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PM Stalls Signing Compensation Plan for Sugarcane Evictees
Thread: PM Stalls Signing Compensation Plan for Sugarcane Evictees
1st February 2017, 07:00 #1
The Cambodia Daily
Prime Minister Hun Sen has no immediate plans to sign a new petition asking him to endorse an initial plan to compensate thousands of families that have lost land to commercial-scale sugarcane plantations, a member of the cabinet said on Tuesday.
The news will be a blow to nearly 300 members of the families—some of whom are living in poverty—who were in Phnom Penh on Tuesday to deliver the petition to cabinet officials at Wat Botum Park.
Villagers from several provinces gather at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum Park on Tuesday to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen for help in their land disputes with several sugarcane plantations. (Siv Channa/The Cambodia Daily)The petition asks Mr. Hun Sen to sign off on the terms of reference for a compensation plan involving plantations across Cambodia. An E.U. delegation that imports some of their sugar has been working on the deal with the government for nearly three years.
The petitioners include families from across four provinces: Koh Kong, Kompong Speu, Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear. Several of the plantations are or have been owned by CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat.
Soeung Sokhom, a representative for the families, said on Tuesday that they have been informed that the terms had already been submitted to Mr. Hun Sen’s cabinet and were awaiting his signature.
“The people affected by the sugarcane plantations have gone into debt, fallen into poverty and are all living in difficult situations,” he said.
The terms do not promise a quick fix. Should the prime minister sign them, it could take another 22 months to assess the claims, according to the E.U.
After taking their petition, however, Pal Chandara, a member of the prime minister’s cabinet who deals with land disputes, said Mr. Hun Sen would not be signing the terms anytime soon.
Mr. Hun Sen “will not sign because he wants lower officials from the Ministry of Land Management to do this job first,” he said. “Then [Mr. Hun Sen] will sign after the investigation.”
Eang Vuthy, executive director of family advocacy NGO Equitable Cambodia, said the terms were carefully designed with the E.U.’s help to ensure that the investigation remains open to continued input from the communities, the E.U. and NGOs like his.
The terms “will give the ministry responsibility to come up with the mechanism to assess the claims of the affected people and the process to validate the claims,” he said.
(Additional reporting by Zsombor Peter)
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Racist, racist, who's a racist
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She is a racist, plain and simple
I explained yesterday how the black leaders are not really worried about racism. One of the examples was the rationalization of Hilary Clinton's (D-NY) comments comparing Congress to a plantation. Ah, yes, the time tested tactic of projection...she has an inability to see people without regard to color but she projects that racism onto other people. And of course, as we have been seeing in the Alito confirmations, the Democrat tactic of exploiting the issue of race has reared its ugly head.
Rather than be intellectually honest the Left has been rallying around Clinton's comments. The latest person to fail calling out a racist is Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).
"I think what Senator Clinton was referring to was … that there's been a consolidation of power by the Republican Congress and this White House," Obama said on CNN's "American Morning" show.
"What you've seen systematically, I think, over the years since the Bush administration came into power is constant consolidation of power by the Republican Party in the White House, in Congress, shutting out Democrats and people who are not willing to pay to play in conference committees -- the various negotiations on legislation -- the K Street project, in which members like Tom DeLay told lobbyists that they could not hire Democrats," Obama said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
No. If that is what she meant on Monday then she would have have said so yesterday. Instead she reaffirmed her comment...which had only one purpose: to incinte racial problems and anger.
Again, these people are not helping race relations they are destroying them. You can not stop a fire from burning your house down when you keep trying to fan the flames.
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Judge Affirms "Outsourcing" Preliminary Injunction (Amended)*
VOICE OF OC REPORTS LAYOFFS MUST STOP
As announced this morning by Managing Editor Norberto Santana, Jr., in the Voice of OC blog, HERE, Judge Barbara Tam Nomoto Schumann has issued an order prohibiting the City of Costa Mesa from laying off City employees until the case filed by the Orange County Employee's Association is heard. According to that article, no trial date is set at this time.
OCEA PRESS RELEASE
The OCEA, through it's spokeswoman, Jennifer Muir, issued the following Press Release today:
Judge issues order stopping Costa Mesa layoffs
SANTA ANA, CA – A Superior Court judge has issued an order prohibiting the City of Costa Mesa from laying off City employees pursuant to outsourcing their jobs to the private sector.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann issued the preliminary injunction late Friday following a verbal ruling July 5. After the Court’s July 5 ruling, the City issued a press release erroneously claiming that Judge Schumann’s ruling would expressly allow layoffs so long as the City followed “proper procedures.”
Judge Schumann rejected a request by the city to allow it to lay off City employees if it followed “proper procedures.” Instead, the order very clearly prohibits the city from contracting out services currently performed by City employees to any non-local public entity under the Government Code, and further prohibits the City from laying off City employees pursuant to any such contracting out.
“We respect the judge’s ruling, and we hope the City Council and CEO Tom Hatch will do the same,” OCEA spokeswoman Jennifer Muir said. “The ruling has been clear from the beginning, and we’re hopeful that now that it has been issued, the written order will clear up any confusion caused by the City’s press release.”
Nearly half the City’s workforce received six-month layoff notices on March 17 after the Costa Mesa City Council majority voted to outsource their jobs. At the time, the City Council had not studied the cost of outsourcing or the negative impacts to community services, and they still have failed to do so.
The Orange County Employees Association, on behalf of the Costa Mesa City Employees Association, filed a lawsuit in May to stop the layoffs.
Attached, please find the order for a preliminary injunction, the judge’s minute order, the City’s July 5 press release, and a copy of the City’s proposed injunction language, which was rejected by the Court.
NO WORD FROM THE CITY YET
I tried to contact representatives of the City of Costa Mesa for comment but was unable to reach anyone before I published this. I imagine word from the City will be forthcoming later today. When it does I'll report it.
*CITY RESPONSE TO THE RULING
The following is the response to the ruling by the judge, issued in the form a press release by Interim Communication Director Bill Lobdell late this afternoon:
Judge temporarily prohibits Costa Mesa from outsourcing jobs to private
companies until lawsuit is heard; contracting to public agencies OK
COSTA MESA, CALIF.—Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann issued a preliminary injunction late last week prohibiting the City of Costa Mesa from outsourcing jobs to private companies until a lawsuit filed against the City by the Costa Mesa City Employees Assn. (CMCEA) is heard.
No trial date has been set for the civil suit, which seeks to halt the outsourcing plan. The ruling doesn’t prohibit the City from contracting jobs with the County of Orange, neighboring cities and other public agencies or exploring the viability of outsourcing services to private companies.
The ruling also doesn’t affect a proposal by the Orange County Fire Authority to provide fire services for Costa Mesa and hire all City firefighters. The Costa Mesa Firefighters Assn. employees are not covered in the injunction.
The written injunction clarified initial remarks made at a hearing on July 5 by Judge Schumann, who said at the time: “So as far as the City’s ability to explore other avenues of perhaps fiscal soundness, I do not think that this injunction extends to preventing the City from doing that as long as they do not terminate folks without following the proper procedures.”
Schumann did not make a reference to halting outsourcing to private companies until a verdict was reached in the CMCEA lawsuit (see transcript below).
The City Attorney’s Office had originally interpreted the judge’s oral remarks to mean that the outsourcing process—including the potential contracting of jobs to private companies—could continue as long as the City could show that it had followed “proper procedures.”
“The injunction makes it clear that the judge has ordered the City to not outsource jobs to private companies until the CMCEA lawsuit is concluded,” City Attorney Tom Duarte said. “We respect her decision and are now looking at our next legal options.”
In March, the City Council voted to send six-month layoff notices to 213 city employees—more than 40% of its workforce. The Council wanted to explore the viability of outsourcing to stem rising pension costs, among other concerns. Because of contracts with employees’ association, the City was mandated to give six-month warnings for any outsourced job.
COURT REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT OF 7/5/11 SESSION
Read the Court Reporter's Transcript of the July 5, 2011 court date HERE. This should download a pdf file to your desktop.
Labels: Barbara Tam Nomoto Schumann, Jennifer Muir, Norberto Santana, OCEA, outsourcing
I can't wait to see what the spin will be. It will be entertaining for sure as it will not be based on reality...
The party line later today:
"The judge didn't say there was no budget crisis, only stuff about procedures. We still have a crisis and we will still need to go full steam ahead somehow, some way. The judge got it wrong. Only The RiggMarshal knows what's right for Costa Mesa."
Spin, Lobdell, spin!
WWrigD said...
CM Press Release:
Rig asks City CEO to cut more cops and transfer funds to the legal fees fund..ASAP
Pentagon Hexagram said...
Prediction on Costa Mesa Ministry of Truth out with their spin.
Judge's ruling validates City's position, doubles amount of bond required to cover potential loss by City.
Ruling by this liberal judge will be appealed.
All outsourcing studies will continue.
Reinforcements added to Ministry of Truth and legal team, because the union made us do it.
Meanwhile, beatings will continue until morale improves.
Terry Koken said...
Hey, Geoff--
If there's enough of a crowd at the Tuesday meeting, I've got another little melody for them. This one has a chorus that everybody can join in to, even the city councilmen.
Good news, though, tends to decrease attendance at meetings, I've noticed, and THIS is REALLY good news.
well obviously... said...
The next press release:
"Judge's ruling does not mean we cannot outsource the city council to other public entities. As many members of the public are already aware, the Costa Mesa city council is in the top third of their counterparts in total compensation and we just can't stand for that anymore either. Nobody should get paid that much no matter what their part-time job is and as we all know from the private sector running a city like a business means that volunteers (i.e. council members) do not get paid."
Thoughtfully serving the public,
The 5th Floor Thought Bureau
Tom Egan said...
These Press Releases are hilarious! You've nailed the voice of the Rigged council.
Who'd have thought that the recent abominations would have spawned a crew of people who could go forth even unto other cities and help them spin their dodgy decisions? (And make a mint at the same time.)
OCLonghair said...
I want a job where you can give bad and most of time, wrong advice. Then when you get called to the carpet, you get paid to argue that, “The advice was only a suggestion” and “I have no control over how others interpret or use that advice”... NOW SIGN THE DAMN CHECK!!!!
GOD... I love capitalism.
sky stopped fallingwow said...
wow, did anyone else catch the channel 9 news at noon when PERS released they had their best return in 14 years with a 23 billion dollar return on all investments... now what maybe the bell 4 should have pers do their investing fore them an solve all the citys problems........
Here's the link to the CalPERS Press Release:
http://www.calpers.ca.gov/index.jsp?bc=/about/press/pr-2011/july/fy-2010-11-returns.xml
Pretty impressive news, for sure.
Danny Boy said...
Hey Lobdell- Where is the City Press Release on the website?
"Carmageddon" Observations (Amended)*
It's That Time Of The Year - Again
Grazin' With My Fellow Gray-Hairs
Fairgrounds Sale Officially Dead
Tuesday's Council Meeting Agenda Reviewed (Amended...
"Outsourcing" Infection Spreads
An Odd Tag Team Match On Friday
MAJOR GANG BUST (Updated)*
Study Session and RDA Meeting Today
Gazsi Named Costa Mesa Police Chief!
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Favorite iPhone/iPad Apps
November 26, 2010 by stephenfleming
It surprises people that, as a well-assimilated Apple fanboy, I didn’t buy the first generation iPhone. I was in the store on launch day, I had one in my hand, my credit card was burning a hole in my pocket… and I left without one. I used my Treo for nearly another year until the 2nd generation iPhone (confusingly named 3G) was released. I wasn’t waiting for the faster network connection or for the GPS chip, or cut-and-paste, although those were all nice. No, although I couldn’t have articulated it at the time, I was waiting for the App Store.
Remember, I was coming from years in the Palm ecosystem, where third-party apps were a key part of the experience. I was utterly reliant on a couple of them (in particular, an RPN calculator… having been converted to the RPN Way by HP calculators in my youth, I simply cannot use “normal” calculators without an Enter key!). So the first-gen iPhone had lots of promise, but it wasn’t ready for me yet. Web apps looked interesting, but until developers got hold of a native SDK, I kept my money in my pocket.
Once the App Store was announced, I knew I was hooked. In fact, I bought my first iPhone app on July 10, 2008, the night before the iPhone 3G was released… yes, I had that much faith in Apple (and James Thomson, author of PCalc) that I spent ten bucks on an app without hardware that I could run it on!
And, although I didn’t know it, I was participating in an interesting experiment in app pricing. In the early days, I bought several apps for $9.99 or even more. Soon, those apps found their prices cut to $6.99, $4.99… or they were abandoned entirely. A few apps hovered about the magic ten-buck point, but most were driven down by the competition from free and 99¢ apps.
Lots of people have blogged about the race to the bottom, and I have nothing useful to add there… except that I never hesitate to buy a paid app if it looks like it does something I need, or even want. I’ve spent more than the price of that first iPhone in the App Store at this point, and I don’t mind. Software developers gotta eat, and I don’t mine supporting them with a couple of bucks here and there.
Of course, sometimes the app turns out to be less polished than I hoped, or buggy, or just doesn’t get updated when needed. So I wind up buying a lot of apps, experimenting with them, and letting them languish in a rear page, or delete them from my devices entirely.
People are always asking me “So, what apps should I get for my iPhone/iPad?” That’s hard to answer, since I don’t know your needs or your budget. All I can do is give you a list of the apps that I use, many of them daily, and frequently after downloading and trying a lot of competitors. (I think I’ve bought six calendar applications, and I shudder to think how many Twitter apps. I’ve settled on what I think are the best.)
I’ve blogged about this before, but that was almost two years ago, and before the iPad… and things change.
So, in honor of Black Friday, here’s my list of my favorite iOS (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) applications. Click on any icon for a link to the official App Store description.
Apple iWork Suite
News / Information
$2.99 (free trial available) iPhone only
Calvetica Apple’s Calendar is gorgeous, but it’s a surprisingly clumsy user interface. (It’s only with the latest iOS release that you can actually change the category of an existing entry!) Since I juggle thirteen Google Calendars, I get frustrated with a “one size fits most” calendar. I’ve tried almost every replacement calendar in the App Store, and this is the only one that has earned a place in my iPhone Dock. No iPad version yet, but I’m optimistic…
Free Universal
Google Mobile Google may be occasionally evil these days, but their apps are darned good. I like the voice search and the Google Goggles. Free!
Zenbe Lists There are a zillion to-do list applications out there. This one keeps a position on my home screen for one fundamental reason: painless syncing from the cloud to multiple devices. The real-world use? My wife and I can share a single grocery list (and Home Depot list, etc.). If one of us goes shopping alone, we’re sure we have the most current version. I don’t understand Zenbe’s business model in giving this away, but I’d miss it if they stopped.
Twittelator Pro I don’t know… is Twitter a “productivity” app, or an “anti-productivity” app? Probably a little of both. What’s definitely not productive is downloading and testing ten different Twitter clients. I’ve done that, so you don’t have to. Lots of them are good; some are very good. For my money, Twittelator Pro is the best of the bunch on the iPhone. There’s a free trial available if you don’t want to risk five bucks on my say-so.
$4.99 iPad only
Twittelator for iPad Unlike on the iPhone, the competition on the iPad isn’t even close (in my not-so-humble opinion). Twittelator for iPad is a complete rethinking of the user experience, and I like it a lot. Once Andrew adds “Open Web Pages in Safari” as a prefs item, it’ll be darn near perfect. (He had to wait for iOS 4.2 for that to make sense, so I expect it any day now.)
SimpleNote I can’t count the number of note-taking apps on the iOS platform. I love SimpleNote because it’s as simple as advertised. Doesn’t try to be all things to all people, but it’s a quick, easy, legible way of writing myself notes, and accessing them on other devices, including my desktop. And they’re a Y Combinator startup! I give them $12/year for “Premium” service, even though the free version meets all my needs.There are multiple desktop clients available to sync with SimpleNote’s server; I use JustNotes for the Mac, but others work as well.
iA Writer This one is iPad-only. Some of the design decisions in this app drive me crazy. But I love it for two reasons:
The gorgeous custom font, Nitti Light, which is the most legible monospace typeface I’ve ever seen to on the iPad. And maybe it’s my teletype heritage, but I compose better in monospace.
The expanded keyboard with cursor keys (yippee!) and other controls that may offend Steve Jobs, but which lighten my load every time I’m composing text.
