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Drug addiction is a problem whose effects are felt in every corner of the country; however, this means that there are also treatment facilities right across the UK, and wherever you are you will not be too far away from the treatment you need. Your first port of call should always be your GP who will assess your situation and who can tell you what options exist for you locally.
A detoxification rehab program stipulates that before patients can begin healing, they must remove all drugs and toxins from their body. It is much easier to detox from drugs under the care and supervision of trained medical professionals, as opposed to attempting to do it on your own. Medical professionals could provide patients with safe drugs that could help ease withdrawal symptoms.
The first step toward recovery is admitting that the problem exists. We understand that this is often the most difficult step. If you suffer from alcohol addiction, coming to terms with the fact that alcohol has become a destructive force in your life is tough. Still, we urge you to face up to the reality as soon as possible. The sooner you do, the sooner you can begin your journey to a clean, healthy, and sober life. We encourage you to do it sooner rather than later. Drug Rehab Viola AR - What Happens In Rehab? | Drug Rehabilitation Near Me
At Casa Palmera, our goal is to aid you in a comprehensive spiritual, physical, and emotional recovery. We offer treatment not only for eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating, but also for chemical dependencies such as cocaine addiction, drug addiction and alcoholism. It is extremely important to us that you receive the highest quality medical care from our qualified staff during your stay. Russell Brand Puts His Spin On The 12-Step Program
In-House Treatment Centers provide drug and alcohol rehab for individuals and their families that are suffering from moderate to severe addiction to alcohol, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders. As differentiated from Hospital Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs, In-House Treatment Centers are often located in resort-style, private facilities designed to treat the whole person with a more personalized and compassionate approach to recovery. Psychology of Drug Addiction & Substance Abuse Disorder, Causes & Solutions
When a person receives a diagnosis of alcoholism, the next important step is getting that person to appropriate alcoholism treatment. Unfortunately, there is a variety of reasons alcoholics are reluctant to seek treatment including, the belief that therapy will not work, fear of being stereotyped and complete denial they have a problem at all. The first thing alcoholic individuals and their loved ones should understand is that alcoholism is a disease. In addition, just as some diseases cause pain, alcoholism produces responses such as fear of withdrawal and severe cravings. It is also good for alcoholics to understand that treatment can be challenging but that it is all worth it to achieve a successful recovery. Intervention by a loved one is usually a turning point for alcoholic individuals, often providing them with the motivation to seek the help they need. While it is important an alcoholic's loved ones express their support, they will also need to be firm in their insistence that the person seeks treatment.
Most people with alcohol problems do not decide to make a big change out of the blue or transform their drinking habits overnight. Recovery is usually a more gradual process. In the early stages of change, denial is a huge obstacle. Even after admitting you have a drinking problem, you may make excuses and drag your feet. It’s important to acknowledge your ambivalence about stopping drinking. If you’re not sure if you’re ready to change or you’re struggling with the decision, it can help to think about the costs and benefits of each choice.
With the Sinclair Method, people only take Revia or Vivitrol before drinking and never otherwise. Revia and Vivitrol are not like other anti-alcohol drugs that cause intense sickness and hangover sensations when taken with alcohol. The change in behavior only appears over time. With the Sinclair Method, Revia or Vivitrol is taken one hour before drinking alcohol. At the end of four to six months of treatment with the Sinclair Method, 80 percent of people who had been overusing alcohol are either drinking moderately or abstaining entirely.
Treating addiction – whether at rehab or not – can be divided into three main phases. Firstly is detoxification, the process by which an addict’s system is cleansed of substances of abuse. Once this cleansing process has taken place, and the immediate pressures of drug dependency have been lifted, the addict will then need to address the psychological aspects of their addiction, including understanding the root causes and seeking to put measures in place to ensure that they do not stumble back into addiction by relapsing.
At Hazelden Betty Ford, your length of stay in inpatient alcohol or drug rehab will be based on your progress in meeting specific clinical milestones. Our clinical team will work with you and your family as well as your insurance provider to come up with the best timetable and plan for you. Just as addiction doesn’t happen in the course of a few weeks or months, it’s unrealistic to expect recovery to occur that quickly.
This is an ongoing debate in the medical community, but it is generally agreed that there is no one cause for the development of addiction. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, contributing factors may include a genetic predisposition to develop addictive tendencies, an environment that is permissive of drug abuse, access to illicit substances, and certain developmental issues. The existence of a Dual Diagnosis is one of the biggest risk factors for the development of addiction. Heroin Withdrawal | First Week In


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These are all too common complaints in today's uncertain world, yet it's time we took responsibility for ourselves. Vera Peiffer's practical book, Positive Thinking, has already helped thousands take control of their lives. This bestselling guide to personal fulfillment will help you overcome the obstacles to achievement and gain control of your future. Using exercises, practical ideas and down-to-earth advice, Peiffer shows you how to: -- set up a personal success program -- overcome stress both at home and at work -- make new friends and be a more loving, responsible spouse -- tackle the symptoms of an unhealthy lifestyle -- get in touch with your inner feelings, and eliminate negative thoughts -- take responsibility for your life.
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I didn’t get everything done that was on my list for yesterday. But I think I got the most important things done. I love spending time with my best friend. It doesn’t happen nearly often enough, as far as we are concerned. It was definitely easier when we were in the same ward and saw each other several times a week because we were ferrying kids to and from activities.
And I have to say, I enjoy walking through a museum much better when I am with her, than I do when I’m with the thundering herd, AKA my dinner group buddies. I don’t want to follow a tour guide. I barely tolerate those canned bits of information on the jobbies you can hang around your neck. I want to read the sign that accompanies each work of art, and I want to think for myself, and I want to discuss it with somebody who loves art as passionately as I do. Particularly when they know more about it than I do. And I want to go at my own pace. Fortunately, her pace and mine are compatible, so it was a great outing.
The J.M.W. Turner exhibition, running through the 18th at the Dallas Museum of Art, is huge. Almost too big for me to enjoy. I did skip the room with the time-line and contemporary history. Each room was painted a different color; I don’t remember a single one that was Boring Museum Grey. And I like his earlier stuff better than his later work. While I love the colors that the Impressionists used, I am much more fond of the Old Masters. I want trees that look like trees, and women who look like women, and rich, saturated colors. If I want nondescript color mooshes, I will sit down with my brushes and my tubes and moosh them myself.
[Oh yeah, that’s a bad side effect from having gone to Main Street Arts Festival two weeks ago and the DMA today; I want to pull my watercolor supplies out of storage and make messes. I so do not have time for this!]
The one that moved me most deeply, was The Tenth Plague of Egypt; this is the best image that I was able to find online. In the foreground you see two women grieving over a child, and sitting behind them a woman[?] with her head in her hands, and another dead child. For me it captured what those mothers must have felt when they realized that their stubborn Pharaoh was not a god who could save them.
I also liked Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus, though I had to ask my friend for the story behind it. I did not remember that Polyphemus was the Cyclops, nor that his father was Poseidon. I managed to skate out of reading most of The Iliad and The Odyssey, back in high school. [Poor Penelope, having to weave an additional 20 years because her idiot husband taunted the son of a Greek god.]
One of the last paintings in the exhibition was an impressionistic work that I liked, The Angel Standing in the Sun. It reminded me of some of Minerva Teichert’s work.
Stake conference last night and this morning was interesting, as usual. Our stake president is very loving, very tender-hearted, and steadfast in reminding us that we need to be obedient. More than one ox got gored in his closing remarks today. None of mine, fortunately, were on the menu. [OK, one got bruised a little when he reminded us that mothers are to teach their daughters to cook and sew, etc.; I’ve been too busy over the years, just trying to keep them fed and clothed, to do as much training as I would have liked. And the ones who do cook, are way better at it than I was at their age.] I do appreciate his telling us that the sniping which goes on [occasionally] between the stay-at-home moms and the moms who work outside the home, needs to stop, today.
I will miss him when I am in my new ward and new stake. Thankfully, the stake president in my new stake was the bishop when we lived with our friends for a month and a half, after we left the Hill Country with our tails between our legs. So I already know him, like him, and trust him. And I expect to esteem my new bishop as much as I do my present one.
I have been getting impressions with greater and greater frequency this year. I do not know what this means, other than I am working actively to remove thoughts, ideas, and associations that would interfere with that. I have one long-term friendship that I sense should come to an end; moving will make that easier, while making it harder to maintain those friendships that I do want to keep.
On a happier note, there is a woman in the stake with whom things have been strained for a number of years; she was briefly engaged to a man who was [for a time] my friend, and for whom I was developing feelings. They brought out the worst in each other. She and I exchanged pleasantries at the meetings this weekend, and I think the bitterness between us is past.
It feels as if the Lord is enabling me to tie up all sorts of loose ends in recent weeks. And I have the feeling of moving toward a bright and busy future that holds no opportunity for self-pity or stagnation. LittleBit is making plans for a place of her own; the details are still sketchy, but she has brains, determination, and ambition *plus* her heart is good. I trust that she will make decisions that are safe and well-considered and firmly on the Lord’s side of the line.
This morning, I finished the block for the knit-along afghan we are doing in my Knit Night group. Also made real progress on the second Anastasia. Don’t know if I will have time to block it before Tuesday night, but it was a quick day-and-a-half project, and I liked working with the yarn better than I thought I would. Picture, maybe, tomorrow. Time for me to gather up my laundry and take it over to Firstborn’s. Mostly I would like to stay home and take a nap. So maybe I will get up an hour earlier tomorrow morning and do it at the laundry center here at the apartments.
- Five years into widowhood, after one year of incredible happiness and nearly 14 years of single blessedness. Have given up perfect manicures and pretty hands in order to resume playing the soprano recorder and to see if I can figure out how to play bluegrass banjo. Singing in the shower. Still really, *really* love to knit!

