An Alberta woman charged with abducting her young son three years ago has been arrested in Belize.
Lethbridge police say investigators received information last month on the whereabouts of a 33-year-old Lethbridge woman and her four-year-old son.
“Over the years, police have tracked the woman to Mexico, Guatemala and various parts of Belize after her ex-husband reported she had fled the country with the couple’s then 11-month-old son and was not planning to return,” the service said Thursday.
An arrest warrant has been outstanding since the mother was charged in 2014.
Police in Belize found the pair in the town of San Ignacio, where the mother was taken into custody and her son was placed in the care of human services. She was deported to the U.S. on Aug. 9 then taken to Canada, where she was arrested by Lethbridge police at the Calgary airport.
The child remains in the care of Belize Human Services and the next step will be getting him back to Canada, where he will be in the care of his father. Police say the child is in good health.
Sgt. Cam Van Roon, the primary investigator on the case, said the investigation spanning multiple countries has been challenging.
“We were really conducting an investigation from what felt like halfway across the world, so it was very challenging that way, trying to garner information both here and try to get some from abroad, and then piece that into what could be real time that could actually be used in Belize,” said Van Roon.
The investigation was launched Jan. 6, 2014, when police responded to a report of child abduction after the mother allegedly failed to drop her son off for a court-ordered visit and a text message was sent indicating they had left the country.
On Jan. 8, 2014, a court order granted the father sole interim custody and ordered the child’s immediate return. The order was sent to the mother and police say they made numerous attempts to contact her.
On Feb. 5, 2014, the mother was charged with child abduction and a warrant was issued for her arrest. Police allege she evaded police over the years by moving around Central America.
The woman, who can’t be identified due to a court-ordered publication ban, has been remanded into custody and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
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The Kaunas International Illustration Biennial 2020 is open for innovative concepts and experimental forms of expression, on the theme: Jump.
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The 2020 topic is briefly described on the official website.
Jump – spend one second in the intuitive space between earth and sky. Is it really not a flight or a moment of levitation? Jump is an infinite platform. An independent fortress. The fastest way to time travel. A shift in the system of energy. Single jump is needed to find yourself in another universe. A getaway? Rotating at a sharp angle? Dancing in a circle? What else can it mean?
Submitted illustrations must be created between January 2018 and July 2020.
All selected illustrations will be shown in Kaunas (Lithuania) International Illustration Biennial in October 2020. 1st prize includes diploma, space for personal exhibition in Kaunas (winner will have the opportunity to select suitable dates in 2021), set of professional art supplies. 2nd and 3rd prize include diplomas, sets of professional art supplies.
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When Kenneth Clark devoted an episode to the Middle Ages in his magisterial BBC series, Civilisation, he celebrated the chivalry, courtesy, and romance of the French and Burgundian courts—the Gothic world of “imaginative fancy” that coexisted with a “sharp sense of reality.” Clark no doubt surprised his viewers by then veering off in a different direction, with an encomium to a chivalric figure of a quite different sort, the spiritual knight errant who, by the time of his death, had captured the imagination of much of Europe: St. Francis of Assisi.
He was a man of sanctity, but there were others before him. What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the “Canticle of the Sun,” who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion. And so forth and so on: almost, if not quite, per omnia saecula saeculorum.
His enduring magnetism, which is bound up with the paradoxes of his life, has led to many “false Francises.” Marxists claimed him as a medieval anticipation of their project. I suppose it was inevitable that, during the sixties, hippies found in Francis an anticipation of Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock, dropping out and turning on. Contemporary environmentalists transform Francis’s biblical piety about God’s creation into a prototype of their worship of a quite different god, Gaia. An immense body of scholarship on the life, thought, and impact of St. Francis ably refutes these distortions. But now comes the first pope to take as his regnal title the name of one of Catholicism’s most popular saints, and the reinvention of Francesco Bernardone has started all over again—this time, in the form of projecting onto St. Francis what observers admire in his papal namesake.
Francis-reinventing is unfortunate, for the real St. Francis has much to teach the Catholic Church today. And perhaps the first and foremost lesson to be learned from him is how to be truly men and women of the Church. For, notwithstanding his originality and, by some lights, eccentricity, Francesco Bernardone was always and profoundly an obedient (if not always docile) son of the Catholic Church.
His deep ecclesial sensibility, so at odds with the autonomy project that warps both Church and culture today, is nicely captured in an incident from his life. It seems that the Poverello, the “little poor one,” was traveling in Lombardy and stopped in a church to pray. A local Manichean—Italy really was full of strange and wondrous characters in those days—wanted to use Francis to draw the local villagers to his sect. The local pastor was living with a concubine, and the Manichean, seeking to exploit the scandal, asked Francis, “If the priest maintains a concubine and stains his hands, must one put faith in his teaching and respect the sacraments he administers?” Francis, understanding the game being played, went down on his knees before the wayward priest and the local people, and replied:
I do not know if these hands are really stained as the other claims. What I do know, in any case, is that, even if they were, that would not in any way diminish the power and efficacy of the sacraments of God. These hands remain the channel through which the grace and benefits of God stream toward the people. That is why I kiss them, out of respect for the one who delegated his authority to them.
Francis knew, and we should know, that God took a risk on the Church. That risk was to put the means and instruments of beatitude and salvation into human hands—which is to say, into the hands of sinners who would inevitably make a mess of things from time to time. But as Francis understood the economy of salvation and the radical obedience to which the disciples of the Lord Jesus are called, if God saw fit to take a risk on the humanity of the Church, who are we to deem that a mistake? At the same time, Francis was a genuine reformer who called the comfortable religious professionals of his time to a life beyond clericalism and privilege. Rather than staying becalmed in the sacristy, the sanctuary, and the presbytery, the clergy of his day, he urged, should lead a demanding, Gospel-centered life of proclaiming the Word and celebrating the sacraments, nourishing their people with the tangible realities God had entrusted to human hands as pathways to the Trinity: the Bible and the Eucharist.
St. Francis’s churchmanship, if we may call it that, was closely related to his radically incarnational religious imagination, which is his second important legacy to our times, beset as we are by new forms of Gnosticism. That Francis and his first companions made a fuss over the restoration of abandoned churches and the cleaning of ill-kept churches was not simply because the Poverello had dreams in which he was told to rebuild churches; those dreams and that work had a deeper meaning. Rebuilding fallen walls, sweeping dirty church floors, and cleaning ill-kept sacred vessels were expressions, however simple, of the profoundly incarnational conviction that animated Francis’s life and mission. It was the conviction that, because of the Incarnation, what lies between the ordinary and the extraordinary is not a border, and still less a wall, but rather a membrane, across which spiritual nutrients flow in abundance. The Incarnate Word conscripts the tangibilities of ecclesial life, and even creation itself, to draw us into the divine life.
In our Gnostic culture, which devalues the givenness of things and the revelatory power built into that givenness, this Franciscan reminder to twenty-first-century Christians is of crucial importance. It is through material things—water, salt, and oil; bread and wine; marital love—that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ comes to the people the Son has made his own. This radical incarnationalism has considerable pastoral and apologetic implications. If two millennia of argument have not finished off Gnosticism, that most protean of heresies, it seems unlikely that contemporary arguments, no matter how persuasive orthodox believers may find them, will do the job with the unconverted, the skeptical, or the hostile. Thus the “incarnational” counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of “you are what you say you are” (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.
Arguments are important and Christians should keep making them. But in a postmodern world that can only concede “your truth” and “my truth” (before it tries to deploy coercive state power to impose its truth on everyone), it will be the witness of Christian lives that changes hearts and minds. This is especially true when Christians live nobly, courageously, and compassionately in service to those who have been most deeply wounded by the Gnostic cultural tsunami and its personally lethal effects. The days when an Evelyn Waugh could think his way into Catholicism with the help of a skilled Jesuit dialectician like Fr. Martin D’Arcy are over; our culture is too intellectually shattered for that to be the evangelical paradigm. The new paradigm must be in the Franciscan mode, with embodied witness coming first. Because of that witness, those who have been touched by Christian compassion or Christian nobility or Christian courage may be moved to ask, “How can you live this way?” And at this point, the door to the offer of friendship with Christ has been opened.
This incarnationalism leads, in turn, to the third Franciscan lesson for our time: Christian witness must be based on the experience of being saved by the radical self-emptying of Jesus Christ, who is Savior, not just moral exemplar. Francis, whose entire religious life sprang from a profound consciousness of having been saved, reminds us that salvation is at the heart of the Christian proclamation. Christianity is not about me; nor is it about feeling good about me. It’s about salvation—rescue from all the self-induced afflictions to which humanity is prone; forgiveness when those afflictions overcome us; ultimately, life within the embrace of the Thrice-Holy God. A Franciscan renewal of twenty-first-century Catholicism will, of course, emphasize the works of charity and mercy as the entry point for evangelization, as I have just suggested. But that does not and cannot make the Church into another non-governmental organization in the good-works business. The Church is about salvation or it is a fraud—a soup kitchen with smells and bells.
Francis, whose asceticism was exceptionally severe, could be a man of overflowing joy because he lived his adult life in the confidence that his salvation came not through his own merits, but from the superabundance of divine love manifest in Jesus Christ. That conviction was born from a profound spiritual experience that touched his heart and mind, his emotions as well as his intellect, so he wanted others to have a similar experience. Hence the crèche and its tender evocation of Christ’s birth and infancy. Hence the evocative poetry, so redolent of a medieval troubadour celebrating his lady, which for Francis was Lady Poverty. And hence, ultimately, the stigmata. The God-given dignity squandered in the Garden of Eden had been restored at Easter to men and women who could now be, again, sons and daughters of the Most High God, and thus truly themselves; yet the path to Easter, Francis knew, went up the rocky hill of Calvary.
Here we have the Poverello at his most Pauline and Trinitarian. It is in the kenosis, the self-emptying, of the Son that the Father effects salvation in the power of the Spirit. In that sense, Francis of Assisi’s life as a mendicant embodied in evangelical witness the truth of the Christological hymn in Philippians and its celebration of “Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross” (Phil. 2:6–8).
This experience of being saved by the love of God made manifest in Christ was made tangibly present for St. Francis in two privileged ways: in the Eucharist and in the Bible.
The Eucharist, the Poverello believed and taught, was the royal road to the Father. By receiving the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, we become members of the Son, who alone reveals the Father of mercies. The Eucharist is the most tangible way in which the people of the Church become divinized. Thus the Eucharist must never be reduced to a matter of weekly or daily routine; the Eucharist, experienced as St. Francis experienced it, should always be an occasion to be surprised by joy. Here, Francis anticipated the Second Vatican Council’s teaching that the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy is the source and summit of the Church’s life, and of every individual Christian’s life.
Francis’s love of the Bible as a way to receive the medicine of salvation was another anticipation of Vatican II and its restoration of the Scriptures to a central role in Catholic life; and here, too, is a Franciscan lesson for the Church of the twenty-first century.
