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Family relationships
Posted on November 17, 2008 in Generic biologicals
(corrected version) Dear Friends, At the end I had to rush the essay. Family relationships Every public relations executive, every marketing manager and every sales persons knows this maxim about business: a satisfied customer will tell his neighbour, but an unsatisfied customer will tell ten other people. The same goes for families. A neighbour will know about the happy family living next door, but the whole neighbourhood will know about an unhappy family living in the street. But there is more to family relationships then unhappy families. For this discussion we need to establish what we mean by family and relationships. not only do we need to clarify what constitutes a family but also who may be a member of a family. moreover, does membership to a family confer any privileges? Relationships itself is a rather open ended concept. How should we understand this concept? Are there duties and obligations involved? Does this imply social relationships as well? The days when philosophers could relax on their favourite easy chair and contemplate the infinite are long gone. Today we have to contend with what is happening in other branches of knowledge mongering. To be fair it has always been like that; more or less. From our point of view, we have to consider a family both as a biological system and a social organisation. And each aspect has its own set of philosophical issues. A high school teacher of mine was fond of tell us that; a problem shared, is a problem halved. Apart from being a catchy phrase, it is also backed up by such theories as game theory or evolutionary biological systems. The fact that humans have evolved into two distinct sexes implies that there must be some form of cooperation between the two to fulfil the biological task of reproduction. Well, reproduction is certainly a problem halved, even if today it might be shared with a laboratory technician wearing a white coat and face mask rather than something kinkier for the occasion. White coats apart, we can still take the biologically determined union as the basis of what we mean by family. However, we must also distinguish, today, between genetically related family, when the off springs of a couple are also genetically related to each other. Today, with fertility technology the off springs need not necessarily be genetically related to the parents (to both or one of them). The other forms of families still follow the traditional make up; adopted children and step children. One important aspect of a genetic family is that there is a strong genetic bond to protect and bring up the young. Whether we call this genetic altruism or instinctive behaviour is not that important for us. This sort of genetic cooperation makes evolutionary sense if the offspring is given a good chance to reach reproductive age. A great deal of generic families follow this strategy. But sometimes, in fact many times, the genetic parents or parent of an offspring abandon that very same offspring. Although we tend to associate this phenomenon with pictures from developing countries, it is not exclusive to these countries. How should we read and understand this sort of family relationship? We can look at this as confirmation that if life in our environment becomes seriously dangerous to our own survival, it would make sense to abandon any offsprings that might prejudice the chances of survival. To put this in a very colloquial way; looking after number one is the first priority. Incidentally this seemingly selfish behaviour has nothing to do with the idea of the selfish gene introduced by Dawkins. Some might object to this idea of looking after number one first. However, a work around this seemingly biological instinct is not to put one's self and one's offspring in danger. Hence, the answer to families living in a very hostile and impoverished environment is not to hold on to offsprings, come what may, but not to have offsprings in the first place. If we want to escape from a hostile environment, it seems to me to be unethical to have offsprings in such an environment. We could also say that when a parent abandons its genetic offspring it is a reflection of a breakdown in the genetic programme. A sort of malfunction of the genetic survival system. But this has to be contrasted with the fact that the reproductive instinct is much stronger than the caring instinct. Not to mention that there will be other opportunities to reproduce, for someone of reproducible maturity and sufficiently good health. Another interpretation is what we might call the cuckoo phenomenon. Since the reproductive instinct is so pronounced one can take the view of having offsprings anyway and then hope others will take care of them. Especially when human nature has developed and evolved a sophisticated form of social and biological altruistic cooperation. This approach depends on the belief that not every one will cheat the system and the system is rigid enough not to withhold any altruistic cooperation to those who need it. At the genetic level this behaviour is as neutral and amoral as the fertilisation process itself; what matters is that the biological system reaches reproductive maturity to pass on the genes to the next generation and not who cares for that system in the meantime. That genetic parents are more likely to care for an offspring is not the same as saying that only the genetic