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__label__wiki	0.575492	0.575492	< Back to Project List Other Brandy Bottom Pages As well as an introductory page, the other Brandy Bottom pages cover the history, and the AIBT's conservation work at the site. The latter is divided into several sections: a summary of the progress at work parties, together with pages of photos of the buildings, work parties, finds and nature. There are also images of the display boards. Brandy Bottom: Work Parties, Directions and Location Map Work Parties - 2019 Brandy Bottom is currently a working site, and can only be visited during work parties. Special arrangements can be made for groups of 10 or more - please make contact via the AIBT’s email address of info@aibt.org. The dates for work parties are as follows: Saturday 03, Wednesday 14, Saturday 24 August Saturday 07, Heritage Open Days (Saturday 14 and Sunday 15), Saturday 28 September Saturday 05, Wednesday 16, Saturday 26 October Saturday 02, Wednesday 13, Saturday 23 November Saturday 07, Wednesday 18 December Please note that these dates may be altered at short notice, so newcomers to work parties are advised to first make contact via the AIBT’s email address of info@aibt.org. Youngsters must be accompanied at all times by a responsible adult. The times, which are nominally between 10.30 am and 3 pm may also be changed during the course of a particular work party. Turn off the A4174 Ring Road at the Lyde Green roundabout, taking the road to Westerleigh. At the next roundabout take the second out, again following the signs for Westerleigh. About 1 mile after crossing over the M4 motorway, turn right following the signs for the 'Henfield Business Park' and the 'Windmill Golf Academy'. About 500 yards after passing under the motorway, the road turns sharply right. After another 300 yards there is another sharp turn, this time to the left with a road sign marked 'Coxgrove Road' on the outside of the bend. There is a stone bridge over the road 100 yards beyond the bend. Car parking is limited to the road verges on either side of the bridge. After leaving the cars, take the sloping path up to the cycleway (see photo right), and turn left at the top away from the bridge. It is about 100 yards to a ruined platelayers hut, when you continue on the tarmac path between two halves of a mine winding wheel. Brandy Bottom is located on the left of the path a further 100 yards on from the wheel. A downloadable copy of the location map and directions can be obtained by clicking on this link. Page updated 18 Jul 19 info@aibt.org	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line297
__label__wiki	0.828088	0.828088	USA \| France \| India Agencies/Departments Back to Departments Back to Natural Resources Agency Department of Parks and Recreation The Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) is responsible for maintaining the state’s parks, which number at least 278 and serve more than 70 million visitors a year. Driven by budgetary concerns, a reduction of 70 parks was scheduled for July 2012 and could grow larger by year’s end if certain state revenue goals aren’t met. The department protects and preserves the biodiversity and the natural, archaeological, and cultural resources at park sites, and also provides a quality outdoor environment for present and future visitors to enjoy. The responsibility includes the construction and maintenance of infrastructure. The department is in the Natural Resources Agency. Strategies to Maintain California’s Park System (Legislative Analyst’s Office) California’s unique growth, fueled by the 1848 Gold Rush, gave rise to two competing ideas: first, an appreciation of its natural beauty and varied landscapes; second, the urge to dig, dam, cut and otherwise mine the rich resources found in the state. The first act of preservation came in 1864 when Yosemite was named a state trust (it’s now a National Park), but not until 1902 did legislation create the California Redwood Park Commission, with appointed members who would acquire lands full of old-growth redwoods to be preserved in Santa Cruz County. The commissioners worked to purchase land from private owners and set up parks that would preserve the state’s forests for future generations. Other private groups raised funds to save sites of historical importance from development. In 1927, through the efforts of organizations like the Save-the-Redwoods League, a bill unanimously passed the Legislature and created the State Park Commission. The first act of the commission was to push for a $6 million state park bond issue, approved by voters the following year. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead (the designer of New York City’s Central Park) surveyed and listed potential parks in the state, and the commission began purchasing land. By 1929, California had a dozen state parks and five historic monuments. John D. Rockefeller donated $1 million to set up Humboldt Redwoods State Park, and offered $1 million more to be matched by private donors. With such assistance, the state park system grew rapidly. During the Depression, federally funded work programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Progress Administration (WPA) supported the parks by building roads and public buildings, and hiring historians and architects to develop programs and facilities. The post-World War II era brought a larger population with more leisure time to the state. By 1960, California owned 615,000 acres that held over 150 state beaches, parks and monuments, administered by the state’s Division of Beaches and Parks. Under the Gubernatorial Reorganization Act of 1961, that division merged with the Divisions of Recreation, of Small Craft Harbors, and of Natural Resources to form the Department of Parks and Recreation. A $150 million bond act in 1964 allowed the state to purchase more lands, protecting wild areas from development. In 1974, California passed Proposition 1, a $250 million park bond issue. With all that money, the state by 1979 held 500 miles of lake shoreline, 200 miles of coastline, 87 miles of river frontage, 1,500 miles of riding and walking trails, and 14,000 campsites. An Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division and the Office of Historic Preservation were added to the department. Between 1984 and 1993, the department spent $21 million building protection of the state’s resources with the Natural Heritage Stewardship and Statewide Resource Management programs. Faced with budget cutbacks in the 1990s, the department decentralized some areas, set up districts for smoother administration and centralized process management. A $2.1 billion bond for the department passed in 2000. However, as budget issues have grown more important in California, voters have not approved the most recent ballot measures that would support the state’s parks. Proposition 21 would have added an $18 fee to vehicle registration, raising a projected half a billion dollars for state parks, but it was defeated in the November 2010 election. A State Park System Is Born (DPR website) The Department of Parks and Recreation maintains at least 278 state park units that see an estimated 72 million visitors per year. The units include state beaches, parks, historical sites and monuments, recreation areas, conservation areas, wilderness areas, state-owned seashores, nature reserves, culture reserves, underwater recreation areas, campgrounds, and vehicular recreation areas. The department’s website provides a searchable list of the parks by name, activity or geographic region. General plans and future actions for each park are also online. In addition, brochures, maps, safety guidelines, instructional materials and many other publications of the department are available at the Find a Park page. Administering the parks includes choosing concessionaires, allowing film crews in, maintaining roads, facilities, and vehicles, providing first aid, IT, security, and many other services. Companies or individuals interested in providing these services can visit the department’s webpage Doing Business with California State Parks to find out more. Users of off-highway vehicles can find the data on state vehicular recreation areas (SVRA), as well as safety reports, grant information and resource management data, at a separate site. An Office of Community Involvement promotes fuller use of park facilities by all Californians, and a page for volunteers invites the public to be a part of park programs. The department also has many programs for children, educational resources for families and schools, foundations, planning documents, safety requirements, etc., which can be reached through links on a park management page. A State Parks Commission is responsible for classifying park units, approving general plans for use and development of each park, and establishing general policies for the director of the department. The commission also formulates a comprehensive recreational policy, reviews concession contracts, determines where hunting may be dangerous, approves the sale of alcoholic beverages in parks, recommends and approves certain projects under funding guidelines, and more. Where Does the Money Go: The department typically gets most its money from bond funds. In 2011-12, more than half of the department’s outlay, or $505 million, came from voter-approved bonds, including $212.5 million from 2006’s Prop. 84 fund, which is nearing the end of its existence. Prop. 84 money is used for acquisition, development, restoration, nature education and research facilities. In addition to bond money, the department received $269.7 million from special funds and $119 million from the state’s General Fund. The state has allocated $21.8 billion in bond money for resource management since 1996, which includes outlays for parks and recreation. As of February 2011, all but $3.6 billion of the money had been obligated or spent and only a fraction of that was earmarked for parks. Most of the budget money covers salaries and expenditures, with only $87.1 million going toward infrastructure. Resources Bond Overview (Legislative Analyst’s Office) (pdf) 3-Year Budget (pdf) 2011-12 Budget (Ebudget) Quick Facts (DPR website) (pdf) Controversies: Who Gets Blamed When Parks Close Because the Budget Is Cut? In 2008, the governor’s office announced that 48 state parks might close due to budget cuts. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened to close all state parks in the following year. The number of anticipated closures dropped, partly due to public outcry, and partly due to innovative partial closures and other cost-cutting methods. No parks were completely closed in 2008, 2009, 2010 or 2011, at least not permanently—but more than half saw seasonal or partial shutdowns. Proposition 21 would have saved the parks by adding $18 to the vehicle licensing fee to go into a trust for the state parks, but was voted down in the 2010 election. Governor Jerry Brown announced in January 2011 that $22 million would be cut from the Department of Park and Recreation’s budget. In May, the department presented a list of 70 parks to be closed. Originally, the closures were to take place in July, then September, and finally, in July 2012. Parks and Recreation Department Director Ruth Coleman received heavy criticism for not developing a plan to deal with the cuts and closures that seemed to be unavoidable. CalWatchdog wrote, “There are many in state government who have grown numb to threats of cuts, and didn’t take Governor Jerry Brown’s cutbacks seriously.” Coleman’s detractors say she has not written a thorough plan for park closures, nor has she revealed how or why particular sites were chosen. A letter to the governor from the State Parks Peace Officer Management Association called Coleman “an honorable person” who was “largely absent in making sense of the new economic realities.” The group represents about 125 park superintendents and supervising rangers, and claimed that 93% of their membership want a new director. The criticism may not be fair. The Sacramento Bee points out—in a news article, not an editorial—that Coleman has “struck financial partnerships with nonprofits and corporations. In recent months, such deals have saved nine parks from closure next year.” “According to some, the failure is not about state park programs or park managers, but instead is a failure to deliver a park closure plan to the Legislature—despite having years to develop one,” CalWatchdog reported. “It is not clear whether Coleman took Brown’s budget reduction seriously. But it is clear that her top people did not. . . . They didn’t even go through the motions of pretending to care.” California State Parks Said to Face Biggest Threat in 150-Year History (by Pete Thomas, Los Angeles Times) California Park Closures Light Fire Under Director (by Katy Grimes, CalWatchdog) California’s State Park Managers Ask Jerry Brown to Replace Parks Director (by Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee) Public Parks Can Remain Open and Spend Less (by Dakin Sloss, California Common Sense) Parks in Crisis (Save Our State Parks) Playing with the Rules to Hunt on State Lands As a state park, Tolowa Dunes does not allow hunting. If the Department of Parks and Recreations reclassifies Tolowa Dunes as a recreation area, licensed hunting could be permitted. Several groups have taken extreme positions on reclassification. Hunting enthusiasts, for example, are all for it. “A group of well-connected hunters say they have historic rights to the site,” reports the Northcoast Environmental Center (NEC). Historic rights? The hunters feel that, since Tolowa Dunes was not a state park before 2001, their previous, decades-long use of the place to hunt waterfowl constitutes historic rights. Other groups object. Tolowa Dunes was the homeland of the Tolowa Indians, and in 1853 became site of the second-largest massacre of Native Americans in the U.S. The remains of 450 massacre victims lie in a fenced area of the park. “Hunting here is like digging through the ash pits of a World War II concentration camp, or carrying a gun onto a cemetery,” said Loren Bommelyn, a member of the Tolowa tribal council. Environmentalists make up another group that—with a few exceptions—objects to hunting on the land. The California Waterfowl Association and their lobbying group protested hunting when it occurred, even after the site’s designation as a park. That’s right—hunting has gone on since Tolowa Dunes became a state park. To placate angry hunters, the department colluded with the Department of Fish and Game, trading property between them during hunting season so that the duck hunters could still prowl the dunes and shoot waterfowl. Lawyers point to California State Government Code 14673, which allows the sale of land between state agencies. “Environmental activists question State Parks’ interpretation of this code,” the NEC website points out. To quote: “‘You shouldn’t be able to transfer a state park for a few months to allow illegal hunting. This subverts the process of a state park,’ said Wendell Wood, a Tolowa Dunes volunteer, who is also associated with some of the local environmental groups protesting hunting.” “There was never any transfer of land, just a transfer of management authority,” a spokesperson for the Department of Fish and Game clarified. “There was an interagency agreement subsequent to the purchase of the land. Fish and Game managed the site during hunting season. State Parks oversaw the land the rest of the year.” And indeed, the Tolowa Dunes State Park website describes the north and south parts of the park, then says, “Between the state park segments lies land under the stewardship of the California Department of Fish and Game.” The NEC article continues, “State Parks acknowledges there was an interagency agreement that authorized Fish and Game to oversee the area during hunting season and that this document was consummated for a number of years after the land became a state park. Whether the agreement authorized a land swap or just a transfer of management remains in question.” Conflict Over Hunting Rights Sullies Tolowa Dunes (by Amy Coombs, Northcoast Environmental Center) Tolowa Dunes State Park (DPR website) Deferred Maintenance Much of the public focus on budget problems at the Department of Parks and Recreation has been on service cutbacks and outright closures. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger threatened to close 200 parks and 70 were on the chopping block all through 2011. But the park system is also suffering from neglect as maintenance is deferred throughout the state. In addition to regular maintainance of trails, roads, campgrounds, facilities, habitats and other infrastructure, the Parks department maintains thousands of historic buildings which require preservation, rehabilitation and, at times, reconstruction. It has been an ongoing problem for years and in 2011, it was estimated that the park system had a deferred maintenance backlog of $1.3 billion. Historic Building Condition Assessment (DPR website) California State Park Closures: Even Parks That Remain Open Are in Bad Shape (by Ilsa Setzoil, KPCC) Keep Our State Parks Open (California League of Conservation Voters) City of Bell Runs Up Big Tab One year after the Los Angeles Times ran its first investigative story in July 2010 exposing possible widespread corruption by Bell city officials in Southern California, the state lodged a claim for return of nearly $500,000 in grant money awarded there by the Department of Parks and Recreation. The department demanded return of the money after a parks auditor alleged that the Bell city council had not approved contracts, that contracts were awarded without required competitive bidding and conflicts of interest existed. The grants at issue totaled $4.8 million and were awarded in 2003 and 2004. The city teetered on the verge of bankruptcy all through 2011, with a $4 million deficit reported in August. Fired City Administrator Robert Rizzo, who was paid $1.5 million a year in salary and benefits, and seven other former Bell officials were charged with various counts of corruption, including voter fraud, misappropriation of public funds and falsifying public documents. The state may face some stiff competition for reclaiming lost money. The poor, working-class city was allegedly bilked out of more than $5.5 million. Rizzo, himself, sued the city for back wages he lost after his dismissal. Bell Owes Nearly $500,000, California Parks Department Says (by Jeff Gottleib, Los Angeles Times) Robert Rizzo Sues Bell, Says City Had No “Cause” to Fire Him (by Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times) Lawyer: Robert Rizzo Was Victimized, Not City Of Bell (Associated Press) Chutzpah: Ex-City Manager Sues Bell (by Matt Reynolds, Courthouse News Service) Suggested Reforms: By the end of 2011, the ideas floated by the state’s Senate Republican caucus about privatizing state parks had not led to any proposed legislation. In October 2011, Governor Brown signed AB 42 into law, which allows the department to partner with a nonprofit group for the operation of one or more parks. The bill requires annual reports and an annual public meeting about each park, and includes measures that ensure accountability and transparency. It also states that all revenues received from the park will be used to maintain the park. Another bill, SB 580, targeted newly-acquired land that the department gets as a gift or through public funds. SB 580 said that land thus acquired could not be used for anything other than park purposes, however it failed in committee. AB 42 (California Legislative Information) SB 580 (California Legislative Information) Debate: Should Parks be Privatized? Billion-dollar bond initiatives, millions in taxpayer dollars, a large parks department bureaucracy, long legislative debates, thousands of public employee manhours spent and lots of public angst. Perhaps there are private solutions to California’s vexing parks and recreation problems. No—We Must Preserve Our Parks for Everyone When Frederick Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and a lifelong advocate of preserving Yosemite Valley, argued for keeping the national treasure out of private hands, he argued: “Without means taken by government to withhold them from the grasp of individuals, places favorable in scenery to the recreation of the mind and body will be closed against the great body of the people.” Whether it’s the use of user fees, donations from non-profit organizations, or innovative partnerships with private enterprise, the fear expressed by advocates is that once the public abdicates responsibility for the parks they will lose access to them. After listing several state parks that have been saved from closure by innovative agreements with nonprofit organizations and donations from concerned citizens, Peter Fimrite of the San Francisco Chronicle asks, “How will these agreements work over time? If parks remain open using donations, what is the incentive for legislators to put money for parks in the general fund budget? And who is going to stop a rich crook or pot dealer from taking a park off the closure list and using it for fiendish pursuits?” Fimrite acknowledged that “Park officials and watchdog groups promised that no criminal will ever get his or her clamps on a park, but the situation is desperate nevertheless.” Many groups are adamantly opposed to privatization. According to the Red Green and Blue blog: “Privatization is horrible public policy that will result in the destruction of our public trust resources. Privatization is part of a well orchestrated campaign by the 1 percent to take away public resources from the 99 percent.” Others agree. “No matter how carefully California lawyers write up the contracts, private entrepreneurs will insist on complete control of access, hours, terms of employment, and future considerations. It's the future considerations that are the killers,” warns East County Magazine. “It would be better for everyone to lock the gates, buy an umbrella insurance policy, and keep the public out. The wildlife would not mind, and if and when California get its finances in order it would still hold title to these lands.” What public parks advocates fear is the attitude expressed by Paul Benedict at his War of Words blog. “It's California's rejection of free market principles that is the heart of this problem. California's parks should not cost taxpayers a dime. The value of park services to Californians should be determined by the supply and demand curve. Raise the park prices until the crowds decrease. Find out how much it is worth to California State residents to access particular parks which require the more expensive services and upkeep.” People with limited resources need not apply for admission. Private Funds for Calif. Public Parks Questioned (by Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle) Will California Privatize Its State Parks? (by Dan Bacher, Red Green and Blue blog) Don’t Privatize Parks! (by Will Power, East County Magazine) Yes—Privatization Is a Great Alternative and It Saves Money According to the state senate’s Republican caucus, “It appears that the private contractual operation of state parks, while keeping them in public ownership, could save taxpayer funds, improve park maintenance, and keep parks open into the future.” A list of the benefits, according to the caucus, includes: · Savings in labor. An example: “Parks rely heavily on law enforcement to staff their facilities when in many cases an around-the-clock law enforcement presence is not necessary.” Private companies could hire civilians for duties that don’t require a peace officer’s presence. · Besides taking the park off the state’s ledger once privatization occurs, “the state can receive lease payments in return. It is common for contractors to pay 10% or more of gate receipts.” · “Improved maintenance. Private entities, particularly profit-earning ones, have an incentive to clean and maintain their facilities to encourage visitation.” · “Potential expanded facilities.” The caucus points out that with a long-term lease, companies could be persuaded to not only expand facilities but perform long-deferred maintenance and renovation. · “Reduced risk of park closures or service cutbacks.” “This is not a radically new idea.” The Coyote blogs’s ParkPrivatization site points out that the US Forest Service began privatizing public lands in California over 30 years ago, keeping strict control over quality, facilities and fees “while harnessing the lower costs and innovation of private operators.” ParkPrivatization and Coyote blog are the editorial outlets of a company that operates campgrounds and recreational facilities for state and federal agencies under long-term contracts. “Private companies do operate large portions of a number of parks . . . under the close supervision of California State Parks. . . . In fact, more than any other state in the nation, California already has the expertise and infrastructure in place to manage a private park operations program.” “We are not talking about handing parks over to private entities to do with as they please—these highly structured relationships that substantially reduce costs because private operators can clean the bathrooms and do the landscape maintenance and staffing far less expensively than a public agency.” “The government cannot efficiently manage anything,” blogs Nick Kump in Hogue News. After citing other organizations and complaining that there is “so much waste and bureaucracy that it is amazing that any of the state parks are able to make money at all,” Kump says, “When an organization or business is run by an individual to make money, they are a lot more careful because if the venture loses money there is no taxpayer safety net to fall back on or money to borrow from next year’s budget.” “Closing any of our State Parks is a shame,” according to Kump, and few would disagree. Privatizing them “could be a solution to help ensure that Californians get to enjoy State Parks for years to come.” Briefing Report: Should State Parks Always be State-Run? (Republican Caucus, California State Senate) Can Private Management Keep State Parks Open in California? (Park Privatization) Should California Privatize State Parks? (by Nick Kump, Hogue News) Closing California's State Parks: Communism Fails Again (by Paul Benedict, War of Words) Former Directors: Anthony L. Jackson, 2012-2014 Ruth Coleman, 2002-2012 Rusty Areias, 1999-2001 Patricia Megason, 1998-1999 Donald W. Murphy, 1991-1997 Henry Agonia, 1987-1991 William Briner, 1983-1987. Briner’s confirmation hearing in 1984 was delayed until he issued a public apology to anyone who was offended by what they may have thought were ethnic slurs. He resigned over accusations of “openly and routinely” using racist and sexist slurs. Carol Boyd Hallett, 1983. Hallett, a former assemblywoman, failed to be confirmed by the State Senate, but later became an ambassador and was appointed Customs Commissioner by President George W. Bush. Russell Cahill, 1977-1980. Cahill presented a plan for allowing nude sunbathing at some state beaches. Before that controversy was settled, he resigned—days after the arrest of three men accused of plotting to assassinate him. Herbert Rhodes, 1975-1977 William Penn Mott, Jr., 1967-1975. During Mott’s tenure, the state’s Division of Beaches and Parks became the Department of Parks and Recreation. The department doubled in size during his leadership. Fred L. Jones, 1965-1967 Charles DeTurk, 1961-1965. DeTurk headed the Division of Parks and Beaches, one of the Department of Parks and Recreation’s predecessors. He resigned; critics said DeTurk was simply too kind and not tough enough to fight for state money and legislation that would benefit his department. Where Does the Money Go Suggested Reforms Annual Budget: $517.8 million (FY 2012-2013) Employees: 3,851 Official Website: http://www.parks.ca.gov/ Mangat, Lisa Lisa Ann L. Mangat was named director of the troubled Department of Parks and Recreation in April 2015 after serving nearly a year as acting director. She replaced Anthony L. Jackson, who abruptly announced his departure after just 18 months on the job. Mangat had been his special assistant since October 2013. Mangat, who does not have much professional experience in parks or recreation, received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of California, Davis, in 1992 and an MBA from California State University, Sacramento, five years later. She began her career with the state in 1998 as an analyst for the Department of Social Services before spending three years with the Department of Finance as a budget analyst. Mangat was senior fiscal and policy analyst for the independent Legislative Analyst’s Office from 2002-2005. Various staff guides listed her specialties as gambling, adult corrections and state budget process. Mangat left the executive branch for a brief flirtation with the Legislature, where she served as principal consultant to the Assembly Appropriations and Budget Committees, before returning the Finance department in 2008. At the department, she was program budget manager for the Health and Human Services Unit that oversaw budgets dealing with health, developmental, mental, rehabilitative, social and other critical services. Mangat was program budget manager for the department’s Corrections/General Government Unit when she was tapped to become Parks Director Jackson’s special assistant. She took over a department, wracked by scandal and plagued by a lack of funding, whose $654 million budget is under intense scrutiny. Jackson, a retired Marine Corps major general, was hired in November 2012 with a mandate to reform the department. His predecessor, Ruth Coleman, resigned four months earlier after $54 million was found stashed in department accounts while 70 state parks faced closure because of budget cuts. In the run-up to Coleman’s forced resignation, the state was preparing to close a quarter of its state parks to save $22 million. But parks officials and supporters lobbied the Legislature, chased nonprofit money, begged already-suffering municipalities, added user fee revenues and cut deals with private interests. The department has been squeezed in recent years by a diminishing state commitment to fund its activities. Instead, parks officials have been pushed to strike public-private partnerships, amp up user fees, curtail available resources and focus on running the parks more like a business. The brief memo from Secretary Laird announcing Mangat’s appointment singled out the importance of her future work with the Parks Forward Commission. The blue-ribbon commission, appointed by Laird, released a report (pdf) that recommended a new non-profit organization be created to lead a reform movement while the department works on getting its own house in order. The commission suggested finding new leadership from outside the normal parks and recreation pool of talent, creating a more nimble way of working with business and other stakeholders, and transforming the culture to one that respects innovation and leadership. California State Parks Acting Director Named (by Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee) Lisa Mangat, Program Budget Manager (California Department of Finance) Staff Guide (Legislative Analyst’s Office) (pdf) Director of Embattled California Parks Department Quits after Just 18 Months (by Ken Broder, AllGov California) Jackson, Anthony Governor Jerry Brown, reaching outside the park service community in November 2012, went career military instead and picked retired Major General Anthony L. Jackson, 63, as director of the troubled Department of Parks and Recreation. He resigned abruptly in May 2014. Jackson replaced Ruth Coleman, who resigned in July after $54 million was found stashed in department accounts while 70 state parks faced closure because of budget cuts. A resident of Fallbrook, near Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, Jackson was born in Fort Lewis, Washington. He picked up a bachelor's degree in history from San Jose Sate University in 1971 while attending on a football scholarship. Jackson, who at 6’1, 215 pounds was a small defensive lineman even by standards of the day, played three seasons and was team captain in 1970. He received a master's degree, also in history, from San Jose State in 1973. After graduation, Jackson enlisted in the Marines and attended officer candidate school. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, Jackson was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II as assistant chief of staff, G-7, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. He served as the commanding officer, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division from 2000 to 2002. Jackson served concurrently as chief of staff, in 2002 and 2003, of Joint Task Force-555, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines, and 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa, Japan. He was assistant chief of staff, G-5, First Marine Expeditionary Force, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II, from 2003-2005. Jackson moved to Central Command in 2005 as deputy commanding general of U.S. Marine Forces and stayed until deployed to Stuttgart, Germany, in 2007 as director of operations and logistics for the U.S. Africa Command. He left in 2009. Jackson’s last assignment was supervising Marine Corps bases across California and the Southwest as Marine Corps commanding general, Installations West. He retired in 2011 after 36 years in the Marines. Jackson will oversee more than 280 parks encompassing about 1.4 million acres, 15,000 campsites and 3,000 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trails. And he will inherit a lot of angry private donors who want the money back that they donated to the parks when it looked like a quarter of them would fall to the budget ax. Acting Parks Director Janelle Beland offered the department’s abject apology and pledged that things would get better in the very near future. “We are working to correct past errors, keep parks open and operating for our visitors and communities, and move forward with an accounting and management structure that you can trust,” Beland wrote to donors after Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1478 into law in September 2012, giving parks a two-year reprieve on closures. “I urge you not to withdraw your donations and support.” Although lacking a formal connection to park service, Jackson links his military career to his advocacy for conservation and alternative energy. In a U-T San Diego op-ed after his retirement, he cited the Mideast wars, fought by the U.S. “in large part to protect the supply of petroleum,” as his inspiration for seeking a “comprehensive energy infrastructure focused on renewable sources” as the “only path to energy and climate security.” The San Jose Mercury News called him a “leading advocate of installing more renewable energy on military bases” and said he was a frequent speaker on the subject at high-profile conferences. Two years ago, while commanding general of Marine Corps Installations West, Jackson was a prominent critic of plans by the Schwarzenegger administration to build a toll road through San Onofre State Beach near Camp Pendleton. Although mentioned in the press as another example of his conservation leanings, the Marines made it clear their objections had only to do with the road’s proximity to Marine training areas. The plans failed under public opposition. Jackson is married to the former Susan Gail Steinbach of Lafayette, California, and they have two sons, Brian and Blaine. Brown Taps Ex-Marine General to Head California Parks Department (by Anthony York, Los Angeles Times) Gov. Jerry Brown Taps Retired Marine Corps General, San Jose State Football Captain, to Lead State Parks (by Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News) Governor Brown Appoints New Parks Director (Governor’s Office) Anthony L. Jackson (California State University) Fossil Fuel Dependence Leaves America Vulnerable (by Major General Anthony L. Jackson, U-T San Diego op-ed) Spartan Serves with Honor (by Dave Newhouse, San Jose State University’s Washington Square Magazine) Chevron Pleads No Contest, Agrees to Pay $2 Million for Richmond Refinery Fire PG&E Declares War on Oakland Gnomes, then Quickly Grants Reprieve Record Number of High-End Home Sales in California Munger Siblings Matched Labor's $85 Million Election Contribution Hospitals Double-Billed for Spinal Surgeries…Gaining $67 Million in One Year	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line298
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__label__wiki	0.957475	0.957475	Home » EU urges SL Government and the LTTE to sign a human rights EU urges SL Government and the LTTE to sign a human rights Thu, 2006-01-19 14:57 moderator [b]EU urges SL Government and the LTTE to sign a human rights declaration.[/b] [b]London, 19 January, (Asiantribune.com): [/b]European Union has called that the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam to sign a human rights declaration. The EU also has come forward to bring the two parties the negotiation table. In a statement released from London by Sajjad Karim Member of the European Parliament has revealed that the European Commission has pledged to work to bring Government of Sri Lanka the two parties - Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, back to the negotiating table, re-forge links between all communities working to rebuild Sri Lanka after the tragic tsunami and put human rights at the heart of all these efforts. Sajjad Karim, Member of the European Parliament and the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on Human Rights, has called on both the Government of Sri Lanka and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), to sign a human rights declaration, as they prepare to review the implementation of their cease-fire agreement.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line308
__label__wiki	0.970238	0.970238	Home Capitol Hillbillies Former Palin aide promises to ‘tell it all’ about Sarah Former Palin aide promises to ‘tell it all’ about Sarah Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin looks down during the Pledge of Allegiance before speaking to the LIA (Long Island Association) Annual Meeting & Luncheon at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, New York, February 17, 2011. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton One of Sarah Palin‘s trusted advisers is planning a tell-all memoir, drawing upon thousands of personal e-mails during his time with the former Alaska governor to paint what his agent calls an expose of the inner workings of her operation. Frank Bailey rose from a campaign volunteer to administration official and figure in the “Troopergate” scandal that fixated the public’s attention during Palin’s vice presidential bid in 2008. A preliminary draft of the unpublished book, tentatively called “Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: A Memoir of our Tumultuous Years,” was leaked to reporters, with excerpts making the rounds on the Internet. Messages to a Palin aide and attorney weren’t immediately returned Friday. Ken Morris, a California-based writer who worked with Bailey on the manuscript, said in an e-mail that the material is preliminary, subject to copyright protections and not authorized for use. The New York-based Carol Mann Agency, in an e-mail promoting the manuscript, said the “revelations and insights” that Bailey offers “are more necessary than ever, as the public will seek to learn as much as possible about the woman who seems to have her sights set on the national stage.” The agency referred calls to Morris, who said that he, Bailey and co-writer Jeanne Devon did “tons of research” for the book, which still has no publisher. Devon, an Alaska blogger, is a frequent critic of Palin. Morris said he believes the manuscript paints an accurate portrait of Palin but declined to elaborate. “I think we should leave it at that,” he said. The manuscript, which Morris said is subject to change and “may not materially reflect the eventual product,” states that Palin, before resigning partway through her first term, wrote to Bailey and another aide, “I hate this damn job.” This isn’t Bailey’s first attempt at getting published. He has been working on a book since at least 2009, when Palin resigned. At least one previous effort fizzled. Bailey left state government shortly after Palin. Bailey was embroiled in an investigation of Palin’s firing of her police commissioner over allegations he wouldn’t fire a trooper who had a bitter divorce with Palin’s sister. Bailey, in a recording made public, questioned a state trooper official about why Palin’s former brother-in-law was still employed. Once Palin’s friend, Bailey is now among those criticizing her. “Since leaving the Governor’s office, Frank has been forced to reconsider his actions on Palin’s behalf in terms of his deep Christian faith and his allegiance to her as the standard-bearer for the conservative causes he still champions,” Mann wrote in her e-mail. Mann also describes the manuscript as “the story of one man’s slow drift from his most cherished beliefs and his ultimate redemption.” Efforts to reach Bailey weren’t immediately successful. Copyright © 2011 The Associated Press With Democrats split, House rejects Trump impeachment House holds Barr, Rose in contempt Battle lines are drawn: Racists against socialists	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line315
__label__wiki	0.687878	0.687878	Russian increasing strength and influence in contemporary international relations have obtained their solid conceptual foundation and clear framework. President Putin of Russia, who is considered to be the most important mediator in the Syrian chemical weapons crisis settlement, did clarify his own and his elite team foreign policy views in the September 19th speech of the Valdai International Discussion Club. (1) Russian President in Valdai attempted to define essence and sphere of his country's foreign policy identity and tell the world Russian perceptions of the future of international relations. Russia Asks Herself: Who we are? In his long-expected speech on identity Putin deliberated on strategies and values that are underpinning Russias development, and how global processes will affect Russian national identity. He asked: What kind of twenty-first-century world we want to see, and what Russia, our country, can contribute to this world together with its partners? Today we need new strategies to preserve our identity in a rapidly changing world, President continued, a world that has become more open, transparent and interdependent. Putin raised the question that is considered to be crucial by many well established experts of Russia and beyond: who we are and who we want to be are increasingly becoming prominent questions in our society. A respond to this question as many believe should point at future foreign policy directions of Russia. It is this response that should assist Russian elite to define national interests of the country and to form a foreign policy strategy for years to come. What is the essence of Russian identity? What are the key elements of the identity? Is the identity restrictive or inclusive to many peoples and countries of the ex-Russian Empire and the ex-Soviet Union space? (2) Russian analysis of contemporary international relations is close to be a pessimistic one. Global competitions of today focus on economic/technological and ideological/informational phenomena as military/political problems and general conditions of societies are worsening. It means that quality of society; quality of citizens followed by economic growth; prosperity and geopolitical influence still determine future of their state. To its turn, the quality depends on identity and values very much. It is sphere of spiritual and cultural values which according to President Putin outstands as the most critical part of national identity Russia experienced twice the collapse of its state during the 20th century. The tragic experience of the state collapse shows that a new national idea does not simply appear, nor does it develop according to market rules. Events of the 1990s and of the 2000s did not discover such agreed new values and identity sphere by society. Neither Western-oriented liberals nor rightwing monarchy-oriented politicians and their followers or nor the so-called Neo-Slavophil did succeed in working out any popular ideology and identity. President came to the conclusion that "We [Russians] need historical creativity, a synthesis of the best national practices and ideas, an understanding of our cultural, spiritual and political traditions from different points of view, and to understand that [national identity] is not a rigid thing that will last forever, but rather a living organism. However, a synthesis of practices and ideas has not yet come. What should Russia do today? Here, President points at three limits or borders of Russian identity: Russias sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. These are red lines no one is allowed to cross. That could be, to our mind, the first circle or the first level of new Russian identity. The second level or feature of Russian identity has to do with centuries long history of the country. History of defeats and victories; history of successful colonization and noxious economic dependence that brought religions and spiritual values to society and state development has continued to make impact on the Russian Federation international behavior. Putin is convinced that Without the values embedded in Christianity and other world religions, without the standards of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. We consider it natural and right to defend these values. One must respect every minoritys right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and other religions are recognized as an integral part of Russias identity, its historical heritage and the present-day lives of its citizens. And if it is so, Russia as we think could pretend to be a protecting power in the globalised world, a power protecting different religious minorities and groups regardless of the country and area the minorities reside in. Obviously, that is a sound foreign policy ambition of Russia. The third circle of the identity comprises notion of state-civilization. President Putin has followed one outstanding Russian philosopher and wise diplomat Konstantin Leontiyev who served in the Ottoman Empire. This remarkable diplomat and an Orientalist, an Eurasianist, to some extent, once described Russia as a state-civilization, as a blossoming complexity (we would say blossomed diversity). And Putin has repeated the Leontiyev thought that Russia deserves to become again a country where many ethnic groups and religions cooperate and live in mutual respect and mutual enrichment. Russian people, Russian language, Russian culture, Russian Orthodox Church and the countrys other traditional religions should constitute nucleus of such civilization. We should also note that Putin refused to repeat his previous estimates of the Russian empire as the "prison of nations". In other words, Russian President had put the Western understanding of so-called multiculturalism aside and has proposed a different model of state and society that seeks flexibly to accommodate the ethnic and religious specificity of particular territories, ensuring diversity in unity. This Russian model with rich experience of ethnic relations behind it is proposed to other countries as an option, as a model of development. We must restore the role of great Russian culture and literature, Putin says. They must serve as the foundation for peoples personal identity, the source of their uniqueness and their basis for understanding the national idea. Here, a great deal depends on the teaching community, the community of teachers, the educational community overall, in the broad sense of the word, binds the nation together. Russian culture not as an ethnic but as a multi-ethnic phenomenon - is taken as very important pillar of the same state-civilization. On the foreign policy level, that means a specific attention of Russian diplomacy to advancement and bringing of Russian language, literature, science and spirituality to foreign countries. The Russian soft power policy has already started with countries of so-called Near-Abroad or CIS with the Baltic States. It promises to be a vivid component of tomorrows Russian foreign relations. The identity circles are completed by Putins support to a multi-polar world and international relations with a few centers of force and influence. Diversity in international relations could be named as the fourth level of Russian identity. According to President Putin, Russia agrees with those who believe that key decisions should be worked out on a collective basis, rather than at the discretion of and in the interests of certain countries or groups of countries. Russia believes that international law, not the right of the strong, must apply. And we believe that every country, every nation is not exceptional, but unique, original and benefits from equal rights, including the right to independently choose their own development path. Here, we see a reflection of Russia movement to a more close and a more intensive cooperation with the BRICS countries and those striving to have as independent foreign policy as they can. The Eurasian Union As we can see, the ideas Putin has pronounced in the Valdai Club relate to international relations rather than to domestic policies of the Russian Federation. Putin project of New Identity is not an indoor debate addressed to ordinary citizens of the country. No, President has invited many countries to think and to join Russian civilization and international agenda. Diversity has a direct relation to a mega-project entitled The Eurasian Union. According to the idea of multi-polar world discussed extensively in the Russian Foreign Policy Concept of 2013, it is expected different poles of global influence with dynamic changes to be formed in near future. As Putin says, The 21st century promises to become the century of major changes, the era of the formation of major geopolitical zones, as well as financial and economic, cultural, civilisational, and military and political areas. That is why integrating with our neighbors is our absolute priority. The Eurasian Economic Union proposed by Prime Minister Putin in 2012 is expected to play such an integrative role. Refusing to repeat the way of the Soviet Union, Putin and his team insist to make the Union as a project for maintaining the identity of nations in the historical Eurasian space in a new century and in a new world. Eurasian integration is a chance for the entire post-Soviet space to become an independent centre for global development, rather than remaining on the outskirts of Europe and Asia. Again, we see a very strong foreign policy ambition of Russia to form a new center of gravity for CIS and other countries. This Union if it would emerge today, however, could face a few serious challenges. The Union has to unite post-Soviet economies oriented at high-tech modernity not at a mechanic signing of cooperation agreements. The question is: are the member countries of the future Union forget the option of oil and gas-oriented economy? A military challenge also waits the day of the birth of the Union. Member states will have to elect or reject the NATO, Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) or Shanghai Organization affiliation. Their decision is not anticipated to be very easy and swift. Psychologically speaking, some countries have deep suspicion of Moscow imperialistic intentions. They think of old-Soviet Empire to emerge in new edition. They have thoughts of a risky dependence on Russia within this new formation. Outgoing President Saakashvili of Georgia has expressed serious doubts in relation to the Eurasian project. He voiced a slashing criticism over the Union while making a presentation at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. The Eurasian Union, according to Saakashvili, is lead by old KGB structures and it is shaped to revive an old Empire. Of course, joining the Eurasian Union is therefore very easy. There are no social, economic, or political criteria to be met: becoming a colony, in fact, requires no effort at all. Passivity and mediocrity are the only requirements. Saakashvili sees the Union as an attempt of Putin to build a new Russian Empire in the post-USSR space. Georgian President is assured that the Russian project is doomed to fail: Rejected at its margins, rejected at its center, the imperialistic path will come to a dead end, the Eurasian Union will fail and Russia will after all become a nation state with borders instead of margins. (3) In contrast to the Saakashvili's criticism, President Putin has declared: I want to stress that Eurasian integration will also be built on the principle of diversity. This is a union where everyone maintains their identity, their distinctive character and their political independence. Together with our partners, we will gradually implement this project, step by step. We expect that it will become our common input into maintaining diversity and stable global development. Commenting the President Saakashvili words of old KGB structures, we would like to say that it is a simplification. KGB has been transformed long ago into different structures in Putin's Russia. More influential than KGB structures rule the economy and some political movements of modern Russia. These are huge economy giants like Gazprom, Lukoil, Russian Aluminiy and others. They are inter-connected with influential international companies and banks. It is their interests which would be touched in the future Eurasian Union. And it is these companies economic proficiency as well as political management of Kremlin Administration that could prevent the Union to become fragile. Putting analysis of the Union perspectives aside, we would like to attract the Bilgesam readers attention to one interesting phenomenon connected with the Eurasian Union. It is about a union without joint land borders. Here are two examples. First, Armenia locked in circumstances of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict. It has no land border with Russia and, nevertheless, has declared to join the Customs Union. (4) The second example is Serbia in the Balkans. Serbia and Montenegro have already have free-trade zone with the Customs Union. Some Serbian parties and politicians while speaking in this September Russian-Serbian friendship Congress did support an idea to join the Customs Union and even the CSTO. They stand for an economic integration first and then for a military integration with Moscow. (5) So, Serbia has also no land borders with Belarus Russia or Kazakhstan and has considered projects of integration with the Russia-backed unions. Thus, we face a unique phenomenon when the states having no joint land boundaries try to conclude accords of long-term economic integration. The time only will show to what extent these ideas can be materialized. Russia and Turkey: What Can They Do Together? The Eurasian Union is announced to be a very inclusive project. Turkey after many years of negative experience seems to have refused to join the European Union in near future. Meanwhile, the country has a great potential of cooperation and joint effort with Russia. Due to Eurasian character of both countries and personal good, if not friendly, relationship of Prime Minister Erdogan and President Putin, Ankara and Moscow have maintained excellent cooperation in the sphere of economy and energy. This success must be supported by joint diplomatic-political decisions. Among other things we should mention: joint Russian-Turkish cooperation in conflict resolution, solution to the Armenian economic issue (it can have, to our mind, the following elements: trade of Armenia on all geographic directions, opening railway communication via Abkhazia, the Eurasian Union with Turkey participation) solution to the conflict in Karabakh in the interest of all the sides involved, supporting ethnic and religious minorities rights in the Transcaucasia and Middle Eastern states, in particular, rights of Moslem minority in Georgia and Christian groups in Syria. The problem of terrorism spilling over from one country to another is equally serious both for Turkey and Russia. President Putin warned ex-Soviet allies on September 23rd that Islamist militancy fuelling the war in Syria could reach their countries, some of which have Muslim majorities. Putin told leaders of the six-nation CSTO that militants fighting Assad could eventually expand attacks beyond Syria and the Middle East. "The militant groups (in Syria) did not come out of nowhere, and they will not vanish into thin air," Putin said. "The problem of terrorism spilling from one country to another is absolutely real and could directly affect the interests of any one of our countries," he said, citing the deadly attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi as an example. (6) Russian officials have expressed concern that Russian-born militants fighting in Syria could return to Russia's North Caucasus and join an insurgency that claims lives almost daily. It is obvious that Turkey and Russia could contribute to international and regional counter-terrorism cooperation in the interest of both peoples. In addition, three major regional projects of the Middle East are expected to be advanced in foreseen future: the Kurdish State project, the Shiite Crescent project and the Armenian geopolitical project. All the three deserve among the others to be at the center of monitoring, analysis, estimation and a policy response from Russia and Turkey. Borders could easily change under the pressures of war and ethnic conflict as Robin Wright stresses in the New York Times. (7) However, these projects constitute a special research subject. 1. Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The theme of the clubs anniversary session is Russias Diversity for the Modern World. September 19, 2013, 19:45. Novgorod Region/ President of Russia// URL: http://eng.kremlin.ru/transcripts/6007 (Date of reading: September 25, 2013). The Valdai International Discussion Club is a gathering of leading Russian and international experts in the history, politics, economics and international relations. The Club mission is to foster a global dialogue about Russia and to provide an independent, unbiased, scholarly analysis of political, economic and social processes in Russia and the world. See more details: http://valdaiclub.com 2. Results of recent study titled Contemporary Russian Identity: Measurements, Challenges, Answers and conducted in August 2013 by the VTsIOM national public opinion research center have showed the following picture. In Russia the dominant value of identity is patriotism rather than faith, territorial attachment or ethnicity. Russians are increasingly becoming individualistic and are getting rid of the Soviet notion of collectivism. Russians, especially young people, are also becoming more patriotic. See: Contemporary Russian Identity: Measurements, Challenges, Answers/ Valdai Discussion Club// http://valdaiclub.com/event/62162.html 3. Address by the President of Georgia at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly. 9/25/2013/ Speeches and Statements. The President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili// URL: http://www.president.gov.ge/en/PressOffice/News/SpeechesAndStatements/?8465 (Date of reading: September 27, 2013) 4. Zayavleniya dlya pressy po itogam rossiisko-armyanskikh peregovorov. 