To see the world through the world’s eyes is to see things in a distorted way. Original sin, we may say, was the original astigmatism, and in our time the Kultursmog of Gnosticism further distorts our perceptions of the human person and the human condition. But whatever the peculiarities of our moment, the problem of seeing things aright is a perennial one. That is what the Bible, read openly and, if you will, with Franciscan innocence, helps us to do. To see biblically is to see the world aright. Or, to vary the imagery, the Bible turns the world upside down so that the world comes into clearer focus.
The Christmas story, so familiar to us and so dear to Francis, is the beginning of this pattern of vision correction through inversion: the Son of the Most High God, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. That pattern continues through the gospels. Jesus doesn’t evangelize the principalities and powers (although they, too, are welcome to listen and learn); he goes to the outcasts, including lepers and prostitutes, to announce and embody a kingdom in which Israel’s God is king not just of the people of Israel, but of the whole world. Moreover, the Jewish Messiah will not establish God’s rule and kingdom by political cunning, or by a display of worldly wisdom, or by knocking emperors and procurators off their thrones and judgment seats. He will reign from a different throne, an instrument of torture—the Cross. He will not be celebrated, like victorious Roman generals, with a triumphal spectacle conducted in the capital of a world empire. The signs of his triumph will be the pierced hands and feet of a transfigured, glorified body that defies time and space; burning memories of a walk to Emmaus; an empty tomb; a breakfast of grilled fish and bread on the lakeshore; a commission to go and convert the world, issued to a ragtag assortment of nobodies.
This biblical inversion of our ordinary perceptions and expectations, shaped as they are by the world’s priorities, cures our astigmatism. Daily encounter with the Bible, especially the gospels, allows us to see the world aright, as God sees it. To return again and again to the Scriptures takes us into the world of genuine happiness, which is the “inverted” world of the Beatitudes. Deep familiarity with the Bible enables us to penetrate the Kultursmog of the present and see things in the light of eternal reality and the divine gifts of creation and redemption.
Then there is the lesson for the twenty-first-century Church to be learned from St. Francis the layman. While most scholars believe that Francis was ordained to the diaconate, his way of living the gospel life was a decidedly lay pattern of the imitation of Christ, ordered to evangelization. Here we find in Francis an anticipation of St. John Paul II’s threefold teaching on the New Evangelization. First, all Christians, whatever their state of life in the Church or the world, are called to be missionary disciples. Second, the measure of our discipleship is our evangelical effectiveness in offering to others the gift of friendship with Christ that we have been given. And, finally, there are countless apostolates in which lay men and women will be the primary agents of evangelization, because those fields—the world of work and business, the media, the arts and sciences, politics—are arenas that laypeople properly formed in the faith are far more likely to penetrate than those in Holy Orders or consecrated life.
St. Francis championed the Church’s sacramental life, but the drama of his imitation of Christ took place in the world, not within the Church’s sanctuary. His way of humility was available to all, whatever their state of life, which was why his example enflamed the spiritual imagination of the Middle Ages. And in this sense, he was the precursor of what Lumen Gentium, Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, described as the “universal call to holiness.”
When I was a boy, I was given a book that I resurrected and reread a few years ago: The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by the now long-forgotten James J. Walsh. It’s an all-stops-pulled celebration of the Middle Ages as the summit of Christian civilization—a sentiment I find at least somewhat attractive, until I remind myself that it would require later centuries for us to acquire the blessings of anesthesia, modern dentistry, and single-barrel bourbon. Yet, even if we lack James J. Walsh’s unequivocal enthusiasm for medieval Christendom, H. Richard Niebuhr, in Christ and Culture, was surely right to say that the High Middle Ages witnessed the greatest synthesis of Christianity, culture, and society ever achieved. Nevertheless, the medieval synthesis was less than complete—the garment of the age was neither seamless nor unsullied.
Heresies proliferated during Francis’s time: Waldensians, Cathars, Arnoldists, Humiliati, Patarines, Manicheans. Some of these off-brand movements were deeply confused intellectually. Others were groping down false paths toward the reform of an institutional Church that, for all its integration with culture and society, was becoming evangelically flaccid and sluggish, perhaps in the complacent conviction (not unlike that of the recent past) that the faith could be transmitted by cultural osmosis, as a kind of ethnic heritage. There were scandals of clerical corruption and simony. And there were other problems, chief among them the fact that, as one scholar puts it, “outside the monasteries and cathedrals, the religion lived and practiced by the faithful had been reduced to a collection of gestures and formulas, especially since the liturgical language—Latin in the West—had become unintelligible to them, and the priest was, above all, the man who knew and performed the efficacious rites.”
In this situation, the medieval Church’s most urgent challenge was mission: revitalizing the life of faith among those who were lukewarm, sparking faith in unbelievers, and transmitting the faith to the next generation. Francis sought to rekindle the evangelical fire in the Church by conceiving of Christian life not as a withdrawal from the world, but as a pilgrimage in the world, a pilgrimage toward and for conversion. The call to missionary discipleship was issued, Francis believed, to the whole Church, not just to clergy. By his own example, which was very “in your face,” he jarred the Church of the thirteenth century out of its institutional comfort zone. He thus inspired new modes of Christian community that were essentially missionary in character, creating a new synthesis of the charismatic and institutional elements that are always present in the life of the Church. This caused a good bit of uproar, as parallel movements in our own time have done. But the uproar was contained, at least during Francis’s lifetime, by his profoundly ecclesial sensibility and his evangelical obedience.
And that brings us to another Franciscan lesson for a Catholicism that will, with other Christian communities, mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in the months ahead. Francis of Assisi was, without doubt, a reformer, even a radical reformer who sought to revitalize the Church through a reappropriation of its gospel roots. But he was a reformer with a difference. As we anticipate the quincentenary of the events in Wittenberg in 1517, it’s good to remember the contrast between Francesco Bernardone and Martin Luther drawn by Georges Bernanos:
One reforms the Church only by suffering for her; one reforms the visible Church only by suffering for the invisible Church. One reforms the vices of the Church only by multiplying the example of its most heroic virtues. It is possible that Francis of Assisi may not have been less disgusted than Luther by the lasciviousness and simony of the prelates. It is even certain that he cruelly suffered from them, for his nature was really different from that of the monk of Weimar. But he did not challenge iniquity; he did not try to confront it. He threw himself into poverty; he devoted himself to it to the deepest extent possible, as into the source of all remissions, of all purity. Instead of stripping away from the Church unjustly acquired goods, he showered it with invisible treasures and, under the gentle hand of this beggar, the mound of gold and wealth began to flower like a bush in springtime.
A Franciscan, evangelical reform purifies the Church by returning to the eternal source of sanctity, Christ himself. That, in my judgment, is the reform for which Pope St. John XXIII hoped in summoning the Second Vatican Council. And as his biographer, I’m quite convinced that that is the kind of evangelical reform Pope St. John Paul II sought to bring about by giving that council its authoritative interpretation. St. Francis challenges us to put out into the deep of postmodernity, just as he challenged the complacent, “safe” Christianity of his own time. Catholicism today must leave the shallow and brackish waters of institutional maintenance, understanding that the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 is addressed to each of us in baptism, and living the universal call to holiness in such a way that the world meets Christ in us—and thus meets the truth about itself.
Over the past half century or so, too many parts of the Catholic world have come to think of “reform” as something we conjure up from our own cleverness, as if we must puzzle out what makes the Church “relevant.” Too often “reform” has been a matter of acquiescence, even surrender, to the spirit of the age. Perhaps Francis, who had a singular (and singularly intense) personality, experienced the temptation to think of reform, as some of our contemporaries do, in essentially Pelagian terms: as something we effect by our own efforts and our own lights. One might find at least a tiny echo of this inadequate notion of reform in his initial impulse to rebuild Christ’s Church by attending to ecclesiastical masonry—an episode in the early steps of his pilgrimage toward Christ that makes me think of present-day temptations to live the New Evangelization by getting top-drawer management consultants to advise the Church on messaging. But Francis came to see that renewal is always spiritual first, not institutional. He resisted the temptation to view things the other way around, and so should we.
All authentic reform in the Church recaptures and revitalizes the “form” that Christ gave the Church. That “form” is the Church’s constitution (in the British sense of that word), what an older generation called the deposit of faith. We do not judge the deposit of faith, the Christ-given foundation of the Church; it stands in judgment on us and on our reforming efforts. And it is in retrieving lost elements of that constituting “form” and revitalizing them in our own time that we are true Catholic reformers. That was true of Vatican II’s authentic reforms in its teaching on the nature of the Church, the office of bishop, and religious freedom. Forgotten or misplaced elements of the Church’s Christ-bestowed constitution were retrieved and made the sources of Catholic renewal. That must be true of the ongoing work of reform in the Church today.
And this, I might add parenthetically, was the issue beneath the issues at the synods of 2014 and 2015: the obedience of the Church to divine revelation, in which we find the Church’s constitutive “form.” The reality and binding character of revelation were a principal theme of Vatican II, where the key passage is paragraphs seven and eight of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei Verbum. To imagine that history, and especially ephemeral contemporary history, judges revelation is to put things precisely backwards. Doing so is what has cost mainline Protestantism its vitality. That is not a road that the Catholic Church should pursue; it is certainly not the road even so radical a reformer as Francis of Assisi would urge us to pursue.
Francis prayed that he might be given the gift of suffering as Christ had suffered, and his prayer was granted in the form of the stigmata—another Franciscan novum in the history of the Christian spiritual life, although it was anticipated in Paul’s confession to the Galatians that he bore on his body “the marks of Jesus” (Gal. 6:17). The cruciform participation in the suffering of Christ that Francis sought is now the lot of millions of Christians around the world, who are violently persecuted for no other reason than that they are Christians.
We owe them a debt of solidarity on which we dare not default. In addition to that, however, Catholics in the West today must understand that we are very likely heading into a season of persecution ourselves, a season of the cross less dire than that lived by those Christians presently under direct mortal threat, but quite real nevertheless. Our Via Crucis will not be as dramatic as that unfolding in ancient Mesopotamia. But it will be persecution, and it will extract costs: financial, social, professional, and, likely, legal.
There are good reasons to mount challenges to the increasingly aggressive intolerance and soft totalitarianism of postmodern progressivism. We owe our neighbors our best efforts to prevent further diminishments of the common good. But we also need to adopt a Franciscan disposition toward the coming challenges. That means embracing persecution as more than the necessary cost of discipleship. Poverty was, for St. Francis, the blessing of beatitude, for it united him with Christ. Our cultural marginalization, even the manhandling of our religious freedom by cynical uses of the law to establish various orthodoxies of the sexual revolution, can be that kind of Christ-conforming poverty for us.
If it comes to that, can we enter into this impoverishment of the Church’s status and influence in the West with a Franciscan spirit, using our joyful embrace of Christ crucified and risen as an evangelical opportunity to offer a death-dealing culture a path beyond its lethal self-absorption and its confusion of the pleasure principle with beatitude? This distinctive, contemporary version of the marriage to Lady Poverty may well be the Franciscan task of the Church in the West at this historical moment. Embracing it, we may yet give the West a new birth of freedom, rightly understood.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Soho Square, London, on October 3, 2016.