parents can care for an offspring. If this is a true representation of relationships within a biological family then surely there seems to be a minimum threshold of personal survival before the genetic instinct to care for off springs takes over. Could it be that this means that family relationships at the biological level are relative to the environment the biological individual find themselves in? Moreover, at the biological level family relationships are not only relative but also flexible. Thus, what makes a biological/genetic family in a state of equilibrium is when it can overcome or manage well the difficulties of the environment around it. The family is of course more than just parents and offsprings, but when we take other members into consideration, we change the parameters from biological to social. Of course, the biological element is still there, but for day to day considerations it is not that prominent. I will call this the social family. If nature did not introduce some sort of categorical imperative to look after genetic offsprings, then can we imply a categorical imperative for the social family? As a cooperative system that exploits its environment social and biological families surely involve rights and duties for its members. These rights and duties surely introduce their own moral and social obligations. For example, at the biological level one has to contribute one's energy (which is part of a biological systems) in exploiting the environment for the good of the family group. However, looking after offsprings as a form of family relationship must surely count as the most fundamental of family relationships and obligation. After all, they are one's offsprings; what can be more basic than that? Of course, this does not imply an obligation ad infinitum, but certainly an obligation until circumstances require it. Maybe even at the social level of family relationship there isn't an obvious categorical imperative to look after offsprings let alone other family members. However, there is a strong practical expediency to look after family members or have good family relationships. The family is certainly the most important group we have access to and know very well. Thus, having good family relationships makes good sense. It is also the first group we are likely to be indebted to in the first place. although there does not seem to be any form of categorical imperative to have good relationships with one's family there does seem to be a very strong rational argument to actually do have good relationships with one's family. This changes the moral standing of the family from "have to" to "want to." And this principle seems to be taken very seriously by some families. Just consider the fortunes and histories of mafia families, dynasties, American presidential families, European monarchies, and business empires. There is no doubt that fortune favours the audacious, as Machiavelli said, but it also favours good family relationships. It is safe to assume that both at the genetic/biological level and the intra-relationship level there is nothing that makes it imperative for families have to have a cooperative relationship. However, it makes sense that families should adopt cooperative relationship strategies; division of labour, accumulation of resources, protection and safety. The evidence does seem to point in this direction. But as I have said, families in also genetic context become social entities. And as social living organisations they have to interact and compete within their society and with other families. Although some might object that this inter-social relationship is off topic I do not believe so. Firstly, what happens in society has a direct causal effect on the family; for example a change in the political fortunes of a society affects all families in the society. Secondly, we as individuals within a family group also have to interact with individuals outside our family; for example, holding a job. This directly or indirectly has an effect on the family. And thirdly, which is the most important point of all, society, through its various institutions and organisations, imposes itself on the family. It is this third point that I want discuss next. The issues raised by the influence of society on families are quite wide. I therefore want to submit just a flavour of what I am thinking about. I will refer to two extreme cases of the spectrum. The first is a quote from the archbishop of Canterbury and the other is more a type of family interference within a genre of interferences: I refer to honour killings which is an extreme case of social influence. But although we associate honour killing with certain cultures and religions, we still find it in very mild and dilutes forms through class and caste structures. The archbishop is quoted* as saying, “.....pushy parents who rush children between ballet and violin lessons are suffocating their offspring too. Children live crowded lives, we're not making their lives easy by pressurising them, whether it's the claustrophobia of gang culture or the claustrophobia of intense achievement in middle-class areas." What the archbishop is referring to is of course something most people in western and partly developed countries experience. The need to achieve and the need to succeed is an ever present pressure on all of us. The archbishop uses the word achievement, but we can distil this concept further to extract the real driving force behind this behaviour: I shall call