3 sentyabrya 2013 goda. Novo-Ogarevo/ President Rossii// URL: http://www.kremlin.ru/transcripts/19142 (Date of reading: September 29, 2013) 5. Serbskii politiki vyskazalys za vstupleniye strany v Tamozhennyi soyuz i ODKB/ RT na russkom// URL: http://russian.rt.com/article/15606 (Date of reading: September 19, 2013) 6. Vystupleniye na zasedaniyi Soveta kollektivnoy bezopasnosti ODKB v uzkom sostave. 23 setyabrya 2013 goda. Sochi/ President Rossii// URL: http://www.kremlin.ru/transcripts/19268 Date of reading: September 24, 2013) 7. Robin Wright. Imagining a Remapped Middle East/ The New York Times. September 28, 2013// URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&hp (Date of reading: September 29, 2013) Russia-Armenia Air Defense Cooperation: Threat to the Regional Security? Dr. Elnur ISMAYIL	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line317
__label__cc	0.742969	0.257031	Explaining the concept of "polycentric governance" In my time at the Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, I've obviously spent a substantial amount of time going through the volumes upon volumes of research that Elinor Ostrom has published across decades. One of the concepts of governance that she has developed over time is that of "polycentric governance". What follows is a relatively simple piece of writing where I try to explain what this approach to governance means. In typical researcher fashion, I give you the concept first, allow you to mull over it independently, think about why it could be useful in a policy area you care about, and present you with my application of it only in a later blog post! As always though, my focus is on the following question: How can one achieve the dual, often conflicting goals of economic efficiency and socioeconomic equity? That is, assuming equitable economic development to be a goal most of us desire... Here are two really good, easy to read, and relatively recent articles by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues that clearly explain the principles of polycentricity and how usefully they can be applied to some of our most pressing global policy problems - climate change and biodiversity loss. Both articles are essentially dealing with natural resource management and sustainable development. Andersson, K.P., Ostrom, E. 2008. Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective. Policy Sci., 41:71 – 93 Brondizio, E.S., Ostrom, E., Young, O. 2009. Connectivity and the governance of multi-level social-ecological systems: The role of social capital. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 34: 253 – 278 A polycentric governance system can be defined as one where “citizens are able to organize not just one but multiple governing authorities at differing scales” (Ostrom, 2005, p. 283). In this conception, the different governance authorities are connected to each other either because they share actors or because they have overlapping jurisdictions. Yet each of these authorities is envisaged as having a distinct role to play and using a distinct set of rules that applies specifically to the issue it is governing. Further, these different units of governance may be specific or general in their focus. For example a community organisation operating solely to manage local natural resources would be specific in its focus, but matters pertaining to conflict resolution or socially equitable distribution of benefits from such management could be handled by more generalist judicial courts that would operate outside this community organisation’s area of authority and could mandate it to follow its decisions in a prescribed context. Continuing with the same example, a third set of institutions could be visualised. These would be charged with the task of handling communication between the separate communities independently managing their local resources. Their goals would include facilitating the spread of innovative solutions to common problems, speeding up the response rate to dynamic resources conditions, and spotting large scale patterns of resource use and management that could prevent recurring management failures (Ostrom, 2005, p. 283-284). Given the inter-community scale of operations, this information and communication based authority would function at a scale above the single community and perhaps even at the regional scale. The importance of having independent but interconnected governance units such as those described above is that complementary tasks related to the same policy issue area can be delegated to the scale or type of authority most suited to carrying it out. In a fully decentralized system for example, one community could engage in successful collective action but create negative externalities for a neighbouring community in doing so. Unless there were some mediating authority that were able to coordinate inter-community activities and solve disputes, granting unchecked autonomy to individual communities would lead to an utterly inefficient and chaotic situation. Yet the lack of such a multi-tiered governance system can lead to adverse consequences even when efficiency is achieved and no negative externalities occur at the aggregate community level. Take the case of a village that is successful at ecologically sustainable management of a forest. Such a village is likely to be economically better off at the aggregate level since its forest now yields a sizeable benefit stream that is sustained over time. When examined at the within-village scale however, it may turn out that all of these successful outcomes are being achieved at the cost of equitable distribution of benefits from forest management, and that the poorer villagers are neither benefiting from the system nor able to pay the high price of exiting the village network to find gainful employment elsewhere. This is not just a hypothetical case; real examples of this situation abound in the empirical literature across social science disciplines. These cases raise a specific question with regard to concerns of equity and equitable economic development. That question is, how does one preserve the advantages of a decentralized, community-based system of governance while also addressing the fact that left to themselves, communities may choose institutional solutions that are economically efficient but socially inequitable (or inefficient)? Individual actors or collective institutional units involved in policy related governance are not simply nested within governance related institutional arrangements but also within a set of social institutional arrangements. This means that actors within any governance unit will be following a complex set of rules that stem from both institutional arrangements. For example, an individual may live within a village community – an institutional ‘unit’ from a governance point of view – and participate in its forestry activities according to rules that maximise ecological sustainability and economic efficiency. The share of economic benefits that the individual receives however might be determined on the basis of the individual’s inclusion in certain social networks conditional upon his social attributes and upon the social attributes of the other individuals in the village. These social networks are an institutional ‘unit just like the village community, but operate at a different (and larger) scale than the village. The difference is that they are not spatially confined by the boundaries of the village and might represent region- or nationwide social hierarchies.There can be many other economic consequences for this individual on the basis of inclusion in these two communities – within village, and larger social network. For example, the exit options available to the individual might be determined by the overall resources provided by membership in this social network. If these exit options are limited, then the individual can be coerced into participating in the village community’s activities even without being favoured by its traditional institutions. Thus the net benefits (after factoring in foregone opportunity costs and so on) received by this individual residing within the village are determined by membership in groups that play different roles and operate at different scales. This overlap of effects and actors between (1) the village community and (2) the caste-based social network, is obviously complicated from the point of view of development: which set and scale of institutions should a policymaker target in order to improve the economic welfare of this individual? The reason a polycentric approach is helpful is that it allows for governance that matches the complexity of existing institutional arrangements - social, political and economic. It is true that creating a complex system will be costly. However, its costs must be weighed against the costs of a more parsimonious governance system that may have lower initial costs but that may also create higher long term costs if it is unable to deal with the complexity of the issues it is trying to address. Ostrom, E. 2005. Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton University Press. skin mole removal link Isn't it little long? But has a lot of new information which i never knew. Thanks to post in categorized ways for easy teach. windows 8 link This article makes us realize about caste based social network in various village based communities. I think that the creation of such complex society will prove very costly. Government should make efforts to deal with this complexity in issues. Grow Taller 4 Idiots link Both articles are essentially dealing with natural resource management and sustainable development. Costello Builders link Each and every citizen wants economical development of the country. And to achieve this goal it is very important to have the optimum utilization of the financial resources. abwe link It is also very important to consider cost of equitable distribution of benefits from forest management. Most important the development in natural resource management and sustainable development is very necessary for optimize utilization of the financial resources. Visit Here link This blog is providing very useful information and guidance. Thanks for this, Sobhi. Is it spontaneous order, or designed? Don't institutions aim at reducing complexity and uncertainty? Glad to further discuss polycentricity. BillieJeanBateson link Government should make efforts to deal with this complexity in issues. I think that the creation of such complex society will prove very costly. By this article makes us realize about caste based social network in various village based communities. 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__label__wiki	0.633788	0.633788	Memorable Interviews Recent TV Assignments Corporate Writing One-on-one with Dwyane Wade [expand title=”Click here for article’s text if unable to view image.”] One-on-One With Dwyane Wade by Carrie Stewart Carrie Stewart: “You have a lot of nicknames, so what do your friends call you?” Dwyane Wade: “Most of my friends call me ‘D’, some call me Wade, some even call me Flash, but none of them really call me Dwyane, so if you were my friend of mine, Dwyane would not be one of the names you would call me.” STEWART: “Okay, well you had that one T-mobile commercial with Barkley where you call your mother and say, “Hey Mom, it’s Pookie!” — So do some people call you ‘Pookie’?” D. WADE: “Naw, nobody calls me Pookie. After that commercial some people took on to it for a minute but it didn’t stick.” STEWART: “Can I call you Pookie?” D. WADE: “No. You cannot call me Pookie.” STEWART: “Okay then. At least we got that out of the way. Now on to the important stuff…” STEWART: “That diamond that you had in your ear the other night after the game–“ D. WADE: “The yellow canary diamond?” STEWART: “Yeah. I noticed there were people on the internet forums debating whether it was real. Was it?” D. WADE: “Well, I’m gonna say this: I’m not a jeweler, but from what I know, it’s real. I can’t tell real from fake. That’s not my specialty.” STEWART: “How big is that thing?” D. WADE: “I think it’s eight carats. I have different ones — some I have are six and some are eight.” STEWART: “I get my six and eight carat diamonds confused all the time too.” D. WADE: “Huh?” STEWART: “Nevermind. Now, I know for a fact that sometimes athletes will wear fake diamonds or fake sunglasses and they can get away with it because people assume they’d never wear anything fake. Have you ever done that?” D. WADE: “No — but I see why — and I’m not saying I would never do it because the one thing about my earrings is that I lose them. Sometimes the stem breaks and sometimes you just misplace it.” STEWART: “Have you lost an eight carat diamond before?” D. WADE: “Yeah, I have lost an eight carat diamond.” STEWART: “Ok…I’m going to start following you around.” (awkward silence) D. WADE: “I lost an earring one time playing basketball because in the summer we all play with our earrings in and you just forget sometimes. I remember the first time I lost one.” (First time?) “I had been playing basketball and it wasn’t till I got into the shower that I realized my earring was missing. We never found it. There was nothing I could do.” STEWART: “I guess you could ask the member of the clean-up crew who’s now rockin’ the new Bentley…” STEWART: “You and our new president have at least a few things in common: basketball and Chicago. Have you ever met him?” D. WADE: “No — I’ve never met him. I’ve talked to a lot of people to try and get that together but it hasn’t worked out — especially with me being in the Olympics over the summer.” STEWART: “If you could ask him one — and only one — question, what would it be?” D. WADE: “I’d ask him if he wants to play me one-on-one. I mean how many times would you get to say you played the President one-on-one?” STEWART: “Would you let him win?” D. WADE: (without hesitation) “No way.” STEWART: “What if you guys went best of five — would you let him at least win one?” D. WADE: “No way. You see, I look at it like this: if the two of us had to debate each other, he wouldn’t let me win a debate–so I wouldn’t let him win a pick-up game.” STEWART: “Well played. Would you dunk on him?” D. WADE: “Oh yeah, I would dunk on him for sure. That’s braggin’ rights!” STEWART: “Ok, now–level with me. What if you were having a really off day–is there any way you think the President could take you then?” D. WADE: “Well, I mean — I hate to say yeah, but–” (noticeably forcing a little charity) “If I was having a reeeeaaaally off day? Ummm … (pauses) … No. No, there’s no chance.” (Charity retracted) “No, I’m sorry; I couldn’t give it to him.” STEWART: “Three years of commercials, and you have never divulged: Who’s really in your Fave Five?” D. WADE: “Good question — my actual Fave Five is not what people would think. It’s not celebrities — it’s the five top people I need to talk to all the time, they are all close family, like my sons and my mom. But!–It’s my Alternate Fave Five that people try to get into. The Alternate Fave Five changes a lot — right now it’s like LeBron, Chris Paul, all my boys.” STEWART: “Can I be in the Alternate Fave Five?” D. WADE: “Huh?” (He didn’t see that one coming.) … “Uhhhh. Yeah sure.” (again with the charity) STEWART: “Sweet! But seriously, what do people have to do to get into this Alternate Fave Five?” D. WADE: “Well, you gotta have history. I’ve gotta know them well. It’s people that are in your life for a good reason.” STEWART: “If President Obama asked to be in your Alternate Fave Five, would you let him in?” D. WADE: “Of course — for sure — no question. If he wanted to be my friend like that, no question.” STEWART: “Who’s place would he take? Who would be kicked out?” D. WADE: “Uhhhh, probably Charles.” (laughing) STEWART: “Barkley?” D. WADE: “Yep.” (laughing harder) “He’d bump out Charles.” STEWART: “Do you ever Google yourself?” D. WADE: “Oh yeah. Every now and then I’ll be on the internet for a long time and I’ll get bored so I’ll search myself on Google. I just want to see what kind of information is out there and what kind of things are being said — either positively or negatively.” STEWART: “Do you ever see anything that’s news to you?” D. WADE: “Yeah, I’ll read some articles and I’ll be like “Oh I didn’t know about that” because I don’t always hear about everything that is being said about me. When I Google myself, sometimes I’ll click on it and be like “oh man, what are they talking about now.” The biggest one was the Star Jones rumor that came out last year–they said that me and Star Jones were dating. That was — unbelievable. That was a wow moment. And not just that they were saying it but that it took off and people believed it. It’s crazy how the media will take one picture and then just run with it and go in whatever direction they want it to go in.” STEWART: “In 2005, you were named as one of People’s 50 most beautiful people. What happened in 2006?” D. WADE: “I don’t know! I guess one of the things with athletes is that they won’t repeat athletes. Actors and actresses will get repeats but not athletes unless it’s been a couple years.” STEWART: “When you get chosen one year and not the next, do you feel a little insulted?” D. WADE: “Nah — I don’t look at myself as being ugly, but I don’t look at myself as being one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world either. It was a shock to me. But it was an unbelievable honor — and believe me, I enjoyed it and I lived it up! I have the article framed and in my house.” STEWART: “I don’t know why I wonder about things like this, but what’s it like when someone’s guarding you really closely and they are sweating like crazy?” D. WADE: “You know some guys are sweatier than others and I’m actually one of those really sweaty guys — that’s why I always change my jersey at half time.” STEWART: “So there’s pretty much sweat flying all over the place?” D. WADE: “Yeah–but it can be gross if you get somebody else’s sweat on your face. It’s just like — like — like — ughhhh. Sometimes I even try and keep my mouth closed so their sweat doesn’t get in my mouth.” STEWART: “Nice.” STEWART: “So, your life is pretty much an open book and I’ve learned a little more today–but is there anything that no one knows about you?” D. WADE: “Yeah, one thing that no one knows about me is that deep down I really want to be a singer. I mean, I love my basketball abilities, but I wish that God would have given me singing abilities.” STEWART: “A lot of athletes seem to want to get into music–“ D. WADE: “I don’t mean I want to be a rapper — I want to be a good R&B singer. But — I wasn’t blessed with singing abilities. Not at all. I mean, I think I’m pretty good — but I know it really sounds bad. STEWART: “I bet you think you’re really good in the shower.” D. WADE: “I am great in the shower. I’m great in the car. I’m sure a lot of people have caught me singing in the car too. They’ve probably driven by and seen me when I’m in another world. I’ll just be jamming with my music really loud.” STEWART: “What did you sing today?” D. WADE: “Beyonce. I love to sing some Beyonce — ya know like “All the Single Ladies.” I’ll sing that — maybe not with the body shakin’ — but I’ll have a little bit of the hand movement going on. I do it all. All kinds of music. In my car, I’m versatile.” STEWART: “I have to ask: You lead the NBA in scoring, you’re second in steals, top ten in assists, and man, you just plain leave it all out there on that court — every single game. So why do you think you often get left out — or at least quickly ruled out — of MVP discussions by analysts on TV?” D. WADE: “I think that it’s the nature of the world we live in to always talk about two people — ya know in the presidential race, it was always about two people. They never really mention more at any one time. When I came in my rookie year, it was all about LeBron and Carmelo and they never really mentioned me. It has always been like that. You just have to make them include you — hopefully my play and our team’s success will one day get them to mention me. STEWART: But you have a championship… D. WADE: “Yeah but people have their favorites. That’s not really anything I can worry about because I can only control what I do on the court on a nightly basis. If I never get that publicity that people do or don’t feel I deserve, then at the end of the day, I’m not gonna cry over it. I’ll just continue to perform until I can’t anymore, and along the way I’ll hope that someone notices.” [/expand] carrie@carriestewart.com Home \| About \| Content \| Marketing \| Clients \| Capabilities Copyright © 2001-2015 Carrie Stewart. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line323
__label__cc	0.730848	0.269152	Honda Tuning Honda launches new range in 2014 Honda CR-V diesel (January) The first car to be launched by Honda in Australia in 2014 is the CR-V diesel. The petrol version of this car has been available to buy for a while, but the Australian market has been crying out for a diesel during this time. So, Honda is going to cater to demand and offer the CR-V with a 2.2-litre diesel engine that will develop a tasty 110kW/350Nm. Honda Odyssey (February) The all-new Honda Odyssey will be available to buy in February 2014 in the US and Australia. For the first time ever it will be available as an eight-seater, and there will be a variety of engines to choose from, most notable of which is a 2.4-litre four-cylinder petrol engine. A six-speed manual will come as standard in this car. You can expect to see plenty on the roads near you. Honda City (Q2) The Honda City is a very intriguing car. This is a small saloon that has been designed for town and city use. It has a short turning circle and Honda have refined the steering to be as sharp as possible so that darting in and out of traffic is easy. There will be Honda offers from Vertu Honda on the Honda City, and prices are expected to start from around $16,000 and go up to the low $20,000s. Honda Jazz (mid 2014) The latest generation Honda Jazz has collected plenty of awards, and in mid 2014 it will find its way into the showrooms of Australian dealerships. Powering regular Jazz models will be a 73kW/119Nm 1.3-litre four-cylinder and a 97kW/155Nm 1.5-litre. There will be a six-speed manual available as standard across the range or a 5-speed automatic. Honda Vezel (late 2014) The Honda Vezel will be Honda’s subcompact SUV in 2014. It will make its way over to the Australian market in late 2014, and it’s expected to sell quite well. There will be a few different engines available, the most notable being the company’s familiar 1.5-litre four-cylinder petrol – it will be interesting to see how this engine pulls a car the size of the Vezel. Pricing is yet to be confirmed. The Honda Civic Type R is one of the most hotly anticipated hot hatches of 2014. With the likes of the Ford Focus ST and latest Volkswagen Golf GTI taking in the sales, it’s going to have to be pretty sweet to sell. Thankfully, it looks as though it will be. It’ll be powered by a 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine that develops in excess of 280 bhp and 250 lb /ft of torque. That’s very different to the previous generation Type R, but it’ll be good – Honda have had enough time to refine it. Vertu Honda Retford believe that this will be the hot hatch to beat in 2014. How To Know The Professional Car Paint Used By Pros The Most Advanced Cars Available Today	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line324
__label__cc	0.696428	0.303572	Myths about Church teaching on contraception and the religious liberty at stake I thought it worthwhile to transcribe portions of the February 16, 2012 appearance of Bishop William Lori before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. (View the entire hearing here.) I also included a quote from Rabbi Soloveichik. I'm sure all too few citizens watched the panel, so this may help dispel some of the ignorant comments out there about the Church. I'll throw in my own comments here and there, and bold emphasis is my own. CHURCH NOT IGNORANT OF WOMEN'S HEALTH AND CONTRACEPTION Blake Farenthold (to Bishop Lori) - The Catholic Church does not have a problem with contraceptives for medical purposes. So I would assume from that it wouldn't be morally objectionable to the Church to pay for those for medical purposes. I'm not trying to put you on the spot, I'm just trying to make sure I understand where the Church stands. Bishop Lori - That would be my understanding also. Notice in this first part something many people probably do not know––the Church is not opposed to contraceptive drugs, per se. The Church is opposed to using contraceptive medicine to deliberately compromise the sacredness of fertility in the marital act or to induce post-fertilization abortions, which the Church would consider the killing of a human person.1 Farenthold - And there are numerous organizations, both federally and private funding that make available free or low cost contraceptives throughout the country. I'm sure you're aware of that. Bishop Lori - Yes, that's also my understanding. Farenthold - So we've got a mandate here that really is a lot of much ado about nothing. If it were carefully crafted, the chances of somebody not able to get the care, or for that matter the optional contraceptives that they desire, is, for all practical purposes, nil. Bishop Lori - Those services are very, very widely available and what we are talking about is a very narrow band. It is clearly a minority opinion, or a minority view. But we think it's one that ought to be protected. The government's health care plan is by no means limited to contraceptive drugs for medical use alone. Medicinal use of otherwise contraceptive drugs, said the Bishop, is not against Catholic moral teaching. Bruce Braley - A significant portion of women, 1.5 million, use the Pill exclusively for medical purposes other than contraception. They use contraceptives to treat severe menstrual pain, migranes, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis. Oral contraceptives also help prevent ovarian cancer. ... Do your religious teachings prohibit the use of contraception for health-related purposes, such as treating ovarian cancer? Bishop Lori - I think Catholic moral theology is very nuanced. It recognizes that the same drug can operate in different ways and accomplish different things. If it is used to prevent birth, it is against our teaching. And so we have operated with a considerable–– with a lot more nuance than we're usually given credit for. Also observe, by the way, that 90% of all private health care plans give access to contraception. We're talking about a very narrow band, and for very specific purposes here. Later, congresswoman Rosa DeLauro asked a version of the exact same challenge again. Rosa DeLauro - There are so many studies, I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist, but there are medical studies today that show––and we can give you other citations––that women who do take the pill have a much lower risk of developing ovarian cancer. ... I have to ask each of you, are you morally opposed to allowing women who work in your facilities, many of whom are non-religious, non-whatever the denomination, that were not hired for a religious purpose, are you opposed to allowing them to take a pill or to get an IUD in cases where their lives depend on it? When we know that it could lower the risk of ovarian cancer? Bishop Lori - [O]ur Catholic moral theology, as I've indicated, recognizes that the same drug can be used for different purposes with different effects, and our plans reflect that. So we should be given credit for the nuance and the understanding that we have already brought to the table. All the more reason for the government not to move in and try to force our hand now. Here, again, Bishop Lori dispels the myth that Catholic teaching says these drugs should not even be used for medical purposes. I found it telling that different challengers asked basically the same question to the Bishop––won't the Church even let women use these medications for medical, non-contraceptive purposes? Bishop Lori did well to stay on point. While the Church is opposed to the barrier of contraception into the marital, sacramental representation of Christ and His bride the Church, medicinal use of certain drugs may be accepted. It may also be worthwhile here to point out one of the comments of Pope Paul VI in his famous encyclical: On the other hand, the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from—provided such impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever. (Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, 15) So for example, if a life-threatening operation had the unintended consequence of sterilizing a woman or a man, such could not be considered immoral. Fr. Francis Hoffman from Relevant Radio also pointed out the prudence of avoiding sexual relations during times when one is using contraceptives for medicinal purposes. If a person is taking the birth control pill for other reasons, then during the time they're taking the pill they must refrain from marital relations. Because there are no proportionate reasons to put a conceived human embryo in danger of dying. So can you use it as a medicine for other reasons? Yes, but you must refrain from relations during that period. (Fr. Francis Hoffman, Relevant Radio, Feb. 28, 2012, MP3 archive) (EDIT 8/17/14 TO ADD: Fr. Grondin at Catholic Answers has a detailed answer regarding proportionate reasons in which he states: "the Church does permit the use of the birth control pill to treat medical/health issues provided that contraception is neither the intention nor means by which the good effect is achieved." Read more.) See evidence for the abortive potential of oral contraceptives below. Other Church statements related to Humanae Vitae's #15 include: Procedures that induce sterility are permitted when their direct effect is the cure or alleviation of a present and serious pathology and a simpler treatment is not available. (USCCB, Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, 53) An effect can be tolerated without being willed by its agent; for instance, a mother's exhaustion from tending her sick child. A bad effect is not imputable if it was not willed either as an end or as a means of an action, e.g., a death a person incurs in aiding someone in danger. For a bad effect to be imputable it must be foreseeable and the agent must have the possibility of avoiding it, as in the case of manslaughter caused by a drunken driver. (CCC#1737) The circumstances, including the consequences, are secondary elements of a moral act. They contribute to increasing or diminishing the moral goodness or evil of human acts (for example, the amount of a theft). They can also diminish or increase the agent's responsibility (such as acting out of a fear of death). Circumstances of themselves cannot change the moral quality of acts themselves; they can make neither good nor right an action that is in itself evil. (CCC#1754) I won't delve into specific case examples. Suffice it to say, I think this teaching surprised a number of the congressional interrogators, and probably would surprise many readers who think the Church perversely desires to deny women drugs even for medical purposes. Also, notice DeLauro's appeal to certain contraceptives and their benefits to ovarian cancer. This amplifies the point I made yesterday (see U.S. government candidly admits oral contraception increases risk of cancer in women) about how the HHS' own scientific sources claim oral contraceptives reduce ovarian cancer risk, but increase breast, cervical, and liver cancer risk. Other studies warn of other medical risks to contraceptives. In December, Health Canada revealed a study that suggested that oral contraceptives containing drospirenone could greatly increase a woman's chance to develop a blood clot. Last year, doctors at the University of California claimed in their study that hormone-altering contraceptives contributed to memory loss. Last November, a study showed that persons in geographic regions using the Pill more often have a higher rate of prostate cancer, that men may possibly be exposed to the excess estrogen inducing the cancer. There are many, many articles and studies searchable online detailing severe negative side effects, short and long term, of using hormonal contraceptives. Regardless, even assuming the Pill was hypothetically totally safe, the Church could only condone its medicinal use, not its contraceptive use. THIS IS A LIBERTY ISSUE, NOT A "CONTRACEPTION" ISSUE Patrick McHenry - Is this ruling by HHS, do you view this as an issue of contraception and abortifacients, or an issue of religious freedom and conscience protections? Bishop Lori - We view it as an issue of religious liberty. We view it first of all and primarily at the level of principle. It is a question of government reaching into the internal governance of religious bodies and making a requirement contrary to Church teaching. Some have tried to make this a "contraceptive" issue, but such cannot be reasonably argued. As Bishop Lori also pointed out in his opening statement, the principle of religious liberty would still apply even if this was, for example, the government trying to force Jewish institutions to serve ham against their religious beliefs. Edolphus Towns - I'm trying to understand exactly what problems the Bishop has with the Administration's policy. That's what I'm really trying to understand. It's not clear to me. Bishop Lori - Yes, well, the problems are at the level of principle and at the level of practicality. The principle is the government's reaching in and forcing us to do something. We might disagree inside of the Church. We might have our problems inside of the Church. But it's not for the government to weigh in and be the arbiter of those things. And secondly, many Church entities, such as the diocese of Bridgeport, which I can certainly speak about, they're self-insured. And so as a result, I am not only am I the employer, but also the insurer. And so certainly at the level of practicality, the new rule does nothing to help. And also there are religious insurers, there are individuals who have conscientious objections, and the rules do nothing for them. So we have problems on all those levels. Towns then asked if purchasing insurance that covered contraception or abortifacients would be against Church teaching. Bishop Lori said yes. And then the Rabbi added this: Rabbi Soloveichik - My concern here, congressman, is not what one particular Jewish organization might say about a particular prescription or procedure or whether their tenets are violated when they're forced to provide that. My concern is when Congress, or the Administration, comes in and says well, I see that there are some members of one faith who say this, some members of the other faith who say this, so we're going to unilaterally side with these people and force everyone, even over their objections, to violate their conscience. In general, a religious organization or a religious community should be free to define what the tenets of their faith are, and they should be listened to when they are told that a particular demand or mandate by the federal government violates those liberties. Congressman Elijah Cummings attempted an ad populum argument. Elija Cummings (to Bishop Lori) - If there's a woman who's, say, working for the Catholic entity, and she comes to you and she says, I want contraception, and it's something that I want. I've read surveys that said 98% of Catholic women use contraception. I'm just curious, what do you say to her? Bishop Lori - When somebody comes aboard to work for the Church to begin with, the teaching is clear, the mission is clear. The teaching of the Church and all of its nuance is set forth and the terms of the plan are clear. Let's be clear that contraception is available in many different ways. Sometimes a couple in that condition, in that situation, might access it through a spouses plan. But 90% of all health insurance plans include it, plus there's Title 10, plus there are clinics. It can hardly be said that this is unavailable. It is available very, very widely. The issue here is forcing the Church to provide it directly or indirectly in contravention with the Church's teaching. And that's what we don't want to do. It's one thing when tax dollars pay for it. It's another thing when Church dollars pay for it. First, in case you didn't know, the "98% of Catholic women" figure cited by Cummings has been proven a false statement (link fixed 4/6/13) based on the study in question's own figures. Second, Bishop Lori dispels the suggestion that if religious institutions in particular don't offer contraceptives for any reason in their insurance plans, that will somehow prevent availability to contraceptives. Of course, the idea is nonsensical. Cummings also attempted to appeal to "Catholics" who might agree with his side as a tool to justify forcing opposed institutions to submit to the government's demand. He presented a list of "Catholic" colleges that offer contraception in their insurance plans. The problem with his reasoning was twofold: 1) Many of the colleges he cited either had been forced by local governments to do so or only offered contraception for the aforementioned medical reasons. He failed to grasp that contraception is the act of sterilizing the marital act, not taking a "contraceptive pill," per se. And 2) Rabbi Soloveichik had already pointed out the flaw in Cummings premise––the government can't intrude into religious internal affairs, pick a side, and force the other side to comply. The idea, as is the HHS mandate, a violation of the first amendment to freedom from the government's establish of and freedom of the people's free exercise of religion. Mike Quigley (to Bishop Lori) - Do you support this same policy that you have as it relates to the private sector? In other words, do you think that a fast food restaurant person, because of his moral objection, say to his employees, I'm not gonna provide birth control as well, or a larger corporation? Bishop Lori - You know, if there is real religious liberty in our country, then churches, even if there is disagreement within those churches, have the God-given right to run their own institutions and their own internal affairs according to their teachings. And if there should be discussion within that church, or even dissent within that church, it is not for the government to reach in, and to decide or weigh in for one side or the other. ... The fact of the matter is, a lot of people like to work for the Catholic Church, it's one I can speak for, and because they like to work for mission. And because they understand that when they sign up to work for a diocese or a Catholic school or for Catholic charities, what the teaching is. We have an organized Magisterium with the Pope and the bishops. And sometimes people agree with it, sometimes they don't, but they love the mission, and they come and work. We have no trouble retaining and attracting people to work for us. We provide great healthcare plans. But you know under these rules, we might have the best healthcare plan in the world, but if even one of these so-called preventive services were not in our plan, we'd be fined $2,000 per employee. Quigley - Bishop, getting to the question, do you believe that a private sector company, if the owner or the board have moral objections, the same moral objections you do, which I respect, do you think they have the right to deny offering contraceptive services? Bishop Lori - I think that that freedom obtains right now. It already obtains. They can already do that. Quigley - We're talking about legislation, Bishop. There's legislation right now [presumably the Blunt amendment that since lost a 51-48 vote in the Senate] proposed right now that would extend this to the private sector. [If I understand correctly, it would actually not extend the right to the private sector to not offer contraceptions in their health care plans but preserve that right already extant in the private sector] Bishop Lori - We're saying that this legislation should not do so [i.e. I think he means take away that right]. We've been able to have that freedom now and the world has not fallen in upon itself. Here, I'd just like to point out Quigley's concern does not even begin to address the concerns of religious liberty brought by the panel. The Church's teaching on birth control long antedates even the existence of the United States. To argue that basic, First Amendment freedom, should be taken away on the basis that a non-religious institution may follow suit failed to grasp the issue of freedom altogether. Quigley's premise is that all contraceptives are "medical" products necessary in all insurance plans, but he did not substantiate that premise. Ann Marie Buerkle - So let's establish that for the record, despite this accommodation [she raises quoted fingers here], the rule hasn't been changed. And it was a verbal as you mentioned. Nothing was put in writing which is always of concern. But I want to now ask each one of you, how would you see this rule, that has not been changed, that violates conscience rights, how do you see that affecting the missions of each on of your churches? Bishop Lori - First of all, it [i.e. the "accommodation"] does not remove the mandate and as a result it's still a great intrusion to the freedom of our churches. And besides that, we think it violates The Religious Freedom Restoration Act because it substantially burdens our religious freedom by forcing us indirectly, but nonetheless forcing us to provide the so-called preventive services in violation of our teaching and it also is simply unworkable because many religious entities are self-insured, and as a result, we are not only the employer but the insurer, and so then it directly involves us in providing the prescribed services. 1For example, the FDA information sheet on the oral contraceptive Ella (ulipristal acetate) describes its mechanism of action this way: "When taken immediately before ovulation is to occur, ella postpones follicular rupture. The likely primary mechanism of action of ulipristal acetate for emergency contraception is therefore inhibition or delay of ovulation; however, alterations to the endometrium that may affect implantation may also contribute to efficacy." Essentially, that means one of the effective mechanisms of the drug is to alter the uterine wall such that the fertilized embryo, which the Church considers a human life, cannot implant into the uterine wall, thus killing it and expelling it from the body. Labels: Contraception, Government, HHS Mandate Parallels between the HHS Mandate, Constitutions, ... Myths about Church teaching on contraception and t... U.S. government candidly admits oral contraception... Attempt to discredit papacy uses false history	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line325
__label__cc	0.631828	0.368172	Watch Millie's Story Now! Waking Up to A Miracle By Brandice Hudson CBN.com -“I was saying, ‘I’m burning. I’m burning. I’m burning.’” Early one morning, Millie Tyler woke up in excruciating pain. “It felt like someone had doused my feet with gasoline and set them on fire.” “My husband was awakened by my screams,” said Millie Tyler. “When I looked at her feet it was just very surprising how it could go from… I’ll call it ‘normal’ looking feet one night and then the next morning tremendously red and it looked like fire,” said Lanny Tyler, Millie’s husband. Doctors told Millie she had a rare and incurable disease. “Erythromelalgia is a disorder of the blood vessels, where you have little sodium chains inside of you that the blood can go in and can’t go out,” said Millie. “There’s no cure for Erythromelalgia, but I knew that nothing was too big for my God. He can heal anything,” she said. While she was sitting in church one day, Millie says a passage in the Bible strengthened her faith. “My eyes fell right on this verse: ‘I have called you by name you are Mine.’ It is in Isaiah 43. I continued to read: ‘When you walk through the fire you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you. For I am the Lord your God,’” she read. “And I knew that that promise was for me.” A year later she was still in pain, and it had gotten worse. About that time she called CBN to make a donation. Afterwards, the prayer counselor asked Millie if she could pray for her. “And I said, ‘Well yes. I’ve been having a difficult time sleeping at night because of the pain from Erythromelalgia.’ We prayed, and that night I went to sleep and I slept the whole night through,” said Millie. “In the morning when I woke up my feet didn’t hurt. And I got out of bed and I started to walk and my ankles didn’t hurt, and I knew that something miraculous had happened to me. It’s like the nightmare of Erythromelalgia never happened to me in the first place. I have absolutely no symptoms,” she said. “It is just a phenomenal thing that it happened and God’s the only one that could heal it,” said Lanny. “God is always faithful to His promises if we hang on and we don’t give up. You can hold the Bible up to Him and say, ‘You said this and the Bible says you’re not a liar and you said this so I know that You’re going to come through, because you’re faithful,’” said Millie.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line326
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__label__wiki	0.551516	0.551516	Walcott Elementary & Intermediate School Home of the Panthers! Walcott Elementary & Intermediate School Principal: Mike Garnica Associate Principal: Lorie Moyer 545 E. James Street Walcott, Iowa 52773 Davenport Community Schools Kindergarten Round-Up Map & Transportation Info Mission & Belief Statements P. B. I. S. Pickup & Dropoff of Students Lunch & Breakfast Menu Special Needs & Exceptional Education Talented and Gifted Program Dads Club DCSD Anti-Bullying/Harassment Policy & Prevention Resources E Blast PTA and PCN School Dress Code Tutoring and Homework Help Volunteer at our School Our Staff – Elementary Our Staff – Intermediate Walcott School strives to be a progressive learning environment where all students are challenged to reach their fullest potential. Building Vision Statement The Walcott School staff, along with parents and community members, will provide all students with a variety of meaningful and enriching educational opportunities that prepare them to become life-long learners and productive citizens for the 21st century. Building Belief Statements Every person has an equal right to educational opportunities which accommodate their physical, social, emotional, and intellectual interests. Students and staff have a right to a safe and secure school environment. Quality in education must not be compromised because of lack of resources. Every student has the potential to learn, but each at different rates and in different ways. Each person has intrinsic worth, and therefore should be treated with dignity. Public education is an active partnership among the school, the student, the home, and the community. Self-discipline is a prerequisite for the development of higher order thinking skills and the potential lifelong learning. Davenport Community Schools: Our Mission We will enhance each student’s abilities by providing a quality education enriched by our diverse community. Davenport Community Schools: Our Vision We will provide an education that challenges conventional thinking, prepares all students to compete in a global society, and inspires our students, parents, staff, and community to answer the question, “What if?” Walcott School values the diverse ethnic heritage of the students that we serve and believes to be prepared for today’s global society and workforce, students must be able to understand, appreciate, work with and learn from people with cultures and backgrounds different from their own. It is the policy of the Davenport Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national orgin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), or marital status (for programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact the district’s equity coordinator: Dr. Erica Goldstone, Director of Equity & Diversity, 1606 Brady Street, Davenport, Iowa 52803; Phone: 563-336-3812 It is the policy of the Davenport Community School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, creed, age (for employment), marital status (for programs), sexual orientation, gender identity and socioeconomic status (for programs) in its educational programs and its employment practices. There is a grievance procedure for processing complaints of discrimination. If you have questions or a grievance related to this policy please contact the district’s Equity Coordinator: Mr. Jabari Woods, Associate Director of Human Resources & Equity woodsj@davenportschools.org (563-336-7496) or Dr. Erica Goldstone, Director of Human Resources & Equity goldstonee@davenportschools.org (563-336-7494), 1702 N. Main Street, Davenport, Iowa 52803.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line333
__label__cc	0.595935	0.404065	New Release: If Only by Norma Budden Here is an exciting new release by author Norma Budden. Norma Budden While still in high school, Demi gave birth to a baby girl and, feeling she had no other options, put her up for adoption. Having moved on with her life – gotten married and having had two other children – 16 years later, Demi Glenn suddenly cannot get her firstborn daughter out of her mind. After hiring two private detectives but getting no solid information to go on, Demi turns to the one man who will not come back empty-handed, who will not give up until he finds the answers – David Alexander, a married father of two daughters – the father of the baby she had given up so long ago who had no idea he had sired a child as a teen. Together, will they be able to find their daughter without their families being torn apart or will fate intervene, upsetting their lives in a way they'd never dreamed in the pursuit of finding the daughter they can no longer live without? David didn't leave his office as he had planned nor did he immediately call his wife to inform her he would be late getting home. Instead he sat down in his chair in a daze. Dem gave birth to my baby. We share a daughter. He picked up the photo of his family, his wife and daughters smiling brilliantly beside him. If Dem had told me, I would've married her; I loved her with every part of my being. We would've been happy together, too, even if we struggled in the early years trying to raise a baby. I always wondered why she broke things off, why she refused my calls – but, eventually, I met Krista and moved on. Looking at the family photo, tracing his index finger over the smiling faces of the three beautiful women in his life, David inhaled deeply. There's no way I can imagine not having Krista and our girls in my life. Decisions made in the past were meant to be. I could never give up, or ruin, the life Krista and I share, not even for Dem. Setting the photo back on his desk, he closed his eyes and frowned. Where is my oldest daughter? What's her name? Does she have brown hair and green eyes like me or does she look like her mother, or both of us? Is she okay or do we have reason to be concerned? Taking one more look at the family photo on his desk, he made a decision he hoped he would not regret. I can't tell Krista about this, not yet. She'll have questions I can't answer. It would tear me up not being able to answer even the simplest questions about my own child, even if I had never known about her. David rose from his chair and walked to the window, pinching the bridge of his nose. There was no question his soul was, now, tormented. E-book price: $2.99 Buy If Only at these retailers: Norma Budden currently makes her home in Arctic Canada where she has lived for more than two decades. Administration Manager by day and writer/mother/grandmother by night, Norma knows what it's like to be busy and appreciates moments of solitude, perhaps, more than the average person. Though Norma's first serious attempts at writing involved poetry and song, she later went on to write non-fiction titles. However, over recent years, her truest passion seems to be in writing stories to appeal to readers' emotions, with a touch of mystery and romance built into the stories. Norma is the proud author of the Freedom in Love Series which, currently, has three titles published: An Affair to Remember, When Love Abides and Soul Confessions. Divided Loyalties and The Promise, the fourth and fifth titles of the series, will be released in 2015. Norma has also written other novels and short stories and is in the process of promoting her newest release, If Only – a full-length stand-alone novel which readers claim can easily be turned into another series. However, at this time, Norma's intention is to write other stand-alone titles to draw in readers who rarely read books published as part of a series. Back to If Only, this story is different because, though Norma has written inspirational fiction titles in the past, this was her first venture into the paranormal. If Only introduces us to Demi and David, both married to other people, each with two small children. However, Demi and David had a past – a past which involved the birth of a baby girl, whom David didn't know existed. As the story progresses, David learns about his oldest daughter and the connection the two share is so powerful that it has been said the story wouldn't be the same without it. The story is affecting readers in ways the author never dreamed. Connect with Norma: Twitter @NormaBudden Labels: contemporary women's fiction, If Only, new release, Norma Budden Kristyn March 3, 2015 at 6:39 AM Hi Norma! I saw you over on Twitter and stopped by to say hello. Your book looks really interesting - I'm looking forward to checking it out! Have a great day. Deanna Lynn Sletten March 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM Hi Kristyn - Thanks for dropping by. Norma Budden March 3, 2015 at 7:14 PM Kristyn, I equally look forward to hearing your thoughts. :) Book Review: The Last Original Wife by Dorothea Be...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line334
__label__wiki	0.866298	0.866298	Why Even Adults Need Heroes Superman and young athletes don’t do it for us anymore It was easy to have a hero when I was young. Heroes could be anyone older, wiser and more accomplished, and when you’re a kid, that could be pretty much anyone. Growing up in the 1960s, if you asked me to name those I most admired, I probably would have answered NFL quarterback Bart Starr or baseball great Mickey Mantle. If you asked me to name a hero who wasn’t a professional athlete, I probably would have come up with Charles Lindbergh. Now, however, it’s harder for me to say who my heroes are. I’ve heard too much about Mickey Mantle’s off-field drinking and skirt-chasing to consider him a role model today. Something similar happened once I read about Lindbergh’s views about racial superiority and staying out of World War II. Now that I’m older and wiser, or perhaps more cynical and more attuned to feet of clay, whom can I admire today? To paraphrase Tina Turner, do I need another hero? It’s more complicated, but still possible and valuable to find a hero, even as we get older, according to Scott Allison and George Goethals. They’re a couple of University of Richmond psychologists who have written extensively about heroism in books like Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them. Allison said we seek out heroes because they have the potential to energize and inspire us. We also seek wisdom from our heroes, hoping they will reveal meaning, truth and purpose, according to Allison. “They help us grow and improve and heal wounds. They give us hope and they elevate us emotionally,” Allison said. Recognizing the Flaws But hero worship becomes more nuanced and mature as we age, according to Allison and Goethals. “Our views of heroes are more or less fluid,” Goethals said. “As we get older, we realize all people are flawed,” said Allison. “As we get older, we recognize that even Gandhi had flaws and Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs and Mickey Mantle was a drunk and a womanizer.” Goethals cites a couple of people he has admired: John F. Kennedy and Elvis Presley. “I know plenty about them that’s not heroic,” he said. As we gain these perspectives, we may choose to give up some of our heroes of our youth. Or we may continue to admire someone, warts and all. “As we get to know more about people, they may fall from grace,” Goethals said. “There certainly are times when I sort of left Elvis behind. But Elvis still did great things. You don’t feel you need to grow past that.” “I’m hanging in there with Willie Mays the rest of my life,” he added. ‘Moral Compass’ Allison said that as we mature, we are less likely to choose our heroes for ability and competence and more likely for their moral compass. It’s moral strength, not physical strength, that we tend to admire as we get older. Allison, for example, still looks up to the late baseball great Roberto Clemente not so much for his feats on the field but for Clemente’s work to help others less fortunate. Clemente died in 1972 in a plane crash while he was organizing relief supplies to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua. As we get older and wiser, we still will look for someone even older and wiser to look up to. Allison said it would be slightly ridiculous for a middle-aged man to see a 20-something athlete as a hero. “It’s a little bit harder to put someone younger up on a pedestal,” Allison said. “It’s almost as if heroes are parents. They show the way for you,” Goethals said. Goethals, for example, admires Clint Eastwood, who is still making interesting movies at the age of 84. Allison looks up to a fellow 78-year-old psychologist who is retired but still using his skills in a meaningful way by giving lectures and leading workshops. “He’s leading the most perfect retirement,” Allison said. “He’s just such a positive, upbeat, giving, generous person.” Carnegie Award-Winners But even the role of the action hero isn’t limited to the young. Consider the stories of Edward Jay Fillingham, Gerald LaMonica and Norman Hines. Fillingham had Parkinson’s disease, but rescued three people from drowning in 2009 when he rowed a boat through choppy water to an overturned paddleboat in Henderson, N.Y. LaMonica came to the rescue of a 10-year-old girl who was being mauled by a pit bull attack in 2010 who then started attacking LaMonica in Dearborn Heights, Mich. In 1999, Hines pulled a woman stuck in a motorized cart on a railroad crossing out of the path of a freight train barreling at 60 miles per hour in Verndale, Minn. All three received a Carnegie Hero Fund medal, a national award given to civilians who risk their lives to an “extraordinary degree” to save the life of another. And all three were in their 70s when they performed their rescues.