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Video and Electronic Surveillance
This policy applies to all video and electronic surveillance systems that monitor or record Indiana University facilities and/or community members using those facilities, regardless of system ownership or the owner's affiliation with the university.
Video and electronic surveillance systems outside the scope of this policy:
In addition, this policy does not address video and/or electronic surveillance devices when used for the following purposes:
However, in the event any such devices are to be used for any other purpose not specifically outside the scope of this policy, then this policy shall then govern.
For further assistance in the types of video and electronic surveillance systems covered by the policy, see Related Information below.
Indiana University respects the privacy of individuals who are using university buildings or on university grounds. The university will take pragmatic and measured steps to provide an efficient, effective, safe, and secure environment while avoiding unnecessary intrusions upon academic freedom or individual civil liberties including privacy, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly.
The approval, installation, operation and use of all video and electronic surveillance systems shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws, and all institutional policies and standards, including but not limited to those laws and policies that prohibit discrimination and harassment and that honor an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in accordance with accepted social norms.
The University may install video and electronic surveillance systems for a number of purposes including public safety, security, public convenience, and operational effectiveness. These systems must be deployed and managed in accordance with applicable laws and the philosophies and values of Indiana University.
This section contains a summary of this policy's procedures. For detailed procedures, please see PS-02.1 Procedures – Video and Electronic Surveillance.
A digital or analog device that captures a single image (still, snapshot, photograph), a number of single images shot per time period (stop action, time lapse), or multiple images (motion, video). "Cameras" covers all image capturing devices, including but not limited to video cameras, cell phone cameras, webcams, and portable computing devices.
Designated Campus Authority
Individual or group responsible for reviewing and approving aspects of video and electronic surveillance systems. The campus Provost or Chancellor shall be initially assigned this duty, but this responsibility may be delegated to another senior campus official or appointed review committee that is not otherwise involved in the installation, operation, or monitoring of video and electronic surveillance systems.
Electronic Surveillance Device
A digital or analog device that has the capability to monitor or record audio, video, photographic images, or location data, including but not limited to cameras, microphones, audiocassette recorders, cell phones, webcams, and Global Positioning Systems (GPS).
Buildings, grounds, and physical property that are owned or controlled - via leases or other contractual arrangements - by Indiana University, and whose operations are controlled by Indiana University. This definition includes but is not limited to, offices, labs, building exteriors, hallways, parking lots and garages, vehicles, busses, outdoor areas, and common areas. Buildings, grounds, or other properties owned by Indiana University, but whose operations are under the control and operation of a third party, shall not be considered facilities under this policy.
An electronic surveillance system used in the day-to-day prevention and investigation of violations of law. Examples of such systems include video cameras used in detective work, during interviews, and to record traffic stops.
Individuals who have been assigned responsibility by the designated campus authority for the installation, management, operation, and use of video and electronic surveillance systems. This includes but is not limited to computer system administrators, surveillance software administrators, surveillance installation technicians, and those who have access to surveillance information.
The process of securely copying and/or storing surveillance information to prevent destruction and loss of materials.
All information captured by an electronic surveillance system. This definition includes system logs, audio, stills, snapshots, stop action, and video images whether transient, displayed, or recorded.
The process of monitoring or recording visual images via stop action, time lapse, or motion cameras.
Video and Electronic Surveillance Systems
Any video or electronic surveillance system deployed by Indiana University, including its officers, administrators, employees, or agents, for purposes including, but not limited to, public safety, security, public convenience, or operational effectiveness purposes. "Systems" may monitor or record a specific location or activity and covers all electronic surveillance devices, processes, technology, and equipment, including but not limited to microphones, cameras, images, audio, video, snapshots, configuration settings, logs, software, and hardware.
Violations of university policies, including the failure to avoid a prohibited activity or obtain required approvals, will be dealt with in accordance with applicable university policies and procedures. Depending on the individual and circumstances, such sanctions could involve the offices of Human Resources, Vice Provost or Vice Chancellor of Faculties (or campus equivalent), Dean of Students (or campus equivalent), Office of the General Counsel, and/or appropriate law enforcement agencies.
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New Delhi: As part of a global job cut imposed by Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk to achieve economies of scale and make the USD 44 billion acquisition sustainable, the social media platform has begun terminating staff in India.
Twitter lays off employees in India. Layoffs in marketing, communication and some other departments: Sources pic.twitter.com/Jq4z2lIxwI
— ANI (@ANI) November 4, 2022
The CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, as well as the CFO and a few other top employees were fired by the world’s richest businessman, Elon Musk, last week to start his tenure there.
The top management left soon after that. Musk has now begun a significant effort to reduce the company’s overall personnel.
“Lay-off has started. Some of my colleagues have received email notification regarding this,” a Twitter India employee told PTI on condition of anonymity.
Another source claimed that a “substantial chunk” of the India team has been affected by the layoffs.
The complete information regarding the employment losses was not immediately accessible. Email inquiries were not answered by Twitter India.
The US-based social media platform, in an internal email to employees earlier, had said, “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday.”
It said that “everyone will receive an individual email”. For the sake of the security of its staff, Twitter’s systems, and customer data, the firm will temporarily close all of its locations.
“If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home,” Twitter had said.
The corporation in the email forbade employees from disclosing sensitive company information on social media, with the press, or in any other way, despite the fact that Twitter has multiple run-ins with the law over the right to free speech.