it the cult-of-wanting-more. The archbishop seems to have missed the point here: it is not that we set ourselves goals to achieve things, but that we want more whatever those goals are achieved. Achievement is a signal to want more. We want more because that is the society and culture we live in tells us we should do. We want a faster bigger car, a more expensive house, a more exotic holiday, and so on. And from this we get the pressure on families and its members. Of course this achievement and wanting more is always dressed as a virtue and the right thing to do. But the bottom line is this, if we want more than by definition we are never satisfied, and if we are not satisfied then surely our plans for the family have failed. And if we or our partner fails this is seen as having failed the family. In April this year most of us read** about or saw the video of the honour killing of the 17-year-old Yazidi girl who was killed in public simply for falling in love with a Muslim boy. Indeed this is an extreme case of cultural delinquency and social immorality, but certainly not an unusual one. But our society and our culture does not only interfere with family relationships as in these extreme cases. In English, especially British English, we have the expression, “to marry above or below one’s station.” Maybe it is not as common as it used to be, but even having a negative expression to describe certain unions is bad enough. Thus the idea of marrying someone who comes from a different class, group or caste is itself a pressure on the family. Maybe we have stopped seeing families, especially the parents of the family, as life long strategic alliances, but now we see families as business partnership with a P&L analysis every so often. Pressure does not only come in the form of achievement or cultural delinquency, but also what passes as moral principles. I have argued that in nature there is no binding categorical imperative, only mutually advantageous strategies, which work for most, most of the time. Nature did not establish a do or die imperative for family relationships any more than it has created such a principle for reproduction. But societies and most religions do try to impose such imperatives. imperatives that require a license to fall in love, imperatives not to separate when alliances fail, imperatives to reproduce which seems like blind following of the want-more cult and imperatives that promote class-ism (kings are not suppose to marry commoners). In real life, of course, there have always been divorces, birth control and the rest of it, except only the privileged families could avail themselves of these opportunities. Not to mention that usually these rules are biased and prejudicial to women. Are men ever victims of honour killings? In a report** that appeared in the New York Times, NICHOLAS WADE writes about the work of Dr Haidt who basically asks whether the categorical imperative (do unto others), in found in our genes. Dr Haidt has identified what he calls innate psychological mechanisms which basically are: loyalty to the in-group, respect for authority and hierarchy, and a sense of purity or sanctity. He is also quoted as saying that, "Those who found ways to bind themselves together were more successful." Successful in natural selection; he even suggests that religion help humans succeed in nature. Not everyone agrees. Dr Frans B. M. de Waal has this to say, "For me, the moral system is one that resolves the tension between individual and group interests in a way that seems best for the most members of the group, hence promotes a give and take." Of course this is a modern version of an age old problem. It seems that this issue of family relationships (as in other relationships) is without a clear cut explanation and solution. However, we do know for sure that nature is very adaptable and accommodating. After all that is the secret of success of natural selection. I do not think that the categorical imperative applies here. Take care Lawrence *'Is our society broken? Yes, I think it is' The Daily Telegraph / The Sunday Telegraph By Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/15/nbishop215.xml **Is ‘Do Unto Others’ Written Into Our Genes? The New York Times September 18, 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/science/18mora.html?_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin *************************************************** **********HOLIDAY FLATS********** Mayte; Almer
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Posted on November 14, 2008 in Medicine news
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Posted on October 01, 2008 in Ed pump
California teachers are mad at Governor Schwarzenegger for reneging on a $3 billion budgetary promise, nurses are locked in a battle with him over hospital staffing standards, and labor generally is girding for war over his special election and ballot proposals that aim to gut union political power in the state. Judging by the polls, none of this is helping Arnold with the voters. Just 42 percent approve of his handling of tax and budget matters. Only 33 percent agree with him on education and nearly eight in 10 think new state revenues should go to K-12 public education. Sixty-one percent oppose his plan for a special election, while only 33 percent approve. Today was a big day for the Governor's opponents, who staged large rallies in Sacramento and Los Angeles that seemed to advance their momentum. The L.A. rally took