SimpleNote works well by staying out of my way for a few sentences at a time. If I’m typing more than half a page on my iPad, I want to use iA Writer.
Evernote Theoretically, Evernote could replace both of the above apps. I find it too “heavy” to use for cranking out quick notes to myself, and the UI doesn’t match iA Writer for longer text. Where Evernote shines for me is in taking photographs (I’m particularly guilty of photographing the covers of books I want to buy) and OCRing them in the background so that they become searchable text. I suspect some low-wage English-speakers in India or China are chained to their workstations to type whatever they read in your photos, but I honestly don’t know. Synchronizes with an equally powerful client on your Mac or PC (or on the Web). There are paid options available if you turn out to be a heavy user.
$9.99 (free trial available) Universal
PCalc As I said earlier, I waited to buy an iPhone until PCalc was available. I use it every day on my Mac, and now I use it every day on my iPhone. Gorgeous implementation… not a slavish recreation of my beloved and still-operational HP-15C (although those recreations exist; I’ve bought them) but a rethinking of what’s necessary in an RPN calculator and what can be hidden. (Oh, yeah, there’s an algebraic mode, too, but I’ve never paid it any attention.) Multiple “skins” available to get the appearance you’re looking for. Comparatively expensive for an iPhone app, but worth it.
$4.99 Universal
PowerOne Financial If I run into a calculation that’s too complicated for PCalc but not complicated enough to open a spreadsheet, I usually reach for PowerOne. It’s a descendant of the RPN calculator I used to use on the Palm, but vastly more powerful with customizable worksheets (things like Time Value of Money where you can actually see all the variables, not just stuff them into the stack like an HP-12C). My only complaint is that the interface is ugly; I wish Infinity Softworks would implement custom skins like PCalc did.
$11.99 Both (single platform versions $7.99)
1Password Pro I use a new randomly-generated password for every Website that I visit. So I need a secure place to keep them. After using SplashID for years on the Palm OS, I paid for both 1Password and SplashID on the iPhone. After a long period of using them in parallel, I settled on 1Password. Frequent updates, and a great Mac client that syncs automatically over Wi-Fi and integrates with Safari or Firefox on your desktop.
$1.99 iPhone only
Favorites Simple speed-dialer that sits in my Dock and lets me dial or text my most frequent contacts with one touch. Does exactly what you’d want it to, and nothing that you wouldn’t want it to. Probably overpriced but, seriously, can’t you afford two bucks?
ReaddleDocs for iPad I’ve said before that ReaddleDocs for the iPad is reason enough to own an iPad, and I still believe that. The ability to carry thousands of documents in a slim searchable slab has changed my life. Rather than having folders upon folders of paper printouts, I just forward any attachment (PDF or Microsoft Office… probably others, but those are the ones I care about) to my Readdle email address, and sync just before walking into a meeting.I’ve sold several iPads with this app. Good Reader has similar functionality, but until someone comes up with a better user interface (which, honestly, wouldn’t be difficult) or better customer service (which would be hard!), I love Readdle and use it every day.
ReaddleDocs Readdle Docs for the iPhone synchronizes to the same cloud storage space as Readdle Docs for the iPad. It’s a less compelling experience just because of the inevitable limitations of the smaller screen. Where I’m likely to open a spreadsheet on my iPad and pass it around a conference table, I’m not going to do the same with my iPhone. Nevertheless, it’s nice to occasionally have access to documents when I don’t have my iPad with me, and Readdle serves that niche nicely. You have to buy them separately, which is an odd choice on the company’s part; I wish they sold a Universal version for 2/3rds the price of the two apps sold separately. Maybe someday.
ToDo for iPad How many to-do applications are available for iOS? Certainly dozens, probably hundreds. Most of them are pretty interchangeable. ToDo by Appigo is different. First, it’s gorgeous… someone really sweated the details on the UI, and it shows. Next, it integrates well between iPhone, iPad, Web (via Toodle-Do), and other services (like Jott). Finally, the developers seem to pay attention to how people actually work, rather than trying to shoehorn us into “Getting Things Done” or any other system. I like it.
ToDo Bought as a companion to the gorgeous iPad version above, but really good enough to be bought just for the iPhone. Nicely done.
Instapaper What Readdle Docs does for attached files, Instapaper does for Web pages. Ever get into “tl;dr” (Too Long, Didn’t Read) mode when reading the Web? Instapaper solves the problem. Install a bookmarklet in your browser (desktop or iOS device) and, whenever you get to a page that’s too long, click “Read Later.” Instapaper magically figures out the part of the page you want to read (meaning, not the ads and the blogroll and the other cruft) and sucks it into the cloud. Sync your iPad, and all those articles wind up in local storage, so you can read them at leisure when waiting for a haircut or whatever… no network connection required. Beautifully crafted, obsessively supported. You need this app.
Consistency This app is for repetitive tasks that need to be tracked, but that you don’t need to schedule on your calendar. Example: I need to oil my bicycle chain once a month, but if I’m a week early or a week late, it’s no big deal. Consistency is brilliant for things like that.I used to use the desktop version of this app and I like the idea a lot. I was pleased to find it available for the iPhone, so I bought it without doing my research.I’m mildly astonished to find that it doesn’t use iPhone notifications (badges, dialogs, sounds). And I’m disappointed that there’s not a “cloud” option to sync lists between my iPhone and iPad. I’d pay a modest amount for that.
Considering it hasn’t been updated in over a year (Yoo-hoo, Sciral! There’s this thing called iOS 4; you might have read about it!), I guess we have to treat this app as abandonware. A shame, really, since I don’t know of anything else that works precisely this way.
WordPress I don’t blog a lot away from my keyboard, but it’s nice to be able to fix a typo or approve a comment while on the go. After a rocky start, the WordPress app has matured to a solid client on both iPhone and iPad. If you have a WordPress blog (self-hosted or on WordPress.com), you need to check this out.
Skype I don’t use Skype a lot, but it’s nice to have for that occasional international phone call. And it’s a nice multiplatform chat interface that most people will either have, or be willing to install. The iPhone client works well, and it’s free.
$9.99 each iPad only
Numbers These three get special treatment. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers together form Apple’s iWork suite… originally for the desktop, and redesigned to launch with the iPad.I have my issues with these three apps, but they’re still worth the money. First off, they ought to be named “Keynote Light,” “Pages Light,” and “Numbers Light”… Apple did a good job of focusing on the 80% of features that everyone really needs, but sometimes one of the 20% they eliminated will really bite your project in the butt. In particular, I keep running into limitations with Keynote (master slides, complex animations, fonts, and complex groups) that badly break certain of my slide presentations.Next, the process for getting documents from the desktop version of iWorks applications into and out of the iPad Apps is just hostile. It takes about ten steps, none of which intuitively leads to the next. This is very “un-Apple” and I have to believe that Apple has a major cloud-based solution to this (maybe making Mobile Me worth the cost?) but it’s just not ready yet. I hope so. But, for now, if you think that having iWork on your desktop and on your iPad means you can edit the same document in both places… you’re wrong. You can create a document on your desktop, export it to your iPad, and (most) things will work… but if you make changes on your iPad, you need to export it back to your Mac as a new document. No synchronization, no audit trail, no acknowledgement of cloud-based workflow at all. Ick.
All that being said, it’s really cool to walk into a room carrying just your iPad and a VGA dongle, and running the whole presentation from your touchscreen. Major ego boost.
Kindle I’m one of those weird people who bought a Kindle after buying an iPad. Different screen technologies, different use cases. I love them both. We’ve bought a lot of books on Kindle, and it’s great to have them with me wherever I go… including the surprisingly-capable screen on the iPhone 4. Synchronization is painless, and the feature set is more than adequate.
Stanza Oddly, the best e-book reader on the iPhone or iPad is made by Amazon, but it’s not Kindle. It’s Stanza. Formerly a standalone company (Lexcycle), Amazon bought the developer in early 2009, and I was terrified that it meant the death of this superb application. But they released an iPad update more or less on schedule, and have clearly not abandoned the product.It’s a better reading experience than Kindle, with a more mature set of interface options (it’s been around longer!), and it integrates into a wide variety of paid and free e-book sources. I tend to want to buy everything that Toni Weisskopf at Baen Books publishes, and Stanza makes that painless. Maybe too painless. Hook it up to Calibre on your desktop, and you can easily see how I have over 200 books on my iPad.
Free iPhone only
The Weather Channel Another of those ecological niches where I’ve downloaded at least six free and paid apps. The Weather Channel isn’t just the hometown team here in Atlanta; I think they’ve built the best app. (There’s a paid upgrade, but I haven’t felt the need to buy it.)
Free iPad only
WSJ I gave up on my dead tree subscription to the Wall Street Journal years ago, but I missed it. Now I don’t miss it anymore. The first release of this app for the iPad was absolutely terrible, but they’ve iterated rapidly, and the current version is great. Everything you need so that you’re no longer sitting there looking stupid when someone asks “Did you see the article on such-and-so in the Wall Street Journaltoday?”Now, if they’d just get rid of their obsession with fully-justified typography. Hint: Ragged-right looks better on narrow columns!
Free (for now) iPad (iPhone version also available)
NYTimes The New York Times has experimented with various pay and free models, so I don’t know where they’ll wind up. For now, the gorgeous iPad app has the entire content, every day. The Grey Lady’s business model is probably doomed, but it’s hard to beat having the entire paper on your iPad every day.
Free (with paid print subscription) iPad (iPhone version also available)
The Economist I used to be addicted to print magazines… at one point, I was receiving over 50 per month. (I read fast. Really, really fast.) The Internet killed that little habit, and now I enjoy letting print subscriptions lapse, but one that I never hesitate to renew is The Economist. The iPad version is gorgeous and, if you have a paid print subscription, you get the entire magazine online every week. It downloads to local storage so you can read it on the plane without Wi-Fi. Perfect!
AJC Select Sadly, the local paper has seen better days… a 50% drop in print subscribers will do that to you. And now that it’s moved to Dunwoody, the Atlanta Journal Constitution seems to be becoming the “North of I-285 Journal Constitution.” But there’s no substitute for the AJC when you want to find out about a local city council meeting, or the schedule for the Peachtree Road Race. (And their Twitter accounts are great!)
Flipboard Flipboard is a Twitter client, but it’s also a lot more. It scrapes multiple services (your choice) and reformats stories into a customized online magazine. Beautiful UI; this is the simplest way I know to kill time while feeding my brain, as long as I have a Wi-Fi connection available.
Regator Premium Another hometown team (Decatur, Georgia), but with a national reputation. Regator hand-selects blog feeds from your topics of interest and presents them in a constantly-curated collection. This is where you’ll find those stories that’ll never make the New York Times… or, occasionally, where you’ll find big stories before they make the New York Times.
Free iPad (iPhone version also available)
TED TED has been called “the new Harvard.” I don’t know if I believe that, but the TED talks are extraordinary. Their self-description: “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. TED presents talks from some of the world’s most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends.” I don’t usually have the patience for videos or podcasts, and I wish TED had a text transcription but these are good enough to be worth an exception.
AutoStitch Panorama Can’t get everything you want into the camera frame? Take multiple photographs and stitch them together into a (vertical or horizontal) panorama. Better UI than Photoshop on your desktop, and it runs on your phone! We really are living in the future. (I’ve listed this as a Universal app, and it indeed runs on the iPad, but it makes most sense on the iPhone where you have a camera.)
SmugMug I have set up picture-sharing free accounts on Flickr, Picasa, Shutterfly, Ofoto, and probably others. But I cheerfully pay for a SmugMug account because it’s just better. My only complaint is that not enough other apps integrate with it, I guess because of the smaller user base… but those users are vociferous fans, and include many professional photographers who use SmugMug galleries in their day job! The iPad app is a delightful way to browse through your photos and show them off to others.
$3.99 iPad (iPhone version also available)
Photogene It’s not Photoshop, but it’s amazing. The range of photo manipulations you can perform on a handheld device would have been dismissed as impossible only a few years ago. I’ve downloaded lots of photo utilities, but this one lives on my iPad’s home page.
ColorSplash A one-trick pony, but what a cool trick! Convert your photos to black-and-white, then “paint” the color back into place for selected regions. Great user interface, and you wind up with striking photos to save or share. Yeah, you can do this in Photoshop, but not as easily, and not nearly as enjoyably! Spend the buck.
JotNot Scanner Pro Another one-trick pony. Take photos of documents (receipts, business cards, or full-size sheets of paper) and JotNot will square them up and crank up the contrast to make them surprisingly legible. I’ve emailed people photographs of documents rather than finding a fax machine, and it worked beautifully.
MotionX GPSLite A surprisingly good free navigation program. All sorts of downloadable maps, with waypoints, tracks, and more.There’s an HD version available for the iPad that’s even prettier.
$39.99 Universal
TomTom USA I have a standalone Garmin GPS that I like, but I can’t imagine buying another one. TomTom works without a network connection (important in rural Georgia!) to give you turn-by-turn navigation based on an internal database. (Which is enormous, by the way… you need more than a gigabyte free on your device to install this app.) Good user interface, with all the bells and whistles you’d expect, and a few you might not.
GoSkyWatch Go outside at night. Look up. What the heck is that star? With GoSkyWatch, you have a planetarium inside your iPhone. Point it at the sky, and you can instantly figure out “Oh, that’s Vega! Cool!” Uses the accelerometer
Star Walk Both StarWalk and GoSkyWatch are now universal applications, running on iPhone and iPad. Maybe it’s just my personal experience with the apps, but I tend to default to using GoSkyWatch on my iPhone, and StarWalk on my iPad. StarWalk is utterly gorgeous… a few missing features, but you won’t care. Usually three bucks, on sale today for a buck. Buy it.
Google Earth Possibly the greatest toy ever. If you’ve used it on your desktop, you’re still not prepared for how utterly magical (hat tip to Steve Jobs) it is on an iPad. It’s free. Why haven’t you downloaded it?
$0.99 iPhone 4
Flashlight I have no clue how many flashlight programs there are for the iPhone. The earliest zillion of them just turned the whole screen white. This was the first of a new generation that lights up the (incredibly bright) LED of the iPhone 4 camera flash. Sucks up your battery if you leave it on too long, but it’s brighter than those keychain flashlights, and you always have it with you. There are free ones out there, but this one is nicely done and well worth a buck.
PrintBureau Perhaps the most misnamed app in the iTunes Store. Yes, it manages printing… I can print directly from my iPhone or iPad to my wireless inkjet printer. (Which Apple promised as a feature of iOS 4.2, then crippled at the last minute. It’ll probably come back someday, but PrintBureau works now.) But it also handles cloud storage, and acts as a Wi-Fi hard drive, and has an email client, and probably makes julienne fries. I can’t keep track of everything this app does, but it’s a heck of a lot more than printing.(To print, it runs a helper app in the background on your Mac or PC, which is irritating, but it doesn’t take too many resources and has never crashed my Mac.)
Dropbox Apple, will you just buy Dropbox and put iDisk out of its overpriced misery? As far as I can tell, Dropbox has become not only the default cloud-storage service for iOS devices, but is darned near the file system that iOS tries to hide from you. Integrates seamlessly with your desktop (at least on the Mac; Windows and Linux versions exist, but I’ve never used them). A great way to move files back and forth, to make backups from your portable device, to share files with other people, whatever. I feel guilty for using the free version so heavily and probably ought to buy more storage space, but 2 gigs has proven to be enough for what I do.
JungleDisk I back up all of my Macs to JungleDisk, all the time. My files live safely on Amazon’s S3 servers. If someome steals all my computers, I’ll be angry, but I won’t be out of business. (Yeah, I have the ridiculously-long S3 keys printed out in my fireproof safe.) The iOS app lets me browse and manage those files… including occasionally pulling down a new version of a presentation that I forgot to move to Keynote for the iPad. Amazon S3 isn’t free, but the JungleDisk app is.
Pandora Radio What’s there left to say about Pandora? All the music in the world, streamed to your device, free, and in (to my ears) great quality. The only drawback was that you couldn’t run it in the background, but that’s been fixed by iOS 4.2. This ought to be burned into the ROM of every iDevice in the world.
Netflix At first, it was just cool to manage my Netflix queue from my iPhone without firing up a Web browser. Then they implemented streaming, and changed the world. Watch thousands of movies and TV shows on your phone or iPad, connect it to an external TV set, pause and pick it up later… yep, this is exactly the way it’s supposed to work. No wonder Blockbuster is in Chapter 11. Or that we disconnected our cable TV service, and don’t miss it.
