you get this fall.”
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You can see the full rankings here.
Boies Schiller continues its march up the rankings, clocking in at number 15 this year. Quinn Emanuel is also up once again this year, to number 17. The power of litigation powerhouses compels you.
Back near the top, S&C and Skadden do their periodic flip-flop. The Vault rankings were obviously finalized before Weil’s shocking layoff news yesterday, but historically the Vault rankings have been relatively immune to layoff concerns. Prestige evidently means offering you the job in the first place, not firing you from it later down the road.
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Joan Hassall, Wood-engraver
Wood-engraver, typographer and book illustrator Joan Hassall is well-known to collectors of twentieth century illustrated books. Perhaps less well-known, is the fact that this otherwise London-based artist stayed in Edinburgh for five years in the 1940s. It is interesting to consider whether this Scottish sojourn influenced her work.
She was born in 1906, the daughter of illustrator John Hassall and his second wife, Constance Brooke-Webb. During her last two years at the Royal Academy Schools where she was enrolled from 1928 to 1933, she began evening classes in engraving at the School of Photo-engraving and Lithography in Fleet Street. Her teacher there, R. John Beedham, taught her the skills and techniques which she used for the rest of her life. By the late 1930s the quality of her wood engraving was widely recognised. Proof prints of some work from this period were purchased at the time by the Scottish Modern Arts Association.
When the Second World War began, teachers in many institutions in Scotland left their jobs to take part in the war effort. Among them was Kingsley Cook, a tutor of Book Illustration and Drawing at Edinburgh College of Art. At his suggestion, the principal asked Joan Hassall to act as Cook’s replacement for the duration of the war. She accepted the invitation.
Her first years in Edinburgh were not easy for various reasons. There were the anxieties associated with war. Demanding teaching duties were split between the art college, where art students and printing apprentices prepared their designs and blocks, and Heriot Watt College, where the printing was carried out. She seems to have been an exacting critic of her students’ work: ‘… I was pained to see how the students roughly dug out the deep places. So long as it did not print the appearance did not matter to them’. In 1943 she asked to be ‘relieved of teaching, on medical grounds, in the Drawing and Painting School’.
According to Ruari McLean in The Wood Engravings of Joan Hassall, ‘the appointment of a Southerner’ had been met with ‘hostility from certain of the Scots’. Joan had arrived there at a time when the relationship between nationalism and art was being hotly debated. Hugh MacDiarmid took every opportunity to challenge artists in Scotland to embrace both modernism and a sense of national identity. Others like Agnes Mure Mackenzie sounded a note of caution, ‘We are in danger just now, in serious danger, of mixing national art and nationalism in a way that may do grave injury to them both’ (The Arts and the Future of Scotland, Saltire Pamphlet 2, 1942). Furthermore, J. D. Ferguson, in Modern Scottish Painting (William MacLellan, 1943), posed the question ‘Should Scotland have an Independent Art?’
In the early 1940s the Saltire Society started to plan a series of Saltire Chapbooks, a revival harking back to the eighteenth century when popular Scottish stories, Jacobite songs, verses and texts that were satirical, humorous or subversive in tone appeared in small, cheap booklets light enough for travelling hawkers to take all over Scotland. A proposal in 1943 to involve Joan Hassall with the illustration and design of the Saltire Chapbooks was the beginning of a productive and warm relationship which was to have long-term benefits for all concerned. She jumped at the chance to resume an active commercial output. The secretary of the Saltire publications committee, Alison Cairns, wrote to Robert Hurd, the chair: ‘Miss Hassall, in a passion of enthusiasm, has already started planning out the first chapbook and wishes to have the bulk of the work done before her teaching term at the College of Art begins’.
Joan Hassall adapted the style of the early chapbooks to a new format, designing the leaflets with illustrations to enhance the text; she specified the typeface for the booklets as – suitably – Scotch Roman. She used two colours for the symmetrical borders on the title pages. The chapbooks were designed with a conscious use of classical symmetry of which the engraver Thomas Bewick – her favourite – would have approved. Her device for the Saltire Society offices in Gladstone’s Land, still identifiable today, is an example of the exact and detailed nature of her work.
The small size of the booklets meant that production required modest quantities of paper, an advantage in the midst of wartime shortages. This also meant that the chapbooks could be priced cheaply. Occasionally she needed to discuss matters with printers Blair or William Maxwell of R. and R. Clark. It appears that Ainslie Thin, the publishing director of Oliver and Boyd, hovered in the background in case she needed advice.
The networks which promoted the wood engravings of Joan Hassall in Edinburgh are scarcely in living memory. These networks, like those of a family, were close, contentious and helpful by turns. How far the Saltire Society was the epicentre of such activity is well documented by Aileen Smith in The Construction of Cultural Identity in the Visual Arts in Scotland 1918-1945. For instance, Stanley Cursiter, director of the National Gallery of Scotland, was involved in the Saltire Society publications subcommittee and wrote a Saltire Pamphlet in 1943 entitled Art in Industry in which he discussed ways of improving the connections between industry, education and art in Scotland, proposing the co-ordination of the printing trades with art college education.
By the end of 1943 Joan Hassall’s fortunes were changing for the better. The first chapbook appeared, she joined the Society of Scottish Artists and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Society of Engravers. In 1944, Stanley Morison, typographer for the Monotype Corporation, delivered a lecture on ‘The Typographic Arts, Past, Present and Future’ at Edinburgh College of Art; Joan Hassall designed the booklet of the text which was published by James Thin.
In 1945, with the end of the war and her return to London in sight, she reflected on the significance of her time in Scotland in a letter to Alison Cairns, ‘it seemed even to my pro-English eye that Scotland had not been fairly treated and it made me ashamed… I should be glad one day to hear about the arguments for separation from England… so that when I go South I shall know what to say when it crops up. I am in many ways very sorry to be going South, as I now have equally as many valued friends here as there, but the reason is chiefly economic, and although Ainslie [Thin] valiantly concocts jobs for me, it is not enough and I must seek my bread where it is best to be found.’