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They beat Moulton Harrox 2-1 last Saturday (August 28) with goals from Andrew Moss and Jack Travers. Wittering are at winless Netherton United this Saturday.
Uppingham boast the only unbeaten record in the top flight and they drew 2-2 at Stilton United for whom Kevin Holt scored and was then sent off. Rob Forster scored twice for Uppingham.
Second-placed Crowland beat Oakham 2-0 thanks to goals from Jordam Kirchin and Sam Leggatt, while Dan Gargan claimed a hat-trick for Eye United in their 6-2 win at Stamford Lions. Gargan now has six goals in three games.
Stamford Bels drew 2-2 at Long Sutton.
Robbie Cundy struck twice as Moulton Harrox Reserves stayed top of Division One with a 4-1 success at Eunice.
Ramsey maintained their 100 per cent winning record with a 7-1 drubbing of Crowland Reserves. Ryan Pratt hit a hat-trick for Ramsey.
Warboys Town and Wisbech Town Reserves also have 100 per cent winning record. Wisbech saw off FC Peterborough 5-1 last weekend thanks mainly to a hat-trick from Dan Hempson. Peterborough Northern Star Reserves won for the first time this season, 6-2 at Pinchbeck Reserves.
Netherton United Reserves have six points from two games in Division Two after a free-scoring 7-4 win over Stamford Bels Reserves at the Grange. Leonard Dobre and Kieran Bellamy both scored twice for Netherton.
Orton Park Rangers have started the Peterborough League season in great style with the first team banging in 12 goals in their first two matches to move top of the Division Two table. Douglas Zimbango bagged a hat-trick in a 6-1 win at Holbeach Sports last weekend. He already has five goals for the season. Orton Reserves went one better last weekend beating Long Sutton Athletic Reserves 7-1 in Division Four with James Ellwood hitting a hat-trick.
Park Farm Pumas opened their Division Three campaign with a 3-1 home defeat at the hands of Tydd Reseves. Dontae Martin scored for the city side.
Cardea Reserves and Sawtry are the two teams with maximum points after two games in Division Three. Dominic Goymour scored four and Charlie Bosett netted twice as Cardea beat Huntingdon Rovers 7-2, while Matthew Church, Rory Nicholson, Brian Smith, Craig Smith and Mitchell Taylor were all on target in Sawtry’s 5-1 win at King’s Cliffe. Thurlby Tigers were the division’s biggest scorers last weekend. They won 13-1 at Dreams FC.
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Crowland 2 (J. Kirchin, Leggatt), Oakham 0; Long Sutton 2 (Machin, Alexander), Stamford Bels 2 (Toomey, Dowell); Stamford Lions 2, Eye 6 (Gargan 3, Duffy, Buckle, og); Stilton 2 (Holt, Grainger), Uppingham 2; Wittering Premiair 2 (Moss, Travers), Moulton Harrox 1 (Ford).

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This letter is being written in response to the “On the Doorstep” column that appeared in the 21 Sep 2012 issue of the Tunica Times.
While agreement can be made about most of the article, one paragraph jumped out at me and I have another opinion about the following statement: “Unlike others, I don’t fault former county officials for trying to make Tunica County better....”
When I talk about former county officials and what they left behind, I’m not talking about their vision. I’m talking about their transparency.
Board attorney, county administrator fired, replaced On successive split...
Mayor makes case against funding cut In an address this...
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells Children join in singing...
Co. general fund plunges to $1.75M deficit A recent report to supervisors...
County moves to cut town funding Working relations...


- The DC Council is busy today. Mary Cheh introduced a bill that "would mandate that if one car is stopped at a pedestrian crossing, any cars coming up behind it should also have to stop." Muriel Bowser introduced a law to reduce the speed limit on some streets to 15mph. Meanwhile Phil Mendelson questions the need for the Anti-Assault law that WABA has pushed.
- Maryland and AA county planning a long detour for the WB&A to cross the Patuxent River when a shorter, better route may be available.
- I'm not sure which I find more surprising, that Republicans didn't vote as a block to try and kill TE or that, once a block vote didn't happen, 38 Senators voted to do so. Either way, the third attempt to kill TE over the last two months failed. More here.