SoundHound Whenever you’re out somewhere and hear a song and wonder what it is… run SoundHound and give it a try. If there’s not too much background noise, it’s amazingly accurate at identifying prerecorded music, and will instantly show you lyrics and a link to buy the song in iTunes. They claim to be able to identify songs that you hum or sing into the mike, but I’ve had pretty poor luck with that. There’s a paid version if you use it frequently, but the free version seems adequate for most needs.
Myst It’s back! The game that sold a lot of color Macintoshes (yes, kiddies, Macs used to be black and white) migrated to the iPhone in fine form. The same puzzles, the same music, and the same backstory that we obsessed over back in 1993. (I basically spent a week over Christmas that year solving Myst.)It’s arguably even better with a touch interface. There’s not a separate iPad version, but the graphics look fine in 2X mode. (Warning: the app is huge, so make sure you have a gigabyte free before purchasing it.)
$1.99 Both (enhanced iPad version available)
Romi If you’ve ever played Rummikub, you instantly understand Romi. If you’ve ever played a rummy card game, you’ll understand in about thirty seconds. Nice interface (needs custom skins, though) and intelligent gameplay. Excellent execution for two bucks. The iPad version is identical except for higher-rez graphics.
Word with Friends I was so excited when Electronic Arts released Scrabble for the iPad! I bought it immediately, and it played exactly like the cardboard version. Exactly. There was a cool feature where you could “flick” tiles from your iPhone/iPod Touch to the main iPad screen, but basically, you needed to be sitting around a table with the other players. So, for four players, you’d be using $1300 worth of electronics to replace a ten-dollar board game. EA (and Hasbro/Milton Bradley) managed to miss a technological revolution named “the Internet.”Newtoy — a tiny company in McKinney, Texas — did it right. They published a modified version of the Scrabble board (to avoid copyright issues, I’m sure) and connected it to the Internet. Now you could play a Scrabble-like game with friends or strangers anywhere in the world… and asynchronously, so you didn’t have to try to coordinate schedules. If you’re both online, you might complete a turn within seconds; if not, the next turn might be hours or days later.Absolutely brilliant, absolutely addictive, and an absolutely wonderful way to spend time. There’s a free version with on-screen ads, but send NewToy two bucks. They deserve it.
$1.99 (free trial available) iPad only
Words with Friends HD Same feature set as the basic version, but even more beautiful (and easier to play) on the big screen. Again, a free ad-supported version is available but, if you play as often as I do, it’s worth two bucks. (My screen name is ‘stephenfleming’; feel free to challenge me. I will crush you.)
$19.99 iPad only
Acid Solitaire I bought this set of three solitaire card games during a brief promotional sale for five bucks. I know $20 is a lot for an iPad game, but it’s beautifully done. I’ve experimented with a few other solitaire games from other developers, but I’m glad I have this one to play.(My wife developed carpal tunnel syndrome from AcidSolitaire… you have been warned!)
$0.99 (free trial available) Both (enhanced iPad version available)
Angry Birds Saving the best for last! This is the most expensive dollar I ever spent… I’ve spent over thirty hours playing this game, which, at my loaded labor rate, it…. (mumble, mumble, mumble) a lotof money.You know the drill… you use a slingshot to fire various kinds of birds at fantastically-unlikely “forts” protecting evil pigs. Silly. Instantly accessible. Difficult to master. I’ve gotten three stars on all 165 levels, and all 17 golden eggs, but I tend to get compulsive. (Which is why I usually don’t playcomputer games!The iPad version has better graphics and it easier to play, but accomplishments on the iPhone don’t unlock higher levels on the iPad (or vice versa). Similarly, Apple’s GameCenter treats it as a completely different game, so achievements on one platform won’t translate to the other. I bought both, but found myself playing more on the iPhone just because I always had it with me. I hope the developer fixes this, once they finish wallowing in their Scrooge McDuck money room!
This turned into an absurdly long blog post (over 9,000 words), but I hope it’s useful to someone. Avoid “tl;dr” and try it in Instapaper!
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Anne Fuller says:
Thanks Steve! Great list. I’m going to add some more apps now! Just got the Ipad for Christmas and still figuring if it can replace a laptop or not…
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Australia Western Sahara Association
Working for justice for the Saharawi people
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Perpetuity can not overshadow the $ 200 million annual stolen phosphate
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Monday, June 5th 2017. The trial of the Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik group opened before the Court of Appeal in Salé – Morocco. activists for the independence of Western Sahara and Human rights defenders , but also the lawyers by their absence protest against this unfair trial whose first hearings were held on March 13th 2017 after months of postponements.
On June 6th, in the space authorized for the Saharawi demonstrations, surrounded by the hubbub of Moroccan sound systems friends of Sid Ahmed Lamjayed sentenced to life imprisonment expressed their support and demands, among 80 other demonstrators.
On the panels we could read “Agrium shame on you”, “The phosphate is Sahrawi, and it belongs to our people”.
Sid Ahmed Lamjayed is the president of the CSPRON The committee to support the peace settlement and to protect the natural resources in Western Sahara.
In a meeting with Equipe Media Mohamed Jaaim, general secretary of CSPRON, said: “I denounce the systematic plundering of natural resources in Western Sahara by Morocco and its accomplices in particular the phosphate, the indispensable element in the global agriculture.
Lemjayad was sentenced to life imprisonment because he took a political stance and not for acts that have never been proven.
We created the CSPRON in 2005. Since then and even before Lamjayad says that the goal of the occupation of our country is to plunder our natural resources and that’s totally illegal because we do not agree with that.
That’s why he was condemned so heavily, the crux of the problem is there, the willingness to appropriate our resources and our categorical refusal.
Our placards thanks the government of South Africa which stopped a cargo of Saharawi phosphate representing about 6 million dollars, the vessel which was going to New Zeland for a cooperative foundation called Balance Agri-Nutrients will be juged on of his property on June 6th.
Another vessel of similar cargo was arrested in Panama, it was going to Canada for the company Agrium. These two vessels alone are worth $ 12 million. By comparison, the World Food Program “WFP” provides the equivalent of $ 7.9 million for refugee camps where our families survive.
We, the Saharawi people, are not beggars, and we could live in peace without asking anyone for help if we were free on our land. ”
Jaaim is a former employee of Phosboucraa. He was sent to Morocco in 2006 because of his union activities.
According to the Western Sahara Resource watch WSRW the extracted phosphate from the Sahrawi mine of Boucraa by the Moroccan OCP represents $ 200 million in the year 2016. The United Nations and in last December the European Court of Justice, made it clear that phosphates and other resources in Western Sahara, whether renewable or not, can only be used on the condition of consultation and the agreement of the Sahrawi people .
EM, El Aaiún occupied Western Sahara
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Dallas International Film Festival | Dallas, United States | April 15, 2016 | World Premiere
Brooklyn Film Festival | Brooklyn, NY, United States | June 10, 2016 | Best Documentary Feature
Macon Film Festival | Macon, GA, United States | July 22, 2016 | Best Southern Documentary
Charlotte Film Festival | Charlotte, North Carolina | September 25, 2016 | Charlotte Premiere | Best Documentary Feature
Sidewalk Film Festival | Birmingham, Alabama, United States | August 27, 2016
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival | Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States| October 9, 2016 | Best Southern Documentary
New Orleans Film Festival | New Orleans, LA, United States | October 14, 2016
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If only a control line (C) is visible, the test result is negative (no IGFBP-1 and/or AFP were detected). If both the control line (C) and test line (AF) are visible, the test result is positive (IGFBP-1 and/or AFP was detected). If no lines are visible, or just the test line (AF) is visible, the test result is invalid and should be repeated. Darkness of the stripes may vary. The test is valid even if the stripes are faint. Do not interpret test results based on darkness of the stripes.
What are the ROM Plus storage and usage requirements for the kit, cassette and QC?
ROM Plus should be stored in a dry place at 4° to 37°C (40° to 99°F). DO NOT FREEZE. When stored in the foil pouch at the recommended temperature, the test is stable until the expiration date. Use ROM Plus within six (6) hours after opening foil pouch. Use ROM Plus within six (6) hours of collecting the vaginal swab sample and placing it into the buffer vial.
The lyophilized positive and negative controls can be stored in a dry place at room temperature until the expiration date. No refrigeration is required.
Do you have to use the timer in the cassette to run the test?
No. The timer that is built into the cassette is included for convenience and does not need to be used while running the test.
Will semen, urine or disinfectants interfere with test?
KY Gel, Surgilube, Tylenol, aspirin, Lever Soap, Noxzema cream, Pert Shampoo, human semen, urine and blood were tested as possible interference’s and were shown to be negative.
How often should external QC’s be run?
It is the company’s recommendation that external QC be completed for each new lot number or shipment of test material or if there is suspicion of improper storage and as required by regulatory or accrediting agencies.
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ROM Plus does not have any gestational age limits.
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HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” finally airs to fierce debate about sexual abuse, celebrity & race
by Isra Ibrahim
Entertainment, Gender and Sexuality, Music, News
Michael Jackson with accuser James Safechuck PC: Alan Light via Flickr
In light of the #MeToo movement and the #MuteRKelly campaign, Wade Robson and James Safechuck are finally telling their full stories about how late pop icon Michael Jackson molested them as children in HBO’s controversial new documentary Leaving Neverland. The documentary is igniting fiery reactions and conversations on reconciling sexual allegations with an entertainer’s legacy, and about its omission of racial dynamics.
Robson and Safechuck state that they met Jackson through show business. Throughout the documentary, both men share graphic details of Jackson introducing them to hardcore porn, masturbation, and other sexual content. As Jackson focused their attention on them, the boys’ lifestyles became richer and exclusive to their families’ content.
However, Safechuck and Robson detail that Jackson would molest them and teach them to dress quickly in hotel rooms as to not get caught. Robson recalls Jackson would brainwash him by saying, “You and I were brought together by God. We were meant to be together and this is us showing each other that we love each other.”
Vulture listed all of the child sexual abuse allegations made in the documentary. Currently, the Jackson estate is suing HBO for a $100 million in damages, claiming the film violates a 1992 non-disparagement clause that was agreed upon in order to air a previous Michael Jackson concert.
However, HBO said in a statement, “Despite the desperate lengths taken to undermine the film, our plans remain unchanged, HBO will move forward with the airing of ‘Leaving Neverland.’ This will allow everyone the opportunity to assess the film and the claims in it for themselves.”
While the documentary was disparaged by many, it also received praise. Actress Amber Tamblyn tweeted, “As a former child actress, I can’t help but watch this documentary and think about how wrong it is for children to be put in the position of performing for the soul (sic) purpose of pleasing adults. It’s such a slippery, dangerous, often abusive slope. #LeavingNeverland.”
One major criticism is that while Jackson’s celebrity was influenced by race, the documentary makes no mention of these particular dimensions. Instead, it makes race negligible to the broader conversations of sexual abuse.
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Alfredo Antonio Codallo
Folklore Artist (1913 - 1971)
After a text by artist Holly Gayadeen, friend and fervent supporter of the work of Alfred Codallo, published by the author in 1983.
Holly Gayadeen's first vocation was to become a teacher, and underwent training for this profession in Trinidad and in England. But his true calling was to be an artist. Throughout his long career, Gayadeen always combined the two, expressing himself in various media such as painting and ceramics, and at the same time teaching visual arts, crafts and design. His special interest in art education as well as local folklore manifests itself strongly in his book "Alfredo Codallo - Artist and Folklorist", which Gayadeen published in 1983.
Codallo's folklore drawings are special in several ways. Firstly, they were done for the world of communications in an era when advertising agencies didn't even exist yet. Hand Arnold and Fernandes Distillers were the two companies who commissioned Codallo's pictures for their advertising campaigns in local newspapers. Illustrating the usage of flour and rum, Codallo managed to capture life in the streets, back yards, shops and homes of Trinidad.
"Honesty, acceptance and a penetrating vision of one who lived a full life with the people and for the people" - this is how Gayadeen characterises Codallo's work. Much like somebody with a benevolent camera, Codallo managed to capture everyday life of the 'simple people', their chores, their surroundings, even their hopes and their fears.
His work is contemporaneous with other artists, who, as Gayadeen puts it, "struggled relentlessly in their artistic pursuits to record for posterity the people, places, folklore and festivals of Trinidad and Tobago": M.P. Alladin, Sybil Atteck, Leo Basso, Dominic Isaac and, in the performing arts, Beryl McBurnie and Thora Dumbell to name but a few. "Even at that period, there was no particular trend or school of painting. Each artist developed his own personalised style and pursued a particular direction. Despite this, as it is even so today, the Caribbean idiom and images are easily recognisable in the art productions of our artists whose works have found themselves in collections locally and abroad," writes Gayadeen.
In 1962, Alfred Codallo wrote about himself: "Through art, I wish to speak in a language that all should understand. A language of beauty - unspoilt by confounding 'isms', yet rich with common understanding and native pride. In my self-imposed job of preserving the folklore way of life, dances, land, river and sea scapes of my country, I am trying to establish a link with our past in the most comprehensive way I know."
Codallo grew up in a generation that felt oppressed by what would be the last decades of colonial government. After the First World War, the mentality of Trinidadians changed: having shared the common experience of the trenches with "white" soldiers, the stereotypes of race and class started to soften up. However, the economy didn't flourish, and poverty amongst black people was as dire as ever in the 1930s, when Codallo would have been in his prime.
"He was a simple man who always seemed to have preferred the informality and unpretentious atmosphere of genuine camaraderie. It was easy to converse with him and his views were generally pointed, serious and sometimes colourfully expressed," writes Gayadeen. Like Gayadeen himself, Codallo was an art teacher, who never had any qualms about imparting his knowledge and skills to those who came to him.
Self-educated, Codallo had little interest in the artistic approaches of impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism or expressionism. "Codallo's works reflect that quality of superb realism," writes Gayadeen. "He gave visible forms to his concepts of the several folkloric themes, traditional cultural patterns and the environment."
Codallo's subjects were drawn from the Afro-Creole segment of Trinidad's society. His own ethnic background was not from this matrix per se: his father was from Venezuela, his mother was of East Indian descent. Having been born in Arima and grown up in Port of Spain, Codallo grew up as a good 'mixer' full of joie-de-vivre, as Gayadeen describes him.
"Codallo was keenly aware of the fact that West Indian folklore has a rich heritage and that legends surrounding the mythical characters of La Diablesse - the female devil, Soucouyants, Douens etc., never fail to stir the imagination. It was Alf himself who gave the name of Paul Carr Landeau (Poluycar) as a man who delighted in telling stories in the open air of Tamarind Square in Port of Spain, wherever he happened to be away from his occupation of a shipwright."
The Trinidad Publishing Company noticed Codallo's talents and employed him as commercial artist, photographer, photo-engraver and lithographic artist. Codallo drew for advertising: the "Spirit of Trinidad" festival and folklore series was created for Fernandes Vat 19 and the village life series to advertise flour.
In many cases, Cadallo's drawings of these two series are the only visual representations of what many Trinidadians feel to be the 'good old days'. Especially the older generation seems to have known characters who looked 'just like that' - the Portuguese shopkeeper, the impoverished French Creole man who uses the back door, the ancient cello player in a parang band. Codallo managed to capture the essence of the role in the character, which has, many decades later, become a blueprint for our communal memory.
"He had been an introspective artist of visionary ideas," writes Gayadeen. "His creations have a metaphysical and mythological concept, each one showing a genuine power of characterisation."
Alfred Codallo passed away at the young age of 58 years, leaving us with many images of life long ago, and the memory of himself as an artist of distinction.
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By Mark Hand
Lucky Corridor LLC, an independent electric transmission developer, wants to build two projects in New Mexico that would transport power produced by renewable energy and natural gas-fired power plants to utilities that could take delivery and then move the power to the Four Corners trading hub in the northwestern part of the state.
The energy mix at Four Corners is changing as some coal plants are closing and several others could follow, according to Lucky Corridor. New Mexico has "an interest in re-supplying the market there with electricity made in New Mexico from wind farms and other generation plants based in New Mexico," Lucky Corridor said in a project application filed with the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
Contributing to the declining coal capacity in the Southwest are PNM Resources Inc. subsidiary Public Service Co. of New Mexico's decision to retire units 2 and 3 of the San Juan coal-fired plant, about 15 miles west of Farmington, N.M., and UNS Energy Corp. subsidiary Tucson Electric Power Co.'s plans to cut its 1,510 MW of coal generation capacity by nearly one-third over the next 15 years and meet future needs with gas-fired resources, renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.