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line335
__label__cc	0.693928	0.306072	« Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: A Case Study Impact of HVAC Systems on the Environment » Solar Energy in Oman: Potential and Progress By Asima Kaleem \| April 30, 2019 - 9:23 pm \| April 30, 2019 Energy, Middle East, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy Solar energy is a vital and strategic solution for the provision of electric power in the Sultanate of Oman. Given the vast unused land and available solar energy resources, Oman has an excellent potential for solar energy development and deployment. Solar energy is a viable option in Oman and could not only cater to the growing need for energy diversification but also would help in economic diversification. With a total dependence on fossil fuels and increasing population combined with rapid industrialization in cities such as Duqm, Sohar and Salalah, Oman’s power infrastructure and hydrocarbon reserves pose a challenge on the economic growth. The strategic importance and geographical location of Oman makes it viable to harness renewable energy technologies on both, smaller and larger scales, for further development of its economy. It not only helps in reducing dependence in fossil fuels but also helps in creating a cleaner and sustainable environment. Research and development and high-technology services related to renewable energy could create new business and employment in Oman and could bring about a paradigm change in diversification of Oman’s economy. Solar Power Potential in Oman Oman receives a tremendous amount of solar radiation throughout the year which is among the highest in the world, and there is significant scope for harnessing and developing solar energy resources throughout the Sultanate. The global average daily sunshine duration and solar radiation values for 25 locations in Oman are tremendous, with Marmul having the highest solar radiation followed by Fahud, Sohar and Qairoon Hairiti. The highest insolation of solar energy is observed is in the desert areas as compared to the coastal areas where it is least. A Renewables Readiness Assessment report was prepared by IRENA in close collaboration with the Government of Oman, represented by the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW), to study potential usage of renewable energy. The government seeks to utilize a sizeable amount of solar energy to meet the country’s domestic electricity requirements and develop some of it for export. The Petroleum Development of Oman (PDO) has initiated to conserve Oman’s natural gas resources in the production of heavy oil by harnessing solar energy to produce steam for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). A study commissioned by the Public Authority for Electricity and Water (PAEW) revealed that Photovoltaic (PV) systems installed on residential buildings in the Sultanate could offer an estimated 1.4 gigawatts of electricity. It is estimated that Muscat Governorate alone could generate a whopping 450 megawatts, similar to a mid-sized gas-based power plant. The Authority for Electricity Regulation Oman (AER) – Oman’s power sector regulator is taking steps to pave the way for homeowners to install rooftop solar panels with any surplus electricity sent back into the national grid. Some prominent companies, including Majan Electricity Company, Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM) and Sultan Qaboos University have already adopted piloted schemes to generate solar power. Due to declining costs of photovoltaic (PV) panels, production of solar energy has become an attractive option for the process of water desalination. Solar thermal desalination processes using solar collectors are being tested in pilot projects and expected to soon become available as commercial solutions. Miraah solar thermal project will harness the sun’s energy to produce steam used in oil production. A combination of concentrated solar power and photovolatic technologies are likely to be deployed for the development in Dakhiliyah Governorate which is one of the largest solar energy projects in Oman's National Energy Strategy 2040 with a plant capacity of 200MW. Oman has already geared up in attracting private investors to power and water production by offering Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs). The government has embarked on a mission of opening a stronger and sustainable market giving oil companies a chance to strengthen their footing in the country to tackle with the jeopardy posed by depleting oil resources. However, there are challenges arising out of the lack of involvement from stakeholders in framing polices and in decision making; and lack of regulatory policies, in the sector of renewable energy, is hindering its pace of development. Specific resource assessments are needed in order to determine the market potential and should be the key research areas. Future Perspectives Solar energy in Oman is expected to become progressively cheaper in the near future and could be a best return for investments. Its success is merely determined by the government’s regulatory policies, fiscal incentives and public financing. The challenges that the solar industry faces are entering into a market that has essentially been dominated by oil industry. Subsidies and incentives should be provided by the government in the form of feed in tariffs so as to reassure a guaranteed price for electricity sold to the national grid by merging solar power technologies in power generation. There is a dire need for political support for renewable energy to take its competition, economically, in the free market. Laws governing power generation regulation should provide more flexibility for renewables and should be incentive-oriented to attract the stake holders. A positive investment environment, strong property rights and low tax regimes, with established participation in the power sector from leading international firms, will certainly boost solar energy applications. The country needs to develop clear strategic plans for future in the development of solar energy. If a quick and appropriate regulatory framework is not accelerated, neighboring countries, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), would take the benefits of becoming regional revolutionary leaders in the use of solar energy. Parting Shot With its strong solar resources and existing universities, Oman has an opportunity to pioneer professional demonstration and monitoring capability as an international technology provider and take an active role to establish advanced professional skills base in science and engineering and expand its arenas in modern solar-efficient architecture and energy management. But the question still remains: Can the solar power bring about a revolutionary change to power most of Oman? http://esatjournals.net/ijret/2013v02/i07/IJRET20130207029.pdf – Volume: 02 Issue: 07 \| Jul-2013, Available @ http://www.ijret.org https://www.y-oman.com/2016/04/watts-up/ Republished by Blog Post Promoter About Asima Kaleem Asima Kaleem is a Senior Lecturer in Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman. She is a Post Graduate in Civil Engineering with specialization in Structural Engineering. Her work experience includes research in utilizing waste materials in concrete for sustainable construction. She is in her pursuit of creating awareness of environmental issues in built environment and to provide solutions for a greener construction. She holds strong interest in sustainability and innovative technologies. She has a mission to create and develop sustainable development campaigns to disseminate the use of renewable resources on a mass-scale. View all posts by Asima Kaleem → Tagged Electricity, EOR, IRENA, National Energy Strategy, Oman, PDO, Power, Renewable Energy, Rooftop Solar, Solar Energy. Bookmark the permalink. One Response to Solar Energy in Oman: Potential and Progress Pingback: Solar Energy Prospects in Oman Renewable Energy in GCC: Need for a Holistic Approach The importance of renewable energy sources in the energy portfolio of any country is well known, especially in the context of energy security and impacts on climate change. The growing quest for renewable energy and energy efficiency in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has been seen by many as both – a compulsion to complement the rising energy demand, and as an economic strength that helps them in carrying forward the clean energy initiatives from technology development to large scale deployment of projects from Abu Dhabi to Riyadh. Current Scenario The promotion of renewable energy (RE) is becoming an … Continue reading → Solar Energy in Saudi Arabia: Perspectives Saudi Arabia, the epicenter of global oil industry, has been showing keen interest in solar energy in recent years. Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest solar irradiation in the world, estimated at approximately 2,200 thermal kWh of solar radiation per m2. The country is strategically located near the Sun Belt, in addition to plentiful availability of empty stretches of desert that may accommodate infrastructure for solar power projects. Vast deposits of sand can be used in the manufacture of silicon PV cells which makes Saudi Arabia an attractive location for solar industry. “The resource is stunning; land is … Continue reading → Renewable Energy in Palestine High population growth, increasing living standards and rapid industrial growth has led to tremendous energy demand in the Palestinian Territories in recent years. The energy situation in Palestine is highly different compared to other countries in the Middle East due to non-availability of natural resource, financial crunch and unstable political condition. Palestine is heavily dependent on Israel for meeting its energy requirements. Almost all petroleum products are imported through Israeli companies. Israel controls energy imports into Palestine and thus prevents open trade in electricity and petroleum products between Palestine and other countries. Current Scenario Energy is increasingly becoming unaffordable for … Continue reading →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line343
__label__wiki	0.744532	0.744532	Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1916 > February 1916 Decisions > G.R. No. 10078 February 5, 1916 - UNITED STATES v. MARCELINO DACAIMAT [G.R. No. 10078. February 5, 1916. ] THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MARCELINO DACAIMAT, Defendant-Appellant. Gibbs & Blanco for Appellant. Attorney-General Avanceña for Appellee. 1. CRIMINAL LAW; APPEAL; RECORD; INCLUSION OF FINDING OF FACTS. — The procedure on appeal, in cases wherein the trial judge fails to unite with the record a finding of the facts upon which he based his decision, examined and considered. 2. ID.; ID.; ID.; DUTY OF TRIAL COURT. — It is the imperative duty of judges of Court of First Instance to attach to the record, in both civil and criminal cases, findings of the facts upon which their judgments are based. 3. ID.; ID.; ID.; REMAND OF RECORD. — The omission of such a finding of facts, while it is always error, does not always amount to prejudicial error; and in most instances the error may be cured by the remand of the record for the inclusion therewith of a finding of facts without the necessity for the reversal of the judgment. 4. ID.; ID.; ID.; NEW TRIAL. — Without attempting to lay down a hard and fact rule; Held: That where the trial judge neglects or fails to make a finding of facts, the record should be returned to the court wherein it originated, without first reversing the judgments, with instructions to file therewith a finding of the facts upon which the judgment was based, in any case in which either party in a civil action, or the defendant and appellant in a criminal action, moves this court so to do with due diligence and without unnecessary delay after the record on appeal has been filed in the clerk’s office; reserving to the court itself the right to reverse the judgment and send the case back for a new trial in any case wherein, after submission on the merits, it is satisfied that the omission of a finding of facts resulted in prejudicial error, which, for any reason, it was impracticable to cure by return of the record on motion as above indicated. 5. ID.; ID.; ID.; RIGHT OF REMAND DENIED GOVERNMENT IN CRIMINAL CASES. — The right to have the record remanded on motion for the correction of an omission of a finding of facts denied to the Government in appeals in criminal actions. The appellant in this case was convicted in the court below of the crime of theft of large cattle. The evidence of record conclusively establishes that a caraballa and her calf were stolen from the corral of the complaining witness, and that not long thereafter the calf was found in the possession of the accused. The accused swore that the calf had been turned over to him by a man named Dacanay, who, when called to the witness stand, flatly denied the story told by the accused as to the way in which he came into possession of the animal. We have frequently held that proof of the discovery of stolen property in the possession of one charged with its theft, not long after the time when the property was stolen, raises a presumption of his guilt sufficient to sustain his conviction of the theft of the stolen property, in the absence of a satisfactory explanation of the fact of its possession inconsistent with the presumption of his guilt. A finding as to the guilt or innocence of the accused in this case turns, therefore, upon the respective credibility of the accused and of the accused and of the stolen animal. The trial judge, in convicting the accused, necessarily accepted as true the testimony of Dacanay, and rejected as false the testimony of the accused in his own defense, and we find nothing in the record which would justify us in disturbing his conclusion in this regard. We find no error in the proceedings in the court below prejudicial to the substantial rights of the appellant, and the judgment convicting and sentencing him should therefore be affirmed, with the costs of this instance against him. During the pendency of these proceedings on appeal, the Solicitor — General invited our attention to the fact that the trial judge had failed to enter in the record an express finding of the facts upon which the judgment of conviction was based, and moved this court to remand the record to the court below in order that the omission might be corrected. The motion of the Solicitor — General, although it was dismissed in a minute order without setting forth the reasons therefor, presented in a new form a question of practice which has given us no little trouble in the past; that is to say the proper disposition of cases wherein it appears that the trial judge has failed to unite with the record a finding of the facts upon which he based his judgment. In ruling upon the question of practice as raised by the Solicitor — General, and as raised in some other cases, both civil and criminal, pending about the same time, we were compelled to reexamine and reconsider the law and the cases in which the question has heretofore presented itself, in an attempt to lay down a rule of practice by which we ourselves, as well as counsel practicing in this court, should be guided hereafter. It may be well therefore to seize this opportunity to set out very summarily our conclusions in this respect, and the grounds upon which they are based. The question, in one form or another, has arisen in a number of unpublished cases, and has been discussed in Braga v. Millora (3 Phil. Rep., 458); Enriquez v. Enriquez (3 Phil. Rep., 746); City of Manila v. Insular Government (9 Phil. Rep., 71); Alindogan v. Insular Government (15 Phil. Rep., 169); U. S. v. Mariano (27 Phil. Rep., 132). An examination of these case discloses that our practice in the disposition of the question under consideration has not been entirely uniform; and it would appear that in each case the court has sought a practical solution of the question as it presented itself and as the rights of the parties, as developed by the state of the record when the question has arisen, seemed to require. Our rulings, in appeals in civil actions, providing for the correction of the omission of findings of fact by the trial judge have been based in part upon the provisions of section 133 of Act No. 190, expressly prescribing the duty of making such findings in such actions; in part upon the provisions of that Act which secures the right of the litigants to appeal from judgments entered in civil actions upon the ground that the findings of fact do not support the judgment, without being subjected to the burden and expense of bringing the evidence here for review (section 497 of Act No. 190): and in part upon the utility of, and in some cases the absolute and essential necessity for the making of such findings in order that this court, in weighing the evidence, may have the benefit of the inferences to be drawn therefrom as to the degree of credit accorded the various witnesses by the trial judge, who sees and hears them testify, observes their demeanor on the witness — stand, and whose opinion in this regard we have always held to be entitled to the greatest respect. The reasons which impose upon trial judges the imperative duty to make and enter in the record appropriate findings of fact are not less compelling in criminal than in civil cases. This court is called upon to review the evidence in all criminal cases brought here on appeal, and in the case of United States v. Mariano (supra) we held that:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph "In cases where the Supreme Court must review the facts, as it must in all criminal cases, the trial court should make a statement of facts upon which it relies for the conviction."cralaw virtua1aw library But under the provisions of section 501 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and of sections 9 and 10 of General Orders No. 58 (prescribing rules of procedure in criminal cases), the reversal of judgments entered in the court below is prohibited, except for prejudicial error, that is to say error which tends to prejudice a substantial right of a party to the proceedings brought here for review. The first question to be determined, therefore, is whether or not the omission from the record of a finding of facts is prejudicial error in the court below. There can be no doubt that in some case such an omission may tend directly to prejudice materially one or other of the parties by depriving him of information of vital importance in the course of the preparation and submission of his case on appeal; and it cannot be denied that cases may present themselves wherein such an omission will deprive this court of information vital to the proper adjudication of the issues raised on appeal. On the other hand, experience in the examination of many hundreds of records brought here on appeal has taught us that not in every case would such an omission tend to prejudice the substantial rights of any of the parties; and that in many, if not most, instances if may be affirmatively and confidently asserted that no prejudicial error results from the omission of findings of fact from the record. It would seem then that whatever rule of practice may be adopted it should secure the rights of the parties in the occasional instances wherein the omission amounts to prejudicial error, without subjecting the litigants to unnecessary inconvenience, expense and delay in those cases wherein the omission does not appear to prejudice a substantial right of either of the parties. Without attempting to lay down a hard and fast rule which will cover every conceivable case which may present itself, we have concluded, after extended discussion, that the end in view will, as a general rule, be best attained, without first reversing the judgment, with instructions to file therewith a finding of the facts upon which the judgment was based, in any case in which either party in a civil action or the defendant and appellant in a criminal action moves this court so to do, with due diligence and without unnecessary delay after the record on appeal has been filed in the clerk’s office; this court reserving to itself the right to reverse the judgment and send the case back for new trial in any case wherein, after submission upon the merits, it is satisfied that the omission of a finding of facts resulted in prejudicial error, which, for any reason, it was impracticable to cure by the return of the record on motion as above indicated. We do not think, however, that the course of the proceedings on appeal in criminal case should be subjected, on motion of the Attorney - General, to the delay necessarily involved in the return of the record to the court below for the inclusion of a finding of facts. Speaking generally, the nature of the issues raised in criminal proceedings are such that we believe that rarely, if ever, will there be any real necessity therefor; and if such an instance should arise, it can be dealt with after the case has been finally submitted on the merits. And, be this as it may, we are satisfied that any inconvenience to which the Government may be subjected under this rule should and must be subordinated to the right of the accused to a speedy trial, and the adjudication of his appeal with all practicable dispatch. Ten days hereafter let judgment be entered affirming the judgment entered in the court below with the costs of this instance against the appellant, and ten days thereafter let the record be returned to the court wherein it originated. So ordered. Arellano, C.J., Torres and Trent, JJ., concur. MORELAND, J., dissenting:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library Inasmuch as this decision has the effect of overruling or seriously modifying several decisions of this court. I find it necessary to dissent in an opinion which I will file later.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line346
__label__wiki	0.706731	0.706731	Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 2014 > January 2014 Decisions > G.R. No. 178564, January 15, 2014 : CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION - Brion, J. : INC. SHIPMANAGEMENT, INC., CAPTAIN SIGFREDO E. MONTERROYO AND/OR INTERORIENT NAVIGATION LIMITED, Petitioners, v. ALEXANDER L. MORADAS, Respondent.: INC. SHIPMANAGEMENT, INC., CAPTAIN SIGFREDO E. MONTERROYO AND/OR INTERORIENT NAVIGATION LIMITED, Petitioners, v. ALEXANDER L. MORADAS, Respondent. CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION BRION, J.: I concur with the Ponencia’s conclusion that Alexander L. Moradas complaint for total and permanent disability benefits must be dismissed and consequently, the Court of Appeals (CA) ruling must be reversed and set aside. However, I strongly disagree with the legal framework of review it adopted in arriving at this conclusion. Due to its adoption of an erroneous framework of review, its basis for reversing the assailed CA ruling is necessarily tainted with serious legal error. In this Opinion, I submit that the proper and legal framework of review of a CA decision in a labor case is that laid down by the Court in Montoya v. Transmed Manila Corporation.1 I also submit that while Moradas is not entitled to total and permanent disability benefits, he is entitled to an income benefit. I. The proper and legal framework of review of a Rule 65 CA decision in a labor case a. The transfer of a labor case from the quasi-judicial sphere to the judicial sphere entails a specific mode of limited review When a labor case decided by quasi-judicial tribunals -the Labor Arbiter (LA) and the National Labor Relations Commission (NLRC) - finds its way into the judicial sphere, the court must proceed and act on the petition on the basic premise that the assailed ruling is a final and executory ruling. This premise, in turn, is based on two facts: first, labor cases that reach the CA (and eventually the Supreme Court) are already rulings on the merits that finally dispose of the case; and, second, after the labor tribunals have rendered judgment, substantive law no longer provides any remedy of appeal to the losing party. Notwithstanding the absence of appeal, the aggrieved party is not without any legal remedy. As the legal battle is transferred from the quasi-judicial sphere to the strictly judicial sphere, the aggrieved party must contend with the fact that the new avenue for legal advocacy becomes narrower. The review allowed is limited to jurisdictional grounds under Rule 65 of the Rules of Court (Rule 65).2 As early as 1975, the Court had the occasion to state: While an appeal does not lie, it is available whenever a jurisdictional issue is raised or one of grave abuse of discretion amounting to a lack of excess thereof. x x x This excerpt, from the opinion of Justice Aquino in San Miguel Corporation v. Secretary of Labor, is in point: "Yanglay raised a jurisdictional question which was not brought up by respondent public officials. He contends that this Court has no jurisdiction to review the decisions of the NLRC and the Secretary of Labor 'under the principle of separation of powers' and that judicial review is not provided for in Presidential Decree No. 21. That contention is a flagrant error. It is generally understood that as to administrative agencies exercising quasi-judicial or legislative power there is an underlying power in the courts to scrutinize the acts of such agencies on questions of law and jurisdiction even though no right of review is given by statute' x x x. Judicial review is proper in case of lack of jurisdiction, grave abuse of discretion, error of law, fraud or collusion."3 (emphases ours, citations omitted) A certiorari proceeding is limited in scope and narrow in character. The special civil action for certiorari lies only to correct acts rendered without jurisdiction, in excess of jurisdiction, or with grave abuse of discretion. Certiorari will issue only to correct errors of jurisdiction and not mere errors of judgment, particularly in the findings or conclusions of the quasi-judicial tribunals or lower courts. For errors of judgment, appeal, if provided for by law, is the proper remedy and not certiorari.4 Accordingly, when a petition for certiorari is filed, the judicial inquiry should be limited to the issue of whether the NLRC acted with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or in excess of jurisdiction.5 The supervisory jurisdiction of a court over the issuance of a writ of certiorari cannot be exercised for the purpose of reviewing the intrinsic correctness of a judgment. Even if the findings of the lower court or tribunal are incorrect, as long as it has jurisdiction over the case, such correction is normally beyond the province of certiorari.6Certiorari jurisdiction is not to be equated with appellate jurisdiction.7 To depart from this well-established scope and breadth of certiorari by reviewing, and worse overturning, the assailed ruling (in the guise of correcting errors of jurisdiction even if they are plainly errors of judgment) plainly amounts to unwarranted judicial legislation, by indirectly creating a non-existing right of appeal. Nevertheless, while a certiorari proceeding does not strictly include an inquiry as to the correctness of the evaluation of evidence (that was the basis of the labor tribunals in determining their conclusion),8 the incorrectness of its evidentiary evaluation should not result in negating the requirement of substantial evidence.9 Indeed, when there is a showing that the findings or conclusions, drawn from the same pieces of evidence, were arrived at arbitrarily or in disregard of the evidence on record, they may be reviewed by the courts. In particular, the CA can grant the petition for certiorari if it finds that the NLRC, in its assailed decision or resolution, made a factual finding not supported by substantial evidence.10 A decision that is not supported by substantial evidence is definitely a decision tainted with grave abuse of discretion. b. The court’s limited certiorari jurisdiction as applied in Unfortunately, the clear limits of a certiorari jurisdiction are somewhat a murky area in our jurisprudence. More often than not, the Court actively engages in reviewing the NLRC ruling without fully considering the absence of a statutory right to appeal. In fact, a survey of the Court s rulings will not be beneficial in determining the scope and breadth of the Court s supervisory power under a Rule 65 petition as distinguished from the Court s discretionary review power under a Rule 45 petition in labor cases. In effect, the supposedly final and executory character of the NLRC ruling was, more often than not, sidestepped as a non-essential legal consideration. The result was a deluge of labor cases before the Highest Court. To put an end to this, the Court, in St. Martin Funeral Homes v. NLRC (St. Martin),11 opted to change the procedure of review of labor cases, taking into account the judicial hierarchy of courts. Thus, the Court decreed that the proper recourse from the NLRC s final and executory ruling is to assail the ruling before the CA under Rule 65. Without altering the unappealable character of the NLRC ruling that substantive law provides,12 the Court thereby sought to improve the process by which labor cases -most of which are highly factual in character -can reach the Highest Court of the land, whose time is better devoted to matters within its exclusive jurisdiction and to issues that significantly impact on the nation as a whole. Under St. Martin, a party who loses in the CA or is dissatisfied with the CA ruling, is given the further option to file an appeal with the Supreme Court through a petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court (Rule 45). Expressly stated under Rule 45 is that the review it provides is not a matter of right but of sound judicial discretion. Too, this mode of appeal limits the review to questions of law. Obviously, the Court did not intend this discretion to be an unbridled discretion one.13 The approximate metes and bounds of the express limitations under Rule 45–that only questions of law may be raised and that the Court may entertain the petition and exceptionally undertake a review of factual questions based on "sound judicial discretion"–are, however, not clearly defined in St. Martin. In fact, cases decided before or after St. Martin almost uniformly hold that: The rule is that factual findings of quasi-judicial agencies such as the NLR are generally accorded not only respect, but at times, even finality because of the special knowledge and expertise gained by these agencies from handling matters falling under their specialized jurisdiction. It is also settled that this Court is not a trier of facts and does not normally embark in the evaluation of evidence adduced during trial. This rule, however, allows for exceptions. One of these exceptions covers instances when the findings of fact of the trial court, or of the quasi-judicial agencies concerned, are conflicting or contradictory with those of the CA. When there is a variance in the factual in findings it is incumbent upon the Court to re-examine the facts once again.14 (emphases and underscores ours, citations omitted) In other words, the existence of conflict in the factual findings and/or conclusions at any stage of the case, from the LA to the CA, makes it incumbent upon the Court to conduct a review of the records to determine which of them should be preferred as more conformable to evidentiary facts. This is what the ponencia expressly relied upon in undertaking an independent review. With this approach, the Court obviously considered the Rule 65 petition route to the CA only in light of the doctrine of hierarchy of courts and disregarded the final and unappealable character of the NLRC decision. If the CA’s certiorari jurisdiction has a limited scope and breadth, the Court, under a Rule 45 petition to review the CA decision, could not have a more expanded jurisdiction than what Rule 45 expressly provides, i.e., that the issue is limited to pure question of law. Without a definite guideline on the scope of this question of law before the Court, more often than not, the rule (that factual findings of labor tribunals are binding on the Court) became the exception (with the Court effectively becoming a trier of facts) and the exception became the rule. Notably, when one traces in jurisprudence the justification for the invoked exception, it will invariably point to cases where the Supreme Court departed from the rule -that the jurisdiction of the Court in cases brought to it from the CA is limited to the review of errors of law, as its findings of fact are deemed conclusive -when, among others, the findings of facts by the trial court and the appellate court are conflicting.15 The indiscriminate adoption of this remedial law principle into labor cases stands on shaky legal grounds. To begin with, certiorari is different from appeal. In an appellate proceeding, the original suit is continued on appeal. In a certiorari proceeding, the certiorari petition is an original and independent action that was not part of the trial that had resulted in the rendition of the judgment or order complained of. The higher court uses its original jurisdiction in accordance with its power of control and supervision over the proceedings of lower courts.16 Put more bluntly, when the Court undertakes a review of the factual findings made by the lower courts, it does so on the premise that the recourse to the CA is part of the appellate process authorized by law. Hence, when the trier of facts at the trial and appellate level reach divergent factual findings, even if the same pieces of evidence are before them, the Court is constrained to set aside the rule that only questions of law may be raised under a Rule 45 petition in order to arrive at a correct and just decision. The same situation does not apply in labor cases because statutory law does not provide for an appellate process, and thus, the mere existence of a conflict in the factual findings at any stage of the proceedings does not by its lf warrant the Court to undertake an independent review. c. The case of Montoya v. Transmed Manila Corporation In Montoya v. Transmed Manila Corporation,17 the Court had the occasion to lay down the proper interpretation of the question of law that the Court must resolve in a Rule 45 petition assailing a CA decision on a Rule 65 petition: In a Rule 45 review, we consider the correctness of the assailed CA decision, in contrast with the review for jurisdictional error that we undertake under Rule 65. Furthermore, Rule 45 limits us to the review of questions of law raised against the assailed CA decision. In ruling for legal correctness, we have to view the CA decision in the same context that the petition for certiorari it ruled upon was presented to it; we have to examine the CA decision from the prism of whether it correctly determined the presence or absence of grave abuse of discretion in the NLRC decision before it, not on the basis of whether the NLRC decision on the merits of the case was correct. In other words, we have to be keenly aware that the CA undertook a Rule 65 review, not a review on appeal, of the NLRC decision challenged before it. This is the approach that should be basic in a Rule 45 review of a CA ruling in a labor case. In question form, the question to ask is: Did the CA correctly determine whether the NLRC committed grave abuse of discretion in ruling on the case?18 (emphases and italics supplied; citations omitted) In concrete terms, the Court's review of a CA ruling is limited to: (i) ascertaining the correctness of the CA s decision in finding the presence or absence of grave abuse of discretion; and (ii) deciding any other jurisdictional error that attended the CA s interpretation or application of the law.19 In determining the presence or absence of grave abuse of discretion, the Court may examine, on the basis of the parties' presentations, whether the CA correctly determined that at the NLRC level, all the adduced pieces of evidence were considered; no evidence which should not have been considered was considered; and the evidence presented supports the NLRC findings. In this kind of limited review, the Court avoids reviewing a labor case by re-weighing the evidence or re-evaluating its sufficiency; the task of weighing or evaluation, as a rule, lies within the NLRC's jurisdiction as an administrative appellate body. If the NLRC ruling has basis in the evidence and the applicable law and jurisprudence, then no grave abuse of discretion exists and the CA should so declare and, accordingly, dismiss the petition. If grave abuse of discretion exists, then the CA must grant the petition and nullify the NLRC ruling, entering at the same time the ruling that is justified under the evidence and the governing law, rules and jurisprudence. In our Rule 45 review, this Court must deny the petition if it finds that the CA correctly acted.20 The point I am driving at is this: Given the absence of the right to appeal from the decision of the NLRC, the Court should observe the rule on the limitation of its own scope of review under the Rules and recognize the exception–i.e., the Court can undertake an independent factual review–only if there is a jurisdictional error. Unfortunately, this petition is demonstrably not the case to bend the rule and act based on the exception. In this case, the NLRC sustained the factual findings of the LA. Thus, these findings are generally binding on the CA, unless there was a showing that these findings were arrived at arbitrarily or in disregard of the evidence on record. On Moradas' certiorari petition, what the CA primarily re-examined is the conclusion reached by the labor tribunals from its factual findings (i.e., that Moradas committed the acts of pilferage, sabotage and self-burning). The CA reversed the labor tribunals' conclusion on the ground that there was "no logical and causal connection between the act of pilferage and the act of causing the flood in the engine room sufficient to make a conclusion that [Moradas] willfully burned himself."21 In this case, the ponencia saw the need "to review the records to determine which of [these factual findings and conclusions] should be preferred as more conformable to evidentiary facts"22 just because there is a conflict between the findings of the LA and of the NLRC. As previously discussed, this approach does not have strong legal mooring. While the Court really has to undertake a review of the records before it, for emphasis, its evaluation of the evidence on record is limited to ascertaining the correctness of the CA’s decision in finding the presence or absence of grave abuse of discretion. In the present case, in determining the presence or absence of grave abuse of discretion, the Court may examine, on the basis of the parties presentations, whether the CA correctly determined that, at the NLRC level, the petitioners, Inc Shipmanagement Inc., Captain Sigfredo Monterroto and/or Interorient Navigation Limited failed to present substantial evidence to prove their claim of a self-inflicted injury. Just because the LA and the NLRC, on one hand, and the CA, on the other hand, arrived at conflicting conclusions from the same pieces of evidence does not warrant the Court to unilaterally substitute its judgment based on its unbridled preference of the parties’ evidence. II. Reviewing the present CA decision Under Rule 45 a. The parties’ respective burdens In ruling that the CA legally erred in finding that the NLRC gravely abused its discretion, the ponencia correctly stated that the petitioners must prove by substantial evidence that Moradas’ injury was self-inflicted. According to the ponencia, the NLRC had cogent legal bases to conclude that the petitioners have proven by substantial evidence that Moradas’ injuries were self-inflicted, on the following grounds: 1. Moradas was responsible for the flooding and burning incidents; 2. Moradas claim that the burning was caused by the explosion in the incinerator is not supported by the evidence on record; and 3. The petitioners theory that Moradas bums were self-inflicted is bolstered by the existence of motive; thereby, a finding on his mental fitness may be dispensed with. I strongly disagree. While technical rules of procedure and evidence are not strictly observed before the NLRC,23 this does not mean that the rules on proving allegations are entirely dispensed with. The basic rule in evidence that each party must prove his affirmative allegation still applies. Insofar as Moradas is concerned, he must establish the following: 1. That the illness/injury was suffered during the term of employment; 2. That the seafarer report to the company-designated physician for a post-employment medical examination and evaluation within three (3) working days from the time of his return; 3. That any disability should be assessed by the company-designated physician on the basis of the Schedule of Disability Grades as provided under the PO EA-SEC.24 Except as to the third requisite (which shall be subject of a later discussion), the existence of the first two requisites is not seriously disputed: Moradas suffered his injuries during the term of his contract and he underwent a medical evaluation from the company-designated physician. At this juncture, I emphasize that Moradas is not required to prove that his injury was not due to his own wilful act. That burden falls on the petitioners as part of their defense,25 after invoking Section 20(D) of the POEA Standard Terms and Conditions Governing the Employment of Seafarers On-Board Ocean Going Vessels. No compensation shall be payable in respect of any injury, incapacity, disability or death of the seafarer resulting from his wilful or criminal act, provided however that the employer can prove that such injury, incapacity, disability or death is directly attributable to seafarer. This provision expressly requires the employer to prove that the injury is directly attributable to the seafarer. As in other administrative proceedings, substantial evidence will suffice for the petitioners to avoid liability under this provision. Substantial evidence is defined as such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion, even if other minds equally reasonable might conceivably opine otherwise.26 If the employer is able to establish by substantial evidence its defense, then that is the only time that the burden of evidence shifts to the seafarer to overcome the employer s case. Hence, the rule that factual findings of the LA and of the NLRC are binding on the courts applies only if these are supported by substantial evidence. If substantial evidence supports the factual findings, and the legal conclusions are in accord with prevailing law and jurisprudence, the courts would have no option but to dismiss the petition. b. The present case and the CA’s finding that the NLRC gravely abused its discretion ultimately for lack of substantial evidence For emphasis, the ponencia could not have reached its conclusion that the NLRC did not commit grave abuse of discretion if he correct standard of review was used at the outset. At this point, my disagreement is mainly with the unreasonableness–resulting from the unbridled power of review under the legal framework it adopted–of the ponencia’s holding that the CA legally erred in finding that the NLRC gravely abused its discretion. To recall, the CA found that the NLRC gravely abused its discretion in dismissing Moradas complaint on the basis of the following: We tried to link these two incidents alluded to by the NLRC over its findings and that of the labor arbiter that [Moradas] wilfully burned himself. But we found no logical and causal connection between the act of pilferage and the act of causing the flood in the engine room sufficient to make a conclusion that [Moradas] wilfully burned himself. Human nature and common experience dictate that no person in his right mind would wilfully burn himself. Only a person of unsound mind would resort to this horrible act. The moral and legal and presumption is that every person is presumed to be of sound mind. x x x While it may be true that [Moradas] did not smoke, it is not a gauge and a determining factor to adequately sustain a conclusion that he used the cigarette lighter in burning himself. He must be out of his mind in doing so. Even the presence of the lighter near the place where [Moradas] was burned was not enough to justify the conclusion that he intentionally burned himself. It is not incredible to find the lighter within the vicinity of the incident because it is probable that it fell during petitioner s struggle when he was caught by fire. It is significant to note that the location of the burns on the different parts of his body is inconsistent with the allegation of self-inflicted injury. On the contrary, the location of the burns conforms with [Moradas] assertion that certain chemicals splashed all over his body while he was disposing garbage in the incinerator room. The deep burn re was distributed over his left upper limb, right hand, left flank and both thighs as found by the Burns Unit of the Prince of Wales Hospital. Chief Officer Bejada claimed that when he checked the incinerator room, no sign of any explosion having occurred xxx. He also noticed that [Moradas] had patches of green paint on his arms and body and there was a green paint tin nearby. Between the claim of [Moradas] and the self-serving testimony of Chief Officer Bejada, we find [Moradas] to be more credible and convincing. The green paint on his arms and body is consistent with [Moradas] assertion that some chemicals splashed all over his body. Whereas, other than the Chief Officer Bejada s denial, no other evidence was presented to prove that there was no such explosion.27 After finding the lack of causal connection between the alleged acts of pilfering and sabotaging the ship, on one hand, and a self-inflicted injury, on the other hand, the CA then raised doubts as to Moradas complicity in the flooding of the engine room. Too, the presence of [Moradas] in the vicinity of the engine room is not sufficient to warrant a conclusion that he was the one who caused the flood in that room. It should be noted that the flood occurred because the valve of the port sea chest was open. The possibility that someone negligently left it open or intentionally opened it is not remote. Likewise, no evidence was presented to show that [Moradas] had no business to be within the premises or near the engine room or inside the engine room itself. His presence in the area is not sufficient to impute suspicion that the entire engine room was flooded with water because of him. On the contrary, [Moradas] had every right to be at the engine room.28 The question that invites scrutiny is whether the LA and the NLRC s conclusion (that Moradas acts of allegedly pilfering and causing the flood in the engine room prompted him to commit an act of sabotage which backfired into his own burning) is by itself an adequate conclusion of a reasonable mind. According to the ponencia, it is not contrary to human experience or logic for a spurned man to resort to tactics of desperation, however ludicrous or extreme those tactics may be, as in this case. I am completely at a loss on how the ponencia could have disagreed with the CA. In the natural order of things, man follows the instinct of self-preservation. The Court may take judicial notice of the fact that our seafarers endure the hardships of sea work not only for their own survival, but of the family or families they left behind. Hence, the conclusion that one not only injured himself but actually willfully set himself ablaze must stand out from the evidence presented. As the CA did, I do not see any logical or causal connection between the charges of stealing and the acts of sabotage, on one hand and the self-inflicted burning that Moradas allegedly committed, on the other hand. It is simply contrary to human nature and experience for Moradas to set himself ablaze because he was caught stealing the ship s supplies.29 b1. The lack of causal connection, aggravated by flimsy reliance on the alleged prior acts of pilfering and sabotaging the ship Unsurprisingly, the ponencia had to pin down Moradas first for his alleged acts of pilfering and causing the flooding in the engine room in order to create a makeshift anchorage for a finding of self-inflicted injury. Unfortunately, even its findings on these points are riddled with inconsistencies that the supposed causal connection the ponencia relied upon similarly suffers. We must not lose sight of the fact that the core issue before the labor tribunals is whether Moradas injury is self-inflicted. The issues as to whether Moradas stole the ship s properties and committed an act of sabotaging the ship are issues that are appropriately before the POEA Adjudication Office. The records show that sometime in February 2001 (or several weeks after Moradas, through counsel, sent a demand letter to the petitioners), the petitioners filed an administrative complaint against Moradas for dishonesty and grave misconduct. A finding by that body that indeed Moradas committed the acts imputed to him would have provided sufficient starting basis for the logic of the ponencia’s view that a causal connection existed. Unfortunately, the petitioners, who have the burden of proving that the injury was self-inflicted, submitted nothing on this point. While a reference to these incidents may be justified as circumstantial evidence to prove that Moradas’ injury was self-inflicted, I find it highly disturbing that the ponencia made a conclusive factual finding that "Moradas was caught pilfering the ship's supplies"30 and effectively implied that he committed the act of sabotaging the ship, notwithstanding Moradas’ categorical denial of these accusations, with an explanation of his own account of the facts–denials which the petitioners themselves never bothered to address in any of their pleadings. On the other hand, I cannot also understand why Moradas' categorical denials were disregarded but the similar negative statements of Bosun Antonio Gile and Chief Officer Antonio Bejada (that there was no fire in the incinerator) were believed to defeat Moradas' claim that the burning was caused by the explosion. If the Court would be allowed to make such a first–hand preference of evidence, by what standard of "sound judicial discretion" is it based? Also, according to the ponencia, Moradas failed to rebut Bosun Gile' s claim that he saw Moradas go to the paint room, soak his hands in a can full of thinner and proceed to the incinerator door where he was set ablaze. Contrary to the ponencia’s holding, Moradas even made a specific denial of Bosun Gile's claim in his Position Paper before the LA.31 The logical inconsistency created by the ponencia’s observation is even more alarming. As observed by Moradas himself, if he indeed soaked his hands in a can full of thinner, then his hands must have sustained the injuries, if not the most severe damage. I also find it amusing that Bosun Gile never asked or approached Moradas after seeing him soak his hands in a can full of thinner considering that, as the ponencia observed, that act is certainly ludicrous in itself. The ponencia turned a blind eye on these logical inconsistencies and simply held that Bosun Giles' claim conforms with that of Chief Officer Bejada. According to Chief Officer Bejada, he noticed that Moradas had patches of green paint on the arms and body of his overalls. He also stated that there was an open paint tin nearby that had the same green color as the marks on Moradas' overalls; that he ordered an ordinary seaman to extinguish the fire and close the incinerator doors just before Moradas got burned; and that he personally checked the incinerator and found that it contained cardboard cartons which were intact and unburnt [and that] [t]here was no sign of any explosion having occurred and the steel plates which made up the incinerator box were cool to the touch."32 The ponencia also explained that the corroborating affidavits of the other crew members and officers cannot be dismissed as self-serving in the absence of any showing that they were lying when they made their statements. The problem with this explanation is that the other crew members who executed their own affidavits have no personal knowledge about the burning itself. With Bosun Gile' s statement bearing logical inconsistency with Moradas' own injury, Chief Officer Bejada's statement would assume crucial importance in establishing the petitioners' case of a self-inflicted injury. Chief Officer Bejada's un-notarized written statement establishes the following facts: (i) that he saw Moradas while burning; and (ii) that there was no fire in the incinerator whose steel plates were cool to the touch. His bare statements, however, do not in any way prove that Moradas' injury was self inflicted. The ponencia merely deduced that Moradas either burned himself or wanted to sabotage the ship. Whichever of these deductions, however, have been earlier shown to be logically inconsistent and contrary to human nature. We must not fail to consider that substantiality of evidence depends not only on its quantitative, but also on its qualitative, aspects.33 (We have earlier discussed that the "corroborating affidavits" are immaterial insofar as Moradas' burning itself and that Bosun Giles' testimony is too incredible to be believed.) However, the substantiality of the petitioners' evidence–supposedly through the "circumstantial evidence," i.e. the smell of Moradas' overalls, the location of the thinner can and the lighter in relation to the place where Moradas was found burning," and the borrowing of Chief Officer Bejada's lighter -supporting Chief Officer Bejada's statements is itself negated by the clear evidence on record. As the CA correctly observed, "the green paint on [Moradas'] arms and body is consistent with [his] assertion that some chemicals splashed over all his body."34 Even the location of the thinner hardly adds up to the substantiality required to support Chief Officer Bejada' s statement since the incinerator room is not shown to be far from the paint room, where paint chemicals would obviously be located. While Moradas' act of borrowing a lighter from someone, even though he does not smoke, may have led the petitioners to conclude that he must have intended to commit a wrong, this line of thinking does not substantially establish a defense of self-inflicted injury. Note that while Chief Officer Bejada stated that he ordered an ordinary seaman to extinguish the fire in the incinerator, the petitioners did not even bother to present the crucial testimony of this supposed seaman to substantially corroborate Chief Officer Bejada’s claim. In these lights, I cannot also agree with the ponencia that a finding on Moradas' mental disposition is dispensable. The ponencia’s reasoning that a sane person who "harbors a grudge" and "is brooding over feelings of resentment" because he was caught stealing can be driven to set himself ablaze is tenuously speculative to say the least. Moradas’ mental disposition would have also established the substantial evidence requirement lacking in this case which the ponencia obviously, but unsuccessfully, tries to fill up. In short, there are a lot of crucial lapses and inconsistencies, logical and factual, in the petitioners' case that even brushing aside, for the sake of argument, the lack of causal connection (between the acts imputed against Moradas, on one hand, and his alleged self-inflicted injury, on the other hand), the substantial evidence can hardly be said to have been met. III. Moradas is entitled only to income benefit This is not say, however, that the CA’s conclusion on Moradas' entitlement to permanent and total disability is also legally correct. Moradas' inability to return to the same line of work does not by itself legally entitle him to permanent and total disability benefits. Entitlement to disability benefits by seamen on overseas work is a matter governed, not only by medical findings, but by law and by contract. The material statutory provisions are Articles 191 to 193, Chapter VI (Disability Benefits) of the Labor Code, in relation with Rule X of the Rules and Regulations Implementing Book IV of the Labor Code. By contract, (presently) Department Order No. 4, series of 2000 of the Department of Labor and Employment (the POEA Standard Employment Contract)35 and the parties CBA bind the seaman and his employer to each other.36 As to how these provisions operate, Vergara v. Hammonia Maritime Services, Inc. (Vergara)37 discussed: As these provisions operate, the seafarer, upon sign-off from his vessel, must report to the company-designated physician within three (3) days from arrival for diagnosis and treatment. or the duration of the treatment but in no case to exceed 120 days, the seaman is on temporary total disability as he is totally unable to work. He receives his basic wage during this period until he is declared fit to work or his temporary disability is acknowledged by the company to be permanent, either partially or totally, as his condition is defined under the POEA Standard Employment Contract and by applicable Philippine laws. If the 120 days initial period is exceeded and no such declaration is made because the seafarer requires further medical attention, then the temporary total disability period may be extended up to a maximum of 240 days, subject to the right of the employer to declare within this period that a permanent partial or total disability already exists. The seaman may of course also be declared fit to work at any time such declaration is justified by his medical condition. In the present case, Moradas was repatriated on October 20, 2000. The following day, he was admitted at the St. Luke s Medical Center under the care of the company-designated physician, Dr. Natalio G. Alegre. On November 22, 2000, Dr. Alegre found that Moradas burns were already healing and recommended his out-patient treatment. However, on August 1, 2001, Dr. Alegre reported that Moradas discontinued receiving medical treatment from him after April 7, 2001, the last time that Moradas went to him for medical treatment. On July 2001, Moradas filed his complaint with the LA. Clearly, from the time Moradas was repatriated until the last time he underwent treatment, only 169 days had elapsed. While the 120-day period under Section 20(B) of the POEA-Standard Employment Contract and Article 192 of the Labor Code has already been exceeded, per Section 2, Rule X of the Rules and Regulations Implementing Book IV of the Labor Code, since no fit-to-work declaration or declaration of disability is made because Dr. Alegre required Moradas to undergo further medical treatment, Moradas' temporary total disability period may be extended up to a maximum of 240 days or until June 17, 2001. Until this date, the company?designated physician can make a finding on a seafarer's fitness for further sea duties or degree of disability. However, for reasons known only to him, Moradas did not anymore submit himself for medical treatment after April 7, 2001. His failure to do so is fatal to his cause of action for total and permanent disability benefits. Moradas' case is very much similar to the seafarer in Magsaysay Maritime Corporation, et al v National Labor Relations Commission, etc., et al (Magsaysay).38 In Magsaysay, the seafarer discontinued his therapy sessions even if it appears "to be yielding positive results" and demanded the payment of total and permanent disability benefits soon after the expiration of the 120-day period. In denying his claim, the Court capitalized on the absence of an assessment from the company-designated physician, thus: First. There was no assessment of the extent of Capoy's disability by the company-designated physician, as required by Section 20(B)(3) of the POEA-SEC, which provides: Considering that Capov was still undergoing medical treatment, particularly through therapy sessions under the care of the company-designated specialists, Dr. Salvador (the lead company doctor) cannot be faulted for not issuing an assessment of Capoy's disabilitv or fitness for work at that time. In fact, as Dr. Salvador's progress report of March 17, 2006 showed that Capoy was expected to return on April 6, 2006 for re-evaluation by the orthopedic surgeon. This aspect of the POEA-SEC and Capoy's compliance totally escaped the labor tribunals and the CA. [emphasis and underscore ours] Applying Vergara, Magsaysay also squarely rejected the argument that a seafarer's disability for more than 120 days automatically entitles him to total and permanent disability, viz.: As matters stood on March 17, 2006, when Dr. Salvador issued her last progress report, 197 days from Capoy's repatriation on August 31, 2005, Capoy was legally under temporary total disability since the 240-day period under Section 2 Rule X of the Rules and Regulations implementing Book IV of the Labor Code had not yet lapsed. The LA, the NLRC and the CA, therefore, grossly misappreciated the facts and the applicable law when they ruled that because Capoy was unable to perform his work as a fitter for more than 120 days, he became entitled to permanent total disability benefits. The CA cited in support of its challenged ruling Dr. Salvador's failure to make a disability assessment or a fit-to-work declaration for Capoy after 197 days from his repatriation. This is a misappreciation of the underlying reason for the absence of Dr. Salvador's assessment. There was no assessment yet because Capoy was still undergoing treatment and evaluation by the company doctors, especially the orthopedic surgeon, within the 240-day maximum period provided under the above-cited rule. To reiterate, Capoy was supposed to see the orthopedic surgeon for re-evaluation, but he did not honor the appointment. Capoy, needless to say, prevented Dr. Salvador from determining his fitness or unfitness for sea duty when he did not return on April 6, 2006 for re-evaluation. [emphasis and underscore ours] As we did in Magsaysay the Court must necessarily reject Moradas claim for permanent total disability benefits. However, since it is undisputed that Moradas still needed medical treatment beyond the initial 120 days from his repatriation, he is entitled, under the rules,39 to the income benefit for temporary total disability during the extended period from the time he was repatriated on October 20, 2000 up to the time he last underwent medical treatment on April 7, 2001 or for 169 days. This is the monetary benefit that must be paid to him. In light of the foregoing, I vote to partially GR NT the petition. The October 31, 2006 decision and the June 25, 2007 resolution of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 84769 should be MODIFIED to reflect that respondent Alexander L. Moradas is entitled to the income benefit for temporary total disability during the extended period or for 169 days. 1 G.R. No. 183329, August 27, 2009, 597 SCRA 334, reiterated by the Court en bane in Holy Child Catholic School v. Hon. Patricia Sto. Tomas, etc., et al., G.R. No. 179146, July 23, 2013. 