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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Four Pieces, by Barbara Ruth

here it is, my desiderata:
spiritual progress; the skill of surreptitiously sliding
along; sustained resistance in the face of oppression;
an accurate map to scale; indulgence for my shortcomings; sudden sunshine after long rain; no scrape I can’t get out of.

I am an ordinary, unheroic tourist.
I am native to this place, I shift shape, ceremoniously make magic
out of words. I travel far.
my maladies, my victories, both acute and chronic.
I climb mountains and I can’t get out of bed.

when I’m anxious for no reason
I clean the one corner of one room of the house
instead of drugging
myself to death.

When I’m so depressed I can’t stand it
I pull the blankets over my head
instead of drugging
myself to death.

When I haven’t slept for four days and four nights
I write as the tears sting my burning eyes
instead of drugging
myself to death.

When I can’t think, can’t rest, can’t write, can’t read
I wait instead
of drugging
to death.

Loma Prieta Epilepticus

    I was by myself that day. I’d been hanging out on my hospital bed, with the back raised, reading maybe, or doing paperwork. I know I was using the bed because it was days before the electricity came on again and I could return it to the flat position. I remember afterwards, yearning to stretch out, in my bed, and pull up the covers. Just that. I got up to go to the the kitchen. Then the lurch, the roll of the room. But that was one of my symptoms.  I’d said it  to my neurologist: my own personal earthquakes.
    I think it was warm. Afterwards, didn’t we say earthquake weather? But didn’t we often say that, here in California?
    After the quaking stopped, my neighbors checked on me. Shame, embarrassment, uncertainty as to exactly what DID happen; I didn’t tell them much. It hurt my brain to look for words. Even if I tried to explain - what could they do about it? I had a few scratches; someone got a first aid kit when I couldn’t remember where my band-aids were. No scars; the bruises didn’t show till the next day.
That evening the gas lines were turned off and the power was out so all my neighbors were cooking on their barbecues outdoors, and that just made matters worse as far as I was concerned, the air reeking of lighter fluid and charcoal and meat.
    Darlene came that night. She wasn’t even my attendant any more, but she was my friend and the phones were down and she was worried about me. She got me some food, cleaned up the broken glass on the kitchen, and settled me on the couch for sleeping.
    But the earthquake, the big one, not just my personal quaking, but this: the black and white of the linoleum smearing into each other, the black engulfing the white, and the black grew larger and larger, coming for me and the white shimmered and squeaked.
    I remember backing up from it. I didn’t want that black maw to reach me. But it did, as the lurching jolted me, and the black, the absence of color, the black, the absence of balance, the black and a color past black I do not know the name for  swallowed my brain and the place past black was all there was.
    Seizure. It will seizure. Seize your partner throw them all around. Seize her. We’re all having a seizure. The world is a seizure and all of us are seized.

Full Moon In Scorpio

    Adaptive yoga class, and I can’t make sense of the teacher’s words. I can hear her; we share the same California accent; she calls out the poses in English, not Sanskrit. But words and meaning keep drifting apart. When I do understand, I can’t figure out how to move my body into those poses I’ve done a hundred times. I’ve lost the file marked “Following Directions.” Am I having a stroke?
    Yesterday, on my way to an emergency dentist appointment, my attendant’s car broke down. It was over 100 degrees by then. We had to open the windows, even though we were right beside the cacophony of leaf blowers.
I managed to postpone my collapse until safely home. Once in bed, I fell into a deep sweaty sleep. I awoke paralyzed, couldn’t turn my head, let alone find the grab bar to pull myself up out of bed. How long did that last? Five minutes? An hour? Maybe I had a seizure. Or maybe I dreamed it.
    Often my mind goes off on a tangent. Most times I like that.
    Yoga class is over. I’m home, still unsure what to do.
    I  could call 911. I’d have to tell the dispatcher, “Silent approach, no flashing lights, those things can trigger my seizures.” Sometimes that works. But they’ll pound on my door, stomp into my house, swirling my brain and polluting my home with the fumes of dryer sheets and shampoos, sunblock and gum: the smells of normal people. They’ll talk too loud, too fast. “When was the last time you took your medication? What else have you taken? What are you on right now?” Sometimes they complain that the house numbers on my street are out of order. “You should move,” they’ve told me, three different times, at different addresses in three different towns, when all I wanted was to quietly talk to an paramedic who didn’t reek of fabric softener, get a little help deciding if I needed to brave the ER.
    I’ve done hard time in the nearest hospital, the one they’ll take me to. The ER is always packed, overflowing with human misery, patients and staff stinking far worse than the First Responders. The moon is full, in the sign of Scorpio, they’re bound to have even more business than usual.  The cleaning carts relentlessly employed, never quite defeating the stench of death. And when they release me - how will I get myself home?
    I could call 911. But I can’t figure out how to answer the first question the dispatcher always asks: “What is the nature of your emergency?”

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Anarchist Neuroqueeritude, by Susan Song

[Editor's Note: This is the transcript of a talk given at the Disability Studies in Education 15th Annual Conference, April 14th, 2015, at National Louis University in Chicago, Illinois.]
My talk seeks to discuss queer and anarchist theory as they intersect and lend to
neurodiversity theory. I will start with a short discussion about what I mean
when I talk about queer anarchism and continue into a way of looking at neuroqueer through that
lens. I argue for an anarcha-feminist theoretical impulse in creating relationships based on love
and mutual aid.
Queer anarchism and disability have similar understandings in the ways they trouble the
boundaries and borders of identity. Classical anarchism is mostly focused on looking at power relations between people, the economy and the state. Feminist theory adds to this by encompassing the idea that gender is not natural, stable or “innate” and queer theory opens this up further. Queer theory opens up a space to critique how we relate to each other socially in a distinctly different way than typical anarchist practice. Queer theory understands people in relation to the normal and the deviant and troubles those borders surrounding identity instead of simply focusing on issues of economy and capitalism. Queer theory seeks to disrupt the “normal” with the same impulse that anarchists do with relations of hierarchy, exploitation, and oppression. We can use queer theory to conceptualize new relationship forms and social relations that resist patriarchy and other oppressions by creating a distinctly “queer-anarchist” form of social relation. I see this intersect with disability theory in how both perspectives de-stabilize what it seen as biologically normal or natural in the physical body and identity. Identity exists on a continuum of experiences and not in discrete binaristic terms.
I ground this queer-anarchist understanding in some of my favorite anarchist theorists:
Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman and Gustav Landeur. The classical anarchist Peter Kropotkin
in his book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution critiques social Darwinism’s conclusions that the
“fittest” in nature are those that compete and dominate over others. Kropotkin writes, “[If] we resort to an indirect test, and ask Nature: “Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?” we at once see that those animals which acquire habits of mutual aid are undoubtedly the fittest”[1]. From this, we can see the roots of
relationships built on the strength of community interdependence which contrasts with a
capitalist logic of individualist production.
I find the work of Gustav Landauer and Emma Goldman also compelling in theorizing
the kinds of relationships I believe we should create. Landauer in Revolution and Other Writings writes that “The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; i.e., by people relating to one another differently.”[2] And Emma Goldman in Anarchism and Other Essays writes about free love. She discusses the power of love, writing “Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love.”[3] From these writings, I find that social relationships based on radical love and a shared sense of community create a model for the kind of world I wish to create.
I have recently asked myself the question what is it that we are supposed to be able to do
under capitalism and for what reason? It is not simply that we are to produce labor or to consume
goods. We participate in this system that has been intentionally structured to create power differentials that reinforce social difference designed to divide us. I see the way this system works too in how I have internalized ableism about how I link work and production with my value as a person and also see this ideology in the professional work that I do working in mental
health social services. I feel as if I cannot take sick days for my mental health and feel pressure
to be a “good” worker.
So what are we to do with this to combat this practically? I find the work of Liat Ben-
Moshe in her essay “Queer-Cripping Anarchism” particularly refreshing. She writes that
“through a queer-crip lens we should perhaps focus more on DIT—do it together. The focus on
independence, we would argue, is an adoption of capitalist values. […] This ideology, however,
is a lie as all of us are interdependent and rely on each other not only for our food, shelter, and clothing, but also for our emotional, physical, and intellectual needs.”[4] This is a critique on a
prevalent individualist punk ethos of DIY or do-it-yourself and articulates what I feel we must
have in the relationships we build with each other. To me, being in community means that we
must create a space where we are accepted, supported and loved and we cannot participate in a
meaningful world unless we do it together. Unless we do it together, we cannot do it ourselves.

