July 10, 2012
For Immediate Releases
|The new Men’s Residence Village, with 48 beds, is set to open in fall with energy saving features.
(Campbellsville University Photo by Christina Kern)
By Joan C. McKinney, news and publications coordinator
CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Campbellsville University is adding another 48 beds to the Men’s Residence Village, which is set to open this fall adjacent to the current Men’s Residence Village.
The 9,100-square-foot new residence village will also be more energy efficient including better insulated walls and roof areas, high efficiency HVAC equipment, programmable thermostats and high efficiency windows and water heaters.
There will also be water saving toilets, faucets and showerheads and compact fluorescent lighting.
Dave Walters, vice president for admissions and student services, said CU’s new housing option for men reflects the same design as several of the university’s new housing additions.
The units are a “townhouse,” two-story style option where each individual unit houses six students.
There are three bedrooms with two students each, three bathrooms, a kitchenette area and a common, “living room” area.
Walters said the university’s enrollment continues to grow each semester in resident student population as does the need for more housing.
“This addition expands our housing base and provides the opportunity for flexibility in assignments and gives our students more options,” Walters said.
He said, “This style of housing has continued to be very popular with our students. It creates a living experience with more space per student while also engaging the students in a community learning and living environment.”
James Dean, men’s housing area coordinator at CU, said CU will have 1,046 beds on campus this fall.
The Men’s Residence Village has 138, with the new one having 48 of those spots.
Campbellsville University has eight residence halls on campus with North, West, East, Broaday and the Men’s Residence Villages for men with 574 beds.
There are 472 women’s beds in Stapp Hall, Village Phase 1 and Village Phase 2.
Campbellsville University is a widely acclaimed Kentucky-based Christian university with more than 3,500 students offering 63 undergraduate options, 17 master’s degrees, five postgraduate areas and eight pre-professional programs. The website for complete information is campbellsville.edu.


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"The Negheriting Shiva Doul is a Shiva temple in Dergaon, Assam. Situated on a hillock  at about one and half km north from the National Highway 37 in the Golaghat district of Assam, the temple was first constructed by the Kacharis during 8th - 9th century AD. Later due to natural calamities it came into destruction. In 1687 it was re-constructed by Ahom king Swargadeo Rajeswar Singha. The famous architect assigned to the job was Ghanashyam Khonikar."
Neghereting Shiva Temple
Uncle Robin’s children museum
"Kaziranga National Park (Assamese: ??????? ?????????? ??????, Kazironga Rastriyo Uddan, pronounced [kazir???a rastrij? ud?an] ( listen)) is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. A World Heritage Site, the park hosts two-thirds of the world's Great One-horned Rhinoceroses. Kaziranga boasts the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. The park is home to large breeding populations of elephants, wild water buffalo, and swamp deer. Kaziranga is recognized as an Important Bird Area by Birdlife International for conservation of avifaunal species. Compared to other protected areas in India, Kaziranga has achieved notable success in wildlife conservation. Located on the edge of the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, the park combines high species diversity and visibility.\nKaziranga is a vast expanse of tall elephant grass, marshland, and dense tropical moist broadleaf forests, crisscrossed by four major rivers, including the Brahmaputra, and the park includes numerous small bodies of water. Kaziranga has been the theme of several books, songs, and documentaries. The park celebrated its centennial in 2005 after its establishment in 1905 as a reserve forest."
Kaziranga National Park

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Fort Amsterdam was built by the Dutch in 1631 and is located on the peninsula separating Great Bay and Little Bay. Two years later the Spanish captured, and occupied, the fort until 1648. The Dutch gained control again and owned Fort Amsterdam for 150 years until the French took it in 1795 only to lose it to the English in 1801 who gave it back to the Dutch in 1816.
To get to Fort Amsterdam I chose to walk since there is no bus running to it. After I walked the entire beach in Great Bay, which is also the Boardwalk of Philipsburg, I had to walk another mile that included going up, then down, through a resort, and finally back up the hill it was built on.
I try to find the positive in almost everything I see, but the little that remains of Fort Amsterdam hardly made the journey worth the effort. Well I guess I did get a good story out of it, so there is that. I actually enjoyed the cliff and rocks at the very end of the peninsula more than the building, wall, cistern, and 5-6 cannons. Just letting you know so you do not have to trek all the way over there.

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Some people have waaaaaaay too much time on their hands..literally.
This video will show you just how fast things can go wrong. You'll see by the camera the road looks clear. The driver pulls out his phone and takes his eyes of the road. Then a broken down truck on the right comes up fast and then.......
Embattled Toronto Mayor (crack fiend) Rob Ford mashed up with the out of control Chris Farley from SNL fame. Scary how they are one in the same LOL.
Look in the corner at the "extra artwork" on the road sign LOL! Nor sure if the sign was vandalized or f this was done in photoshop but genius!!
You can see trees slamming through the patio, kids toys flying and then it's over. Dangerous beyond belief and stupid as hell but damn cool to see.
Here is what he looked like in an interview the next day. Luck he only has a patch on his eye.
This is from the weekend as storm chasers were setting up trying to capture tornados that were plowing the Midwest.
CAREFUL There is an S bomb in here!
The only How To video worth watching: How to draw great butts with just five lines http://t.co/qcVC7JwbUI— Gawker (@Gawker) November 18, 2013
This went down on Oct. 28 on a state highway south of Taos, New Mexico. A State Police officer pulled over Oriana Ferrell's minivan for going 71 mphr in a 55 mph zone. In the minivan with her were her five kids. They start arguing over the ticket and then things go bad quickly with the 14 year old in the car.


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Here's a megaclassic from Rolex: a circa 1968 Oyster Perpetual Datejust two-tone with linen dial.
Check out the minty dial onxy-insert markers and baton hands. Amazing.
The solid stainless steel case is 36 mm, excluding the signed, screw-down crown by 42mm from lug to beefy lug.
This the model 1601, powered by a caliber 1570 automatic movement, keeping excellent time. This is a non quick-set model. Serial 185XXXX.
These Datejusts are in torrid demand. Want to know why?

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Here’s an interesting pair of AT&T related news.
AT&T Welcomes Spring with New Smartphone Prices (AT&T Press Release)
AT&T lowered the prices of a variety of smartphones Samsung Captivate (Android), BlackBerry Torch, Samsung Focus (Windows Phone), and LG Quantum (Windows Phone) are all priced at $49.99 with a two-year contract. The BlackBerry Curve 3G is priced all the way down to $29.99. Note that these are all 3G phones.
Meanwhile, ars technica reports that:
This explains why we’ve been seeing reports of slower than 3G data speeds on these two Android-based 4G capable phones. It is fascinating to note that the slow data rates is apparently due to a firmware modification that AT&T now says it will “fix”.