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The offensive tackle position needs to be addressed by the Chicago Bears
I would assume the Chicago Bears move on from Bobbie Massie and not Charles Leno. I get it, Most want them both to be removed, but you won’t be able to replace them both. While some feel a bag of sand could block better than Charles Leno, that is, in fact, not true.
Leno is not a good left tackle, but he’s not an awful one. Leno’s dead cap estimates at $5 million with an $11.3 million cap hit. The better option would be to restructure his contract. If the Chicago Bears spread it out far enough, Leno could have a contract that runs him right into the “backup” pay as he gets older.
Bobbie Massie, on the other hand, is pretty much done. Too many injuries for too high of a contract. Massie’s dead cap is estimated at $2.6 million with a $9.3 million cap hit. That is a lot of savings for the limited production he has provided over the past few years.
Buster Skrine could be another player that finds himself on the outside looking in. It is a bit less savings if the Chicago Bears cut Skrine, but it is possible. If I were to guess, I would think they keep him for his final year. The last player on the list for cap savings would be Jimmy Graham. I don’t believe he is cut either, but he would have similar savings as cutting Massie if he was.
The reason I think the Chicago Bears won’t cut him is the same reasons I feel they signed him. Matt Nagy has had Ryan Pace acquire veteran players for more than what they bring to the field. Clearly, they care about what they do in the classroom, practice field, and for other players equally as they do for what that player does on the field. That is my argument. What was another possible reason for them to bring in Chase Daniel and Mark Sanchez when the team made those choices?