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Diesel, A Bookstore in Larkspur welcomes Aaron Becker
to the store as our guest bedtime book author on Friday, September 12th at 6pm.
Pull on your PJs and bring your teddy bear to the bookstore! Author and illustrator Aaron Becker
will be here to read you a bedtime story. Get cozy in front of the fireplace, listen to a story or two, have some milk and cookies and get your books signed before heading home for bed.
Aaron Becker is the author and illustrator of Journey and the upcoming follow-up book, Quest. He has made several memorable Journeys himself in his lifetime. He's lived in rural Japan and East Africa, backpacked through the South Pacific and Sweden, and most recently, ventured from the San Francisco Bay area to Amherst, Massachusetts, a town he now calls home with his wife, daughter, and lazy cat. To this day, his favorite destination remains his imagination, where you can often find him drawing secret doorways and magic lanterns. You can visit him at storybreathing.com.
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A split Court of Appeals of Indiana dismissed a man’s appeal of his felony battery and criminal recklessness convictions and sentence Tuesday, finding he wasn’t entitled to file a belated notice of appeal.
Jordan Norton was convicted of battery by means of a deadly weapon as a Level 5 felony and criminal recklessness as a Level 6 felony. The Elkhart Circuit Court sentenced him in August 2022 to an aggregate sentence of seven years executed.
A month after Norton was sentenced, the trial court issued a sua sponte order extending the time to file a belated notice of appeal, and Norton filed his appeal. He brought two issues to the appellate court.
But the court did not reach the issues, finding Norton was not entitled to file a belated notice of appeal.
“Not only did Norton fail to even file a request seeking permission to file a belated appeal, but he also provided no evidence whatsoever regarding whether he was without fault for failing to file a timely notice of appeal and had been diligent in pursuing a belated appeal,” Judge L. Mark Bailey wrote for the majority.
The appellate court found there wasn’t any evidence the trial court could have relied on to permit a belated appeal under Post-Conviction Rule 2.
It also found that the trial court made an error by allowing Norton to file a belated appeal.
Judge Elaine Brown concurred, but Judge Leanna Weissmann wrote a separate dissenting opinion stating she would decide the case on the merits.
“I agree with the majority that trial courts lack the authority to unilaterally extend the clock for an appeal. But while this principle has gone unchanged over the years, the available remedies in this situation have dramatically shifted,” Weissmann wrote. “Norton’s court-appointed attorney failed to file a timely notice of appeal. Yet, for an indiscernible reason, the trial court sua sponte extended the appellate deadline. Though the trial court lacked the authority to issue such an order, I would not fault the defendant for relying on it.”
Weissmann continued, stating that Norton is incarcerated, and his untimely appeal was due to his public defender’s lack of a timely appeal.
“The forfeiture of Norton’s appeal — based solely on the mistakes of others — is too high a price for an incarcerated defendant like Norton to pay,” Weissmann wrote. “Dismissing Norton’s appeal now leads to nothing more than a delay in the date of eventual review and additional costs to the taxpayers who are funding Norton’s appeal — the opposite result of the ‘orderly and speedy justice’ our procedural rules are meant to promote.”
Weissmann said she recognizes that Norton will likely file a Post-Conviction Rule 2 belated notice of appeal petition with the trial court.
The case is Jordan M. Norton v. State of Indiana, 22A-CR-2314.


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An elderly couple are in hospital after their car drove into treacherous waters, at the mouth of Var river between Nice and St-Laurent-du-Var this morning. The car drifted for 300m before coming to stop in the water near the airport. A dramatic rescue involving a helicopter, firefighters and divers took the couple to safety. It’s believed they are in critical condition with severe hypothermia.
Residents and business owners in La Trinité and L'Ariane are protesting today over a decision to close the penetrant road linking the area with Nice. Due to a risk of collapse on the banks of the Paillon River the road has been closed for several days leading to traffic delays of up to three hours.
The Criminal Court has handed down sentences on a group of eight Azureen men, accused of ‘incitement to hatred’ of Jews, homo-sexuals and other neo-Nazi hate speech, which took place on social networks. Sentences ranged from 3 months suspended, to one full year in prison.
Over a hundred police in Cannes have demonstrated outside the Marie in protest at working conditions. The towns mayor David Lisard met with them, agreeing with some but not all of the demands.
A small earthquake, off the coast of Imperia in northern Italy, has been felt in Cannes. The tremor with a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale occurred in the early hours of this morning.
French billionaire Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods brand LVMH, has overtaken Bill Gates to be named the world’s second-wealthiest person by Forbes. Although his net worth is $107.6 billion, M Arnault he is still surpassed by Jeff Bezos the CEO of Amazon with a net worth of $110 billion.
The company which prints UK sterling bank notes, have said they’re at risk of collapsing and closure. UK based De La Rue prints all current Bank of England notes a site in Essex. It’s unclear what would happen if the firm got into difficulties, but it is most likely that a rival would take over, and as all their rivals are based abroad, that would mean sterling bank notes would be printed outside the UK.
Football - Russia will be able to compete in Euro 2020 next summer. even if a four-year ban from sporting events comes into effect. Investigators from the World Anti-Doping Agency found inconsistencies in laboratory data obtained from the Russian anti-doping agency, and their compliance committee is recommending Russia be barred from hosting and competing in major international events for four years. However next summer's European Championship will not be affected as the organisation which sets out the rules on anti-doping breaches, does not define UEFA as a 'Major Event Organisation'.
Rugby - Allen Clarke has left his role as Ospreys head coach after a dire start to their 2019 season. They have won only once in six Pro14 games and lost heavily to Munster and Saracens in the Heineken Champions Cup. Clarke had signed a three-year deal with Ospreys to be head coach until 2021.
Golf - The Ladies European Tour Order of Merit is to be renamed the “Race to Costa del Sol” from 2020 and offer a bonus prize fund of 250,000 euros. The Costa del Sol Open, which starts on Thursday, will also see its prize money doubled from next year.


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This jewelry item comes packaged in a white box (pictured).
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A change in accounting policy has let the Employees Provident
Fund (EPF) avoid recognising a RM11 billion loss on its stock-market investments
for the 1997 financial year.
This is why it has taken just a RM404 million hit on its local equity portfolio, despite the massive plunge in the stock market with the onset of the Asian financial crisis.
Still, the impact of this potential loss on the EPF's portfolio is relatively small. If it had treated its investments as it had in previous years, itwould show a total of RM116.3 billion, or 3.0 per cent
growth, instead of RM126.7 billion, or 12 per cent growth, compared with its investments in1996, observers note.
"With effect from financial year 1997, the EPF has changed the basis of
valuation of Quoted Shares and Investments With Portfolio Managers," it
says in its 1997 annual report.
Previously, the fund used to mark-to-market its entire portfolio at the end of each financial year. That is to say, it adjusted the valuation of its investments to reflect the market prices as at each
This year, it has reclassified the bulk of its stock investments --previously identified as just "quoted securities" -- aslong-term quoted shares as at the balance sheet date, Dec 31, 1997. By
differentiating between short- and long-term investments, it has been
able to limit the provision it must make for losses on its investment
The EPF's short-term investments in the local stock market at cost totalled RM792.9 billion, while its market value stood at RM388.4 billion.
The difference of RM404.6 billion has been reflected in the EPF's consolidated cashflow statement as the diminution in value of investments.
Its long-term local investments get off less lightly, in contrast.
Long-term quoted shares at cost amounted to RM20.6 billion, against its marked-to- market value of RM10.7 billion. This RM9.9 billion difference makes up the largest portion of the unrecognised losses.
"The effect of (this) change is that in the financial year 1997, the EPF does not require to recognise the diminution in market value in the
Income and Expenditure Account amounting to RM10.986 billion," it says.
This sum represents a 51 per cent drop in the value of its local equity
investments. Over the same period, the benchmark KLSE Composite Index
plunged 48 per cent from 1,237.96 points on the last day of 1996 to 594.44
on Dec 31, 1997. It closed at 618.54 last Friday.
The EPF says this practice is "in accordance with that adopted by the National Mandatory Provident Funds established by the Governments ofcertain countries", and is not subject to the International Accounting Standard No 26 regulating accounting and reporting by retirement benefit plans.
It is not known how the fund has defined short-term investments and long-term investments. Officials were unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, observers say these potential losses are not
as alarming as they appear be.
"Yes, in absolute terms RM11 billion looks very big, but this represents just 8.6 per cent of EPF's entire portfolio," points out a senior analyst. "It could have been worse."
A research head of a foreign investment house agrees that the losses should be put in perspective. "Given EPF's ability to take a very long-term view, much of these potential losses are
really academic," he says.
The EPF's priority is to maintain enough liquid funds to reimburse retirees over, say, a 25-year time frame. Over this period, such investment losses will eventually reverse themselves into gains, he points out.
"The EPF is not a commercial organisation, but one where the flow of funds is very important. And what many people tend to overlook is the fact that the workforce here is very young," he says.
Because more workers enter employment every year than contributors who retire, contributions to the fund have been increasing.
This means it will have no problems meeting any of
This also enhances its ability to invest on a very long term view, says the research head, adding, "What better time for it to buy stocks than at the bottom of the market?"
Others, though, have been less forgiving. Says a senior institutional dealer: "I was surprised by how transparent the EPF's 1996 annual report was, but I didn't expect their books to be clean this
year. This kind of juggling just worries people."
EPF's equity investments, both local and foreign, represent just under 19per cent of its entire portfolio, an increase of 22 per cent over equity investments in 1996. More than half its portfolio -- 54.48 per cent, or RM70.5 billion -- is invested in Malaysian Government Securities and various money market instruments, although the total has been allowed to fall under the statutory minimum limit over the last few years. It had63.3 per cent invested in these securities in 1996. Another 26.16 percent was invested in loans and debentures, while 0.37 per cent was invested in property.~C.I.A REFORMASI
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Syracuse University Law School initially failed Biden for plagiarizing, without citation, five pages from a published law review.
Every academic institution must be a place where free speech prevails—where we civilly debate the most polarizing issues of our day.
Writers of color tell Newsweek that many of the people trying to ban the books have little knowledge of what the theory is.
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The University of California Hastings College of the Law voted to change its name to distance itself from its founder's attacks against Indigenous people
The longest-serving chief justice in the United States Supreme Court is having his name removed from University of Illinois' law school after investigation into his pro-slavery actions.
Other students reported the student for saying women were the weaker sex.
The Republican senator was confronted after a press conference during which he spoke out against "court packing."
The dean of Georgetown's law school sent a chilling message: if you are to participate in any discussion regarding grades and race, you must express the politically correct view of the matter.
As a former law clerk of hers, I am one of the many people who models his life on Judge Barrett's.
"Trust is your bond, and if people trust you to be a person of your word, that will carry you far in the profession," Jeh Johnson said.
A conservative University of Chicago Law School professor deleted his Twitter for a second time after commenting that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was only appointed due to her "Latinaness."
The couple reportedly broke up in the fall.
The 23-year-old toured Harvard, Columbia and NYU, but she's reportedly headed to Georgetown.