Some biographical accounts suggest that Joan Hassall remained in Scotland until 1947, but from her correspondence with Alison Cairns and others, she had left her job at Edinburgh College of Art in 1945. She set up her own small press, Curtain Press, by 1948.
Back in London, her Scottish connections had a continuing effect on the commissions that came her way. In 1946 she undertook the design for The Green Garden, edited by James Fergusson, and for Scottish Pageant, compiled by Agnes Mure Mackenzie, both published by Oliver and Boyd. Hopetoun Press asked her to produce illustrations for their 1947 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. Eric Linklater involved her in illustrating Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (Rupert Hart-Davies, 1947). This book contains an illustration of a couple diving into the sea which is something of a departure from her detailed classical forms. It is closer to the modernist style of engraving, more fluid and less symmetrical than most of her other work. Oliver and Boyd returned to Joan in 1949 asking her to design A Scots Anthology. The following year she designed an edition of The Poems of Robert Burns for Maclehose of Glasgow. John Robertson Allan’s Lowlands of Scotland: a New Guidebook, with her illustrations, was included in the Festival of Britain exhibition in 1951; in that year also Rashie Coat, the last of her Saltire Chapbooks appeared. In 1967 she noted in a letter to the secretary of the society that the chapbooks were fetching higher prices secondhand than their face value.
Two later works that recall her Scottish connection are David Burnett’s The Heart’s Undesign (Tragara Press, 1977, edition limited to 200 copies), and Four Scottish Poems by Robert Burns, edited by David Chambers of the Private Libraries Association and published in Pinner in 1986.
Joan Hassall died in Malham, Yorkshire, in 1988, highly regarded as one of the foremost wood-engravers of the century. She was a classicist rather than a romantic or a modernist, but it is interesting to speculate how her work may have been influenced by her temporary immersion in Scottish aesthetics; her post-Edinburgh work, for example, seems to carry echoes of the austere, neoclassical lines of the city’s New Town architecture.

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Consider Brexit, the election of US President Donald Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s referendum, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s policy of state-sanctioned murder and Hungary’s drift towards a new authoritarianism.
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So I have been following a discussion on Twitter about whether a feminist wedding is possible or what makes a wedding a feminist wedding?
First off, is it possible to take a traditional institution like marriage and the rituals associated with it and make it feminist? Are some of the parts in the wedding ritual too traditional to be recast with a feminist replacement?
Several items in the debate on Twitter identified some feminist changes- making a speech, not wearing heels, not changing your name and not making a vow of obedience.
To me, some of those changes aren't necessarily feminist but just moving with the time. I haven't seen a vow of obedience in the last 5 years since I started attending weddings, and keeping your own name is more common for career reasons than feminism.
Meanwhile, wearing heels and making a speech or not is more a case of personal choice. I'm a feminist and I wear heels and makeup, and it does not make me less of a feminist. As for making your own speech, fair dues to you if you're comfortable speaking in public but many are not.
Kinda feels a bit like feminist bingo when you start listing out ways to make something feminist.
Your thoughts? Can you have a feminist wedding?
Weird Cat Lady
How about a female priest? *thunder bolts and lightning* Wait, hear me out... How about a female priest presiding over the wedding of two women? That's a lot of potential for jealousy and colour clashing in the one room. Someone should give Sinead O'Connor a call in the meantime. We're probably talking another few millennia before it formally happens.
Can't think of any other modifications to a wedding ceremony unless it coincides with ovulation and the choir could do a special ode to the passing ovum called Hear Me Howl. Or maybe that's what we should call the choir. PM me if you want the lyrics. It's a work in progress this morning.
A feminist marriage on the other hand is fairly achievable and negotiated between the couple, but I do get nostalgic for the marriage bar. Especially on Monday mornings.
The bride being given away like chattel, I suppose you could scrap that to have a more feminist wedding?
I'd love to hear more of that song WCL, Hear Me Howl for Christmas No. 1, the campaign starts here!
I'm with LadyLizzie there. The thoughts of Dad giving me away... At my age? Cringe!
The Today show on RTE1 (on now) will be talking about feminist weddings later on today's show...someone in RTE must be following the Twitter debate!
Girl From Mars
I don't think a wedding should be seen as feminist or not. It's about a couple uniting themselves and therefore gender is not the issue, or at least that's how I'd see it.
Tassajara I was following that discussion on Twitter last night and I got really wound up!
I would consider myself a feminist, but then who here wouldn't?! To me feminism should be about women being free to make their own choices without being judged by other. I felt so many involved in that discussion were sneering at anyone who didn't make some huge stand on their wedding day. I made a speech on my wedding day, I didn't promise to obey in the vows and I haven't changed my name. But I did these things because I wanted to. My Dad did walk me up the aisle, because I wanted him to and loved having that time before the ceremony with him. I didn't see it as him 'handing me over' to himself. And I wore really high heels and a full face of makeup - shock horror!
Girl From Mars, I agree completely, the wedding is about the couple and should reflect them as a whole.
To me,it sounds like a load of nonsense.How can you turn the biggest day of two peoples lives into a feminist affair? As someone else said,its about two people vowing to spend the rest of their lives together. If the bride wants to make a speech,then fair enough,something different.Being walked up the aisle by my father,i wouldn't change for the world.I loved every minute i spent with him that morning and its all part of tradition.
I Dream in Disney
Argh, this shiiiite annoys me so much. It's people trying to pigeonhole feminists and ensure you have to fit such a stereotype to want to be treated as an equal, it's a bit hypocritical is it not?
For me a feminist wedding is when both parties commit, in a manner decided by themselves, to love and respect and support each other all the days of their lives. So basically, a happy wedding where neither party are diminished by the union.
I'm not saying that anyone here is being hypocritical, it's just the kind of thing that gets on my goat.