2 See San Miguel Corp. v. Sec. of Labor, 159-A Phil. 346, 350-351 (1975). Since the Labor Code took effect in November 1974, this has been the mode ofreview observed in labor cases. 3 Scott v. Hon. Inciong, 160-A Phil. 1107, 1112-1113 (1975). 4 Winston F. Garcia, etc. v. Court of Appeals, et al., G.R. No. 169005, January 28, 2013; VMC Rural Electric Service Cooperative, Inc. v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 153144, October 16 2006, 504 SCRA 336, 351; Beluso v. Commission on Elections, G.R. No. 180711, June 22, 2010, 621 SCRA 450, 457; Madrigal Transport, Inc. v. Lapanday Holdings Corporation, G.R. No. 156067, August 11 2004, 436 SCRA 123, 134, citing Pure Foods Corporation v. NLRC, G.R. No. 78591, March 21, 1989, 171 SCRA 415; and Leynes v. Former Tenth Division of the Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 154462, January 19 2011, 640 SCRA 25, 38-40. 5 Empire Insurance Company v. NLRC, G.R. No. 121879, August 14 1998, 294 SCRA 263, 269-270. 6 Tagle v. Equitable PC Bank, G.R. No. 172299, April 22, 2008, 552 SCRA 424, 440-441, citing Madrigal Transport, Inc. v. Lapanday Holdings Corporation, supra note 4. 7 Palomado v. National Labor Relations Commission, G.R. No. 96520, June 28, 1996, 257 SCRA 680, 689-690. 8 Secon Philippines, Ltd. v. NLRC, G.R. No. 97399, December 3, 1999, 319 SCRA 685, 688; and Leonis Navigation Co., Inc. v. Villamater, G.R. No. 179169, March 3, 2010, 614 SCRA 182, 192. 9 Career Philippines Shipmanagement, Inc. v. Serna, G.R. No. 172086, December 3, 2012, 686 SCRA 676, 684-685; and St. Mary s College (Tagum, Davao) v. NLRC, G.R. No. 76752, January 12 1990, 181 SCRA 62, 66. 10 Norkis Trading Corporation v. Buenavista, G.R. No. 182018, October 10, 2012, 683 SCRA 406, 423; Emcor Incorporated v. Sienes, G.R. No. 152101, September 8, 2009, 598 SCRA 617, 631-632; and Leonis Navigation Co. Inc. v. Villamater, supra note 8, at 192. 11 356 Phil. 811, 814-815 (1998). The Court said: Before proceeding further into the merits of the case at bar, the Court feels that it is now exigent and opportune to reexamine the functional validity and systemic practicability of the mode of judicial review it has long adopted and still follows with respect to decisions of the NLRC. The increasing number of labor disputes that find their way to this Court and the legislative changes introduced over the years into the provisions of Presidential Decree P.D.) No. 442 (The Labor Code of the Philippines and Batas Pambansa Big. B.P. No.) 129 (The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980) now stridently call for and warrant a reassessment of that procedural aspect. [underscore ours, italics supplied] 12 See Section 223 of the Labor Code. 13 The reasons why the Supreme Court does not routinely undertake the re-examination of the evidence presented by the contending parties during the trial of the case are: one, it is not really a trier of facts; two, since the Court is not a trier of facts, factual findings of the labor tribunals are generally accorded not only respect, but even finality, and are binding upon the Court when supported by substantial evidence; and three, the ruling that is brought in for judicial review is already a final and executory ruling rendered by labor tribunals which are deemed to have acquired expertise in matters within their respective jurisdiction. 14 General Milling Corporation v. Viajar, G.R. No. 181738, January 30, 2013, 689 SCRA 598, 606-607. 15 Reyes v. Court of Appeals Ninth Division), G.R. No. 110207, July 11, 1996, 258 SCRA 651, 659. 16 Madrigal Transport, Inc. v. Lapanday Holdings Corporation, supra note 4, at 134-135. 19 See Dissenting Opinion of Justice Arturo Brion in Abbott Laboratories Philippines et Al. v. Pearlie Ann F. Alcaraz G.R. No. 192571, July 23, 2013. 21 Rollo, p. 105. 22 Decision, p. 6. 23 LABOR CODE, Article 221; 2011 NLRC RULES OF PROCEDURE, Rule VII, Section 10. 24 See Section 20(B) 1996 of he POEA Standard Employment Contract. 25 Section 1 Rule 131 of the Rules of Court reads: Section 1. Burden of proof.–Burden of proof is the duty of a party to present evidence on the facts in issue necessary to establish his claim or defense by the amount of evidence required by law. 26 This qualification on the definition of substantial evidence was first made in 1971 in In the Matter of the Petition for Habeas Corpus of Lansang, et al., 149 Phil. 547, 593 (1971), holding as follows: Under the principle of separation of powers and the system of checks and balances, the judicial authority to review decisions of administrative bodies or agencies is much more limited, as regards findings of fact made in said decisions. Under the English law, the reviewing court determines only whether there is some evidentiary basis for the contested administrative finding; no quantitative examination of the supporting evidence is undertaken. The administrative finding can be interfered with only if there is no evidence whatsoever in support thereof, and said finding is, accordingly, arbitrary, capricious and obviously unauthorized. This view has been adopted by some American courts. It has, likewise, been adhered to in a number of Philippine cases. Other cases, in both jurisdictions, have applied the substantial evidence rule, which has been construed to mean more than a mere scintilla or relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion, even if other minds equally reasonable might conceivably opine otherwise. [italics supplied] 27 CA Decision, pp. 12-16. 29 There is no standard by which the weight of conflicting evidence can be ascertained. We have no test of the truth of human testimony except its conformity to our knowledge, observation, and experience (Frondarina v. Malazarte, G.R. No. 148423, December 6, 2006, 510 SCRA 223, 225, citing III V. Francisco, Criminal Evidence 146 [1947], in turn citing I Moore on Facts 35). 31 Rollo, pp. 196, 212-214. 33 Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd. Employees Association-Natu v. Insular Life Assurance Co. Ltd. No. L-25291, March 10, 1977, 76 SCRA 50, 53. 34 CA Decision, p. 16. 35 SECTION 20. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS B. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS FOR INWRY OR ILLNESS The liabilities of the employer when the seafarer suffers work-related injury or illness during the term of his contract are as follows: 1. The employer shall continue to pay the seafarer his wages during the time he is on board the vessel; 2. If the injury or illness requires medical and/or dental treatment in a foreign port, the employer shall be liable for the full cost of such medical, serious dental, surgical and hospital treatment as well as board and lodging until the seafarer is declared fit to work or to [be] repatriated. However, if after repatriation, the seafarer still requires medical attention arising from said injury or illness, he shall be so provided at cost to the employer until such time he is declared fit or the degree of his disability has been established by the company-designated physician. 3. Upon sign-off from the vessel for medical treatment, the seafarer is entitled to sickness allowance equivalent to his basic wage until he is declared fit to work or the degree of permanent disability has been assessed by the company-designated physician, but in no case shall this period exceed one hundred twenty (120) days. For this purpose, the seafarer shall submit himself to a. post-employment medical examination by a company-designated physician within three working days upon his return except when he is physically incapacitated to do so, in which case, a written notice to the agency within the same period is deemed as compliance. Failure of the seafarer to comply with the mandatory reporting requirement shall result in his forfeiture of the right to claim the above benefits. 4. Upon sign-off of the seafarer from the vessel for medical treatment, the employer shall bear the full cost of repatriation in the event that the seafarer is declared (1) fit for repatriation; or (2) fit to work but the employer is unable to find employment for the seafarer on board his former vessel or another vessel of the employer despite earnest efforts. 5. In case of permanent total or partial disability of the seafarer during the term of employment caused by either injury or illness, the seafarer shall be compensated in accordance with the schedule of benefits enumerated in Section 30 of his Contract. Computation of his benefits arising from an illness or disease shall be governed by the rates and the rules of compensation applicable at the time the illness or disease was contracted. 36 Vergara v. Hammonia Maritime Services, G.R. No. 172933, October 6, 2008. 37 G.R. No. 172933, October 6 2008, 567 SCRA 610, 628; emphases, underscore and italics ours. 38 G.R. No. 191903, June 19, 2013. 39 Rules and Regulations implementing Book IV of the Labor Code, Section 2, Rule X.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line347
__label__wiki	0.784777	0.784777	US Supreme Court Decisions On-Line> Volume 37 > CLARKE V. MATHEWSON, 37 U. S. 164 (1838) CLARKE V. MATHEWSON, 37 U. S. 164 (1838) Clarke v. Mathewson, 37 U.S. 12 Pet. 164 164 (1838) Clarke v. Mathewson 37 U.S. (12 Pet.) 164 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND A bill was filed by W., a citizen of Connecticut, against M. and others, citizens of Rhode Island, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island. An answer was put in to the bill and the cause was referred to a master for an account. Pending these proceedings, the complainant died, and administration of his effects was granted to C., a citizen of Rhode Island, who filed a bill of reviver in the circuit court. The laws of Rhode Island do not permit a person residing out of the state to take out administration of the effects of a deceased person within the state, and make such administration indispensable to the prosecution and defense of any suit in the state, in right of the estate of the deceased. Held that the bill of reviver was in no just sense an original suit, but was a mere continuation of the original suit. The parties to the original suit were citizens of different states, and the jurisdiction of the court completely attached to the controversy. Having so attached, it could not be divested by any subsequent proceedings, and the Circuit Court of Rhode Island has rightful authority to proceed to its final determination. If, after the proper commencement of a suit in the circuit court, the plaintiff removes into and becomes a citizen of the same state with the defendant, the jurisdiction of the circuit court over the cause is not affected by such change of domicile. The cases of Morgan's Heirs v. Morgan, 2 Wheat. 290, 4 Cond. 320; and Mollan v. Torrance, 9 Wheat. 537, 5 Cond. 666, and Dunn v. Clarke, 8 Pet. 1, cited. The death of a party pending a suit does not, where the cause of action survives, amount to a determination of the suit. It might, in suits at common law, upon the mere principles of that law have produced an abatement of the suit, which would have destroyed it. But in courts of equity, an abatement of the suit by the death of the party has always been held to have a very different effect, for such abatement amounts to a mere suspension, and not to a determination of the suit. It may again be put in motion by a bill of reviver, and the proceedings being revived, the court proceeds to its determination as an original bill. A bill of reviver is not the commencement of a new suit, but is the mere continuance of the old suit. It is upon ground somewhat analogous that the circuit courts are held to have jurisdiction in cases of cross-bills and injunction bills touching suits and judgments already in those courts. In the 31st section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress manifestly treats the reviver of a suit by or against the representatives of the deceased party as a matter of right, and as a mere continuance of the original suit, without any distinction as to the citizenship of the representative, whether he belongs to the same state where the cause is depending or to another state. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary Willard W. Wetmore, a citizen of Connecticut, filed a bill to June term, 1830, of the Circuit Court of the District of Rhode Island against Henry Mathewson, Cyrus Butler, Edward Carrington, and Samuel Wetmore, citizens of the State of Rhode Island, claiming an account of certain mercantile adventures in which he alleged himself to have been interested, together with the books, invoices, and list of passengers on board of the ship Superior, in which he asserted he was interested, and for a full settlement of all accounts between him and the defendants, and for such other and further relief in the premises as the court might think proper. The separate answer of Henry Mathewson to the complainant's bill was filed in September, 1830, the answers of the other defendants having been filed in June or July of the same year. A supplemental answer was afterwards filed by Henry Mathewson, and in November, 1831, after various pleadings in the case, counsel having been heard, the cause was referred to a master to take and state an account between the parties, &c. The parties appeared before the master and his assistants, and an examination of the accounts was had and proceeded in. In 1834, before a report was made by the master, Willard W. Wetmore died, and administration of his estate and effects was granted by and out of the Municipal Court of the City of Providence in the State of Rhode Island to John H. Clarke, a citizen of that state, who thereupon filed a bill in the circuit court to revive the suit and prayed that the same should stand in the same situation as at the decease of the original complainant, Willard W. Wetmore. On 7 July, 1834, Henry Matthewson appeared in the circuit court, denied the jurisdiction of the court, and moved to dismiss the suit on the ground that John H. Clarke was a citizen of the State of Rhode Island, as were also the defendants. At November term, 1835, the circuit court dismissed the bill for want of jurisdiction, and the complainant appealed to this Court. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary MR. JUSTICE STORY delivered the opinion of the Court. The original cause was a bill in equity brought by Willard W. Wetmore, deceased, a citizen of Connecticut, against the defendants, Henry Mathewson and others, all citizens of Rhode Island, for an account upon certain transactions set forth in the bill, and with a prayer for general relief. After the cause was at issue upon the hearing, it was, by agreement of the parties, ordered by the court to be referred to a master to take an account, and pending the proceedings before the master, the intestate died. Administration upon his estate was duly taken out by the present plaintiff, John H. Clarke, in the State of Rhode Island, the laws of Rhode Island requiring that no person not a resident of the state should take out letters of administration, and also making such administration indispensable to the prosecution and defense of any suit in the state in right of the estate of the intestate. Clarke filed a bill of revivor in the circuit court in June, 1834, in which he alleged himself to be a citizen of Rhode Island and administrator of Wetmore, against the defendants, who he alleged also to be citizens of the same state. So that it was apparent upon the face of the record that the bill of revivor was between citizens of the same state. Upon motion of the defendants at the November term of the circuit court, A.D. 1835, the court ordered the bill of revivor to be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and from this decretal order the present appeal has been taken by the appellant. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary The case, as it was decided in the circuit court, is reported in 2 Sumner 262, 268, and the ground of dismissal was that the bill of revivor was a suit between citizens of the same state. The Judiciary Act of 1789, ch. 20, sec. 11, confers original jurisdiction upon the circuit courts of all suits of a civil nature at common law and in equity where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of five hundred dollars and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the state where the suit is brought and a citizen of another state. If, therefore, the present had been an original bill brought between the present parties, it is clear that it could not have been maintained, for although the plaintiff could sue in autre droit, and as administrator of a citizen of another state, yet the suit would be deemed a controversy between him and the defendants, and not between his intestate and the defendants. This is the necessary result of the doctrine held by this Court in,Chappedelaine v. Decheneaux, 4 Cranch 306, and Childress v. Emory, 8 Wheat. 642. The circuit court treated the present case as falling within the same predicament. In this we are of opinion that the court erred. The bill of revivor was in no just sense an original suit, but was a mere continuation of the original suit. The parties to the original bill were citizens of different states, and the jurisdiction of the court completely attached to the controversy; having so attached, it could not be divested by any subsequent events, and the court had a rightful authority to proceed to a final determination of it. If, after the commencement of the suit, the original plaintiff had removed into and become a citizen of Rhode Island, the jurisdiction over the cause, would not have been divested by such change of domicile. So it was held by this Court in @ 15 U. S. 297, and Mollan v. Torrance, 9 Wheat. 537, and Dunn v. Clarke, 8 Pet. 1. The death of either party pending the suit does not, where the cause of action survives, amount to a determination of the suit. It might in suits at common law, upon the mere principles of that law, have produced an abatement of the suit, which would have destroyed it. But in courts of equity, an abatement of the suit, by the death of a party, has always been held to have a very different effect, for such abatement amounts to a mere suspension, and not to a determination of, the suit. It may again be put in motion by a bill of revivor, and the proceedings being revived, the cause proceeds to its chanroblesvirtualawlibrary regular determination as an original bill. The bill of revivor is not the commencement of a new suit, but is the mere continuation of the old suit. It is upon a ground somewhat analogous that the circuit courts are held to have jurisdiction in cases of cross-bills and injunction bills touching suits and judgments already in those courts, for such bills are treated not strictly as original bills, but as supplementary or dependent bills, and so properly within the reach of the court, although the defendant (who was plaintiff in the original suit) lives out of the jurisdiction. A very strong application of the doctrine is to be found in the case of Dunn v. Clarke, 8 Pet. 1, where an injunction bill was sustained although all the parties were citizens of the same state, the original judgment, under which the defendant in the injunction bill made title as the representative in the realty of the deceased, having been obtained by a citizen of another state in the same circuit court. But if any doubt could upon general principles be entertained upon this subject, we think it entirely removed by the 31st section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, ch. 20. That section provides that where, in any suit pending in the courts of the United States, either of the parties shall die before final judgment, the executor or administrator of such deceased party, who was plaintiff, petitioner or defendant, in case the cause of action doth by law survive, shall have full power to prosecute or defend any such suit or action until final judgment, and that the defendant shall be obliged to answer thereto accordingly, and the court before whom the cause is depending is empowered and directed to hear and determine the same and to render judgment for or against the executor or administrator, as the case may require. Other auxiliary provisions are made to carry this enactment into effect. Now in this section Congress manifestly treat the revivor of the suit by or against the representative of the deceased as a matter of right, and as a mere continuation of the original suit, without any distinction as to the citizenship of the representative, whether he belongs to the same state where the cause is depending or to another state. Of the competency of Congress to pass such an enactment under the Constitution no doubt is entertained. The present case falls directly within its purview, and we are therefore of opinion that the decree of the circuit court dismissing the bill of revivor ought to be Reversed and the cause remanded to the circuit court for further proceedings. I take this opportunity of adding that I fully concur in all the chanroblesvirtualawlibrary reasoning of this Court on this subject. After the decision had been made in the circuit court, upon more mature reflection I changed my original opinion, and upon my expressing it in the circuit court, and upon the suggestion of the judges of that court, the case has been brought here for a final determination. I hope that I shall always have the candor to acknowledge my errors in a public manner whenever I have become convinced of them. This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof it is now hereby ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this Court that the decree of the said circuit court dismissing the bill of revivor in the cause ought to be and the same is hereby reversed, and that this cause be and the same is hereby remanded to the said circuit court for further proceedings to be had therein in conformity to the opinion of this Court and according to law.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line348
__label__wiki	0.701974	0.701974	LGBTQ Connection Chicago Don't Say Gay? By Alissa, May 7, 2012 at 11:58 pm I think that, right now especially, there's a lot of contention about whether or not it's okay to say certain words in the LGBTQ community, and what context you should (or should not) say them in. You've most likely heard of the "Don't Say Gay" bills in Missouri and Tennessee. The Tennessee DSG bill has recently been axed, but the one in Missouri hasn't gone away yet. The basic, brilliant idea behind this bill is to prevent schools from teaching or discussing any version of sexuality besides the hetero kind. Wonderful, isn't it? The "Don't Say Gay" bill, coupled with an interesting debate that took place in the Facebook branch of the LGBTQ Connection has been my inspiration this week. There seems to be a divide over whether it's okay for members of the LGBTQ community to say "gay," as in "what's the gayest thing you did today/this week?" The question has been posed in our group, in a playful, lighthearted manner more than once. Responses range from snake wrangling to the kind of music being listened to. Recently, it was suggested that to ask such a question is insulting and demeaning. Is it? So far, there are two pretty clear points of view on the issue. The first is that some see it as insulting and offensive. The other POV is that by saying "gay" in a safe space, in a lighthearted manner, we are taking the negative, hateful, discriminatory power away from derogative uses of the word "gay" and other similar words. What do you think? Where do you stand on this issue? Now, more than ever, this is a serious and critical time to be thinking about matters such as this. The less we talk, and the more we turn to apathy or ambivalence, the more likely we are to watch what we have worked for as a community and as a minority slip just out of our reach. Tags: don't say gay, Facebook, gay, lesbian, LGBTQ, women Jimmy Humphries said May 8, 2012 at 12:00 am I think it depends on how one is using the term "gay". I think if your intent is to express something unpleasant it is offensive. For instance I think saying "I had to work today, so gay" is wrong. I think saying "The music I listen to is super gay" isn't. In the first instance you are expressing something undesired and you could change out gay for stupid and get the same meaning across. In the second instance you are using it as a descriptive phrase because the music you listen to is something a lot of gay people enjoy, so its "gay". I do not believe using the term "gay" to express a negative opinion is reclaiming anything and does more harm than good. But to use it light heartedly to describe something that is bright and colorful and happy? Well the original meaning IS happy isn't it? Mallory Box said May 9, 2012 at 12:00 am In reply to Jimmy Humphries: Richard Davis said May 8, 2012 at 12:00 am Why not just boot the word "gay" all together? African Americans lost "black" after many years. Now black is just a color again. If the LGBTQ Community adopted another, more modern moniker, then "gay" could go back to simply meaning "light-hearted". "Gay" does not really express the varying types of relationships anyway. In Hetro-Land gay is usually thought of as meaning same sex coupling, but even your acronym goes beyond that. Even more troubling, when "gay" is mentioned to those of a certain age, they think Fred Flintstone theme. You don't want to be cross-thought with Fred and Barney and Wilma and Betty and Dino, do you?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line350
__label__cc	0.549204	0.450796	Innis College Innis College Library Other Cinema Screenwriter in Residence CSI Alumni reveal how they got from here to there On February 14, Cinema Studies Institute alumni spoke to a packed room of students about their careers in the film industry and how their CSI degrees helped get them there. Radheyan Simonpillai, Film and Culture Critic for Now Magazine, "Your Morning" on CTV, and CBC Radio, was a member of the first CSI Master of Arts cohort in 2007. Erin Ray, Associate and Creative Producer at Z Films, graduated as a Cinema Studies Specialist in 2017. Magali Simard, Film Sector Development Officer for the City of Toronto, was the former senior manager of theatrical programming at TIFF, and graduated as a Cinema Studies Specialist in 2006. Prof. James Cahill moderated the panel of "hotshots and go-getters". Edited and condensed excerpts from the panel discussion follow. (l to r) Prof. James Cahill, Rad Simonpillai, Erin Ray and Magali Simard Prof. James Cahill: Tell us a little about what your day at work looks like. Radheyan Simonpillai: I have no typical day. The most typical day is watching a movie in the morning, go home and write about that or some other assignment, probably another movie to see in the evening, and booking different interviews and stories. Come Friday, which is 'TV Day', I do movie reviews with Ben Mulroney on "Your Morning", come home to do some more writing; 12 hours later, another bit on CTV News. Maybe I'll have some radio in between the day. There's no one typical day. Erin Ray: There's no typical day with my job either. Z Films is not actually a company; it's a single director. What's amazing about my job is that I get to start my day with having a coffee with my director. We take that time to plan out the week, look at the schedule of tasks and decipher what is a priority, who do we need to reach out to, to make sure everything is getting done on time. Our documentary is about the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and how it affected four women's lives. There are so many important people you're dealing with to make a film that is very politically charged, so you have to be very cautious in terms of relationships and the wording in contracts. I handle every detail from the budget to talking with the International Olympic Committee, which is really intense and scary, to talking with our cinematographer. Magali Simard: Film development for a jurisdiction like Toronto means attracting production to the city. Toronto is immensely popular as a film location. Half of the $2 billion investment in Toronto is foreign, typically American. How do we make that even bigger? One of the issues that Toronto has is that we are full; "Star Trek: Discovery", Shazam!, "The Handmaid's Tale" and other major productions have taken up so much space. So, when we go to LA in April with the Mayor, I am pitching half a milliion square feet of studio space that will be built in the next three years. Parallel to that, I'm working with the unions to see how many more workers will be needed in those spaces. The flip side of that is to keep Toronto happy. There's a lot of work to be done with elected officials on messaging to the public to show the benefits of the film industry and instill a sense of pride that The Shape of Water was made here. I would say you are the middle man for city council, the film industry, and residents. Cinema Studies students in the audience. JC: If we can go back in time to when you were just finishing school, how did you make the transition to getting a first job and angle it into your current profession? ER: I knew that I loved film, and that it's an extremely hard industry to get into. In my first year of university, I started working for a digital production agency for free, for six months. I wanted to learn and see what was out there. From there, I continued on in the Cinema Studies Specialist degree, and I had the opportunity to work with the amazing Prof. Kass Banning as her assistant. That really gave me an opportunity to look deeper into what the school can offer, such as an event like this, and the importance of being a part of that community. In my third year of university, I was offered a job as a production coordinator at Jam3. I brought the time management and writing skills to the job. I have been fortunate enough to keep working since graduating in my fifth year. Don't be scared to work during university. MS: I graduated in 2006, and I was extremely lucky: two weeks later, I got an internship at TIFF. I have to admit, I did not really have a plan. I would not advise anyone to do what I did. JC: What was your internship at TIFF? MS: I rolled posters. We shipped film posters across the country for screenings on the film circuit. I did other stuff, but that's how I remember it. After the two months internship, I got a paid contract that ended up leading to my career. One thing I wish I did better in the year and a half before graduating was to start going to industry events, not just academia events. Look into the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Women in Film & Television, Directors Guild of Canada, TIFF Industry, Hot Docs Industry, and Canadian Media Producers Association. They have very cheap memberships, and suddenly, you're on these invite lists for a lot events. You get involved with a different group, and you see how much larger the industry is, and how many more options and types of jobs there are. I was lucky to get what I got very fast after graduation, but networking is the part that I think you can start with. RS: When I was doing my undergrad, I was also the film critic for The Varsity for two or three years for free. By being The Varsity's film critic, the studios were giving me interviews with celebrities so it was a lot of exposure. While I was doing the MA program, the film critic for Now Magazine, John Harkness died, and there was an opening. I became a contributing film critic after sending them my list of Top Ten Films of 2007. I was also writing for AskMen.com when CBC came along, and then CTV. I only got my staff position at Now Magazine last Fall. Last year, I was peddling fish off the back of a truck while I was being a film critic on TV. It's really hard to be a film critic. There's not a lot of openings and a lot of people want you to write for free, forever. I can't just say I'm a film critic; I'm also a culture writer. I can't just say I review movies, I also write more industry related and bigger picture articles. MS: It's an industry that has morphed a lot through the years. Certain jobs that people could make a career out of have been reduced to contract work. I don't envy the lifestyle of people who go from festival to festival, catching up to six contracts a year. Becoming a full-time film critic or film programmer might still happen, but there are just not a lot of opportunities. RS: The idea of a full-time film critic will not exist after me. The Toronto Film Critics Association has 40 members; five of them are making a living as a film critic. When they retire, those newspapers are not going to hire a full-time film critic. They're going to piece off different articles to different people. As a film critic, I am on TV, I am doing this event, I'm going to host a film screening at TIFF after this - I'm doing a bunch of different things. The job of the film critic is not going to exist the way we have known it to exist, and it's up to you guys to figure out how it will exist. JC: What are some of the things you learned in class that you were able to translate into your work? MS: U of T and Cinema Studies totally changed my life. English is my second language and writing essays was tougher than I expected. Being able to absorb a lot of information and push it out succinctly and cohesively became the most important asset to me. As a programmer at TIFF, I had to explain in the fewest amount of paragraphs why an audience should pay money for this film. Now in my current job, I am constantly briefing people. A small example is explaining why we are stopping the traffic at Yonge and Dundas during rush hour. It is because this production is that important to the city. On a larger scale, why should we rezone a part of the city for film employment and not a condo? All this comes from being good at analysis, and that is 100% what the University did for me. RS: My film education is part of my everyday life. I can't write anything about film without the confidence that I got from everything I learned here. Starting with the undergrad program, in terms of the history of film and all the styles, that is what gave me the language to be able to write about movies.The MA program was a life changing experience for me. The type of seminars we had, the conversations that we had, that really pushed my ability to think critically and to take the argument further. Those are the skills that I apply when I'm looking at the industry, and writing articles outside of my field. Everything I learned here is something I use on a day-to-day basis. ER: Completely agree. Writing an email to a client and knowing that your grammar is perfect, the sentences are concise, getting your point across in a clear way is so crucial. CIN301Y1 - Film Cultures II can be really intense and film theory is ridiculous, but it was one of the most amazing things about this degree. I value Film Cultures II so much as a creative producer. I still have all my readings from CIN301Y1, because I think it is such an important way to understand how viewers watch film. Another thing is learning about different nations. In Canada, we do so many co-productions. Understanding what other countries are doing, and how their film system works, is so crucial. Currently, we're in development with a filmmaker from Tehran and she is not allowed to make the film in Iran, because of the subject matter. She is getting funding from Dutch and Canadian producers. JC: Knowing now what you know, any opportunities you wish you had taken or things you wish you had learned in university? RS: The setback that I had was that I had no exposure to journalism, website building, or speaking publicly. Those are the things I wish I had learned earlier: the practical stuff. I said film criticism is not going to be the way it existed in the past; look at the way it is existing now: those people who are cutting YouTube videos, deep diving on films and animating it for regular audiences to understand - that could be the future. Have the practical skills that you'll need when you apply for a job. ER: In my last year, I was so excited about having a job in the industry that I didn't spend enough time enjoying school. I'm ready to come back and do my Masters just because I want to be here. I really wish I spent more time in my last year here. MS: A film program does not owe it to you to show you all the jobs that exist. It is your job to think, "Why am I accumulating this knowledge of film history and film analysis? In what ways will I utilize this?" Academia or film production or arts management will all be served by the fact that you're here. It's good to start thinking about what those avenues might be, and to meet people in those fields. I guess you've done the right thing by coming to this event on a day like today. back to article index Please send comments or enquiries to: cinema.studies@utoronto.ca © University of Toronto. All rights reserved.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line353
__label__cc	0.563784	0.436216	Your Comments: Slavery New May 4 From Matt Bell: Just a reminder it's been about a week since I sent this. You told me to remind you. God in the Bible permits the owning of slaves many times and gives instructions for purchasing, as seen below. Yes God freed the Hebrews from slavery, but that was only because they were God's Chosen people. They are allowed to own slaves by God. How can God allow this immoral and reprehensible act? Is that justification for slavery today? If not why not, has the morality changed? Is this a case where God gives immoral instructions? Slavery did not end with Christianity, it ended with the Industrial revolution. Check the dates slavery ended for different European countries and you will find that they correspond to during the industrialization of that country. God is not a dictator, Matt. He doesn't tell the world what to do. Instead, He offers His wise guidelines to those who will listen and His loving presence to believers who are suffering (through slavery, torture, persecution, illness or any other agonizing circumstance) within the world system. While He may not intervene in the political or cultural circumstance, He does promise hope, peace and comfort to those who will trust Him in every difficult circumstance. In other words, He doesn't promise to make this earthly world a better place. But He does promise to gently lead those who will follow Him. And -- by His indwelling Spirit -- He also promises to enable His people to live peacefully in the midst of turmoil. He also guides them in ways they might influence others and spread His kindness and compassion. That's what happened when -- during the 18th century and 19th century -- Christian leaders such as William Wilberforce were driven by their conscience and conviction to fight for the abolition of slavery. The end of slavery around the world came through concerned Christians who prayerfully fought against this awful practice. Today, slavery is returning in nations that embrace paganism -- or militant monotheism. See Charts: Five Types of Religious Expressions. Thank you for sending these Scriptures, Matt. See my comments below. Exodus 21:1-4 "Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself." 21:5-6 "And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever." "And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her." These Scriptures sound strange in the context of today's emphasis on personal rights and freedom. But we need to remember that God allowed humans to choose their own ways. Back when He first called Abraham to start a nation, this faithful patriarch of Israel left a pagan culture and followed God's guidance to a foreign land. By that time, slavery had become a custom in the nations all around the Middle East. Life was often short and fragile in those nations. Wars, famines, wild animals and disease would ravage the population and cause huge migrations of people. Captives in the various wars would often be enslaved. Debtors who couldn't pay might become slaves to the borrower. Poor parents who couldn't feed all their children might sell sons and daughters as slaves to someone who could provide food and shelter for them. The conditions of any particular slave depended on the kindness of the owner. They ranged from unthinkable cruelty to a caring relationships in which the slave was treated almost as a member of the family. This might seem strange, but the rules for the "bondslave" (see verses 5-6 above) suggests that caring inclusiveness was not uncommon. In such a situation, a slave who would -- according to God's law -- have been set free after a prescribed period of servitude could choose to stay with his master rather than leave as a free man. That slave had become part of the family and had no desire to leave those who cared and provided for him as he served them. But back to Israel. In Old Testament, God would bless His people as long as they obeyed His laws and trusted Him. When, in their prosperity, they ignored God and turned to other gods, He withdrew His protection and allowed neighboring enemies to conquer and enslave His precious people. The 400 years of slavery in Egypt was an exception. As the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob multiplied, they needed protection and isolation from the idolatry and corruption of ancient Canaan. By the time God set them free and brought them into the promised land, their number had increased from less than 100 to at least 2 million. The years of hardship had taught them to trust God, to count on His covenant promises, and to shun all other religious systems. In other words, God used the suffering of slavery to prepare the people to follow Him into the promised land. He promises to do the same, no matter what our struggle. The time of slavery in America was horrible, but the consequent pain and brokenness of many gave birth to a vibrant and enduring faith, which is memorialized in precious old gospel songs. That's no excuse for slavery, but it does show that no matter how hard our lives, God gives strength and peace those who put their faith in Him and set their hearts on eternity with Him. See My High Tower: Seeing the world from His perspective In the end, He used concerned Christians in England and the United States to free America's slaves -- and then to end slavery around the world. Now with as Biblical Christianity wanes and faces all kinds of assaults and distortions, slavery is returning to some parts of the world, especially in animist and Muslim regions of Africa. It is simply one more abhorrent expression of human nature untamed by the kindness of God and power of His Holy Spirit. While there was little need for slaves in primitive hunter-gatherer cultures, the rest of the world -- irregardless of race or education -- participated in this inhumane practice. Here are a few links that show the revival of slavery: Forcing Christians to fight for Allah: "The Sudan government's current practice of forcing Christian boys into slavery and conversion to Islam may appear to be a new phenomenon, but such religious persecution by ruling Muslims actually had its genesis many centuries ago with the creation of the mysterious Janissaries." Sex-Trafficking Trade Likened to Slavery: "In a previous century, Africans labored in the tobacco fields and slaves were bred for strength and endurance. The fields have been replaced by brothels and sex shops, and the new trade is in young women and children.... As were the African slaves, these young women are tricked, deceived, lured, induced, kidnapped, and coerced into bondage." "...it is difficult to document this type of crime because of corruption among authorities in many nations, as well as the reluctance of victims to come forth because of trauma and shame." Eze 22:29-31 Four Faces of Islam: 1990-2001: Over two million Christians in the Sudan have been killed and many more sold into slavery. [8] NoCastro.com (shows a nation that "owns" its children and trains them for service to the state): "Why is there so much contrast between the opinion of the American people and that of Cuban exiles? The difference lies in the lack of education with respect to Cuba. The majority of the American people do not know of the atrocities committed by the communist state in Cuba during its 41-year dictatorship. "No father or mother has the right to submit his child to a state of slavery; it is inhumane and is punishable in any part of the civilized world. One who is knowledgeable of the Cuban theme knows that in Cuba children are property of the state and not to their parents -- they are the prime material for the communist state. The lives of children are regulated since their birth and their parents are obligated to foster the communist doctrine in their minds. Even at that, Elian’s family has expressed that they will follow the orders of a family court if it decided that the father has the right and capacity to raise his child." In our post-Christian culture - and with the spreading hatred for Biblical truth -- we see a rapid return of the human cruelties and depravity that was evidenced by Hitler and others in bondage to occult forces. But Jesus Christ offers freedom through the cross. See What it means to be a Christian Home \| Today's News \| Topical index of comments \|	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line356
__label__wiki	0.8217	0.8217	Tag deezer Listen On Deezer By MaudieMcCrary inAttorney Tag deezer, listen Unwritten Legislation have gone beneath a significant line-up change after a struggle occurred between band members led to Guitarist Steve Kid” Morris and bassist Pat PK” Kim leaving the band. It was also incredible as the primary time he has intercourse with a man it’s with Legislation, it is beautiful, special and he is falling in love. I performed them Cailin which I stated ‘I’d written it for my daughter and it is a pop music and it isn’t match for Unwritten Legislation’ and so they stated ‘that music is occurring the report’,” Russo reflects 20 years later. Unwritten Legislation’s 2005 album This is to the Mourning debuted at #51 on Billboard’s Prime 200 chart, the band’s highest debut thus far. It’s an acoustic file, and it’s really a double EP. There may be one report which is just me and a guitar, and doing acoustic songs. By 2014, founding drummer Wade Youman had mended fences with Russo and returned to the band (having spent a couple of years with Demasiado), and the duo began recording an acoustic album with Russo’s brother Johnny Grill on bass and guitarist Chris Lewis (Fenix TX, Spell Toronto). It contains 17 of the band’s hottest songs, most of which have been re-recorded by the present lineup, as well as 2 new songs including lead single “Shoulda Identified Better.” Interscope additionally launched a “better of” compilation entitled twentieth Century Masters: The Millennium Assortment which includes songs from the albums Unwritten Regulation and Elva.… Read More	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line357
__label__cc	0.605884	0.394116	Great Falls, VA Real Estate Although primarily a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., one major attraction is Great Falls Park which overlooks the Great Falls of the Potomac River, for which the community and the park are named. George Washington was involved with building a canal around the falls on the southwest, or Virginia, side, called the Patowmak Canal, which never became commercially viable. Remnants of the canal and of a village around the canal named Matildaville are still visible in the park. The Great Falls and Old Dominion Railroad extended along Old Dominion Drive to Great Falls Park in 1906. That right of way is now Old Dominion Drive, which runs from Arlington County all the way into the park. Through most of its history, Great Falls has been a farming community. The original landowners (after King Charles II) were the Fairfax cousins - Thomas, Lord of Fairfax and his cousin, William Fairfax. The two men owned over 18,000 acres in Fairfax County, including what is now Great Falls. Most of the landowners in the area can trace their property rights back to one of the Fairfax men. Present day homesteads in Great Falls tend to spread out over an acre or more of land, two to five acres is the norm. There are no condominiums or townhouses in Great Falls. Re-Sale and new homes range in price from $500,000 to over $3.5 Million. If horseback riding is your passion, this is the place to live. There are riding trails throughout the area, including Turner Farm Equestrian Park, which is run by Fairfax County Parks Authority. The central shopping district is called the Village Green. Stores in the Village Green include the Jinny Beyer Quilt Studio, owned and operated by the world renowned quilter, Jinny Beyer. The Village Green hosts community celebrations around Easter (Spring Festival, including an Egg Hunt), Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (Tree Lighting), as well as concerts "On the Green" in the summer. There are many fine restaurants in Great Falls, including L'Auberge Chez Francois, which was rated one of Open Table Diners' 2010 Top 50 restaurants in the US. Great Falls, National Park is naturally the main outdoor venue in Great Falls. There is always something to do at the park. Picnickers, walkers, nature lovers and tourists flock to the park all year long. Rock climbers and explorers/historians can also find plenty to do in this multi-use park. The Olympic Kayak team is known to practice in the swirling waters below the falls. The Park Service and the Kayakers recently negotiated an agreement allowing the most experienced of their ranks the opportunity to “run” the class V+ rapids at the falls. Occasionally, visitors can thrill to the sight of a kayaker and boat deliberately plunging head first over the falls. The open spaces and tranquil lifestyle of Great Falls come with a catch. Getting in and out of the area can be time consuming depending on the time of day and direction of your commute. There are no nearby major roads, except Rt. 7, Leesburg Pike. And Route 7 merely takes you to the border of Great Falls. You'll need to turn off onto smaller two lane roads to find your way home. Primary access to Great Falls is by Rt. 193 and / or Old Dominion Drive. Both roads are two lane strips cutting through beautiful rolling countryside. If you value open spaces and want a large piece of land to call home, the drive will be worth your effort. Ronald Reagan National Airport: < 25 miles Washington-Dulles International Airport: < 14 miles Baltimore-Washington International Airport: < 50 miles View all Great Falls Listings SEARCH FOR LISTINGS IN GREAT FALLS 817 CONSTELLATION DRIVE GREAT FALLS, VA 22066 9108 MARIA AVENUE 10110 SANDERS COURT 608 INNSBRUCK AVENUE 1000 WILHELM DRIVE 928 HOLLY BLOSSOM COURT 10301 HICKORY CREEK COURT	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line361
__label__wiki	0.702578	0.702578	» Denomination records stellar giving, but Core Ministries giving suffers Denomination records stellar giving, but Core Ministries giving suffers A graph displays details of the funding of the Nigeria Crisis Response, at the Mission and Ministry Board's Fall 2015 meeting. The Church of the Brethren is recording exceptionally generous giving to its denominational ministries this year, the Mission and Ministry Board learned at its Fall meeting. The financial reporting was given by treasurer Brian Bultman and assistant treasurer Ed Woolf. For a full report from the meeting, and a report of the 2016 budget decision, see the story below. This year, total giving to denominational ministries as of the end of August amounts to $3,959,533--a 17.9 percent increase from 2014. Other high points for 2015 include an overall 50 percent increase over 2014 in congregational giving to denominational ministries, in terms of dollars--which includes a 584 percent increase in congregational giving to the Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF). The number of congregations and individuals who are donating also has increased. This generosity was received with gratitude and appreciation. “We are receiving generous gifts from our donors,” said Woolf. The reporting to the board, however, revealed more than a half million dollar shortfall in the Core Ministries year-to-date budget. Generosity focuses on Nigeria disaster The EDF, which includes the Nigeria Crisis Fund that financially supports the Nigeria Crisis Response, has received a sharp increase in giving from both congregations and individuals. This year, as of the end of August, the EDF has received $1,437,431 in giving from congregations, $262,118 in giving from individuals, and $164,936 from disaster auctions. In 2015, total giving to the EDF adds up to $1,864,485--a 230 percent increase over 2014. Donations to the Nigeria Crisis Fund since it was started in October 2014 total $3,604,209, as of early October 2015. That total includes the $1.5 million that the Mission and Ministry Board contributed as “seed money” for the new fund: $1 million from denominational reserves, and a $500,000 transfer from existing monies in the EDF. The giving to the EDF and the Nigeria Crisis Fund is making it possible for the Church of the Brethren to partner with Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) in a ground-breaking disaster relief effort responding to the violence that has affected hundreds of thousands of Nigerians. The Nigeria Crisis Response builds on decades of Church of the Brethren mission in Nigeria, and the hundreds of Nigerian leaders and American Brethren mission workers who developed the Nigeria mission. It is considered the Church of the Brethren’s largest disaster relief effort, and perhaps the largest ever undertaken in the worldwide Brethren movement. The crisis work in Nigeria is expected to be needed for some years to come. Core Ministries budget suffers At the same time, however, the Core Ministries budget of the denomination is experiencing a shortfall of hundreds of thousands of dollars. As of the end of September, the 2015 Core Ministries budget has a net deficit of $513,516. This is in addition to last year’s $528,000 deficit in the Core Ministries budget. There are several reasons for the shortfall, but primarily it relates to lagging giving. “The Core Ministries budget depends on congregational giving, that’s the bottom line,” Woolf told the board. As of September, total giving to Core Ministries is behind by $251,000 from what has been budgeted for 2015. This represents a shortfall of $183,000 in giving from congregations, and a shortfall of $68,000 in giving from individuals. Asked by a board member how the programs of the Core Ministries can continue to operate with such deficits, Woolf explained that the net asset balance of the denomination continues to remain at a healthy level, as does the organization’s cash flow. As of the end of August, the cash balance of the Church of the Brethren registered a total $1,425,000. Finance staff (from left) Ed Woolf, assistant treasurer, and Brian Bultman, treasurer, report to the Mission and Ministry Board. Factors in the Core Ministries shortfall A number of factors contribute to the budget shortfall in Core Ministries. In addition to a seeming shift being made by donors to emphasize giving to disaster relief over Core Ministries, other factors include less-than-expected investment income because of the recent economic downturn, and unexpected expenses in some departments, such as extra expenses related to the transition in the General Secretary’s office. Bultman explained that many of these departmental budgets will balance out as the year progresses, and that the Fall finance report reflects fluctuations normal for this time of the year. Also, an up tick in giving to the Core Ministries usually occurs toward the end of the year, when congregations and individuals make Christmas-time gifts and fulfill their annual allocations to the work of the wider church. A shift of giving from Core Ministries to the EDF is normal in years when there is a major disaster. This happened in 2010, in response to the Haiti earthquake, and in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina. The shift in giving patterns from 2014-15 in response to the Nigeria crisis is the largest recorded in some time, and is larger than either the response to the Haiti earthquake or to Hurricane Katrina. Out of overall dollars given in 2015, as of the end of August, 47 percent has gone to disaster relief and only 37 percent to the Core Ministries. In terms of congregational giving, out of the dollars congregations have given to Church of the Brethren ministries as of the end of August, 52 percent of congregational giving has been to the EDF, and 40 percent to Core Ministries. In terms of giving from individuals, the comparable numbers are 30 percent to the EDF, and 27 percent to Core Ministries. To put this year’s shift in giving into perspective, in the year Hurricane Katrina hit 49 percent of total giving to the Church of the Brethren was to the Core Ministries, with 47 percent to the EDF. What are the Core Ministries? The Core Ministries of the denomination are so named because they represent ministry that is central to the nature of the church: -- Congregational Life Ministries encompasses age-related ministries such as the Youth and Young Adult Ministry and Older Adult Ministry, among others, and also includes Intercultural Ministry, the Vital Ministry Journey, and other work of the Congregational Life staff. -- Global Mission and Service encompasses Brethren Volunteer Service and the Workcamp Ministry, carries out the international mission of the Church of the Brethren, ranging from South Sudan to Vietnam to Haiti and elsewhere, and oversees the Office of Public Witness. (Global Mission and Service also oversees several “self funded” ministries that are not in the Core Ministries budget, including Brethren Disaster Ministries, Children’s Disaster Services, Material Resources, Global Food Crisis Fund, and Emerging Global Mission Fund.) -- The Office of Ministry provides services to districts and congregations in areas such as pastoral placement and ministerial training, helps to oversee the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership in partnership with Bethany Theological Seminary, and provides oversight of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives. -- The General Secretary’s office provides oversight of the whole work of the denomination, provides staff support to the Mission and Ministry Board, and carries out the ecumenical relationships maintained by the General Secretary. -- Additional behind-the-scenes work necessary to the denominational organization also are a part of the Core Ministries, including finance, communications, website and e-mail services, donor relations, information technology, human resources, Zigler Hospitality Center, and maintenance of buildings and grounds. The following Church of the Brethren ministries are not included in the Core Ministries budget and are financed in other ways: -- Brethren Disaster Ministries and Children’s Disaster Services are funded by donations to the Emergency Disaster Fund. -- Brethren Press is funded through the sale of books, curriculum, and other resources. -- The Conference Office, which represents the staffing and financial undergirding of Annual Conference, receives funding from registration fees and donations. -- Material Resources is funded by fees paid by ecumenical and humanitarian organizations that use its services to warehouse and ship relief goods. -- Messenger magazine is funded by subscriptions, advertising, and donations. -- Management of the Global Food Crisis Fund and the Emerging Global Mission Fund are financed through donations to the respective fund.