[1] Kropotkin, Petr. Mutual Aid, a Factor of Evolution. London: William Heinemann, 1902. Print.
[2] Landauer, Gustav and Gabriel Kuhn. Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader.  Oakland, CA: PM Press. 2010. Print.
[3] Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Writings. New York: Mother Earth Association. 1917. Print.

[4] Ben-Moshe, Liat, Anthony Nocella II and A.J. Withers. "Queer-Cripping Anarchism:
Intersections and Reflections on Anarchism, Queerness and Dis-ability". Queering
Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire. Oakland, CA. AK Press: 2012. Print.


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Boating Safety Is For Life

Friday, June 22, 2012

Boating Safety And Accident News

Operation Dry Water June 22-24

 Police team up to find drunk boaters
The Coast Guard is teaming up with local and state police this weekend to crack down on those who operate a boat while drinking alcohol.

 Sheriff's Marine Patrol Unit to take part in 'Operation Dry Water'
Lake County News
Over that three-day weekend there were 43777 vessels and 97648 boaters ... Alcohol can impair a boater's judgment, balance, vision, and reaction time.

 Coast Guard, partners, to conduct BUI enforcement
Erie Times-News Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:42 AM PDT
The U.S. Coast Guard and several other agencies will be patrolling Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes Friday through Sunday as part of a nationwide campaign to crack down on boating under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

 Wisconsin on the lookout for drunken boaters
WISC-TV Madison Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:43 AM PDT
Wisconsin conservation wardens are on the lookout this weekend for drunken boaters. The wardens and local boat patrols will be looking for operators whose blood alcohol levels are above the state limit of 0.08 percent. The effort is part of the national Operation Dry Water campaign that runs Friday through Sunday. Department of Natural Resources boating law administrator Roy Zellmer says the ..

 Coast Guard, other authorities to launch Operation Dry Water to crack down on intoxicated boaters
The News-Herald Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:03 AM PDT
Federal, state and local marine watercraft officials are again joining forces this weekend for âOperation Dry Water,â an annual campaign to corkÂ  boaters operating under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

 Searching for impaired boaters in Ohio
WDTN-TV 2 Dayton Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT
The Ohio Department of Natural Resource' Division of Watercraft is among many state and local marine patrol agencies participating in a nationwide crackdown on alcohol-impaired boating known as Operation Dry Water from June 22-24.

Boating Under the Influence Emphasis This Weekend on Lakes
Last year, the Mercer Island Police Department's Marine Patrol arrested boaters on suspicion of BUI in 27 separate incidents on Lake Washington during ..

Boating safety sweeps planned on Barnegat Bay this summer
Asbury Park Press
Three boating safety enforcement sweeps will be conducted on Barnegat Bay this summer by State Police and other agencies, in an effort to make sure safe ...

 Officials plan boating-under-the-influence campaign at Lake Oroville
State Parks Ranger Travis Gee, along with State Parks lifeguards Chris Darcey and Will Castillo, patrols Lake Oroville looking for boaters violating rules on ..

 Sheriff's deputies to conduct boating under the influence checkpoints at Castaic, Pyramid Lake through Sunday
Los Angeles Daily News Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:51 AM PDT
LOS ANGELES - As part of a national effort to combat the problem of boaters operating their vessels while impaired, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will participate in "Operation Dry Water" this weekend, starting today, authorities said.

Boater Education:

Boater Education Course offered Saturday
Corsicana Daily Sun Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:24 PM PDT
New, mandatory boater education classes are being taught at Gander Mountain on Saturday, June 23, and again on July 28, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 Flotilla offers boater safety instruction
The Times Record Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT
WISCASSET  U.S. Coast Guard Flotilla 25 will offer three boating courses at the Wiscasset EMA Center. âThese classes arent just for skippers. They are very useful for anyone who ventures out on the water, a release from the flotilla states. The courses are as follows: read more

Mont. Friends set up camp to teach kids, community how to sail on ...
The Republic
"First there are no ropes on a sailboat, there are lines." Sailing lingo, he told them, is like a whole different language. They were gathered in Sauer's garage, the ...

Boating Safety News:

 Jet ski riders are on notice: stay off Jamaica Bay
New York Daily News Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:24 PM PDT
Jet ski riders wont have Jamaica Bay to cruise around anymore. Federal park officials have started cracking down on jet ski riders, enforcing a ban thats been on the books since 2001.

Georgia more lenient on water than land
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Georgia boaters can drink more alcohol with less fear of being arrested than boaters in many other states.

Cutbacks sink Okanagan boating officer
Business Examiner Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:06 AM PDT
Penticton RCMP plan to be on the water again this summer promoting boating safety

Boating safely this summer
Today's THV
LITTLE ROCK Ark. (KTHV) -- The hot summer months are upon us and the fourth of July is just around the corner. That means many of you will be spending time ...

Boater, 19, drowns in Marion County lake
Orlando Sentinel
A 19-year-old man drowned Wednesday in Lake Weir, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.Todd Irvin and his cousins were pushing a pontoon boat away ..

Search for teen in Lake Lanier continues; family seeks closure
WSB Atlanta
Witness recounts night of deadly boating wreck as search continues for teen ... Meantime, Johnson said Bennett, now charged with boating under the influence, ..

 Body of missing boater found Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:10 PM PDT
The body of a man who went missing on Split Lake in May has been found.

 Missing boater's body found in northern Manitoba
CBC Manitoba Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:19 AM PDT
The body of a missing boater has been found in northern Manitoba.