Is Here Me Howl available on itunes?
I think the Twitter debate was being led by the person they were interviewing on RTE. So many parts of it bothered me as well, Cookbook Collector- it seemed like total one-upmanship, rather than actually discussing whether it matters whether a wedding is feminist or not.
Yeah, I know there are some parts which are symbols of patriarchy and I hate it when priests and celebrants try to make awkward cracks about a wife's role, etc. I think as long the bride recognises the tradition it is based upon and then makes her own decision about whether she wants her dad to walk her down the aisle or not. After all, our dads are huge parts of our lives as well.
For me, I'm going to walk down the aisle with my fiance. I don't see myself as starting a new life with my new husband and needing a family member to give me away. I see it as an extension of our life together.
As far as I'm concerned really, the main thing is that you have a relationship which supports each partner equally and fairly, and a wedding is just one day in all that.
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Judge ruled feds need not notify Fox reporter of search
A federal judge in Washington ruled in 2010 that the Justice Department was not required by law to notify Fox reporter James Rosen that prosecutors had obtained his emails in connection with an investigation into a leak about North Korean plans to test a nuclear weapon.
In September 2010, Chief U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth overruled the conclusion of federal magistrate John Facciola that Rosen—whose Gmail account was searched—was entitled by law to be informed.
Prosecutors contended that under the statute used to get Rosen's emails, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, they were not required to provide any notice of the search.
In his decision (posted here), Lamberth said the usual search warrant notification provisions apply, but found they were "satisfied by leaving a copy of the warrant with a third-party ISP [internet service provider]." That made the notification sort of a moot point, since Google got the warrant in the first place.
"The government has no further obligation to notify the subscriber of the e-mail account at issue," Lamberth wrote.
It's unclear when Rosen or Fox became aware of the search. Fox did not respond to POLITICO's request for comment.
In a statement released to TVNewser, Fox executive vice president for news Michael Clemente indicated the network just became aware that investigators suggested Rosen may have committed a crime in his reporting. "We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter," Clemente said.
Clemente did not say when Fox learned of the investigation or of the search of his Gmail account. Justice Department regulations appear to require such notice for searches of phone records and for testimony and a journalist's own records. (It's not entirely clear how or if they apply to a search of emails kept by a third-party internet provider.) Notice is usually given before, but sometimes after the fact. Those regulations are separate as a legal matter from the notification requirements in the law.
A Google spokeswoman declined to comment on the specific case. However, she pointed to a general company policy favoring disclosure "when appropriate."
"We notify users about legal demands when appropriate, unless prohibited by law or court order," the policy says. "We sometimes fight to give users notice of a data request by seeking to lift gag orders or unseal search warrants.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on any notification to Fox or Rosen. Rosen would have known of the investigation by August 27, 2010 at the latest. That's the day State Department contractor Stephen Kim was indicted for leaking classified national security information and lying about his contacts with Rosen. Rosen was not named in the indictment, but press reports quickly identified him and said the leaks pertained to a report on North Korean nuclear test plans.
Lamberth's ruling has been public since November 2010, but the fact that it related to Rosen's Gmail account did not become clear until the Washington Post obtained court records recently about the search. Those records were apparently unsealed in November 2011, but it's not clear if they were readily available. The docket numbers on those documents and Lamberth's ruling match, and there are other indicators that the cases are the same.
In granting the search warrant, Magistrate Alan Kay indicated that investigators could delay giving notice of it for 30 days (rendering it a so-called sneak-and-peek search authorized by the Patriot Act). However, Lamberth's opinion says Kay later said he'd checked that box in error and the government never requested a 30-day delay.
When prosecutors requested a clarification, Facciola told them to notify the subscriber: in this case, Rosen. That ruling triggered the appeal to Lamberth.
UPDATE (Monday, 6:49 P.M.): This post has been updated with Google's response and with further discussion of the DOJ regs on notification.


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A few quick links to articles and posts that I have enjoyed over the last week or so. First up is this piece from the excellent historical website, The Cricket Bat That Died For Ireland, featuring a series of photos taken in a British concentration camp in Ireland during the most important period of the Irish Revolution:
“In December 1920, at the height of the War of Independence, the British authorities established the first internment camp on Irish soil at Ballykinlar, Co. Down. The British policy of interning any man in any way suspected of being involved in the republican movement led to many hundreds of men being detained without trial, and soon a series of internment camps were built around the country, though Ballykinlar remained the largest and probably the most famous. [ASF: Infamous, surely?]
One such centre was the Rath Camp at the Curragh, Co. Kildare, where I.R.A. member and internee Joseph Lawless took this series of unique photographs illustrating life in the camp. He donated them to the National Museum of Ireland in 1950.”
Another of my regular reads is the blog, The History of Na Fianna Éireann, which this week features a story on the newspaper of the Irish Republican scouting organisation in the year leading up to the Easter Rising:
“This ‘unofficial’ monthly newspaper ran for about a year and cost one penny per edition.
It featured many articles about Ireland, and Irish history, including a series of stories from Patrick Pearse. Many of these articles were in Irish. It also contained instructions on camping, drilling, signalling etc, and adverts for scouting supplies shops. From time to time it featured adverts for the ‘Irish Volunteer’ and ‘The Worker’ newspapers. It also published details of Fianna meetings, events and parades held throughout Ireland.”
The Fianna Éireann, along with the Cumann na mBan, was in some ways the backbone of the revolutionary movement in the country, wielding far greater influence than has been heretofore acknowledged. Certainly the organised defence of the Irish Republic during the counter-revolutionary struggle with the Irish Free State would have been far more sporadic without the presence of both. The two organisations provided what one might term “revolution in depth” to the broader forces of Sinn Féin and Óglaigh na hÉireann (the Irish Republican Army) from 1916 to ’23.