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I oppose same-sex marriage.
Unlike the vast majority of cases against same sex marriage I am not going to use arguments of procreation, or compare same-sex parenting to heterosexual parenting. I will use neither religious arguments, nor natural law arguments, nor arguments based on preference.
Rather this case, which is a secular case, made by a secular writer, emphasizes overlooked aspects of the empirical costs of legalizing same-sex marriage.
Some of the overlooked aspects include the ways in which same sex marriage expands the marital institution to include gender identity, transgender individuals, transsexual individuals, bisexual individuals who want a same-sex marriage, and how these new dimensions will impact the marriage institution.
The marriage institution will be impacted not because same-sex couples can’t procreate within their union, but rather quite the opposite: the fact that there are many same-sex couples raising children will change family law within the marriage institution.
How Transgender, Transsexual, and Bisexual Identities will Impact the Marriage Institution
The legalization of same-sex marriage opens the door for the final blow to sex distinctions within marriage and within society. The combination of the legalization of SSM (same-sex marriage), the legal acknowledgement of transgender identity, transsexual transitions, bisexual individuals, and reverse transsexual transitions, has created new dimensions to the marriage institution that will now include not only heterosexual, but also homosexual, bisexual, transsexual and transgendered individuals.
Individuals who were once husbands in a marriage can now become wives, and wives can now become husbands either with or without a sex-change operation “within” a marriage.
A male can become a female, and a female can become a male, a boy can be a girl, a girl can be a boy, a mother can now become a father with or without a sex-change operation “within” a marriage, a grandfather can now become a grandmother or a grandmother a grandfather, an uncle can become an aunt, and an aunt can become an uncle.
Darren Rosenblum, a gay man who identifies himself as a “mother” writes in his paper "Unsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting":
"In the actual act of parenting, biology plays no necessary role. Unsexed mothering is relational, not biological, and it is an act, not a fixed identity. While biological elements may undoubtedly further that relationship, one need not engage in these functions in order to mother a child. A male parent could say to others, “I am the child’s mother.”
In his debate against Dennis Prager, Perez Hilton echoes a similar thought process. He argues that males and females are only different in relation to their body parts, but overall males and females can accomplish the same things."
In other words males and females, in principle, are not pre-disposed to having certain essential and unique qualities different from one another that make them better suited as mother or father. Hilton stated:
"I believe that men and women are the same… I believe that I am the same as my sister…We may havdifferent body parts, but we're...[we] make equal contributions to society." [Typically he confuses sameness with equality.]
Dennis Prager responded to Perez by stating:
"Perez, I actually respect your intellectual honesty here. See, a lot of people I debate on this acknowledge that men and women are profoundly different. Perez thinks that we are, except for body parts, identical. If you believe that, then it doesn't matter what gender you marry." [Haha! No need then for same sex marriage!]
In her paper “When Children Are Better Off Fatherless,” Michele Weldon argues that children don’t even need male fathers. In support of her case she quotes Joseph Pleck’s (of the University of Illinois) book “Fathers in Cultural Context,” in which Pleck writes: “The notion that fathering is essential to children’s social and personality development seems to be a uniquely American preoccupation. Current research actually provides little support for … this popular conception of paternal essentiality.”
Even in same-sex parenting research, biology is downplayed. Professor Douglas Allen notes in his assessment of same-sex parenting studies:
"One element of feminist theory that crops up within this literature is the irrelevance of biology — a major theoretical competitor to feminist theories of the family. The importance of gender over sex has already been mentioned. Males can make good parents if they parent “like a female.” Another area is in the role of “social mother,” the mother not biologically related to the child. Goldberg et al. (2008) claim that by the time a child is 3.5 years old, children are indifferent between the biological and social mother. Based on a biased sample of 30 couples and some very soft questions they conclude: “These women demonstrate the power of “social motherhood” in creating maternal connections that transcend biological relatedness over time" (432).
The Iowa Supreme Court also echoed that a parent’s sex doesn’t matter when they concluded:
"The research appears to strongly support the conclusion that same-sex couples foster the same wholesome environment as opposite-sex couples and suggests that the traditional notion that children need a mother and a father to be raised into healthy, well-adjusted adults is based more on stereotype than anything else." In Varnum v Brien Supreme Court of Iowa, No. 07–1499, Filed 3 April 2009 (54 fn. 26).
From the above quotes it is reasonable to conclude that if one is to accept same-sex marriage, one must also accept the premise that male and females and all of the manifestations that traditionally derive from male and female distinctions (man, woman, mother, father, husband, wife, boy, girl etc.) are not biologically binding.
I provide additional support for this contention with the following examples of transsexual and transgender individuals who transitioned “within” their marriages and still maintained their marriage.
One example is the case of Jonni and Angela Pettit in Pacifica, CA.
Angela used to be David but underwent sex-reassignment surgery. He decided he wanted to live as a woman, and Jonni still wanted to stay married to David even after his SRS operation. Here we see the transition not just from a male to female, but from a husband to a wife, and from a heterosexual marriage to a same-sex marriage.
In an article entitled “A Mom Becomes A Man, And A Family Sticks Together,” Les, who was born a female and married to her husband, felt like a man inside and wanted to transition into a man.
After she told her husband Scot about how she was feeling, Scot was surprised at first but was supportive of the transition and wanted to stay married. Scot and Les had 2 daughters before Les’s transition. In this case we not only see the transition from a female to a male, but also the transition of a wife to a co-husband, a mom to a dad, a heterosexual marriage to a same-sex marriage.
Laura Lang tells the story of Alyson Meiselman who was born Alan and transitioned “within” his marriage:
"Alyson Meiselman, born Alan Meiselman, started taking hormone treatments last year and now dresses in women's clothing. Her driver's license, her birth certificate, and all her other important documents say she's a woman. In the next few months, she'll take a trip to Canada, where a doctor will perform gender-reassignment surgery--completing her transition. It's a big change, but Meiselman and her family like to say that nothing else, really, about their lives in North Potomac, Md., is different. She remains spouse and "Dad" to her wife and three kids. She's also continuing a family law practice in Montgomery County, despite snubs from colleagues and a judicial bench that's hardly greeted her with open arms. In this case we see the transition from male to female, but there is a curveball in this case in that there is no transition from dad to mom. The children still see their now female parent as “dad."
The example of Thomas Beatie is actually a transgender case due to the fact that Thomas never fully transitioned into a male and he still became pregnant even though his “gender identity” was legally changed. Before his marriage Thomas (who was and still is a female) had undergone a double mastectomy, and had taken testosterone since 1997:
He changed all his legal paperwork to reflect his transition from female to male, but he retained his female reproductive organs and bore three children during his marriage to Nancy; he had stopped taking testosterone around 2006 in order become pregnant, as Nancy had had a hysterectomy. In late March a judge in Arizona ruled that Beatie and his wife, Nancy Roberts Beatie, could not be granted a divorce because they could not be considered legally married. Maricopa County Family Court judge Douglas Gerlach said there was insufficient evidence that Beatie was male when the couple married in Hawaii in 2003, although Hawaii considered them a legally married, opposite-sex couple; they moved to Arizona in 2010. Beatie is appealing the ruling, saying it fails to recognize his gender identity, that he wants his children to know their parents were legally married, and that he fears complications if he wants to marry again.
[He fears complications? Oh my God, what a mess!]
The added dimension of transgender identity to the marriage institution was specifically emphasized when New Zealand legalized same-sex marriage. Elizabeth Mcdonald writes:
"The legislation, does not just provide that same-sex couples may marry. Section 5 of the act amended the interpretation section of the Marriage Act 1955 to read: "marriage means the union of two people, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity" (emphasis added). This definition is significant as it allows the marriage of any two people, without the need for either person to define themselves as either the same or different sex as their partner, or to be legally recognized as either male or female. The definition therefore will allow a transgender man (someone born with a female body who has a male gender identify) to legally marry a cisgender woman (someone born with a female body and a female gender identify) without having to first establish his legal sex. It allows a person who identifies as intersex (a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive anatomy that does not seem to fit with the typical biological definitions of female or male) and whose birth certificate records their sex as indeterminate to marry any other person."
In Italy, a Bolognese couple, Alessandro and Alessandra Bernaroli, had their marriage dissolved by the State against their will when the “former” husband and now co-wife, Alessandro, changed sex and became Alessandra. The local marriage registry took note of her name change and automatically dissolved their marriage because it was a same-sex marriage.
Darren Rosenblum writes: “We now know, based on social science, theory, and practice that the identities of 'male' and 'female' are not irrevocably attached to biosex. Men can become women and women can become men. Furthermore, gender itself shifts; 'women' can be 'masculine' and 'men' can be feminine.”
If what Rosenblum writes is true, then many questions need to be posed. For it seems that supporting the seemingly modest demands of the LGBT movement -- such as same-sex marriage--necessitates accepting a whole host of existential changes that were neither presented to the public in good faith, nor scrutinized closely for their potential collateral damage.
SSM is both a battering ram and a bridge.
Since the institution of marriage has a high status and recognition in society, the legalization of same-sex marriage acts as both a battering ram and a bridge to open the door for the annihilation of existing sex distinctions and gender distinctions, as well as the manifestations of an entirely new sexual system.
There are many manifestations throughout society that have risen to the surface as a result of blurring the lines of sex distinctions and the entrance of transgender identity. (Keep in mind that a transgender person has not physically or will not physically change their body, but still identifies as the opposite sex, whereas transsexuals have changed their bodies to the opposite sex.)
Examples of this can be seen most clearly in Massachusetts (the first state to legalize SSM), Canada (the second country to legalize SSM), and California (the most populous state to legalize gay marriage).
Lindsey Tanner reports that there is an increase of children in Massachusetts who are undergoing sex transitions:
His report (Dr. Norman Spack) details a fourfold increase in patients at the Boston hospital. His Gender Management Service clinic, which opened at the hospital in 2007, averages about 19 patients each year, compared with about four per year treated for gender issues at the hospital in the late 1990s.
The report details 97 girls and boys treated between 1998 and 2010; the youngest was 4 years old. Kids that young and their families get psychological counseling and are monitored until the first signs of puberty emerge, usually around age 11 or 12.
The Huffington Post has a page full of examples of the increase in people “coming out of the closet” as transgendered.
In the UK, same-sex marriage has also been legalized. The country is also seeing a growing trend in transgendered children: The number of children wanting a sex change in 2012 saw an increase of 50 per cent compared to the previous year. According to The Royal College of Psychiatrists people are coming forward at a younger age as the internet fuels increasing knowledge and acceptance of transgender people. Campaigners have called for more routine use of puberty-delaying drugs for children who feel from a young age that they are in the wrong body.
Massachusetts has also made it legal for transgender children who “psychologically” identify as the opposite “gender” to use the restrooms, locker-rooms, changing rooms, and participate on sports teams of individuals’ of the opposite “sex.” Here we see the confusion between “sex” and “gender.” Massachusetts public schools (junior high and high schools) also have transgender workshops promoting the transgender lifestyle. Many more examples of the annihilation of sexual distinction in Massachusetts are thoroughly documented by Mass Resistance pages such as this one and this one.
In Canada, Bill C-279 will soon be legalized which lets transgendered individuals use private female spaces such as restrooms, locker-rooms, communal showers, etc. In California, where same-sex marriage has also been legalized, The California State Assembly passed a bill mandating that schools permit transgender identified individuals to participate on athletic teams and use locker-rooms of the “gender” they identify with regardless if they are of the opposite “sex.” The bill’s author was a gay activist by the name of Tom Ammiano.
In her article entitled “Shape-Shifters are Changing America” Fay Voshell describes the above trans accommodations by making the following points:
"Mostly unbeknownst to most of us mortals, a modern day shape-shifter can become the opposite of the sex he or she was born as, transforming into a man or woman in an instant. It doesn't matter if the biological assignment given at birth remains. Proclamation of one's sexual identity is enough. One's gender can be established by fiat. Even children may change sex just by proclamation, as the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary School guidelines affirm, stating that even if a child physiologically resembles a boy in every respect, but decides to be a girl, his new identity is to be acknowledged as the "real" one. The modern-day equivalent of the gods visiting unsuspecting women unawares in areas where they thought they were safe from male predators just might be the ladies' public bathroom, now open in an ever increasing number of states to any man who self-identifies as a woman. The 6'4" hairy guy who just came into the women's bathroom to relieve himself is not at all what he appears to be. No; no! He is a sort of god in disguise. He has by mere will transformed himself into a woman. Move along, lady. There's nothing to see -- or fear. Don't believe your lying eyes."
All of the above example are manifestations of what happens when a country’s central institution is desexed and the individuals within such an institution can morph back and forth between sex, gender, mother and father, husband and wife, boy and girl, male and female, heterosexual marriage and same sex marriage.
The following questions have been summoned by feminist writer Elizabeth Hungerford:
"The maxim “trans women are women” is a false equivalency that means at least three things. First, it means that being raised as girl from birth is not an important or relevant aspect of being a “woman” because one can be a woman without these formative experiences. Second, it means that having a female body is not an important or relevant aspect of being a “woman” because one can be a woman without being female bodied. And third, it means that to be a “woman” simply reflects an individual’s desired relation to the social category “woman;” rather than serving as shorthand for the physical and cumulative experiential realities specific to female-born (and certain intersex) people around the globe.