 Man dies after being thrown from sailboat on Lake Kegonsa
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A 66-year-old Minnesotan man died Thursday evening after rescuers pulled him out of Lake Kegonsa, according to the Dane County Sherriff's office.

Officials searching for missing boater
7 News Miami Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:04 PM PDT
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Authorities are searching for a man after his boat washed ashore on a South Florida beach. Officials are searching for 35-year-old Guma Aguiar.

 Search Ends for 2 Men Whose Yacht Wrecked in Tonga
ABC News
Rescuers have abandoned a search for two Australians whose yacht was found wrecked off the coast of Tonga last week. Adelaide resident Ian Thompson and .

Boating Accidents:

Cormorant saves kayakers off VanIsle
CKNW News Talk 980 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 05:05 AM PDT
Three kayakers have been rescued by the crew of a Cormorant helicopter from 442 Squadron, Comox. The trio had been paddling along the rocky shoreline near Estevan Point when one of the craft rolled in choppy water. When companions came to the rescue, one of the kayaks was severely damaged on the rocks. The group managed to get ashore and above the tide line when a passing boater spotted them and

Sailboat capsizes off Balboa Peninsula
Daily Pilot
A passenger on a 28-foot sailboat escaped unscathed after the boat beached in shallow water and sank off Balboa Peninsula, authorities said Thursday.

 Fire sinks 52-foot boat off Ocean Shores
KING5 Seattle Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:00 AM PDT
The boat named "Miss Kelly" caught fire around 2:30 p.m. A nearby fishing vessel, the Peer Pressure, rescued three boaters on board while they waited for the U.S. Coast Guard to arrive.

 Gales spark rescue call for festival revellers
Isle of Wight County Press Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:22 AM PDT
A LIFEBOAT crew was called out for the second night running last night (Thursday) to help the crew of a yacht crossing the Solent trying to get to Isle of Wight Festival.

 Two hurt in personal watercraft crash
WPDE Myrtle Beach - Florence Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:45 AM PDT
A fisherman was working on a boat in Little River about 11:20 a.m. Friday when he heard a loud noise and ran over to see that a personal watercraft had slammed into the dock off Mineola Avenue.

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Oct 24, 2016

Waupun Correctional Institution Hunger Strike: Dying to Live

Kim Pollak

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From Prison Focus Issue 50
Fall 2016

On June 7, men incarcerated at Waupun Correctional Institution (WCI) began a hunger strike, aptly named, “Dying to Live.” Although this writer is unsure of the number of participants, or even if the strike has ended, although it does not appear so, what is clear is the purpose of the strike, which is similar to those of the California hunger strikes in 2011 and 2013. In 1990, an individual in the custody of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (WI DOC) had to have been “recently violent” to be placed in administrative confinement, but today, a mere “history of violence” is sufficient. Strikers resolved to refuse food until prison officials meet the following six demands:

1. Placing a legislative cap on the use of long term solitary confinement ( A.C.)
2. DOC and WIS legislators adopt/come into Compliance with the U.N. Mandela Rules on the use of
solitary confinement.
3. Oversight board/committee independent of DOC to stop abuse and over classification of prisoners to
“short” and “long” term confinement.
4. Immediate transition and release to a less restrictive housing of prisoners who been on the long term
solitary confinement units for more than a year in the Wisconsin DOC.

5. Proper mental health facilities and treatment of “short“ and “long “term Solitary confinement prisoners.

6. And immediate FBI investigation into the mind control program that the DOC is currently operating in the
system designed to recondition and break the prisoners the DOC considers a threat to their regiment.

According to letters from hunger strikers, the Dying to Live hunger strike had become a serious health crisis. Within 10 days after the strike was initiated, WI DOC had acquired court authorization to force feed the prisoners, and began doing so about three weeks into the strike. The forced feeding was reportedly suspended on August 15. They allowed the two most committed hunger strikers, to go without food or water for 72 hours, until they were severely dehydrated, then tube fed them again on Thursday August 18. Seventy two hours without water is a medically held time limit that would and is generally believed to kill most people. The hunger strikers believe Waupun staff will continue force feeding them every 72 hours in an effort to make the hunger strike as unbearable as possible. One striker said he suspects that the DOC is intentionally keeping them on the brink of death Strikers report other strike-related retaliatory attacks by the Warden and prison staff, as well.

On August 13, community members marched around WCI in downtown Waupun WI in an action organized by Milwaukee IWOC, the Incarcerated Worker’s Organizing Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Marchers protested the use of indefinite solitary confinement and aimed to spread the word about an upcoming nation-wide prisoner protest movement that began on September 9, 2016. One march participant stated, “The DOC has been force-feeding our friends for more than 50 days now, three times a day. There is no reason to shove a tube down someone’s nose three times a day other than to hurt them and coerce them into giving up their protest. We won’t let Secretary Litscher’s goons torture our friends anymore.”

Outside supporters are demanding that the DOC allow LaRon McKinley and Cesar DeLeon to drink bottled water, and that Wisconsin meet the striker’s central demand: a one-year cap on any form of solitary confinement. They are asking people to contact Warden Brian Foster, DOC Secretary Jon Litscher, and Governor Scott Walker. More information, including phone numbers and email addresses which can be found at SolitaryTorture.blogspot. com

From Prison Focus Issue 50
Fall 2016

California Prison Focus has been informed of a limited hunger strike planned in California’s Santa Clara County jails, starting October 17, 2016 and ending midnight October 30. This peaceful protest, according to information that’s been circulated to people out here, is in furtherance of the following demands:

1. End meaningless classification reviews and biased appeal process
2. End placement in solitary confinement when there exists no serious rule violation to merit such placement
3. End policy/practice of denying inmates adequate clothing
4. End jail profiteering and exploitation of prisoners and their families through contract bidding of commissary
vendors based on kick-backs and political incentives for campaign contributions
5. End recidivism and misappropriation of Inmate Welfare Funds

(How the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department can be expected to single-handedly end recidivism within its jurisdiction is beyond us. Nonetheless, whoever put out this information has suggested some concrete ideas. including expanding and providing constructive programming and privileges for all inmates regardless of classification status and the reallocation of Inmate Welfare Funds toward education and rehabilitation programs.)

The information provided indicates that organizers are united in the name of the Prisoner Human Right Movement, and emphasizes:

“By no means is this to be considered an attempt to promote or benefit any form of gang, nor is this to be considered gang activity. This…is an attempt to enlighten and remain inclusive regardless of race, creed or color of top/shirt due to classification. . . .We all have a stake at hand, and we all serve to benefit from any success that may transpire as the result of our collective efforts.”

Oct 24, 2016

Ed Mead

From Prison Focus Issue 50
Fall 2016

Prisoners in various Minnesota correctional facilities filed a class action suit in an effort to secure minimum wages for the work they performed in the many prison industries. The industries in question produce items such as furniture, truck and auto body products, mattresses, textiles, and notebooks; they also provide services such as data entry, assembly, market research, and printing to private companies with whom the state has contracts. The plaintiff prisoners also alleged that prison officials sell prison industry products in interstate commerce to governmental entities and to the private sector. The plaintiffs alleged that in 1991, total sales for prison industries exceeded $11 million, and forty percent of the sales were in the private sector.