A more sobering article comes from the Irish Story focusing on the capture of a unit of the Irish Republican Army by the Irish Free State Army during the Civil War and the “execution” of five Anti-Treaty Volunteers by the FS regime:
“Following their capture, the members of the column were taken to Wellington Barracks and interrogated. Three of the column had been captured wearing National Army uniforms and very soon another two were identified as army deserters.
On 11th December 1922, Corporal Leo Dowling (18 years old), Corporal Sylvester Heaney (19 years), Privates Terrence Brady (18 years), Laurence Sheehy (21 years), and Anthony O’Reilly (age unknown) were tried in a military court for treason. They were found guilty and sentenced to death and on 8th January 1923 they were executed by firing squad at Portobello Barracks.
This was the first time National Army troops had been executed for either treachery, desertion or any other reason. It is possible the soldiers were executed to send a warning to any remaining Republican sympathisers within the ranks of the National Army.
January 1923 saw the largest number of executions of the Civil War, a total of 34 with the largest single judicial execution carried out at the Curragh on 19th December, 1922. On the night of 13th December, eight members of the anti-treaty Rathbride column were captured in a dug out at Mooresbridge, right on the edge of the Curragh. One of their number, Tom Behan was killed during the capture of the column, beaten to death with a rifle butt. The remaining seven were tried, sentenced to death and executed on 19th December.”
The Irish Story has done more to chart the internecine blood-letting on our island nation in the early 1920s than any other publication, bringing those terrible events to the attention of a 21st century audience that has long been denied ready knowledge of them. It is to be highly commended for doing so.
On a less controversial note is this interesting review of the biography of Richard Talbot, a somewhat forgotten figure who once loomed large in our history. Finally thanks to Derek for the link to this report in the Irish Independent exploring plans to restore part of the Néifinn and Néifinn Bheag mountain range (pointlessly anglicised as Nephin Beg) in Mayo to something resembling its pre-modern state:
“It will become a wilderness of 28,000 acres almost unrivalled in Northern Europe where nature lovers will be able to roam for weeks without seeing another human being.
But first all signs of the human hand will have to be erased from the wild lands of the Nephin Beg area of Co. Mayo in a project that may take half a century to fully complete.
It is already a desolate and wonderful landscape once described by the Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger as the “loneliest place in Ireland…not depressing, but inspiring”.
But hardy Mayo souls drained the bogs over millennia to harvest turf and one of the first jobs is to block those ancient and not so ancient drains so the boglands can rejuvenate.
The idea is to bring the water table back up to within 10cms of the surface. That will allow the bogs to grow with sphagnum mosses sucking up ground water like a sponge.
Wild Nephin will encompass lands controlled by both Coillte and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Bill Murphy of Coillte, which has some 4,600 hectares of Nephin forest, said the agency has begun a 15-year conversion plan to return “forestry to forest”.
Forest regeneration will aim to encourage natural forest types.
Some forest roads will be re-engineered to create more authentic trails and provide a safe sanctuary for plants and animals.”
Now there is something to appeal to any Green Republican.
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You have the gobshites ( they know who they are ) who whinged, moaned and complained about Irish army deserters during World War two who abandoned their posts and left to sign up for the Brits. And we can contrast that to the treatment that the deserters in your link above got. I.e executed.
Somehow I doubt; Harris, Irish (sewer pipe) Independent Ruth “ditch water Dull” Edwards et al
will be mounting a campaign for a pardon for those 5??
Gross, nauseating hypocrisy.
took me a while to find this again – an interesting story about one Fianna scout . Don’t know if it is included in the site you mention about the history of the Fianna https://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/the_lonely_grave_of_fianna_scout.pdf
What a great story! Fair play to Pats(e)y O’Connor!

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Name: JOANNA CELESTE M. QUINTANA Date performed: NOV. 12, 2012 Section: C-1L Date submitted: NOV. 21, 2012 Group Number: 3 Exercise No. 2 COLLIGATIVE PROPERTIES (Full Report) I. INTRODUCTION Colligative properties In liquid solutions, particles are close together and the solute molecules or ions disrupt intermolecular forces between the solvent molecules, causing changes in those properties of the solvent that depend in intermolecular attraction. For example, the freezing point of a solution is lower than that of the of the pure solvent and the boiling point is higher.
Colligative properties of solution are those that depend on the concentration of solute particles in the solution, regardless of what kinds of particles are present the greater the concentration of any solute, the lower the freezing point and the higher the boiling point of a solution. FREEZING POINT LOWERING A liquid begins to freeze when temperature is lowered to the substance’s freezing point and the first few molecules cluster together into a crystal lattice to form a tiny quantity of solid.
As long as both solid and liquid phases are present at the freezing point, the rate of crystallization equals the rate of melting and there is a dynamic equilibrium. When a solution freezes, a few molecules of solvent cluster together to form pure solid solvent and a dynamic equilibrium is set up between the solution and the solid solvent. In the case of a solution, the molecules in the liquid in contact with the solid solvent are not all solvent molecule.
The rate at which molecules move from solution to solid is therefore smaller that in the pure liquid to achieve dynamic equilibrium there must be a corresponding smaller rate of escape of molecules from solid crystal lattice. This slower rate occurs at a lower temperature and so the freezing point of the solution is lower than that of liquid solvent. The change in freezing point ? Tf is proportional to the concentration of the solute in the same way as the boiling point elevation. ?Tf = Kf ? msolute ? ?solute
Here also, the proportionality constant Kf depends on the solvent and not the kind of solute and isolute represents the number of particles per formula unti of solute. For water, the freezing point constant is -1. 86 oC-kg/mole. Freezing point or melting point is the temperature of transition between solid and liquid. Melting point can be measured more accurately than freezing points. This is becauses so in freezing point measurements, supercooling may occur which would yield a lower than sslkdjs freezing (melting point).