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PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — General Treasurer Gina Raimondo says it would be catastrophic to Rhode Island to lose the legal challenge over the state’s pension overhaul but that she has a “high degree of confidence” the state will win.
Raimondo on Monday called it frustrating that police union members voted down the agreement. They were the smallest of six groups that had to approve it.
- Nesi’s Notes: Pension Settlement Coverage
A judge ordered continued mediation but the talks broke down Friday. Raimondo said the mediation ended because the sides couldn’t find a way forward.
The proposed settlement agreement announced in February was an attempt to end the legal challenges brought by public-sector unions and retirees over the 2011 pension law.
Raimondo maintains the law will hold up in court. A trial is scheduled for September.

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Feel the joy! This magical enamel pin features a unicorn joyfully riding atop a garden gnome.
• Measures 2" (49mm) tall.
• Includes 2 black rubber clutches.
• Great for jackets, backpacks, cork boards, junk drawers or stocking stuffers!
This design is also available as a vinyl decal and temporary tattoos!
This original artwork is © Designpathology and may not be reproduced in any form.

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“Makeup is the invention of the ugly people. It is not that makeup is ugly, but makeup itself is the invention of the ugly. The ugly feels inferior compared to the naturally beautiful — jealous, competitive. The ugly tries to compensate for it with artificial methods. The natural has no need to compensate. But naturally beautiful people are very few; hence makeup has become almost a routine thing.
“For thousands of years, man has been trying to hide in every possible way all that is ugly in him — in the body, in the mind, in the soul. Even people who were naturally beautiful started imitating the ugly and the artificial, for the simple reason that the artificial can deceive. For example, breasts naturally are not as good looking as they can be made to look. Even if a woman has naturally beautiful breasts, she will start feeling that the women who have no natural beauty in their breasts can at least pretend and show that they are far more beautiful. So the naturally beautiful also start imitating.
“Makeup, and the whole idea of makeup, is basically hypocrisy. One should love and accept one’s nature – and not only on the physical level because that is where the journey starts. If you are false there, then why not pretend the same falseness as far as mind is concerned? Then what is wrong in pretending to be a saint, a sage, when you are not? The logic will be the same. And sometimes it happens that the pretender can defeat the real, because the pretender can practice, can rehearse, can manage and manipulate in many ways.
“I am not saying that all that is not natural is bad. Nature can be improved upon. That’s what intelligence is for, but it should not be against nature. For example, the lips can be red through better food, through better exercise, through better medicine. That too is improving upon nature, but improving upon nature in a natural way.
“Putting on lipstick is cheap; it is not really improving. It is good for the stage. Makeup artists are needed for the stage, not for real life.[…]
“I am not saying that improving upon nature is bad. I am not saying that. Women can shave their legs and underarms. It is good, it is hygienic; nothing is wrong in it.… If you take a bath every day and clean your body, then the hairs under your arms are not bad. There is nothing wrong about it. There is no need to remove them, they have their place. But if you are not taking a bath and if you are not being hygienic and clean, then certainly they will collect dust and they will collect perspiration and they will stink. Then it is good to remove them. I am not against removing them. It is beautiful to shave the hairs on your legs and give your legs a beautiful shape.
“Improve upon nature, rather than impose. Make people more aware of their beauty and how to take care of it. Help them in natural ways. Man is the only animal who can go beyond nature, but he should go through nature, not cover nature. So I am not saying that that which is not natural is necessarily ugly.
“You can deceive others but how can you deceive people who are close to you? And is it right to deceive them? And if they love you because of your breasts, the moment they discover that the breasts are false — plastic or rubber — will their love remain? It will disappear. The whole of humanity has become false. The idea seems to be to deceive, to pretend.
“I am all for transcendence and transcendence is not natural. But I am not for artificiality. Your art can be used by my theater group, by my fashion people, by my other artists; you can be of immense help to them. But remember, it is only for the stage. It is showmanship; it has nothing to do with the real life.
“Real life has to be natural, and the real life has to go one day beyond nature. But nature has to become its foundation — not against nature, not hiding it, but discovering the innermost core of nature. Then is the transcendence, and that is the most beautiful experience. It beautifies you, your body, your mind, your soul. It not only beautifies you, it beautifies even people who come in contact with you. This beauty belongs to the beyond; it is called grace. Something descends from the above and floods you.”
Copyright © 2010 Osho International Foundation

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Nest Doll Russian Fairy Tale Matryoshka Babushka Doll Russian Gift 5 Pieces
Initially developed doll, the matryoshka was created in one of the best art workshops of St. Hand from linden, hand painted using egg vipers, decorated with gold and silver coating, manual lacquered. This matryoshka is written by three professional artists from St. The first artist draws a face, the other paints the apron with various plots of Russian fairy tales, and the third draws a handkerchief decorated with a traditional floral pattern. This is a beautiful hand toy that was used in Russia over the centuries. This is the best choice as a gift for any occasion. Weight: 223 g (7.9 oz) Size: 7 x 7 x 18 cm (2.8 x 2.8 x 7 inches). The item "Nest Doll Russian Fairy Tale Matryoshka Babushka Doll Russian Gift 5 Pieces" is in sale since Friday, August 27, 2021.
This item is in the category "Dolls & Bears\Dolls\By Type\Nesting". The seller is "russiansouvenircrafts" and is located in Saint Petersburg.