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line362
__label__wiki	0.754459	0.754459	Album Review: Christopher Owens - "Lysandre" On July 2 of last year, a heavy blow was delivered to my music-loving heart: one of my favorite artists of the last 5 years was disbanding... Girls was to be no more. Christopher Owens, the lead member of the San Francisco-based duo announced via Twitter that he was stepping away from the group, and continuing onwards with his musical career, vowing never to play in a band again. This was somewhat of a shock, and to be honest, I was probably a little more distraught than I should have been: every release by Girls hit very close to home, and their music was undoubtedly some of the best indie pop I'd heard since The Shins. All three albums (two LP's - Album and Father, Son, Holy Ghost and one EP - Broken Dreams Club) shined with emotion, coupled with phenomenal musicianship and songwriting talent. This was the worst news I had heard since LCD Soundsystem disbanded the year before. These feelings of pain and disappointment were quickly replaced with elation once it was announced that Christopher Owens' solo album, Lysandre was set to be released just 5 months after the announcement of Girls' demise. There were still plenty of questions that raced through my head, the most prominent of which revolved around whether or not Owens' sound would stay true to his previous work, or if he would change everything. Girls' music was always rock-influenced, sounding like a mix of songwriters like Elvis Costello and Scott Walker, and over time, the psychedelic side of the music began to take shape while mixing with gospel - without fully committing to either. Thus I was intrigued at which direction the front man and face of the former band would take. Girls was always an (almost) overly-visceral group, with Owens often writing songs about inner struggle, whether it be with love, religion, family, or substance abuse, etc. It was my desire that this never changed. And I'm happy to report: it doesn't. Lysandre is an amazing piece of art. Serving almost as a concept album; a glimpse in to Christopher Owens' life and troubles: a man who has already been through so much, and now has the experience of having to leave a very personal and important part of his life behind. The emotions he went through during the bands rise are laid out beautifully in each song on the album, which were all written in the same key, with similar structures, motifs, and instrumentation throughout. The grace of the transition from the opening instrumental "Lysandre's Theme" to "Here We Go" is phenomenal. The latter is a track written about Owens' preparation for the first tours he went on with Girls, asking, "listen to me sing, New York City/ And if your heart is broken, you will find fellowship with me." This leads directly in to the next song, "New York City" a more upbeat song which has Christopher Owens' singing about his disbelief in where is life has taken him, from Amarillo, Texas: speaking of being woken up to a "loaded gun, crooked cops and cookin' drugs" straight in to "Look at us in New York City, everyone is listening to me..." The saxophone makes its first appearance in the album, and the break in this song brings a smirk to your face, subtly reminiscent of 70's rock. The song is without question one of the catchiest songs from Lysandre. Owens states that this song, and the following tracks "A Broken Heart" and "Here We Go Again" are the result of running in to an ex-lover: "Nothing like a memory to open up a broken heart," as "Broken Heart" begins. Our singer/"hero of the story" is faced with the troublesome idea that being on tour means running in to familiar faces wherever he goes, some he may not be ready to encounter; "...no longer hiding at home," as he describes the song's theme. He quickly turns the tables with an upbeat "Here We Go Again" singing, "don't try and get me down, don't try to harsh my mellow man... I'm gonna get right up and get outta here." (Yes, that's right, he says "harsh my mellow") And then we get to my favorite tracks on the album, "Riviera Rock", "Love Is In The Ear Of The Listener" and "Lysandre". Prefaced by samples of a plane landing, and sounds of a beach (in this case, The French Riviera), "Riviera Rock" features none of Owens' voice, and instead sets the scene of Girls' travels to France, with female vocals simply repeating the title of the song over a catchy acoustic guitar melody and ... you guessed it... more saxophone. The following track, "Love Is In The Ear Of The Beholder" opens with the line "What if I'm just a bad songwriter, and everything I say has been said before" demonstrating the self-doubt that comes with creating any form of art. "If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, love is in the ear of the listener" The origin behind the title track (and album), "Lysandre" is something familiar to fans of Girls. Written and named about a female (an oft-used tactic Girls used on their previous albums) working at a music festival, the crush he developed on her, and her immediate response to him, or lack thereof, which clearly stuck with him. This is what makes this album so impeccable; Owens has the ability to combine arbitrary events and unique experiences to make an amazing song, and an 11-track album from them. He uses the music to tell a story: his story, and in the meantime paints a picture of beauty, grace, sorrow, melancholy and joy, all with lyrics and simple melodies. Lysandre is Christopher Owens' masterpiece: a glimpse in to the turmoils he has been forced to deal with his entire life, or even over the past few years; whether self-inflicted or outside of his control, the result of his tales and toils is Lysandre. It feels good to have Christopher Owens back in the music game after only a brief absence. With Lysandre, he changes little to the formula that brought him such great success with Girls, but maybe that's just to help us realize that he really was Girls all along. Posted by Kellen Nordstrom at 1:58 PM Labels: Christopher Owens, Fat Possum, Girls, Lysandre Album Review: Toro Y Moi - "Anything in Return" Video: Ra Ra Riot's "Beta Love" Album Preview: The Phoenix Foundation - "Fandango"... 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__label__cc	0.613112	0.386888	First Baptist Church of Crofton All events are happening as scheduled Wonderful Wednesday Bob Parsley – Pastor pastorbob@fbccrofton.org Bob came to Crofton in June 1999 along with his wife, Carole and three sons. The family really enjoys living in Maryland. Carole is a 2nd grade teacher at Annapolis Area Christian School. Rob is living and working in Pasadena, CA; Tim works for Homeland Security in Seattle.; and, Kel currently is living in Crofton and working for Anne Arundel Public Schools. Bob was educated at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas and received a MDiv from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in 1982 and a Doctor's Degree from Southwestern Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1990. Keith Hinton – Executive Pastor khinton@fbccrofton.org He is retired from the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., and has since earned his Masters of Divinity in Theology and Master of Arts in Religion and Biblical Studies from Liberty Baptist Seminary. A professional musician who has worked as a performer, conductor, arranger, and recording producer, he received his Bachelor's degree in Music Performance from the Eastman School of Music. Keith is married to Leigh Ann and is the father of two sons and the stepfather of two adult sons. Walt Lindberg – Contemporary Music Leader Walt and his wife, Amy, have been involved in music ministry in various capacities for over 15 years; they began leading the contemporary worship team at First Baptist in January of 2015. Walt is an elementary band and orchestra director in Anne Arundel County Public Schools. He is a National Board Certified Teacher, with degrees in Music Education from Peabody Conservatory and Millersville University. The Lindbergs have written and recorded their own music, and enjoy a rambunctious household with their children Daniel and Karen. Kay Fouts – Organist Kay and her husband, Bob, are charter members of the church. They are parents of three grown children who live in Germantown, Maryland, West River, Maryland and Stafford, Virginia. Kay has accompanied the choirs of the church for over 30 years and we are lucky to such an accomplished musician contributing the music to our 11:00 Sunday worship. Matt McLaughlin – Young Adult Ministry Director mmclaughlin@fbccrofton.org Julie Carr-Youth Ministry Director julie@fbccrofton.org Alyssa Riggan-Nursery Ministry Coordinator Chasity Harrington-Children's Ministry Director childrensministry@fbccrofton.org First Baptist Church of Crofton © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line367
__label__wiki	0.896114	0.896114	Hanna Kim Trio & Ben Matthews presented by PJS This event has passed! PJS Presents a double bill performance from pianists Ben Matthews and Hanna Kim. Both pianists will perform a diverse set of original music. Hanna Kim Trio Hanna Kim was born in South Korea and started studying piano at the age of six. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Piano Performance from Seoul Art College and performed regularly in Korea before moving to Perth in 2014. Recently, she formed Hanna Kim Trio and has begun composing music towards her own album. Hanna Kim Trio is comprised of Francisco Javier Munoz Melo on drums and Jonathan Chen on bass guitar. Hanna Kim Trio is a melting pot of different musical cultures; Korean composer and pianist, Chilean drummer and Malaysian bassist. Experience the varied and beautiful music that the trio plays by blending their own musical backgrounds through jazz, influenced by artists such as Roy Hargrove, Yellow Jackets and Fourplay. Ben Matthews Ben Matthews was drawn to the piano at a young age, following a passion for artistic expression through improvisation and composition. He performs in a unique style that blends genres drawing influence from jazz legends like Herbie Hancock and Oscar Peterson, and from soundtrack titans like John Williams and Joe Hisaishi (Studio Ghibli) to other pianistic composers like Ludovico Einaudi and Ryuichi Sakamoto. After a decade performing as both a sideman and bandleader with some of Australia’s top-tier musicians, WAAPA graduate jazz pianist and contemporary keyboardist Ben Matthews turned his focus to composition in late 2015. In 2016, he wrote and recorded the following projects: an original jazz soundtrack to THQ Nordic’s game ‘This Is The Police'; an original jazz/instrumental neo-soul double-CD release, ‘LiveWyre'; a collaborative E.P. of contemporary ballads with vocalist Edwina Masson entitled ‘An Open Letter of Imperfections'; a seven track, entirely improvised solo piano album, ‘My Story'; music for the short film ‘Lightbulb'; and two improvised solo piano singles, ‘Indulge in a Daydream’ and ‘Uncertain Times’. In 2017 a second solo piano album ‘Memoir’ was improvised. In early 2018, Ben was flown to Norway, to compose and record for game title “This Is The Police 2”, creating a rich and diverse soundtrack featuring a blend of nordic folk instruments, world music, 60’s jazz music and hard fusion-rock. This project included collaborations with composer Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss, Florence the game), producer Jia Lih, vocalist Holli Scott. Over the years, five of Ben’s compositions have been nominated as finalists for Western Australian Music (WAM) Song of the Year awards (2011, 2015, 2016, 2018). His latest release, ‘This Too Shall Pass’ (2018) is a third improvised solo piano album, exploring concepts of darkness, balance, gesture and storytelling through music. Ben’s current aspiration is to create honest and emotional music that balances creativity and accessibility. 7.00 - 10.00pm Wednesday, 17 July The Ellington Jazz Club 191 Beaufort St	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line368
__label__wiki	0.847956	0.847956	Home / News & Entertainment / Anil Kapoor’s son, Harshvardhan Kapoor confirmed for Bhavesh Joshi Anil Kapoor’s son, Harshvardhan Kapoor confirmed for Bhavesh Joshi Ravi Tondak 2016/06/07 News & Entertainment Leave a comment 1,624 Views It is very rare that someone who has not even made his debut in the industry has already signed his next film. But, it looks like Anil Kapoor’s son, Harshvardhan has already generated a lot of interest among filmmakers with his freshness and is all ready to become the next big thing in the industry. Harshvardhan will be seen making his big debut this year with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s love story ‘Mirzya’. This is undoubtedly the biggest launch film of the year with a lot of anticipation. Even before his debut film releases in October, Harshvardhan Kapoor has signed his second film. It is Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘Bhavesh Joshi’. The Filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane who has directed critically acclaimed and loved films like Udaan and Lootera is also gearing up to put Bhavesh Joshi with Harshvardhan Kapoor on floors very soon. When Vikramaditya met Anil Kapoor’s son, Harshvardhan for the first time, he was mighty impressed with him. The project Bhavesh Joshi is something that is very special for Vikramaditya Motwane and he holds it very close to him. When contacted, Motwane confirmed the news and said, “Yes, we are making Bhavesh Joshi with Harshvardhan Kapoor and the film will be going on floors from next month.” The makers haven’t disclosed much about the film’s subject as of now, but from what we have heard, the story is about a vigilante who uses his superpowers to save common people in Mumbai. The project is being produced by Phantom Films and sure is creating a lot of excitement amongst the audience. Previous Before Baahubali going to China, China comes to Baahubali! Next Papon’s ‘Chhu Liya’ from Hai Apna Dil Toh Awara Launched	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line371
__label__cc	0.589738	0.410262	Here Be Answers > Is telepathy fact or fallacy? Can thoughts really be transferred through extrasensory means? Is telepathy fact or fallacy? Can thoughts really be transferred through extrasensory means? An old question has recently come to light in a new way; the research for which has been done by scientists and those who have opposed this research are also scientists. The question is: Can one person convey his thoughts to another person without the aid of any of the mediums of communication viz. the written or spoken word or body language? The condition being that the two persons must be totally away from each other, that is, they should be separated either by long distance or by some screen between them. In short there should be no possible direct or indirect contact between them. The majority of the scientists have been negating such possibilities for the past 125 years or so, and it is no surprise that they do so. As proved by science man acquires any and all types of knowledge with the help of his five sense organs (skin, eyes, ears, tongue and nose). There is no sixth medium through which knowledge can be obtained. Nevertheless, according to famous theory, there is such a medium, which is known as telepathy and about which a lot has been said – mostly in the form of criticism. In spite of this, a few years ago after 3,000 different experiments conducted under controlled testing condition in Great Britain, the statistics that were arrived at made telepathy a subject of research for the scientific lobby. The result of perfection was 32%. Obviously, this is very negligible but according to the law of chance a number greater than 20% is not possible. It is not possible that the guess is correct in 1/3rd number of cases. Although these statistics are not enough to allow telepathy an entrance into the world of science, some scientists are ready to consider it is a subject that needs minute and detailed research. The rest of the scientists are firm on their non-believing status and their argument is also not base less. The rule of acceptance of any theory is that if one scientist arrives at a particular result, all the scientists should obtain the same result when they conduct a similar experiment. Years ago, the transmission of thoughts from one place (person) to another without any medium whatsoever was known simply as ‘thought transfer.’ In 1882, the parapsychologist, Frederick Myers, gave it the name of telepathy (in Greek language ‘tele’ means ‘far off’ and ‘pathy’ means ‘feelings or emotions’ and hence ‘telepathy’ means ‘feeling from afar’). In Britain, Frederick Myers had also established a society for physical research in which other believers of parapsychology had also joined hands. The scientific world had no interest in their work because such things which are not understood with the help of the five sense organs do not enter the field of science. Nevertheless, Myers found a lot of supporters. Even after his death the research continued with the help different types of experiments. The dramatic change in the field of telepathy came about in the first half of the 20th century. Some concrete proof was needed to know whether one particular person has sent a message and whether it has reached the corresponding person or not without any medium whatsoever. To fulfil these requirements a scientist named Karl Zener made five cards that had different patterns. One had a circle, the second a square, the third a star, the fourth the sign of plus and the fifth had three lines that looked like waves. In short the designs of all five cards were different. Twenty five such cards were shuffled and than the heap was kept on a table. The people sending the telepathic message had to take up a card each, turn it over and look at it with deep concentration for about a minute or so. The corresponding person, who was in another room, had to recognise the pattern through telepathy and draw it on a piece of paper. The most noteworthy experiments (which science finally denied) were conducted by the biologist named Dr. Joseph Rhine of Howard University, USA. A total of 1,800 Zener cards were used during the experiments. There were two persons – the sender of the symbol and the receiver of the symbol – who were separated by a distance of 400 metres. There was no medium through which they could be in contact with one another. In spite of this, out of 1,800 symbols, the receiver drew 588 symbols correctly on his paper. This was a strike rate of 32.66%. The noteworthy fact was that there were not just 5 but 25 cards in each heap and once the cards were finished, the heap was shuffled once more. To make the experiments ever more authentic, Dr. Joseph Rhine changed the method of experimentation. He decided to give $100 to the ones who repeatedly drew the correct pattern. The participants recognised 25 cards correctly at a stretch and earned a whopping $2500. Considering this from a mathematical point of view the possibility of such a thing happening was 1 in 30,00,000 billion (repeat, billion) times – and still it had actually happened! Dr. Joseph Rhine was a very renowned biologist and so the experiments conducted in the presence of neutral eyewitnesses became the topic of discussion in the world of science also. The well known magazine named ‘nature’ reproduced his paper on this subject without any changes or verification just as he had written it, but in the editor’s column of the same issue they condemned his experiments. On the other hand, common man and few researchers got interested in telepathy, and so to understand the so-called mystery surrounding telepathy all types of weird experiments started being conducted. One such method came to be known as ‘blank field’ in which all the five senses had to be cut off from the outer world. A ping-pong ball was cut into two and the pieces were fixed onto a person’s eyes, a continuous dull sound was fed into the ears with the aid of headphones, the taste buds of the tongue and the odour detecting ability of the nose were rendered functionless and the fifth sense organ, the skin, was also not allowed to function thereby restricting knowledge through touch. The purpose of rendering a person blank as far as the sense organs were concerned was to ensure that his physical sense organs could not aid him in any way in grasping and understanding the message sent by the correspondent. In the midst of all this seclusion if a message was received and interpreted accurately then it would definitely be due to telepathy. The astonishing result of such experiments proved to be food for thought for the research scientist in Britain. One experiment was truly very important. The year was 1993. The researchers had got two rooms each with 30-centimetre thick walls built. The walls were further covered by steel sheets. The rooms were at a distance of 3 metres. In the first room the person who would receive the message was sitting with eyes covered with ping-pong ball semicircles and headphones on the ears. In the second room there was a television in front of the person who would send the message. A telecast showing pictures of a live eagle was going on and the sender was watching this programme with complete concentration. As a possibility with the help of telepathy the words spoken by the receiver due to the scene that came before his covered eyes were: ‘I can see a black coloured figure. It is of a bird that has a sharp beak and its wings are turned down. Its beak is sharp like a needle. There is something that can fly or is flying. It is like a parrot that has long feathers. There are many fathers and very long…long…long…of the tail… is flying. A big eagle with its wings spread out…’ The description given by the receiver was unbelievably accurate and was exactly like the scene that was being telecast on the television in the other room. In spite of all his sense organs being cut off from the outer world and the room being completely sealed, how did the receiver describe the scene observed by the sender as that of an eagle in flight? Which was the medium that carried all this knowledge to him? After crossing out all the five organs the only remaining medium was that of telepathy. When the word telepathy was not known this success was possible (only just possible) through the process that was called ‘thought transfer.’ The suggestion of cutting off all the five senses of a human being was first given by Chuck Honorton of Psychophysical Research Laboratory of America. Most of the experiments related to telepathy were then conducted only in this manner. The logic behind his suggestion was that a human brain cannot do without gaining knowledge and information about the surroundings. It is necessary for the protection, security and survival of man. A human obtains knowledge through his sense organs; he then interprets this knowledge accurately and uses it to take care of his existence amongst all odds. For example, the sense of touch keeps humans safe from fire and the eyesight keeps humans safe from the snakes, while taste help them in differentiating between edible and inedible things. Even if one of the sense organs fails to work, the remaining four become all the more sharp to compensate for the failure of one. For example, the skin, ears, nose, and taste buds, of a blind person are more receptive than those of a normal person’s and so his daily routine does not suffer. Honorton stretched this type of simple and straightforward logic to the lengths of telepathy. His argument was that not just one, even if all the sense organs take leave a human can still gain knowledge with the medium known as telepathy. Is there even an iota of truth in this theory? An example that proves that there is much more truth than just an iota of truth is that of the aboriginals of Australia. These native people have been living for almost 30,000 years in a dreadful and desolate region. This region is spread over an area of millions of kilometres. Surviving in this region is so challenging that the white community of Australia fears even to tread there, let alone settling down. Should a person unused to this area, which is locally known as the outback, get lost here, he will surely die to hunger and thirst. However, the nomads surviving here roam far and wide in search of food and fruits and yet stay in contact with each other in spite of getting separated time and time again. In the 1950s this point became the topic of interest and research for scientists. After numerous experiments they arrived at the conclusion that these aborigines communicate with each other only through the medium of telepathy. During the process of evolution, to take care of their existence in unfavourable conditions, their brain developed the imperceptible ability to communicate through the medium of telepathy. They stay in contact with one another no matter how far away they are from each other and no amount of distance proves a hindrance for this. Dr. Marlo Morgan, the famous American genealogist was the one who did research at the extreme grass root level on the possibility of this ability (telepathy). In 1994, she wrote a book named ‘Mutant Message – Down Under’ (Australia is situated in the southern hemisphere and hence the title ‘Down Under’ was given). The scientific world has taken note of all the examples and evidence published by this female author – that they did not accept it as a science is quite another matter. In short, just like palmistry, telepathy also is considered anything but a science today. There is no place for bending rules in science; one plus one has to always be two. Even if this sum is done continuously for a long period of time, never will the result be 2.1 or 1.9. Therefore, when we talk about telepathy, the result obtained should be 100% every time an experiment is conducted. Even if the result is 99.9%, telepathy cannot be called a science. The maximum success rate of telepathic experiments has been 72% once, but mostly it has not been more than 40%. In such a situation, telepathy cannot be granted the status of science. On the other hand, one cannot deny that it is a good subject for research. Telepathy (Wikipedia) Is there a color that human eyes can not see? This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Science on July 21, 2011 by admin. ← How do astronomers detect black holes if they cannot be observed with any kind of instrument? What caused the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011? →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line379
__label__cc	0.609119	0.390881	Here Be Answers > What does SOS stand for? When was the first SOS message relayed and by whom? What does SOS stand for? When was the first SOS message relayed and by whom? Sea voyages are pretty risky affairs. Before the late 19th century they were more so because the ships at sea were pretty much isolated since there was no means of communication with the land. It took some time to know if a ship had got into an accident or so. With the invention of wireless telegraph, it became possible to establish a communication system between the ships and the land. The telegraph system uses Morse code for communication which is a way of representing letters using dots and dashes. There were developed some distress signals to inform if the ship was in any trouble and in need of assistance. The first use of telegraph for assistance was in 1899, when two ships collided with each other near the English coast. The SOS message is such a distress signal, developed in early years of 20th century. The predecessor of SOS was CQD, introduced by Marcony Company. It was interpreted as short for ‘Come Quick Danger’ but was actually derived from the code for general calls in land wire, CQ. The D meant distress. The signal translated to ‘All stations, Distress’. CQD was favored by many even after the introduction of SOS, and it stayed for years until fading into history. SOS is often interpreted by the public to mean phrases like ‘Save Our Ship’, ‘Save Our Souls’ and ‘Send Out Succor’, however it is not so. It has no specific meaning, as attested by the Marconi Yearbook of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony itself in 1918. The SOS was selected as the code simply for its easy representation. The signal is three dots, followed by three dashes and three dots again, without letter spacing. It is also the only Morse code signal with nine elements. Even though it was popularized by Marconi Company, SOS was first introduced by Germany in 1905. It was adopted as the standard distress signal by the international maritime community at the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention in Berlin in 1906, effective from 1st July, 1908. Another popular misconception among public is that Titanic was the first ship to send an SOS message. However, it is a myth since the first SOS transmission was on June 10, 1909, from RMS Slavonia. Titanic, upon its sinking in 1912, used both CQD and SOS signals intermixed. Later, with the progress of technology, new signals and better communication methods arrived. SOS continued to be a standard distress signal until its replacement in 1999 with the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System. Which is the port and which the starboard side of ship? Who was the first person to circumnavigate the world? Was he alone? This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged World, World's first on January 28, 2016 by admin. ← Is it true that humans have more than five senses? Why do some people have dimples? →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line380
__label__wiki	0.929692	0.929692	Home Research > Members > 1660-1690 > TYRINGHAM (TERINGHAM), William (1618-85) TYRINGHAM (TERINGHAM), William (1618-85), of Tyringham, Bucks. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 bap. 12 Oct. 1618, 5th but 4th surv. s. of Sir Thomas Tyringham (d.1637) of Tyringham by Frances, da. of Sir Thomas Gorges† of Longford Castle, Wilts. educ. Exeter, Oxf. 1635; I. Temple 1636. m. (1) Elizabeth, da. of George Miller of Swallowfield, Berks., wid. of Henry Winchcombe of Bucklebury, Berks., 2da.; (2) by 1655, Sarah (d. 1679), wid. of James Martin, Fishmonger, of London and Putney, Surr., 1da. suc. bro. 1645; KB 23 Apr. 1661.1 Cornet 1640, capt. (royalist) 1643, col. by 1646.2 J.p. Bucks. July 1660-d., dep. lt. c. Aug. 1660-d.; commr. for assessment, Bucks. Sept. 1660-80, Surr. 1663-74, 1679-80, loyal and indigent officers, Bucks. 1662, corporations 1662-3; bailiff, Bedford level 1663-5, 1667-9, conservator 1665-7, 1669-79; commr. for recusants, Bucks. 1675.3 Gent. of the privy chamber 1668-85.4 Tyringham’s Tyringham’s ancestors held the village from which they took their name in the reign of King John and represented the county in the Model Parliament. The family was strongly royalist during the Civil War. In 1645 Tyringham succeeded to an estate encumbered with mortgages totalling £20,000. He petitioned in 1646 to compound for his delinquency, but his fine of £100, with a further £891 imposed on his deceased brother, was not paid until 1651. He was justly suspected of royalist conspiracy during the Interregnum, and taken into custody in 1658, but soon released. He was to have commanded the Buckinghamshire rising in 1659, but the Royalists made no move, and he was rearrested in August.5 As a Cavalier, Tyringham was ineligible at the general election of 1660, but he was returned for Buckinghamshire at a by-election. He left no trace on the records of the Convention. He apparently considered contesting the borough seat in 1661 when John Dormer transferred his votes to him, but he decided to stand again for the county. Reelected after a close contest, he was made a knight of the Bath at the coronation, and became a moderately active Member of the Cavalier Parliament. He was appointed to 77 committees, the majority being of secondary importance, but made no recorded speeches. A ‘country Cavalier’, he championed the dispossessed royalist Adventurers in the Bedford level against his cousin Lord Gorges (Richard Gorges), who had become surveyor-general to the new Adventurers during the Interregnum. On 14 May 1662 the House was warned of ‘a mischief like to ensue’ between Tyringham and Gorges, seconded respectively by Samuel Sandys I and Thomas Chicheley, and they were all ordered to attend the King ‘to give him satisfaction touching the difference’. In 1663 he was named to the committee to peruse the bill for draining the Bedford level and to determine the effects of the clause making the lands of the Adventurers liable for sale for non-payment of taxes. In the same year he was appointed to the committee on the additional bill for the relief of the loyal and indigent officers. He took no part in the Clarendon Code, but helped to recommend remedies for the unlawful meetings of dissenters and to consider the additional corporations bill in 1664. He was appointed to two further committees on the Bedford level, and on 14 Jan. 1667, together with Sandys, Robert Phelips, and other Adventurers, he presented a petition to the House. A bill to ascertain taxes in part of the Bedford level was read, and passed despite the opposition of Gorges and Chicheley.6 After the fall of Clarendon, Tyringham served on the inquiries into the miscarriages of the war and the sale of Dunkirk. ‘A handsome, civil and well-bred gentleman’, and the last heir male of his ancient family, he did not attempt to extricate himself from his financial difficulties by reducing his expenditure. He maintained a coach and six contrary to statute and obtained protection from his creditors by a post at Court. Control of the ancestral estate passed to Edward Backwell, whose son later married Tyringham’s daughter. Sir Thomas Osborne included him in 1669 among those who had usually voted for supply. In his only tellership, on 10 Apr. 1671, he opposed a proviso to prevent malicious and vexatious informations to the bill imposing a duty on legal proceedings. He was given an excise pension of £300 p.a. in 1675, and assigned to Osborne (now Lord Treasurer Danby) in the working lists. His reliability as a government supporter was apparently in doubt in 1676, though Sir Richard Wiseman intended to obtain from him an introduction to his absentee colleague, Sir William Bowyer Shaftesbury marked him ‘doubly vile’ in 1677, and his name appeared on the court list of government supporters in 1678. On 1 June, he complained of the distraint of one of his coach horses, but privilege was denied when breach of the statute was proved. Although he was not blacklisted in the ‘unanimous club’, he is unlikely to have stood again, and was buried at Tyringham on 6 Aug. 1685.7 Authors: M. W. Helms / Leonard Naylor / Geoffrey Jaggar 1. St. Martin in the Fields (Harl. Soc. Reg. xxv), 53; Lipscomb, Bucks. iv. 374; Burke, Gentry (1952), 2575; Putney Par. Reg. (Surrey Par. Reg. Soc. ii), 46; PCC 245 Grey; VCH Bucks. iv. 483. 2. Hector Brit. (Cam. Soc. ser. 3, xviii), 75; Jnl. Army Hist. Res. iv. 196; List of Officers Claiming (1663), 133. 3. Huntington Lib. Stowe mss, 2/452; S. Wells, Drainage of Bedford Level, i. 456-9. 4. Carlisle, Privy Chamber, 182, 197. 5. Lipscomb, iv. 373; Cal. Comm. Comp. 935-6; Surr. Arch. Colls. xiv. 189; CSP Dom. 1658-9, p. 93; 1659-60, pp. 112, 125; D. Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy, 266. 6. BL M636/17, Smith to Verney, 27 Dec. 1660; CJ, viii. 429, 430. 7. Hector Brit. 75; Grey, vi. 92; VCH Bucks. iv. 483; CJ, ix. 486, 491, 496; Lipscomb, iv. 37.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line382
__label__cc	0.620956	0.379044	US Treasury Sued over Donations for Colonies By: IMEMC News & Agencies A lawsuit has been filed in a US court seeking to stop non-profit groups from sending billions of dollars’ worth of tax-exempt donations to support illegal Israeli settler colonies and the Israeli army. A group of American citizens filed the suit on December 21 against the US Department of Treasury, claiming about 150 nonprofits have sent an estimated $280bn to Israel over the past two decades. The lawsuit claims, according to Al Jazeera, that the donations were pass throughs and funnels to support the Israeli army and the illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. The lawsuit claims that certain non-profit groups (including the Falic Family Foundation, Friends of the Israeli Defence Force (FIDF), American Friends of Ariel, Gush Etzion Foundation, American Friends of Har Homa, and Hebron Fund) directly contributed, tax-exempt, to violations of US law and international law, subverted US foreign policy, and contributed to countless crimes and human rights abuses targeting Palestinians. The Treasury Department, which has 60 days to respond to the lawsuit, declined to comment, stating in an email to Al Jazeera: We don`t comment on pending litigation. See Israeli Media: US Donors Transferred One Billion Shekels for Settlements for more info. Photo: Israeli settler colony in Palestine’s West Bank. Source: Palestine News Network. • Extraterritorial obligations • International • Squatters	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line383
__label__wiki	0.529273	0.529273	Gardening for Slaves Once upon a time, back when Colonial Americans were pining for freedom, their slaves were pining for freedom and a decent meal. Sometimes, those two things turned out to be the same thing. Begin with the fact that slaves were dependent upon their masters for their food. This, as you may suspect, was a problem. Plantations were economic engines, and food was the fuel which powered them. Much like the modern motorist uses a smartphone to find cheap gas prices, slave-owners hunted for ways to spend as little as possible on fuel. This meant that slaves got what was cheapest, or least desired. In the rice-producing South Carolina lowlands, “dirty” rice was the the staple. In Frederick Douglass’s experience, food was nothing but corn and pork, and you can bet that the good cuts (that is, the hams, as opposed to the feet) wound up on the owner’s table. Combine this with laboring six days a week and you have a nutrition trainwreck. The way out of this mess arrived with the slaves themselves. Though the slaves arrived from West Africa with no belongings, they did carry with them traditions and one of those is what’s come to be called “vegeculture.” Basically, it’s an agricultural system based on root vegetables instead of grains and it has a number of advantages, especially if the farmer has disadvantages, like being enslaved. Where a wheat farmer needs a large spread of land and the ability to till, plant and harvest it in all-at-once bursts, the vegeculturist has more freedom of maneuver. These are plants that can be scattered, hidden, interplanted. They do well in small patches, and have no trouble with hillsides, rocks or being tended when the farmer has time for it. They can make do with low-fertility soil and, over time, can actually improve the fertility of the soil. What would we find growing in a slave garden? Beans, field peas like black-eyes, squashes, greens such as collard and cabbage, calorie crops like onion, potato and yam, along with peanuts, gourds for making dippers and the like, and some fruit, too, on the lines of apples, stone-fruits and melons. There was even livestock, mostly in the form of chickens. Slave gardens were often called “truck patches,” a name which bears examining. In the pre-automotive 18th and 19th centuries, “truck” came to mean market-garden produce, a definition which leads directly to the description of today’s farmers market vendors as “truck farmers.” But before that, in the time when these slave gardens were being described, it had a different meaning, namely the payment of wages in goods instead of money. That definition itself emerged from an even older sense of “truck,” meaning commodities for barter. So what did “truck” mean to the slave-owner who uttered the word? A little bit of all three, I think. Some truck patches were so successful that the slaves would sell their excess to their masters. This happened all over the south, and in the slave-holding islands of the West Indies. It doesn’t seem to have been a small thing, because we can see the impact of this on the health of the white population in those islands. In short, the whites who had access to the vegetable production of their slaves were significantly healthier. Apparently, even One-Percenters should eat their vegetables. Something similar was happening on the mainland, because many truck patches also found substantial white markets in places like Virginia. Here, truck patches expanded to include large livestock, like pigs, cows and horses, and some were large enough to grow actual plantation crops, such as corn and tobacco. A few determined and energetic slaves managed in this way to earn enough money to purchase their own freedom. Or at least they did until 1692, when the Virginia General Assembly put an end to it with a decree that prevented slaves from owning large animals or growing staple crops. Apparently in antebellum market society, some pigs were more equal than others. So, for the majority of the United States’ colonial history, slave gardens were vegetable gardens. Because a slave’s “free” time mostly consisted of Sundays and the hours of darkness, they favored plants that could take care of themselves without too much tending. There were other commonalities, too. They needed high-yield plants, ones that could produce a lot of food in a small space. Succession planting was important as well, the ability to sew seed every couple weeks or so, to ensure that something would always be ready to pick. Storage and preservation was essential for the wintertime, but slave gardens didn’t need anything as fancy as canning. Many of the root vegetables could be stored safely in the ground, and others, such as the peas and beans, were preserved by drying. Collards and kale would survive rooted throughout winter, and chickens kept the pests down and provided eggs. When I look at this list, the thing that strikes me most strongly is how familiar it all is. Basically, these are the plants being grown in backyard and community gardens all across the country right now. And, as we know, the resurgence of family gardens is big and getting bigger, spurred by the onset of hard times in 2008. The parallel is kind of eerie, and the more I think about it, the more I can’t shake the feeling that the slave plantation is, somehow, a kind of historical food-and-economics premonition. On one hand, you’ve got vast acreage devoted to cash crops, either grains or fiber, with the profits funneled to the the very few at the top of the system. Meanwhile, bulk of human beings in the operation scrape by on the cheap stuff the plantation produces to keep them going, their time entirely swallowed by the need to supplement their inadequate “wages.” We, of course, have gussied up the basic model, expanding from an agricultural world to a manufacturing one, and so we get Wal-Mart offering cheap stuff alongside its cheap food. But the basic mechanism is the same and the inequity (if you’re feeling philosophical) or the blunt injustice of it, while different by intensity, are amazingly similar in shape. The food deserts that lurk in the poor districts across the country deliver “food” that is just as much the waste product of the industrial food system as chitlins were the waste product of plantation slaughter traditions. Just as slave gardens only survived at the whim of the plantation owner, we, too, have civic ordinances prohibiting such things as cabbages in the front yard or chickens in the back (ostensibly because of the noise, though the neighbor’s deafening Harley, which is too loud to be sold in the EU, is perfectly legal.) But most of all, then as now, the “plantation owners” fixate on grains and we hunker down in the vegetable garden. That means something, and it has for a very long time. Inhabiting, as we do, a world of refrigerated cargo containers and high speed supply chains, it’s hard to understand just how fundamentally different a grain of wheat is from a potato. Ask an ancient Roman, though, and they’d be able to tell you. In the seeds vs. roots equation, seeds are the food of empire. Or the fuel of empire which, for most of history, was the same thing. Though time, across space, grains move. They are, after all, seeds, tiny condensed packets of nutrients, coated in armor. They’re tough and stable. Protect them from rodents and moisture and they’ll last for years, long after your carefully stored root vegetables have turned back to earth. What that means is that a society dependent upon grains can withstand entire years of bad harvests, as long as they’ve got enough socked away in the granaries, which Ancient Rome almost always did. They can also gather their food from great distances, which means that they can support a large, expensive civilization with agriculture in far away hinterlands. Rome’s empire was both the cause and effect of its need for the wheat that powered the whole thing; wheat fed the Legions that conquered places like Gaul and North Africa, which then grew wheat to feed the Legions. Rome’s immense fleet of grain ships sailed from all points of the Mediterranean rim, funneling wheat into the granaries of Rome, 420,000 tons every year. The Roman Legions burned a further 150,000 tons per year. The Roman navy — familiar to you from Ben-Hur, “ramming speed” and that big guy with the big drum — was primarily about protecting the grain fleet from pirates. As long as Rome’s empire of wheat survived, so did Rome. When a modest shift in climate ended most of Gaul’s ability to provide wheat, Rome’s decline turned to fall. We, of course, inhabit a world of commercial empires founded on oil. We love our oil so much that we use — in forms ranging from tractor fuel, to insecticide, to fertilizer and so on — 10 calories of oil for every 1 calorie of seeds we produce. We might pause here to consider the ramifications of using those ten calories of oil to produce one calorie of corn that we then process into ethanol to replace oil. But that only makes me dizzy, so I’ll confine myself to commenting that even if oil is the foundation of our commercial empire, seed/grain is still big league. The ABCD group of grain traders (Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus) control between 75-90% of the market (actual figures are trade secrets, don’tcha know) and have a combined revenue of nearly $300 billion. So the legions are long buried, but wheat’s army marches on. The slaves are gone, too, but not the wage-slaves, which is why I think there’s wisdom to be found in the slave garden. It’s an example of what to do when you find yourself mired in an economic arrangement that insists you take part, but doesn’t really give a damn about your well-being. The slave garden suggests that we take control of something essential, do something of undeniable value, to make ourselves recipients of the fruits of our own labor. Sure, very few of us are going to produce all our own food. But it’s honest work, and it comes stocked with moments of delight and even beauty and who knows? Do it long enough, and you might even purchase a bit of your own freedom. Slave Garden Fence by Sarah Stierch Slave Garden and Cabin by Melissa Wilkins Wage-Slave Garden by Ars Electronica Fortified Tunisian Granary by James_Gordon_Los_Angeles Ruins of Roman Granary by Phil Holloman Field Pea Blossom by Gerwin Sturm	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line384
__label__cc	0.70511	0.29489	Statement on the arrest and detention of members of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) on 22 October 2003 Statement on the Attack on Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa by Police Officers on 14th October 2003 October 23, 2003 : Press releases The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns without reservation and in the strongest possible terms, the recent attack by the Police on Mrs Beatrice Mtetwa, a human rights lawyer of considerable reputation. Attacks on human rights defenders in Zimbabwe are a cause for grave concern and have contributed to the collapse of the rule of law. In the case of Mrs Mtetwa, it is particularly morally offensive that the attack was perptrated on her while she was seeking the assistance of the police following an attempt by criminals to highjack her car. As a victim of crime, Mrs Mtetwa was entitled to her right to the protection of the law. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum calls upon the Commissioner of the Zimbabwe Republic Police to undertake a thorough investigation into the attack on Mrs Mtetwa as well as other reported attacks on members of the legal profession and human rights defenders with a view to bringing to justice the officers who are responsible for the attacks. Statement on the arrest and detention of members of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) on 22 October 2003 Regular harassment of activists, violations of their rights	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line385
__label__wiki	0.671415	0.671415	MHP completes preparation of amnesty draft bill August 26 2018 16:47:00 The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has completed the preparation of a draft bill granting amnesty to convicts, which was one of the election manifestos of the party prior to the June 24 snap elections. The MHP’s eight-article amnesty draft bill excludes prisoners convicted on charges of membership to a terror organization, such as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) or the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ). The bill also excludes granting amnesty to inmates convicted over charges of child abuse and femicide, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Aug. 26. The MHP plans to submit the draft bill to the parliament for debate once the new legislative year of the parliament begins on Oct. 1. The draft bill’s general framework was outlined by the MHP leader Devlet Bahçeli and put down on paper by a committee consisting of the party’s legal experts, under the guidance of MHP Vice Chair Feti Yıldız, the agency said. Yıldız told the agency their committee had analyzed a total of 52 amnesties granted to prisoners in the history of the Turkish Republic so far in order to prepare the relevant draft bill. “As the committee, we have all together analyzed these amnesties and have reduced sentences along with the positive and negative affects they have left on society. For example, following the 1939 Erzincan earthquake [which struck Turkey with a moment magnitude of 7.8], an amnesty was issued for prisoners who helped [quake victims],” he said. “In the draft bill we have prepared, there are reductions, amnesties and suspensions of sentences. Of course, while we consider the families of inmates, we also have to consider those who have been harmed and the victims of relevant crimes,” Yıldız said, adding it was not their intention to pardon people “who took on crime as a profession.” MHP, amnesty, Bahçeli ‘On night of July 15, deputies risked lives’ CHP head pays visit to Istanbul mayor MHP leader slams fresh debates on Turkey’s presidential system	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line387
__label__wiki	0.706924	0.706924	Ghanaian Achievers Motivate HCC Students HCC hosted multiple young, successful Ghanaian achievers for a session on campus called, “Time with a Young Achiever.” These sessions were meant to inspire the students and provide mentorship for them. Meet the three most recent achievers who visited HCC. Top African Scientist, Dr. Julius Hagan HCC students and faculty were privileged to interact with a top African scientist, Dr. Julius Hagan. He spoke to students about opportunities for growth, development and scholarships in various fields. The faculty and staff benefited from his expertise in research and institutional advancement. Dr. Hagan was declared the 2013 3rd Best Young Professional Scientist in Africa, by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and was nominated by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, CTA, as one of the top 20 innovators in the world. He is a senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Animal Science and School of Agriculture at University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He has a PhD in Animal Breeding and Genetics from KNUST. He also has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Quantitative Genetics and Genomics from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). He is an Animal Breeder and Livestock Development Expert. He is consulting for EXIM Bank USDA and Council for Technical Vocational Educational and Training (COTVET/SDF) on training of livestock farmers and entrepreneurs in the livestock business in Ghana. Dr. Hagan is not only a livestock expert, he has many other professional roles. Dr. Hagan is also: the National Secretary to the Ghana Society of Animal Production member of the Ghana Cattle Ranching Committee reviewer/External Assessor of graduate thesis for KNUST and University for Development Studies (UDS) reviewer of national and international journals moderator and assessor of post-diploma programs at various agricultural colleges in Ghana a fellow member of Science and Technology for Society (STS, Tokyo, 2016) a current member of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Affiliate a founding member of The World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Affiliate Network (TYAN) an international scholar and speaker recently invited as one of the speakers to the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. a staunch Christian who worships with the Church of Christ, University Community congregation, Cape Coast a patron of the Church of Christ Campus Ministry, University of Cape Coast Ace TV News Anchor, Selikem Acolatse Apaloo “Hold on to sound ethics,” the Ace TV Anchor advised HCC students. Anchor Selikem Acolatse Apaloo has admonished students to internalize the ethical principles they are given during their time at HCC, because those principles hold the key to much of what they will become in life. The Ghana television news personality was interacting with the students at a “Time with a Young Achiever” session. Selikem said she owed much of her achievement and rise to stardom to God and her steadfastness in doing what is right. She challenged the female students especially not to let any circumstances derail them from staying true to godly principles and pressing on to their goals in life. Selikem Acolatse Apaloo is the host and content producer of ‘Women’s Voice’ on Ghana’s state broadcaster, GBC24 and Ghana Television(GTV), a program which projects the achievements of women along with issues that hold back the development of women. She is a news editor, anchor and reporter at GTV. Selikem has hosted high profile events such the GBC’s 2016 Election Presidential Encounters, National Presidential Debate for Election 2016 and National Policy Summit 2017. She has anchored special assignments such as: the election petition at the supreme court the funeral of late president, Atta Mills the arrival of the remains of the late poet, Kofi Awoonor and the late BBC broadcaster, Komla Dumor Selikem is passionate about youth empowerment and has been a speaker on several platforms, including: the African University College of Communication Conference on Branding 2015 and Creative Writing in 2017 the US Embassy Mentorship Program 2014 the Story of Our Lives Nationwide Mentorship Project for the Girl Child in 2015 & 2017 the Start Up GH Sheroes conference in 2015 Selikem was nominated as Best Female Television Presenter at the Radio and TV Personality Awards both in 2014 and 2015. She is currently pursuing an MA in International Relations and Development at an affiliate of the Institute of Diplomatic Practice, Nyansapo College. She holds a degree in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Ghana, a diploma in Public Relations from the Institute of Commercial Management (UK) and a certificate in Broadcast Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism. Selikem is faith-driven, passionate about grooming young talents, a Social Change Advocate, a Personal development coach and a Women’s advocate. She is married with three children. Entrepreneur and Inspirational Women’s Mentor, Georgina Adwoa Assor Narteh “Let your low background push you to rise high,” Mrs. Georgina Narteh charged HCC students. “I grew up in Nima, a typical slum in the heart of the city of Accra, got used to the rag-tag life of the area; I slept without food on numerous occasions, did all manner of menial jobs just to survive in those harsh moments of life. Despite all these, I didn’t give up—I strove very hard and finished my basic education and second-cycle education. I struggled to make my grades to qualify me for university but later I succeeded and completed my first and second degrees. I told myself nothing could prevent me from getting to the top of the educational ladder and making it in life.” Those were the words of Mrs. Georgina Adwoa Assor Narteh, an inspirational female mentor to the students of HCC. This entrepreneurial-minded businesswoman, who left a good job at the bank to pursue her dream of running an early childhood school complex, was a welcome guest at HCC’s “Time with an Achiever”. Mrs. Georgina Adwoa Assor Narteh taught during her national service and did some more teaching at the basic level after service. She later left the teaching field and joined Standard Chartered Bank as Branch Operations Clerk, Teller and then Foreign Teller before she rose to become Head Teller. She also worked in the Customer Service Office and the Call Center as Manager as Quality Assurance Manager at the Loan Centre. When the bank moved its call center to India, she was sent to India to train the representatives there for 3 months. She worked for 18 years at Standard Chartered Bank ending her career there in 2014 as Acting Operations Manager. Passion for Early Child Education Georgina is passionate about Early Childhood Education and that is why she left Standard Chartered to pursue her vision and passion. She is a Certified Montessori Early Childhood Educator from the GES-accredited National Nursery Teachers Training Center. Now she is at The BabyNest, a pre-school for the University of Ghana Basic School as the service delivery manager, and oversees all their branches concerning service delivery issues and handles customer complaints. She is in the process of completing her own school in Amrahia, near Accra. Georgina has a first degree in Psychology and Executive Master’s in Business Administration (EMBA) in Marketing both from the University of Ghana and intends to begin a PhD soon because of her passion for teaching. Catering Business Georgina loves cooking and has turned that passion also into a Catering Business, which she has run for 16 years, preparing and delivering sumptuous meals, pastries and drinks for events. She is a Christian with the Legon Church of Christ and supports various church initiatives especially regarding child and youth development. She is married to Professor Bedman Narteh of University of Ghana Business School with whom she has four children. 