CHANGES IN VAPOUR PRESSURE: RAOULT’S LAW At the surface of an aqueous solution, there are molecules of water as well as ions or molecules from the solute. Water molecules can leave the liquid and enter the gas phase, exerting a vapour pressure. However, there are not as many water molecules at the surface as in pure water, because some of them have been displaced by dissolved ions or molecules/ therefore, not as many water molecules are available to leave the liquid surface, and the vapour pressure is lower than that of pure water at a given temperature.
From this analysis, it should make senses that the vapour pressure of the solovent above the solution, Psolvent, solution, that is , to their mole fraction. Thus, since Psolvent ? Xsolvent, we can write Psolvent = Xsolvent ? K (where K is a constant). This equation tells you that, if there are only half as many solvent molecules present at the surface of a solution as at the surface of the pure liquid, then the vapour pressure of the solvent above the solution will only be half as great as that of the pure solvent at the same temperature. If we are dealing only with pure solvent, the above equation becomes Posolvent = Xsolvent ?
K where Posolvent is the vapour pressure of the pure solvent and Xsolvent is equal to 1. This means that Posolvent = K; that is, the constant K is just the vapour pressure of the pure sovent. Substituting for K in the foremost equation, we arrive at an equation called Raoult’s law: Psolvent = Xsolvent ? Posolvent If the solution contains more than one volatile component, then Raoult’s law can be written for any one such component, A, as PA = XA ? PoA Like this ideal gas law, Raoult’s law is a description of a simplified model of a solution.
An ideal solution is one that obey Raoult’s law/ although most solution are not ideal, just as most gases are not ideal, we use Raoult’s law as good approximation to solution behaviour. In any solution, the mole fraction of the solvent will always be less than 1, so the vapour pressure of the solvent over an ideal solution (Psolvent) must be less than the vapour pressure of the pure solvent (Posolvent). This vapour pressure lowering, ? Psolvent, is given by ? Psolvent = Psolvent ? Posolventwhere Psolvent < Posolvent Boiling point elevation
Raoult’s law tells us that the vapour pressure of the solvent over a solution must be lower than that of the pure solvent. Assume for example that you have a solution of a non-volatile solute in the volatile solvent benzene ? ? ? ? II. MATERIALS A. Reagents 4. 00 g naphthalene 0. 20 g unknown solute A unknown solute B (assigned amount per group) distilled water B. Apparatus 250-mL beaker 400-mL beaker 100-mL graduated cylinder test tubes thermometer iron stand, iron ring, iron clamp hot plate C. Other Apparatus wire gauze tissue paper graphing paper timer III. PROCEDURE Freezing Point of Naphthalene
In a clean and dry test tube, 2. 0 g of naphthalene was weighed. To measure the temperature while heating, a thermometer was suspended by tissue paper at the mouth of the test tube. It was placed in a water bath with the water level above the sample in the test tube. To avoid the contact of the test tube to the bottom of the bath, it was supported by an iron clamp. The water bath was then heated until the entire sample has melted and until the temperature of the sample reached 90o C. The flame was put off and the temperature reading was recorded every 15 seconds until the temperature has fallen to 70oC.
The set up was put aside for the next part of the experiment. Data gathered were tabulated and plotted for analysis and evaluation. Freezing Point Depression of Naphthalene Pre weighed 0. 20 g of unknown solute A was added to the previous set up of naphthalene. The same procedure was done with it. The thermometer was again suspended at the mouth of the test tube by tissue paper. With the help of iron clamp, it was again placed in a water bath, with the water level above the sample in the test tube, to avoid contact to the bottom of the bath.
The water bath was then heated until the entire sample of unknown solute A and naphthalene has melted. When the temperature reached 90oC, the flame was put off. The temperature reading was recorded every 15 seconds until the temperature has fallen to 70oC. Data was also tabulated and plotted together with the data from freezing point of naphthalene. Boiling Point of Water In a 250-mL beaker, 100-mL of distilled water was boiled until it completely boiled. The temperature reading was recorded. In a separate 250-mL beaker, 0. 20 g of unknown solute B was dissolved in 100-mL distilled water.
This was also heated until it finally boiled. The boiling point was also recorded. It was tabulated together with the boiling points of solutions with varying amounts of solute from other groups. Comparison was made for evaluation of the results. IV. DATA/OBSERVATIONS Table 1. 1. Observations on cooling of naphthalene at 15-second intervals. Time (sec. )Temperature (oC)Appearance 1590clear liquid 3090clear liquid 4587clear liquid 6086clear liquid 7585clear liquid 9085clear liquid 10584clear liquid 12084clear liquid 13583clear liquid 15083clear liquid 16582clear liquid 18081clear liquid 9581clear liquid 21080clear liquid 22580clear liquid 24079clear liquid 25579clear liquid 27078clear liquid 28577clear liquid 30077clear liquid 31576solidification 33075solidification 34575 36075 37575 39075 40575 42075 43575 45075 46575 48075 49575 51075 52575 54075 55575 57075 58575 60075 61575 63075 64574 66074 67574 69074 70574 72073 73573 75073 76572 78072 79571 81070 Mass of naphthalene used (g): 2. 00 g Table 1. 2. Observations on cooling of solution of naphthalene and unknown solute at 15-second interval. Time (sec. )Temperature (oC)Appearance 1590clear liquid 3090clear liquid 587clear liquid 6086clear liquid 7585clear liquid 9085clear liquid 10584clear liquid 12084clear liquid 13583clear liquid 15083clear liquid 16582clear liquid 18081clear liquid 19581clear liquid 21080clear liquid 22580clear liquid 24079clear liquid 25579clear liquid 27078clear liquid 28577clear liquid 30077clear liquid 31576clear liquid 33075 34575 36075 37575 39075 40575 42075 43575 45075 46575 48075 49575 51075 52575 Mass of naphthalene used (g): 2. 00 g mass of unknown solute B (g): 0. 20 g Table 1. 3. Data on freezing point depression of naphthalene. Mass of naphthalene used (g)2. 0 g Mass of unknown solute A used (g)0. 20 g Mass of solution (g)2. 20 g Freezing point of pure naphthalene (oC)75 oC Freezing point of solution (oC)73 oC Freezing point difference of pure naphthalene and of solution (oC) Molality of solution (mol/kg) Moles of solute used (mole) Molecular mass of solute (g/mole) Table 1. 4. Summary of data on boiling points of solutions with varying amounts of solute. Group No. Amount of solute B used (g)Boiling point (oC) --100 10. 5099. 0 21. 0090. 0 31. 5099. 5 42. 0099. 5 52. 50100 V. DISCUSSION ? ? ? ? VI. CONCLUSION ? VII. LITERATURE CITED/BIBLIOGRAPHY