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Nestled on a quiet and tranquil street in Ettalong Beach, it has a sunny outdoor area and front patio to enjoy the fresh air or covered back deck. Inside, the home is furnished with modern decor. Just 90 minutes’ drive from Sydney, this two-bedroom beach house is just a short walk to the sands of Ettalong Beach, local shops, cafes, and kids’ playground. Main bedroom has a queen bed, ceiling fan and clothing rack, bedroom 2 has 2 single beds and ceiling fan.
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Kathie Lee Gifford got plenty of time over following her exit from NBC’s Today last year.
It’s been five years since her late husband Frank Gifford passed away. But now, she’s been on a date with a gentleman.
Kathie Lee Gifford has been through plenty the last few years. The 67 year-old TV-presenter, singer, songwriter and actress lost her husband Frank Gifford five years ago, just weeks before his 85th birthday.
The couple’s long and winding love story came to an end after 29 years of marriage.
In July, Kathy also lost a dear friend and former colleague in Regis Philbin. The legendary icon passed away 85.
They co-hosted the The Morning Show, which later was renamed to Live with Regis and Kathie Lee from 1985 to 2000, when she decided to leave the show to host the fourth hour of NBC’s Today.
Kathie Lee Gifford took to Instagram to honor her former friend and colleague.
“There are no words to fully express the love I have for my precious friend, Regis. I simply adored him and every day with him was a gift,” she wrote. “We spent 15 years together bantering and bickering and laughing ourselves silly—a tradition and a friendship we shared up to this very day.”
“There has never been anyone like him. And there never will be.”
Since 2018, Kathie’ been living outside Franklin, Tennessee. Even though she isn’t a TV-presenter anymore – since her exit from NBC’s Today last year – Kathie still has plenty of things to do.
Spending time with friends and still working, Kathie feels better than ever.
“You know what? I feel so good, I feel strong, healthy, and renewed inside. I feel thirsty years old truly,” Gifford said in late September.
In the span of three months, she had the wonderful opportunity to see both her children get married. Kathie Lee Gifford’s daughter Cassidy, 27, married partner Wierda in June, while her son Cody, 30, walked down the aisle with Erika in September.
Her children had – like many other couples getting married this year– planned big weddings with friends and family attending.
However, due to the covid-19 pandemic, both Cassidy and Cody had to rethink everything.
“Oh, we can’t leave them out,’ and, ‘Oh, their feelings are gonna be hurt.’ This just got it down to the nitty gritty — who is closest family. It ended up being precious, Kathie told Entertainment Tonight.
Kathie shares both Cassidy and Cody with late husband Frank. And even though he wasn’t in attendance, his spirit was definitely there, Kathie says.
“We just sensed their dad just smiling, I was sobbing.”
Following the passing of her beloved husband Frank, Gifford wasn’t in the mood for dating. However, in November she revealed that she had gone out on a couple of dates.
Kathy Lee Gifford dating
One night – when she was out with some friends at a club to hear a band play – one man caught her attention.
“I went to hear them, and this sweet guy asked me to dance, and so I said, ‘OK.’ And then he just disappeared into the crowd,” Kathie Lee Gifford recalled. “And then, you know, a couple weeks later, same band — Tim Akers & the Smoking Section — so we danced again. And then we just went out a couple times. It was fun because I hadn’t been on a date in 33 years.”
Kathy Lee Gifford still has criteria that has to be filled in order for it to even become a first date.
“Let’s change that to ‘anyone with teeth, and doesn’t have to be their own’,” Gifford joked.
Kathie Lee Gifford isn’t dating anyone at the moment.
Open to falling in love
And that’s probably why people aren’t hearing that much about it, according to herself.
“It’s because there’s nothing going on. There’s nothing to talk about,” Gifford explains in an interview with USA Today. “If there was, I’d shout from the rooftop like Maria in ‘West Side Story.’ I’d be open to falling in love again. I’d love to. But it hasn’t happened.”
“I don’t ever want to stop believing in love,” says Gifford. “Stop believing in love and you’ve got one foot in the grave already.”
Released Oct, 2nd, Kathie Lee Gifford is starring alongside Craig Ferguson in the new romantic comedy Then Came You.
We wish Kathie all the best in the future and hope she’s truly happy!
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Concussions Most Common Head Injury for Student Athletes
To the relief of a lot of parents (and maybe a few kids) summer vacation has ended. With the smell of fresh notebooks and pencils in the air, our children have gone back to class. The swimming pools will be all but abandoned soon and kids will make their way to recess, after-school and weekend sports.
Playing sports is an important part of childhood. Whether the sport of choice is baseball, soccer, hockey, football or soccer, lessons about cooperation and teamwork are woven into every practice and game. Sports also require and demand dedication, a value that serves us well in adulthood. But the same dedication that keeps your son late at school for extra laps after football practice can encourage kids to ignore injury.
What begins as a small injury may be ignored until it’s a big problem requiring a lot of treatment. In the past, athletes have been encouraged to “walk it off.” Today, we’re much better at encouraging our active children to pay attention, take a break and heal. No injury should be ignored and head injuries, especially, must be taken seriously.
My partners and I are well acquainted with head injuries and the lasting physical and emotional damage they can cause. We represent the victims of traumatic brain injury – individuals whose lives have significantly changed after severe head injury. Although we work on the extreme end of the spectrum, we’ve learned that even mild knocks to the head can be serious.
The head injury most often sustained by child and teenage athletes is called a concussion. Each year, thousands of school-age athletes are treated for concussions. Concussions are a type of traumatic brain injury. What used to be referred to as “having your bell rung” is now recognized as a serious injury and should be treated as such. Before your kids get back into their sport of choice, be sure that you, your children and their coaches know the signs of a concussion.
In the last few years, public awareness of dangerous hits to the head has skyrocketed. We recognize the link between traumatic brain injury and sports and the potentially devastating consequences. Players in the NFL are vocal and actively trying to change league policy to ensure greater protections for their players. The large amount of media attention on brain injury and the NFL may cause some to assume that only football players are at risk, but that’s not the case.
High school football players suffer more head injuries than college players, though it’s not clear why. So if your son will be strapping on a helmet and pads this year, make sure he understands the implications of head injury.
Don’t forget, though, that just about any sport comes with the risk of head injury. Hockey, soccer, wrestling, basketball, lacrosse and volleyball players get concussed every year. And don’t think that boys are the only ones getting hurt – girls get plenty of concussions, too.
The CDCs “Heads Up” materials illuminate the signs of concussion for coaches. Parents and players are encouraged to read up on concussions and take them seriously. The free guide is tailored to high school athletes, but it’s a good read regardless of how old your children are.
Talk to your student athletes about the seriousness of concussions. Pushing yourself in a sport can lead to great triumphs and the pride of playing your heart out. But athletes must have a limit. If not treated with the respect it demands, a head injury can bench an athlete permanently.