The prisoners are paid between fifty and seventy-five cents per hour, and they may earn good time credits on those days they work. The substance of their complaint consisted of an alleged violation of their statutory and constitutional rights by the state’s failure to pay them minimum or prevailing wages for the work performed in prison industries, and by punishing prisoners who refuse to work in industries by depriving them of good time credits.

This case, like so many others filed on the prison employment issue, boils down to the thirteenth amendment’s sanctioning of slavery for this segment of society. Regarding prisoners, the district judge said, “they are in fact engaged in involuntary servitude, not employment.” “The law is clear,” the court continued, “that prisoners may be required to work and that any compensation for their labor exists by the grace of the state.” The bottom line, it was held, is that “the Thirteenth Amendment’s exclusion of prisoner labor from the prohibition on involuntary servitude is a[n] economic reality”

Title 18 U.S.C. § 1761, the Ashurst-Sumners Act, provides that: “[w]hoever knowingly transports in interstate commerce any goods, wares, or merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined, wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners shall be fined or imprisoned or both.” Even though it was alleged that prisoners working in prison industries produced products sold in interstate commerce, the court ruled that prisoners could not enforce the provisions of the law.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219, requires employers to pay their employees a minimum hourly wage, which is currently $4.25. The Act defines “employer” as “any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee,” and defines “employee” as “any individual employed by an employer.” Courts were ordered to construe these terms expansively in order to further the congressional goal of outlawing from interstate commerce goods produced in violation of the Act. Where the employee/employer status is uncertain, the law requires that the economic realities of the relationship, and not technical concepts of employment, are to control. The court in the instant case ruled that “[w] here inmates work in the prison pursuant to penalogical work assignments, the economic reality is that they are not employees.” The district judge then launched off into some technical concepts (ignoring the economic realities) to justify his ruling that the FLSA does not apply to prison industrial workers.

This case also addresses constitutional and even a RICO claim. But all were lost when the court granted that state’s motion to dismiss. Readers are urged to independently study each aspect of this case, as all are important in working to expand this field of the law. Although it is necessary to keep knocking on the judicial door in an effort to secure relief in this area (and to educate the courts on the futility of expecting some good to come from maintaining a segment of society in a perpetual state of irresponsibility, dependency, and slavery), the ultimate solution must be a political one. The courts will recognize political strength. Strength is gained though a nation-wide organization of class conscious prisoners and their supporters. And this organization must, at the very least, be prepared to wage an ongoing fight for the abolishment of the thirteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution.

Strength is gained though a nation-wide organization of class conscious prisoners and their supporters.

Comrades interested in working on the cutting edge of the prisoners rights struggle should carefully study cases such as this. Learn how the plaintiffs lost, expand and perfect their arguments, and then file again. See: McMaster v. State of Minn. , 819 F.Supp. 1492 (D. Minn. 1993)

Oct 24, 2016

RE-ENTRY: WALKING OF A TANGLED WEB: The Rebirth of Raymond Aguilar

Raymond Aguilar

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From Prison Focus Issue 50
Fall 2016

Before any impressive re-birth into society, a dark, dismal death must first occur. More often than not, the death is attributed to that moment at sentencing when, in this case, a newly turned 16-year-old Stockton youth was sentenced to 19-years-to-Life in the penitentiary.

Raymond Aguilar was that teenager sentenced in San Joaquin Superior Court back in 1990. Today, Aguilar is free, and living in Stockton, and though less than 100 days after completing a 26 year CDCR stint, he is already advocating for youth and life term inmates alike.

“I got to Pelican Bay in 1993-94 and went right to the SHU,” Aguilar says of his Security Housing Units debut. “Back there, most of us were lifers, validated gang members and murderers. There is no hope no more, that’s the end of the line, that’s it.”

In an era before indigenous sweats, before contact visits and before SHU inmates were afforded many of their current rights, Aguilar made his way through the toughest channels in the California Prison system, literally as a child. Before escaping his teenage years, Aguilar’s reality would be transformed forever.

Early childhood was nothing pleasant for Aguilar growing up in Stockton. Aguilar was one of four children born to his married parents and raised amidst consistent dysfunction. Aguilar attributes the minimal stability he had to his grandmother, yet admits that a lot of what he witnessed from his grandmother was far from wholesome.

“My entire family was involved with drugs,” Aguilar said. “My parents were using, my grandmother was selling drugs, Drugs and violence were always a part of my life, even before I went to prison.”

Aguilar’s life sentence came after the shooting death of a 35-year old man. The man had been someone Aguilar “didn’t like” and Aguilar attested to having “problems” with the man in the past. In a warped-reality, Aguilar’s crime had been committed in protection of the same family members that should have been protecting him.

With more than two decades of prison time completed, Aguilar has made his return to society a triumphant one. It is nearly impossible to prepare for that moment of release, yet it seems as if Aguilar has aimed towards that very moment, his entire adult life.

After tasting the vile taste of having the Governor reverse the decision of the Board of Prison Hearings to grant him parole, Aguilar knew first hand that his freedom was not in his control. Yet finally relief for Aguilar came on September 16, 2013 when the Governor approved Senate Bill 260 requiring a youthful parole hearing after completing 15 years of the initial sentence.

During a powerful public comment at the Board of State Community Corrections Proposition 47 ESC Meeting in late June, 2016, Aguilar captivated the law enforcement-heavy audience with the simple reality of his life’s experiences. Aguilar went from tattooed murderer who was voiceless for 20-plus years, to one of California’s premiere experts on self-rehabilitation as well as an expert navigator of the system’s wicked reality created for our youth. The change he has made personally is not as shocking to Aguilar as was learning that there are tons of people on the outside fighting for prisoners who are fighting to retain their sanity; for prisoners in solitary confinement.

“It was a shock because inside we do not believe that many are out here fighting for us,” Aguilar said. “These people are fighting daily to expose the injustices that we experience in solitary confinement. If more people knew it would make a difference.”

Understanding that each moment behind the locked door is a tool of preparation for the hopeful day of release is important.

“When I was back there, all we did was exercise,” Aguilar said of his SHU tenure. “Exercise was a part of our discipline, reading was a part of our discipline, being consistent with our program was a part of our discipline. So 25 years later, now that I’m out here, I’m thinking, ‘how can I be consistent out here like I was in there?’ Things are a lot faster out here; in the SHU we talk about keeping our word and sticking to it. You can keep to your word out here too. Because guess what? A lot of people out here don’t.”

The strength, determination and tenacity that it takes to endure the SHU, will be the keys to success in making a positive reentry into society. The true victory is not in getting out, but staying out. Believing that, while in the midst of a 20-plus-year prison commitment, is no easy task.