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Unilever South Africa has awarded the digital account for men’s deodorant brand, Brut, to The Niche Guys following a three-way pitch at the end of December 2019. The Niche Guys is independently owned, with offices in Durban and Johannesburg, and use a digital-first strategic approach to partnering with brands. “Our chemistry with The Niche Guys […]
WPP has been awarded the stewardship and activation of the Sunlight brand across Africa, following a competitive pitch process. WPP Team Unilever/Africa draws on WPP agencies J. Walter Thompson, Ogilvy, The Hardy Boys and Scanad. Going forward, WPP Team Sunlight will provide access to talent from across WPP companies, including Kantar, Barrows, Mindshare, TMARC, Smollan […]
Unilever has appointed Liquorice as the lead regional digital agency for the Blue Band margarine brand across Africa. Key markets of focus will include Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria. Carolyne Kendi, Brand Development Manager for Spreads, Unilever Central Africa, commented, “Liquorice really impressed us with their in-depth understanding of the Blue Band consumer across Africa and […]
by Erna George. Over the past few months, I have noticed that corporate brands are increasingly being featured in campaigns marketing the product or ‘consumed’ brand. Whether a surreptitious inclusion or blaring endorsement, this phenomenon is an interesting addition to the branding landscape.
Unilever has issued a statement distancing itself from an ad for margarine brand Flora and criticised as homophobic by various news outlets and social media users.
by Veli Ngubane. The Ogilvy PR CT powerhouse unpacks this changing world as we talk about covid-19, transformation, #BlackLivesMatter and the role of women in today’s landscape.
by Erna George. We all know SA has a highly diverse consumer base, yet the marketing and advertising focus on building diverse thought and inspiration is still too slow.
by Herman Manson. Miles Murphy stepped into his new role shortly after SA’s ‘hard’ lockdown came into effect and had to tear up his 100-day plan and change his set of priorities.
by Carey Finn. Cuma Pantshwa and Zama Nkosi-Mabuye, the power duo behind the female-focused marketing agency, chat about the why, what and how of their work.
by Erna George. One phrase you may not have heard of is to “focus on the dance” and this is exactly what we as marketers and advertisers need to be doing at present.


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Water plant shut down by computer glitch
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A computer shut down in the plant caused water processing to stop. The water continued to be pumped into the building from the resevoir causing the water to rise up from a manhole across the street from the plant.
Water processing stopped as a result of a computer glitch. The continual pumping of water from the resevoir intothe plant caused water to flow out of a manhole onto the street.


Feds recoup $3 billion in false claims in fiscal 2010
By Robert Brodsky, govexec.com
The Justice Department secured $3 billion in settlements and judgments from civil lawsuits in fiscal 2010, most often involving companies attempting to defraud the federal government, according to new Obama administration data.
The financial recoveries, the second highest in the nation's history and a 25 percent increase from fiscal 2009, were achieved primarily through investigations of public health care fraud, according to Tony West, assistant attorney general for Justice's civil division.
In total, the government returned $2.5 billion to federal programs and the U.S. Treasury through health care investigations -- its largest take ever. Payments by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers accounted for most of the settlements.
The Health and Human Services Department made the biggest recoveries, through the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Office of Personnel Management, which administers the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the Defense Department, which manages the TRICARE insurance program, also yielded high returns, according to Justice.
In a briefing with reporters on Monday, West said the recovered funds would have otherwise "padded the bank accounts of defendants who sought profit over quality reasonably priced health care, or profiteering from the wars in Southeast Asia or personal gain over supporting law enforcement with the best protection money can buy."
Officials brought in an additional $327 million in settlements through cases of financial fraud involving civilian government contracting, the Troubled Assets Relief Program and the $800 billion Recovery Act. And the government recouped another $10.6 million from Pentagon contractors operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Other cases involved grants for small businesses, bulletproof vests for law enforcement officers and federally insured mortgages.
Of the $3 billion in recoveries, more than $2.3 billion involved qui tam lawsuits initiated by whistleblowers through the False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law that allows nonfederal officials to file claims against contractors they believe have defrauded the government.
"Once again the [Justice] statistics prove that whistleblowing works," said Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center. "The False Claims Act recovers billions of dollars for taxpayers and deters future fraud against the federal government."
Through the False Claims Act, whistleblowers are entitled to 15 percent to 30 percent of the proceeds from a successful suit. In fiscal 2010, whistleblowers, known as relators, received a combined $385 million.
"This law is the most powerful tool in rooting out fraud against the federal treasury," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who has authored a number of changes and expansions to the law during the past two decades. "Not only does the law help recover billions of taxpayer dollars, but it also deters untold more. Our amendments have empowered whistleblowers to come forward and risk their careers to do what was right. Taxpayers and whistleblowers have a real friend with this law."
Since 1986, the government has recovered more than $27 billion through the False Claims Act.


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Oscar Mulero‘s Warm Up outfit is achieving the 50th release with a remixes pack splitted in two EPs.