2014 New Model Ford Ranger Thailand 4WD pick-up truck and 2014 Ford Ranger Wildtrax Thailand
2014 Ford Ranger 2200 cc and 2014 Ford Ranger 3200 cc
The New 2014 Ford Ranger is a thing of beauty and so popular that since its release Ford has not been able to keep up with its demand. A year and more later there is still a mile long queue on these magnificent pickup trucks. It has been designed and developed in Australia as a part of its One Ford Strategy which is reminiscent of Toyota Hilux IMV strategy. Ford will be releasing its 2015 2016 Ford Ranger in mid-2015. The new 2016 Ranger is expected to benefit from a range of advanced technologies announced in the 2015 2016 Ford Everest SUV, which could include automatic emergency braking and a curve control system designed to keep the vehicle in control if it approaches a corner too quickly.
First thing you will notice is how big the New 2014 2015 Ford Ranger is, it is almost as big as the legendary lower range Ford F-150. Though the new Ford Ranger in Thailand is about six inches narrower than the F-150, it's within just two or three inches in length of the F-150. It is not clumsy big but bold and handsome big. Prior to the release of 2012 Ranger, Nissan Navara was the biggest pick-up truck at 5,230X1,850 mm but at 5,359X1,850mm Ranger Double Cab is now the biggest pick-up truck around. This results in not only more knee clearance and leg room for the rear passenger but also easier access through the larger rear door.
Ford Ranger Thailand 2014 2015 Lineup
We offer Thailand-assembled Ford Ranger and used Ford Ranger and other Thailand assembled Japanese and American 4WD trucks and SUVs at lowest prices in the world and that is understandable since we are Thailand's oldest and largest Automobile exporter and have 80-90% market share. But what is surprising is that even in Australia, Dubai, Singapore and United Kingdom no other dealer can match our prices. Here is the current model range of Ford Ranger available in Thailand. Since Ford is very popular, not all vehicles maybe in stock but please check with us, the chance is that when others will say no we will say yes.:
|2014 Ford Ranger Duratorq TDCi Turbo Diesel Commonrail Injection|
|2014 Ford Ranger Single Cab 2.5L XL 5 Petrol Manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.5L XL 5-speed Petrol manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.2L XLS 6-speed 4x2 manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.2L Hi-rider XLS 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.2L XLT 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.2L Hi-rider XLT 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Open Cab 2.2L Hi-rider Wildtrak 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L XLT 6-speed 4x2 manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L Hi-rider XLT 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L Hi-rider XLT 6-speed automatic|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L Hi-rider Wildtrak 6 Manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L Hi-rider Wildtrak 6-speed automatic|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L 4x4 XLT 6-speed manual|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 2.2L 4x4 Wildtrak 6-speed automatic|
|2014 Ford Ranger Double Cab 3.2L 4x4 Wildtrak 6-speed automatic|
Pictures of Red and Orange 3200 cc Ford Ranger Wildtrak
Pictures of White 3200 cc Ford Ranger Wildtrak
Of all the models Ford Ranger Wildtrak in Double cab is the most popular. Of all colors orange Wildtrak is the most popular. After orange it is white that is incredibly popular. Here are some more pictures:
New 2014 Ford Ranger Thailand and Used 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 Ford Ranger Thailand Diesel 2WD and 4WD Pickup Truck
New 2014 2015 Ford Ranger Thai Pickup Truck, Nearly New 2013 Ford Ranger and used 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003 Ford Ranger 4WD and Wildtrax are on sale for sale at discount price for import and export at Thailand's largest 4WD pick-up SUV Exporter of Toyota Hilux Vigo, Mitsubishi L200 Triton, Nissan Navara and Ranger. Our Australia, United Kingdom, Singapore and Dubai office can provide Ford Ranger and other pick-up trucks and SUVs of your choice in addition to all other vehicles available in those markets.
The new model 2014 Ranger pick-up truck is powered by a frugal 2.2-liter four-cylinder DuraTorq TDCi turbo-diesel engine offering 150 HP and 375 Nm of torque, and a 3.2-liter in-line five-cylinder DuraTorq TDCi turbo-diesel, making 200 hp and an impressive 470 Nm of torque—as much as some V-8s. Those engines come mated to six-speed manual or automatic transmissions; a version of tfive-speed manual transmission are also offered. Even though 2500 cc engine has been down downized to 2200 cc the output of new engine is better than 2011 Ranger and all other pick-up truck with the exception of Nissan Navara. The advantage of lower cc is lower fuel consumption. A 2WD 2200 cc will only consume 7.6 Liters per 100 kms.
The all-New 2014 2015 Ford Ranger has been ruthlessly tested: in some of the most hostile environments, under extreme temperatures, and across the harshest terrain on earth. Which is why it’s ready to handle virtually any Challenge or task you set it. The latest model is also more powerful than ever before. This extra power is delivered by a new line-up of advanced Duratorq diesel engines, which can help you transport a payload of up to 1,340 kg and tow up to 3,350 kg.
The New 2014 2015 Ford Ranger is the first in class to offer a six-speed automatic transmission and six speed manual transmission. The gearbox has Sequential Shift Control manual override, Grade Logic Control and Driver Recognition, the latter adapts to the driver’s style. The manual is not only 6 speed but also includes an upshift indicator to encourage efficient driving.
Globally, the truck will come in 2WD and 4WD drivetrains and two ride heights, with the 2WD Hi-Rider sharing the same frame as the 4WD model. Shift on the fly is available for 4WD models.
Engineers have optimised every millimetre of Ranger’s dimensions to give customers maximum interior space without compromising the volume of the cargo box. With Ranger increasingly being a work-and-family vehicle, the engineers have paid special attention to the rear seats in the truck, with the second row in the Super Cab more spacious than key competitors.
The B-pillar in the Double Cab has been moved forward, delivering best-in-class rear leg room and knee clearance. Three adults can easily fit in the second row of the Double Cab while two six-footers can comfortably sit one behind the other.
A new feature is the locking rear differential that’s activated by a dashboard button. This would be valuable off road when one rear wheel is in mud or not touching the ground. 4WD and Hi-Rider models have 241 mm ground clearance and class leading 800 mm of wade height, good for floods. By the way, the steering is now rack and pinion.
Some of its selling features are best in class towing capacity (up to 3,350 kg, payload up to 1,500 kg), Bluetooth with Voice Control, rear view camera, side and curtain airbags, 23 storage spaces in the cabin (including a vented 8.5L centre bin), separate driver passenger climate control, cruise control, trailer sway control, Hill Launch Assist and Hill Descent Control. Electronic Stability Control (ESP) along with traction control on all 4 wheels is now a standard. High-end models will include Rearview Camera and rear parking assist.
While the exterior of this truck bears a strong likeness to the 2011 F-150, the interior carries some design cues that are part of Ford's new global look (with a central controller and high-mounted screen), as well as some detailing borrowed from the F-150 as well as Bosch and DeWalt power tools and G-Shock watches, according to the automaker. The new truck comes with the all the updated connectivity features including an iPod connector and Bluetooth, as well as steering-wheel controls.
Thanks to its range of advanced Duratorq diesel engines and 6 speed transmissions, innovative technologies, safety and security features and cost of ownership improvements, the all-new Ranger is a pick-up that’s fit for purpose.