The strength, determination and tenacity that it takes to endure the SHU will be the same keys to suc-cess in making a positive reentry into society.

In there that’s all it is, being strong,” Aguilar said. “We are all determined to not fail. So when I came out here, it was the same concept. I’m like, ‘OK, I am not going to fail, I’m going to adjust’. One part of the constitution says advancement demands change, so in order to advance we must change. So I advanced myself from the SHU, to the step-down program, to society. Now, how am I going to adapt? Well, I’m going to be mentally strong, physically strong, but emotionally that is the part I have to deal with.”

The realities of suffocating one’s emotions for decades takes its toll. Re-addressing those emotions may be the steepest valley long-term inmates have to face. The emotional stability it will take to avoid recidivism has to begin on the inside, prior to being back in society.

“We don’t deal with our emotions in the penitentiary,” Aguilar said. “We push everything to the side. So now, out here, be prepared for an emotional roller coaster. When we’re back there, we don’t talk about love, or affection, or kindness; those words are alien to us. Now I am dealing with all of those emotions and those feelings. Yes, I am committed to my job. I’m strong and I’m focused, but emotionally, I have to admit I break down daily inside myself.”

“I’m speaking to the brothers back there, I wish they would make time to deal with their emotions, because when you come out here, it is going to hit.”

From Prison Focus Issue 50
Fall 2016

California Prison Focus is soon approaching the twen-ty-fifth year of our existence. Our priorities since day one have included doing legal interviews with
people imprisoned in California; historically speaking and foremost, those held in prolonged isolation, without judicial review or oversight. They’ve also included publishing about the abuses of human and civil rights and human dignity that go on inside prisons.

The occasion of our twenty-fifth anniversary is therefore a good time to remember that in California, as well as through-out the US, the news media have no special right of access to the prisons. (See, e.g., Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817 (1974).)

Moreover, for almost as long as we’ve been around, the press has ostensibly been banned from conducting face-to-face interviews with members of California’s incarcerated public. This is due to an executive order issued by former Governor Pete Wilson in 1997. Yet, we know from watching TV news that CDCr has welcomed members of the press to interact with its wards whenever it’s suited the CDCr’s interests.

Wilson’ 1997 ban on the media came on the heels of the CDCr’s apparently unsuccessful attempt, in late 1996, to push through the same ban via proposed changes to California Code of Regulations, Title 15. The changed regulations would have further disallowed confidential correspondence between representatives of the media and those inside.

In response to Wilson’s decree, legislators introduced a succession of bills that would have granted journalists the affirmative right to interview imprisoned persons. No fewer than nine such bills were introduced between 1997 and 2011, beginning with SB 434, sponsored by Senator Quentin Kopp during the 1997 legislative season.

With a single exception, all of the above-mentioned bills were overwhelmingly adopted by both houses of the legislature, only to be later vetoed by Governor Wilson and his successors Gray Davis, Arnold Schwartzenegger and Jerry Brown. (See the bottom of this article for further details.) The single exception was AB 1886, which passed with a solid majority in the Assembly in May 2004, before the author requested cancellation of the Senate’s vote. Meanwhile, a similar bill, SB 1164, was making its way through the legislature that Spring. During final Senate and Assembly votes held in August 2004, SB 1164 readily passed, respectively by margins of 22 to 7 and 44 to 34.

The vetoed bills generally included provisions allowing the CDCr to deny particular requests from the media or to reasonably limit access where concerns for safety and security were invoked with some degree of specificity. Particular requests might have been denied, for example, where re-quests to interview any one individual were excessive.

“Excessive request” provisions no doubt reflected rhetoric being bandied about at the time of Pete Wilson’s executive order: In 1997, Wilson and representatives of the CDCr were cynically broadcasting one-sided/lop-sided messages about prisoners becoming celebrities and exploiting celebrity to personal advantage and ill effect. It was as though issues of transparency, overcrowded prisons, and the public’s inter-est in knowing what was going on with one of the largest and largest-growing sectors of California’s government were non-existent.

Media access in California in 2016
As stated at the beginning of this article, the press has no special right of access to the prisons, either in California or in the US at large.

California Code of Regulations, Title 15 (as updated through January 1, 2016), section 3261.5, subdivision (b) provides: “[N]ews media and non-news media representa-tives shall be allowed to interview inmates in person in accordance with the visiting requirements of sections 3170 through 3176.3.” Sections 3170 through 3176.3 pertain to all visits other than confidential attorney visits; generally meaning, visits by a person’s loved ones and social acquaintances. Otherwise, the access of the media is subject to the CD-Cr’s independent discretion and is curtailed and supervised.

(See § 3261.1, subd. (a)–(c).)

Representatives of the media shall not “enter condemned units, the execution chamber or any area currently affected by an emergency situation without approval of the Secretary of the CDCR or designee.” (§ 3261.1, subd. (c).) “Confidential mail,” under Title 15, section 3141, does not include correspondence with representatives of the media.

(This writer strongly doubts that confidential correspondence between representatives of the media and those inside has ever been permitted under Title 15—regardless of the CDCR’s endeavor in 1996 to explicitly ban it.) Penal Code section 2601 however permits those imprisoned to “correspond, confidentially, with any member of the State Bar or holder of public office, provided that the prison authorities may open and inspect incoming mail to search for contraband.”
Summary of legislative efforts to grant the press the affirmative right to conduct face-to-face interviews with people in California’s prisons (1997–present)

1997: SB 434 (sponsored by Senator Quentin Kopp) pass-es both houses and is vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson

1999: AB 1440 (sponsored by Assembly Member Carole Migden) passes both houses and is vetoed by Governor Gray Davis, who takes office in January 1999

2000: AB 2101 (sponsored by Assembly Member Carole Migden) passes both houses and is vetoed by Governor Gray Davis

2001–2003: No legislation is introduced; Arnold Schwarzenegger takes office in November 2003 after Gray Davis is recalled in a special election

2004: SB 1164 (sponsored by Senator Gloria Romero) passes both houses is vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger; no Senate vote happens on AB 1866 (sponsored by Assembly Member Mark Leno), because the author requests cancellation of the Senate vote

2005: AB 698 (sponsored by Assembly Member Ray Haynes) and SB 239 (sponsored by Senator Gloria Romero) pass both houses and are vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger

2006: SB 1521 (sponsored by Senator Gloria Romero) passes both houses and is vetoed by Governor Schwarzeneg-ger

2007: SB 304 (sponsored by Senator Gloria Romero) passes both houses and is vetoed by Governor Schwarzeneg-ger

2008–2010: No legislation is introduced; Gloria Romero, the Democratic Majority Leader from 2001 until 2008, is termed out in 2010

2011: AB 1270 (sponsored by Senator Ammiano) passes both houses and is vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown, who entered office in January 2011