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2 edition of report of the study on location and design, Interstate Route 95 found in the catalog.
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A SINGLE mum-of-four has taken meal preparation to the next level – cooking up a MONTH’S worth in just one afternoon.
Christie Plumridge, from Sydney, Australia, teamed up with her oldest daughter Tigah Rosie, 13, to cook up more than 200 dishes and snacks over six hours.
Incredibly, each substantial portion cost less than 90p per serve, with her bulk buying and cooking saving her roughly £480 a month.
Meals included Mexican lasagna, slow cooked meatballs, a sausage and vegetable bake, ricotta and spinach sausage rolls and chocolate peanut butter crunch slices.
The 35-year-old told The Sun Online how she began her incredibly organised meal prepping after signing up to The Healthy Mummy programme and following its 28-day weight loss challenges – egged on by Tigah Rosie.
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She said: “I watched another member of the support group, Nikola, do it and saw how much money and time she saved.
“So I started small to see if it worked for me also.
“Tigah Rosie loved cooking – I really hated it so much, but she was so creative and followed the recipes I gave her and then we decided to make a day of it.
“We both had so much fun that it became something I really enjoyed and we bonded over.
“It definitely worked in saving time and money so I started prepping more each time.”
It’s also helped her to lose weight, with Christie dropping an impressive two-and-a-half stone in a matter of months.
She explained: “The difference is amazing. Obviously losing 17kg was a huge difference, but my mental health has improved greatly and I no longer need medication for depression.
The tasty meals cooked up by Christie and Tigah Rosie
10 portions of Mexican Lasagna
26 portions of the slow cooked Porcupine Meatballs
16 portions of One Pan Lemon & Rosemary Chicken Drumsticks
12 portions of Beef San Choy Bow
12 portions of Chicken and Tomato Penne
16 Ricotta and Spinach Sausage Rolls
3 portions of Tomato and Broccoli Omelette
20 portions of Tamari and Chicken Fried Rice
16 portions of the Sausage and Veggie Bake
6 portions of Mint Choc Bubble Crunch
40 portions of the Choc Peanut Butter Crunch Slice
12 portions of rice
24 portions of veggies to add to meals
12 Choc-Vanilla Puff Pastry Rolls
“My activity levels are so much higher, which leads me to be a better mum to my girls who are thriving as well.
“The girls are much better behaved and really enjoy being outside and active, compared to before when we would all sit on the lounge with our eyes glued to the TV.”
Christie, who has given up sugar, combined her healthy eating plan with regular 25-minute exercise regimes at home.
She told how Tigah Rosie has also been inspired by The Healthy Mummy plan and is now beginning to experiment more and create her own healthy recipes.
Christie said: “Tigah Rosie has lost a lot of weight also, and has so much more self-confidence, as do I.
Christie's tips for shopping on a budget
- Buy all your meat on sale and look for cheaper options (like drumsticks)
- Shop around in different stores and at night, as you’re more likely to pick up reduced items
- Buy seasonal veggies as well as frozen veggies (just so you save a bit more)
- Opt for no-name (or home brand) everything
- Bulk out your meals with extra veggies, beans or a bit of rice (depending on the meal)
- Try to pick meals that use the same ingredients when meal planning
“The younger girls will now even choose a Healthy Mummy snack over a sugar-loaded snack.
“Although I have very little restrictions on what they eat, they do tend to go for a healthier option because they are aware of what they are eating now.”
Christie, who is now a consultant for Healthy Mummy, stores her meals in a freezer box which she keeps in her utility.
She stressed that staying within a budget is vital for her.
“Being on my own with a toddler, a teen and two in between, I catalogue shop, buy meat that is on sale and make sure to choose recipes according to the particular meats I buy,” she said.
“I always make sure that I bulk out meals with lentils or beans and rice, vegetables and pasta depending on the actual dish.
“I also shop around; I will shop at two separate stores, usually Aldi and Coles, as they are the two that offer the best prices.
“I make sure that the recipes all have similar ingredients, so that I’m not buying loads of different ones, and I make my own pasta sauces and dressings.
“I also make two vegetarian dishes to have as well, to save even more money.
“I do buy frozen veggies to pop in things, like the one-pot spaghetti, as it works out cheaper for me that way.
“I try to buy bulk also, when it’s possible, and attend the local farmers markets and fruit and veg shops, as they tend to be cheaper.
“It really is all about planning and sticking to the meal plan.
“I have also learnt to shop at night, as a lot of meats and items I use often are marked down at the end of the day.”
In February we told how a frugal mum feeds her family for just £3 a day after shopping for groceries online and at Waitrose… and the meals really do look delicious.
Also, in April, we reported how a thrifty mum of three saves £48,000 on family bills and has quit her job thanks to her love of coupons.

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Always wash fruits and vegetables before using:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Preheat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add extra-virgin olive oil to skillet and 4 tablespoons butter. When butter melts, add bay leaf and add the vegetables as you chop them, celery, onions then apples. Sprinkle the vegetables and apples with salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Cook 5 to 6 minutes to begin to soften vegetables and apples then add parsley and stuffing cubes to the pan and combine. Moisten the stuffing with chicken broth until all of the bread is soft but not wet.
Butter 12 muffin cups, 2 tins, liberally with remaining butter. Use a disher to fill and mound up the stuffing in muffin tins. Remove the bay leaf as you scoop the stuffing when you come upon it. Bake until set and crisp on top, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove muffins to a platter and serve hot or room temperature.
You can use red or green apples!
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|Recipe Makes: 12 Servings|
|Calories from Fat: 91 (62%)|
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|Total Fat 10.1g||13 %|
|Saturated Fat 5.4g||27 %|
|Monounsaturated Fat 3.4g|
|Polyunsanturated Fat 0.7g|
|Cholesterol 23.2mg||7 %|
|Sodium 217.3mg||7 %|
|Potassium 231mg||6 %|
|Total Carbohydrate 11.9g||4 %|
|Dietary Fiber 1.7g||7 %|
|Sugars, other 10.2g|
|Protein 3.1g||4 %|
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Chai Rye Cold Press
* To Make Chai Syrup:
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 6 cardamom pods, cracked
- 10 cloves
- 1 tsp whole black peppercorns
- 1 2-inch piece of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
- 6 cups of water
- 5 cups of brown sugar
- 2 bags of black tea
Combine all ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 25 minutes. Strain and bottle and keep chilled. Keeps for 4-6 weeks.
Combine ingredients in a shaker tin then add ice and shake vigorously. Strain in to a martini glass and float coffee beans on the head for garnish/aromatics.
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Trixi’s family are emigrating & not taking her with – we have until the end of the month to find this loving cat a new home. She is spayed, vaccinated & dewormed. She loves sitting on your lap. She prefers being alone.