To be a “woman” is to have been assigned the girl/woman social position at birth;[YES Abaolutely right] subjective identification with that social position is irrelevant and varies wildly. Reducing the experience of womanhood to a subjectively defined “inner knowledge” that is “inclusive” of anyone who claims to have such inner womanly knowledge erases the lived realities and material constraints placed on women and girls from birth– regardless of whether women enjoy being “women” or not, and regardless of whether they “identify” with other women or not."
Hungerford’s argument that to be a woman is in part, to have the social experiences that women face every day due to their biology that males don’t have, is strengthened by a transsexual individual that was once a male but is now a female when asked, “How differently are you treated now that you are a woman from when you were considered male?" Here was the answer:
"Wow, there’s a whole book in answer to this question, I think the first thing that was noticeable was that overnight people stopped automatically assuming that I was right about stuff, my factual advice was treated as suspect, whereas emotional advice was taken more seriously. People also seemed to not be able to tell when I was joking as quickly, there was an expectation that I would be serious, that any sarcasm, or pretending not to get something for comic effect was me actually not getting things. The pressures to behave were changed, before I transitioned I was very skinny and I remember my mum telling me that I needed to bulk up because “what if you were on a bus and a woman got on with a baby, you’d need to be able to help her with her pram, what sort of a man wouldn’t be strong enough to do that?” as soon as I transitioned it was suddenly not an issue.”
Another feminist writer by the name of GallusMag takes her readers down the dark road that denying “sex” distinctions leads to when she writes:
"But they (transgender women) do more than deny female reality and make kooky claims: They are using the political capital of Lesbians and Gays to pass laws enforcing their male-centric female-phobic sexist views. “Gender Identity Protections” are laws that eliminate sex-based protections for females.
Examples of such protected areas are: bathrooms, hospital bed assignments, prisons, locker rooms, sports competitions, statistical data collection, Title IX endowments, women’s health resources, statistics and research endowment, sex-based crime statistics, support groups, rape crisis centers, communal showers, children’s sleepover camps, women’s shelters, and women’s colleges.
One of the tropes Transjacktivists use to promote and legalize their desire to eliminate female spaces is to assert that males with GID are speshul snowflakes or claim that males wouldn’t adopt transgenderism in order to prey on women. Or that males who are arrested repeatedly for getting off on watching women perform intimate activities (in places they assume they are free from males) wouldn’t go through the trouble of putting on a wig that makes those same activities legal. Whut??? Are you out of your mind? Why wouldn’t a guy who risks arrest repeatedly to invade women’s space comply with measures which make his activities legal?? It’s considerably less inconvenient to put on a skirt and some lippy than to be arrested and processed, make bail, go before a judge, etc. etc. "
Transjacktivists claim that arrest statistics for peeping and perving don’t show a sharp increase in states where men are allowed in women’s spaces. Of course they don’t. Making a formerly illegal behavior legal seldom results in more arrests for (now legal) behavior. Duh! The truth is that guys do this all the time. And they’ll do whatever it takes to perv on females.
Here are some of the things they’ll do to get into female spaces: Hide cameras and microphones in female spaces. Crawl through ventilation ducts to view female spaces. Install double mirrors to view female spaces. Drill holes in walls to peep at women’s spaces. Place cameras in shopping bags next to females wearing skirts. Risking arrest –and repeat arrest- sneaking into women’s restrooms. Dress up as and try to pass as female. Claim they are female. Try to pass laws permitting men who claim they are female to legally enter spaces where females do not want men. Try to pass laws that state that females don’t actually exist. Force law enforcement and media outlets to report male crimes against women as woman-on-woman crime, if the male is diagnosed with GID.
So what does all of this have to do with same-sex marriage? Thus far I have demonstrated that in order to accept the premise that same-sex marriage should be legalized, one will have accept that there are no inherent differences (besides mere body-parts) between males and females. One must presume that they don’t have different natures, or thought processes, or behavioral patterns.
If one thinks that there are no inherent differences between males/females then, one also must accept that it doesn’t matter for a child to have a biological male and biological female as parents, just any two loving, responsible people with parenting skills will do.
Thus since there are no distinctions between males and females, then a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, a mother can become a father, a husband can become a wife, an uncle can become an aunt, a grandmother can become a grandfather. More importantly, a child doesn’t need a male parent or a female parent in particular because both sexes don’t offer anything unique and essential to the child “in principle”. Both sexes are interchangeable. Thus if nothing is different then what is the difference if a non-op or a pre-op male uses a female restroom, locker room, or rape shelter; or is included on a woman’s athletics team?
Biology on Trial in Same-Sex Custody Cases
If nothing is different, then what is the difference if there is no legal primacy given to a responsible, biological parent in three way, gay and lesbian custody battles? For example in Australia when “a sperm-donor/hands-on dad has his parental rights terminated in favor of those of a lesbian mother with no biological relationship to the child"?
If nothing is different, then what is the difference if a gay sperm donor (to a lesbian couple) who played an active role in his child’s life, doesn’t get acknowledged by law as a parent and therefore cannot see his child because the lesbian couple moved far away?
If nothing is different, then what is the difference if a sperm donor decides not to pay child support to a lesbian parent in the event that the lesbian and her partner broke up and when no doctor was involved in the insemination process (which would have discounted the sperm donor as a parent)?
If nothing is different, then what is the difference if a bisexual woman who had a child through IVF in her lesbian relationship, broke up with her lesbian partner, started a romantic relationship with the original sperm donor, attempted with the sperm donor to get full parental rights of the child, and the sperm donor doesn’t get parental rights, but the non-biological ex-lesbian partner of the bisexual gets parental rights instead?
If nothing is different, then what is the difference when a man who was once married to his wife for 20 years, comes to the conclusion that he is gay, gets divorced from his wife with whom he had a 12-year-old son, and his ex-wife tries to deny him overnight visitation because his cohabitating partner is gay and she thinks that her 12-year-old boy will have a difficult time understanding his father’s sudden switch of sexual orientation and cohabitation with a same-sex partner? Is it in the child’s best interest for his father with a recent drug-addicted past to keep him overnight when he cohabits with a same-sex partner, especially when the child is accustomed to seeing his father with his mother?
Moreover, if Arkansas was a state that legalized same-sex marriage and the father was married to his same-sex partner, would this be an issue? What are the negative impacts on the institution of marriage from cases like this? Most importantly, even if Arkansas legalized same-sex marriage, and this particular situation wouldn’t be an issue, the question remains: “is it in the best interest of the child who has known his father as being in a heterosexual relationship with his mother, to stay overnight in the context of his married father’s house?"
I ask this question assuming that the father’s companion is a harmless person, but yet at the same time emphasizing the child and the child’s understanding of the situation.
Bizarre situations like this which are unique to (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, unions) will continue to arise in the court systems.
Some courts have tried to tap dance around these issues by making three or more legal and equal parents, such as in Pennsylvania, Florida, and California.
Three or more equal, legal parents is something that is "in principle" a homosexual circumstance due to the fact that gays and lesbians "always" need a 3rd party and sometimes even 4 parties to have a child. The bill signed by Governor Jerry Brown of California was a reflection of a circumstance that arises when things go bad between homosexual couples that have children.
Family law will change for all due to the inclusion of three or more equal parents, especially in the circumstance of gay divorce since their union "in principle" required a third party.
"In principle," hetero and homosexual families are not situated the same.
Guro Hansen Helskog made an insightful statement when he claimed that “Parents used to have lots of children - now children have lots of parents.” Indeed, as families in Western countries have less children more laws are being put into action that give a child more than two parents. Family scholar Elizabeth Marquardt addressed the 3 or more parent laws by stating:
Supporters of the rulings argue that if two parents are good for children, aren’t three better? True, some three-parent petitions are brought by adults who appear deeply committed to the child in question. In the Ontario case, the two women and the father all seem devoted to the boy. But in Pennsylvania, the sperm donor, whom the children called 'Papa,' was ordered to pay child support over his objections, and the lesbian co-mothers have already ended their relationship.
What is the harm if other American courts follow Pennsylvania’s example? For one thing, three-parent situations typically involve a couple and a third person living separately, meaning the child will get shuffled between homes, and this raises problems […] Conflicts will undoubtedly arise when three parents confront the sticky, conflict-ridden reality of child-raising, often leading to a nasty, three-way custody battle. Even if they part amicably, they may still want to live in three different homes. In that case, how many homes should children travel between to satisfy the parenting needs of many adults? Finally, why should courts stop at assigning children only three parents? Some situations involve a couple who wants the child, the sperm donor, the egg donor and the gestational surrogate who carries the pregnancy. If we allow three legal parents, why not five?
Family scholar Jane Adolphe addresses the 3 or more parents laws by noting: "If two parents are better than one, then shouldn’t three be better than two? 'Legal parent' becomes an umbrella notion for various subsets of parents, all stakeholders with no preference for one individual or set: natural/biological parents; adoptive parents, step parents, grandparents; social parents; psychological parents; intentional parents, gestational parent, sperm donor parent, egg donor parent and so forth. With the redefinition of marriage and the separation between biology and bond, the trend toward multiple parents is legitimized.Adoption laws, previously an exception to the natural family and natural parenthood, now become a discrete set of rules unmoored from their foundation. This translates into the rejection of the general principles that biology and relationship ought to be in the same two persons and that a child ought to have one set of parents. The end result is that natural or biological parents become just one of many stakeholders in a child’s life based on the idea that it takes a village to raise a child. This is a marked departure from the principle that primary care rests with the natural family (including the extended family) which assistance and support from others based on the principle of subsidiarity (eg religious, Communities, neighbors, friends, and State). These dramatic changes are driven by a rhetoric of adult rights, spearheaded by the needs of same-sex couples, without any serious discussion about whether this is good for children."
Why is this so? How is this so? As previously noted, the adoption system has been developed as an exception to the natural family. The underlying assumption is that biological parents are more likely to better care for their own children. Therefore, before adoption is possible, parental consent is required and the prospective new parents must meet requisite standards of fitness. Since, it is better for children to be raised in stable, two parent, married families, preference has been given to placing children in this environment.
Lawyer Nancy Polikoff explains the new multiple parent law:
"This statutory authorization, however, is most likely to impact heterosexuals, given how much divorce and remarriage there is. The provision will mean that if both the custodial and the noncustodial parent agree, then the custodial parent's new husband will be able to adopt the child without terminating the rights of the noncustodial parent. I have been advocating such a possibility for years, but this is the first law explicitly sanctioning such arrangements. The divorce rate of second marriages is at least as high as that of first marriages, which means that down the road we will be looking at multiple-parent custody and visitation arrangements on a regular basis."
The central problem is not that same-sex couples cannot reproduce!
On the contrary, the central problem is that they can. It's how they reproduce that poses such a lethal threat. Social harm is inherent to the way same-sex (as well as bisexual, transgendered and transsexual couples) “raise” children in their households.
The central problem has nothing to do with whether or not same-sex couples are good parents or not, but rather the fact that the architecture of the family institution of marriage and divorce has been designed, tailored, and developed over 200 years in the U.S. specifically for children in the context of heterosexual, monogamous relationships.
Regardless if one thinks marriage is no longer about children, the fact still remains that the family institution of marriage is designed and still primarily functions as a safety-net to protect children. The architecture of the institution of marriage and family law isn’t designed or tailored for issues that arise in same-sex couple’s households and divorces, or for the new dimensions of bisexual, transsexual, and transgender households that raise children and their divorces.
The present architecture for the institution of marriage is designed in the framework of heterosexual, monogamous, static gender identities, static sex identities, static sexual orientations, not homosexual orientations, or bisexual orientations, transgender identities, transsexual identities, or for situations in which three or more parents are used to create a child “in principle.”
Such a law (three or more equal, legal parents) defeats the purpose of monogamy and there isn’t really any reason why there cannot be group marriage or polyamorous marriage especially since bisexuality is being nationally recognized.
So how will the inclusion of same-sex couples into the family institution of marriage hurt heterosexual marriages and divorces?
Professor Douglas Allen answers that question by making the following points:
"Once legal decisions on these issues are made, the question is, what impact will they have on the elephant in the room: the vast majority of heterosexual marriages? After all, all three relationships (heterosexual, gay, lesbian) will be regulated by the same law. If we return to the theory that marriage is an efficient institution designed around the needs of heterosexual couples, then only one conclusion follows: To the extent marriage is changed to accommodate the demands of same-sex couples, these changes will hurt heterosexual marriages. To the extent changes are not made, same-sex couples will find marriage laws unsatisfactory and inefficient for their needs. As a practical matter, it seems unlikely that same-sex couples would be ignored by the courts, and courts will recognize the different types of families along the spectrum of cases. Once the constraint of a definition of marriage based on biology is removed, these changes will occur with little notice, and minimal immediate effect. Issues will come up, courts will struggle with how to manage them, the common law will evolve, but the sun will still rise the next day. But the bottom line is that these new common laws will apply to heterosexual couples covered under the same family law, and over time the loopholes and areas of poor fit will be exploited by husbands or wives seeking to better themselves at the expense of other members of the family. The value of marriage as an institution will fall, fewer people will marry, more will seek private methods to protect themselves from ex post marriage exploitation, and the final result will be lower fertility rates and more children raised in single-parent homes. It is this feedback that presents the fundamental danger to heterosexual marriage."