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__label__wiki	0.894393	0.894393	After Badla, Sujoy Ghosh to direct horror series for Netflix Sujoy Ghosh was last behind the camera for the Vidya Balan starrer Kaahani 2, and has been busy working on his next film Badla. Well, while the Amitabh Bachchan – Taapsee Pannu starrer that is said to be a remake of the Spanish film Contratiempo is yet to release, we hear that this maverick filmmaker has already signed on for his next. In fact, post Badla, Sujoy is all set to return with a horror series for the streaming giant Netflix. Talking about the same, a source close to the developments says, “Yes Sujoy has gone the web series way and will be directing a horror show for Netflix. Though details of the show and its cast are being kept under wraps, the show has been titled Type Writer.” After the successes of Kaahani 2, Sujoy is currently busy with Badla which will be a thriller and will commence work on the Netflix series only after he completes it. Now with this, Sujoy Ghosh will be joining Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap and others who have also made content for digital platforms. Also Read: Sujoy Ghosh REVEALS how he brought together a team of Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu for his next Tags : Amitabh Bachchan, Anurag Kashyap, Contratiempo, horror, Karan Johar, Netflix, News, Sujoy Ghosh, Taapsee Pannu, Type Writer, Vidya Balan, Zoya Akhtar Badla direct Ghosh Horror Netflix Series Sujoy 2018-10-19	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line390
__label__cc	0.632245	0.367755	2014 NHL Winter Classic: By The Numbers Here's some stats and facts regarding the long rivalry between Toronto and Detroit: The teams have met in the regular season 644 times. Detroit leads the career series by the slimmest of margins with a 275-273-93-3 record. The teams have met in 23 playoff series. Toronto has won 12 series, Detroit 11. Seven times (1936, 1942, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1963, 1964) these two teams faced off in the Stanley Cup final. Toronto won all of those series except 1936. The most famous showdown was in 1942 when Detroit blew a 3-0 series lead only to see Toronto win 4 straight elimination games to steal the Stanley Cup. A lesser known fact is three years later in 1945 Toronto blew a 3-0 series lead in the Stanley Cup final, allowing Detroit to win 3 straight and force a game 7. Toronto did finally get the job done in game 7, however. The last Stanley Cup final showdown was in 1964. That was the year Bobby Baun scored the OT winning goal in game six on a broken ankle. The Wings' advantage in Stanley Cup playoff play is also narrow at 59-57 in 116 all time matches. The two teams have not met in the playoffs since 1993 (Toronto won in 7 games). They have only met in the playoffs three times since the NHL expanded from the Original Six way back in the late 1960s. The Leafs who have won more Stanley Cup championships. Toronto has won the title 13 times. Detroit has won it 11 times. Toronto has appeared in the Stanley Cup final 19 times total, while Detroit has played 24 times. Labels: NHL Winter Classic	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line392
__label__wiki	0.587381	0.587381	Home Literature Star Wars Insider Special Edition On Sale Now Star Wars Insider Special Edition On Sale Now Adam Lamping November 20, 2009, 4:33 AM, BST Following our report a couple of days ago, Kristen from Titan has sent through some excerpts and images from the Star Wars Insider Special Edition. Interview with Mark Hamill on being Luke Skywalker: “I would have much rather played the robot [C-3PO] or Han Solo than Luke! Luke is the bland audience surrogate—he’s not extraordinarily talented or physically imposing. That’s the whole point. It’s to appeal to that 10-year-old who’ll go, “Oh I could do that!” It’s almost like the way Robin was added to Batman, to make it more accessible to the target audience. When I went for the screen test, I felt for sure that Han Solo was the lead character, like Buck Rogers, and I was the sidekick kid. It can’t be the other way around—why would the kid be the protagonist? Even the marketing people couldn’t live with it. You see Luke on the posters and they decided to give him this massive chest. It’s not me. Finally, after it was hugely popular, then they got comfortable enough to make a poster where Luke looked like me. Isn’t that funny? It had to make $60 million before I finally got the part!” On Sir Alec Guinness: “He was the one that took me out to lunch and got me over being so tongue-tied. He wouldn’t let me call him Sir Alec. He said (in Alec Guinness voice), “I want to be known by my name, not my accolades.” I said, “Well, what do you want me to call you? Big Al?!” When I relaxed I could use my humor, which is sort of irreverent. All I wanted to talk about was The Ladykillers, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit… “No, I want to hear about your career,” he said. I replied: “What do you want to hear about first? The soap opera or the dog food commercial?” I had much more work than that, but that was my way of making the point that [the extent of] my career was just ridiculous compared to his.” Rarely seen Revenge of the Sith interviews Star Wars Insider: What kind of pressure did you feel when you embarked on Revenge of the Sith, given the level of expectation? George Lucas: Ultimately I had to push that all out of my life and just say, “I’m going to continue to make the movies that I started out to make.” Fortunately, the whole thing was written and established, before Star Wars was successful. You have to remember, Star Wars was intended to be one movie: Episode IV, a Saturday matinee serial. You never saw what came before and you never saw what came after. It was designed to be the tragedy of Darth Vader, which starts with Darth Vader coming through the door and throwing everybody around. Halfway through the story you realize he is actually a man and that the hero is his son. In the end the villain turns into the hero because he is inspired by his son. Star Wars Insider: What inspired the character of Palpatine? Ian McDiarmid: I just play a straight forward politician—now there’s a contradiction in terms! He’s charming, smiling, out for the good of the universe, and its community. But underneath there lurks a monster, so it was very easy to build the character; I just looked in the newspapers! Star Wars Insider: How did the cast and crew react to you when you put on the Darth Vader suit? Hayden Christensen: That was what was brilliant: getting to put it all on and experiencing the sensation of being Vader! Watching everyone take it in for the first time was what was really cool. People that I had befriended and spent a lot of time with, who knew I was in the costume, would see me and, though there was excitement and a certain awe, were also fearful and respectful of me! Remember to join the Star Wars Insider Facebook page for more news and latest imagery from the new issue. Visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Wars-Insider-Magazine/11532179978 To subscribe to Star Wars Insider magazine visit: http://titanmagazines.com/starwars and if you want to receive Star Wars Insider Magazine exclusives, including sneak peeks, interviews, promotional offers, and sweepstakes, visit: http://mailing.titanmagazines.com/mailing/ SOURCETitan Magazines Star Wars Insider Adam launched Jedi News in 2007 along with James Burns, and together swiftly built the site into the UK's number one Star Wars destination. He stepped away from Jedi News in 2011 to become a contributor at Rebelscum. Star Wars Celebration Chicago 2019: Two Variant Covers For Star Wars Insider #189 This Weeks Publications – 25th February 2019 This Weeks Publications – 12th November 2018 This Weeks Publications – 10th September 2018 This Weeks Publications – 30th July 2018 ‘Star Wars’ Insider: We Need You! Latest Take Cover Podcast	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line396
__label__wiki	0.584984	0.584984	38 STARS IN A "NOTCHED" PATTERN ON A CLAMP-DYED AMERICAN FLAG OF THE 1876-1889 PERIOD, REFLECTS COLORADO STATEHOOD, MADE BY THE U.S. BUNTING COMPANY IN LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS Frame Size (H x L): Approx. 64" x 97.5" Flag Size (H x L): 51.5" x 85" 38 star American national flag, press-dyed on wool bunting. The stars are configured in what is known as a "notched" pattern, in which two spaces were left open along the hoist end in anticipation of the addition of two more Western Territories. The flag is pieced from three panels of fabric which have been joined together by hand-stitching. At the hoist end, the wool was rolled over, bound by hand, and left partially exposed beneath a heavy canvas binding, along which there are 3 brass grommets. A black stencil along the obverse, near the top, reads “American Ensign 7 ft.” The flag was made by the U.S. Bunting Co., in Lowell, Massachusetts and was probably intended for nautical use. Versions of this stencil are seen on other known U.S. Bunting Co. examples, some of which include the name and a patent date of 1870, which related to the clamp-dying process with regard to its use in flag production. The U.S. Navy was in the habit of using 13 star flags on its small boats during the second half of the 19th century, not flags with the full star count, like this one, but there were probably exceptions to that rule. The U.S. Bunting Company was owned in part by Civil War General Benjamin Butler, who had a great deal of both political and military clout and is known to have sought and obtained Naval contracts. These press-dyed flags may also have made for foreign ships that sailed into American ports, hence the inclusion of the word “American” on the sleeve, which would have been obvious to any U.S. resident. Thought not unknown, such identification is generally excluded on American flags. Colorado became the 38th state on August 1st, 1876. This was the year of our nation’s 100-year anniversary of independence. Per the Third Flag Act of 1818, stars were not officially added until the 4th of July following a state's addition. For this reason, 37 was the official star count for the American flag in 1876. Flag-making was a competitive venture, however, and few flag-makers would have been continuing to produce 37 star flags when their competitors were making 38’s. It is for this reason that 38 and 13 stars (to represent the original 13 colonies) are more often seen at the Centennial International Exposition, the six-month long World’s Fair held in Philadelphia in honor of the event. Some flag-makers would have been adding a star for the 38th state even before it entered the Union, in the early part of 1876 or even prior. In fact, many makers of parade flags were actually producing 39 star flags, in hopeful anticipation of the addition of two more Western Territories instead of one. But the 39th state would not join the Union for another 13 years, when the Dakota Territory entered as two states (numbers 39 and 40) on the same day, November 2nd, 1889. The name "Cram" is penciled along the binding, near the bottom. This would represent the name of a former owner and it was common to mark flags in this fashion during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Cram is a Scottish surname, but nothing further is known about the flag's specific history. Some Notes on the Press-Dying Process: First patented in 1849, the press-dying process was thought to be a novel idea that would improve flag-making efficiency. In this case, for example, it could potentially alleviate the chore of hand-appliquéing 76 stars (38 on each side). In reality, however, the result must have been less efficient than sewing. To achieve white stars, for example, metal plates in the shape of stars had to be clamped to either side of a length of woolen fabric, in the desired configuration, so they were back-to-back. These may have been lightly brushed beforehand with a solution that would resist dye, or perhaps with a thin coat of wax. The stars were clamped together tightly, the bunting was dyed blue, and the areas where the they were positioned would be left white. For flags with press-dyed stripes, the same task was repeated with different clamps. Wool was preferred because it sheds water, making it the fabric of choice for all maritime flags and, in fact, most flags produced by professional flag-makers for long-term outdoor use. Press-dying on wool was primarily used during the Centennial-era by the U.S. Bunting Company of Lowell, Massachusetts, which began making examples of this sort for the U.S. military in 1869, as well as by Horstmann Brothers of Philadelphia. The U.S. Bunting Co. was one of the first flag-makers to successfully produce high quality wool bunting fabric in the States, and while its owners worked diligently to master the press-dyeing process, it seems quite obvious today that it was actually more costly than expected, because it never become a popular method of flag production. This inexact art of reverse-dyeing would often add crude characteristics, such as stripes with irregular lines, in various widths, and stars with inconsistent shapes, in slightly varying sizes. It is likely that this resulted in lost product and wasted time, from flags that had bleeding or misprint issues and were of too poor quality to sell. Whatever the case may be, printing on wool is costly and difficult. Even today, only about 1% of wool fabric is printed, because it generally needs to be washed afterward and wool cannot easily be treated with water.* * Chen, W., Wang, G., & Bai, Y., “Best for Wool Fabric Printing…,” (Textile Asia, 2002, v.33 (12)), pp. 37-39. Mounting: The flag was mounted and framed within our own conservation department, which is led by masters degree trained staff. We take great care in the mounting and preservation of flags and have framed thousands of examples. The background is 100% hemp fabric or a hemp and cotton blend (we use both interchageably). The black-painted, hand-gilded and distressed molding is Italian. The glazing is U.V. protective plexiglass. Feel free to contact us for more details. Condition: There is a small tear with associated loss in the upper, hoist-end corner of the canton, and another beneath the first star in the second row, and a small, closed tear above the 7th star in the 1st row, accompanied by a scattering of small holes in a number of the stars themselves. There is a small hole near the center of the 5th white stripe and there are more minor losses elsewhere throughout. There is minor soiling and oxidation throughout and a few modest stains in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 8th, and 10th stripes. The overall condition is very good for the period. Many of my clients prefer early flags to show their age and history of use. Flag Type: Sewn flag State/Affiliation: Colorado War Association: 1866-1890 Indian Wars	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line397
__label__wiki	0.653477	0.653477	Volume 9 \| Issue 1 Page Nos. 1-50 Online since Friday, March 8, 2019 Accessed 7,729 times. PDF access policy Full text access is free in HTML pages; however the journal allows PDF accesss only to users from developing countries and paid subscribers. EPub access policy Full text in EPub is free except for the current issue. Access to the latest issue is reserved only for the paid subscribers. View issue as eBook Issue statistics Show all abstracts Show selected abstracts Export selected to Add to my list What's New in Critical Illness and Injury Science?Identifying Sources of Nosocomial Infections to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit p. 1 Charles R Vasquez, Niels D Martin DOI:10.4103/2229-5151.253768 PMID:30989059 [HTML Full text] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [PubMed] [Sword Plugin for Repository]Beta Barriers to International Research Collaboration due to U.S. Sanctions p. 3 Donald Jeanmonod, Michael S Firstenberg DOI:10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_9_19 PMID:30989060 United States federal government regulation of international research collaborations: What every physician-scientist should know p. 5 Andrew C Miller, Amna Ziad-Miller DOI:10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_63_18 PMID:30989061 In the United States (US), the degree to which federal law has encroached on international research and academic communications is not widely known or understood. Despite this, a web of legal code, statutes, executive orders, and intersecting agency jurisdictions apply to all US researchers, with stiff civil and criminal penalties for those who transgress. As the transfer of knowledge is considered an export by the US government, and Title 31 code of federal regulations 500–599 applies to research collaboration, teaching, presenting, publishing, and other activities. Collaboration with persons or institutions in sanctioned entities (e.g., Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and others) requires approval by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Original investigations, meta-analyses, reviews, and case reports/series performed with designated entities also requires OFAC approval. Other types of academic output are more case specific. Opinion pieces may be exempted, but still require OFAC review, as do professional conversations and translation services. Peer review performed as part of routine journal editing or peer review panel is acceptable if the work is not otherwise export controlled. Editing an individual's work outside of these avenues always requires approval. Noncompliance with federal regulations may yield criminal penalties up to $1,000,000 USD and/or 20 years in prison (per violation). The US investigators must be informed of these regulations to prevent inadvertent legal transgressions and repercussions. [ABSTRACT] [HTML Full text] [PDF] [Mobile Full text] [EPub] [PubMed] [Sword Plugin for Repository]Beta Usefulness of ultrasound in the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome p. 11 Anis Chaari, Kamel Bousselmi, Walid Assar, Vaguish Kumar, Elsayed Khalil, Vipin Kauts, Karim Abdelhakim Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a life-threatening disease. Different imaging techniques have been used to diagnose and guide the ventilatory management of patients with ARDS. Chest ultrasound is a reliable tool to identify interstitial syndrome, lung consolidation, lung collapse, and pleural effusion. In addition, echocardiography is essential in the diagnosis of diastolic left ventricle dysfunction and the estimation of elevated ventricle filling pressures, which is necessary before diagnosing ARDS. Therefore, combining chest and heart ultrasound assessment is useful to diagnose ARDS and guide the ventilatory management of the disease. Available data in the literature suggest that protocol-based approaches should be implemented for the purposes of diagnosis and management. Nosocomial infections in surgical intensive care unit: A retrospective single-center study p. 16 Ajit Subhash Baviskar, Khalid Ismail Khatib, Deepali Rajpal, Harshad Chandrakant Dongare Aims: This study aims to study the incidence, microbiological and antibiotic sensitivity and resistance profile and impact on intensive care units (ICUs) stay and mortality of nosocomial infections in patients admitted to surgical ICU of our hospital. Methods: A retrospective analysis of all patients admitted, over the course of 1 year, in the surgical ICU was undertaken. All patients who developed nosocomial infections were included in the study. Incidence, sites, common organisms of nosocomial infection were identified. The antibiotic sensitivity pattern of the microorganisms which were cultured was identified. This group of patients with nosocomial infections was matched with group of patients without nosocomial infections with respect to age, gender, and clinical diagnosis and the impact of nosocomial infections on ICU stay, and mortality was studied. Results: Of 1051 patients admitted to the ICU during the study, 350 patients developed nosocomial infections and were included in the study group. Of the remaining patients, 350 patients matching the patients in the study group were included in the control group. The prevalence of nosocomial infections in our study was 33.30%. Skin and soft tissue infections (36.30%), including postoperative wound infections were the most common nosocomial infection, followed by respiratory infections (24.46%) and genitourinary infections (23.40%). The most common organisms causing nosocomial infections were Escherichia coli (26.59%) and Acinetobacter species (18.08%). About 40% of all Gram-negative organisms isolated were multidrug resistant. The average length of stay in ICU was 14.4 days for patients with nosocomial infections and 5.4 days (P < 0.05) for matched patients without nosocomial infections. The mortality in patients with nosocomial infections was 25.14% while that in patients without nosocomial infections was 10.57% (P < 0.05). Overall ICU mortality was 14.27%. Conclusions: Nosocomial infections in surgical ICU patients significantly increase ICU length of stay and mortality. Development of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome in older and young adult trauma patients p. 21 Amado Alejandro Baez Objective: We sought out to determine the correlation between the injury severity score (ISS) and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) between severely injured young adults (18–54 years) and elderly (>55 years) patients. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional observational study. We included all adult cases (>18 years) diagnosed with trauma defined by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision. For significance testing, Chi-square test and odds ratio were used. Severe injuries were defined by an ISS >15. The presence of MODS was based on the definitions proposed by society for critical care medicine. Results: A total of 469 young and 173 elderly patients were included in the study. Among the 469 young adults, 193 had ISS >15, whereas out of the 173 elderly patients, 88 had an ISS >15. Severely injured young and elderly groups were more likely to develop MODS compared with those with an ISS <15 (P < 0.001 and P < 0.001, respectively). The elderly had a higher likelihood of developing MODS (P < 0.001; odds ratio: 5.17; 95% confidence interval: 2.74–9.80). Conclusion: This study demonstrated a direct relationship between an ISS >15 and the development of MODS. We also observed a five-fold increase in the development of MODS among severely injured elderly patients. Environmental and familial factors in drug use among commercial drivers in suburban public transport p. 25 Elaheh Ainy, Hamid Soori Background: A study was conducted in 2013 on the lack of accurate statistics on the environmental and family factors behind the use of drugs by drivers of public transport. Materials and Methods: Overall, 1176 drivers of buses, mini-buses, vans, all kinds of trucks, and cars were randomly selected proportionately according to the type of vehicles. The capture-recapture sampling method was used to determine the prevalence rate of drug use among commercial drivers. Trained experts collected data regarding the environmental and family factors behind the use of addictive drugs. Urinalysis was performed by the Rapid Test method (ACON, San Diego, USA). To providing descriptive and analytical statistics the Kruskal–Wallis and Mantel–Haenszel methods, logistic regression, and Chi-square tests were used. Results: The mean age of the drivers was 39.9 ± 9.7 years. The results of the experiment were positive in 14.1% of the drivers. A significant difference observed between addicted and nonaddicted drivers related to cold and heat (P < 0.001) and lack of facilities (P = 0.006) as the most influencing factors. The most important environmental factor was family poverty (P < 0.001), followed by marital status and its problems (P = 0.002), a large number of children (P = 0.006), and family disputes (P = 0.012). A family history of addiction was 2.5 times more among addicted drivers. Conclusion: Prevalence of addiction was 14.1%. Among the environmental factors, cold and heat, lack of facilities, family factors, and a family history of addiction greatly influenced addiction. Occupational injury trends in the Canadian workforce: An examination of the Canadian community health survey p. 29 Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia, Arooba Baig, Anson Li, Jennifer Casole, Emily Chai Background: Previous studies suggest that various factors including the type of occupation, employment status, and level of education have significant associations with the rates of occupational injuries. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of demographics, such as age and gender, and various occupational factors on the rate of occupational injuries for a 14-year period from 2001 to 2014 and to study the differences in trends over time. Methods: The Canadian Community Health Survey data for 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009–2014 was used to examine the impact of various occupational factors on workplace injuries in the Canadian population. Various inclusion criteria such as age, employment type, and status were applied to select the final sample. The logistic regression was performed using StataMP 11 to determine the association between the rate of occupational injuries and the factors being considered. Results: Rates of injuries occurring at the workplace are associated with various occupational health factors, including, the type of occupation, level of education, the number of injuries sustained, and the employment status. Conclusion: The findings may be used by researchers and practitioners to address the impact of occupational injuries in the workforce, and to identify and resolve the factors that result in a high rate of workplace injuries. Noninvasive ventilation in acute hypoxic respiratory failure in medical intensive care unit: A study in rural medical college p. 36 Aditya Bajaj, Sunil Kumar, Anil H Inamdar, Laxmi Agrawal Introduction: Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has emerged as an important tool for the management of acute hypoxic respiratory failure (AHRF) and has been the area of research in the last two decades. In this study, we have tried to find out the outcome of NIV in patients with AHRF. Materials and Methods: In this prospective, observational study, all the patients of AHRF requiring NIV were enrolled, and heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), arterial blood gas parameters, and NIV settings at baseline, 1 h, and 4 h were collected. The patients were classified as AHRF with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and AHRF without ARDS, which were further classified according to the outcome. Results: Among 200 patients admitted in medical intensive care unit (ICU), 50 patients (27 with ARDS and 23 without ARDS) were put on NIV. There was a significant improvement in HR, RR, PaO2, and inspiratory positive airway pressure after 1 and 4 h and significant improvement at 4 h in expiratory positive airway pressure in all the groups on NIV. Length of ICU stay and hospital stay was less in the nonintubated group. Mortality rate was 25.92% in the intubated group, while it was nil in the nonintubated group. Conclusion: NIV found to reduce the endotracheal intubation and mortality, by improving the outcome of the patient. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm post myocardial infarction p. 43 Wasil Rasool Sheikh, Pallavi Sehgal, Ankur Verma, Meghna Haldar, Sanjay Jaiswal Left ventricular (LV) pseudoaneurysm is a rare and grave complication of acute myocardial infarction. If left undetected, it has an extremely high rate of mortality. It is complicated by a ventricular free wall rupture contained by the pericardium and is characterized by the absence of myocardial tissue in its wall. The clinical presentation of these patients is nonspecific, making the diagnosis challenging. We came across a case of LV pseudoaneurysm diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography, but unfortunately, the patient passed away within a few hours of presentation in the emergency department. This case depicts the importance of prompt diagnosis and management of such deadly complication. Emergency department presentation of hemoptysis due to nail gun injury p. 46 Huseyin Narci, Seda Ozer, Gülten Bozali, Cüneyt Ayrık, Ali Ozdülger Nail guns are cheap and easy-to-access devices that are common in the industry and personal use and are widely used by untrained people. Life-threatening injuries may occur after a self-accident due to the use of these devices. We report the case of a 47-year-old man who had hemoptysis due to a lung parenchymal injury after nail gun use. Computed tomography revealed focal alveolar hemorrhage. Hemodynamically stable, the patient underwent surgery. Nail guns penetrating the chest can cause life-threatening situations. In the emergency department, rapid diagnosis and treatment is vital in preventing fatal outcome. Diabetes and acute respiratory failure. 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__label__wiki	0.992462	0.992462	PSG must pay £198m 'in full' to sign Neymar, Barca warns Barcelona told Paris St.-Germain the French club must pay a world record €222 million (£198 million) fee "in full" before Neymar can join PSG. The Brazil international arrived at training on Wednesday with his father and representative, and told the Spanish club he wanted to leave. He was then given permission by Barca manager Ernesto Valverde not to train and to "sort out his future". PSG is understood to be ready to pay the 25-year-old's release clause. The latest development came two days after it emerged Barca was ready to push for a Financial Fair Play investigation if PSG signed Neymar. That came after La Liga president Javier Tebas threatened, in an interview with Mundo Deportivo, a legal response against the former Ligue 1 champion if European football's governing body failed to take action. He also said PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi had been made aware of the Spanish league's intentions. Neymar moved to Barcelona from Brazilian club Santos in 2013 for £48.6 million, and signed a new five-year deal with the 24-time Spanish champion in 2016. His representative Wagner Ribeiro, who on Wednesday tweeted he was in Paris, said last year that his client had been offered a tax-free £650,000 a week to sign for the French club. He also said the forward "was close to a move to Manchester United". Rumors of Neymar's potential departure resurfaced recently, but club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told the BBC the player would be staying. Neymar played for the Catalan side in the recent International Champions Cup in the US, before travelling to China to fulfil commercial commitments. He traveled back to Spain on Tuesday and returned to the club's training ground on Wednesday. The Brazilian has scored 105 goals for Barcelona, helping the Spanish giant to two league titles, three Copa del Rey trophies and a Champions League crown.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line404
__label__cc	0.678035	0.321965	ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ ʿABD-AL-KARĪM B. ḴᵛĀJA ʿĀQEBAT MAḤMŪD B. ḴᵛĀJA BOLĀQĪ KAŠMĪRĪ, a noted chronicler of Nāder Shah’s military campaigns. Little is known of his birth or early life. A Kashmiri by origin, ʿAbd-al-Karīm was living in Shahjahanabad (old Delhi) when Nāder Shah entered the city in 1151/1739. Being keen to perform the pilgrimage to Mecca and to visit the tombs of Muslim saints, he joined the service of Nāder Shah as a clerk (motaṣaddī) and accompanied him on his return journey to Persia. When Nāder Shah finally reached Qazvīn in 1154/1741, after successive campaigns in the Panjab, Sind, Afghanistan, Khorasan, Transoxania, Ḵᵛārazm, and elsewhere, ʿAbd-al-Karīm took leave of him to go to Mecca. On the way he visited Karbalā, Ḥalab , and other places. He performed the pilgrimage and then took a boat from Jidda to the port of Hugly (Calcutta), finally returning to Delhi in 1156/1743. He died in 1198/1784. ʿAbd-al-Karīm is the author of Bayān-e vāqeʿ, also called Tārīḵ-e Nāderī or Nādernāma (K. B. Nasīm, ed., Lahore, 1970). It deals primarily with the life and campaigns of Nāder Shah but also includes some interesting accounts of the countries visited by the author. Part of the work is devoted to the history of the later Mughals down to 1198/1784 or 1199/1785. Bayān-e vāqeʿ is a frank and objective account of the life of Nāder Shah. It is rich in geographical, social and economic information, e.g., the hourly reckoning of distances from Baghdad to Mecca and the Turks’ use of European watches (Gladwin’s translation, pp. 114-20); the exhibition of Nāder Shah’s wealth in Herat (ibid., pp. 26-28); and the European settlements in Pondicherry (ibid., p. 142). It is also speculated that India became a wealthy nation in comparison with Turan because large quantities of gold and silver were brought to India on European ships at the same time that the Europeans had ready money to buy Indian manufactured goods and other products (ibid., pp. 42-43). None of the existing translations of Bayān-e vāqeʿ is complete. Another manuscript exists in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ms. no. 18975. According to the preface, the work is divided into five chapters and a conclusion; this last is not found in any of the extant manuscripts. Storey, II/2, pp. 326-27. M. Shafi, “ʿAbd-al-Karīm Kashmīrī,” EI 2 I, pp. 71-72. F. Gladwyn, tr., Memoirs of Khojeh Abdulkurreem, London, 1793. L. Lockhart, Nadir Shah, London, 1938, passim. (S. Maqbul Ahmad) S. Maqbul Ahmad, “'Abd-Al-Karim Kasmiri,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/2, p. 125; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abd-al-karim-kasmiri (accessed on 16 January 2014). kasmiri S. Maqbul Ahmad 0 COMMENTS on ʿABD-AL-KARĪM KAŠMĪRĪ	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line405
__label__wiki	0.861078	0.861078	ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾEŠĪ ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾESĪ, late Mughal biographer, commonly called ḠOLĀM QĀDER KHAN. He was the son of Mawlavī Vāṣel ʿAlī Khan, chief justice (qāżī al-qożāt) of Bengal. In is youth he enjoyed the company of two renowned historians ʿAlī Ebrāhīm Khan Ḵalīl and Sayyed Ḡolām Ḥosayn Khan Ṭabāṭabāʾī. Jonathan Duncan, who was Resident at Benares from 1788 to 1795, sent him on political deputations to Nepal, and, according to ʿAbd-al-Qāder’s own testimony in Ḥešmat-e Kašmīr, his reports from Nepal were submitted to Col. W. Kirkpatrick, who later printed them in translation. Col. Kirkpatrick, in turn, mentions ʿAbd-al-Qāder as a member of the 1793 mission to Nepal (see Kirkpatrick, Nepaul, pp. xi, 367). ʿAbd-al-Qāder is chiefly remembered for his two extant works: Ḥešmat-e Kašmīr and Tārīḵ-e ʿEmād-al-molk. Both reflect his close association with British officials of north India. In the early 19th century, through the influence of a British agent, Ḥešmat-al-dawla W. Augustus Brooke, ʿAbd-al-Qāder’s personal revenue assignment (ǰāgīr) was made hereditary and he therefore dedicated Ḥešmat-e Kašmīr to his benefactor after completing it at Benares in 1245/1830. It is an unoriginal narrative history of Kashmir based mainly on Abu’l-Qāsem Moṇʿemī’s Gawhar-e ʿālam, with short accounts of Tibet and other regions adjacent to Kashmir (for details, see Storey, I/1, pp. 684-85). Tārīḵ-e ʿEmād al-molk is a more ambitious undertaking; it is a history of ʿEmād-al-molk Ḡāzī-al-dīn Khan Fīrūz Jang, the vizier of Aḥmad Shah (1161-67/1748-54) and ʿĀlamgīr II (1167-73/1754-59), based partly on oral information from various persons, including the Navvāb himself, whom the author interviewed at Kalpi, and partly on written sources such as the Navvāb’s letters, Tārīḵ-e Šoǰāʿī of Haṛčarandās, and Ḥadīqat al-aqālīm of Shaikh Allāhyār Belgrāmī. ʿAbd-al-Qāder undertook to write the book in 1834 in response to a veiled request from Captain Thoresby, then the superintendent of the Sanskrit college at Benares (for details, see Storey I/1, pp. 622-23). ʿAbd-al-Qāder Khan Jāʾesī, Ḥešmat-e Kašmīr, Calcutta, 1832, MSS of Tārīḵ-e ʿEmād-al-molk exist at Ind. Off. Lib. and Bankipore. Col. W. Kirkpatrick, An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul, Calcutta, 1794. (M. Baqir) M. Baqir, “'Abd-Al-Qader Khan Ja'esi,” Encyclopædia Iranica, I/2, p. 134; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abd-al-qader-khan-jaesi (accessed on 16 January 2014). abd al qader khan jaesi jaeshi jaesi M. Baqir 0 COMMENTS on ʿABD-AL-QĀDER KHAN JĀʾEŠĪ	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line406
__label__wiki	0.51889	0.51889	Federal Court Rejects Claim by Guatemalan Victims of U.S. Medical Experiments A federal district court has rejected a legal claim by individuals in Guatamala who asserted their right to compensation for the unethical medical experimentation that was carried out by U.S. researchers in the 1940’s (Garcia v. Sebelius, Dist. D.C., 2012). The researchers from the U.S. Public Health Service exposed the plaintiffs to sexually transmitted diseases (syphilis, gonorrhea) to create research subjects. No informed consent or bioethical standards were used to conduct these studies; the participants were institutionalized (prisons, hospitals, etc.) and had little control over the conditions of their confinement. The legal claim was filed under the Alien Tort Statute, which provides a mechanism for aliens to file legal claims for violations of international law or treaties in U.S. courts. The statute has been used extensively to assert human rights claims in a variety of international settings; nonetheless, the scope of the statute is still hotly contested (see upcoming Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, to be heard in the Fall 2012 term). The specific legal issue in the Guatamala case was whether the government, would face liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), which does expose government employees to liability when their acts are which ordinarily concedes a waiver of sovereign immunity by virtue of the existence of the statute for caused by the negligent or wrongful act or omission of any employee of the Government while acting within the scope of his office or employment, nonetheless would escape lliability due to an exception for activities conducted in a foreign country. Although the plaintiffs asked the court to carve out an exception to that clause in this case, the court rejected that argument: “Here, the plaintiffs' Alien Tort Statute claims all arise out of injuries suffered in Guatemala, and the claims are thus barred by the FTCA's foreign country exception.” The court further noted, that despite its inability to grant relief, the U.S. government has conceded the severe injustices of this case and has declared its intention to provide redress. Indeed, the State Department issued an official apology in 2010: “We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices.” The Presidential Commission on Bioethical Issues also issued a report (discussed here). No official compensation scheme has been announced by the U.S. government. Labels: Bioethics, Presidential Commission, Research Ethics AMA: Pre-Market Review, No Labels, for Genetically... ACA Upheld; Focus on Preventive Care Includes Gene... CDC Establishes Influenza H5N1 Mutation Database Federal Court Rejects Claim by Guatemalan Victims ... Gene Patent Litigation Returns to Federal Circuit ... H5N1 Influenza Research Published After Controvers... Mapping the Synthetic Biology Field: An Internatio...	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line408
__label__cc	0.694486	0.305514	I actually went on a ketogenic diet last year to see if it would help my migraines. I have a history of chronic migraines which would usually last 3 days, sometimes longer. Triptans help a lot but I don’t like having to take them. I stayed in ketosis for about 8 months and experienced a significant reduction in migraines, from feeling some type of headache (mild o r severe) almost everyday to 1 or 2x per month while in ketosis. Although I’m very healthy otherwise, I do think my migraines may have something to do with blood sugar fluctuations (despite previously eating a whole foods diet and no refined carbs), and keto totally stabilized this. I eventually came off of Keto because I’m not really a meat lover. When I came off, but remained low carb, my migraines stayed under control for the most part. When I increase carbs, they do return. The keto diet isn’t new, and it’s been around for nearly a century. It was originally developed to treat people with epilepsy. In the 1920s, researchers found that raised levels of ketones in the blood led to fewer epileptic seizures in patients. The keto diet is still used today to treat children with epilepsy who don’t respond well to anti-epileptic drugs.[2] A: The most common ways to track your carbs is through MyFitnessPal and their mobile app. You cannot track net carbs on the app, although you can track your total carb intake and your total fiber intake. To get your net carbs, just subtract your total fiber intake from your total carb intake. I have written an article on How to Track Carbs on MyFitnessPal. Short-term results for the LGIT indicate that at one month approximately half of the patients experience a greater than 50% reduction in seizure frequency, with overall figures approaching that of the ketogenic diet. The data (coming from one centre's experience with 76 children up to the year 2009) also indicate fewer side effects than the ketogenic diet and that it is better tolerated, with more palatable meals.[18][50] "The keto diet is primarily used to help reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures in children. While it also has been tried for weight loss, only short-term results have been studied, and the results have been mixed. We don't know if it works in the long term, nor whether it's safe," warns registered dietitian Kathy McManus, director of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. OMG! This was so good, and so easy! My husband raved about it, and my 13 and 15 year old son and daughter loved it too! I’ll definitely make it again! I had no clue what I was going to make for dinner–but it had to be fast as I was heading out with a friend to see some live music in the city… so I just googled “Keto ground beef” and found your recipe. Instead of pickles, I put pickled jalapeños on top (my son had once again eaten all of our pickles). I didn’t find that it needed any condiments – we have reduced sugar ketchup on hand, but hubby didn’t feel it was needed. I cut the casserole into 6 servings, and it’s a good thing there are only 4 of us eating as my son and husband had seconds. I found my single portion very filling. The recipe far exceeded my expectations! Will definitely make this again! Meanwhile, more than 70 trials have examined the health effects of a low-carb diet. They attest to the benefits64 associated with ketosis and low-carb diets, including a reduction in body weight and body mass index, improved cardiovascular risk factors including blood pressure, and the reversal of Type 2 diabetes. It is virtually impossible to imagine that a diet with so many health improvements in the ‘near term’ (2 years) could ultimately shorten life—and the study authors offer no possible mechanism to explain how this might happen. The remaining calories in the keto diet come from protein — about 1 gram (g) per kilogram of body weight, so a 140-pound woman would need about 64 g of protein total. As for carbs: “Every body is different, but most people maintain ketosis with between 20 and 50 g of net carbs per day,” says Mattinson. Total carbohydrates minus fiber equals net carbs, she explains. Some sugar-free candy may seem safe (especially on dirty keto), but can contain the wrong sugar alcohols that could spike your blood glucose. This recipe uses stevia, which ranks much lower on the glycemic index, combined with lemon juice and gelatin for a chewy 3-ingredient gummy candy that still satisfies your sugar cravings. Make sure your gelatin comes from a pastured source to keep this one Bulletproof. Here’s the real kicker: the reason why the Inuit don’t go into ketosis as readily as other ethnic groups is the high prevalence of a deleterious mutation in the CPT1A gene.[14] This mutation permitted adaptation to a high fat, low carbohydrate diet in the sense that those carrying the gene could survive to reproductive age while eating a diet entirely at odds with our evolutionary history. However this gene is associated with high infant mortality rates due to hypoketotic hypoglycemia: when Inuit babies’ blood glucose levels drop, they are unable to utilize ketone bodies to sustain their brains. The very mutation that permits adult survival in extreme circumstances compromises infant health – a powerful example of the trade-offs inherent to evolution. Humans can indeed adapt to an extreme environment and an extreme diet, but that adaptation comes at a high cost. Another difference between older and newer studies is that the type of patients treated with the ketogenic diet has changed over time. When first developed and used, the ketogenic diet was not a treatment of last resort; in contrast, the children in modern studies have already tried and failed a number of anticonvulsant drugs, so may be assumed to have more difficult-to-treat epilepsy. Early and modern studies also differ because the treatment protocol has changed. In older protocols, the diet was initiated with a prolonged fast, designed to lose 5–10% body weight, and heavily restricted the calorie intake. Concerns over child health and growth led to a relaxation of the diet's restrictions.[19] Fluid restriction was once a feature of the diet, but this led to increased risk of constipation and kidney stones, and is no longer considered beneficial.[18] Still, the headlines keep coming. Men’s Health declared, “Ketogenic Diet Side Effects: How the Trendy Low-Carb Diet Can Give You Acne.” The health and fitness website Livestrong.com warned about “The Ketogenic Diet and Insomnia.” Other articles raised fears of bloat and constipation or cautioned that the regimen requires inhuman willpower from its followers.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line410
__label__wiki	0.684027	0.684027	July 9, 2006 - Movie Madness They take movies seriously down in Culver City, and just across the street from old MGM studios - home to The Wizard of Oz and An American in Paris and all the rest, but now Sony-Columbia - at the Veterans Memorial Building there's this stainless steel thing in the reflecting pool out front - "Filmstrip USA" by Natalie Krol. It was installed in 1981, the year after they renovated the brutal 1950 building behind it. That's still ugly, but at least it is now neat and clean - anonymous fifties public buildings aren't very interesting. The sculpture, or whatever this thing is, is amusing. Stainless steel film stock? But this is, after all, The Heart of Screenland - Hundreds of movies have been produced on the lots of Culver City's studios, including The Wizard of Oz, The Thin Man, Gone with the Wind, Citizen Kane, Rebecca, the Tarzan series, and the original King Kong. In fact, the Yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz is still inside the lot on Stage 27 of Sony Studios. More recent films made in Culver City include Grease, Raging Bull, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, City Slickers, Air Force One, Wag the Dog and Contact. Television shows made on Culver City sets have included Las Vegas, Mad About You, Lassie, Batman, The Andy Griffith Show and Jeopardy!. John Travolta's "Stranded at the Drive-In" sequence in Grease was filmed at the Studio Drive-In on the corner of Jefferson and Sepulveda. It served as a set for many other films, including Pee-wee's Big Adventure. ... Culver City's streets may be familiar to many movie-goers. They have been featured in countless films and television shows. Since much of the architecture of the residential areas of the town has not changed in decades, the nostalgic sitcom The Wonder Years set many of its outdoor scenes in the timeless neighborhoods of Culver City. The 1970's show CHiPs also featured many chase scenes through the streets. The Nicholas Cage film Matchstick Men included scenes made at Veterans Memorial Park (which was also featured in the opening scenes of the sitcom Valerie / Valerie's Family / The Hogan Family). The history of the town is beginning to be recognized. The Aviator, a 2004 film about Howard Hughes, featured several mentions of Culver City in connection with Hughes. The Hughes aircraft plant had a Culver City mailing address but was actually in the adjacent Los Angeles neighborhood of Westchester at a site now called Playa Vista. So this work makes sense, of course. Personal Note - lived in Culver City in the early eighties, saw a bad movie or two at that Studio Drive-In with the wife, but it's now gone (so is she) and there are overpriced little houses where it stood, and at the time worked at Hughes down in Playa Vista, and listened to my father-in-law when he visited from the Pentagon tell tales of being part of the Citizen Kane production way back when (he went to high school with Orson Welles) - very odd - If you use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me These were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line416
__label__wiki	0.80956	0.80956	Home / E-KNOWLEDGE / K&A Publications / Intellectual assets of your business Omurgul Balpanova, Aisuluu Chubarova In today's world there is a tendency, not clearly observed previously: intangible assets and intellectual property are becoming increasingly important in the world economy and on the domestic market. Some experts believe this is the consequence of increasing the role of innovation and information, embodied in intellectual property. In this case, the intellectual property today has an equal place along with other important assets such as land, labor and capital, as the market value of various types of intellectual value increases, as, indeed, increases losses due to violation of the rights of its owners. What is “intellectual property”? Today, almost every company has at its disposal, both tangible and intangible assets. The latter include intellectual property. The concept of “intellectual property” includes two major areas of human rights: commercial property, mainly covering inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trade names, trademarks (service marks) and names of goods origin , and copyright, mostly covering the works of science, literature and art. However, these two components do not exhaust the meaning of the concept of “intellectual property”. There are the results of intellectual activities which have legal protection, but outside the framework of copyright and patent law and legislation on the means of individualization. They also include non-traditional objects of intellectual property - breeding achievements, topology of integrated circuits, trade secrets. Legal protection of intellectual property arises by virtue of the fact of their creation (for example, works of science, literature and art) or as a result of legal protection by the state authority (for example, an invention must be given a title of protection - a patent). As noted above, any company has intellectual assets, as it provides services and carries out works or produces goods. Thus the company uses and/or creates intellectual property. The most popular subject of intellectual property are trademarks, whose main objective to personalize products and services of one manufacturer from the goods and services of another manufacturers. In the business world, trademarks are an important part of marketing strategy. A trademark is considered unique among all objects of intellectual property, because when properly maintaining it in force, it gives its owner a monopoly on its use on almost indefinitely period of time. Therefore, trademarks are an essential element in the company's strategy in creating its own wealth. One example of a successful strategy for the use of trademarks is the Coca-Cola trademark. According to the “Interbrand” company the Coca-Cola ranked first in the ranking of global brands for 2008 year . In Russia, according to Forbes magazine in 2007 as the best Russian brand has been recognized Lada trademark . The more successful is the strategy of the company, the higher is the risk of trademark use by unscrupulous competitors who are by using someone else's trademark could harm the image of the company (the trademark owner) and still receive financial rewards. Company can prove its rights to the trademark and prevent the possibility of its use by others only through official registration of their rights. Registration of Trademarks If a company will register a trademark, and thus will have exclusive rights to its use, it can prevent or allow others to use its mark. Trademark registration can be made both domestically and abroad. Exclusive trademark rights are to be confirmed by certificate of trademark issued by the entitled authority. Use of the registered trademark By use of the trademark is meant to use at the discretion of the owner of the trademark by any lawful way, including: on goods, including packaging; by performance of work and services; on the documentation associated with the introduction of goods into free circulation; in advertising; on signs, advertisements, commercial offers, etc.; in Internet, including domain name. In this case, the trademark owner has the right to prohibit all other persons from any use of registered by him trademark. Moreover, he is entitled to prohibit the use not only of registered by him trademark of a trademark, but also any designation confusingly similar to a trademark. Such confusion may be semantic, audio and/or visual. Warning Notice The trademark owner to announce their exclusive right to trademark is entitled to affix the trademark warning notice. The most common warning label consists of a capital letter “R” or the capital letter “R” in the circle. Warning Notice may also be expressed in the form of verbal designation “registered trademark” or “trademark” or as a reduction, for example, TM, Reg. etc. In whatever form labeling is expressed, its value lies in alerting consumers and competitors that used is a trademark registered and protected in the territory of the State. Commercialization of the trademark Once a trademark is registered, its “spins” in the market and becomes recognizable. Recognizable trademark as a powerful marketing tool for companies and acquires significance in its activities. For example, the trademark is able to: increase sales of the company; increase revenues; earn money through licensing and franchising; affect the value of the financial transactions of the company. Sales and profitability of sales increase It is well known that the recognition of trademark by consumers increases sales, provided that the trademark has a distinctive character, conveys a positive and necessary for the consumer information and related to the company's business and its strategy of improving the product. The trademark also serves as a means of increasing profitability from the sale as a whole, as the consumer prefers a recognizable trademark, even if they have a higher price than similar products with less recognizable trademark. It shows the importance of loyalty or commitment to a particular type of goods from consumers. A classic example of the use of a trademark for strengthening consumer loyalty is the story of the trademark Kodak. The main strategy of the manufacturer was to conduct an effective campaign to create associations with the trademark Kodak with quality film. For example, Kodak film is necessary for capturing fleeting moments of “home comfort” and family relations. The key objectives of the strategy are to transfer the idea to consumers that the Kodak film known to them, that they can trust it, and it is reliable. The company was betting that consumers accustomed since childhood to see how the Kodak film used in their family will give it the preference, even if by then there will be new and cheap films competing companies. Thus, consumer loyalty film Kodak was one of the factors that contributed to increased sales and, consequently, the profitability of the company. Profit derived from licensing agreements and franchises Trademarks may be the subject of licensing agreements on transfer of rights to use them. The granting of licenses to use trademark can be a very profitable operation, particularly if such a trademark has a good reputation. Some licensing agreements are called franchises, since they include the brand name of the company, trademark, trade style, ways and procedures for the operation of the company. According to the International Association of franchisees license, entered on a franchise provide one-third of all retail sales in the United States, including sales of companies such as McDonalds, Coca-Cola and General Motors . Effect of trademarks on the value of financial transactions Trademarks are becoming more important, acting as a component in the valuation of financial transactions, for example, the acquisition or merger of companies. In this case, the value of a trademark can sometimes exceed the value of tangible assets. Thus, the company Philip Morris acquired Kraft firm for 13 billion U.S. dollars, exceeding the carrying value of the Kraft firm up to 600%! The aim of the company Phillip Morris are loyal consumers of the Kraft firm, which Philip Morris expects to acquire through the use of franchises in grocery trade, and thereby expand the scope of the trademark. Another example of the effect of a trademark on the value of the company is selling the American carmaker «Dodge» of 146 million U.S. dollars. About 50% of the company cost was the trademark. «Dodge», which was estimated 74. million dollars, that is, $ 15 million for letter . Other examples of the value of trademarks in the table below Rank Trademark Country The cost of a trademark in million U.S. dollars 1 Coca-Cola USA 66,667 2 IBM USA 59,031 3 Microsoft USA 59,007 4 GE USA 53,086 5 Nokia Finland 35,942 6 Toyota Japan 34,050 7 Intel USA 31,261 8 McDonalds USA 31,049 9 Disney USA 29,251 10 Google USA 25,590 In conclusion, it should be noted that, generally, the incresing role of trademarks in the company's business also means that the company may receive the risks associated with losses from violations of its exclusive rights to the trademarks. Therefore, we must once again emphasize the importance of trademark registration for the company, which not only benefit from a strategically thought-out use of trademarks in developing and promoting business, but also effectively deal with unscrupulous competitors. (Article published on the web page of “International Business Council”: www.ibc.kg in the section “Analytics”, February 2009)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line417
__label__cc	0.619106	0.380894	K&A announces its annual scholarship program “K&A Scholarship 2019” among students of law schools As part of its initiative to support the development of the new generation of legal professionals K&A announces its annual scholarship program among students of law schools. A winner of K&A Scholarship will receive a one-time monetary stipend and an opportunity to undergo a one-month internship at Kalikova & Associates, with a possibility of extension up to 2 months. More information about the program you may find by the following link. K&A contributes to the opening of the first state-of-the-art dialysis centers in the Kyrgyz Republic under a PPP Agreement K&A, as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic, was involved in the preparation of the country’s first public-private partnership (PPP) project for the organization of hemodialysis services in Bishkek, Osh and Jalal-Abad. K&A, along with international consultants, prepared feasibility study, tender documentation, PPP agreement and provided legal support in the matters relating to tender and conclusion of the PPP agreement with the winning bidder. Our PPP practice group continues to advise the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic on the matters relating to the implementation of the PPP agreement. Apart from working on specific PPP projects, our PPP team is involved in legal reforms aimed at ensuring further improvement of legal regulation of PPPs in the Kyrgyz Republic. We are extremely proud of our PPP Team for contributing to the successful launching of the socially important project which provide benefits for patients needing hemodialysis services in the Kyrgyz Republic by increasing the number and quality of hemodialysis services in the Kyrgyz Republic! Kalikova & Associates hosts client seminar K&A hosted client seminar on December 5, 2018 under the theme ‘Termination of Employment by Employer. Employment Litigation Practice’ organized by K&A Senior Lawyers, Albina Rakhmidinova and Jyldyz Tagaeva. Madina Akramovna Davletbaeva, the retired judge, lawyer and permanent instructor at the High School of Justice under the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic, was invited to speak on the employment litigation practice and employers’ liability for labor law violations, and to share her experience in labor dispute resolution. The discussion focused on dismissal of employees in the event of: (1) Liquidation of an organization; (2) Reduction in force or job elimination; (3) Employee’s unsuitability for her/his work or position. Albina Rakhmidinova and Jyldyz Tagaeva spoke on legal requirements and procedures for dismissal of employees, potential risks and common dismissal mistakes made by employers. We appreciate the active participation and input of all attendees! Cooperation with the International Energy Charter On October 8, 2018, the law firm “K & A Legal” and partner of the company, head of the “Electric Power Industry” practice, Magomed Saaduev, were awarded a special certificate of the Energy Charter Secretariat as a sign of gratitude in preparing a study on the Kyrgyz Republic in the field of assessing investment risks in the energy sector. The study was included in the global report of the International Energy Charter, covering dozens of different jurisdictions around the world, including Kyrgyz Republic. The report was published on October 3, 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. 