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Can a Yankee Like Country Music?
Spoon-fed fist-pumping club music for breakfast, country music never seems to be on the menu for the Yankee population.
Born and raised in New Jersey, my fingers hits the dial faster than a baby’s hand on a stove when country music is on the radio. Now that I live down south, it’s way more prevalent…yet, I still don’t like it. I’ve got a challenge for RadioPotato readers.
Here’s the rundown:
- Sugarland doesn’t do it for me (I took big heat for it here)
- I wouldn’t know Travis Tritt if I fell over him (or Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, or whatever their names are…although their names sound like country music versions of stripper names)
- I’ve seen Zac Brown Band a bunch of times before they got huge and um, flatline
- People like Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, and Lady Antebellum don’t count – because they are crossover + I kinda like them
- Dolly Parton is the bomb, despite my previous statements
YET, for all you country music fans, there might be a glimmer of hope. Every once in a while, a country music song will be playing over the loudspeakers and I’ll catch some of the songwriting – and BAM. I”m a little drawn in.
So here’s what my request is. Please post a video, link, or suggestion of a song that you think I’ll love. I’m going to find ONE, buy their entire music collection, and promote it here.
For more music musings, stalk RadioPotato at Facebook, Twitter, RadioPotato’s RSS Feed, and at music news super-site, The Silver Tongue where I’m a contributor. Thanks for checking the music out and as always, support emerging artists!


It is well recognised that thermostatic shower valves have significantly helped in the reduction of injuries resulting from scalding, slips, and falls due to thermal shock.
Building Regulations Approved Document G includes requirements for the protection of bathers from scalding, as bathing is a full body immersion activity. Showering however was not included in these requirements as it is not considered full body immersion.
I believe that users who are infirm, with possible accessibility issues that use ‘assisted living’ solutions could still be at risk of scalding, depending on the choice of thermostatic shower valve being used. These ‘assisted living’ solutions include the many showering arrangements offered today (seated or otherwise).
There is a widely held belief that shower valves which meet performance criteria BS EN 1111 (for HP) or 1287 (for LP) facilitate a limit to the maximum water temperature delivered by the shower to a reasonably safe level of circa 46-48°C, like that of Part G. This is not however a requirement of these performance standards and, as a consequence, it is worth knowing that some thermostatic products are capable of readily delivering the full hot water supply temperature (recommended max 65°C).
This situation could occur when the valve's temperature control knob is turned beyond the ‘override stop’. Users having physical or mental limitations would not necessarily be able to react quickly enough if such high temperature was inadvertently selected and injury would inevitably follow.
I would therefore suggest to specifiers and installers who take responsibility for the choice of shower valves fitted, that they check with the manufacturer that the chosen valve does indeed limit or allow the setting of a safe maximum delivery temperature. It’s in both the installer's and customer's best interest.
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Last week, two Weatherford teenagers were charged with multiple felonies for throwing objects off a bridge onto passing cars. Victims include four semi-trucks and 10 passenger vehicles.
Passengers on Interstate 20 reported that two 14-year-old boys were throwing rocks and railroad spikes into oncoming traffic from a bridge. It took Weatherford Police several attempts to locate the suspects after receiving several reports.
Two teenagers matching the physical description given by witnesses were found at a nearby apartment complex. They were taken into custody and later charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief.
One 59-year-old woman suffered serious facial lacerations and three broken teeth after being struck in the face with a rock that smashed through her windshield. This injury required a trip to the hospital to get 21 stitches. Luckily, there were no fatalities as a result of this incident but there could have been at the rate of speed the vehicles were travelling.


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Monday, 28 December 2020
Northwestern climbed to 3-0 in the Big Ten for the first time since 1967-68. The Wildcats only loss came by one point to Pittsburgh.
The NBA got underway with several surprising results. Trae Young got off to a great start.
The Kansas Chiefs locked up the top spot in the AFC. Tom Brady threw four touchdown passes vs. Detroit.
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"In the day of happiness for the Eagles fans as they go 4-0 after beating an improved Jaguars team 29-21. They are the lone unbeaten in the NFL."


Right now, much of the east coast is effectively snowbound. Since we’re all stuck here in front of our computers while the rest of the country, here’s seven memorable on-screen snowstorms to wile away the long hours.
“The Fatal Glass of Beer” (1933)
A Canadian Mountie walks into W.C. Fields’ cabin, with a big gust of fake snow following. “Is it still snowing?” Fields asks, before proceeding to accompany himself on auto-harp on a song about a young man who goes to the city, starts drinking and learns a valuable lesson about not breaking other people’s tambourines. Later Fields says “I reckon, guess and calculate” his incarcerated son is soon coming home. Still later he goes out to milk the elk. This a slow-moving but winningly bizarre meta-parody of the now obscure Yukon melodrama, oft compared to Monty Python for its sheer strangeness. Fields’ indomitability in the face of cold weather is inspiring.
“Odd Man Out” (1947)
A memorable usage of symbolic snowfall as impending death, this fascinatingly incoherent Carol Reed movie finds wounded Irish nationalist James Mason wandering around Belfast, hallucinating with increased severity until the world starts being as strange as what he’s dreaming. As the snow falls and the time to flee the city decreases, Mason ends up being kidnapped by an insane painter fixated on capturing the dying man’s eyes as he dies, in a memorably excessive sequence.
“The Cardinal” (1963)
Otto Preminger’s long, social-issue-y “The Cardinal” is actually better than you’d think. A big, splashy three-hour movie adopted from a hot-topic bestseller with no lasting value, “The Cardinal” marches through all of its Big Issues — abortion! racism! Nazis! — with a fearlessness and commendable indifference towards good taste. At one point, during darkest winter, Cardinal Tom Tryon (later a horror writer) comes to visit old friend Father Burgess Meredith. But he’s not dying in the snowstorm because of his penitential, bread-and-wine diet — he’s dying because of multiple sclerosis. This is one surprisingly tough-minded movie, though the eight-minute edit below does a good job of making it look hypnotically terrible.
After producing most of Douglas Sirk’s ’50s Hollywood work and the first Doris Day-Rock Hudson pairing, Ross Hunter’s final big bang was this opulent if unwieldy blend of the old-fashioned “Grand Hotel” style melodrama (“seven different stories,” as the trailer helpfully spells it out for us) with a disaster movie, with blustery George Kennedy trying to figure out how to clear off a snowed-over runway for a plane with all kinds of problems, not least that Van Heflin’s planning to blow it up. Everyone’s seen “Airplane!,” but this straightfaced original has its own special kind of entertainment value still: the airport of 1970 looks suspiciously, tantalizingly opulent.
“The Dead” (1987)
John Huston’s final film is generally considered the remotely successful attempt to put James Joyce on screen, boring in on one of his most compact stories and translating it with scrupulous but lively fidelity. The memorable final soliloquy (unfortunately unembeddable) comes intact, visualizing how “snow was general all over Ireland” as an elegiac state of mind — it tends to drive most people to tears.
“Edward Scissorhands” (1990)
The teen-emo movie to end them all, with kabuki-faced Johnny Depp as the boy whose scissorhands let him carve topiary and ice with equal skill, with the flakes that fly off his statues forming enough snowfall for a whole town. “Edward Scissorhands” gets a bit more embarrassing as I get older, but it’s endearingly angst-ridden — once you can groove with the heavy sentiment, it’s a good time.
“The Ice Harvest” (2005)
Of course, for an utter lack of sentiment you could turn to this curious neo-noir, with John Cusack clearly enjoying destroying his own image as he swears vigorously, solicits sexual favors, vomits and kills people. Alongside him is a more-foul-tempered-than-usual Billy Bob Thornton and Oliver Platt as a hilariously bluff drunkard. The movie’s not as smart as it wants to be — it’s just as snowy as “Fargo” but a lot nastier, just as violent but a lot less elegant about it — but it’s still enjoyably misanthropic low-stakes winter fun.
[Photo: “The Ice Storm,” 20th Century Fox, 1997]