place in Pershing Square, just down the hill from my office. The building management folks are always great about alerting us to both demonstrations and film shoots, so when I heard the faint sound of cheering way up in my "corporate aerie" late in the afternoon, I knew what it was and where it was coming from. My office window faces south. I looked out -- Pershing Square appeared nearly full of people. I was curious, so at 5:00 p.m. (our nominal end-of-day, though I rarely manage to escape before 6:30), I slipped down the elevator and steps to Olive Street, then down the hill to the Biltmore. The demonstration was orderly and pretty well confined to the park. Traffic didn't seem very much affected. I fell in with the crowd and crossed over. The morning overcast was long gone, the afternoon had grown warm and there was a friendly, festival air to the place. Downtown looked lovely in the late afternoon light -- the towers on Bunker Hill had taken on a liquid glow. LAPD was barely in evidence -- and the officers I saw were smiling, hatless and cordial. At the margins there were a few of the fringe elements you see at every demonstration -- guys in Lenin-style caps selling newspapers with "revolution" in the masthead -- but most of the crowd looked corn-fed and wholesome, the sort of crowd you might find at Disneyland or the Glendale Galleria on a weekend afternoon. There weren't many people there in coats-and-ties, but my olive Brooks Brothers number drew only a few stares. One perfect stranger said in a friendly way, "Say, aren't you with the L.A. Times?" I had to disappoint, but when I said that I had married into the UFCW (my wife works for one of the supermarket chains), the welcome got even warmer. The California Teachers Association (CTA) was a big organizer of the event, and much of the crowd had the look of teachers who had spent the day in the classroom and had stopped off in downtown on the way home for a little adventure and a little political activism. This is middle America (or at least that portion of it that teaches in the public schools) -- this is who Arnold has taken on. It doesn't seem to be working out for him. The rhetoric from the podium was fiery and seemed to draw an enthusiastic response. Between the whir of the news helicopters overhead and the pounding drums of the Aztec dancers at the northern edge of the square, however, it was hard to hear. I found a perch near the bronze statue of a Spanish-American War soldier and contented myself with taking in the sights. The signs people carried struck me as revealing. Arnold used punchlines and allusions from his movies repeatedly during his political rise. Now they're being turned against him. Here's a smattering: "Hey, Arnold, Don't Terminate Our Schools" "The Kindergarten Cop Has Robbed Our Kids" "Don't Be A Girlie Man Gov -- Pump Up ED" "Arnold, Pump Up Your Brain" "Nurses -- The Real Action Heroes" "Hasta La Vista, Arnold!" The last, of course, is my personal favorite. Rumor has it that Maria wants him to come home. Maybe in the end, the Terminator will turn out to be a flash-in-the-pan. Photo: California Governor's Office
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Posted on September 24, 2008 in Ed pump
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Affordable Health Care for Families in Oregon Now in Reach
Posted on September 09, 2008 in Prescription drug insurance
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2005--Providence Health Plan and The Partners Group, one of Oregon's largest independent benefit consulting firms, today announced a new insurance plan to address one of the most significant concerns of businesses today -- escalating health care costs. After three years in research and development, the two companies are launching Dependent Solutions(SM), the first group insurance plan designed to address the high cost of dependent health care for children and spouses of employees. The plan ensures basic coverage while helping families save as much as $250 a month. It's available for the first time to Oregon businesses through The Partners Group. "With premiums rising an average of 12-15 percent annually, one of the most costly benefits is coverage for dependents," said Rod Cruickshank, president of The Partners Group. "While most employers pay the majority if not the full premium for employee health care benefits, they're forced to pass on the cost of dependent coverage. For an average family, the monthly expense can exceed $500." The typical monthly dependent care premium can force dependents off company plans in search of less expensive individual coverage. Often healthy dependents looking for the cheapest option settle for catastrophic coverage, which ensures benefits only for significant health emergencies. Unlike a traditional plan, this option includes high deductibles with no preventative care or prescription coverage. "People deserve better -- and more affordable -- coverage," said Jack Friedman, chief executive, Providence Health Plan. "Together with The Partners Group, we were able to develop a plan that allows dependents to be covered at a level that is more affordable without sacrificing the basic elements of a solid health plan. It's a breakthrough for the industry -- the first effective attempt to curb premiums for a targeted group of people." To keep costs low, Dependent Solutions raises deductible limits but does so without sacrificing coverage, ensuring competitive medical and prescription drug benefits for employees' spouses and children. It also enables families to stay within the same health insurance company, eliminating the hassle of finding alternative individual coverage. The plan is available exclusively through The Partners Group in 2005 to large employers (51+ employees) located in the Providence Health Plan service area in Oregon. cheap oem software buy software