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American indie-pop trio MUNA and homegrown acts including G Flip and Peach PRC are among the artists who will help close out the first-ever Australian edition of WorldPride when it takes place in Sydney next year.
Following last month’s announcement that Kylie Minogue will be headlining Sydney’s WorldPride Opening Concert next February, organisers have now revealed some of the artists playing its closing concert, dubbed Rainbow Republic, on March 5.
Taking place at the Domain, other acts billed for the “seven-hour queer megamix of live music, DJs and dancing” include Perth queer electro-pop group Alter Boy, plus Vetta Borne, BVT and more to be announced.
Kate Wickett, Chief Executive of Sydney WorldPride, said the closing concert would be the “biggest live music event” that took place as part of WorldPride next year, adding that it was “just a taste of the line-up and represents the incredible talent that abounds in the rainbow community and will be sure to have The Domain rocking this summer”.
For MUNA, it will mark the band’s Australian debut, having released their eponymous third album through Phoebe Bridgers‘ Saddest Factory label earlier this year, after previewing it with queer-positive earworm ‘Silk Chiffon’ in 2021. Co-hosting the event will be both G Flip and Love, Simon actor and singer-songwriter Keiynan Lonsdale. Tickets for Rainbow Republic are on sale now.
“I’m from Melbourne and identify as non-binary so just the fact that WorldPride is in Australia is exciting,” G Flip said of the upcoming event in a statement. “I’m so honoured to be a part of celebrating Pride.”
Peach PRC, who came out earlier this year, added that she was “unbelievably honoured” to be included as part of the line-up for the event, after being “so welcomed into the queer community in the last year or so”.
Minogue will kick off Sydney’s WorldPride celebrations at the Domain on February 24, hosted by Casey Donovan and Courtney Act. Set to run between February 17 and March 5 2023, the full WorldPride programme is set to be revealed in November. Find more information here.