Lucky Corridor's transmission projects will move power produced in an area of northeastern New Mexico that "contains significant wind energy that occurs at the time of the day the southwestern U.S. experiences peak demand, as well as first-rate solar, geothermal and natural gas resources," the company said.
"There is virtually no backbone transmission in this incredible resource area," Lucky Corridor CEO Lynn Greene said in an email interview, referring to northeastern New Mexico.
Lucky Corridor announced in July 2013 that it had signed an anchor tenant agreement with Gallegos Wind Farm LLC for 300 MW of capacity on its Lucky Corridor transmission project, a 130-mile, 345-kV line that would travel from Union County, N.M., to a substation in Taos, N.M. Greene said her Colorado based company recently paid for newspaper advertisements in New Mexico soliciting interest in an additional 400 MW of capacity on the line.
In January, Lucky Corridor said it plans to develop a second transmission project, the Mora Line project, which also would be associated with the Gallegos wind farm. "Our projects will supply the clean energy demanded by the renewable portfolio standards of the states historically served by coalfired generation at Four Corners," Greene said in a Jan. 16 news release.
The Lucky Corridor project will move 700 MW about 130 miles, 35 miles of which is on federal lands. The developers will build the transmission line adjacent to an existing 115-kV transmission line owned by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc. between a point near Tri-State's Gladstone substation and PNM's Ojo substation. The Mora line, which will move 180 MW, will not cross any federal lands. It will move power produced from the first phase of the Gallegos wind farm to a PNM substation. The two projects would cost an estimated $320 million, according to Greene.
FERC in October 2012 signed off on a plan by Lucky Corridor to charge negotiated rates for transmission rights and service on the longer of the two projects. The commission's order gave the company the right to continue to work with Western grid officials and regional utilities to determine the best infrastructure for the region — 230-kV or 345-kV.
According to the company, a 130-mile, single-circuit, 345-kV line would save an estimated $83 million from its previously proposed double-circuit, 230-kV design. "The same size right-of-way works for either design," Greene said. "Ongoing grid studies and market demand will determine which design is built."
Transmission developers bullish on New Mexico
New Mexico's grid congestion issues have attracted interest from electric transmission developers that are pursuing projects, both big and small, to serve customers inside the state and load centers in surrounding states. On a much larger scale than Lucky Corridor's projects, SunZia Transmission has proposed a 515-mile, 500-kV system that would travel through New Mexico and Arizona and possibly provide a route to get wind energy to California.
Along with power industry executives, federal officials view New Mexico as a priority for transmission investment. President Barack Obama's Interagency Rapid Response Team for Transmission, established in 2011, selected the $1.2 billion SunZia Southwest Transmission Project as one of the seven high-voltage transmission projects in the U.S. that would receive help moving through the federal permitting process.
While SunZia has received federal support, Lucky Corridor has benefited from an agreement with the state created New Mexico Renewable Energy.
Transmission Authority, or RETA. Under a memorandum of understanding approved in July 2013, the RETA agreed to assist in the design of Lucky Corridor's construction-phase project finance structure, which could include industrial revenue or other bond financing, according to media reports.
Triangle Gallegos LP, a joint venture between Triangle Cattle Co. Ltd. and Gallegos Wind Farm LLC, recently won a lease bid for a wind farm on about 19,000 acres of Mexico State Trust Land and 31,000 acres of private land in Union County. The lease payments are expected to generate $47 million of revenue for New Mexico State Trust Land beneficiaries over the 45-year life of the project, the New Mexico State Land Office said in an April 28 news release.
Triangle Cattle Co. Ltd. is owned by Glen Black, Coy Myrick and J.D. Myrick, who operate various businesses in New Mexico and Texas, including the development of more than 150,000 acres of wind and solar energy projects. The owners of the Gallegos wind project own a less-than-10% stake in
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With up to 285 wind turbines, the Gallegos wind farm could have a generating capacity of up to 500 MW. The project is designed to be built in phases starting in 2015. The wind project's first phase will serve as the anchor customer for Lucky Corridor's Mora transmission line, while the second phase will anchor the Lucky Corridor project, which is scheduled to enter service in 2018.
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This month we saw the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.7.2 release, the main news being the integrated add-on manager. But unfortunately, there were a bug causing the game to fail in creating the necessary folders, creating some headaches and confusions as to what the problem were since not everyone had this problem. One could say that it's not good to release a version with a new feature when the new feature didn't work, but that's why it's called RC, right? We can probably expect a new RC in not too long, which will include the fix.
We've got a new kart in STK; meet Beastie, the mascot of FreeBSD. Thanks to funto for providing the kart and icon.
The big news, however, is the work on a new weapon for STK. That's right, we get even more fun gadgets to use on our opponents. The details and the model for the weapon is still a work in progress, and thus I'll only give a brief description. The hammer/swatter is a close-range weapon which you can mount on the kart by firing it. It will then stay for a set amount of time, or until it finds a target to hit. The target can either be a close-running kart, or a weapon on its way to hit you. If it's a kart, the hammer/swatter will hit it making the kart look squashed, and its top speed is halved for the amount of time it is squashed. If it's a weapon, it acts like a shield and defends against it ( but it only stops explosive weapons thus far). Hard to take a screenshot of how a weapon works, and the current model is only a placeholder, so I guess you'll just have to try it for yourself when the time comes.
There has been a lot of progress in the track and kart exporters for Blender 2.5x, such that most tracks and some karts have been converted to 2.5 in order to fix potential issues with the exporters and for setting up the .blend files to use the new integrated STK properties panel. This doesn't mean it's 100% safe for widespread use, but it's getting there.
Add in the usual bunch of misc fixes, and I think you get the picture: SuperTuxKart only gets better and better. ;)
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SuperTuxKart 0.7.2 RC1, the first release candidate towards version 0.7.2, has been released.
This version features the following main improvements :
Added in-game addon manager ( see http://stkaddons.net/ )
Fixed major memory leaks (STK will no longer saturate your memory after half a dozen races)
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Jorn van Deynhoven - Sundale Sessions 005 (2011-09-25) (September 2011)
Jorn van Deynhoven - Sundale Sessions 004 (2011-08-28) (August 2011)
Jorn van Deynhoven - Sundale Sessions 003 (2011-07-24) (July 2011)
Jorn van Deynhoven - Sundale Sessions 002 (2011-06-26) (June 2011)
Jorn van Deynhoven - Sundale Sessions 001 (2011-05-22) (May 2011)
Leon Bolier - Spinnin' In The Mix (2010-02-12) [URTZ]
Maria Mashkova - Sound of Desire 061 (2014-06-09)
Markus Schulz - Solo - Live @ Amnesia in Ibiza (2010-09-20) [URTZ]
Markus Schulz - Solo - Live @ Amnesia in Ibiza (2010-09-20) [Razorator]
Ron Verboom - Shah-Music Day on AH.fm (2010-06-30) [URTZ]
Zaa - Shah-Music Day on AH.fm (2010-06-30) [URTZ]
Druid - Shah-Music Day on AH.fm (2010-06-30) [URTZ]
Spark7 - Shah-Music Day on AH.fm (2010-06-10) [URTZ]
Mark Sherry - Scotland In The Mix 004 (2017-04-30)
Karybde & Scylla - Pure Trance Pleasure 105 (2010-12-15) [URTZ]
Markus Schulz - Prague '11 Release Party (2011-03-10) (Live @ SaSaZu in Prague, Czech Republic on 2011-02-12) [TT]
Markus Schulz - Prague '11 Release Party (2011-03-10) (Live @ SaSaZu in Prague, Czech Republic on 2011-02-12) [TMB]
Indecent Noise - Polonia In The Mix 010 (2012-08-31)
XiJaro & Pitch - Open Minds 006 (2014-06-14)
Tom Colontonio - OMEGA 034 (2010.12.09) [URTZ]
Tom Colontonio - OMEGA 032 (2010-10-14) [URTZ]
Radion6 - Mind Sensation 002 (2011-11-24)
Kyau & Albert - Live Broadcast Ultrasonic Festival (2011-02-12)
Gareth Weston - Live @ Trancegression 300 at Glenferrie Social in Melbourne, Australia (2013-09-18)
Darren Porter - Live @ Trancegression 300 at Glenferrie Social in Melbourne, Australia (2013-09-18)
Manuel Le Saux - Live @ Trancegression 300 at Glenferrie Social in Melbourne, Australia (2013-09-18)
Allen & Envy - Live @ Trance Gate (2014-05-17)
John Askew - Live @ Trancefusion - Power Of Elements at Industrial Palace in Prague, Czech Republic (2014-04-19) [Razorator]
Marc Simz - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 7)
Bjorn Akesson - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 6)
Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 5)
Ronski Speed - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 4)
Matt Bukovski - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 3)
Dennis Sheperd - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 2)
Skytech - Live @ Trance Family Matrixx in Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2013-05-04) (Part 1)
Solarstone - Live @ Pure Trance at Beachclub Fuel in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-06-15) (Part 3)
Heatbeat - Live @ OTS Productions, Era Nightclub in Ottawa, Canada (2013-02-07)
RAM - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 9)
Sean Tyas - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 8)
Super8 & Tab - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 6)
Sied van Riel - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 4)
Jochen Miller - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 3)
Adam Seller - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 2)
Jay Junior - Live @ Grotesque on the Beach pres. Tytanium 200 in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands (2013-05-12) (Part 1)
Juventa - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Arctic Moon - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
RAM - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Giuseppe Ottaviani - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
John O'Callaghan - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Andy Moor - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Sied van Riel - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in The Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Mark Sixma - Live @ GrotesQue Indoor Festival in Maassilo, Rotterdam (2012-11-10) [Razorator]
Chris Schweizer b2b Thomas Heredia - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Protoculture - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Daniel Kandi - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Solarstone - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Tenishia - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
First State - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Kris Shaw - Live @ Gatecrasher at Sound Academy in Toronto, Canada (2012-11-09) [Razorator]
Fady & Mina - Live @ FSOE at Space Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2013-02-03) (Part 5)
Ummet Ozcan - Live @ FSOE at Space Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2013-02-03) (Part 4)
Aly & Fila - Live @ FSOE at Space Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2013-02-03) (Part 3)
Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Live @ FSOE at Space Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2013-02-03) (Part 2)
Mohamed Ragab - Live @ FSOE at Space Sharm in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt (2013-02-03) (Part 1)
Allen & Envy - Live @ Elevation Audio Ibiza (Warm Up Party) at Club 414 in London, UK (2014-06-07)
Matt Bukovski - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 9)
John '00' Fleming - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 8)
Munder - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 7)
tyDi - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 5)
Ummet Ozcan - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 3)
Artento Divini - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 2)
Skytech - Live @ Electik Music Festival 2013 at Arena Hall, Poznan, Poland (2013-02-23) (Part 1)
Lisa Lashes - Lashed January (2013-01-14)
Factoria - Infrasonic Day 2015 (2015-09-30) (Part 19)
UCast - Infrasonic Day 2015 (2015-09-30) (Part 18)
Andre Visior - Infrasonic Day 2015 (2015-09-30) (Part 17)
Ultimate & Moonsouls - Infrasonic Day 2015 (2015-09-30) (Part 014) (Best Of Infrasonic Pure Set)
Apsara - Indonesia In The Mix 002 (2012-04-29) [TMB]
Dave Correa - IGNITION Radioshow 026 (2013-02-02)
Luke Bond - Hollywood 001 (2013-05-22)
Dave Correa - HAVOC 006 (2015-10-13)
Andy Gregory - Global Progression 063 (2010-12-12) [URTZ]
Above the Clouds - Gent Trance Division Radio Show 008 (2013-09-28)
Vast Vision - FSOE Day on AH.FM (2009-08-29)
Sean Tyas - FSOE Day on AH.fm (2009-08-29)
Aly & Fila - FSOE Day on AH.FM (2009-08-29)
Philippe El Sisi - FSOE Day on AH.FM (2009-08-29)
Aly & Fila - FSOE Day 2010 on AH.FM (2010-09-29) (Part 11) [URTZ]
Fast Distance - France In The Mix 002 (2008-08-01) (Part 13)
Artento Divini - F.O.M.B. 020 (2012-04-20)
Artento Divini - F.O.M.B. 017 (2012-01-20) [PM]
Sean J Morris - Elevate 002 (2011-11-26)
Katadunkass - Electronic Spectrum 024 (2013-04-13) (incl. Devito guestmix) [Podcast]
Duderstadt - Electronic Eavesdropping 044 (2010-11-24) [URTZ]
Fabio XB - Electronic Dimension 017 (2013-03-16)
Fabio XB - Electronic Dimension 008 on AH.FM (2012-06-16)
Indecent Noise - Destiny Day on AH.FM (2015-11-23) (Part 11)
Ima'gin - Counterpoint 018 (2010-10-24) [URTZ]
Ian Buff - Connective Sounds 060 (2010-11-07) [URTZ]
Paul Cogito - Cogito Ergo Sum 002 (2013-05-25)
OzzyXPM - Blue Soho Sessions 005 (2011-07-10)
Richard Durand - Black Hole Recordings & Finenight.com Day (2010-11-30)
Cosmic Gate - Black Hole Recordings & Finenight.com Day (2010-11-30)
Filo & Peri - Big Room Sound 034 (2010-10-13) [URTZ]
Eelke Kleijn - Benelux In The Mix 004 (2008-08-31) (On AH.FM)
Airwave - Benelux In The Mix 004 (2008-08-31)
RAM - Beat Boutique 004 (2010-09-22) [URTZ]
Scott Bond - Aural Pleasures 038 (2012-12-16)
Above the Clouds - ATC Recordings Radio Show 007 (2013-08-24)
Aku & Ghazaly - Airlifted 007 (2011-11-16)
Da-Ruth - AH.FM EOYC 2012 (Contest Mix)
7 Skies & Static Blue - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-23)
Dan Stone - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-22)
Config - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-21)
Simon & Shaker - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-21)
Mark Eteson - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-21)
Hawk - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-20)
Eelke Kleijn - AH.fm EOYC 2008 (2008-12-20)
Adam Nickey - AH.fm EOYC 2007 (2007-12-29) (12:00-13:00)
DarkMemoria - AH.fm EOYC 2007 (2007-12-26) [TT]
Cressida - AH.FM 1 Year Anniversary Massive Celebration (2007-06-02) (Part 28) [PS]
Solarstone - 1 Hour Pure Mix (2013-02-26)
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France passes tech tax despite United States investigation
"I absolutely am voting for her", Denise replied.
Pence "said Thursday a vote for Brian Kemp is tantamount to support for President Donald Trump".
If Abrams wins next week, the former Georgia state House minority leader would become the country's first female African-American governor.
Ms Winfrey called Ms Abrams a "changemaker" who represented the values of all Georgians, where Atlanta is the capital city.
"And I've got a message for all of Stacey Abrams's liberal Hollywood friends: This ain't Hollywood", he added. "Well I'd like to remind Stacey Abrams and Oprah and Will Ferrell-I'm kind of a big deal too".
Perhaps even more than President Barack Obama, who will campaign for Abrams on Friday, Winfrey's appeal closely aligns with Abrams' political pitch. I don't wanna go in those waters, ' she said, shaking her head and waving her finger.
"I am an independent woman; I have earned the right to do exactly what I want to do when I want to do it. I paid for myself and I approve this message".
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According to RealClearPolitics's average of polls, Abrams and her Republican opponent Brian Kemp are in an extremely close race, with Kemp up by 1 percentage point. If elected, she would be the first black woman elected governor in the United States.
The state requires identification information on voter registration applications to precisely match information already on file with the Georgia Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.
She encouraged women of all races - "sisters ... not just 'sistahs,"' she joked - to remember that they would have been "just a piece of property" with no ballot barely a century ago. She recalled generations of black Americans who faced "lynching ... oppression ... suppression", and declared that "their blood has seeped into my DNA" and forced her to the polls.
The 64-year-old media titan shared a video on her Instagram page holding a clipboard and knocking on the door of a voter named Denise.
After Winfrey's speech, Abrams climbed the stage to join a discussion and was greeted by chants from the audience.
"The Democratic party, that the governor, the young lady that's running there... is the party that gave the South, where you are Oprah, the KKK, it gave us the Jim Crow laws that were there", he also said.