Warm up Recordings goes 50 with 2 remix EP’s and an extended digital release including the all PatternSeries tracks -ow.ly/skgb30fLO3k pic.twitter.com/gabNWlsLYI
— Oscar Mulero (@oscarmulero) 10 ottobre 2017
The two-part remix EP called ‘Contents‘ includes material from Mulero’s recent Pattern Series, a sequence of four records that present “abstract pieces of modern techno.”
The first 12-inch, set for release on November 10th, features reworks by Silent Servant, Kangding Ray and Cassegrain, while the second one – showcasing remixes from Donato Dozzy, Chevel and Shlømo – is due out on December 1st.
The Spanish DJ will also drop a digital compilation, titled ‘Pattern Series Compilation‘, that features tracks from his Pattern Series. It will come out on November 1st.
Listen to the full ‘Pattern Series Compilation‘ below!
Contents: Pattern Series Remixes Part 1
A Color (Silent Servant Remix)
B1 Form (Kangding Ray Remix)
B2 Texture (Cassegrain Remix)
Contents: Pattern Series Remixes Part 2
A Texture (Shlømo Remix)
B1 Color (Donato Dozzy Remix)
B2 Form (Chevel Remix)
Pattern Series Compilation
01. Epley Manuever
03. Particle Repositioning
04. Balance And Acceleration
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I love you Boston — and the Mass area. This is true for many cities that showed solidarity in protest. With more mass organizing meetings to come — today was beautiful. Really. There is hope and love. We marched in solidarity with family, comrades, women, whites, people of color, and students. We marched with lesbians, transgender, gay, queer, straight, and children who were being taught love and acceptance. We cheered for women’s rights and their reproductive rights. We marched against white supremacy, pay inequality, rape, and mass incarcerations. We marched because the state nor religion can tell a woman about her reproductive system. We marched because Black Lives Matter. We marched because love trumps hate. 125,000 marched and protested because we do not respect the least popularly elected president in history. We marched because no means no. Sexual assault is what weak men do.
An interesting article headlining Miley Cyrus and Beyonce reads: If Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé want to be feminist, they need to quit the celebrity machine. Author Gaylene Gould got it right and in doing so, ignited a conversation between myself and professor Hunter. Our December 18th discussion went something like this:
Hunter: In reflecting on recent discussions on beyonce’s declaration about her feminism, i’m trying to discern the difference between identification with an ideology and activism that leads to social transformation.
Carson: I like this reflection my friend and colleague is wrestling with. Dr. Hunter has given me something to ponder. Though I am black and educated in the spirit of the bourgeoisie, I believe that my activism will always be proletarian, as I noted regarding W.E.B Du Bois. If that means passively protesting a commencement speaker or organizing a walkout during an assembly — both of which I have done, they serve as a model to my students that I am serious about both action and teaching. I can live with that. Folks confuse leadership sometimes. Too many stationary books on what leadership looks like. It is a commercialized industry.
Hunter: knock it off ed. I’m just joe PhD. lol. I’m not trying to set the bar too high for anyone, but the history of black feminism, on all levels, is filled with known and unknown black women who put in work.
Carson: But the fact that you are creating and encouraging this discussion is what validates you and your point. People confuse talk with inactivity. It is the talk that promulgates action. And here, you are speaking towards our cultural ignorance and inconsistencies. Yes, what about the many sisters who are not commercialized but act? I want the bar high.
Hunter: Ella Baker talked. Angela Davis talked and continues to speak. Toni Morrison talks and writes, but in many ways Oprah’s philanthropy speaks to me of a feminist agenda. As you know, I think caring means learning about the conditions of structural violence so that we have good, thoughtful, and articulate hearts that are able to describe the marginalizing structures of power and then in winsome terms attract those with similar moral intuitions or commitments. As you know, discourse is critical to meaningful social transformation. For that reason, as an educator, I’m interested in the intellectual and moral (spiritual) formation of my students AND colleagues.
Carson: Unfortunately, folks either forget or do not want to revisit the narrative once scripted for such dialogue about race and gender. Angela Davis’ dealings with the Panthers and the Communist Party of America denotes her own class and racial alienation. Toni Morrison’s deepest narratives points to matters deemed too taboo to discuss in the mainstream. Intra-class and black racism works against our own sense of being consciously aware — as Marxism has taught us. A history of shade (i.e., high yellow) and incest that demonized blacks folks for centuries continues to hunt us. Both Davis and Morrison have spoken to these matters. Yet, it is Oprah who reminds us through her philanthropy in a different fashion that class and racial consciousness still exist. I think to her support of Obama or the movie Great Debaters that showcased the rise of a young Farmer who became an activist in addressing matters of inequality. Or, her book club. I do not think folks see the thread or theme with her book selections as they relate to your point on ideology and activism. Unlike Davis, who used her action and education to denounce class and racial injustices, Oprah managed to transcend both among the most unsuspecting audience: white homemakers. Unfortunately, I am not convinced she nor Davis nor Baker nor Morrison can compete with the false personification of modern celebs like Beyonce. Young sisters want to shake the booty. And that is okay. As long as the shaking stays in the club and the real work continues through a well articulated message. This has always been my message to the black sisters in my courses.
Hunter: The great debates, zora, morrison, edwidge danticat for morrison, etc and so on. the difference is Morrison’s work began with a self-reflective writing exercise that looked at hegemonic power and internalized oppression and the human condition. Instead of seeking celebrity, she wrote a book that she wanted to read. That personal work translated into social transformation, created other opportunities for black writers, as well as celebrity. These consequences were the unintended consequence of tending to her soul and asking important questions out loud. we can go on and on on this one.
Carson: Agreed!!! Darn did I really forget about sister Hurston? Yes. My mind is now racing out of control. Thanks for giving me so much to think about. I needed this today.
Two years ago this week, I went into shock only to discover that I had a brain tumor. This tumor which was a cyst, kept fluids from draining from my brain, causing a great deal of bleeding. After spending time in ICU and under going seven hours of brain surgery, I was back in great health. The cyst did not contain cancer. This of course was far more serious than when I tore my knee up as a poor college student without health insurance. I am still making payments on that. The difference of course is that I can now afford health insurance, whereas before I could not nor could my parents; I think about the millions that cannot still. I am sad when I hear that Americans do not favor what is clearly a revolutionary decision.