Tonight on NBCSN, it’s the New York Rangers hosting the Nashville Predators starting at 7:30 p.m. ET. Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:
— The Predators (6-0-3) are one of only two NHL teams that have not lost in regulation by one goal this season (Phoenix, 7-0-5). However, their average margin of defeat in 14 regulation losses (3.071) is the worst in the league. (Elias Sports Bureau)
— The Central Division has a 24-11-3 record in head-to-head matchups vs. the Metropolitan Division this season. Over half of the regulation losses have come from the Predators, who are 2-6-1 vs. Metro teams. (The other six teams are a combined 22-5-2.)
— The Predators and Rangers come into tonight’s game both averaging 2.23 goals per game (T-4th fewest in the NHL). No team has been shut out this season as many times as Nashville (six), but the Rangers and three other teams (Tampa Bay, New Jersey, Buffalo) are right on the Preds’ heels, having each been held without a goal in five games.
— The Rangers are in game three of a franchise-record nine-game, 17-day home stand through Dec. 23. The “Blueshirts” are 1-5-1 in their last seven games at Madison Square Garden. The last time they took three or fewer points over a seven-game stretch on home ice was Nov. 21-Dec. 16, 2009 (also 1-5-1).
— Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist has allowed four goals in each of the last two games (0-1-1 record). Only twice in his career, regular season or playoffs, has Lundqvist allowed four or more goals in three consecutive appearances, most recently Dec. 23-29, 2008. He has never done so and lost all three games.
— Predators goaltender Marek Mazanec has started 13 consecutive games, the longest streak by a rookie netminder since Corey Crawford started 27 straight for Chicago during the 2010-11 season. The franchise record for a single season is 25, set by Pekka Rinne in 2012-13. Tomas Vokoun holds the franchise mark for consecutive starts over multiple seasons (42, in 2002-03 and 2003-04).
— The Predators (0-13-0) are one of two teams (Buffalo, 0-19-0) that have not earned a point when trailing after two periods. Since the beginning of the 2012-13 season, they are 1-31-2. Their lone win came in a 5-4 overtime win vs. Dallas on Feb. 25, 2013.
— Since entering the NHL in 2005-06, the Predators’ Shea Weber leads all defensemen, with 115 goals in 555 games. Combined, the seven blueliners on the Rangers roster have 125 career goals in 2,002 games (Dan Girardi – 32, Marc Staal and Michael del Zotto – 26, Ryan McDonagh – 18, Anton Stralman – 17, John Moore – 5, Justin Falk – 1).
— Predators defenseman Seth Jones leads all NHL rookies in average ice-time this season (23:34). In three of the past four seasons, and five of the past 10, U.S.-born d-men have led the league in that category.
2002-03 Jordan Leopold Calgary Flames 20:35
2005-06 Ryan Whitney Pittsburgh Penguins 23:49
2009-10 Tyler Myers Buffalo Sabres 23:44
2010-11 John Carlson Washington Capitals 22:38
2011-12 Justin Faulk Carolina Hurricanes 22:50


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Spray emerging peach and nectarine tree
leaves with a fungicide, such as Bordeaux mixture, to stop leaf curl.
He also has planted cherry bushes, three dwarf apple trees, a dwarf nectarine tree
and dwarf blueberry bushes.
We have a peach and nectarine tree
in the organic community garden I co-founded.
Like "The Buffalo," "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" begins with ruminations on the appearance, structure, and ultimate meaning of a living thing, a nectarine tree
. Yet while "The Buffalo" focuses principally on the cultural significance of domestication, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" extends Moore's thoughts deeper into the realm of aesthetics.
Q Could I grow a peach tree or a nectarine tree
If leaves on your peach or nectarine tree
have looked like the ones pictured at left, peach leaf curl is most likely the culprit.
It's time to spray peach and nectarine trees
with a copper-based fungicide to prevent and treat peach-leaf curl.
However, it is important to highlight that 'Rubrosol' and 'Josefina' are two nectarine trees
that produce small fruits with low weight, but whose fruits have reddish epidermis, and 'Josefina' has a high soluble solids and titratable acidity ratio.
More than other fruit trees, peach and nectarine trees
need deep soil with no compacted subsoil or hardpan.
Two years ago, CHP began managing 4 acres of peach, apple and nectarine trees
at Cheney Orchards in Brimfield and last year began farming on another four acres at White's Farm, directly across the street from Brigham Hill.
? Spray emerging leaves of peach and nectarine trees
with a copper fungicide, such as Bordeaux Mixture, to prevent peach leaf curl.

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Representative Claire McCaskill, a woman who is ignorant of what it takes to run a business is telling us what the republicans are doing, without even knowing herself. She is nothing more than an ignoramus herself, and in her speech, you can her her jealousy dripping from every word even though she is worth 19 million herself. And right behind her, grinning in agreement, is one of the richest men in the house. Dick Schumer. What this woman says is stupid. Here it is:
“I’m trying to figure out how anyone in America can take the Republican party seriously about deficit reduction. I’m trying to figure out how anyone can keep a straight face and say they’re for deficit reduction. While they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. Now they want to say this is class warfare, well, you know, in a way it is, because we’re fighting for the middle class. We are fighting for the middle class.
Frankly, the middle class hasn’t had enough champions in America. Seventy percent of Americans don’t itemize deductions. So that big ole complex tax code? It’s been written for wealthy America. The ones that itemize deductions.
And then you get to the very very top, where a lot of these people’s incomes are about dividends and capital gains, and not even ordinary income, and they have all kinds of ways that they can use the tax code to avoid paying taxes.
This is about leveling the playing field. For what has always made our country different from everyone else. That is a strong, vibrant middle class. And I will tell you this, if they think it’s okay to raise taxes for the embattled middle class, because they’re gonna pout if we don’t give more money to millionaires, it really is time for the people of America to take up pitchforks.”
Take up pitchforks? Raise taxes for the embattled middle class? Permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for? OH NOW COME ON. Ms McCaskill, your an idiot.
First off, no one but the democrats are talking about raising taxes. Oh all they are talking about are the Bush Tax cuts, but, as I have said this before, the Bush Tax cuts are nothing now except Tax Code. If they wish to repeal them, then that means that they want taxes to go up. There is no other way to look at this folks. If you repeal a tax code, it is for a reason. The reason here is to make taxes go up, and if they got their way, taxes would go WAY up. Mark my words.
Yesterday, the house voted to keep the “tax cuts” even though that isn’t what they are, and Claire McCaskill was ranting and raving that they had to be gotten rid of cause they were not paid for. First off how can you pay for something that isn’t there? Second, they paid for themselves because they helped keep the economy going good for more years than not having them would have done.
Right now the economy is a mess. And if you want to improve it, you lower taxes…….not raise them you idiot.
But, right now, the Republicans are ecstatic that Obama has “caved”, when in fact he hasn’t. He is a leftist ideologue, and that will never change. He is right now in the planning stages of getting the blame for all of this to go to you. And if you don’t believe me, you will find out. At least when the new Conservatives come in, they will not fall for this like you have. For Shame……
May God bless our efforts to help get America back, and put God back into our country.
God, Bless America. Bless Americans.