She also slammed the United States, which shares economic interests with Saudi Arabia, on its inaction in condemning Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Khashoggi's fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, published a heartfelt plea in the Washington Post .
Ooredoo announces new offer for iPhone XR purchase
It is available in five colors with a price tag of $749 in the United States, £749 in the UK, and over 849 in Continental Europe. And the new Depth Control feature allows users to adjust the depth of field both in real-time and after the image is taken.
Lastly, as we are massive audiophiles here at T3, we were also impressed with the new MacBook Air's upgraded audio system. Apple says that the battery will last 13 hours while playing movies on iTunes, or 12 hours while browsing the web.
It comes with quad- and 6-core 8th-generation Intel Core processors with Turbo Boost Speeds up to 4.6GHz and Intel UHD graphics . At the moment we only know that the price of the entry-level Mac mini 2018 will be $799 / £799 (around AU$1,120).
'Seriously ill' Glenn Hoddle being treated in hospital
Former England manager Glenn Hoddle is "responding well" to treatment after being taken to hospital on Saturday. Hoddle spent 12 years with Tottenham, where he was considered one of England's most technically gifted players.
He uses three iPhones, two of which have been made marginally more secure by the National Security Agency. China responded to a report that its spies listened to President Donald Trump's phone conversations.
Khashoggi slain in consulate
Adam Schiff of California said Saudi Arabia's claim that Khashoggi died in a brawl wasn't credible. "We're going to know over the next two or three days", Trump said.
Bolt offered two-year deal by European club, says agent
Central Coast Mariners' Usain Bolt applauds fans after an A-League match. You sell him, so be it, that's the tough world of professional football".
CDC expresses concern over mysterious surge in polio-like paralysis cases
He says while the preceding illness may be a virus, there's no need to rush your child to a doctor just because they have a cold. The CDC reports it mostly affects children, and so far this year there have been 62 confirmed cases in the United States.
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Mayor 'sick' by video of police encounter with young family
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Dallas chef makes the cut for new season of Food Network Star
Apr 17, 2017, 8:50 am
Say hello to Dallas' newest reality-TV star. Photo courtesy of Food Network
Dallas reality show fans have a likable new contestant to root for on the latest season of Food Network's Food Network Star.
The series' 13th season premieres on June 4 with judges Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis and 13 competitors showcasing their cooking and on-camera skills to prove they have what it takes to become the next Guy Fieri.
Representing for Dallas is Caodan Tran, a former food blogger who owns a personal chef service. According to her bio, "Caodon didn't learn to cook until it became a life necessity as an adult. Raised in an ultra-competitive family, Caodan realized that cooking was the best way to learn about a culture without traveling. Caodan currently owns a personal chef service, doing everything from pop-up dinners to private dinner parties. Known for her fresh, clean, and simple approach to modern Vietnamese cuisine, Caodan considers herself hyper-ambitious and strong headed in a good way."
Sneakers website Chicks N' Kicks has already profiled Tran, and she recently launched a YouTube channel that she'll use to document her journey over the next few months.
A companion show called Food Network Star: Comeback Kitchen will give seven former Food Network Star finalists the chance to vie for a slot on the new season. And yet another companion series, this one web-only, called Star Salvation gives eliminated finalists a second crack at getting back on, much like Top Chef's Last Chance Kitchen.
Allison Page, program manager at Scripps Networks Interactive, says in a release that the show is inspirational to viewers. "To become a Food Network Star requires top-tier culinary skills, an impressive television presence, and the utmost dedication," she says.
Veteran reality show watchers will recall that Dallas has had two prominent locals on this show before: restaurateur and Sissy's owner Lisa Garza-Selcer, who was on season 4 in 2008; and Melissa d'Arabian, who was only kind of a Dallasite and won season 5 in 2009.
The pre-season begins on May 21, with the premiere of Food Network Star: Comeback Kitchen, a three-episode miniseries where seven ex-finalists return for a second shot at stardom. Co-hosts Valerie Bertinelli and Tyler Florence will identify what kept each of the alumni from winning. The competitors will take on a retro dessert and shoot an Instagram video about their updated version. Duff Goldman will help judge the results.
The June 4 premiere of the main show takes place at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. Guest judges are Robert Irvine and Monti Carlo. Other judges and guests throughout the season will include ESPN anchors Jemele Hill and Jaymee Sire, Sunny Anderson, Melissa d’Arabian, Anne Burrell, Josh Denny, Guy Fieri, Hannah Hart, Eddie Jackson, Sandra Lee, Sabin Lomac, Tiffani Thiessen, and Andrew Zimmern.
In addition to Tran, there's one other finalist from Texas: Nancy Manlove, from Texas City, a Food Network veteran who competed on Season 9 of Cutthroat Kitchen, which aired in 2015. Manlove previously worked for NASA, then went back to school to earn a culinary arts degree. She's won food competitions and is currently chef de cuisine at a farm-to-table restaurant and a grandma who wants to get cooks of all ages into the kitchen.
Other finalists hail from Lousiana, New Jersey, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, and Hawaii.
Star Salvation returns on June 25 on FoodNetwork.com/Salvation and is hosted by Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and Food Network Star season 7 winner Jeff Mauro. It'll run six episodes, and the winner will re-join Food Network Star on August 6.
Watch for the Opt For Optimism van all over Texas
Glitzy new Cedar Springs bar shakes into week's 5 hottest headlines
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Caficultores de las ZRC, Colombia | Photo courtesy of Kyla Sankey
CERLAC is Canada's oldest and largest LAC research centre. Our current mandate is hemispheric, grounded in deep engagement with the LAC region and those identified with it, but emphasizing in transnational processes, ties to local LAC communities, and thematic collaboration with scholars working outside LAC alongside traditional area studies.
As an organized research unit, CERLAC offers LAC scholars in departments and units across York an important cross-cutting axis of intellectual engagement. Our mandate encompasses 1) pursuing and supporting timely, excellent, and socially engaged research on the LAC region; 2) providing an advanced interdisciplinary education on the LAC region for York University students; 3) sharing knowledge grounded in rigorous scholarship on the region with Canadian and international academic, governmental, and non-governmental organizations as well as community partners; 4) creating pathways between the university and other constituencies.
CERLAC fosters research intensification at York University by providing support services for fellows' projects and collaborations, training new generations of regional scholars, mobilizing knowledge to media, policy-makers, and broader communities, and programming events and other opportunities for scholarly exchange.
Over nearly four decades, CERLAC Fellows have published critically lauded works in a broad range of disciplines, from economics to fine arts. Our major conferences and lecture series have informed the Canadian public about the critical issues facing Latin America and the Caribbean. With our institution-building projects in the region, we have also forged a remarkable breadth of linkages with universities, research centres, and non-governmental organizations that provide opportunities for York faculty and student research and bolster York's reputation for research excellence throughout the hemisphere.
Recently, CERLAC has also increased its focus on Latin American and Caribbean communities closer to home.
As a community of communities, CERLAC welcomes research and researchers representing all the thematic, geographic, and disciplinary diversity of contemporary LAC scholarship. During its 2015-2020 charter, CERLAC especially seeks to advance collaboration in the following five areas:
1. Critical studies of extractive industry
The LAC mining sector is a key site of investment for Canadian capital, generating $19.4 billion of revenue in 2012 (North-South Institute). Increasingly Canadian foreign aid priorities are aligned with this sector, while NGOs and community groups increasingly demand reliable information about its activities. CERLAC pioneered the critical study of extractivism in Canada with its 2009 “Rethinking Extractive Industry” conference.
2. Precarities in the Americas
In much of the LAC region, the global rise in precarity after the 2008 crisis compounded the effects of earlier Washington Consensus neoliberal policies, dramatically reshaping labour and local economies while generating new flows of migration, new strategies of policing, and new rights claims. Contextualizing precarity and resistance to it in the region where neoliberalism was pioneered provides important insight into its workings around the globe.
3. Popular performance as critical research method
Critical LAC scholarship has long valued the knowledge and practices of subaltern social groups as a source of insight into and contestation of colonialism and capitalism. Strong cultural repertoires of music, dance, theatre, and visual art make performance a rich site for elaborating and engaging with this knowledge. CERLAC invites projects examining performance as a method for collaborative and community-engaged research on our hemisphere.
4. Food sovereignty, community environmental governance, and indigeneity
Throughout the Americas, globalization and the expansion of extractives have imperiled the livelihoods, environments, and cultures of indigenous and peasant communities. Self-defense for these communities is increasingly seen to lie in sharing best practices for local environmental governance, solidarity economies, and collective rights across national and linguistic boundaries. CERLAC encourages collaborations in this area.
5. Sexuality studies
Much recent work across many disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities has turned on questions of sexual identities, experiences, behaviors, and communities in Latin America, the Caribbean and their diasporas. At York University, an informal network of scholars has taken up topics within Sexuality Studies ranging from health and reproduction to human rights.
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Brenda Harrison – a brief in memoriam
Brenda died on Wednesday 24 February in the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice in Farnham. Pam, her life partner, slept in the Hospice and was at her bedside for the final hours of Brenda’s life.
Brenda was an amazing person, an evangelical Christian with a passion, and a key member of the Changing Attitude team. She was a campaigner and fighter and was always totally committed to whatever she became involved with. Brenda became involved with Changing Attitude in the early years and was instrumental with others in creating a strong, independent LGBT Anglican witness.
She worked half-time for Changing Attitude for 3 years as administrator and continued to work unpaid with the same commitment until a few weeks before she died. She had also become a trustee and ensured that we adhered to all the legal and financial rules.
Changing Attitude wouldn’t have been organized with such efficiency and we wouldn’t be in such a stable financial position without Brenda. But more than her practical skills, Brenda brought her cheeky smile and a bouncy attitude to meetings and events.
She was involved with many other groups, had been a president of the European Forum, a member of the Evangelical Fellowship, CA convener for Guildford and a member of the Human Sexuality Group in Guildford Diocese. She had many more irons in the fire, all of which helped her cross boundaries and form friendships with a huge network of people.
Brenda was an inspiration to so many and we all have so much to thank her for ~ a determined fore-runner who campaigned for many of the things some now enjoy and take for granted. Brenda wanted the campaigning to continue until all are able to enjoy freedom in the Kingdom of God. Her inspiration and love touched many of us over the years.
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Civil Partnerships: Letter and Leader in today’s Times
The Times has published a letter today signed by a number of bishops including several patrons of Changing Attitude, and a leading article. The letter argues in favour of an amendment to the Equality Bill by Lord Ali which would allow Civil Partnerships to be registered in religious buildings.
All but one of the bishops is retired and the bishop of Salisbury is to retire later this year. The bishops of Winchester and Chichester are among those consistently opposing equality for LGBT in the House of Lords. The House of Bishops was described to me two weeks ago by one of the bishops who signed the letter as a dysfunctional mess (or something like that!).
Why do bishops opposed to LGBT equality turn out en masse to vote for intolerance while bishops who support LGBT people in private and actively encourage clergy to register Civil Partnerships stay away when these matters are debated? Are they bullied and intimidated by their conservative brothers in the House? (Shades of Gordon Brown?).
The current stance of those bishops who are vocal is unrepresentative of the majority of Anglicans, destructive of the Church’s mission in England and is having a terrible negative effect on LGBT people, our friends and families and all Christians who believe that justice, truth and love are prime Christian values.
It’s discrimination to stop gay couples taking vows in church
It is inconsistent to affirm the spiritual independence of the CofE but also deny the spiritual independence of three small communities
Sir, The Civil Partnership Act 2004 prohibits civil partnerships from being registered in any religious premises in Great Britain. Three faith communities — Liberal Judaism, the Quakers, and the Unitarians — have considered this restriction prayerfully and decided in conscience that they wish to register civil partnerships on their premises. An amendment to the Equality Bill, to allow this, was debated in the House of Lords on January 25. It was opposed by the Bishops of Winchester and Chichester on the grounds that, if passed, it would put unacceptable pressure on the Church of England. The former said that “churches of all sorts really should not reduce or fudge, let alone deny, the distinction” between marriage and civil partnership.
In the same debate, the bishops were crucial in defeating government proposals to limit the space within which religious bodies are exempt from anti-discrimination law. They see that as a fundamental matter of conscience. But it is inconsistent to affirm the spiritual independence of the Church of England and simultaneously to deny the spiritual independence of the three small communities who seek this change for themselves (and not for anybody else).
The bishops’ “slippery slope” argument is invalid. Straight couples have the choice between civil marriage and religious marriage. Gay couples are denied a similar choice. To deny people of faith the opportunity of registering the most important promise of their lives in their willing church or synagogue, according to its liturgy, is plainly discriminatory. In the US it would be unconstitutional under the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law . . . prohibiting the free exercise . . . of religion.
The amendment will be re-presented by Lord Alli on March 2. We urge every peer who believes in spiritual independence, or in non-discrimination, to support it.
Iain McLean, Professor of Politics, Oxford
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford
The Right Rev David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury
The Right Rev John Gladwin, Former Bishop of Chelmsford
Lord Harries of Pentregarth, Former Bishop of Oxford
The Right Rev Bill Ind, Former Bishop of Truro
The Right Rev Peter Selby, Former Bishop of Worcester
The Right Rev Kenneth Stevenson, Former Bishop of Portsmouth
The Very Rev Nick Bury, Dean of Gloucester
The Rev Jeremy Caddick, Dean, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
The Very Rev Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans
The Very Rev Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark
Canon Dr Judith Maltby, Chaplain, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Canon Brian Mountford, Vicar of the University Church, Oxford
Canon Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity, New College, Oxford
The Rev Sarah Coakley, Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, Cambridge
Sarah Foot, Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History
Alec Ryrie, Professor of the History of Christianity, Durham
Stuart White, Director of the Public Policy Unit, Oxford
Jill Green, Quakers
The leading article:
Equal before God
This Government has done much to bring the law into line with modern attitudes towards homosexuality. It scrapped Section 28 , equalised the age of consent and ended the ban on gays in the Armed Forces.
Now it must resolve the legal asymmetry that prevents homosexual civil partnerships from taking place on religious premises. In a letter to The Times today, a distinguished group of mostly Anglican clergy correctly point out that “straight couples have the choice between civil marriage and religious marriage. Gay couples are denied a similar choice”. That clearly discriminates against homosexuals who are also believers, and three faith communities — Liberal Judaism, the Quakers and the Unitarians — now wish to register civil partnerships on their premises. A legal amendment permitting them to do so is expected to be debated in the House of Lords next month.
The Church of England has so far resisted change, arguing that if some religious groups are allowed to hold civil partnerships then the pressure on the C of E to follow suit will become intolerable. It is a feeble argument. No one is arguing that any church should be forced to conduct a civil partnership. But willing churches should not be precluded from doing so.
Benjamin Disraeli believed the Church of England to be “a part of our liberties, a part of our national character”. If it has any hope of continuing in that role, the Church — and the Government — must recognise that our liberties today should include the right of homosexuals to register the most important promise of their lives in a church.
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Labels: Civil Partnerships, Equality Bill
Are there signs of hope for LGBT people in Africa?
The possibility that there might be signs of hope for LGBT people in Africa seems unlikely in the context of the violence in Kenya and elsewhere and the proposed legislation in Uganda and Nigeria.
On Saturday gug blogged about the Barzai in Kampala, the forum he attended and tweeted from. He reports that he stood and spoke, but not as gug. His closet, he said, is wide open and he just needs a little nudge to come out and flower. But the forum wasn’t the place.
Gug got me thinking. In the month following the publication of the Anti-homosexuality Bill in early October, there were signs that it might lead to the introduction of similar legislation in other African countries. For some time, I feared that it might lead to the introduction of a wave of similar punitive Bills. Many African members of the Commonwealth already have draconian ex-colonial legislation on the statute book so that any new legislation is really unnecessary and looks simply vindictive.
The future looked bad for some weeks, with the probability of increased public hostility, prejudice, intolerance and aggression, which has indeed happened in Uganda and Kenya. It looked (and may still look) as if an increased risk of public humiliation, arrest, imprisonment and death is the inevitable outcome for LGBT Africans. But the multiplying of Bills didn’t happen and it has become more than a possibility that the Uganda Bill itself will not be enacted.
All of the above risks to LGBT people are ever present risk and may yet become reality. But I think that another scenario is unfolding at the same time as the potential for punitive legislation and a diminishment of safety and dignity for LGBT people.