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Volkswagen surpassed Toyota as the world's largest automaker in the first half of 2015, fulfilling a long-held goal, but the achievement came at a cost.
NEW YORK U.S. consumer confidence weakened in July, due in part to a less optimistic outlook on the labor market, according to a private sector report released on Tuesday.
Home prices increases may be leveling out, according to one closely-followed real estate report. In 20 major American cities, home prices this May were about 4.9% higher than May of last year, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index ...
The Ford Motor Company reported strong profits well above expectations on Tuesday, saying that quarterly earnings were $1.9 billion, up 44 percent compared with a year earlier.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average rose on Tuesday, breaking a five-day losing streak, as investors refocused on corporate earnings ahead of a two-day U.S.


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Learn 6 Things That Help Make An Assisted Living Facility Great
Not many folks look forward to the idea of an assisted living facility, but there come points in some lives where a person knows they need to live in such an environment, or you need to look for one for a loved one. In either case, you want the best one you can get. Keep reading to learn 6 things that help make an assisted living facility great:
1) Dental & Dentures:
We wanted to start with talking about the importance of your assisted living facility having connections with prominent dentists and periodontists nearby. As we get older, sometimes we may need to look into getting dental implants or dentures (partials or full dentures) as our teeth get weaker or even fall out. A great assisted living agency will have a referral network on hand to help you find the best implant dentist or periodontist for your needs.
2) Visitation options: Some assisted living facilities might have to restrict visitation times due to their own staffing and operations or even to be in compliance with local safety regulations. Having said that, no resident should ever be denied visitors when they show up, as keeping up relationships with their relatives and friends is paramount to their maintained health, wellness, and happiness. Reputable sources like The Senior List also talk about this.
3) A huge dining room: Seniors love a good meal as much as anyone, and so if they're still able to make it to the facility dining room, they should be allowed to have as much space as they want for as long as they want. They're not likely leaving the property every day, or even every week, and for some truly immobilized, mealtime might be the only time they leave their wing or room. A chance to see others can't be passed up. The dining room should be able to accommodate every resident at once, plus family and friends for peak weekend visitation times.
4) Athletics: Exercise is known to improve the quality of life of a person working out, their physical health, and even extend their life. Just because seniors might be winding down doesn't mean they're done. In fact, many retirees find a spark of life that stressed out career professionals and adults in younger stages of life just don't have the time and energy for. Having access to golf, tennis, track, swimming, walking paths, or many other sports activities is a must for those that want to stay independent and ambulatory as long as they possibly can.
5) Sensors and panic buttons: Anyone needing to live in an assisted living facility wants to be as independent as they can stay, but they're obviously not fully self-sufficient anymore. That means there might need to be things like safety bars in bathrooms, non-slip features, and fall-proof fixtures. Even bedrooms should have sensor mats letting staff know that someone is up and about, and panic buttons should be easily accessible everywhere so that residents can have some privacy but also easy access to help. You can learn more about senior medical alert systems at Consumer Reports.
6) Social activities: Anyone living into their golden years is likely to have children and even grandkids, but they are going to have their own lives. Spouses and siblings, unfortunately, might be passing away, as happens in the retirement age. Having friends and companionship is critical to the social health of any person of any age, especially now. A great assisted living facility is going to have group activities and events where residents can bond. For more on senior assisted living activities, check out caring.com.
Now that you know 6 things that help make an assisted living facility great, you can have an easier time either choosing a facility for yourself or a loved one. A Place for Mom
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EIC R&D team has more than 10 years of thermal management solution research. After 5 years research and testing, EIC introduced its HEAT ENGINE liquid phase change cooling system and get invention patent (patent no.: ZL201110073606.4). That makes EIC to be the first company dare to use only high power COB light engine on its luminaires. EIC is to be the first company in the world to integrate the heat sink and housing completely together and unique company to use the heat generated from LED to drive liquid phase change and flow around in the housing for dissipate heat.