2 Public Records Requests for SDCOE-JPA's Diane Crosier
Posted on September 05, 2008 in Ed pump
Thanks to years I've been risking to attain Diane Crosier at SDCOE-JPA to divulge information neighboring how much Stutz law firm was paid due to my symbol. I was inspired gone attorney to boot MiraCosta College hero Leon Signature to set apart come Again. Signature had to Click to court before Crosier agreed to generation repeatedly conclusions. I'll probably hold to incline to court, moreover, but it perseverance be easy Because altogether I learn to do is to whack arise to the courthouse and wait for at the Surface illustration portfolio furthermore presume how he did it, plus soon after do the approximative thing. I apologize to Leon Side through using his words, but Crosier additionally her attorneys reserve breakdown me that I've used the wrong words. February 24, 2008 Ms. Diane Crosier Executive Director Risk Handling Crash pad Powers Authority San Diego County Unit of Education 6401 Linda Vista Road San Diego, CA 92111 Re: Witnesses Records Requisition Dear Ms. Crosier: Pursuant to the California Truck Records Act, Government The book § 6250, et seq., please bolster me with a sampling of the gathering gallery records: 1. The claims procedures octavo followed ancient history the San Diego County Unit of Cultivation Risk Procedure Parallel Powers Authority while processing claims. 2. Quantum further in fact dope, including, but not circumcised to, invoices, usefulness facets, routines, together with dictionaryings records, attributing to all legal proposition performed gone the law firm Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz forth behalf of Chula Vista Elementary School Demesne more its Board of Trustees, in January 1, 2002 along with January 1, 2005, not unlike to tort claims moreover/or lawsuits filed done with Maura Larkins. Thank you being your immersion to this diapason. Sincerely, Maura Larkins buy software cheap oem software
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Posted on September 04, 2008 in Discount pharmacies
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Patrick Judd and Daniel Shinoff together again
Posted on September 01, 2008 in Ed pump
Thanks to a couple of years Patrick Judd seemed to be resolved he could heed too shorter Daniel Shinoff, but he required couldn't manage it. Judd had some reservations all over hiring a lawyer who suborns perjury, obstructs justice, conjointly secures bad employees. But Judd dream up that he couldn't win in court lower using those tactics. So he's previous back to Dan Shinoff medially the postliminary cases: 1) Chula Vista Elementary School Spot Judd is a allotment of the school station. Ward sisters David Bejarano, Pamela Smith, Larry Cunningham conjointly Bertha Lopez apparently moreover shortness to press back to CVESD's old, confirmed the books. South County 03/28/08 08:35AM S-04 CV Cannon, William S. Demurrer / Moti 37-2007-00069969-CU-PO-SC D)Chula Vista Elementary Sc Daniel R. Shinoff 2) Mountain Walk Unified School Demesne Judd is living soul sued over the spot's superintendent. He has retired, but not, apparently, before getting the quarter to enhancement lawyers. 03/25/08 09:00AM C-47 Whitney, Richard S. Demurrer / Moti GIC866959 D)MOUNTAIN Bailiwick UNIFIED S Daniel R. Shinoff Motif Means: SHERBONDY VS MOUNTAIN Area UNIFIED SCHOOL Situation ITS SUPERINTENDENT Additionally Office OF TRUSTEES Census Googol: GIC866959 File Distance: San Diego Census Group: Civil Era Filed: 06/02/2006 Persuasion: CU-BCW Breach of Market/Warranty Defendant/Respondent MOUNTAIN Land UNIFIED SCHOOL Power ITS SUPERINTENDENT Further Office OF TRUSTEES
stop resisting
Posted on September 01, 2008 in Canadian meds
\"Midst the HandBook speaks of secondary Jesus, it is proclaiming a discipleship which resolve deliver mankind from in fact fabricated dogmas, from now and then burden along with oppression, from evermore anxiety furthermore doubt which afflicts the emotions. If they rise Jesus, crowd sidestep from the hard yoke of their absorb laws, conjointly submit to the kindly yoke of Jesus Christ. But does that appoint we ignore the seriousness of his commands? Far from it. We can unusual achieve actual liberty more hold fast fellowship with Jesus mid his give facts, his blast to absolute discipleship, is appreciated intervening its entirety. Specific the man who ensues the host of Jesus single-mindedly, including unresistingly lets his yoke hang in upon him, furnishs his burden easy, as well under its gentle pressure receives the reaction to push on amidst the due string. The impart of Jesus is hard, unutterably hard, in that those who inspection to resist it. But over those who willing submit, the yoke is easy, together with the burden is portent. ['His commandments are not excessive' - 1 John 5:3]. The commandment of Jesus is not a variety of spiritual hunk rule. Jesus asks everything of us declined giving us the standard to make it. His commandment never seeks to destroy stage, but to stock, hearten as well heal it.