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The advent of cross-border remote searches?
Our minister of Safety and Justice sent a letter to Parliament with several far reaching proposals, including the possibility to hack computers in foreign countries in order to gather evidence. This can lead to interesting cross-border legal issues.
Last Monday (15 October 2012) our minister of Safety and Justice (under resignation), Opstelten, sent a letter (.pdf) to Parliament proposing several far reaching investigatory powers to fight cybercrime more effectively. Opstelten suggests incorperating the following investigatory methods in our Code of Criminal Procedure:
- Remote access to computer systems and the placement of ‘technical devices’ (spyware) in computers.
- Remote searches in computers, regardless of the location of the computer.
- Disabling the accessibility of illegal files on computers, regardless of the location of computers.
All of these investigatory methods require an in-depth legal analysis. In this blog post I will only briefly discuss the possibility of cross-border remote searches in computers.
Cross-border remote searches
A cross-border remote search is the collection of evidence via the Internet in computers in other countries. More concretely, based on the letter, I can think of three types of cross-border remote searches that can be distinguished: 1. Using the login name and password of a suspect or hacking an account (accessed by a web portal) of a suspect in order to access and gather evidence from Gmail, Hotmail, or other cloud based online services, 2. Hacking in order to gather evidence from botnets, 3. Hacking a suspect’s personal computer in order to gather evidence remotely.
International criminal law issues
The most interesting legal problem of cross-border remote searches is whether such a search violates the international principle of territoriality and sovereignty of the country in which the data is stored. In the Netherlands we used to uphold a ‘server-orientated jurisdiction principle’, which basically meant that data in servers outside the Dutch territory could not be accessed without permission (before or after the infringement on their territory) or a treaty with the affected state.
It is not clear whether our state authorities are willing to completely let go of the principle, because when ‘the location of a server is clear’ traditional legal aid requests must be used (p. 5 of the letter). According to our minister, the location of a server is unclear in the case of services of cloud providers, because the data changes all the time from different servers at different locations. This is true, but in my opinion it is quite clear where and how evidence can be gathered from cloud service providers. I believe that with article 32(B) of the Convention on Cybercrime many states agreed that data can be gathered directly from companies on a voluntarily basis (and under their own conditions). If they don’t cooperate we can use legal aid requests. Many U.S. companies work well with law enforcement authorities and I wonder whether it is necessary to perform online remote searches in these accounts (although it might be necessary under certain circumstances). I guess the real problem is that Dutch law enforcement authorities want to apply Dutch law and collect evidence possibly located in other countries directly in a criminal case, instead of relying on the willingness of businesses or states when gathering evidence outside the Netherlands.
Article 32 of the Convention of Cybercrime does not solve the problem of servers that are (eventually) localized at so-called “bullet proof hosting providers” who do not cooperate with law enforcement authorities’ evidence gathering activities. As we have seen with the Dorifel-virus, this could lead to disastrous consequences (governmental employees working on type writers instead of computers, because computers were infected and unsafe to use). Maybe the time has come for us to no longer accept such situations, and to view the infringement of another state’s territory as a necessary evil in certain circumstances. The proposed investigatory methods may be suitable for a situation such as Dorifel. One must point out however that being able to use hacking as a investigatory method, does not mean the suspect will be successfully prosecuted, because a state may decide not to extradite their own citizen or prosecute him or her themselves.
Rest assured, the discussion about legalizing cross-border remote searches has just started. It will take a long time (maybe years) and require democratic processes before these far reaching investigatory powers will be implemented in our Code of Criminal Procedure.


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Hey there people, our latest update coloring image which your kids can have some fun with is Halloween Haunted House Coloring Pages, published under Haunted House category. This coloring image meassure is around 600 pixel x 563 pixel with approximate file size for around 102.66 Kilobytes.
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Bodyworks Gander Earns Official Certification
Gander ‐ Bodyworks Gander has been officially Certified by Certified Collision Care, a non-profit consumer advocacy organization for maintaining the right tools, equipment, training, and facility necessary to repair the participating Automaker brand vehicles according to the manufacturer’s specifications. In achieving their Certification, Bodyworks Gander is now an integral part of the most advanced repair capable and efficient collision repair network in the world. Adding to their credentials, Bodyworks Gander is officially Certified by Certified Collision Care, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Nissan. To become Certified by the various Automakers, Bodyworks Gander passed the rigorous Certification process essential to help ensure a proper and safe repair of the new generation of advanced vehicles. Less than 5 percent of body shops across the nation are able to meet the stringent requirements to become officially Certified and recognized….


The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has been leading the charge against graphic book banning since 2002. With new leadership, and book bans back in vogue across the country, CBLDF is back in action with a new initiative, in collaboration with Oni Press, the award-winning publisher of graphic novels such as Scott Pilgrim and Gender Queer, the latter of which is currently the most banned book in the country. As part of this Fight Censorship, Read Comics! program, CBLDF will be sponsoring a welcome party and art auction at San Diego Comic-Con. The fundraiser event will feature newly commissioned artwork by a variety of high profile comic creators, including Gender Queer creator Maia Kobabe as well as Matt Kindt (Mister Mammoth) and Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, the twin brother artists behind Daytripper and one of my personal favorites, Casanova. (Bá also did the artwork for a little indy book called The Umbrella Academy).
Here's a peak at some of the artwork, along with details about the fundraiser party on Thursday, July 20 in San Diego:
Free for CBLDF members and the general public with a suggested voluntary donation at the door to support the CBLDF's ongoing work in supporting the cause of free speech and creative expression, the annual party will be hosted at The Westgate Hotel's Terrace Under the Stars from 8 pm to 12 midnight PT. (An SDCC badge is NOT required to attend.) On behalf of Oni Press, the first 50 attendees will receive a free "Secret Edition" variant cover of the latest issue of the publisher's science-fiction anthology, XINO #2, featuring artwork by rising star Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade); while the first 200 will receive a free FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! two-piece button set.
During the evening's events, Oni Press will also be offering 50 signed copies of the GENDER QUEER: DELUXE EDITION hardcover with a bookplate signature by creator Maia Kobabe with all funds benefiting the CBLDF. High-quality, 11×17" prints of Kobabe's FIGHT CENSORSHIP, READ COMICS! illustration will also be available at the Oni booth (#1829) through the week with a portion of all proceeds benefiting the CBLDF.
There will be additional artwork and collectibles auctioned off as well, from a wide range of contributors including Abrams ComicArts, Dark Horse Comics, IDW Entertainment, Dynamite Entertainment, Valhalla Entertainment, DSTLRY, and artists Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy), Justin Greenwood (Torrent, Stumptown), Maria Wolf Lopez, and more.
"Yet again, the comics industry finds itself battling an incessant wave of censorship dedicated to stifling creativity, marginalizing creators, and diminishing the impact of comics and graphic novels with the power to change minds and lives," said Hunter Gorinson, the Publisher and President of Oni Press. "In 1954, in 1986, and again in our present moment, our medium has faced this same reckless compulsion many times – but now, more than ever, it's vital that all corners of the global comics community come together to reject the impulse toward censorship that has risen up to target important works like GENDER QUEER and many dozens more. Thanks to the ardent support and unrelenting work of the CBLDF, we know it will not succeed."