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In an impassioned memo sent three days after San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignited national controversy by refusing to stand for the national anthem before a football game, University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven urged his athletes not to repeat the gesture of protest.
"While no one should be compelled to stand, they should recognize that by sitting in protest to the flag they are disrespecting everyone who sacrificed to make this country what it is today — as imperfect as it might be," he wrote on Aug. 29.
McRaven is a former admiral who is most famous as the architect of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden. He retired from the military in 2014 and became chancellor in early 2015. In his memo, he described a strong passion for the flag.
"Those that believe the flag represents oppression should remember all the Americans who fought to eliminate bigotry, racism, sexism, imperialism, communism, and terrorism," he wrote.
The memo was addressed to the presidents and athletic directors of the eight universities that are members of the UT System, including UT-Austin. It asks the recipients to "encourage your coaching staff and your players to stand up straight when the National Anthem" is played. The coaches and players should "face the flag and place their hand over their heart as a sign of respect to the nation."
McRaven made a similar request in January but expressed a need to reiterate it after the Kaepernick controversy. Still, he acknowledged the right of Americans to protest and didn't say anything about it being mandatory.
"I spent 37 years defending freedom of speech and freedom of expression," he wrote. "Nothing is more important to this democracy. Nothing!"
He then goes on to list American heroes who flew the flag, including buffalo soldiers, suffragists and the Tuskegee Airmen.
"It marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. It rocketed into space on the shoulder patches of women, gays, Hispanic, Asian and African American astronauts. Today, it waves high over the White House. It is a flag for everyone, of every color, of every race, of every creed, and of every orientation, but the privilege of living under this flag does not come without cost. Nor should it come without respect," he wrote.
The memo doesn't specifically mention Kaepernick, who remained seated or took a knee during the anthem for each preseason football game this year. In an interview after the Aug. 26 game when his gesture was first noticed, he said that he was protesting the oppression of black people in America.
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick said, according to NFL.com. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
Disclosure: The University of Texas System and the University of Texas at Austin have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune. A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.
Read more about Chancellor Bill McRaven:
- Chancellor Bill McRaven is requiring that a woman or minority candidate be interviewed for every high-level position at the UT System's 14 universities and medical schools.
- University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven argued in two separate public appearances that the state should consider scrapping its top 10 percent automatic admissions rule.
University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven said that providing in-state tuition for undocumented students is the "morally right thing to do."

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[Video] Jessica Drops Second MV Within Two Days
Jessica has dropped the second music video for her first solo album With Love, J.
Within one day since the official release of her first album With Love, J and the music video for title track Fly, Jessica has already released a second music video.
On May 18, Jessica released the second music video for her first solo album With Love, J for track Love Me The Same. In contrast to the music video for Fly, which was released only one day prior, Love Me The Same has a romantic atmosphere throughout the music video.
The video opens with the sound of gentle keys of a piano and as Jessica comes into view, her beautiful voice comes together with the music. Love Me The Same is a slow tempo track and the music video’s romantic atmosphere harmonizes well with the genre.
Meanwhile, Jessica’s music video for title track Fly from her first solo album With Love, J has reached almost 3.5 million views on its second day.
Photo credit: Jessica ‘Love Me The Same’ screen capture
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By His Excellency Thomas Pownall, Esq ; ... A proclamation for proroguing the General Court : ... unto Friday the twenty-ninth day of December instant ... Given at Boston, the fifth day of December 1758 .
December 5, 1758 Proclamation by Governor Thomas Pownall for proroguing the General Court, scheduled to meet on December 13th, until December 29th.
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Just recently, T-Mobile announced its new ONE plan, which claimed to give unlimited data to all of its postpaid subscribers through one plan. Of course, there were some problems with this plan, in that it downgraded video streams to 480p, requiring those who wanted to stream in higher resolutions to shell out an extra $25 per line. That apparently didn’t sit well with some T-Mobile customers, and prompted by that feedback, T-Mobile has announced some add-ons that might bring more value to that $25 monthly charge.
Yes, the Uncarrier has decided to sweeten the pot a bit. With what it’s calling the ONE Plus plan, that $25 charge isn’t going away, but it will now also get you unlimited 4G LTE tethering. At first, customers on the standard ONE plan were only going to get unlimited 2G tethering, but T-Mobile also announced today that it will bump those speeds up to 3G. Fianlly, T-Mobile says that customers on the ONE Plus plan will experience twice the data speeds in its 140 Simple Global countries, allowing for faster international data roaming.
The ONE Plus plan still comes with unlimited HD video, but those extra perks may make the additional cost worth it for some. For those keeping track, that puts the monthly cost of the ONE Plus plan at $95 for a single line, assuming you want to stream video beyond 480p and don’t want to be limited in your tethering.
That isn’t bad when compared to the other carriers, but it also means that T-Mobile’s basic ONE plan isn’t truly unlimited like the company would have you believe. It should also be noted that those who don’t want to spend an extra $25 per month but still want HD video from time to time will be able to purchase HD day passes at $3 per 24 hours.
T-Mobile is also moving the launch date of the ONE plan up a few days, now launching it on September 1 instead of September 6. Existing customers won’t be forced to move to the ONE plan if they don’t want to, though it seems that all new postpaid customers won’t have much of a choice in the matter. T-Mobile says that the ONE plan will be available for prepaid customers at some point in the future, but still hasn’t specified a launch date for that side of its business.