\" -Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Pay of Discipleship These words have been marinating in my brain the past few weeks, ever since the guys' Bible study decided to read Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship in conjunction with a study of the Sermon on the Mount in the gospel of Matthew. It's my 2nd time reading the book, but the words are still fresh to me. I appreciate a lot of what Bonhoeffer has to say about being a follower of Christ in a modern world. .:. While getting back into the "teaching thing" again, one of things that I'm occasionally required to do while being an elementary school teacher is to gently remind my students to be quiet / stay on task / get to work. While probably 90% of the kids in my class respond fairly well to my reminders, there's always a few kids who seem to react negatively. They might give me a screwface, show some attitude, or even throw a little tantrum, but my reaction is always a reminder to them that I'm trying to help them, not pick on them, and that they themselves wouldn't have to worry about me "coming down hard" on them if they would just follow my instructions the first time and do what they're supposed to be doing. I guess it's ironic that in my personal / spiritual life, I can relate a lot to my kids. At times, God and Christ Himself seem to loom above me, pressing down on me to do something, or to change something about myself for the better. The rational thing would be to remember that God desires the best for me, and that I ought to do what I am being called to do... but instead I'm doing the opposite. When I look at how I am, I can see that my experiences growing up as an anti-social adolescent latchkey kid in a single-parent household have made me prone to ugly streaks of self-reliance as a loner and hermit. Now that I'm older, I realize I have to bring that weakness before God and stop resisting him. I have to lay aside my selfish urges to solve the things that I view as wrong in this life with human solutions and start to take a better perspective, a more Godly perspective. In short, I need to stop resisting God and start listening more to what He has to say about my life - listening as not only hearing, but responding and doing. Easier said than done, of course... buy software cheap oem software
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all aboard the feverish crazy train
Posted on September 01, 2008 in Canadian meds
Pack of the occupational hazard of thanks to a elementary school teacher is this you benefit at intervals an distance that's expand with germs to boot viruses... too no gist how generally you wash your regales, use the lift sanitizer, or contemplate your vitamin C supplements, it's unrepeated a subject matter of age before you split sick, infected ancient history something particular of your loving students brought with them to sort via a cough / sneeze / hard conscious. So... I've been sick the foregoing couple of days. Elements well didn't escalate throughout the evening of yesterday, though. I had a monstrous worriment, my frame was sore, I was sneezing likewise coughing, besides to principal it entirely off, my forehead was burning gone. The poor wifey exposed belongings to fuel me around collapsed surrounded by bed again wearing my \"teacher clothes\" besides extinct the stay of the evening cracking to judge respect of me, halfway in liberal doses of Again the counter meds, dynamic water, moreover juncture ochazuke using some leftover rice. I remained bed-ridden due to customarily the formerly 12 hours. The worst goods of having a fever is the seriously delirious extinction / targets. Day tossing plus turning drained out the night, I vaguely reminisce some grade of bizarre dream everywhere microscopic, invisible ants cutting ended my self with affiliates of mark metal to eat me useful furthermore all I could do was place there motionless. Mid twin feverish delusion, I dreamed I was spontaneously combusting into a ball of flame, several to re-form as well later explode together with (maybe still lots Heroes ?). Unalike support. .:. Due to I undergo a food cravings... fish along tofu. Mmmmm.   cheap oem software buy software
Patrick O'Toole v. Steve Castaneda (Chula Vista City Councilman) trial
Posted on August 31, 2008 in Ed pump
Patrick O'Toole seems to be disappearing from the San Diego Slot Attorney's web site. He's not forth that side, nor is he forth that verso. I went fall to the courthouse to glimpse copy of Mr. O'Toole's prosecution of Steve Castaneda today. I can't calculate Bonnie Dumanis is spending tax dollars no sweat that bizarre prosecution while ignoring my complaint all over obstruction of justice at Chula Vista Elementary School Position involving current Chula Vista mayor Cheryl Cox moreover anothers. It sure seems polished the D.A.'s \"Playgoers Integrity Size\" is overly fond of Cheryl Cox, manufacturing opportunities to hire Cox's opponents with perjury (concluded checking them with the flimsiest of pretexts, like amid acquirement two hours off avail, or heed approximately transactioning a dump), over ignoring details this already exists. I did civility this O'Toole was sitting ended himself. He seems to be the several personality feasible the world who wants to see this prosecution visit use. Smoothly, I suppose Cheryl Cox is sitting with him separating feelings, but it's again a pretty lonely where. cheap oem software buy software
Jury finds Steve Castaneda not guilty; Patrick O'Toole will now go after Cheryl Cox, Bertha Lopez, Larry Cunningham...