RADNOR — Gov. Tom Corbett, who served a total of 10 years as Pennsylvania’s top lawyer as attorney general, delivered the commencement address to nearly 250 members of Villanova Law School’s Class of 2013 Friday, pointing them toward two lofty role models: President Abraham Lincoln and St. Thomas More.
Corbett was honored during the commencement ceremonies at the university’s pavilion arena with the law school’s 2013 Medallion Award, recognizing public service and “a commitment to the common good.”
Looking out at the rows of aspiring attorneys, Corbett said he saw not just young men and women eager to begin careers, but “our future lawyers, our law clerks, our prosecutors, our leaders of business and industry, our judges and elected leaders.”
As they set out on the next phase of their journey, he urged them to make the idea of reason joined to faith — “a founding principle of any Catholic law school” — a “touchstone as you go forward in life.” It is the “vital companion to what you have been taught here,” he said. “To think logically, to act ethically, and to always, always look at the facts.”
Corbett pointed to two examples to which they should aspire. Recalling Lincoln’s battle to pass the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and abolish slavery at a turning point in the Civil War, compellingly told in Steven Spielberg’s recent film, Corbett said “No American leader paid such a high price for his beliefs.” Yet, he said, “We are the nation we are today because one man, armed with conscience and passion, stood his ground.”
The English lawyer and philosopher Thomas More, the “patron saint of lawyers,” who gave up his life rather than bend to the will of his king, was the other model he cited of a lawyer who “chose honor over convenience.”
“In a world filled with cynicism, and where the right to doubt is given precedence over the wisdom to believe, we need leaders with the passion of Lincoln and the integrity of Thomas More,” Corbett told his audience.
Finally, he recited the familiar prayer of another inspirational figure, St. Francis. That prayer “presents you with a great challenge,” Corbett said, “because it demands that you leave your comfort zone, believe in something bigger than your own success, all the time using your reason and logic, while waiting for faith to carry you to the next challenge.”
“You see, along with the practice of law, you must practice life. Consider working at the local food bank, or volunteer at a shelter for the homeless, or run for borough council, or perhaps volunteer to teach prisoners the skills they will need to return to society,” he urged.
“You will not always choose your path in life,” Corbett concluded, “but you can choose to walk that path upright and with honor, carrying with you the passion of Lincoln and the integrity of Thomas More.”
New graduate Basil Joy, who was selected by his classmates to deliver a student address, touched on a similar theme. Recalling the “long road” they had traveled to this day, Joy remembered the sometimes frustrating lesson that their teachers had impressed upon them: “Somehow, the answer to just about every legal question is, ‘It depends.’ There are always more pieces to the puzzle, more facts that change the conclusion.”
“Today,” Joy said, “we are faced with some important questions. What will happen after graduation? How will we handle our responsibilities as legal professionals? How will we face the larger questions that plague our world?”
“Once again, it depends,” he answered. “It depends, whether we can stay true to ourselves in a world that constantly wants to make us like everybody else; whether we stay true to our community and the communities from which we came, and whether we stay true to the world, to the people and places that really need our help.”
“The fact is,” Joy said, “it depends on us, the bridges we build, the challenges we decide to face, and the moves we decide to make.”
At the ceremony, the law school also conferred honorary Doctor of Law degrees on two distinguished alumni, Martin G. McGuinn and Patrick J. O’Connor, both Class of ’67.
McGuinn, a Philadelphia native and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, retired in 2006 as chairman and CEO of the former Mellon Financial Corp., now the Bank of New York Mellon. In 2002, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. He is a director of several corporations and nonprofits, and is a previous recipient of the Medallion Award.
O’Connor is the vice chairman of Cozen O’Connor, ranked among the 100 largest law firms in the United States. A Fellow in the American College and International Academy College of Trial Lawyers, he serves as a member of the board of trustees of Temple University, and serves as chairman of the Bank of New York Mellon Trusts and Franklin Security Bank.


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I think that the system of art movements today is broken. I haven't really heard of any movements. Nor I have I heard of any groups writing manifestos. It seems that those things are of a bygone era. Not sure why.
However, you statement is valid. It would be nice of digital photographers to stop trying to make they images look like analog. Though this is happening. Extreme HDR, as much as I dislike it, is digital and does not attempt to look like film.


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As any couple may surmise, the stress of parenting can put a relationship through the ringer. It is one of the three most-argued topics in couples therapy, the others being finances and sex. Certainly it has an enormous impact on the other two, as the role of changing a two-person dyad of a marriage into a family unit by adding at least one changes the roles involved for everyone, forever. This is the case even if the relationship ends; parenthood endures.
Perhaps traditional marriage vows would be more applicable to the birthing process than to weddings; after all, more than 50% of relationships end in divorce, while parenthood never does. Wouldn’t it be far more applicable to state: “I, (your name), take you, (child’s name), to be my child, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, from this day forward until death do us part.” Sadly, not all parents feel this way, though having two active parents in a household can be one of the most concrete determinations in the formation of childhood well-being.
How do parents manage this increasingly difficult terrain? Most systemic therapists, regardless of their specific theoretical background, agree that a home where two parents who can agree and support one another as a unit tend to find more success than a couple who sides with a child over a partner. This is far easier said than done. To support a partner even when he or she is parenting in ways you do not agree with is no easy task. Unless there is an issue with abuse (physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual), it’s important to find a common parenting platform.
Here are some tips to get on the same page with your partner:
- Become coaches: In the team that is your family, nothing ensures dysfunction more than leaders who don’t see eye to eye. If a head coach and an assistant coach tell a team opposing directives, it will translate to failure on the field/court/ice. Approach the family in the same way. Communicate with each other about what your goals are. What do you want the kids to learn most? What values are key to you? Are your partner’s goals that different from your own? If they are, is compromise available, or do you need to pick a perspective in a unified way? Having this conversation may be difficult for some couples. Many couples seek premarital counseling or pastoral counseling to address these topics. If having the conversation proves too difficult, seeking a therapist to help navigate these waters may help. It’s never too late.
- Come up with a game plan: Just because you and your partner talk about the same ideals does not mean they get communicated the same way. For example, let’s say both parties want to ensure their children are respectful. Respect is a pretty common and universal virtue. How does that message get carried out if the child behaves disrespectfully? Some parents choose to enforce their ideas through discipline—correct behavior that differs from what’s desired. Others want to explain the behavior that’s desired without addressing current behavior. Typically, a mixture of both is most effective, provided that the couple stays consistent and remains unified. This area typically becomes problematic when a couple may agree on values, but not on ways to implement them. One parent who thinks spanking is appropriate while another who does not can create a tremendous amount of discord in the relationship, not to mention confusion among the children when the circumstance triggers an argument over appropriate discipline.
- Stay connected: Even the most effectively communicating couples can struggle with parenting over time. Children may respond in a multitude of ways even with solid parenting, and the stressors involved in parenting can take a toll on anyone. Finding relief and getting support from a spouse can prove invaluable. A stay-at-home parent can feel burnt out after a full day of child care while his or her partner works, and may need a respite when the partner gets home. Similarly, the working spouse may need a break from a full work day before jumping straight into child care. An ongoing dialogue about daily needs and mental states helps to provide support when it’s needed for each partner.
While there is no manual on parenting (some books may claim to be, but you’ll have to trust me on this one—I’ve checked), these three key points do make the parenting process a bit easier, dare I even say more tolerable. They may even make parenting more enjoyable.
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