What difference would the Uganda Bill make in reality? Would priests and bishops, for example, refuse to listen to and talk with LGBT people and report anyone they knew to be gay to the police? In Nigeria, what difference would the anti-gay marriage act make? No-one was proposing to legalise gay marriage in the first place so the bill was always an attempt to play on prejudice and pre-empt moves to acknowledge the presence of LGBT people in society.
At the moment, it looks likely that neither bill will be enacted. There was strong international condemnation of the Nigerian Bill by LGBT organisations and the Ugandan Bill has created huge international political condemnation with economic sanctions threatened. Martin Ssempa’s display of pornographic gay images in church has made him a figure of derision. The Million Man March so loudly trumpeted by him never materialised.
Both bills have mobilised opposition to LGBT people in their respective countries, using conservative Christian teaching (labelled traditional and orthodox) to mobilise Christian support.
But I think there is good news as a by-product of the various anti-gay initiatives.
LGBT people in Africa may have been intimidated by the anti-gay hysteria but some of them have also been motivated to work for change and stand up for themselves and their human rights.
International networks and relationships between pro-LGBT groups and individuals have been activated and strengthened. This is certainly true for Changing Attitude and our links across Africa. The internet is proving to be a huge influence in disseminating news and information and creating effective alliances.
A public discourse in each of the countries concerned has been started - not, perhaps, what the homophobes anticipated. Lesbian and gay attacks and anti-gay campaigns are regularly reported by the media. This means that people are learning about the real presence of LGBT people in their culture even if their prejudices are being fuelled at the moment. But people will also ask questions, especially if they suspect that someone in their own family or social network might be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Pro-gay arguments are also being articulated and the subject is now irrevocably on the agenda – it will never go away.
Even were the Ugandan or Nigerian bills to be passed, this process will continue. I suspect that far more positive progress has been made in the past 4 months since the Anti-homosexuality Bill was published than is as yet obvious in the public domain.
I prophesy that the anti-gay campaigns will be counter-productive and will eventually bring about the very thing they are set up to eradicate – the acknowledgement and acceptance of LGBT people in African societies.
Uganda pastor Martin Ssempa screens gay porn in church
Pastor Martin Ssempa, the Christian leader driving support for the Anti-homosexuality Bill, whose Million-Man March was supposed to have taken place on Ash Wednesday until banned by the police, decided instead to screen gay porn in Pastor Kiganda’s church in Kampala on Wednesday evening. The screening was attended by around 300 supporters crammed into an evangelical church. This is the most astonishing way to mark Ash Wednesday that I have ever heard and if a church in the UK or North America chose to screen gay porn in church on any occasion, let alone Ash Wednesday, the backlash would be intense and unforgiving.
Martin Ssempa told the supporters:
"We had planned to have a million-man and -woman march in Kampala but unfortunately we were told that we could not march because of security concerns. The major argument homosexuals have is that what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is nobody's business but do you know what they do in their bedrooms?," he asked, and then displayed a slide show of gay pornographic pictures. "This one is eating another man's penis," the pastor said, before going into even more graphic descriptions. "Is this what Obama wants to bring to Africa?" he said, following fierce US criticism the Anti-homosexuality Bill.
In his report about Ssempa’s gay pornography Ash Wednesday in church, gug says he has heard that some mainstream Christians have had enough and are going to publicly oppose the bill. They are Anglicans and their strongly heart-felt opposition will be in marked contrast to the 'wishy washy hypocrisy' of the Church of Uganda. If they are to have any more credibility, says gug, Christians will have to claim back their Church.
Gug watched the programme Agenda Uganda on NTV last night, in which Pastor Solomon Male justified the killing of gay Ugandans because they have refused to change. He said gays should be killed because the Bible says so, and the audience applauded – another extraordinary message for Ash Wednesday.
This morning, gug decided to send an email letter to the key supporters of the Bill:
MP David Bahati, sponsor of the Bill, who is doing all this in defence of the traditional family
MP Benson Obua Ogwal, co-sponsor the bill, who calls gug a gay pervert because the Bible calls him so
MP Nsaba-Buturo who is a born again Christian, fierce proponent of the Bill and the Minister for Ethics and Integrity
Speaker Ssekandi, the man with the official final say with what goes on in parliament
Stephen Langa, the 'ideologue' behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and a fierce defender of the family (but presumably not against gay porn!)
Gug wrote:
Last night, I watched Pastor Solomon Male on Agenda Uganda on NTV justifying the killing of gay Ugandans, because they could not, or would not change.
This morning, I see this article: Ugandan Pastor screens gay porn in Church.
It would be laughable if it wasn’t the truth. Of course Ssempa has done exactly the same thing many times. And, the Minister of Ethics and Integrity looks on... Martin Ssempa has screened gay porn at press conferences. He has done so at the National Theatre. He has done so at many other places which the press has simply not reported about. He has gone into graphic descriptions of gay porn on Television, and the Broadcasting Council is yet to caution any of the stations, or even the man of God.
Is it because it is Gay Porn? Or is it because it makes gay people look bad? Or, will someone soon claim that there are laws against 'straight porn' and none against 'gay porn'? This debate has reached, or has always been at the heights of hypocrisy.
Or, maybe it is the Christian thing to do, to screen porn in Church? Maybe I used to know a different Christianity.
Gayuganda
Gug says Ssempa is breaking one of the clauses of his own Bill, which says:
Section 13; Promotion of homosexuality.
(1). A person who -
(a) participates in production, procuring, marketing, broadcasting, disseminating, publishing pornographic materials for purposes of promoting homosexuality;
commits an offence is liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand currency points or imprisonment of a minimum of seven years or both fine and imprisonment.
Labels: Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Gug reports on the Ugandan Anti-homosexuality Bill march in Jinja
Gug has blogged today about the demonstrations that happened in Jinja on Monday. For some reason The Monitor took two days to report the demonstrations and New Vision carried no reports. The demonstration drew hundreds of people and lasted 2-3 hours. The pictures come from the Monitor.
Here are excerpts from the Monitor reports:
Hundreds of Jinja residents took to the streets on Monday in support of the anti-homosexuality Bill. Chanting messages peppered with anti-gay slurs and displaying placards denouncing the practice, the demonstrators made their way around the town led by religious leaders in a procession that brought business to a temporary stand still.
Western leaders rebuked
The demonstrators also criticised Western leaders’ disapproval of the Bill. “Obama leave Ugandans alone,” “Obama to hell with your aid,” were some of the messages written on the placards.
“Of what importance is homosexuality to us? It is as if we have no brains. Let them keep their homosexuality and keep their money as well!” a woman among the shouting crowd yelled.
Speaking following the procession that lasted about two hours, Pastor Martin Ssempa, one of the prominent supporters of the Bill, said it was a shame that the US president had taken to supporting the un-African custom and expected Uganda to follow suit. “Obama even if you do not give us money for medicine for our people, to hell with that money, we would rather die but die in dignity,” he said.
He added: “This is Uganda and we also have our rights just like the Americans have theirs. We decide for ourselves what is good for us. So these leaders should leave us alone to make our own legislations that are good for us.” The clerics, who preached against the practice at a crusade held at the Kazi Mingi grounds in the town, also claimed the media had failed in its duty to fight the practice.
Pastor Matthias Sserugo said: “The anti-gay federation is not here to express their hatred for homosexuals but to tell them that they can change and society can accept them once more.” President Museveni recently expressed opposition to some sections of the proposed Bill noting that they would harm Uganda’s foreign policy.
Martin Ssempa had been proclaiming that today, Ash Wednesday, a Million Man March in support of the Bill would take place in Kampala. Ssempa has been declaring that the Lenten season is the period of mobilisation and mass action to have the bill passed so that by Easter Day the bill should be law.
It would seem that the international pressure and the political implications of the Private Members Bill are having an effect not only on its progress but on the ability of Bahati and Ssempa to organize support in favour of the Bill. I sense parallels with the Nigerian Same Gender Marriage Prohibition Bill which although not dead, has never been passed into law. There are also echoes of the failure, to date, of the conservative pressure groups in the Anglican Communuion to achieve their goal of splitting the Church and isolating the North American, openly gay-affirming Provinces.
Conservatives have campaigned on these three issues with great confidence and conviction. Things are not working out as they planned, for which I give thanks. Forces hostile to LGBT people are still intense and well organised, but other, more benign forces are at work in creation. Affirmative campaigns can achieve significant change by mobilising pro-gay political and Christian opinion and individuals like gug can move mountains by staying in the heat, telling the truth and allowing the world to learn from the experience of one honest, courageous gay Ugandan.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Presidential Address – Jean Mayland, Changing Attitude Patron and Trustee responds
Changing Attitude patrons and trustees hold a spectrum of opinions about the stance we should take in response to the Anglican Covenant and the strategic attitude towards the process of changing Communion attitudes towards LGBT people. The Revd Jean Mayland, retired Church Life Secretary for CTBI holds a more hawkish position than me and reacted more negatively to the Archbishop’s Presidential Address. She is pictured below on the Modern Churchperson's Union stall at Lambeth 2008. Her response follows.
The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Presidential Address - a personal response
I first heard accounts of the Address as I drove home from York and felt very angry. I read the analysis of the speech by Ruth Gledhill in ‘The Times’ and read the text of the address through twice. I am still angry and I will try to define why.
I think it is because the Archbishop rebukes everyone else but never seems to acknowledge his own responsibility or failure of leadership. The only positive aspect is that he makes a half hearted apology to gay and lesbian people.
But first, the issue of women bishops and those of us who are campaigning for it. The Archbishop accuses us of not listening and just pushing our own demands.
I made my first speech in Church Assembly on the ordination of women in 1967 when I was 31. I listened to Dr Demant who told us that we only wanted to be priests because we were jealous of men as we did not have a penis. We wanted one too, aparently! I am now 73 and I have been listening to our opponents from both ends of the ecclesiastical spectrum for over 40 years! What a time in the wilderness. As well as listening we have been discussing and arguing and working and debating on and on and on and they never change - in fact Forward in Faith and Reform have become more and more rigid in their stance.
How dare that man tell me to listen! He came in at the end of the process and did not listen himself!
In his address the Archbishop accused us of jeopardising the current situation by insisting on provision just on our terms. He also says that what we hear is the rest of the Church saying, ‘Of course we want you – but exclusively on our terms, not yours’; which translates in the ears of many as ‘We don’t actually want you at all’.
I actually do not hear the Church saying this about women - the great majority of the Church wants us. It is the Archbishops who give us the impression that they are not listening to us and that we are expendable and of little value. We have asked for terms which place proper value of women and will not harm the church.
We oppose ‘Flying Bishops’ because they have entrenched opposition, supported the bullying of women and marred the catholic nature of the Church. We have never defended privilege or our own 'rights’. We have made demands which the majority of the church and those in secular society who have an interest at all, can see are just, fair and moderate. I do not think that over the years WATCH has campaigned in any way of which we should be ashamed .We have tried to be 'wise as serpents' but we have also tried to be 'harmless as doves.'
Gay and Lesbian People
The Archbishop in his address did give a sort of half hearted apology to gay and lesbian people and yet at the same time he defended the opposition of the Church in the House of Lords to the Equality Bill .He argues that the Bishops in the Lords were arguing for Religious Freedom. When one remembers the real struggle for religious freedom that took place in the Communist countries in Soviet times, then he does not have a clue. Anyway what was the religious freedom he was arguing for? It is freedom for the Church to discriminate against women and against gay and lesbian people. He says the discrimination against the latter was a small exception - but it means that gay ‘would be clergy’ living in a faithful partnership cannot be ordained - or if they do many of them live in fear. It means that they and lay people can be denied jobs if homophobic church members oppose them.
Behind this is the demand that clergy and church lay workers in civil partnerships should be celibate. Why? Celibacy in the Church of England has always been a vocation and not a matter of compulsion. Faithful commitment should be supported and not condemned and gay people have as much right to enjoy the God given gift of sex as straight people. The Bishops also made serious demands about transgender people that showed complete lack of understanding and care. Only the Bishop of Chichester wavered a bit and showed a bit of care and said it was very complicated.
Why should the Church seek an exemption from the Equality Bill so that it can exclude people in this way? When I worked at Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) the first discussion papers about bringing the legislation concerning different marginalised groups together were published and they struck me as caring and concerned and Christ-like.
Now I am ashamed and angry that the Church seeks exemption. What about Genesis in and even Paul about no Jew or Gentile etc?
The situation became even worse when the Archbishop moved on to the issue of the Covenant which he praised and desired. This would create a two tiered Anglican Communion and would be an instrument for the oppression of gay and lesbian people.
I assume that Nigeria - homophobic, anti women, allowing and even supporting violence against women (but of course very Biblically based!!!!) would be in the top tier and the USA – open, liberal, caring, mission conscious, generous but very suspect because of its Biblical criticism and gay clergy would be in the bottom tier.
The other quite amusing thing (one either laughs or cries) is that I am sure the Archbishop assumes England will be in the top tier. What would then happen if the General Synod decides that we should have women bishops, ordain practising gay men and women and bless civil partnerships? Do we then go down to level two? The province of Canterbury a second class Anglican Province – at last one can laugh rather than scream.
Jean Mayland
Labels: Anglican Communion, Anglican Covenant, General Synod
Pro-gay meeting held in Kampala and alternative march held in Jinja as Ssempa’s million man anti-gay march cancelled by the police
The Daily Monitor in Kampala reports that the Unitarian Universalist Church of Kampala, one of the few religious organizations in Uganda that supports the gay community, held a conference on Sunday to highlight the need for an end to discriminatory treatment of the gay population in Uganda.
According their website, the Reverend Martin Lavanhar, President of Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry and senior minister at All Souls Unitarian Church arrived in Uganda on Thursday last week to launch a campaign against the Bill. Bill Sherman, one of the organizers of the conference, declined to disclose details of the meeting citing security reasons.
“Under most circumstances I would be happy to give you this contact information. But with security concerns so high, I am reluctant to do so,” Mr Sherman told the Daily Monitor in an e-mail. However, the Inspector General of Police, General Kayihura said he was not aware of the meeting and vowed to arrest them.
Gug, being, as he says, an infidel and non believer, didn’t go to the campaign meeting at the JBK Hotel but was there in spirit. He was there in the flesh later for the ‘after-party’ event, when they gathered in a bar, drank and laughed and danced and met others that they never knew existed in this world. It was a blast, he says. He had never seen so many kuchus gathered in one place, celebrating something as simple as St Valentine’s day of love.
The Daily Monitor also reports that on Sunday, the police moved to halt the planned million man demonstration in support of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which was scheduled for Wednesday, saying that the government is still sorting 'issues out' Police halts anti-gay demo as pro-gay activists secretly meet in Kampala.
Pastor Martin Ssempa, one of the organisers of the demonstration confirmed that the Inspector of Police Major General Kale Kayihura had contacted them and proposed a meeting on Tuesday before the Wednesday demonstration. “It is true Gen. Kayihura sent us a text message that he hasn’t cleared the demonstration. He said we should meet him on Tuesday to forge a way forward,” Pastor Ssempa said. Gen. Kayihura said, “We asked them to postpone the demonstration because government has some issues to sort out and they agreed.”
Alternative demonstration held in Jinja today
Gug has just confirmed that there was some kind of smaller demonstration in support of the bill by Pastor Martin Ssempa and and his supporters in Jinja, Uganda's second largest town. This is an interesting development and here is assessment why:
The government wouldn’t want a demonstration because they have realised that the waters they have stirred up are too stormy on too many fronts. So, they have to calm down those waters.
Ssempa follows a different agenda. He wants the demonstration; he wants to show support for the Bill and wants it to become law.
So, from what I gather from the Monitor report, Sunday, the Inspector General of Police who is head of all the police in Uganda, Kale Kayihura, said they didn’t have permission for the march on Kampala. They had scheduled Tuesday as the date to meet with him and discuss options.
Why would a spontaneous demonstration have been organized in Jinja? I would understand that if Ssempa wanted one and didn’t want the police to meet him with tear gas and batons, he would organise it very fast and not in Kampala.... and hope the government accepts the fait accompli, which is what happened.
The demonstration in Jinja means that Ssempa is going rogue, counting on popular support to force through the bill. He is, of course, dumping the government in the process, which does not take such things very happily, especially if there was an agreement that they would meet on Tuesday to discuss a way forward.
Gug admits his assessment may be wrong because the government could have given the green light for the demonstration. The police have proved themselves adept at stopping opposition demonstrations in the past, so how could Ssempa's have taken place without their tacit approval?