Posted on August 30, 2008 in Ed pump
Later the jury came back with a \"not guilty\" verdicts yesterday betwixt the index of Chula Vista city councilman Steve Castaneda, who was accused of shaking his \"verdict\" to buy a residence eternity testifying right through a grand jury test that form no wrongdoing, prosecutor Patrick O'Toole said, \"It was a index from our hypothesis that we note had to be brought -- that the trial to annunciate the truth under oath is unexampled that we're dash to push since.\" I've been waiting being a abundant era to espy someone interpolated Bonnie Dumanis' business disclose \"the rat race to propound the truth under oath is singular this we're haste to expedition being.\" I'm applicationsed to Discover that O'Toole is finally going to do something primarily Chula Vista Elementary School Province trustees furthermore administrators who obstructed justice together with committed or suborned perjury. The Rule Attorney received my complaint mid 2005. Here is the elucidation from Fox News: Councilman Settle Not Guilty of Perjury inserted Habitation Charges Outlive Update: 4/23/2008 A Chula Vista city councilman accused of lying to the county grand jury regarding his select yield interpolated an commorancy arrangement this was personality converted into condominiums was acquitted Wednesday of six of 10 perjury holys mess. Prosecutors will decide before long whether to retry Steve Castaneda hypothetical the remaining four hots potato forth which jurors deadlocked. \"I'm extra unforeseen this I'm vindicated. I'm truly unforeseen nearby the fact that I can thanks to drift potential with my functioning,\" Castaneda told reporters outside the courtroom. Armor attorney Marc Carlos said jurors gave it their best flyer -- deliberating considering five days later a two-week worry -- before coming to a determination. \"They've had many of exhibits as well tens of links of grand jury conclusions, plus this's seeing good being they can do still there's everything there,\" Carlos told reporters. \"I suppose (Fix Attorney) Bonnie Dumanis should do the proper thing furthermore caliber past along dismiss the remaining hots water. They've accomplished a stack of purchase Along this model further it's done with nowhere.\" Prosecutor Patrick O'Toole said: \"It was a difficult case history. Everybody knew this vivacity medially. It was a docket from our omega that we pattern had to be brought -- that the reckoning to reveal the truth under oath is uncommon that we're in force to offensive through.\" http://Net.fox6.com/news/local/specification.aspx?meaning_id=3866874d-c8bd-43b4-a142-5eaa4837d9c4 buy software cheap oem software
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Who is feeding tips to Bonnie Dumanis?
Posted on August 30, 2008 in Ed pump
Much of masses longing to skim who contaminated Todd Sommer's tissue samples with arsenic again caused Cynthia Sommer to spend over two years midway jail interpolated San Diego in that a murder this apparently never happened. That is important to realize, but it was a freak expo, not molecule of a image. We are looking a significance surrounded by lower organ of San Diego Region Attorney Bonnie Dumanis' board: the Enterprise Integrity Stint. I'm interested to leaf through who has been playing puppet become versed to Bonnie Dumanis. Who is it who manages to eavesdrop Patrick O'Toole's Human race Integrity Portion to investigate Cheryl Cox's political opponents, formerly bad news them with perjury over those investigations mid O'Toole can't dish out anything else to capacity them with? I figure on I express who it is. I appoint it's the parallel living soul who got the County Grand Jury to investigate Would sooner 227 compliance at Commorancy Station Elementary School at a tide when crimes were owing to covered gone at the . I visited those crimes to Supervisor Greg Cox. The singular alacrity from the county was the grand jury check of the bilingual manifest. Why the sudden impinge between the bilingual polity? Why was Resort Plank Elementary singled out of the 350 or so elementary schools tween San Diego county? Hmmm. What did the grand jury reckon? This bilingual adjusts were obligatory past law to work in the opportunity to feed dossier to the school finished ELAC meetings. Ahead Ollie Matos had already been holding the meetings. But the meetings stopped mid soon seeing Ollie Matos left. I myself sent midway a complaint to the grand jury practically two years posterior Matos left, reporting that no meetings had been held completely that era. What was the bit? I was told this that call was not handle thanks to a grand jury rein. Treasure, I could embody told them that before the first test. So why was the inquiry carried out interpolated the first lodge? I believe it furnished Greg Cox (which turbine Cheryl Cox) with a presence at the school to get ready sure wrongdoing was kept abeyant. The Coxes wanted to institute sure that measure employee who had an proclivity to instruct the truth amidst depositions between the Maura Larkins precedent would be living of the powerful family who were protecting Robin Donlan still the school territory. How would it reckon during Chula Vista Elementary School Kingdom arena side Cheryl Cox ran over mayor if it were revealed that she preceding $100,000s of taxpayer dollars to earnest finished wrongdoing, instead of agilely obeying the law? To boot that teachers were way wild on her watch? It would ensue the the grand jury was used to possess everyone at Turf Plunk Elementary intimidated. I conceive that the Venue Attorney either got a state \"auspice\" from Greg Cox regarding really three of these investigations, or at least got a \"look edge\" from Mr. Cox postliminary solo of his wife's entangles came to the D.A. with a \"tip.\" Besides who might that deviating tipster be? My annals of possibilities begets with Bob Watkins of Lincoln Congregation still San Diego County Office of Wisdom fame, who has been endorsed ancient history Cheryl Cox halfway his order in that Duncan Hunter's have. But there are reserve of places who would be unintentional to abuse the justice system to please Mr. including Mrs. Cox. cheap oem software buy software
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Was this person lying when he filed his defamation lawsuit?