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“Listen, dance, eat, give, and be happy.”
That’s not just the tagline on posters for the upcoming Dance for Humanity fundraiser, a klezmer-themed benefit for Doctors Without Borders. It’s also the personal philosophy of clarinetist Paul Alexander, one of the two founding members — with accordionist Sonia Tubridy — of the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble, which is hosting the event.
“Life is hard, so you might as well enjoy yourself when you can,” Alexander says, smiling the smile of a man who truly buys what he’s selling. “Sing when you can, dance when you can, give when you can, love when you can, and always be kind to others. That’s how we heal the world.”
On Sunday, Sept. 23, from 3:30-6 p.m., the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble will present the third annual Dance for Humanity event, this year at the First Presbyterian Church of Petaluma, which is donating its space for the event. Doctors Without Borders, which has been the beneficiary of Dance for Humanity from the beginning, is an international nonprofit humanitarian organization through which volunteer medical professionals provide much-needed aid in over 70 mostly-war-torn countries around the world. Alexander says that 100 percent of the money raised at the event will go to the organization.
“We did a fundraiser last year at the Petaluma Art Center, and raised quite a bit. But we did a benefit house concert the year before that, and at that one raised over 2300 dollars,” he says. “We hope to exceed that with this year’s concert.”
The show will, or course, feature klezmer music and dance from Eastern Europe, Israel, Yemen, Romania, Moldava, the Ukraine, and the Mediterranean Basin. In addition, the event will showcase Larry Kass (son of renowned Sephardic singer Alby Kass), performing Sephardic love songs and lullabies. Leading the dancing, and teaching a number of authentic dances, will be Sunnyvale instructor Karen Bergen.
“The area we’ll be performing in at the church is carpeted, which is not the best for dancing, but it will be fine,” says Alexander. “We performed there seven years ago, and it’s a wonderful space.”
Asked about the origins of the ensemble itself, Alexander says he formed Jubilee 18 years ago, in the year 2000, as a response to growing worldwide social unrest. He named it Jubilee as a conscious message that there is always something to celebrate.
“Sonia, our accordion player, she was the first to join me,” says Alexander. “She’s a wonderful accordionist, and also a marvelous classical pianist and teacher. Phil Lawrence, our mandolin player, was the next to join. He’s a composer, too, and has played with David Grissman and others. He’s a fantastic musician.”
Filling out the roster of the ensemble for the upcoming show are violinist Sarah Jo Zaharako and acoustic bassist Eric Perney.
“Klezmer music is music of the Jewish people, and it goes back many centuries,” explains Alexander. “The first klezmer guild was in Prague, in the 16th century. The early klezmer players tended to be nomadic, roaming the Eastern European continent, looking for jobs, and avoiding persecution. In the process, they would meet with other bands of people, and would play music together.”
Given its history, the klezmer “sound” has picked up countless musical influences along the way.
“There is a noodle dish called Tzimmes, which has all kinds of ingredients thrown in, a rich mixture of flavors, and that’s what klezmer has become,” says Alexander. “It’s a very rich broth of sounds and styles.”
PLANNING TO GO?
What: Dance for Humanity: A benefit concert for Doctors Without Borders, featuring the Jubilee Klezmer Ensemble and special guests
When: Sunday, Sept. 23, 3:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Where: The First Presbyterian Church, 939 B. St.
Admission: Sliding scale $35-$75, with ticket including food and (non-alcoholic) beverages, plus dance lessons and more.


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Sunny San Diego and a succession of engaging presenters combined to provide an illuminating experience at C&RB’s Eighth Annual Chef to Chef Conference.
2016 Chef to Chef Conference Held in San Diego
Club & Resort Business hosted the eighth annual event at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina from February 28 – March 2, showcasing the club industry’s top culinary talent as they shared techniques and ideas with ample time to network.
Mystery Basket Winner Announced at 2016 Chef to Chef Conference
After a full day of educational sessions at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, four competitors faced off in the culinary competition, with Thayer Johnson, Executive Chef of Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton, Calif., taking home the title and a Vitamix Vita Prep 3 blender.

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Over thirty years of input from instructors and students have gone into this popular research methods text, resulting in a refined ninth edition that is easier to read, understand, and apply than ever before. Using unintimidating language and real-world examples, it introduces students to the key concepts of evidence-based practice that they will use throughout their professional careers. It emphasizes both quantitative and qualitative approaches to research, data collection methods, and data analysis, providing students with the tools they need to become evidence-based practitioners.Fortunately, the conscientious use of a systematic survey design method can be expected to lead to an acceptable 70% or ... Send the questionnaire with a well- designed, personalized cover letter (see the next section), a self-addressedanbsp;...
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UCLA sophomore quarterback Kevin Prince will the remainder of the season following knee surgery Saturday and sophomore linebacker Patrick Larimore will miss at least the next three weeks with a dislocated left shoulder.
Prince underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Saturday morning. The meniscus was cleaned up during the surgery. Prince also underwent a microfracture procedure to stimulate growth of new cartilage in the knee.
An MRI Saturday confirmed Larimore's dislocated shoulder. Larimore suffered the injury in the first quarter of UCLA's 60-13 loss at No. 1 Oregon.

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Turkey's economy minister said on Wednesday that there was nothing to get panicked about economic developments in Turkey, commenting on rapidly rising of US dollar.
The Turkish lira has recently weakened to an all time low as U.S. dollar has broken record.
Zafer Caglayan said there would naturally be fluctuations in economic figures in Turkey, a significant actor of global economy and a global actor.
"Our country is being affected by developments in USD since it is implementing floating exchange rate regime, however there is nothing to panic and there is not any situation that can put Turkey into trouble," Caglayan told reporters in Istanbul.
Caglayan said Turkey had a stable course, and Turkish institutions were in power and would make necessary intervention when necessary.
"Not only the Central Bank but also the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency are taking all measures when deemed necessary, and would continue to do so," Caglayan said.
Caglayan suggested that Turkish citizens and industrialists get indebted according to their income.
Moreover, Caglayan said concrete decisions European Union (EU) member states and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would take were important.
"This does not seem like a problem that can easily and quickly be solved. The European economy will continue to have problems for some more time, and in fact this is an
economic tsunami," Caglayan said.
Caglayan said the current crisis was the indicator that the crisis that began in the housing industry in the United States in 2008 still continued in Europe.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's remarks in 2009 that "global crisis would slightly affect Turkey" had been confirmed by Turkey and the world, Caglayan said.
Caglayan said when many European countries were experiencing crisis, Turkey had become a country that dropped unemployment to 9.2 percent, that grew 10.2 percent in the first half of the year, and that drew direct foreign capital.
The minister defined Turkey as a strong and dynamic country, and a country raising its exports when domestic market was also growing.
Caglayan said Turkey would break a historic export record despite negative developments in the world and many problems in European market, and forecast year-end export figure as 135 billion USD.
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Microsoft has been offering the VPN functionality in a beta version of the Edge browser for some time, and now we’re hearing – the feature will soon be available to the general public. In fact, it is said that some users in the stable channel are already getting it.
In Microsoft’s browser, the feature is called the “Edge Secure Network,” and it relies on Cloudflare to protect users’ devices and sensitive data as they browse the web.
From what we’re getting, this has been in development for nearly a year now, and it’s finally (almost) ready for prime time.
As that’s the case with other VPNs, Microsoft’s Secure network sends your traffic through an encrypted tunnel to create a secure connection. This means that access to all websites, including those still served over an insecure HTTP protocol, can be accessed to make it harder for attackers to obtain your browsing data.
However, while it does encrypt your data, this isn’t a “real” VPN, as, for instance, you cannot choose your preferred server location. Instead, Edge’s Secure Network will do that for you, presumingly selecting the fastest server based on your location. This may not let you access all blocked content, but it will undoubtedly keep you more secure online. Guess this is still better than having no protection at all.
Also, this is a browser thing only, and you won’t be able to hide your torrent traffic from your ISP — as it works from a torrent client rather than a web browser.
Still, we like it because it’s free and because it will keep more users secure online. If you still can afford it — and it’s really just a few dollars per month — we suggest getting the full-blown VPN. It will do everything Edge has to offer and more. Check out our page with the Best of the Best VPNs for the top services and take it from there.