After a week of Big Questions – the Communion still survives
Participating in The Big Questions debate yesterday morning about the division or unity of the Anglican Communion reinforced my sense of confidence in the signs that I picked up in General Synod last week.
I was seated next to Lorna Ashworth in the studio. Lorna had tabled the private member’s motion about ACNA which was debated in General Synod on Wednesday afternoon. To her far right was Charles Raven from Kidderminster, the priest who was inhibited by Bishop Peter Selby when he challenged Peter’s authority. Between them was a conservative Christian lawyer who contributed to the opening debate about the torture of terrorism suspects and the second debate about fidelity in marriage. In both the views he expressed were not unreasonable, but when he joined in the debate about the Anglican Communion he suddenly inhabited an extreme world of sin and judgement in which any person who was neither married nor celibate like him was destined for hell.
There was intense heat in the debate between those who were arguing for inclusion and generosity and the conservatives who revealed more and more extreme views as the debate proceeded. Although the programme researchers had clearly been disappointed that all of us seemed to agree that the unity of the Communion should be maintained, it became apparent in the studio that this is not what the conservatives want. They want to be split from people like me who believe in a generous, forgiving, loving, ultimately inclusive God.
If they want to push this to its logical conclusion, all we need to do is stay. They have to decide whether to leave. I know it isn’t quite as easy or simple as this – staying in a Church where people express such prejudiced, hostile views and feelings isn’t comfortable. Sometimes the homophobia and the prejudice against women becomes intolerable.
Several people in the audience approached me afterwards and expressed astonishment at the views held by the conservatives. They had no idea that this is what an extreme minority in the Church of England believe. They wondered what had happened to what they remembered as the traditional Anglican ethos of generosity and welcome to all, whatever degree of faith people have.
There is a fault line in the UK more dangerous than the fault line within the Church between conservatives and liberals. It is the fault line between those who think it’s more important for Christianity to be doctrinally pure than it is for Christianity to model God’s generous love. An exclusive Church is not just the kiss of death for gays and women priests and bishops, it’s the kiss of death for a lively, loving, healthy, evangelistic Church of England which has any chance of connecting with real people and real lives. Why would anyone watching The Big Questions and hearing the conservatives bother to enter a church which is so judgmental and intolerant?
A friend sent me a text after the programme saying they think we have a mountain to climb. We are climbing it, and the further up the mountain we climb, the more the clouds begin to clear and the potential for a glorious view becomes apparent. Both global forces and history are against the conservatives.
I’ve now had time to read in detail the comments on and reactions to the debate on Lorna Ashworth’s motion in Synod. I was in the public gallery for the ACNA debate and present at the fringe meeting on Tuesday lunchtime when the ACNA case was presented.
There were a considerable number of people at the fringe meeting who were not taken in by the confident presentation, and several asked firmly probing questions, which did not receive honest answers and some weren’t answered at all. The voting figures on the motion tell the true story. The majority of members in each House voted consistently against Lorna’s motion – which was there to be accepted if Synod really wanted to state its desire to be in Communion with ACNA. Some comments on Thinking Anglicans still seem uncertain about this.
There may well be attempts to set up a parallel to ACNA in England. There will be further attempts to marginalize TEC and Canada. There will be attempts to inflate the success and importance of ACNA. Some leaders in the Communion will continue to vilify LGBT people while at the same time claiming they want the best for us.
I think Lorna’s motion was a disaster for ACNA. They were firmly rejected by the Church of England and the whole idea kicked into touch. The large contingent which had flown over and were much in evidence at Synod got nothing for their trouble, but seem to have been flattered into a false sense of success by our English ‘niceness’. We nod and smile sweetly and agree, whilst holding to a totally different view inside.
Lorna’s motion was lost.
Greater pension equality for Civil Partners was passed.
Archbishop Rowan apologised to LGBT people and described the Uganda Bill as repugnant.
The studio audience though conservative Christian views were shocking.
The conservative leaders in the Communion are not making the progress they claim. Their reports are grossly inaccurate and they misrepresent reality continually. No group confident of their position would do this. I receive many more reports in confidence that tell me the Communion is not with them. Bishops are not with their Primates. The Church of England is not with the bishops who support ACNA. International opinion is against the Uganda Bill. The UK Government is against repressive homosexuality legislation in the Commonwealth.
Most importantly, Christ is risen, God is love and Creation is good. Truth, justice and love shine in people’s hearts and lives whether or not conservative Anglicans think that the 39 Articles, the Ten Commandments and a literal interpretation of the Bible are fundamental to salvation.
If the Christian lawyer in the audience really thinks my eternal salvation is at risk because I love another man, well, bully for the celibate him. Me – I’m for life with a joyous God.
The Future of the Anglican Communion - a Big Question
I’m in York courtesy of the BBC, preparing to participate in The Big Questions on BBC1 at 10am this morning. The big question this week is the future of the Anglican Communion.
In the conversation last week I asked Bishop David Anderson where he thought ACNA and TEC would be in relation to each other in 10, 20 or 30 years time. With litigation being pursued in so many directions at the moment and deeply hostile positions being held across the divide, it’s not the time to think about reconciliation or resolution. But I found myself thinking a lot about the need to attempt to reconcile differences one day and achieve a reintegration of the many diverse strands in our Communion.
Everyone taking part in today’s programme apparently thinks that maintaining the unity of the Communion is a good thing, from what the researcher told me. If we each think the other, those against gays and women bishops and progressive Christian theology as well as those in favour, has to be won over to our cause, then there is no hope of achieving reconciliation.
At the moment, minds are focussed on the Covenant, on the implications of signing and whether it can or will be used as an instrument to punish and exclude.
I feel far more optimistic about the future at the end of a week at General Synod. The Archbishop of Canterbury apologised and made strongly positive statements about LGBT people in his Presidential Address. Synod voted for equality in pension provision. The Church of Uganda announced that it was not supporting the Anti-homosexuality Bill. There was significant movement in a positive, pro-gay direction.
The conflicts in the Communion are not going to be resolved in a way which fails to recognize the place of women and LGBT people in every order of ministry. Space has to be created and will be created. In Africa, LGBT people will begin to create space for themselves in society and in church. There is a huge, hidden presence of LGBT people across Africa. Even if few of them are networked with each other in local communities, they are increasingly part of a global network through the internet and they are far more secure in their sexual identity and have access to far more resources online than I did at their age.
Why did General Synod vote so decisively for pension equality? The Church of England seems to have been quietly coming to terms with the real presence of LGBT in the two years since the ‘gay-Tuesday’ debates at Synod, let alone the 19 years since ‘Issues in Human Sexuality’ was published. Several gay people spoke in the debate, not all of them out to Synod in the way they are out in other circles. General Synod still doesn’t know who it has in its midst.
According to Christian Today one Synod member, who asked to remain anonymous, said conservative Synod members had deliberately withheld from taking to the floor to speak against the motion for fear of reprisals. “They didn’t dare to. There would have been screams of homophobia if anyone had dared oppose it,” he said. This would not have happened 10 or even 5 years ago. Then the conservatives were confident about their position of opposing equality for LGBT people. They are no longer confident, and it isn’t only for fear of accusations of being homophobic in General Synod. In UK society, and especially those under 40, the majority think conservative Christians are prejudiced and intolerant of sexual diversity in creation. The majority are not necessarily right, but on this issue, the Church is never going to convince them they are wrong.
In addition conservatives repeatedly distort facts to support their own version of the truth. This was shown in the way conservative sites reported Lorna Ashworth’s motion about ACNA. When your position is untenable, distort the facts. Reports about the Church of Uganda position paper on the Anti-homosexuality Bill were similarly inaccurate, as was the paper itself.
The Church of Uganda and other African Anglican churches certainly have no idea how many LGBT people worship with them Sunday by Sunday, people who either reject their church’s teaching and inwardly affirm their own identity or are deeply damaged and depressed by what they hear.
In England, the stance of churches towards equality for LGBT people in ordained ministry as well as in lay ministry and other posts will eventually be conceded, sooner rather than later if the church’s credibility and mission is to be maintained in this country.
I know I’m an eternal optimist and there are some mighty big obstacles to be overcome in the next two or three decades. But those forces which have attempted to split the Communion have failed to do so thus far, and there is no reason why we shouldn’t do everything in our power to maintain the unity of the Communion at the same time working towards full recognition for LGBT people in every Province.
Where others in the Communion have a narrow view of a God who is primarily exclusive and judgmental, we have to live into our experience of God who has created us gay and loves us gay and is calling us to transform the Church and bring another dimension of the Kingdom into being.
Truth will out - the truth about LGBT people in our Communion and the truth about the way in which people are selectively using the Bible to oppose homosexuality when they hold divisive views about women in the church, marriage and divorce.
I will be engaging with people this morning who also believe the unity of the Anglican Communion to be a ‘good thing’ but from a rather narrower ecclesiological and theological framework.
Changing Attitude Sussex launched in Brighton on Monday 8th February
Monday evening seems a long time ago, but I took the train from London to Brighton to address the inaugural meeting of Changing Attitude Sussex (which effectively covers the Diocese of Chichester). Around 70 people attended the meeting which was held in the Chapel Royal in North Street, a really beautiful venue.
Both the organisers of the meeting and myself were amazed at the numbers who attended. The clergy persons amongst those present were, of course, a sub-set of gay clergy in the diocese. My hosts pointed out that an unusually large percentage of the 350 priests in the diocese are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered. A significant number are members of Forward in Faith and the last place they wanted to be seen was in the Chapel Royal, which is an inclusive church, at a meeting advocating honesty and inclusion for all gay people in the Chichester Diocese.
I wasn’t sure where to pitch my address. Having introduced myself and the ethos of Changing Attitude I opened the floor for questions and an amazingly cathartic hour followed. It was refreshing to hear people speak openly and honestly about themselves as LGBT Christians, about Chichester’s attitudes to gay people, and the stance taken by the bishops.
Amongst the diocese's bishops there appears to be little real understanding of gay people. There is deep prejudice which creates a climate of fear and mistrust and this makes the lives of gay clergy very difficult. I had hoped to meet John Hind at General Synod and talk with him about Monday evening’s launch, but our paths never crossed. He seems to live in denial of the reality over which he presides – a diocese with so many LGBT people, lay and ordained, whom he probably divides into sheep and goats – those who are anti-women bishops and those who are failing to conform to the church teaching he would want to impose. This is particularly the case in the east of the diocese where the are bishop is president of the Church of England Evangelical Council.
I hope the new Changing Attitude group will bring courage to those who want to change the diocesan culture and bring honesty and integrity to a diocese which, in attitudes towards LGBT and women, is sadly lacking.
The Sussex group will be campaigning to get a number of churches in Brighton to register officially with Changing Attitude as ‘Open and Welcoming Congregations’ to gay people. They also intend to compile a ‘Which Church?’ dossier for gay people dividing churches into four categories from ‘open and welcoming’ to ‘judgemental and rejecting’.
The provisional group convenor, Keith Sharpe, said in a press release:
‘as the British Social Attitudes Survey recently showed, attitudes to same sex relationships have become much more liberal. In the Church however things are getting worse not better. Church leaders increasingly make overt homophobic statements which foster hatred and bigotry and demonise gay people. It is very damaging for gay people’s mental health to find themselves in a judgemental and rejecting church, and we hope that our ‘Which Church?’ dossier will give them the information they need to make an informed choice. We also hope the publicity surrounding the dossier will encourage more churches to reconsider their position and become open and welcoming.’
For further information please contact keith@changingattitudesussex.com. or visit www.changingattitudesussex.com
General Synod approves pension parity for Civil Partnerships
At the conclusion of an extremely good debate in which every speaker voiced unprecedented approval for Civil Partnerships, in a vote by Houses, Synod approved Mark Bratton’s motion unaltered by the amendments proposed by the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and by Philip Giddings. The voting figures were Bishops, for 12, against 2, abstentions 3, Clergy for 97, against 23, abstentions 10, Laity for 78, against 59, abstentions 9.
The motion read:
That this Synod request the Archbishops’ Council and the Church of England Pensions Board to bring forward changes to the rules governing the clergy pension scheme in order to go beyond the requirements of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and provide for pension benefits to be paid to the surviving civil partners of deceased clergy on the same basis as they are currently paid to surviving spouses.
To be honest, I’m astonished. This isn’t the result I expected. The cumulative effects of the week at Synod from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s apology and very strong comments about the Uganda Bill in his Presidential Address on Tuesday to the Church of Uganda’s decision not to support the Anti-homosexuality Bill to this afternoon’s debate suggest significant movement in the Church of England’s attitude to homosexuality. In the period since gay Tuesday two years ago, the Church seems to have changed its attitude even more radically in understanding the issues of generosity and inclusion which affect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
The big issues of equality and inclusion still have to be faced – real quality for LGBT clergy and lay ministers and the celebration of Civil Partnerships in church – but unless I am very mistaken, our church is learning and changing and this is a cause of real thanksgiving and celebration.
The amendments would, from Ripon and Leeds, have offered hardship grants rather than pension equality and from Philip Giddings, have extended equality to any qualifying relative living as a member of the deceased’s household for more than 5 years. Both amendments were lost, the first by 110 to 154, the second on a show of hands.
Giles Goddard was called first in the debate and in a confident maiden speech, said that this was about justice, generosity and care. Stephen Coles declared that he had a strong interest at the beginning of his speech and John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln, added strong support.
The Archbishop of Canterbury was strongly affirming of LGBT people in his Presidential Address before offering a profound apology. He said:
The debate over the status and vocational possibilities of LGBT people in the Church is not helped by ignoring the existing facts, which include many regular worshippers of gay or lesbian orientation and many sacrificial and exemplary priests who share this orientation. There are ways of speaking about the question that seem to ignore these human realities or to undervalue them; I have been criticised for doing just this, and I am profoundly sorry for the carelessness that could give such an impression.
He also expressed repugnance at the infamous legislation being discussed in Uganda and in comments about the Anglican Communion, said:
“There is an undoubted good in the independence of local provinces, and there is an undoubted good in the fact that some provinces are increasingly patient, compassionate and thankful in respect of the experience and ministry of gay and lesbian people – entirely in accord with what the Lambeth Conferences and Primates' statements have said.”
It wasn’t all good news, but throughout this week at Synod, there has been much stronger recognition of the reality of LGBT lives and ministries in our Church and for that, I am quietly thankful to God.
Labels: Civil Partnerships, General Synod
Lorna Ashworth’s motion about the Anglican Church in North America
Suffragan Bishop David Anderson, President and CEO of the American Anglican Council based in Atlanta, has been present at General Synod this week and I’ve enjoyed two lengthy conversations with him. We had met previously at TEC General Conventions and ACC meetings. I start with David because we had a genuinely easy conversation, but I want to write about the distortion of reality which characterises the conservative reporting of events.
Bishop David was here with the four ACNA leaders who spoke at a fringe meeting organised by Anglican Mainstream on Tuesday lunchtime. I was present at the meeting, illicitly because the Bishop of Winchester who chaired said at the beginning (looking directly at me, I thought), this meeting is open only to members of General Synod, asking anyone else present to leave. I remained in my seat, waiting to be named. I’m sorry, bishop, for having ignored your request.
The four speakers at the meeting representing the Anglican Church in North America were Bishop Donald Harvey, Mrs. Cynthia Brust, Dr. Michael Howell, and the Rev. Dr. Tory Baucum. They were confident and convincing in their presentations and any one not knowing better would have been convinced by what they said. Speakers from The Episcopal Church would have been equally passionate and convincing. That’s what North Americans are like.
Yesterday I met one of the BBC reporters covering Synod. What they said isn’t true, he commented, having visited both TEC and ACNA parishes. ACNA distorts statistics to their advantage and are riven with tensions and disagreements. ACNA is an unstable network. This is very different from the idealised picture presented on Tuesday of a network which is modelling Anglican breadth and inclusiveness with far more success than we in the Church of England have ever been able to achieve.
Could their picture be true? Let’s look at the way conservative groups, including ACNA itself, are reporting yesterday’s debate on Lorna Ashworth’s Private Member’s Motion.
The Anglican Mainstream headline is ‘ACNA a member of the Anglican Family says Church of England General Synod’.
David Virtue headlines his article: ‘ACNA recognised in spirited debate by Church of England Synod’.
The ACNA website reports: ‘General Synod affirms Anglican Church in North America’.