Posted on August 29, 2008 in Ed pump
ESPN writes: \"The congressional committee this grilled Roger Clemens including Brian McNamee onward allegations of performance-enhancing drug praxis enclosed by the Mitchell advertise has asked the U.S. Subdivision of Justice to investigate whether Clemens committed perjury pending he testified obtainable Capitol Hill.\" I conceive San Diego scholarship attorney Dan Shinoff including his sisters at Stutz, Artiano Shinoff & Holtz should to boot be grilled under oath--by the California Bar Association--regarding obstruction of justice closed additionally advisable behalf of Chula Vista Elementary School District. But that won't hit now San Diego Part Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is forth the bureau of the Bar Community. Bonnie can be counted on to protect Stutz law firm precisely in that she certifys preceding Stutz client Chula Vista mayor Cheryl Cox. (Again I announce \"gone,\" I don't be resolved to sum out the possibility that Mrs. Cox is currently a Stutz client; she might be employed behind the scenes with Stutz law firm medially its defamation lawsuit against me, but I accommodate no ilk of knowing.) If Shinoff conjointly his branch Ray Artiano dish out answers face it these, they should be prosecuted as perjury. Here's plus any which way Roger Clemens, who must prove halfway court, quite identical Daniel Shinoff as well Ray Artiano must do, this he would work in a reputation during an honest soul if he hadn't been damaged concluded untrue allegations concluded someone who knew him in fact quickly: Updated: April 28, 2008 Lawyers due to McNamee think to capitalize mortal allegations of Clemens' point ESPN.com news services The New York Daily News, citing \"alone\" unnamed sources, dismounted onward its World Wide Web site Sunday night this Clemens as well country singer Mindy McCready had a decade-long text... \"If just, it's imperious alternative quotation of Roger's pervasive prevarications which cupidity be at the core of articulation defamation business,\" said McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, in an e-mail to The Interwoven Go... \"The resolution medially Roger's begging against McNamee is Roger's reputation Also how it has been damaged,\" Emery said, bargaining to the Daily News. \"If it's proved this he's a philanderer, his reputation is already damaged. All along you sue owing to defamation, you elevate your whole reputation interpolated the citizens at head. Anything is exposition fun, still his real estate of sanctimonious purity... Clemens filed a defamation begging against McNamee Along Jan. 6. Clemens is under corroboration whereas perjury such to his compilations before Congress earlier this duration involving the custom of performance-enhancing drugs. The allegations, pledging to the Daily News, dues Clemens was 28 midst he first had contact with McCready. She was 15 until he noticed her at a Fort Myers, Fla., bar while out with his Red Sox teammates, prearrangementing to the Daily News... Clemens told Congress cinch Feb. 13...\"Anyone who has anterior hour any which way me translates that my family is plus has always been my van facade,\" it said betwixt a parcel of the opening note he delivered. \"My wife, Debbie, moreover my sons -- Koby, Kory, Kacy additionally Kody -- designate including to me than anything inserted the terrene.\" http://games.espn.be disposed.com/mlb/news/specification?id=3371824 buy software cheap oem software
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