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A missing Montana math teacher is believed to be dead, and the investigation has spread into western South Dakota.
Sherry Arnold disappeared last weekend. The mother of two went on a run and never returned home, but authorities did discover one of her shoes.
The FBI confirms one man in custody in North Dakota and another is being questioned in Rapid City in connection with her disappearance.
A special agent says a tip from the public led to the two men.
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Trust is a complex literary novel that’s also an absolute joy to read. Hernán Díaz (author of the Pulitzer-nominated In the Distance) constructs his story like a series of nesting dolls. The story starts as a 1930s-era novel about shadowy New York financier Benjamin Rask and his emotionally fragile wife, Helen. When that book’s real-life inspiration is outraged about the way the bestseller misrepresents his wife, he begins writing a memoir of his own. Trust then takes two more big turns that are too good to spoil. Suffice to say, Díaz’s novel is about money and power and love, as well as who gets to tell their own stories. This is a book that fans of writers as different as Edith Wharton and David Mitchell will enjoy—and a surefire book club favorite.
Diaz returns after his Pulitzer finalist In the Distance with a wondrous portrait in four texts of devious financier Andrew Bevel, who survives the Wall Street crash of 1929 and becomes one of New York City's chief financial barons before dying a decade later at age 62. First there is Bonds, a novel by controversial writer Harold Vanner, which tells the story of Benjamin Rask, a character clearly based on Bevel. The novel, published shortly before Bevel's death, infuriates the magnate, particularly for its depiction of Bevel's deceased wife, Mildred, as a fragile madwoman. Bevel responds by undertaking a memoir, which only serves to highlight his own touchiness and lack of imagination. The third story-within-the-story is the most significant; in it, the reader meets Ida Partenza, daughter of an Italian anarchist in exile, who, in pursuit of her own writerly ambitions, suppresses both her own conscience and the suspicions of her suitor, Jack, to become Bevel's secretary and coconspirator in ruining Harold Vanner, as Ida concocts a counternarrative of a saintly Mildred. The reader eventually hears from Mildred directly via her journal, discovered by Ida during her research and included as a coda. The result is a kaleidoscope of capitalism run amok in the early 20th century, which also manages to deliver a biography of its irascible antihero and the many lives he disfigures during his rise to the cream of the city's crop. Grounded in history and formally ambitious, this succeeds on all fronts. Once again, Diaz makes the most of his formidable gifts.

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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has a strong tradition of audacious thinking and effective strategic planning that has led to advances that today are enabling some of the most high-profile initiatives in biomedical research. In keeping with this, NHGRI's leadership team has prioritized several initiatives that will directly stimulate and achieve highly impactful and generalizable progress in genomics that will benefit the efforts of others for years to come.
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Bernie Sanders has repeatedly said 51 percent of young black high school graduates are “unemployed.” That’s wrong.
In an ad attacking a Republican senator, the League of Conservation Voters claims the average Wisconsin family pays $7,500 a year in federal income tax. Not so. The tax would be $724 for the family shown in the ad with the income specified by the league.
This week, readers sent us letters about a claim made by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, about income inequality in the United States.
Sen. Bernie Sanders claims that in the United States, “almost all of the wealth rests in the hands of the few.” He exaggerates. At most, the top 0.1 percent of U.S. families own 22 percent of the nation’s wealth.

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There’s a haven for horror fans in the Los Angeles area: Dark Delicacies Bookstore. The store not only houses genre-oriented books and paraphernalia, but also serves as the site for signings by authors and entertainment industry personalities. Del Howison and his wife Sue Duncan founded the shop of horrors in 1994. Del graciously took the time to be interviewed by Sheila M. Merritt regarding Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed, an anthology he co-edited with Joseph Nassise. The stories in the collection are based on the universe established in Barker’s film Nightbreed, which was an extension of his novella Cabal.
Diabolique: Flashback to 1995, to the film Lord of Illusions, directed and written by Clive Barker, based on his story “The Last Illusion.” You were in a bar scene in the movie. Now you are again in Barker territory as co-editor of the anthology Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed.” How does it feel to return to the Barker universe, and what prompted this most recent reunion?
Del Howison: Actually, I’ve never really left the Barker Universe. I met Clive at the Pantages Theater during the filming of Lord of Illusions and he has been one of the biggest supporters of my store (Dark Delicacies) ever since. He has held numerous signing events there, with one actually running seven hours in length. In my first Dark Delicacies anthology, he had a story that was later filmed for Mick Garris’ Masters of Horror television series, and Clive also has a sonnet in Dark Delicacies III: Haunted. We have been in touch very frequently over the last twenty or so years. He was a huge influence and a good friend. So this feels more like a continuation of my involvement in the Barker universe, as opposed to a return.
Diabolique: How were the stories included in the collection selected?
Howison: It was actually more grueling than you may expect. It was certainly more grueling than Joe Nassise and I expected. We had certain authors in mind that we wanted to invite into the book, but we also made sure there was room for other writers, ones not on our radar or just starting out who were offering us a dynamite piece. So we put out a call and received about 1,000 entries for the remaining 6 or so spots. We broke the submissions in two, with Joe and I each taking half. If either of us knew the author we had the other editor read the story so as not to be swayed by the name. Stories that passed the first reading were read by the opposite editor and the remaining stories that passed both readings were put in one pile and whittled down. At that point we used criteria like: if we already had a story featuring a particular character, we tried not to include another one. There were some good stories that we had to pass on just because of reasons like that. Or, if the story was so embedded with Cabal mythos that an unfamiliar reader couldn’t enjoy it as a straight tale, we tended to let them slide. It came out well but there were a lot of tough decisions between us.
Diabolique: The Nightbreed are rather repulsive, yet simultaneously accessible characters. What makes them so bizarrely compelling?
Howison: To me, there is only one thing that makes a character compelling – humanity. The characters have to be more than just stick figures, and when Clive Barker wrote the original book he made sure that the characters had that sense about them. That’s why the feelings of being alone and seeking family resonate so soundly in the tales. Using Cabal as a starting point was wonderful.Diabolique: The publication of Midian Unmade seems well timed, given the recent DVD/Blu-ray release of Nightbreed: The Director’s Cut. Is this coincidence?
Howison: Less of a coincidence than you might think. This book was Joe Nassise’s idea from the start. I believe he was just in love with the idea. It was something that wouldn’t leave his head. We worked on trying to get a contract for the book for a couple of years before Tor jumped on it. Then it was another year in the making with gathering the stories and all. By then, we had missed the catalogue deadline from Tor to come out this past Autumn of 2014, which would have been closer to the film release and to ride on that publicity wagon. So we’re coming out now (July 2015). I don’t believe it hurt us any, which is what I was afraid of.
Diabolique: Clive Barker is a prime example of a horror renaissance man; he works in different mediums and wears many hats. At your Los Angeles area bookstore, Dark Delicacies, you interact with artistic “hyphenates”: “Author-Actors,” and “Writer-Directors,” etc. Included in Midian Unmade is a story by “Actor-Writer” Amber Benson. Do you think that the “hyphenate” trend is becoming more prevalent in the horror genre?
Howison: I believe that the non-horror world is awfully slow to recognize the true talent that many of these artists have. It’s about time that Horror lose its feeling of being some sort of sub-genre.
Diabolique: A “hyphenate” for Del Howison might read: “Writer-Editor-Actor-Specialty Bookstore Founder-and-Owner.” Any other title, professional or otherwise, that you’d care to add?
Midian Unmade is available now: https://www.amazon.com/Midian-Unmade-Tales-Barkers-Nightbreed/dp/0765335425/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8


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Turns out that the DMA channels on a PIC32 can move data from the ADC using the ADC done interrupt flag, but without wasting time in an ISR. The ADC can be triggered by a timer interrupt flag, again without software intervention. Doing this means that you can blast ADC into memory at just under a Megasample/sec with NO software overhead!
Using another DMA channel to feed memory to a buffered SPI port means that video data can be streamed to a TV with less than 7% software overhead, sustaining a 5 megabit/sec pixel rate. Most of the video overhead is in the SYNC generator state machine ISR. But the rigid NTSC time requirements are easy to meet because all the actual SYNC generation and video timing are also done completely in hardware with no software intervention. One timer triggers two output pulse generators, one to generate SYNC, one to time the video “backporch”.
When the backporch pulse gen times out, it triggers the video DMA burst from the frame buffer in memory to the SPI port.
A simple 3 resistor DAC combines the SYNC and video stream. Resolution is 256×200. There is plenty of CPU left for FFT or game generation.
Via Hacked Gadgets.
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