The Bishop of Bristol’s amendment does none of the above. It recognises and affirms the desire of ACNA to remain in the Anglican family; it does not recognise ACNA nor say ACNA is a member of the Anglican family nor affirms ACNA.
The conservative reports reveal their desperation to be recognised as members of the Anglican family and the lengths to which they will go to convince themselves by totally distorting the truth. This is a repeated characteristic of conservative groupings.
Comments on the Stand Firm web site reinforce this inability to tell the truth. Baby Blue, who has generously acknowledged me in the past, writes that “the Church of England recognizes the ACNA. We are not ‘schismatics.’” Sorry, but no, the Church of England did not do that yesterday. Baby Blue claims it is brilliant and changes the whole conversation because ACNA remain Anglicans in the eyes of the Church of England. I think she and other commentators are grasping at straws. Many of those asking questions at the fringe meeting on Tuesday were critical of what they had heard. The first questioner asked whether those on the panel were all in denial about what is happening in North America. Another asked whether they were saying the Episcopal Church is not now part of the Anglican Communion, such was the distorted impression they created. Cynthia Brust pointedly refused to answer the question.
Still on Patrol’s analysis on Stand Firm started with the thought that “the C of E passed something expressing generally positive sentiments toward ACNA which probably infuriated the Presiding Heretic which by definition is a good thing.” This kind of abuse towards the Presiding Bishop and The Episcopal Church is characteristic of the attitudes held by conservatives and revealed by Stand Firm and VirtueOnline. They are not Christian. They are poisonous.
The debate itself was brutally interrupted by a malfunction of the electronic voting system which caused a long hiatus while arrangements were made to vote through the lobby doors. It was a mess in the middle of a debate was something of a mess, avoiding the underlying issues and the ultimate need for Christians to be reconciled with each other.
I asked Bishop David Anderson where he thought ACNA and TEC would be in North America in 10 or 20 years. He had no idea. If we are not working towards a reconciliation and reintegration of churches and ministries, then we are failing to pursue fundamental Christian ideals. At the same time, I affirm that Changing Attitude can envisage nothing other than a fully inclusive Church in which the ministries of women and LGBT people are fully integrated into the life of the Church.
At the moment, there is a visceral hatred of women priests and bishops and a loathing of gay people in ministry among certain groups and networks. Thank goodness for John Ward, lay member for the Diocese of London, who brought personal reality into yesterday’s debate when he spoke to his amendment. We are talking about people who have left and walked away from the Communion, he said. He talked of his 14 year relationship with the man who is now his Civil Partner and linked the gay issue and Gene Robinson’s ordination with those he cannot affirm because they have split over the issue. He asked permission to withdraw his amendment and received the warmest applause of the afternoon for his honesty and generosity.
At the moment, all groups in North America are finding it impossibly difficult to be honest and generous towards each other. My conversations with David Anderson told me that we can be friends and acknowledge each other’s humanity, but only when we set aside differences over gender and sexuality. One-to-one we can do that, but in the arena of Church politics and structures it is at present impossible. People prefer to carry their prejudices, projections and demands for a Communion that excludes certain categories of people.
It isn’t difficult for Changing Attitude to stand firm with those who want women and gay people fully included in our Communion. It’s much more difficult to work and pray for an outcome in which present divisions are reconciled and all are united in one Communion. It is a dream which we have to try and turn into reality. We must refuse to be corrupted by the distortions of reality which characterise conservative campaign strategy.
Labels: Anglican Communion, General Synod, The Episcopal Church
Church of Uganda issues position statement opposing Bahati Anti Homosexuality 2009 Bill
Where to begin? So much has happened since I last blogged and there a several stories which I want to write about.
Let’s begin with Uganda and gug’s latest blog.
“At last the Anglicans in Uganda have decided that a good Anglican cannot support the Bahati bill.
“Thanks to all people who pulled and pushed for us. Changing Attitude England, Leonardo pushing and pulling and ranting and reving, and all Christians out there. Archbishops of York, Canterbury. Cant forget you guys. You weighed in late, but you did.
“You may wonder what it does for the bill? Just remember, the bill is only a symptom of the homophobia in Uganda. It has to be undercut. Uganda must be safe for those of us who will live there. And, never again to Genocide, which this bill is.
“Here, at long last, is the absolute about turn from Uganda’s Anglicans.”
Gug's blog is based on a report carried in the Ugandan Monitor. The full text of the Church of Uganda’s statement is here.
The Church of Uganda associates itself with the concerns expressed in the Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009 but instead of a completely new Bill, recommends a Bill that amends the present Penal Code. The Church of Uganda does not support Bahati’s Bill.
The stance of the Ugandan Church distances itself from support for the present Bill and would effectively kick the whole process into the long grass. They propose amending existing provisions by means of a new Bill which might be called “The Penal Code Unnatural Offences Amendment Bill” and recommend that a comprehensive legislative and literature review of all the laws and literature related to the subject at hand be undertaken in order to identify the actual gaps in the existing legislation.
The position statement is cleverly worded. It doesn’t explicitly state opposition to the Bill but effectively does so by recommending the introduction of a completely new Bill. If the Bahati Bill is passed, the Church of Uganda will be on record as not having supported it. If the Bill fails to pass, will there be any traction behind the proposal to amend existing legislation? I doubt it.
The Church of Uganda proposals for the new Bill addresses three loopholes: protecting the vulnerability of the boy child; proportionality in sentencing; and ensuring that sexual orientation is excluded as a protected human right.
Changing Attitude welcomes the first two proposals. Girl children are protected under existing legislation against abuse by adults. Boy children are not and must be. The paper doesn’t explain what is meant by proportionality in sentencing, but I understand it to mean opposition to the death penalty, which we also clearly welcome.
We disagree with the proposal to exclude sexual orientation as a protected human right. This is in contravention of Anglican Communion policy. Lambeth 1.10 recognises the reality of homosexual orientation and assures us that we are full members of the Body of Christ. The Church of Uganda has yet to accept Lambeth 1.10 in its entirety. Likewise with Dromantine which unreservedly commits the Communion to the pastoral support and care of homosexual people and describes the victimisation or diminishment of human beings whose affections happen to be ordered towards people of the same sex as anathema.
To its credit, the Church of Uganda commits to ensure that the law protects the confidentiality of medical, pastoral and counselling relationships, including those that disclose homosexual practice in accordance with the relevant professional code of ethics. There are members of the Church of Uganda engaged not in the counselling approach advocated by ex-gay ministries but are in accord with professional, non-judgmental practice.
This part of the position statement is clearly in conflict with other recommendations. It uses the phrase ‘homosexual disorientation’ which a professional counsellor would never use. It would prohibit and penalise homosexual behaviour and links homosexuality with sexual perversion.
But this is a dramatic change from the Church of Uganda and Changing Attitude welcomes their opposition to the Bahati Anti Homosexuality Bill 2009.
Sexuality and Human Flourishing
Changing Attitude was one of five national organisations which together organised a very successful conference in Birmingham on Saturday. The other groups were The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, Inclusive Church, LGCM and The Sybils, with Church members from Norwich and Birmingham. The conference was designed to explore and celebrate our relationship with God, with each other and with our inner selves, and for me, it opened windows onto all three.
The Revd Canon Dr Alison Joyce, Priest-in-charge of Edgbaston Old Church, introduced the day and welcomed the two speakers who delivered addresses in the morning. The Revd Arnold Browne talked about Sexual Diversity in Scripture and Tradition and Alison Webster about Sexual Diversity in one human journey.
Lively 5 minute buzz groups followed each talk, and the 100 or so conference participants then separated into ten groups to discuss questions arising from the talks and their own experience. Group themes included Parenting; Issues with the Church; Christian Ministry; Cultural Loyalties; Issues at Work; To disclose or not to disclose? and Under Pressure.
Lunch followed with soup provided by the local group. While most were enjoying lunch, members of CSCS met in the side chapel and held their AGM. CSCS has had a good year, partly reinvigorated by involvement in the Conference which had happened as a result of their initiative. Finances are healthy and a new chair and treasurer were elected, with Jane Frazer standing down as chair and Daphne Cook as Treasurer.
We reassembled for a panel of speakers who were chaired by Brian Thorne and invited to share their own pitfalls, opportunities and spiritual resources on the journey.
We split into groups again for another 50 minutes. Discussion in my group second time around was fired by what we had heard from the panel. People wanted to know how they could bring pressure on the Church and especially on bishops, who seem to live in a fantasy world disconnected not only from LGBT Christians but from majority opinion in our congregations.
Tea and coffee followed with a fabulous range of cakes, and the final plenary session brought as much as possible together in the last 20 minutes.
Anglican attitudes maintain regimes of terror and inhumanity against LGBT people
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people hurt, deeply and painfully, as a result of Christian attitudes towards homosexuality. I am old enough and I have a secure-enough sense of myself not to feel pain most of the time now. But tens of thousands of LGBT people do. It’s an intolerable outrage and it takes a person like gug, the gay Ugandan, to describe the feelings and the scenario in which gay people the world-over endure the intolerance and prejudice of well-meaning Christians.
Gug has been coming out to his brothers (of which he clearly has many) one by one - yesterday to another. He doesn’t want them to discover from the TV that their brother is an out and out homosexual. He tells them quickly, not giving them much time to digest the news, because for him it’s a stressful, embarrassing task.
The brother goes and tells my dad, who was 72 yesterday, something about it. His dad is an elder of the village, the clan, the tribe. He has taken a lifetime of work to get to this position of respect. He was not happy with the news. The old man has designated gug, the second son, the apple of his eye, as heir apparent.
He has pleaded with gug to get married. He even offered gug a girl, but he laughed at him and said no thanks. Then his father told him, at least have children. Then, a year ago, he pleaded please have at least one child, even if it is a girl. Gug was deaf to his entreaties
His whole day was spoilt yesterday but today he tried to cover up the loss that he felt, even though it hurts, very badly. It hurts. But he cannot respect his dad’s request to remain silent, not with the threat of life imprisonment and death for gays in Uganda. There is work to do with the bill still before parliament.
Today he concluded his blog by referring to a swell office spac right in the middle of town on Kampala Road, the home to Andrew Wormack's ministries and books. He is an American evangelist married to a Ugandan woman, and robustly defends the Bahati Bill. Gug wants to know why any sane human being would support the Bill. I wondered why conservatives and so-called orthodox Christians claim, falsely, that homosexuality in Uganda is fuelled by western money and decadence, when American Christian money is channeled through Ugandan Christians to support the Bill and fuel their intense prejudice.
Gug reports a story from the USA, about Moses, a gay man from Uganda seeking asylum in the United States, who gug thinks he knows as a gay Christian with an interesting story to tell. Read gug’s own blog here.
Moses gave a chilling account of the harassment and terror he withstood growing up in Uganda. He addressed reporters with a paper bag over his head to conceal his identity, speaking of how in Uganda, “one would rather die than come out of the closet,” because LGBT people are so terrorized in a culture that portrays homosexuality as “deviant” behavior. He described being beaten at school and living in constant “fear of rejection, fear of isolation by my family, making my family a laughingstock... fear of losing friends, fear for my life.” He experienced a “constant feeling of shame,” and ultimately abandoned his studies and lost his job.
Moses said that he was raped by a policeman, but feared seeking medical attention because “if I told health workers they would not give me help. They would instead report me, and the next day I would hit the headlines in the newspaper.” Moses displayed lists of suspected homosexuals published in Ugandan newspapers with headlines like “Top Homos” and “Homo Terror.” People lost their jobs and received death threats as a result of their names being published, he said.
These are the experiences of gay Ugandans and of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people across the Anglican Communion. Our Communion is complicit in terrorizing and persecuting gay people. The voices raised against such inhumane attitudes are still sadly few in the Communion despite the obvious Christian demand that gay people should be treated with equal dignity and respect. The poison is allowed to spread, and gay Christians wear paper bags over their heads to protect their identities and their life. Shame on the Anglican Communion and on all bishops who fail to denounce such inhumanity.
Time for resolute resistance and repeated challenges to a dishonest Church
I’m reading ‘Rowan’s Rule’, the Biography written by Rupert Shortt. This morning I reached the end of Chapter 3, ‘Where all the ladders led’, which deals with the Tony Higton motion in General Synod in 1987, the eviction of LGCM from St Botolph’s Aldgate in 1988 by George Cassidy, then Archdeacon of London, and Dr Rowan Williams’ Michael Harding Memorial Lecture ‘The Body’s Grace’ in 1989.
Dr Williams described the General Synod motion as a: “shabby compromise … held up by bishops as representing the ‘mind’ of the Church, and accorded something like legislative force.” He continued, “It is becoming harder all the time for a gay person to be honest in the Church. We have helped to build a climate in which concealment is rewarded …” And that was twenty years go.
Lisa Nolland and others have repeatedly criticized Changing Attitude for having published ‘Sexual Ethics’ on behalf of the Lesbian and Gay Clergy Consultation, a report which included: “… we think it is important to remain open to the possibility that brief and loving sexual engagement between mature adults in special circumstances can be occasions of grace.”
Rupert Shott reminded me that ‘The Body’s Grace’ “… included a forthright defence of sex outside marriage in some cases. Dr Williams said: “… an absolute declaration that every sexual partnership must conform to the pattern of commitment or else have the nature of sin and nothing else is unreal and silly. People do discover … a grace in encounters fraught with transitoriness and without much ‘promising’ …”
Dr Rowan Williams, as he was then, articulated ideas about sexual encounters outside of marriage which are very similar to the thoughts of those who contributed to the Consultation Sexual Ethics report. Quite possibly Rowan’s words were consciously or unconsciously in mind. Lisa would no doubt criticise Rowan for holding such thoughts. I still believe such an attitude towards sexual encounters to be congruent with Christian ethical teaching.
I don’t know whether Rowan Williams the private person would still hold to the same views now. What alarms me is that as Archbishop of Canterbury, he presides over a House of Bishops (which includes patrons of Changing Attitude) that sends 8 Lords Spiritual to speak and vote in the Equality Bill debate last Monday week in defense of a position which continues to reward concealment in the Church by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and makes it as hard as ever for us to be honest with bishops and congregations. Thank God for those who are honest – but why was Lord Harries of Pentregarth, also a CA patron, alone in voting for the relevant clauses?
This week, Pope Benedict XVI joined those Christian leaders arguing against equality legislation, indicating that equality for LGBT people will “… impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.” This is clearly not true but a myth successfully created by conservative Christians opposed to any action which enables LGBT people to open and honest rather than concealing our identities.
The Pope and Church of England Bishops together argue that Churches should have the freedom to be prejudiced, unjust, dishonest and discriminatory. Dr Rowan Williams was right to argue in 1989 that the Church wrongly rewards concealment by LGBT clergy and encourages dishonesty – dishonesty by archbishops, bishops and opinion-formers in the church as well as by LGBT people.
The Churches think defeating the amendment enshrines their right to act in a discriminatory way against us. In truth, the exemptions remain where they have been since the Bill was first passed. The bishops’ opposition makes gay Anglicans more resolute when confronted with bigotry and prejudice in the Church. In a comment on Thinking Anglicans, Craig Nelson, a supporter of Changing Attitude, says it is time to bear witness in a clear, resolute, respectful and peaceful way – and we will!
Like the Anglican Communion, the Roman Catholic Church is officially against the demonisation of gay people; yet cardinals and archbishops regularly do so - apparently the Archbishop of Mechelen and Primate of Belgium said that homosexuals were like anorexics on TV a fortnight ago and Mexico's Cardinal Barragan said two months ago that gay people will never enter heaven. The Church of Uganda, meanwhile, remains silent in the face of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which threatens execution and life imprisonment.
What is so intolerable in the light of the views expressed by Dr Rowan Williams two decades ago is the failure of English and Ugandan bishops to understand what the Dromantine Statement means when it commits the Anglican Communion unreservedly to the pastoral support and care of homosexual people, assuring us that we are children of God, loved and valued by him, and deserving of the best bishops can give of pastoral care and friendship. Do the bishops really think these commitments are fulfilled by silence in the Uganda Church about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill and opposition in England to the Equality Bill amendments?
No they are not, and Changing Attitude will pursue our bishops until as a House they have the guts to be honest about the LGBT clergy they license and support in private (or conduct witch-hunts against in some dioceses) and learn from Dr Rowan Williams’ prophetic remarks from a time before he assumed responsibility for the unity of the Anglican Communion.
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