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    • Keep control by using the audio and cruise controls on the TLX’s steering wheel.
    • Ensure comfort for drivers and passengers with dual zone climate controls.
    • Vault like quietness in all driving environments is the result of improvements in the noise reduction technologies like Active Noise Control.
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    • Get the most out of the all new TLX by choosing more than just a paint color – get the engine, transmission and performance features you really want. Going head to head with class leaders, it’s a performance powerhouse that hints at some exciting things to come from the full Acura sedan line.
    • Feel the thrill of the advanced new powertrains, which deliver responsive, efficient and refined power to the drivers through the 2.4L 16 valve inline 4-cylinder engine with direct injection. Mated to an 8-speed dual clutch transmission, you’ll enjoy a truly engaging driving experience.
    • For even more power, opt for the 3.5L SOHC V6 engine with VCM, paired with the 9-speed automatic transmission.
    • Choose your driving mode: Econ, Normal, Sport or Sport+ to get the ride for your mood. Visit our blog to learn more bout the TLX’s driving modes.
    • Here are the TLX’s MPG
      • If you choose the TLX the standard 4 Cylinder TLX, it has an EPA estimated 24 MPG in the city and 35 on the highway1.
      • The TLX V-6 has an EPA estimated 21 MPG in the city and 34 on the highway1.
      • If you upgrade to the TLX SH-AWD, it has an EPA estimated 21 MPG on the city roads and 31 MPG on the highways1.

    • Enhanced top of the line safety features not only protect you after an accident, but actively work to prevent collisions from happening at all. High strength steel construction is paired with an innovative network of sensors to keep you focused, aware, and safe on the road.
    • The TLX uses Acura’s next-gen ACE body structure and is expected to get the best possible safety ratings from the IIHS and NHTSA.
    • TLX has available top level safety features like Collision Mitigation Braking System, Forward Collision Warning, Lane Departure Warning, Lake Keeping Assist System, Adaptive Cruise Control with Low Speed Follow and Blind Spot Indicator.
    • The new luxury sport sedan employs traditional safety features like 4 Wheel ABS, traction control, stability control, and electronic brakeforce distribution.

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1.Based on 2015 EPA mileage ratings. Use for comparison purposes only. Your actual mileage will vary, depending on how you drive and maintain your vehicle, driving conditions, battery pack age/condition (hybrid only) and other factors.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

NEWS: CollegeGear Affiliate Phone Number

Back in 2003, I joined CollegeGear.com as an affiliate for my college sports website Collegesportsinfo.com. I had decent sales and received payments. Fast forward a few years and their customer service is non-existent.

For the past year, I've been trying to contact CollegeGear.com part of the FeelGoodNetwork affiliate program. They have a contact form on their website, so you'd think it would be as simple as filling in the form. No dice. I've done this 10 times with no response. Luckily, I have about 5 email addresses from employees there since I had been one of the original affiliates. Still, no responses from the emails I sent to them.

Next step...find a phone number. Alas, no phone number on the website. Next step is a whois search, but even there they have a bad phone number.

So I finally found a number that rings. It was on an old PDF contract from them. But when I called, it's an answering service. So i still have no clue if they will get back to me. The person I spoke with even gave me another number to try (800-939-9829) and that number was no good.

From Amazon:

Some numbers that no longer work:
(800) 988-7835 (answering service...disconnected now)
(800) 939-9829 (disconnected)
(206) 547-1411 (disconnected number they still have everywhere)
(206) 336-5594 (used to be the CEOs number but is now some other company)
(206) 529-5024 (marketing manager phone number that is no longer working)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Director, Ad Sales (San Francisco or New York)

Title: Director, Ad Sales
Salary: $100K base plus commissions, $200K at plan
Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY

Our client is currently looking for Directors for Ad Sales to grow business in either NY or SF. Calling on national brands and agencies, the Director will be selling ad space that reaches more than 5 million mobile users each month. Our client delivers advertisements to a highly segmented audience using precise demographics, location and activity targeting.

Must have 3+ years experience in ad sales, with at least 2 years of that in online sales to be considered.

To apply for this position, submit your resume to jobs (at) clearstage.com and include the title/location of the position

Friday, February 13, 2009

NEWS: 6 cures for common SEO mistakes

6 cures for common SEO mistakes - iMediaConnection.com: "Article HIghlights:

* Quality and original content are what create the highest SEO visibility and rankings
* A common SEO mistake is to use a 302 redirect instead of a 301
* Rewriting URLs can prompt Google and other search engines to index deep pages

Next in SEO

How bulletproof is your SEO campaign? Do you have all your bases covered? Are you getting the most organic traffic available? Smart marketers crave targeted, low-cost web traffic, especially in this challenging economy. When implemented correctly, a finely tuned SEO campaign has the ability to drive traffic efficiently, especially when compared to other forms of marketing.

However, many sites don't take full advantage of the power of a well-honed SEO campaign that has implemented both on-the-page and off-the-page SEO best practices. SEO is both an art and a science, and I view the science part as 90 percent of that balance, even though there is some debate on what true best practices include.

With that in mind, listed here are six common SEO best practices that are often overlooked. The techniques are usually quick and painless to implement and can have dramatic effects on SEO results."


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Press Release -- January 28th, 2010
Source: NTT Communications
Tags: Exchange, IPv6

NTT Com Offers IP Phone Numbers for Pet Owners

TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications (NTT Com) announces today a new way for pets to be tagged with identification while allowing the owner to retain their privacy, thanks to the use of anonymous IP phone numbers from NTT Com. Using an IP phone number, the owner can avoid having to publicly display their regular phone number on the pet’s collar, or on posters or online if the pet goes missing, but still enable people to easily call them when the pet is found.

Calls made to the dedicated IP (050 prefix) phone number can be handled in two anonymous ways: it can be automatically forwarded to the customer’s private phone number without the caller seeing the forwarding number, or it can be automatically routed to a voicemail server, in which case the customer is promptly notified via e-mail. Phone numbers also can be blocked.

The basic monthly fee for an Internet-based IP phone number from NTT Com is just 525 yen (tax included), which is much lower than the monthly fee for a fixed-line phone number.

According to the Japan Pet Food Association, there are more than 26 million pets in Japan and the number is growing. As more and more pets become lost, centers in charge of public health and animal management are being forced to deal with a rising number of animals bearing no identification. While some owners affix contact information to their pets’ collars, other owners are uncomfortable about openly displaying this information in public.

The concept of using an IP phone number for one’s pet is being promoted under the name Wan Nyan Ber. The Japanese onomatopoeia for a dog’s bark is "wan" and a cat’s meow is "nyan" while it links "Nyan Ber" and "number" as an equivoque.

Users must subscribe to an IP phone number from NTT Com. As a part of the launch campaign, anyone who completes their Wan Nyan Ba registration by April 30 and registers for the campaign by May 31 can receive a tag bearing their dedicated IP phone number and the pet’s name. More than one hundred tag designs will be available.