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MEEKER | Avalanche Rescue Skills class in Meeker, Wednesday, March 8 at 6 p.m. at Mountain Valley Bank Community Room. $40 per person. All new class on transceivers and rescue techniques taught by Mike Duffy, professional avalanche educator and snowmobiler. Bring your riding partners and avalanche gear to class: transceiver, shovel, probe and pack. Discount offered on avalanche gear for all participants. Call Suzan Pelloni at 970-623-2900 to sign up.
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RIFLE I Recent and heavy snowfall has prompted visitors to get out and enjoy winter on the Rifle Ranger District, especially the areas open for snowmobiling. However, current conditions are extremely unstable. Related


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Through The Years: Raiders vs. Colts
As the Raiders prepare for their road game against the Indianapolis Colts, take a look back at their past matchups through the years.
On This Date in Raiders History: Al Davis inducted into the Hall of Fame
On this day in 1992, Al Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and given his gold jacket. Take a look back at photos of Mr. Davis' legacy as owner, AFL Coach of the Year, AFL Commissioner, and the architect of the Raiders' Commitment to Excellence.

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Consumer habits have changed remarkably over the past decade, leading to a massive increase in the ready food market. The technology of reheating frozen food in microwave ovens has therefore come under increasing scrutiny. Uniform heat distribution within the oven and throughout the food itself is therefore an issue of major interest to convenience food producers, appliance manufacturers and food customers alike.
Many variables to control
Several elements affect how food is heated in a microwave oven – from the shape of the packaging to the performance of the oven itself. In particular, multi-component foods such as those that make up ready meals often heat unevenly; this may cause both sensorial and microbiological problems.
“We developed product simulation software to predict microwave heating uniformity,” explains Birgitta Waeppling-Raaholt, specialist in electromagnetics and microwave processing at the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology (SIK), which led the project. “This makes it possible to design the make-up of the food product – geometry, placement of different food components, packaging and so on – much faster and reduces experimental work.”
The MICRODEFROST MODEL software sets out to model how food components are defrosted and heated by microwaves, and how the heat is transferred – including conduction through the different components. Other SIK-developed software then controls heat distribution to make it more uniform. SIK software was used to establish what the important parameters were, and then helped to optimise their values.
As a result of this EUREKA project, it is now possible for convenience food manufacturers to introduce new convenience products more quickly for both the frozen and chilled product sectors. It also provides an important tool to enable microwave manufacturers to optimise their oven designs.
The MICRODEFROSTMODEL project was started by SIK, which had carried out earlier work on chilled food reheating. It sought help from EUREKA to find funding and partners. “We had worked in similar projects with EUREKA before,” says Raaholt. “We find that EUREKA is very open-minded.”
The Swedish and Polish partners in the four-year MICRODEFROSTMODEL project brought together appliance manufacturers, frozen food producers, and electromagnetics and radioelectronics modelling and software experts to devise a highly effective product development tool that is a world first. The resulting product development tool is already being offered to food companies to strengthen the competitiveness of the European ready food industry by improving end quality and speeding time to market. Potential spin-offs for this project include controlled pasteurisation of potentially infected products through more uniform heat treatment.
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Magnetic Quantum Objects in a "Nano Egg-Box"
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Physicists working with researcher Oriol Romero-Isart devised a new simple scheme to theoretically generate arbitrarily short and focused electromagnetic fields. This new tool could be used for precise sensing and in microscopy.
Microwaves, heat radiation, light and X-radiation are examples for electromagnetic waves. Many applications require to focus the electromagnetic fields to...
Strong light-matter coupling in these semiconducting tubes may hold the key to electrically pumped lasers
Light-matter quasi-particles can be generated electrically in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Material scientists and physicists from Heidelberg University...
Fraunhofer IPA has developed a proximity sensor made from silicone and carbon nanotubes (CNT) which detects objects and determines their position. The materials and printing process used mean that the sensor is extremely flexible, economical and can be used for large surfaces. Industry and research partners can use and further develop this innovation straight away.
At first glance, the proximity sensor appears to be nothing special: a thin, elastic layer of silicone onto which black square surfaces are printed, but these...
3-D shape acquisition using water displacement as the shape sensor for the reconstruction of complex objects
A global team of computer scientists and engineers have developed an innovative technique that more completely reconstructs challenging 3D objects. An ancient...
Physicists have developed a new technique that uses electrical voltages to control the electron spin on a chip. The newly-developed method provides protection from spin decay, meaning that the contained information can be maintained and transmitted over comparatively large distances, as has been demonstrated by a team from the University of Basel’s Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute. The results have been published in Physical Review X.
For several years, researchers have been trying to use the spin of an electron to store and transmit information. The spin of each electron is always coupled...
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As per European Regulation 1025/2012, the Commission is obliged to specify the strategic priorities of European standardization. These priorities, which reflect the Commission’s policy objectives, are published in the EU’s annual work programme regarding European standardization. The Commission recently presented the programme for 2018.
Two points in particular concern occupational health and safety more specifically:
- “The market needs new harmonized standards concerning specific types of machines such as 3D printers, robots, autonomous vehicles, wind turbines and automated machines. To meet the demand, these innovative products are developed rapidly and are quickly disseminated in the European market. In order to correct the current situation of self-certification of conformity procedures, it is essential that there be European standards to guarantee safety and access to the market. Relevant international standardization activities should also be taken into account.
- It is necessary to modernize the current harmonized standards on explosives for civil use in order to reflect the latest technological progress and improve the security and quality of conformity assessments of these products. The existence of harmonized standards will contribute to the establishment of minimum requirements to improve the health protection and safety of workers who could be exposed to the risk of an explosive atmosphere.”


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The long-running patents battle between Apple and Nokia in the US has entered a dangerous new phase with the latest filing by Apple to the Federal Trade Commission requesting the blockage of Nokia smart-phone devices from entering the States.
In the latest development in this battle over patents, Apple has requested that the International Trade Commission consider blocking Nokia imports and examine alleged unfair trade practices that include patent, trademark and copyright infringement.
This saga has been running for months and the latest developments follow a lawsuit Nokia has brought against Apple claiming that the Silicon Valley computing giant infringed 10 Nokia mobile patents with the iPhone.
Nokia said the 10 patents in the suit relate to technologies fundamental to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards. The patents cover wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption that Nokia claims are infringed by all Apple iPhone models shipped since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.
Last month, Apple countersued Nokia, claiming that the Finnish mobile giant has infringed 13 Apple patents that include real-time signal processing, list scrolling, document translation, scaling and rotation on a touchscreen display.
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Don't toss overripe bananas—peel them and freeze them in a Ziploc bag for smoothies.
Holiday Spice Smoothie
Cinnamon and cardamom combined with banana make this a wintry and satisfyingly sweet drink. Add hemp powder and almond milk, and you have a protein-rich, dairy free, guilt-free treat.
4 medjool dates
1 frozen banana
1 cup almond milk
1 tablespoon almond butter
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cardamom
3 ice cubes
3 tablespoons hemp powder
1. Combine all ingredients in a powerful blender.
2. Blend 1 minute, or until smooth and creamy.
So, we make this with red rice and without wine but call it ‘risotto’ as the result is just as creamy and sophisticated. It cooks like a pilaf, which means no arduous adding and stirring, making it perfect for a quick and easy weeknight dinner. Skip the cheese to...

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