I am proud of each Congressman that voted for this. You put the good of the many ahead of the good of the few. Thus, I am sad to say that you will most likely get voted out of office by those that have health insurance. My parents, who are uninsured, thank you. I thank you. Millions of Americans thank you.
Nancy Pelosi stated it well tonight when she said “health care is a right, not a privilege.”
Jaylon has been commenting on this blog now for almost a year; he is a regular that offers some thoughtful suggestions to various blog posts. I love it when people decided to e-mail me great stuff to publish — this one came out of the blue. Jaylon’s piece discusses the fact that women simply make less than their male counter part. It might have something to do with the number of women electing to stay at home after giving birth. Seeing how complex today’s economy is, I am still amazed that women can do this. Because I come from a family with very little economic earning power, both of my parents had to work all types of shifts just to make ends meet. My biggest fear is that many of the young ladies I teach will go off to college in hopes of getting an MRS. degree. Ladies, keep fighting.~EC~
Yesterday, the Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted a report by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. The report indicated that, on average, women earn lower salaries than men immediately after graduation and thereafter. This gap in salaries existed even though women’s college GPAs were on average higher than those of men. The report’s findings were true for women, even when they made the same occupational choices as men. The Chronicle detailed the following from the report:
“One year after graduation, women earn 80 percent of what their male counterparts earn, the report says. Ten years after graduation, the disparity is even greater, with women earning 69 percent of what men earn. But women are also more likely than men to complete some form of graduate education within the first 10 years out of college.
The research also shows that women who attended highly selective colleges earn less than men from either highly or moderately selective colleges, and about the same as men from minimally selective colleges.”
In some prior entries, I have mentioned the rainbow nature of some of the Democratic party candidates – Obama, Richardson, and Clinton. We should not leave out the Republicans. For the last several years, we have heard of a draft Condoleeza Rice for president movement. I have visited one of the sites, Americans for Dr. Rice http://www.4condi.com/. It stresses her foreign policy experience as compared to Democratic candidates like Hillary. Rice has apparently pooh-poohed the idea of running in the past. How many of us think that the Republicans will encourage Condie to get into the mix? Will I see Condie shaking hands in Iowa country kitchens? Will she be brought in to support the shaky race/gender credentials of the various Republican candidates? Will the Republicans come up with anyone other than the standard Bush type? Does it really matter? To be honest, as long as there is a war in Iraq, there will not be a Republican in the White House.
Can she win the office? It will be a tough call. Republicans and conservatives (yes these two terms can be separated…I just typed it) have painted her as an evil liberal who would like to destroy the conservative home and the traditional role of women. Hello! We have moved beyond the 1950s and the Leave it to Beaver image. By the way, Leave it to Beaver was not the norm seeing that a number of women who did not have to enter the work force opted to do so. If people would stop listening to bad hype about HRC and look at her record, they would see that she is more moderate than her false public image. Moreover, much of the HRC bashing comes from those who fear the dynamic role shift of women since the 1960s. We must not forget that while in college, she was a Goldwater conservative. According to her, the Civil Rights movement pushed her towards the left.
Here is how New Yorkers feel:
- Gov. George Pataki: 19 percent “great” or “good;” 37 percent “so so,” 41 percent “bad;”
- Sen. Hillary Clinton: 67 percent “great” or “good;” 17 percent “so so,” 13 percent “bad;”
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: 41 percent “great” or “good;” 24 percent “so so,” 33 percent “bad.”
This is how
most some Americans outside of New York feel:
So, what are church members hearing? This is from a church memo:
While all the things we know about Hillary are dangerous, the most scary things are the things we do not know. A woman of her demeanor, if it were possible for her to be elected President, would take on a degree of haughtiness that would border on insanity. She would be emboldened by the kind of staff she would surround herself with, and they would certainly further her ego. It would be “Queen Hillary” in her mind, and the very grandeur that would be seen by Americans would make her impossible to defeat. Think of the conduct and attitude that Bill Clinton got by with and double it for Hillary Clinton.Please believe me when I say this woman is dangerous. Every great nation, institution, church denomination, or business must follow discemment in the placing of individuals in places of leadership. Most of the decision is made on the persona that hides behind the face. As
America approaches the future, we must leam to be discerning in electing our leaders. God has a prophetic place for our nation. Our great culture of the past has been wounded to the edge of extinction. It must be resurrected. We need a spiritual awakening that goes far beyond the church face we wear on Sunday morning. Our leaders we elect actually represent what is happening spiritually in the hearts of the voting majority .Let’s prepare on our faces before God for the next election. If we do, and I believe many will, Senator Hillary Clinton does not have the possibility of winning.
Who is the Most Powerful Woman in the World?
Forbes Magazine recently published its list of the most powerful women in the world. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel tops this list replacing Condoleezza Rice, who dropped a spot to number two. The rest of Forbes’ list is solid with the exception of Katie Couric at number 54 and MTV’s chief executive Judy McGrath at 52. I wish MTV would play a music video from time to time. I am willing to place Couric in the eighties or nineties on my list. McGrath does not make it.
Here are a few other notables on the list.
Oprah Winfrey # 14 – I am thinking # 10 on my list.
Hillary Clinton # 18 – What? She is a powerful U.S. Senator. I say # 6 – 8 on my list.
Melinda Gates # 16 – Again, this is too low. I say # 6 – 8 on my list.
Laura Bush # 43 – How can she and Couric be so close in ranking. I say # 30 – 35 based on her position and title. She is not a power player.
China’s VP WU Yi # 3 – I say # 2 just behind # 1 Rice.
England’s Queen Elizabeth II # 46 – I agree with her spot.