The IP phone number, one of several IP phone services offered by NTT Com, is marketed under the trade name 050 Anshin (Safe) Number.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides a broad range of global networks, management solutions and IT services to customers worldwide. The company is renowned for reliable, high-quality security, hosting, voice, data and IP services, as well as expertise in managed networks and leadership in IPv6 transit technology. NTT Communications’ extensive infrastructure includes Arcstar™ Global IP-VPN and Global e-VLAN, as well as a Tier-1 IP backbone reaching more than 150 countries in partnership with major Internet service providers, and secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT Communications is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, one of the world’s largest telecoms with listings on the Tokyo, London and New York stock exchanges. Please visit

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

The premier league of Trinidad and Tobago is called the TT Pro League. It was formally established in the year 1999. The league is normally played from August until May. Most matches in that league are normally played on Fridays and Saturdays. This is different from other leagues in the world like EPL or La Liga where some games are played on Sunday and sometimes in week days. It is very rare for the TTPro league to be played in week days.

Before 1999 the competition was known as Professional Football League. The reformation of the league from Professional Football League to TT Pro League was for the purpose of preparing quality national team players as well as to develop more football talents for the local players. Currently the number of teams which participate is 8. This few number of teams may be caused by the small population of the country itself, I guess.

There are two domestic trophies in the TT Pro League which are the FA trophy and the Digicel Charity Shield. Digicel is a company which sponsors the TT Pro League.

In the TT Pro league there is no relegation and also no promotion. At times the teams in the lower level league can apply to participate in the TT Pro League. The next level below the TT Pro League is called the National Super League. To play in the TT Pro League does not result from promotion, but an application should be made. Once the application is approved, the team can play in the TT Pro League.

Trinidad and Tobago Squad ready for DCC cup in Jamaica.
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The level which is found below the National Super League, are the premier divisions or first division in the counties or zones. An Example is the Eastern FA Premier division with 9 clubs in total. The Tobago FA first Division have 13 clubs in total.

While the TT Pro League is a full-time professional league, The national super league is just a mix between amateur and professional playing.

The Trinidad and Tobago Football association was established in 1908. Its headquarters is located in Port of Spain in Trinidad. The TTFA joined FIFA in 1963 and CONCACAF in 1962. The current president is Raymond Tim Kee. This organ is responsible for all amateur as well as professional football competitions in Trinidad and Tobago.

In their long time world cup dream TT tried to qualify in 1965 but was unlucky. Their dreams came up again for the 1974 world cup, but after losing their game to Haiti, TT did not succeed for the other time. In the 1990 world cup, TT needed only a draw in their last match with USA, but they only saw USA washing away their expectations after they defeated TT by a goal to nil. After waiting and struggling for so long, in 2006 it became possible for them to fly all the way to Germany.

Trinidad & Tobago VS Mexico in 2012 Olympic Qualifications Highlights.

The TTFA also supervises the youth teams of U-17, U-1, U-21 and U-23. This is probably the main cause as to why TT had a remarkable team which participated in 2006 world cup. It is also very interesting to see their women youth preparatory teams which are the U-15, U-17, U-19 and U-20. This is a very good base for the strong women team for Trinidad and Tobago.

The current champions of the TTPro league are the Defence Force FC. Defence Force FC finished at the top of league tables with a total of 46 points and winning 14 games in total. T&TEC Fc finished at the bottom with only 8 points. T&TEC Fc lost 17 games in total, won only two matches and drew only 2 matches.

The top scorer in the finished season has been Devorn Jorsling with 20 goals. Jorsling plays for Defence FC.  The second top scorer with 14 goals comes from North East Stars FC, a team which finished 4th in the league tables.

Can TT produce other stars that will put on the shoes of people like Dwight Yorke?


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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Global Leftism Wears Its Mania on Its Sleeve

Frances Russell lays her cards on the table...

...And they're all jokers.

How else to explain the embarrassing (if only Russell had the sense to be ebmarrassed) op/ed, entitled "Banking, Smoke and Mirrors", published in the Winnipeg Free Press?

If any doubt remained that Russell is, in fact, an extreme leftist, this op/ed piece ought to dispell any such doubt.

In the article, Russell counter-factually insists that the Canadian government did, indeed, bailout its banks, and so should support the global banking tax being pushed by various Eurpean left-wing governments.

In order to make this case, Russell channels economics Jim Stanford and Michel Choussudovsky.

These are, of course, no ordinary economists. Stanford is currently in the employ of the Canadian Auto Workers union -- essentially a labour front for the NDP. The other individual, Choussudovsky, is currently involved with the Centre for Research on Globalization.

Describing itself as an "independent research and media group of progressive writers, scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of 'globalisation' and 'disarming' the New World Order", the organization's website is an eye-opener on how seriously the organization should be taken.

Among other things, the organization has been a haven for 9/11 truthers ranging from the University of Lethbridge's Anthony J Hall to Louis Farrakhan.

A global bank tax would be a rather odd initiative for a group opposing the so-called "New World Order" to support. After all, attempting to impose such a measure is actually a globalizing influence. Clearly, the difference is that this is their globalization (which they believe to be good). It shockingly resembles measures proposed by left-wing globalist George Monbiot, who has embraced the climate change cause simply because it will aid his efforts to push for a global parliament.

In fact, a global tax on bank transactions was the means by which Monbiot has insisted that such a Parliament would be funded.

Based on something like this, it's nearly impossible for a rational person to see the global bank tax for what it really is: as a tool of imposing global leftism on the rest of the world. Which, apparently, is the good kind of globalization.

Russell concludes her op/ed by suggesting that Canadians should judge Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party by what she says they have done -- supporting de-regulation of banking -- and not by what they have actually done -- introducing a federal securities regulator.

Just as it's impossible to take the Centre for Research on Globalization seriously, it's becoming very difficult to take Frances Russell seriously.

  1. China, India and Canada have repeated the Robin Hood or Bank Tax is a no-go.

    The countries that have failed banks are free to take local action to clean up their problems.

    The left are in panic mode, as the governments are dumping the socialist governments for lower taxes and more pain for fiscal sanity.

    The tap is being turned off to large unions, pensions and programs of entitlement.

    Greece, France riots and protests will spread and engulf Europe as the Euro fails.

    Merkel is under pressure to stop propping up the southern European countries that won't fix their balance sheets.

    This is the greatest time for being a conservative and the CPC in Canada are in sweet spot.

  2. If you want a better sense of what this bank tax is really about, I highly recommend reading Manifesto For a New World Order by George Monbiot.

    It's actually a rather frightening book, but you'll recognize a lot of it.

    Then dig up a copy of Ideas edited by Bernie Lucht and read the George Monbiot transcript you'll find in it.

    Monbiot is the new Alinsky.

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Highlander Dolphin Swim Team

The 2018 Highlander Dolphin Swim Team season will begin April 9th.
Registration will open on January 3, 2018.
The Swim Team trains at the Highlands High School Swimming Pool.
    Location: 6601 Guthrie St, North Highlands, CA 95660

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/HighlanderDolphinSwimTeam
Website: www.highlanderdolphins.org

Message from the Head Coach

My name is Travis Bill and I am excited to be the Head Coach of the Dolphins this season! I have been raised in and around the pool since I was five years old. I swam for the Dolphins as child from the age of 5 to 18. For the past 15 years as a parent, I’ve served on the Parent Board, League Rep, VP of NorCal Swim League and NorCal VP of Champs for the past 6yrs. I have also Coached the Dolphin swim team in years past when needed. This year will be the first year as the Head Coach for the Dolphins. Swimming has had a great impact on my life. Some of my fondest childhood memories are those from the Dolphins and not to mention the most fun. I am grateful for the chance to lead this team and hope to create memories for your children that will last a lifetime.

2017-2018 Swim Team Board Members:

• Ada Berget, President
• Jessica Jones, Vice President
• Alina Marian, Treasurer
• Rosalie Buserwini, Secretary
• Florin Marian, General Board member
• Sara Carson, General Board member
• Ann Shrader, General Board member

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Jordana Brewster wearing Winter Kate

While out to lunch at Kings Road Cafe in LA, on May 25, actress Jordana Brewster was spotted wearing a Winter Kate "Camellia" dress in sage.
This vintage cotton dress is from the spring 2010 collection.
Winter Kate "Camellia" dress

Anna said...

I think it is a WK skirt! Anna

mary said...

Yes, it is, huge thanks Anna:)

Anna said...

you're welcome, I love your page so its evident :)Anna


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Saturday, January 01, 2011

A New Year begins...01.01.11

For 2011 I have chosen the word Balance.
I'm feeling like I really need to get that work/life/self balance right.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away" Barbara De Angeles

I need to feel as though I can give enough time to my children, my husband, my home duties/other commitments and still manage to find time for me. At the moment that time tends to be here on the computer late at night - not at all conducive to getting enough hours of sleep each night.

I'm hoping the following intentions will help support me in getting the balance just right
* get back into a routine with my work around the house, including making sure the dishes are done and the kitchen is tidy each night before bed.
* Make sure I have at least two computer free evenings a week. Spent the time doing some crafting, or reading a book, and then heading to bed as soon as I feel tired.
* Spend more time outside. Walking Isaac to school, playing outside with the kids, having a daily cuppa outside in the sunshine.
* Making the time for a regular crafty day with friends.
* Work out an afternoon routine that will give everyone the time and attention and they need for homework, sport, music practice etc
* Meal plan so that I'm not always on the back foot deciding what to make for tea.
* Take a few minutes each day to appreciate how wonderfully blessed our family and life really is. Place a few 'reminders' around to make sure I remember to do this.

I'm sure there will be more things that I will add to this list. Hopefully they will guide me, and prompt me in the direction I want to be heading. As I juggle the joys and complexities of teenagers and toddlers, friends and family, self and others, I'm hoping to get closer to that perfect harmony that makes my life feel balanced and simplified and be able to feel happy and content on a daily basis. I want to build on my homemaking skills, find time to do the things I enjoy, spend time with loved ones, appreciate the little things. I want to give more weight to those things that will help balance my life, and less to those that seek to disrupt the delicate balance I'm seeking to achieve.

To help remind me of the direction that I want to be heading in this year, I'm going to print off the following words and place then somewhere that I will read them on a daily basis.

May today there be peace within.
May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others.
May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
May you be content with yourself just the way you are.

Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul
the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of us.

When I came across this prayer it seemed to really resonate with me. The first fact that caught my eye was the name, St. Theresa of Lisieux's Prayer - my confirmation name is Theresa - it seemed very appropriate! The words are so powerful and the message is one of strength, hope, faith and happiness. It reminds me that the only way to find that life balance and the sense of peace is within myself.

I have also used the following quote, as part of this years diary, as a daily reminder/prompt

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton

Shan said...

i love your word nic!! good luck in achieving balance... i'm sure you will get there quickly and enjoy some "you" time

happy new year xx

Christie said...

Balance is such a good word. Your family is so lucky to have a strong and thoughtful woman in their lives.

Mamie Girl said...

Hey Nic. So supprised to come over here and learn that your word for the year is the same as mine. I want to get my mind a little more balanced, i tend to worry about things far to much so i am going to try meditating this year. Also spend way too much time thinking about crafting instead of doing. I definetly need more balance. LOVE your new header gonna have to go explore....

The Handmaden said...

I hope you can achieve the balance you need this year. The things you have listed are things all of us Mums need more of.

Sarah-Jane Cook said...

Far Out Nic, I'm exhausted at the mere thought of it!! Good luck to you in acheiving balance, i don't know how you do it.

Here's a quote I have had for years which may help:
"Perfect happiness is enthusiasm , minus expectation" I love it, it's from Sri Chimnoy but I'm not really sure who he/she is or what religous beleifs, but it struck a chord with me!! Cheers

kathie said...

Good word Nic. Although, I've always thought of you as being a balanced person anyway :). I haven't found a word for 2011 yet. Still searching for what I want to get out of the year...

Jenny said...

Hi Nic, if you are still interested in a doll for your little one someone has just cancelled their Feb order. You can email me at littlejennywrendolls(at)


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Saturday, 9 June 2012

Health, wealth and happiness.

Uh-oh! Another title with three items.
The Three Stooges in 1938's Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb. L to R: Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine
Which of the three things in the title is the most important?

I run a health blog, so you don't need to be a rocket scientist to guess my opinion. Health. As I mentioned in "The Diet Debacle" debacle, you are what you eat i.e. if you eat/drink rubbish, you get a rubbish body. Therefore, what people eat/drink is important in order to maximise their health.

Should "food" manufacturers (whose prime objective is to maximise their profits) have the right to unduly influence people's food choices (which results in them experiencing deteriorating health) by using cunning marketing methods? I say "No".

Should "food" manufacturers have the right to unduly influence politicians into subsidising the raw ingredients of their "food" by bribery lobbying? I say "No".

It's been argued that "food" manufacturers should have the right to free speech. I disagree, as the motives of a "food" manufacturer are completely different from the motives of an individual.

I'm not asking for a ban on the marketing of non-food items or a ban on government subsidies for non-food items. Am I really asking so much?

The above are moot points, as "food" manufacturers and governments are very powerful, and nobody wants to give up power. Therefore, nothing much will change unless you people out there can persuade other people to do what you are doing by leading by example, and so on. If enough people stop buying "food" (and I'm using quotes deliberately, as a lot of "food" isn't fit for pig-swill, let alone human consumption) and start buying, cooking & eating real food, some "food" manufacturers might experience such a large drop in profits that they go out of business.

garymar said...

Diet, Nutrition, and Blog.

Nigel Kinbrum said...

Ha, ha, and ha!

Kate Ground said...

Is lying free speech?

Nigel Kinbrum said...

I don't think that truth/lies is a criterion for deciding what is/isn't allowed as free speech, so I can't answer your question.

According to Wikipedia, causing harm (also offence) is a criterion.

I therefore argue that CIAB marketing (which influences people to consume products instead of produce, which can cause harm in the long-term) should not be allowed.