2018 Energy Investment Risk Assessment Report The International Energy Charter announces the launch of the 2018 Energy Investment Risk Assessment publication (EIRA 2018), issued on an annual basis. The presentation, timed to the release of the EIRA 2018 publication, will take place today, October 3, in Brussels. The primary objective of the EIRA publication is to assist governments to improve investment conditions for foreign investors in the energy sector. The section on Kyrgyzstan was prepared by Kalikova & Associates partner and Head of Hydroenergy practice group, Magomed Saaduev, who has over 15 years of practical experience advising clients on the legal regulation of the electricity market and on the construction of energy facilities. Kalikova & Associates co-hosted the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Forum 2018 The 13th International legal forum Europe-Caucasus-Asia (Forum ECA), the successor of the famous CIS Local Counsel Forum took place on September 5-7, 2018 in Almaty. Having a long lasting history, the Forum ECA is the only conference of the International Bar Association (IBA) covering the post-Soviet countries. Kalikova & Associates acted as a member of the organizing committee this year and was represented at the forum by managing partner Aicholpon Jorupbekova, who delivered a welcoming speech at the opening ceremony, and Albina Rakhmidinova, senior lawyer and member of Kalikova & Associates PPP practice group. Acting as an expert in the panel discussion on PPP issues in emerging markets and answering the question - why a strong legal team is needed? - Albina shared with delegates practical experience, highlighted the problems faced by public and private partners in practice, and outlined the measures that should be taken to successfully implement the PPP policy in this area. As part of the panel discussion, the issues were considered, as well as the opinion of respected experts in this field was also received, on the following key points: - Regulatory, institutional or legal framework: what comes first in development of successful PPP policy? - National, regional or municipal level: where to start in setting-up solid projects pipeline? - ECA regional trendsetters in P3’s: the secret of success - Pitfalls, delays and defaults: what goes wrong at initial stage? - Rational balance in public and private interests: how to build a sustainable partnership - Corporate, contractual or institutional – what partnership stands for P3’s? The Forum ECA for a long period has attracted the attention of representatives of international and local law firms, lawyers' associations of different countries, as well as representatives of state structures known in the legal community and became an excellent platform for large-scale meetings of lawyers specializing in business support. The First Bishkek International Legal Forum On July 5-6, 2018, the 1st international legal forum was held in Bishkek, which was organized on the initiative of the Association "Lawyers of Kyrgyzstan" in cooperation with the KSU named after after G. Balasagyn, KRSU named after B.N. Yeltsin, KSLA, AUCA and the Council for Business and Entrepreneurship Development. Within the framework of the Forum, issues related to access to justice, to the legal profession, issues of judicial reform were discussed, as well as issues on the development of corporate law and application of information technologies in judicial and law enforcement practice. In these discussions, the experience of foreign countries was presented and taken into account. Kalikova & Associates was represented at the Forum by Nurbek Sabirov, Partner and Head of Practice "Court Representation and Arbitration". Nurbek made a presentation on "The problematic aspects of corporate law in the Kyrgyz Republic". Updated edition of Business in the Kyrgyz Republic: Legal Aspects, 2018 Kalikova & Associates is pleased to announce the release of the updated edition of its legal information and reference guide "Business in the Kyrgyz Republic: Legal Aspects", 2018. This issue was prepared by our team of lawyers practicing in various areas of commercial law. We hope that the updated information will be useful guide for those who are interested in doing business in our country. Kalikova & Associates attends seminar on contract management On May 23, 2018, Kalikova & Associates represented by Magomed Saaduev, Partner and Albina Rakhmidinova, Senior Lawyer attended a seminar organized by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). The seminar focused specifically on international experience and recommendations related to the effective management of contracts between the public and private sectors to offer long-term infrastructure solutions in developing countries. A separate section of the seminar was devoted to the first PPP project in the history of the Kyrgyz Republic related to the organization of hemodialysis services in the cities of Bishkek, Osh and Jalal-Abad. Albina Rakhmidinova, Senior Lawyer and PPP practice team member, made a presentation on the key provisions of the PPP Agreement, the main obligations of both the public partner and the private partner, the liability of the parties and the monitoring of the project. She also shared her experience in preparing and implementing the first PPP project in the country. The seminar was intended for the public sector employees involved in PPP projects and dealing with PPP agreements, contract management, hemodialysis services, and associations of hemodialysis care providers. Kalikova & Associates held a seminar: Trademarks as Form of Intellectual Property On May 17, 2018 a seminar on intellectual property was held with the support of the Chamber of Tax Consultants. The speaker was Aleksei Vandaev, who is a senior lawyer of Kalikova & Associates. Such issues as legal definition and protection of trademarks, requirements to designations, international procedure for the registration of trademarks, liability for trademark infringement, as well as judicial and alternative dispute resolution methods of protecting exclusive rights to trademarks were presented in the seminar. In addition, Aleksei shared with the audience common mistakes that are made by designers, when developing new designations and logos.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line418
__label__cc	0.679148	0.320852	Nintendo's Retro Mini Consoles, Round 2 So one of the biggest bits of news to come out over the past week was the announcement from Nintendo that they were going to be releasing the Super Nintendo Classic later this year, just in time for the holiday season. So what do we know so far? It will be available on September 29, 2017. Preorders have begun in a lot of places around the world. At the time of writing, preorders have NOT begun in the US. But preorders elsewhere in the world have ALREADY sold out. It will retail for $80. If you can manage to get one at retail, the MSRP will be $80. If the Nintendo Classic edition is any indicator though, once it sells out, you can expect to pay 3-4 times that to people re-selling the console. (At the time of writing, the price of the NES Classic being resold on Amazon is between $200-225 for a $60 console.) It comes with 2 controllers. This may not seem like a huge deal, and is probably the reason why this one is more expensive than the first Classic reissue. But it means you can play multiplayer right out of the gate without having to make an additional purchase. Nintendo has also said the cables for these controllers will be longer than the ones sold for the NES Classic, one of the biggest criticisms for the first attempt. It comes with 21 games. It's not the 30 that the NES Classic came with, but arguably these games are higher quality and will provide more playtime than their 8-bit brethren. The biggest selling point for a lot of people is that they are including Starfox 2 with the system. It's a game that was finished back in the day, but never got released because it was finished right at the cusp of the N64 launch and the move away from the SNES and into the world of 3D. Which is a pretty cool idea of something to do. Importantly, I think that there aren't any weak games in this lineup. Everyone you expect to be there are there: Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Samus, Mega Man, the Belmonts, Street Fighter, F-Zero, Final Fantasy 3 (really 6), Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, etc. I look at the list and the only game that I wouldn't be excited to play again is Super Punchout. While there are a bunch of games you can wish had also been included, the lineup they secured is pretty strong. It will be available until the end of 2017. The biggest gripe most people had with the NES Classic was availability. After selling out almost immediately, they only randomly appeared in stores. And then one day they were just gone. Right off the bat this time, Nintendo has said they only plan to have the console available through the end of the year. So we know what to expect. They also say that basically aren't prepared to comment about any availability after the end of the year, so there's a change they might extend the run, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Speaking of availability, they will be shipping at least twice the number of SNES as they did the NES. We know this because Nintendo is reportedly shipping 160k systems to France for the September 29th launch. By comparison, they only sent 84k of the NES systems to France for the entirety of the throwback console's run. So what do you think about the SNES Classic? Do you want one? Would you rather Nintendo get off of their asses and get the Virtual Console out for the Switch? Would you rather see Nintendo do something like the new Sega Forever thing? Let us know in the comments below. CHOP'S eSPORTS GAME OF THE WEEK Friday and Saturday are absolutely STACKED with potentially good games. There are 5 teams crammed up into the top 4 places in the standings as we hit the halfway point of the LCS Summer Split. And all 5 of those teams face off in one way or another over the next couple days. Friday June 30th @ 6pm Eastern - Cloud 9 vs Team SoloMid - Top two from last split. Rematch from the Spring Split Finals. TSM is tied for 2nd and Cloud 9 is only a game back. Seriously two of the best teams in the league with an absolute monster matchup in the midlane between Bjergsen and Jensen. Saturday July 1st @ 3pm Eastern - Team SoloMid vs Immortals - The top two going into the weekend in a pretty epic clash. Are the Immortals for real, or is it all just hype? This will be a good test for them. Saturday July 1st @ 3pm Eastern - Counter Logic Gaming vs Cloud 9 - Cloud 9 gets to play both teams tied for 2nd place this weekend. It gives them a great chance to catch up. But if they drop both games, it could be a disaster of a weekend for them. CLG looks to show that they really are all on the same page and ramping up to take North America to Worlds. As always, you can find coverage of these games on LoL Esports. ← A year of Pokemon GoPreserving the Legacy of Video Games →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line422
__label__cc	0.689103	0.310897	Woman hospitalized after hitting deer in Polk County A Warren, Minn., woman was sent to the hospital after the vehicle she was in hit a deer Sunday afternoon in Polk County. Shirley Ann Vansickle, 76, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Essentia Health in Fosston, Minn., after Donald Andrew Vansickle, a 90-year-old also from Warren, hit a deer on U.S. Highway 2 with his 2016 Chevy Equinox. The car was westbound at 2:39 p.m. Sunday west of Lengby when the crash occurred. Both Vansickles were wearing their seat belts, and no alcohol was involved in the crash. Donald Vansickle was not injured in the crash. Lengby is about 35 miles west of Bemidji.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line423
__label__cc	0.696714	0.303286	Etusivu » Lehdet » Helsinki Times Helsinki Times Helsinki Times is the first weekly newspaper in Finland which provides a reliable and much-needed source of news and information about Finland in English. In addition to domestic and international news, it includes a review of Finnish newspapers and magazines, as well as articles concerning Finland published in the international press. Culture, sport and lifestyle sections are also essential parts of the content in Helsinki Times. The newspaper also offers a weekly events guide as well as a weekly selection of TV programmes in English. Helsinki Times Oy Helsinki Times 5/2010	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line426
__label__cc	0.735772	0.264228	Endnote: writing the story of my mother Nora Ephron said that everything is copy, and in the life of a columnist, that is especially true. You live your life and observe your life at the same time, sifting experience for the right ingredients to whip up 750 words. Many of my columns have been about my parents, who lived long and well and were kind and funny and iconic of their generation, the Greatest Generation. My dad died in November 2016, at the age of 97. Today I write about my mother, who died last week at age 94. She was Pearl Bromberg, born in 1923, to Anne and Morris Brownstein, two first cousins, and doesn’t that explain a lot? She always wanted a middle name, but that yearning was a metaphor for many deprivations she felt growing up. Over the years, I tried to wrest the family secrets out of her, but she grew vague when talk turned to her childhood. There were hints of her mother’s infidelities and her father’s rages and too few happy memories. She grew up in Canarsie, Brooklyn, with two sisters and a brother, all of them scrapping for attention from parents trying to put food on the table. They lived Life 101, without much reading or art or music, focusing their time and energy on getting by. Shouting was what passed for conversation. There was a lot of free-floating anger: Grandpa Morris once got arrested for chasing a woman down the block with a butcher knife because she insulted President Roosevelt. It was a rocky beginning for Pearl, but her life took a sharply different path when she met Stanley Bromberg in the summer of ’43 in Rockaway Beach. Did I mention she was gorgeous? My dad was handsome and well read and witty and — wait — going to be a dentist! They fell seriously hard in love, a mutually supportive and generous love that lasted for their 72 years together. Their marriage and their success repaired much of her childhood injury. They were everything to one another, a rhyming couplet, a duo, a tandem life rolling along with remarkable good luck and in blessed good health. Their life together was an inspiring story, and I got to write about so much of it: their Rockaway romance, my mother as a Brooklyn bride in a rented fairy tale wedding gown, the years they lived behind my dad’s first office with my pregnant mom sleeping in the dental chair. I wrote about their strange encounters with modern technology, our fights over how long to cook the Thanksgiving turkey; how, in their 90s, they rode in an open carriage in a New Orleans second line parade and how, if I went to prison for 25 years for ax murder, my mother would be outside the gates waiting for me, with just one question: “Can I carry your suitcase?” I don’t think my mother felt that her own mother loved her unconditionally, above and beyond right or wrong, to the ends of the earth. But that’s how my mother loved me. And that’s what I get to carry, as she passes on. Three years ago, I wrote about the cruise my sister and I took with our parents on their 70th anniversary. My mother was already cranky and difficult, but then, she was shouldering a heavy burden, my father. He got old and confused and simply didn’t care much about anything but his “Pearlie.” As his primary caregiver, she became resentful of her diminished life, but it wasn’t in her DNA to carve out space for herself. When he died, she wanted to live with us, but that was just a bed and a roof; she didn’t really want to live at all. I wrote about that, too, and about end-of-life choices, and the extraordinary work of hospice and the wrenching decisions adult children sometimes have to make, amid conflicting instincts. Can I confess? I hardly knew my mother as a person in the world, and I didn’t know her as a woman at all. We weren’t friends in that way, but we were fiercely intertwined as mother and daughter. Her Stanley was her sun, and her children and grandchildren were the rest of her universe. Everyone else came in last. She was the quintessential mother, who loved her children beyond reason and believed everything we said or did was touched by genius. I mean, how can you not succumb to that? This is not to suggest a perfect relationship. I choose today to look at the piece that made me feel loved in the world and helped me love others. When you’re my age and your mother dies, it isn’t a tragedy or even untimely. It’s in keeping with the facts of mortality. My job, I think, is to take care of myself the way she took care of me, forget the grievances, hold on to the good stuff and seed it into the world among the children and grandchildren and friends I love. Copyright 2018 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com. At 100, Rockville Centre resident still going strong On Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, Rockville Centre residents recall the historic space mission New exhibit opens at Center for Science, Teaching and Learning in Rockville Centre	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line429
__label__wiki	0.826832	0.826832	Home / Articles / General Election 2019: The pain in Spain falls mainly on the right By Lewis Baston On April 29, 2019 1 Comment Spain’s voters went to the polls on Sunday 28 April. Despite the fact that this was the third general election in four years, people seemed to be interested in this election. Turnout (the proportion of people who voted in the election) was 75.8 per cent, which is the highest it has been since 1996. Participation in voting was up nearly 10 per cent since the last election in 2016. The background to the election was a turbulent recent period in Spanish politics. In the past two main parties – PSOE to the left and PP to the right – have dominated national politics. They have been able either to win majorities or get close enough to form governments with the support of parties who draw support from particular regions of Spain. This changed in the 2010s with the rise of two new political movements – Podemos, a left wing anti-austerity party, and Ciudadanos (CS), a centrist party. These parties had a big impact in 2015. Both main parties suffered heavy losses in votes and seats. As a result it has become more difficult to form stable governments in Spain. Governments have needed to bid for support from these new parties as well as the more traditional smaller parties. The scene has also changed for the smaller parties. Nationalism in Catalonia has become more radical and in 2017 the regional government called a referendum on full independence. The referendum was not allowed under the Spanish constitution and did not have the status of an official vote, although the result was for independence. The ‘suppression’ of the nationalist regional government, and resentment elsewhere in Spain over Catalonia’s demands, have made a traditional division in politics – whether to centralise power or let distinctive regions like Catalonia and the Basque Country go their own way – more acute. After the 2015 election, the conservative (PP) Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy remained in power running a minority government, and this was not changed by the election in 2016. However, in 2018 the opposition socialists (PSOE) and the smaller parties in parliament united to defeat the Rajoy government in a vote of confidence. The government had become discredited by corruption scandals. However, the new government under Pedro Sanchez was fragile because it was nowhere near a parliamentary majority of its own, and the PP controlled the Senate. The socialists lost a budget vote in February 2019 and as a result called an election. The election campaign The election campaign was impassioned and sometimes bitter. A new element in 2019 was the arrival of a party, Vox, that stood on the far right and rose in prominence when it gained seats in the regional election in Andalusia in December 2018. The government that was formed in the region was a coalition of the PP and Ciudadanos with a support agreement with Vox. The socialists argued that this was a bad precedent and that voting for the conservatives risked giving the far right a foothold in power. This is a sensitive issue in Spain because of the legacy of the fascist dictatorship that ruled the country from 1939 until the death of its leader General Franco in 1975. The conservative parties argued in turn that the national government had to take a firm line against separatist parties such as the one that had led Catalonia into chaos in 2017, and that the socialists were risking the break-up of Spain. This is a sensitive issue in Spain; many people feel patriotic about the need for national unity and avoiding parts of the country splitting away. There were also the usual issues of managing the economy, the personalities of the party leaders and the corruption scandal that had brought down the PP government in 2018. The electoral system Spain uses a form of Proportional Representation for elections to the Chamber of Deputies, the main (lower) house that decides who forms the government. Elections for the Senate take place under a different electoral law that gives more of an advantage to the larger parties and over-represents rural areas. Academic Roger Darlington gives a short guide to the Spanish political system here. The election result The election was a clear victory for the socialists under Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez – pictured at the top of this article welcoming the result. The PSOE went up from 85 seats to 123 in the lower house – still well short of a majority (176 seats) but enough to make the formation of a government not led by the PSOE completely impossible. There was a swing in Catalonia from the radical nationalists to left wing nationalists. The PSOE also won a big victory in the Senate elections, going up from 43 seats to 121. The second chamber will not be an obstacle to a renewed Sanchez government. The political map of Spain, 2019 The main losers were the PP, which had been the largest party in every election since 1996 with the exception of 2004. They fell from 137 seats in 2016 to 66 seats in 2019, the worst result in their history. The party was caught between the far right (Vox won 10 per cent of the vote and 24 seats) and the centre (Ciudadanos gained seats, up from 32 to 57). By endorsing populist right-wing themes they gave legitimacy to Vox while alienating voters in the centre. They suffered from the legacy of the corruption scandal and their new leader Pablo Casado struggled to establish himself. This rise of Vox also encouraged the high turnout because it scared left wing voters who had not been keen to go and vote in the last couple of elections. After the election The PP has lost its position of unchallenged leadership on the centre-right, with Ciudadanos only a little behind them in seats (66 PP, 57 CS). The traditionalist right wing of its support has broken away to vote for Vox. It will be difficult to satisfy the lost right and the lost centre, unless the socialist government performs very badly. The path back to power looks a very steep one for Spain’s conservatives, only a year after they lost office. The election gives Sanchez a mandate to form a government but the numbers are still a little tight. In theory the socialists and Ciudadanos could form a majority coalition but this is unlikely. The liberal centre-right party was very critical of the socialists during the election campaign and the idea of a coalition has been rejected by both parties. The socialists are within reach of a viable government should negotiations with Podemos (42 seats) and the smaller non-radical nationalist and regional parties go well, provided that all of the pro-independence nationalists do not join with the right wing parties to bring down the government. It would be much too early to say that Spain’s long post-2015 political crisis is over as a result of this election. Spanish newspaper El Pais – election coverage in English via https://elpais.com/agr/spanish_elections/a Spanish general election results in 2019 and previous elections (in Spanish) https://resultados.elpais.com/elecciones/generales.html Constitution of Spain (English version) http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Hist_Normas/Norm/const_espa_texto_ingles_0.pdf Roger Darlington on Spain http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Spanishpoliticalsystem #Catalonia, Cortes, Election, Pablo Casado, Pedro Sanchez, PP, PSOE, Spain, Vox Comment On General Election 2019: The pain in Spain falls mainly on the right Iain McLaren Thank you for a balanced view of the results, unlike the reporting by the BBC which featured largely the likely disatisfaction of conservative voters	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line435
__label__wiki	0.817028	0.817028	Song of the Day: Telepopmusik - Don't Look Back (Chill Out) This is a single Telepopmusik released in 2005. After all these years, it's still one of my favorites. Super chill and thoughtful. Yesterday's track was more of a Monday pick-me-up, but this track is all about getting through the bitter realization that it's only Tuesday. o_O O_o Haha. Give this one a listen! The days are getting shorter and the mornings are becoming even colder and more bitter. I find this track perfect for the commute to (and from) work (or school, as the case may be). Telepopmusik is Christophe Hetier, Fabrice Dumont and Stephan Haeri. They've been making music together since the late 90s. I think their claim to fame was the track, "Breathe," which came out in 2001. I remember that you couldn't go to a coffee shop or store in the mall without hearing that song played at least once. The track was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 and it even made its way into a car commercial by a prominent brand. The track appears on the group's debut album, "Genetic World" (2001). Another single followed in 2002 and then things dropped off until the release of their second album, "Angel Milk" (2005). Yet another period of inactivity lingered until the aptly named single, "Ghost Girl," popped up in 2009. Several more years passed before the release of the "Try Me Anyway / Fever" EP (2013) and the single entitled, "Sound" (Jul. 2014). As far as I know, this is the group's latest work. You can keep up with Telepopmusik on Facebook and SoundCloud! Enjoy this little blast from the past and hang in there. The weekend will be here before you know it! :D	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line436
__label__cc	0.525854	0.474146	Black Capricorn - Cult of Black Friars Predicates of Capricorn are: stubborn, down-to-earth, disciplined and ambitious. Capricorns can also be antisocial and depressed. To some extent, these qualities seem to match this trio from Sardinia. Holding on to the vintage psychedelic doom sound, Black Capricorn has created a very interesting album. With typical heavy riffing and clean, subdued vocals they take us back to the powerful seventies, but with a better sound quality. The fact that Black Capricorn is merely a trio (guitar, bass, drums) doesn't affect the power of the music. In fact, the overflow of fuzz creates an immense wall of sound, nearly unpenetratable. The songs basically drive on a straightforward and effective riff, creating a very convincing sound. There's nothing complicated about this music but the effect is quite remarkable. Between the heavy riffs, an array of samples and folk-like passage fill-up the album by an interesting amount of variation. The vocals are somewhat mixed to the background. Most of them are sung by Mr Monni (aka Kjxu, also on guitars), except "To the Shores of Distant Stars", sung by Rachela (who's also the drummer). Yet, picking a favourite song in this album is not easy. All of them breathe the same atmosphere and the same quality, plus, the album sounds as if it's recorded as a whole or a concept. It's almost an evil sound, enforced by bizarre samples (from old horror movies?) and a striking cold feel. The tempo is mostly very low, except in 'Cat People', which is a bit faster (at times). If I have to compare this to other bands, I think something between Conan and Electric Wizard might be the best description. There are several special guest appearences on Cult Of Black Friars: Luca Catapano from Black Wings of Destiny plays the guitar solo on 'Hammer of the Witches'. Mr Toro played acoustic guitar on 'To the Shores of Distant Stars'. Alessandra Cornacchia from Sacred Sword plays the flute on 'Animula Vagula Blandula'. The lyrics on this track are an English translation by Marguerite Yourcenar of the classic poem by Hadrian the Roman emperor. Yet, a strange thing I noticed on some songs is the sudden fade-out at the end. I'm not sure if these are planned or merely a mishap in the recording studio. They definitely don't make or break the quality, they just stand out as something weird and possibly overlooked. But don't let that aspect make you ignore this album because it really is an excellent piece of music, filled with weirdness, poetry, creepy samples and riffs for your slow but intense headbanging. Cult of Black Friars is a very decent, well-written album with a lot of variation. Great work... Neo Folk Neo-folk Noise-rock Symphonic Metal	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line437
__label__cc	0.706329	0.293671	Feast of St. Bruno Founder of the Carthusians, patron of the possessed. I have a good friend who is a Carthusian. We attended college together some years ago and I had lost touch with him after that. Recently I caught up with him after I had mentioned him in a book that I wrote called The Power of the Cross. Turns out he was carrying a cross way back then that I was not aware of at the time. Now ordained a priest for his order, he told me that after college his life went in a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sex--homosexual sex. Now, even after he told me that he was/is a homosexual, I found it hard to believe. The drugs and alchohol were an attempt to flee from the path he knew that he must trod and in sobriety he set out once more for the house of the Father. He is a good man, a holy man, a chaste monk. I believe and he believes he is where God wants him to be, in the order that St. Bruno founded. Pray for him today and the many like him who have restless hearts until they rest in God. Posted by Amy Welborn at 4:44 AM Labels: Michael Dubruiel radiofreerome October 6, 2005 at 6:52 PM Must someone who is gay become a prodigal so that he can repent in order to be accepted? Michael October 6, 2005 at 7:08 PM The point of the prodigal refers to someone who has fallen to the lowest spot with the aid of drugs and alcohol. All people need to repent and sadly most of us regardless of sexual orientation have to reach the state of the prodigal before we "come to our senses." When we attend the Eucharist we do not say "I confess that you have sinned," but rather "I confess that I have sinned." Those who wish to point the finger at the sins of a brother or sister without acknowledging their own sin first are not living in reality...those who want to deny sin in their own lives are also living in a fantasy world. My friend thankfully is happy now, he wasn't before. I don't deny the presence of sin in my life. The worst sins of my life have been credulity, scrupulosity, and despair. The first lead to the other two. I figured out I was gay when I was 12 or 13. Being aware that at my school some priests were homophobic and that others were sexually involved with students, I decided to consult the Catholic Encyclopedia for guidance. There, I read that St. John Chrysostom called homosexuals worse than murderers because while murderers sever the soul from the body, homosexuals destroy the soul within the body. I being a naive 13-year-old, believed it. As a result, I couldn't endure being attracted to anyone without becoming severely depressed with the prospect of damning someone I liked or even loved. Eventually, I realized that eros can become philos and that philos can become agape. I made my separate peace. However, I think chaste thoughts out of love and respect for another, not out of distaste for my sexuality, as the Church would have it. I think sometime what we today term "sexuality" is what traditonally was referred to as charism...one's gifts. The problem in our culture is that identity has been lowered to nothing but sex and not sex as it relates to the propagation of the species but sex as a form of entertainment and pleasure. The church does not teach a distaste for the use of sex properly understood. Nor does it have distain for each person's charisms. It is the culture that has distain for us as individuals and wants to limit a person in terms of sex alone as though that life were only about that and not the million other aspects that make up our lives. By sex properly understood, you mean monogamous heterosexuality as a Platonic ideal. If I don't idolize my own sexuality, why would I be interested in idolizing yours? Moroever, it takes quite a lot of tortured dialectical reasoning to arrive at the claim that Catholicism supports individuality. Catholicism is a collective ideology. Rabbi Hillel wrote: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when. Can you demonstrate even one quote from a doctor of the Church that gives importance to balancing the individual and the collective? Clayton October 7, 2005 at 4:44 AM He's not a Father of the Church yet, but try on John Paul the Great for size in his Theology of the Body... in particular, audiences such as the one held on November 14, 1979. Michael October 7, 2005 at 5:12 AM I would begin even earlier with another Rabbi...St. Paul and his teaching that the Church is the Body of Christ and every individual is an important element of that Body. You can read the Fathers commentaries on this basic teaching of Catholicism to bolster my claim. Plato didn't invent heterosexual sex as an ideal, by the way. Egoism is a dead end road. Sexuality is not a charism. Charism, as its root suggests, is a gift of the Holy Spirit given at baptism. Paul lists those charisms in 1 Corinthians 12. Not everyone has the same charisms, but everyone has sexuality. So, sexuality cannot be a charism. You make the mistake that many DRE's make that our "talents" are "charisms". So you have the "charism" of singing and Sally has the "charism" of making banners. That is not what charisms are and neither is sexuality. radiofreerome October 7, 2005 at 6:06 AM Michael wrote: >Plato didn't invent heterosexual >sex as an ideal, by the way. He did more than that. He invented a particular concept of an ideal, and the Church saw it as a convenient weapon and ran with it. Karl Popper saw Plato as the author of totalitarianism, and compared him to Marx. Certainly, the Church was two millenia ahead of Popper and new a good thing when it saw one. >Egoism is a dead end road. Narcissism is a sin, even heterosexual narcissism, though the Church panders to it. I agree that all narcissism is a sin and is recognized as such by the Church. We as members of the Church do pander to it as we do a variety of sins. "Wretched man that I am, who will save me? Thanks be to God, Jesus Christ." Let us pray for each other. To Annonymous: You are wrong to limit the gifts of the Holy Spirit to just seven..."there are many gifts, one Spirit." Read St. Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians... The Greek word your translation translates as "many", diaireseis, means "varieties" and not "many." Paul refers there to the charisms he has listed. Read the text in context. He does not multiply charisms, especially in the Corinthian churches where there has been some abuse of his teaching. Read 1 Cor.21:11 carefully: "all these (where the grammatical antecedent of the demonstrative, tauta [these], is the various gifts he just listed) are activated by one and the same Spirit..." Thus the parallelism between "varieties of gifts and the same Spirit" (v. 4) confirms that the only gifts he is talking about are the ones he has listed in this passage. Amateur exegesis is dangerous, especially, for an ortho-Catholic. What would Scott Hahn think? That should have been 1 Cor. 12:11. The New Jerusalem translates the passage as "many different" and any student of Greek knows their are a multiplicity of meanings to every word...God's Spirit blows where it will (Jesus in John's Gospel...I'm sure there is an issue to take up there as well). The Jerusalem Bible has fudged the translation in order to have it both ways. Just go to a Greek dictionary and see the range of meanings for the word. Contrary to your opinion its meanings are not unlimited. Furthermore, stick to the the text of Paul and pay attention to the structure and context. The "blowing" of the Spirit where it wills has nothing to do with what Paul calls charisms. They are fixed and definite. Exegesis is an art, and you cannot make it up as you go along. There are principles and rule to follow. Somehow I don't think a person with two graduate degrees in theology who has taught in a graduate school of theology in the past is engaging in "amateur" exegesis. Apparently this person knows little about the text of the New Testament. One can have all the degrees in Theology in the world and still not be able to exegete a New Testament text. What also matters is where the degrees were done, what languages one is proficient in, and how able a person is. Not all graduate programs are equal. A lot of graduate programs are forced to admit less than qualified students just to survive. As for "teaching" in a graduate program, that also depends on whether one were given a tenure track position or whether one were an adjunct. The area of instruction may differ too. Some people teach "pastoral" theology because of their practical experience rather than their academic expertise. So credentials need to be evaluated. You are choosing to take the most narrow definition, while Michael seems to have chosen the broadest definition. From the Catholic Encyclopedia: The Greek term charisma denotes any good gift that flows from God's benevolent love (charis) unto man; any Divine grace or favour, ranging from redemption and life eternal to comfort in communing with brethren in the Faith (Rom., v, 15, 16; vi, 23; xi, 29). The term has, however, a narrower meaning: the spiritual graces and qualifications granted to every Christian to perform his task in the Church: "Every one hath his proper gift [charisma] from God; one after this manner, and another after that" (I Cor., vii, 7 etc.). Lastly, in its narrowest sense, charisma is the theological term for denoting extraordinary graces given to individual Christians for the good of others. These, or most of these, are enumerated by St. Paul (I Cor., xii, 4, 9, 28, 30, 31), and form the subject-matter of the present article. They are: "The word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, the grace of healing, the working of miracles, prophecy, the discerning of spirits, diverse kinds of tongues, interpretation of speeches" (I Cor., xii, 8-10). To these are added the charismata of apostles, prophets, doctors, helps, governments (ibid., 28). These extraordinary gifts were foretold by the Prophet Joel (ii, 28) and promised to believers by Christ: "And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues," etc. (Mark, xvi, 17, 18). The Lord's promise was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost (Acts, ii, 4) at Jerusalem, and, as the Church spread, in Samaria (Acts, viii, 18), in Caesarea (x, 46), in Ephesus (xix, 6), in Rome (Rom., xii, 6), in Galatia (Gal., iii, 5), and more markedly in Corinth (I Cor., xii, 14). The abuses of the charismata, which had crept in at this latter place, induced St. Paul to discuss them at length in his First Epistle to the Corinthians. The Apostle teaches that these "spiritual things" emanate from the Spirit who quickens the body of the Church; that their functions are as diversified as the functions of the natural body; and that, though given to individuals, they are intended for the edification of the whole community (I Cor., xii). Unfortunately the Scripture scholar "Annonymous" also cast doubt on the theological credentials of Pope John Paul II who said on June 24, 1992: "St. Paul describes the variety and diversity of the charisms, which must be attributed to the work of the one Spirit (cf. 1 Cor 12:4). Each of us receives from God many gifts which are appropriate for us personally and for our mission. Because of this diversity, no individual way of holiness or mission is ever identical to the others. The Holy Spirit shows respect for each person and wants to foster in each one an original development of the spiritual life and the giving of witness." Well John Paul II didn't get it either. His encyclicals demonstrate a shallow understanding of scripture; he basically uses it for proof-texting, so I wouldn't appeal to him in this case. The Catholic Encyclopedia confuses later theological distortion of Paul with what he actually said, which is the point of my argument. To return to the first point that started the thread, any way you slice it, sexuality is not a charism, it is a given of nature. It does not come to the human by special grace of God. Even the definition from the Catholic Encyclopedia would agree with that. Sexuality simply does not qualify as a charism, by any stretch of the word. You neocons are always railing against liberals for theological innovation. Do you have a double standard? Amazing discussion. You misunderstood my remark about sexuality. I wasn't saying sex is a charism, I was saying that modern people make everything about sex rather than realizing the gifts and talents people have isn't the same as their sexuality, something the original commenter was lumping all together in my opinion. I would still take issue with your so-called scholarly interpretation that everyone else seems to miss. The context of Paul's letter talks about "many different gifts, one spirit" followed by "many parts, one body"...the context of the juxtaposition of the Spirit and the Body of Christ clearly are playing off of each other therefore the reason no doubt that the NJB chose to place "many" in thier translation. Respectfully, let me say that the argument about the body adds a different dimension to the chapter. There in v. 12, Paul does use the word many "polla". He is not equating the "many" body parts, however, with diaireseis in vv. 4, 5, 6, the "varieties" of gifts. He does not use the parts of the body as an example of the charisms, which is why when he comes to the end of the chapter he returns to the eight gifts articulated in vv. 4-10. He is simply saying that, by analogy, as the body has need of different members so also does the body of Christ have need for all of the listed charisms. One cannot select from among them, for they are, as a whole, given for the building up of the church. All of them are needed. The body is a metaphor for organic unity and interdependence, not for a multiplicity of charisms. He uses the metaphor analogously, which means it is not an allegory with isometric correspondence of its elements. Remember the problem he is addressing is that some people claimed that they were more important than others, and they may have appealed to spirtitual phenomena to do it. He enumerates the various charisms to defuse the notion that one kind of gift is more important than another. A similar phenomenon happened among Christians in the charismatic movement, where some gave the impression to others that if you did not speak in tongues you were a nobody in the Church. So, in the end, Paul says the body of Christ needs all of those people represented in 12:28-30. It is an amazing discussion, thanks for hosting it. Your use of the term "charism" is a dodge. You'd never characterize heterosexual romantic love merely as sex. It's unfair to characterize same-sex romantic love as such. Nevertheless, this is precisely what the Church has done by calling the capability "intrinsically disordered." It's not merely dishonest; it's Orwellian. Moreover, the very desire of same sex couples to look after one another is precisely what the Church attacks by opposing every aspect of domestic partnership for these couples, including critical/intensive care visitation priveleges, and equal access to insurance. Given my medical history, which includes three different cancers, it's extremely likely that some time in the future, I'll find myself in a hospital in a state in which I'm unlikely to survive without the 24/7 supervision of a family member or partner. I've already been in that situation twice, and my mother, who shares my genetic propensity to cancer, was in that very situation 2 months ago. I had to watch her around the clock because she had a psychotic reaction to morphine and became a danger to herself. My parents are in their seventies. At this point there is no way that they can ever be expected to look after me. When I am in that condition again, I will need a partner to look after me and I can and want to provide the same protection for HIM. No amount of mealy-mouthed bullshit theology will gloss over the fact that where it is successfull, the blanked opposition to all forms of domestic partnership, written under the auspices of the current pope, will MURDER people like me. The current pope did not create the laws that exist and there are states you could live in within the United States where domestic partnerships are recognized. The pope's choice for head of the CDF argued in favor of such a position in San Francisco, so you are either misinformed about this pope or just anti-Catholic, hurling invectives against the church as though it were responsible for the fraility of humanity. This is a vale of tears and it is why all of us sinners desparately need the hope that belief in Jesus offers us. We are all dying, I pray that the Lord will raise us all in the last day. Cardinal Ratzinger was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1992. In that year a position paper entitled "Some Considerations Concerning the Catholic Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons" was sent to the American epsicopate. The document seems to be about civil rights, but quickly evolves into a position paper on how to justify discrimination. The paragraph that supports my remarks is 15. Since in assessing proposed legislation uppermost concern should be given to the responsibility to defend and promote family life (cf. no. 17), most careful attention should be paid to the single provisions of proposed measures. How would they affect adoption or foster care? Would they protect homosexual acts, public or private? Do they confer equivalent family status on homosexual unions, for example, in respect to public housing or by entitling the homosexual partner to the privileges of employment which might include ``family'' participation in the health benefits given to employees. The mandate of equal access to health insurance is sufficient reason, according to Cardinal Ratzinger to vote against a piece of legislation. We may all die, but that doesn't excuse your church for murdering some of us. Dear radiofreerome, I'm not sure how you believing you will die without a homosexual partner to look after you creates a moral law, or makes the Church a murderer. Our desires do not define the truth. We come to know the truth, and then offer our desires to God so that He may order them rightly. In may appear to bring death (and in fact it is a death to self), but it brings everlasting life, for the truth sets us free. And we will only experience more life by walking in more truth. -Adrian By the way, I gave up sex in 1984, when the cause if AIDS was found and I predicted an exponential growth in infection because of the long latency period of HIV. So barring and uncurable recurrence of cancer, this sodomite will be around for a few years yet. I don't find conformity of itself to be bad. Rather, it is what I conform to that determines good or bad. When I conform to the traffic laws of my state, I don't find myself acting badly. You are right to say that the Church values conformism, but conformism is good if it is to the truth, and when we conform to the truth, we do not become less ourselves, but more ourselves, more of who we were meant to be. I still fail to see how you believing that you will die without a homosexual partner to look after you makes the Church's teaching on homosexuality murderous/suicidal. Does your experience/expectation determine what is true? And if someone else's experience/expectation is different, does the truth become something different? I'm not sure, but it sounds like you may not believe in a knowable objective truth. Our discussion would need to lay foundation there, else the rest becomes moot. Your servant, radiofreerome October 8, 2005 at 10:47 AM I don't believe in what the Church claims is objective truth. I do believe in ojbective truth; I know that Catholic Natural Law is false because it is based on flawed logic. It posits a single ideal in all cases, then tries to find the ideal. That's not legitimate in formal logic. One must first prove existence, then unicity, then the properties of the solution. Ex falsum quodlibet. Since you believe in objective truth, I would guess that you believe that homosexuality is not objectively wrong. I believe that homosexuality is objectively wrong, and give a couple of reasons below: --When I consider the human anatomy, I observe that the sexual organs of male and female are naturally complementary: one fuses with another. This natural complementarity is not followed in the homosexual act. --In my observations of nature, I see that the animals and plants each produce after their own kind, the oak tree after the oak tree, and humans after humans. The homosexual act is not capable of transmitting human life, contradicting this natural order. I would like to know a copule of the reasons why you believe homosexuality is not wrong. Nothing in nature has a single purpose. I reject the notion of Intelligent Design. I'll not take up Michael's weblog with such drivel. Michael, I consider your responses inane, but I do apologize for taking up so much of your bandwidth. I have not said that things in nature have only a single purpose. Nor have I made any claim about Intelligent Design (I'm actually not too sure what Intelligent Design is, aside from having seen it used as an alternative proposition to the Big Bang/Evolution). Nor do I consider our attempt to understand each other as drivel. What I have observed is that you "reject" this, "don't believe" that, and consider other's responses "inane", but that you have failed to give reasons for what you do believe. If you are concerned for Michael's bandwidth (which is most likely free given that it is hosted on Blogger), I would be happy to correspond by e-mail-just let me know. But I must re-emphasize, do not come to tear down if you do not wish to build up. 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__label__cc	0.709285	0.290715	Michael S. Russo A Member of the SophiaOmni Network SophiaOmni Press Ars Omni Press And/Or Journal Philosophy Ads Of the Spirit Sophia Project Wisdom's Haven We Are the Last Men A recent study of religious attitudes and beliefs shows that 20% of Americans describe themselves as having no religious affiliations at all (up from only 8% in 1990). This includes people who may be vaguely spiritual, but who have no interest in being part of any organized religion, as well as those who describe themselves as agnostics or atheists. More telling still, one-third of men and women under the age of 30 claim to be “nothing in particular” when it comes to religious affiliation. What accounts for this sudden surge in the number of people who describe themselves as having no connection to any religion? Organized religion itself is undoubtedly to blame. In the past decade we have seen leaders from all the major religious groups in the United States engage in financial improprieties, abuses of power, sexual transgressions with minors, and every manor of hypocrisy imaginable. Such behavior has most certainly tainted the “brand” of organized religion in the eyes of many Americans. The study also indicates that the association of organized religion with a conservative political agenda that at times can come across as racist, sexist, and homophobic has apparently also played a role in the decline of organized religion. 40% of self-identified liberals, for example, claim to have no religion (compared to 9% of conservatives). This may also be why younger Americans, who tend to be fairly liberal on social issues, make up a much larger percentage of the religiously unaffiliated than older Americans. While it is clear that organized religion is not going away any time soon, when the youngest, best educated, and most upwardly mobile members of a society turn away from organized religion—as appears to be happening in the United States—that doesn’t bode very well for the future of religion in this country. It’s interesting that this trend away from organized religion was predicted in the 19th century by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In language that is as provocative today as it was in his own time, Nietzsche dramatically declared that “God is dead.” In The Gay Science, Nietzsche has his “madman” run to the marketplace, shouting, “I seek God, I seek God,” only to be mocked by atheists in the crowd. In response to their taunts, the madman proclaims the following: “Where is God?” he cried; “I will tell you. We have killed him—you and I. All of us are his murderers. But how did we do this? How could we drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving? Away from all suns? Are we not plunging continually? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there still any up or down? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night continually closing in on us? Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning? Do we hear nothing as yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we smell nothing as yet of the divine decomposition? Gods, too, decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. “How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whoever is born after us—for the sake of this deed he will belong to a higher history than all history hitherto.” Here the madman fell silent and looked again at his listeners; and they, too, were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern on the ground, and it broke into pieces and went out. “I have come too early,” he said then; “my time is not yet. This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light of the stars requires time; deeds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars and yet they have done it themselves.” It has been related further that on the same day the madman forced his way into several churches and there struck up his requiem aeternam deo. Led out and called to account, he is said always to have replied nothing but: “What after all are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchers of God?” (The Gay Science, 125). It should be noted that Nietzsche was not claiming that God didn’t exist—although he certainly believed that. What he was trying to say is that the hypocrisy and fundamental dishonesty of organized religion would eventually lead to the death of religious belief itself. God is dead because religion is no longer able to provide order, meaning and value to our lives. We are moving, he believed, from a religious era to a post-religious one, and we’ve found nothing yet to replace our belief in God. Or have we? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche describes what he calls, the “last man”. “There will come a time,” he writes, “when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There will come a time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Behold! I show you THE LAST MAN.” In the absence of the meaning and order provided by organized religion, the last man strives to avoid suffering and struggle and lives for comfort and pleasure. In the end, the last man is actually closer to a beast of the field than a human being, and about as far removed from the Superman—the endpoint of human evolution for Nietzsche—as one can possibly get. When the concept of God dies, when the Churches become his tombs, Nietzsche believes that the nihilism that results provides fertile ground for the propagation of decadent last men and women. In proclaiming the death of God, the madman in the Gay Science admits that he has “come too early”—that the world is not ready for him. This was Nietzsche’s problem as well. But Nietzsche’s prophetic views on the end of organized religion, and what that fact means for human society, seems to be coming true in our own day and age. If the study cited above is accurate, God may not be completely dead yet in the United States (as he is in most of Northern Europe), but he is certainly on life support. And, in the absence of a new generation of Superman, what we have in our own society is a nation of the kind of “last men”that Nietzsche describes so wonderfully in Zarathustra. Like Nietzsche’s last men, we have become a people that no longer is capable of lofty ideals, a nation of individuals who see no value in struggling to improve ourselves and who are content instead to swill cheap beer on our lazy boys, watching reality TV as we graze on an endless supply of artery clogging snacks. The planet is literally choking on the shit that is emitted from our cars, our smoke-stacks, and our energy-intensive homes, but as long as we have our daily pleasures, what difference does it make to us? Nietzsche believed that out of the nihilism caused by the death of God a new race of Supermen would emerge to create new values and ideals. I’m not so confident that a Superman will appear in our own society any time soon. And, if he did, I have no doubts that the last men would kill him off the way that other morally superior human beings, like Jesus or Gandhi, have been killed off in the past. No, we’re definitely not ready for the arrival of a Superman. We’ll have to content ourselves to living in a world without God and without any transcendent values. The consolation is that when the end comes for us last men, we probably won’t even notice it. And even if we do, we’ll be far too absorbed by the endless pleasures provided by Lindsay Lohan and the Kardashian sisters to give a damn, anyway. Why Socrates Still Matters The first time I encountered Socrates was when I was 21 years old. I was a freshman at Fordham University, and like all freshmen, I was required to take an introductory course in philosophy to fulfill my general education requirements, In all honesty, I didn’t have a clue about what philosophy was. I had come from a fairly conservative Catholic high school—a prep seminary, actually—where we were taught to accept the teachings of the Catholic Church without much questioning at all. I had learned everything there was to know about the Old and New Testaments and the Christian doctrine, but philosophy was one thing that the good fathers who taught me seemed to have little use for. In fact, when I told the priests at my high school that I was going to a Jesuit college, they responded with actual alarm. I remember one of my teachers telling me before I graduated, “Just be careful that you don’t lose your faith, Michael. Those Jesuits will teach you to QUESTION EVERYTHING!.” So there I was back in 1982, a freshman in my Introduction to Philosophy class, not really knowing what philosophy was, but having the suspicion that I was going to be corrupted in some way by my encounter with it. When I met my instructor, a young adjunct instructor named Ed, who seemed far too cool to be a professor, I became even more concerned. “You’ve been living in a world where you accept everything as true based upon your upbringing, your faith, or your own biases,” I remember him saying during our first class. “But I’m going to teach you how to challenge your presuppositions about reality and see if they hold up in the light of reason.” Ed’s plan for the class was fairly straightforward. We were going to be reading what were known as the Socratic dialogues of Plato—those texts that Ed said best represented the actual thought of the philosopher Socrates. And the reason for this was simple: Everything you needed to learn about the methods of philosophy, Ed maintained, you could learn from understanding the approach that Socrates took to the discipline. And that approach could be summed up as “QUESTION EVERYTHING.” So the priests in my high school were right, I thought. One week in a Jesuit college and they were already trying to brainwash me into abandoning my faith! The first text we had to read in the class was the Apology, Socrates’ famous speech in defense of his philosophical way of life. Despite my reservations, I found myself being captivated by the person of Socrates, who certainly was not afraid to poke fun at his accusers, even though his life was hanging in the balance. But what impressed me most about Socrates was his dogged determination to discover The Truth about the right way to live, no matter what the consequences. So he spent his life cross-examining those who “claimed to know”—the so-called experts—only to discover that he was far wiser than they were, because at least he realized how little he actually knew. And this, I believe, is the key to Socrates’ continued relevance 2,500 years after his death. We live in a world in which everyone claims to know TheTruth. All around us we have experts telling us what we need to eat in order to be healthy, what policies we need to support in order to put our country back on the right path, what doctrines we have to believe in order to be saved, and so on. What Socrates teaches us is that we shouldn’t simply accept the opinions of those who claim to know, but rather we should be involved in a life-long process of questioning the so-called experts to see if what they say actually holds up to reason. Sometimes the opinions of the experts will be right, but quite often, we’ll discover that the experts, to put it frankly, are full of shit—that they know even less than we do, but their pride prevents them from admitting their woeful ignorance. The example of Socrates also teaches us the importance of humility in our quest for the truth. Recognizing the limitations of our own knowledge is a first step to being open to the possibility of actually moving in the direction of the truth. Like Socrates, we may not grasp this truth completely in our own lifetimes, but our lives, like his, will be much better spent for making the effort. And we will certainly become just a little bit wiser as a result. When my first philosophy class ended, I discovered that the fears of my high school teachers were totally unfounded. My encounter with Socrates in that class didn’t destroy my faith, but rather, helped me to sort through the teachings I had grown up with to see which actually made sense and which were the product of irrational superstition. My encounter with Socrates also began my life-long love affair with the discipline of philosophy that has enriched my life in ways that I could hardly have imagined while I was sitting through Introduction to Philosophy. I may know less about the really important issues in life than I did as a freshman in college (I knew everything back then). But now at least, I take consolation from Socrates that the recognition of my own ignorance may one day prove to be the source of my future wisdom. The Argument Against Specialization In a recent article in the New York Times, Adam Davidson warns that in our current economic climate, the competition for decent paying jobs will become more intense than ever, not only for blue collar workers, but also for many college graduates: "Until now, a B.A. in any subject was a near-guarantee of at least middle-class wages. But today, a quarter of college graduates make less than the typical worker without a bachelor’s degree….[A] college degree [therefore] is no longer the guarantor of a good job. While graduates from top universities are still likely to get a good job no matter what their major is…graduates from less-exulted schools are going to be judged on what they know. To compete for jobs on a national level, they should be armed with skills that emerging industries need, whether technical…or not." Davidson goes on to say that those who earn non-specialized degrees at universities—think English, history, and philosophy majors—will ultimately be vying with one another for the same sorts of low-paying, low-level management or retail jobs that are unlikely to pay them enough to live as well as their parents did. The implication here is that those students who foolishly decide to pursue humanities degrees at most American colleges and universities are basically wasting their tuition dollars by not choosing majors that would enable them to become more economically competitive. Unfortunately, I think that Davidson is correct in his assessment of the prospects for the average student with a humanities degree. But the reason for this is lies in the erroneous perception that workers today need highly specialized skills in order to succeed in most fields. Until quite recently, one could graduate with a degree in classics or English literature, for example, and do quite well in any number of fields—business, law, entertainment, government, medicine, etc. A traditional liberal arts degree from a respectable college assured employers that college graduates had the kinds of oral and written communications and critical thinking skills, and cognitive flexibility to make a valuable contribution to just about any branch of industry. That’s why—up until recently at least—you could find liberal arts majors running huge multinational companies and no one would think twice about it. Today, because of hyper-specialization both in higher education as well as in most industries, that is much less likely to happen. And that’s a shame too, because I believe that we are already beginning to see the limitations and liabilities of having hyper-specialized individuals in positions of authority in business and government. It was, in fact, the most specialized sorts of individuals who were absolutely certain, based upon the most sophisticated technological evidence, that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq—the argument for a war that has costs tens of thousands of lives and billions of dollars. It was another specialized technocrat, Donald Rumsfeld, who assured us—again incorrectly—that such a war could be won with limited costs and casualties. And it was a group of the most hyper-specialized men and women imaginable—those who had the kinds of skill sets needed to understand how derivatives worked—who nearly brought down the entire U.S. economy in 2008. The examples go on and on. In The Republic, the philosopher Plato argued that true civilizations can only occur when you have some degree of specialization—different people becoming proficient in various skills and sharing or trading the fruits of their expertise. This leads to the creation of wealth and the creature comforts that all of us have come to expect in advanced societies. But Plato also believed that to create a just, orderly, and harmonious society you needed to have individuals leading it who had a broad enough training in all the arts and sciences—and especially philosophy—to know and do the Good. In other words, Plato thought it was fine and dandy for low level business people to be specialists, but a political society could only work properly if it was led by people with the kind of expansive moral vision and depth of understanding that comes from having what is essentially a humanities background. I certainly think that we’d be better off as a society if our elected officials were people who had read Cicero and Thomas Moore rather than sterile law texts; if our top educators spent their time absorbed in reading Jane Austen and Edward Gibbons rather than combing through data bases in search of the latest shallow ideas of whatever educational theorist happens to be in vogue at the time; and if our business leaders were men and women who were as interested in picking up a volume of Wordsworth’s poetry as the latest issue of the Wall Street Journal. Could there be any doubt that we’d be in a completely different place—and arguably a much better place—right now as a nation? Unfortunately, there’s no going back to the kind of education that produced some of the greatest leaders of the 20thcentury—Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill, among others. The genie of hyper-specialization is already out of the bottle and majors in the humanities are already on their last legs. But perhaps a useful compromise could occur. If we have to have people who specialize in business, law, medicine, or computer science, couldn’t we also work out a way to ensure that they also have a thorough grounding in those arts and sciences that can free their minds from the narrowness and shortsightedness of their specialized training? I’m talking, of cause, about a training in the liberal arts and sciences—those disciplines that are said to make human beings truly free (liber). Counterbalancing Accounting 1 with Shakespeare and Classical Political Theory, for example, might just provide future movers and shakers in the business world with a humanizing influence that may very well prevent them from the sort of fixation on the bottom line that has led American business leaders into so much trouble in recent years. To accomplish this goal, it will either mean reducing the total number of credits that students take in their specialized majors in order to allow for either a much heftier dose of humanities classes and perhaps even a second major in a humanities discipline. I have absolutely no doubts that if we did this we still could provide a very fine vocational training for all students, but we would also be ensuring that these students have the kind of expansive moral vision that is needed as we lurch forward into the 21st century. Some thoughts and reflections inspired by things going on in my own life or in the world around me.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line442
__label__wiki	0.517553	0.517553	Kazarian, Eduard "Ocean" (Океан) Smalti, porcelain and ceramic pottery shards, concrete, steel armature 200x5500x30 cm While studying at art school, the artist Eduard Kazarian interned at the sculptural workshop of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Roads, where he helped design some of the distinctive bus stop shelters found on rural roads in Kazakhstan. Having gained sufficient experience, and entering his fifth and final year at the institute, he was offered an order for a large project just as he was supposed to start a thesis project, and as the degree was in monumental sculpture, he was given approval to use the ordered mosaic as his thesis project. . The mosaic was to go in a cafe called Oksan, run by a friend of Kazarian’s who was also ethnically Armenian. As the cafe was located next to Lake Sairan, then a major recreation area, Kazarian chose a marine theme, with fish, squid and jellyfish squirming in the playful, primitive style that he would become known for. At the top of the mosaic is the artist's signature, written in the Armenian alphabet, incorporating the Armenian cultural identity that is an important part of Kazarian's work. Smalta and ceramics for the mosaic were provided by the ministry's workshop. Most of the tesserae are in fact broken dishes, recycled from the Kapshagai and Alma-Ata ceramic factories. These dishes would be extensively used in bus stops as well. One day Kazarian heard that the cafe on Sairan would be remodeled, and offered to buy back his mosaic. The businessman Nurlan Smagulov, a frequent patron, agreed to help buy back the mosaic. Then, around New Year's Day, the owner rang an announced that the welder had dismantled everything from the wall and tossed the panels in a heap. Kazarian was able to rescue most of the work, take it back to his studio, and make some repairs while waiting for the weather to warm up for its reinstallation. The mosaic would ultimately be installed in the parking lot of the Alma-Ata Art Center, a gallery space that was the joint effort of Kazarian and Smagulov. The gallery struggled because of its location along a highway far from the city center, and the property was given over to a Toyota Dealership owned by Smagulov’s Astana Motors. Now, the work is hard to notice, hidden behind rows of new cars. Kazarian admits that he would love to move it again to somewhere new, where it could be better appreciated, just as long as the new location would fit in with the mosaic’s marine theme. Former Alma-Ata Art Center at Toyota Center Almaty 151 Suyunbai	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line443
__label__cc	0.728895	0.271105	Author: Doree Seattle Public Schools may delay Whittier Developmental Preschool move by one year 03/29/2012 03/29/2012 Doree Seattle Public Schools announced on Wednesday that it may delay by one year the planned move of the Developmental Preschool at Whittier Elementary to Viewlands Elementary. Last week we told you that some parents with children in the Developmental Preschool were upset that the district had made the decision to move the program in January, […] Parents upset about Whittier’s Developmental Preschool moving to Viewlands next year with little notice Seattle Public Schools is moving the Developmental Preschool program at Whittier Elementary School in Ballard to Viewlands Elementary in North Greenwood/Crown Hill next year. But, some parents in the Developmental Preschool are upset because they weren’t involved in the decision-making process, and they were given very little notice. The Developmental Preschool is located on the bottom floor of Whittier Elementary. The district says it is moving the program because it anticipates higher enrollment at Whittier in the next few years, and may need an extra classroom. Amy Thompson, whose 4-year-old daughter, Ava, has attended the Developmental Preschool for the last two years, says the district apparently made the decision in February, but didn’t notify parents until Monday. She said the district posted a letter on its website on Feb. 17 detailing various district-wide Special Education changes, and the preschool change consisted of one line in that document. But no one from the district or Whittier Elementary notified parents of that letter on the website. “It was deeply buried,” Thompson says of the notice. “And who’s going to go looking for that if they don’t know to look for it?” Thompson says she heard about the move last Thursday from Whittier Principal Linda Robinson. Preschool families received a notification letter on Monday, and that same letter was sent home with all Whittier students on Tuesday. Here is an excerpt from the letter by Pegi McEvoy, Assistant Superintendent for Operations: At this time, we have tentatively planned to maintain the same number of homerooms currently at Whittier; however, the situation is such that we need to be prepared to add a homeroom as additional Open Enrollment date becomes available. This type of decision obviously needs to be made in advance. In anticipation of potential space needs for an additional homeroom at Whittier next year, we have decided to relocate the Developmental Preschool to Viewlands Elementary beginning in the 2012-13 school year. Consideration was given to the addition of a portable; however it was determined to be unfeasible. SPS also says it is studying the need for additional Development Preschools at other sites throughout the district, including North Seattle. The Whittier PTA has formally opposed the move, arguing that Whittier’s enrollment figures do not necessitate another homeroom next year. On Monday, the PTA sent a letter to district officials (see end of this post for the full letter). Thompson said her family’s reference school is Adams Elementary, but they chose to enroll their 6-year-old son, Campbell, in kindergarten at Whittier this year, so he and his sister could attend the same school. With the preschool moving to Whittier, they will be split up. Thompson said she understands school capacity issues, but the real issue is with timely notification. Since the Open Enrollment period has passed, she no longer has the option of moving her son to Viewlands next year, to keep her children at the same school. “If it is a foregone conclusion that the program is moving, at a minimum, just give us a year of transition to work these issues out,” she pleaded. Thompson says routines and structure are especially important for children with developmental issues. Her daughter has significant development delays and requires intensive speech, occupational and physical therapy. When Ava started going to the Developmental Preschool program at the age of 3, she used a walker to get around. Today she walks independently, and Thompson attributes that to the teachers and intense therapy at the preschool. “All of them require a special level of education services, so whether it comes in the form of cognitive therapy, learning or physical therapy, their routines are very structured that way,” she explains. “It takes a while to develop that routine with your educators.” She’s worried about the same level of services being available at Viewlands, after the district informed parents that the new Developmental Preschool room at Viewlands is not equipped for physical therapy, as it is at Whittier. “Not having those things in place is a pretty big setback to their progress and overall development plan,” she says. Chicken found crossing 8th Ave NW Updated: While walking the dog around Whittier Heights we saw “LOST CHICKEN!” signs stapled to light posts and called the owner. Fingers crossed that this is their missing chicken! The chicken and owner have been reunited! Earlier:Kiva tells us that her mom saw a chicken trying to cross the road – seriously – on 8th […] Construction update for 85th St repaving project Seattle Department of Transportation continues its nearly year-long paving project on N/NW 85th Street from Ballard to I-5. Here’s what SDOT plans to work on this week (planned work hours are from 7 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) Phase 1 – 15th Ave NW to 8th Ave NW Demolition, excavation and replacement of concrete roadway panels […] Whittier Elementary looking for last-minute auction donations If you own a Ballard-Phinney-Greenwood area business and would like to donate to Whittier Elementary School’s bi-annual auction, the deadline is tomorrow, February 29. The auction is the main fundraiser for Whittier’s PTA, which pays for after-school tutoring, field trips, the school’s art teacher, annual events like the fall carnival, provides extra library funds, and […] ‘Pond Watchers’ will monitor amphibians at Carkeek Park More than 50 volunteers with Woodland Park Zoo’s “pond watch” program will fan out at Carkeek Park this Saturday morning to survey amphibian egg masses in ponds and wetlands. Oregon Spotted Frog. Photo by Dana Payne, Woodland Park Zoo. The volunteers have already completed special training. They will be armed with hip waders, digital cameras, […] Intersection of 85th & 8th closed this weekend The intersection of NW 85th Street and 8th Avenue NW will be closed again this weekend so Seattle Department of Transportation crews can rebuild it. Large signs sit by the side of the road, warning drivers from every direction as they approach the intersection. The rebuilt intersection is part of SDOT’s nearly year-long repaving of […] Back to work on NW 85th after snow and ice 01/27/2012 Doree The major repaving project on NW 85th Street was put on hold for several days last week because of the snow and ice. Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) resumed work this week. Here’s an update on current work. Work continues in Phase 1 between 15th Ave NW and 8th Ave NW. Work activities impacted by […] Whittier Elementary PTA opposes addition of Kindergarten class Members of Whittier Elementary School’s PTA plan to attend Wednesday night’s Seattle School Board meeting to oppose a proposal to add a fourth kindergarten class next year. Whittier, which is at 13th Avenue NW and NW 75th Street in Ballard, currently has three kindergarten classes of 23 students each. Whittier Elementary on a sunnier day […] Zoo tops 1 million visitors, raising admission price The Woodland Park Zoo reports that attendance has topped 1,000,000 visitors for the eleventh year in a row. Last year the zoo had 1,094,514 visitors. The zoo also raised $68.5 million of its $80 million goal in the “More Wonder More Wild” fundraising campaign. The zoo will introduce two new species to its exhibits later […] Police close 8th Ave NW due to ‘suspicious package’ Seattle Police closed 8th Avenue NW between NW 80th and NW 83rd streets Sunday morning after finding a “suspicious package” in the middle of the road. The bomb squad has picked up the device and the street has been reopened. Seattle Police blocked off 8th Avenue NW at 83rd Street with a police cruiser and crime […] Road crews to work on NW 85th Street this weekend Road crews will work this weekend on NW 85th Street between 12th and 13th Avenues NW, as part of the massive, nearly year-long repaving project of N/NW 85th Street from Ballard to I-5. SDOT began work on Wednesday with eastbound NW 85th Street being closed between 8th and 15th Avenues NW, and traffic was detoured […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line446
__label__wiki	0.554808	0.554808	Meet The Massage Therapists Meet The Naturopaths Backpack Awareness Sport Injury Worker Safety and Insurance Musculoskeletal Issues SIGVARIS Compression Garments Staying Motivated > One, Two, or Three Miles? Created in Newsletter Library, Staying Motivated Even experienced exercisers sometimes find it difficult to know how much to do. For the beginner this uncertainty represents a significant stumbling block. Fortunately well-established guidelines and protocols exist to provide assistance to all exercisers, regardless of your skill level. In general, the beginning exerciser requires the most instruction. The key is to build up strength and endurance slowly and not do too much too soon. In terms of strength training, the best plan is to determine at what weight you can comfortably perform three sets of eight repetitions. If you can't do three sets of eight reps at the weight you've selected, it's too heavy. If doing three sets of eight reps with the weight you've chosen doesn't feel like anything at all, then the weight is too light. Overall, of course, too light is better than too heavy. The majority of strength training injuries occur when you're attempting to train with an inappropriately heavy weight. For example, you've selected 15-pound dumbbells with which to perform your bench press routine. You can comfortably do three sets of eight reps. Fifteen pounds is not too light and not too heavy. During the course of your next several weight training sessions, build up to three sets of 12 reps using the 15-pound dumbbells. When you can do three sets of 12 reps successfully, the next time you do your bench press routine you'll increase the weight by approximately 10%. In other words, you'll use the next heaviest weight, which is usually 17.5 pounds in a well-equipped gym. Begin with three sets of eight reps with the 17.5-pound dumbbells, and progress over the next several sessions to three sets of 12 reps. Then you'll repeat the sequence with 20-pound dumbbells, starting at three sets of eight reps and building up to three sets of 12 reps. You'll follow this formula with all of your strength training exercises. In this way, using a safe, smart, and graduated program, you'll consistently build lean muscle mass, gain improved strength and efficiency of your cardiovascular system, and most likely lose several pounds as stored fat is converted to muscle.1 The same principles apply to cardiovascular exercises such as walking, running, biking, and swimming. If you haven't exercised in a very long time, walking is a good method with which to begin.2,3 On your first day, go for a normally paced 10- or 15-minute walk. Don't be concerned that your walk feels like it's over only a few minutes after it's begun. Your main focus should be on getting started, not on how much or how little you're doing in the first few sessions. Over the course of four to six weeks, build up a minute or two each session until you're able to comfortably walk for 30 minutes at a moderate pace. At this point you can begin to increase your pace gradually, building up to a 30- or 40-minute walk at a brisk pace. At this level, you're going a very good, vigorous cardiovascular workout and your heart, lungs, and other components of your cardiorespiratory system are becoming stronger, healthier, and more efficient. In this gradual, steady, measured way, all exercisers, of whatever age, prior experience, and skill level, can gain a lifetime of benefit from their fitness programs and minimize the likelihood of setbacks or injury. 1Hawkins M, et al: Impact of an exercise intervention on physical activity during pregnancy: the behaviors affecting baby and you study. Am J Public Health 2014 Oct;104(10):e74-81. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302072. Epub 2014 Aug 14 2Hanson S, Jones A: Is there evidence that walking groups have health benefits? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Sports Med 2015 Jan 19. pii: bjsports-2014-094157. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094157. [Epub ahead of print] 3Varma VR, et al: Low-intensity daily walking activity is associated with hippocampal volume in older adults. Hippocampus 2014 Dec 7. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22397. [Epub ahead of print]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line454
__label__wiki	0.895973	0.895973	Search by Name, State, Culture or Tradition Explore Artists The National Heritage Fellowship Defining Folklore Suggested Student Reading Meeting Educational Standards Printable Handouts Opportunities for Learning Sense of Wonder Sense of Discovery Masters of Traditional Arts Documentary Arts National Heritage Fellowship State South Dakota Artist Kevin Locke LeRoy Graber Alice New Holy Blue Legs Kevin Locke Nellie Star Boy Menard Native American, Hunkpapa Sioux Dancer, Flute Player, Musician Kevin Locke is a Hunkpapa Sioux from the Standing Rock Reservation, trained from an early age in all forms of Lakota musical, oral and dance traditions. As a young man, he lived with an elderly uncle at Wakpala, South Dakota. The uncle spoke only Lakota and taught his nephew both the language and traditions of his culture. He learned many courting and love songs by hearing them sung. From elders in the tribe, he learned to make and play traditional wooden flutes. His Lakota name is Tokeya Inajin, which means First to Arise. In the late 1970s, he attempted to "revive and diffuse an appreciation for the Lakota/Dakota flute tradition." He said, "At the time I started this revival, the last exponent of the flute-playing tradition, Richard Fool Bull, had already departed from this life. My only recourse was to seek out those who could still recall the vocal traditions from which the instrumental flute melodies are derived. ... Lakota/Dakota courting songs were once an essential expression of our intricate social customs and were used in specific situations during the courting process. The social conditions which gave rise to this expression are no longer in force. However, the tradition is a distinct treasure of South Dakota, and the values which gave rise to the use of the flute are those which our current society would do well to heed." Locke has devoted much of his life to preserving the traditions of his people and has traveled the world in doing so. "There is a great need to continue the work of bridging the gap between the Indian and non-Indian cultures of South Dakota," he said. "I have been able to teach countless Indian and non-Indian children to sing, to dance, to stand inside the hoop of Indian culture, and I know that this experience will have lasting influence with regard to future positive race relations within the state." In his presentations, Locke performs on his flute and demonstrates the Sioux hoop dance, using twenty-eight wooden hoops. He often sings Lakota songs in English, though he professes not to be a good singer. But he clearly is a master of the eight flutes he brings along. "I see myself strictly as a preservationist," he said. "I base my repertoire on the old songs. I try to show younger people what was there, and maybe some of the younger people will pick up from there [and compose new music]. There's a point at which you can't express yourself with pure words, and that's where the music comes in." Locke received a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from the University of North Dakota and a master's in education administration from the University of South Dakota and has pursued doctoral studies. He spends much of his time, when not performing, working in various aspects of education. Locke has performed in Native American ceremonies, concerts and festivals across the United States and has toured Europe, Japan, the South Pacific, Australia and Africa. His recordings have been honored at the Native American Music Awards and the Independent Music Awards. Erbacher, Kathy. "Indian Art in Boulder: Annual Festival Provides Outlet for Self-Expression and Economic Survival." Denver Magazine (June 1986). Havnen-Finley, Jan. The Hoop of Peace. (Happy Camp, California: Naturegraph Publishers, 1994.) Lifson, Amy. "Around the Nation." Humanities (March/April 1998) 19, 2: 33. "Love One Another — Soar Free!" Christian Science Monitor (August 18, 1999) 91, 184: 19. Discography Locke, Kevin. Earth Gift. 2008, Ixtlan Recording Consortium. ____________. Love Songs of the Lakota. 1995, Allegro Corporation. ____________. Hoop of Life ... Lakota Stories of the Nobility of the Human Spirit. Makoché Music. ____________. Dream Catcher. 1993, Earthbeat. 1996, Spalax. ____________. Keepers of the Dream: Volume 2 of the Dream Catcher series.1995, Earthbeat. ____________. Dream Catchers & Keepers of the Dream (two CDs). ____________. Preserving the Heritage: Insights and Songs from Kevin Locke. 2011, CDBY. ____________. Flute Planet: Songs and Prayers from the Top of the World. Makoché Music. ____________. The First Flute. 1999, 2006, Makoché Music. ____________. Midnight Strong Heart. 2003, Red Feather. ____________. Open Circle. 2006, Makoché Music. ____________. The Flash of the Mirror. 2006, Makoché Music. Masters of Traditional Music. Videotape, color, 58 minutes. Directed by Alan Govenar and Robert Tullier. Dallas: Documentary Arts, 1991. Kevin Locke, 1990 National Heritage Fellowship Concert, Washington, D.C., courtesy National Endowment for the Arts Excerpt from Masters of Traditional Music, directed by Alan Govenar and Robert Tullier, Documentary Arts, 1991 Excerpt from Masters of Traditional Music, eirected by Alan Govenar and Robert Tullier, Documentary Arts, 1991 Kevin Locke, audio biography, produced and recorded by Alan Govenar, edited and narrated by Nancy Lamb Kevin Locke, Dallas, Texas, 1991, recorded by Alan Govenar Kevin Locke, 'Across the River,' The Flash of the Mirror, 2006, Makoché Music Kevin Locke, 'Gossiper Song,' The First Flute, 1999, Makoché Music Kevin Locke, 'Sitting Bull's Medicine Song,' The First Flute, 1999, Makoché Music Kevin Locke, 'Song for the Rustling Tree (Cottonwood Song),' The First Flute, 1999, Makoché Music Kevin Locke, 'Strength to You, Lakota Woman,' Keepers of the Dream,1995, Earthbeat. 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__label__wiki	0.689173	0.689173	One Last Hurrah: The Free Press Seniors TOPICS:Annie Brownclass of 2015Daniel Valentin-MoralesKelsey MannixNikki KrugSarah HullSenior Editors Commentary Editor Nikki Krug, Web Editor Annie Brown and co-Editors-in-Chief Daniel Valentin-Morales and Sarah Hull. Photo courtesy of Katelyn Wolf and McDaniel Yearbook Club. Posted By: Kelsey Mannix, Sports Editor May 20, 2015 Once again, the time has come to say goodbye to another wonderful group of Free Press editors. Between the seemingly endless chain emails, doing layout long into the night, and their constant drive to keep people informed, the Free Press’s success would not have been possible without them. Annie Brown, this year’s Web Editor, has been with the Free Press the longest, joining during her freshman year. After being the editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper, she wanted to continue her student-journalism experience. “I was excited to be able to devote more time to writing stories without having to worry about being responsible for editing or other people,” she says. Brown explains that she has gained valuable skills outside of writing and editing from being on the Free Press. “I’ve also gained more skills with photography, Photoshop, social media, and web design. More importantly, I’ve learned a lot about time management, delegating tasks, and interacting with other people—all skills that I’ll take with me regardless of what sort of career I end up in,” she says. As for her plans after graduation, Brown claims they’re up in the air. Graduate school is on the table, but probably not immediately. “I have not yet found my first full-time job, but I’m looking for work that has to do with digital communication, social media, or content management,” she explains. “I think I’d be a great fit at a nonprofit. I plan to take these next few years to meet people, have new experiences, and get a sense of what I want to do with my life.” Nikki Krug, our commentary editor, joined the Free Press in the fall 2014 semester. She cites the Newspaper Practicum class as incentive to become more involved with it. “My favorite things about working on the Free Press is getting to talk to so many interesting people around town,” she says. “Also, seeing your work published and being read by people all over campus gives you a great sense of accomplishment.” Krug says the Free Press has helped her improve her writing skills and has helped her figure out what she wants to do after graduation. Her current plans are to stay in Westminster, keep her current job, and look for positions in editing and publishing. Sarah Hull, one of the co-Editors-in-Chief, also joined the Free Press after taking the Newspaper Practicum class. Her most memorable Free Press moments are ones she will cherish. “One of my first stories was an interview with Greenman,” she says, “who stormed the field during a football game; that was fun to write, and fun to see people reading and talking about it. “And, of course, this past year has been a memorable one because I get to hang out with bae (Daniel Valentin-Morales) when we’re working on layout for print issues in the wee hours and just too tired to function normally.” She has learned that people’s true personalities come out when they leave anonymous comments on articles. Hull’s post-graduation plans include working as a Young Adult Associate Librarian for the Washington County Free Library as well as bartending near her hometown. Daniel Valentin-Morales, the other co-Editor-in-Chief and this year’s News Editor, came to the Free Press via Newspaper Practicum as well. He claims he jumped at the opportunity to be co-Editor-in-Chief when it was offered. One of his favorite Free Press moments was last year’s article about the controversial frat party. “It was well-written and it got people looking at our website and our posts critically,” he explains. “I’ve learned how to manage my time better. It’s been important,” he says. “I’ve also learned, the hard way, that responding to emails should be quick and prompt. If you don’t things fall through the cracks and are forgotten. To run something successfully you have be incredibly attentive.” His post-graduation plans include graduate school at some point, but not necessarily this coming fall. All he knows right now is that he wants to “help change come about quickly, be it politically or other.” This year’s seniors worked extremely hard to continue the success of the Free Press. The rest of the staff and I would like to thank them for all of their time and dedication they gave to this publication, and we wish them the best of luck in all of their future endeavors. Travel Writing Across Europe: A Collection of Journals Commentary, Sex on the Hill Sex on the Hill: McDaniel’s Porn Habits Student Circles Parking Lot for Eight Days, Still No Spaces Home, Senior profiles It’s so hard to say goodbye: The Free Press Seniors	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line459
__label__wiki	0.899884	0.899884	IACHR Grants Precautionary Measure for Three Deputies of Venezuela’s National Assembly Washington, D.C.—On July 28, 2017, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) granted a precautionary measure for Deputy Julio Borges, President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, and Deputies Tomás Guanipa and José Guerra, in Venezuela. After analyzing the allegations of fact and law presented by the applicants and the Venezuelan State, and considering the institutional and social tensions created in the context of the alteration of the constitutional and democratic order in Venezuela, the Commission concluded that the legislators Borges, Guanipa, and Guerra are in a serious and urgent situation, as their rights to life and integrity are at risk of irreparable harm. In making this determination, the Commission took into account the statements and acts of harassment that the applicants reported had been directed against them by high-level authorities of the State; the current situation the country is going through, including extreme polarization; and the serious attack the National Assembly suffered recently—on July 5, 2017—when a group of armed civilians violently stormed into the building and for hours prevented representatives from leaving. Mr. Borges is President of the National Assembly, and the other beneficiaries of this measure are legislators who belong to opposition parties. Consequently, based on Article 25 of its Rules of Procedure, the Commission requested that the State of Venezuela: (a) adopt the necessary measures to guarantee the lives and personal integrity of Julio Borges, Tomás Guanipa, and José Guerra, and ensure that they can exercise their political rights as members of the National Assembly without being subject to threats, harassment, or acts of violence; (b) reach agreement with the beneficiaries and their representatives on the measures to be adopted; and (c) inform the Commission about the actions taken to investigate the allegations that led to the adoption of this resolution, so as to prevent a recurrence. The Commission indicated that the granting of the precautionary measure and its adoption by the State do not constitute a prejudging of any petition that may come before the inter-American system alleging violations of the rights protected in the American Declaration and other applicable instruments. A principal, autonomous body of the Organization of American States (OAS), the IACHR derives its mandate from the OAS Charter and the American Convention on Human Rights. The Inter-American Commission has a mandate to promote respect for and to defend human rights in the region and acts as a consultative body to the OAS in this area. The Commission is composed of seven independent members who are elected in an individual capacity by the OAS General Assembly and who do not represent their countries of origin or residence.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line462
__label__cc	0.713415	0.286585	Alia Hall, DJ & Producer by Jessica semaan City: San Francisco, California Passion: Music Website: www.aliarhythms.com, www.soundcloud.com/aliarhythms Twitter: @Femvolution They say if people remember one thing, it is how you made them feel. When I was introduced to Alia I felt energized, inspired and connected to her. Soon thereafter, I reached out and we met at a bar in the Mission. While I sipped my wine and she drank her water, Alia listened to my life story, then asked that one question that drove me to make a decision that put me on the right track towards living an authentic life. Alia has since become a mentor and coach, someone who inspires and supports me to be my best self. What is remarkable about this woman is how she embraces her incredible feminine energy that she exudes through her creations, presence and smile. Interviewing Alia at her peaceful home in the woods in San Francisco enchanted us, giving us a window to her past and an outlook to her future music endeavors. I was always really into music throughout my life. When I was about 8 or 9, I started listening to music that was a little alternative to what other kids were listening to and making mix tapes. As I became a teenager, I developed a love for electronic dance music. I was also a trained pianist and Madrigal singer but that’s not what captured my heart - I loved the pulse of a dance beat. In college, I dabbled in the rave scene a little bit, but it wasn’t until I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000 that I tapped into a thriving dance culture. A few years ago, a friend who loved my mixes asked me to play her Obama fundraiser party at a club in SF. I had to teach myself how to dj to make it happen! I taught myself the basics to play that first event. I had a blast and so did everyone else. It was like I’d found the ideal channel for all those years of exploring my love for electronic dance music. After that, I kept getting asked to play at people’s parties. It unfolded so organically. It was the combination of my joy when I was playing with the effortlessness that it was opening up in my life that helped me know that I’d found my passion. Opportunities kept coming to me and I kept saying yes. It was really a dream come true to have something be so fun for me and so desired in the world. With each event, I grew in my mastery and within about a year, I started being paid to contribute to underground parties and conscious dance events in the Bay. My big break came when I got the opportunity to play Ecstatic Dance, which has grown to become a popular weekly event attracting 300+ people. I became a resident DJ for them. Now, I am playing around the the country as well as internationally. In the last year, I have been producing my own original music which I mix in with other people’s. My goal is to become a completely original music producer within the year. At first, I met with a few different friends and mentors who taught me the fundamentals of beat-matching and how to use the software. And then it was all about practice, practice, practice. But really the best practice was playing gigs. I learned so much just being in the moment with the music (and sometimes fumbling in the moment!). Gradually with time and experience my ear has become much more attuned to rhythms, sounds, and frequencies and I have a way more instinctive sense of how the music can flow together in a way that creates a really harmonious journey for the dancer. I began my career as an advertising and marketing executive for big brands and companies. I knew that I was unhappy with that path, that I really needed a change, and that I wanted to pursue something more creative. But at first I didn’t know it would be music. That came just a little later and caught me a bit by surprise. I was building my entrepreneurial business as a coach at the same time that this musical path began unfolding. I was changing career paths to create something that I felt much more passionate about. Once I got a taste of the passion, I was no longer content just living it at nights and on the weekends - I wanted to experience it everywhere in my life. Building my own business took a lot of work so until recently, music was a part-time activity. Now, I have re-oriented my life so that it can take more a front seat, especially because I am working on my own material. I had been training for years as a coach and a workshop facilitator for various transformational organizations while also exploring women’s work and I became ultra passionate about supporting other women in their personal growth. So coming out of school, I started my business Femvolution and took a deep dive into learning online marketing and the art of becoming a successful entrepreneur. When music began blooming in my life, I was ready to embrace it and to go for it in a way I may not have been earlier. It feels like all that early passion for music, combined with that early musical training is coming back around full circle at a time when I can fully honor it. I remember playing a really big dance event with a community I had been a part of for years. I rocked that set - I had the room going the whole time and people loved it. Then, on the last song of my set, something went awry with the control that manages the BPM of the track in the software - all of a sudden it jumped up to a super high BPM where the vocals were squeaky like the Chipmunks and it was way too fast to dance to. Not knowing the software very well yet, I was like a deer in headlights. I had no idea how to fix it. We had to quickly transition to the next DJ to cover it up. It was horrible, embarrassing and deflating after such a fun set. But, when I talked to people afterwards I learned that it didn’t make as much of an impact on the space as I thought it had. Some people didn’t even notice. I try to always keep that in mind so I don’t beat myself up and I can keep going. That’s the key: just keep going and don’t let yourself get thrown off. You can recover quickly as long as you don’t obsess over the mistake. I have used this wisdom in other parts of my life as well! If I allowed each of my little failures to get to me I wouldn’t be where I am today. I would have stopped within the first month. Very few of my sets have been absolutely perfect but I choose instead to focus on the parts when magic happened and just strive to create more of that. Fear is a self-created limitation. It’s often created when we project some experience from the past into the present, so we imagine that that experience will happen again, even if we have no evidence that it will. I think the best remedy for fear is action. I don’t give the fear too much time or energy and just dive into engaging with my creations. Usually that initial pang of fear passes as I become swept up by the joy of doing what I love. This happens when I step on stage too. Before every set, I will feel some nervous energy but it always dissipates within minutes of beginning. This is because I have to be so present and in the moment with what I am creating there is no time to stop and think and indulge in the fears. Also, just before I press play for the first time on stage, I ground myself. I take some breaths, feel my feet on the ground, and say a little prayer. I often will bring a couple crystals or sacred items with me to a gig to create a portable mini altar which helps me connect to something bigger than myself. This way, I can remember that the creation of the experience is not all on my shoulders. Saying a little prayer to Spirit before any creative act can loosen the tension and make you more available to tap into your genius. On Money Those first few years after I left my corporate job were lean! I was trying to figure a lot of things out all at once. Money did not flow effortlessly and it sometimes forced me to question what I was doing because I gave up a nice income. In those times of doubt when my inner resolve would weaken, something in me just kept telling me to keep going. Even when I had my parents constantly expressing their concern and I had people suggesting that I go back to a job, I knew that it would be a big step backwards for me to do that. I knew that I had to dig deep and find my own belief in myself and be willing to follow my own compass and not someone else’s. I knew that I had to be willing to trust in my own visions even if they were radically different. I look back and realize that there was a new version of myself birthing through and just like in labor, I was experiencing the birthing pains of that. I believe self-love is one of the most critical factors for success on this journey of following your passion. To make it through the bumps and challenges and doubts you have to be willing to fully honor and take care of yourself. This is often the first place I start with women I work with who want to start living their own passion. When we fully honor ourselves, it shows up in every aspect of our life. Things begin to align and it becomes easier to have what we want because we are letting ourselves be loved and fulfilled. Without this ingredient, we will continue to sabotage ourselves. I vary what I do but it always includes drinking a big glass of water when I wake, drinking a green shake to start my day, and often includes meditating, working out, yoga, walks in the canyon behind my house, and ecstatic dance. I am inspired by people who are creative, self-expressed, uninhibited and unapologetic about who they are. I have been a long-time fan of Madonna for this reason. She has always been loud and proud with the way she walks through the world. She is also not afraid to evolve and to take risks. I think she is a radical example of how we can let ourselves grow and expand. I am also inspired by Lady Gaga for very similar reasons - I love the way she plays with her image and the way she expresses in the world. But one of the main reasons I like her is her work with her Born This Way Foundation which is about empowering youth to be braver, kinder, and to celebrate their individuality. This is such an important and powerful message. Then there are the people who floor me with their artistry, their genius, and their passion - they are too numerous to name here but each one leaves a mark on my heart and inspires me to go deeper and deeper to open my own voice and share what I have to bring to the world. I have had a few mentors. The people I work with most closely tend to evolve as I do; each person supports a particular phase of my growth. I think having a mentor is incredibly important. It helps close the gap in the areas where you aren’t as knowledgeable and this person can provide tremendous support and encouragement. This person sees you for your greatness (and if they don’t, you need a new mentor!), especially at those times when you have trouble seeing it yourself. My long-time friend community has always been very supportive at times when I didn’t get as much support from my family. I also have a community of entrepreneur friends who are building thriving businesses, and a community of creative friends who spend a lot of time in the music and festival scene. All of these groups feed different parts of me. My advice is to keep following the scent of your desires - you will find that the things you naturally gravitate towards, that you love to do, that make you happy and light you up are the things that are the clues on your path to help show you the way towards your passionate life. Typically these things are not rational or logical. And stay on the path. It will open up opportunities you could never imagine from this point-of-view now. The journey unfolds gradually and new information is revealed as you go. The key is to stick with it during the times of confusion and frustration. tagged with music, passion, DJ, producer, transition, coach	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line464
__label__wiki	0.573964	0.573964	Swine Flu – Symptoms and What to Do About Them: Minimise Your Risk During the H1N1 Flu Virus Pandemic The 09H1N1 virus known as ‘swine flu’ has spread so rapidly since its appearance in Mexico in April that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic in early June. So the chances are, unless you are a hermit, you’ve been or are about to be exposed to the virus, especially if you commute by mass transit/public transport and work in an air-conditioned office. Even stay-at home parents or grandparents can be exposed to the virus when the children come home from school or childcare. You can’t run, you can’t hide, but you can use commonsense to try to stay safe. H1N1 Flu Not As Severe As Others The good news is, most infectious disease experts agree that for most people, the ‘swine flu’ is likely to be no worse than any other seasonal flu. The WHO noted that it was only of ‘moderate severity’ and it is not as severe as the three major global Influenza A epidemics during the 20th century: Spanish flu in 1918, Asian flu in 1957 and Hong Kong flu in 1968–69. “In the majority of cases, flu is the flu; it’s unpleasant, but most people get over it well,” says Dr Tom Gottlieb, Senior Specialist in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Central Sydney Area Health Service’s Concord Hospital. Swine Flu Or Just Seasonal Flu? While the flu season is winding down in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s just taking off in the Southern Hemisphere. Already 31 people have died in Australia. Not all these deaths are from the H1N1 virus. The WHO reports that a seasonal H3N2 virus is circulating as well. Influenza presentations at Australian emergency rooms are already higher than at the seasonal flu peaks for the last six years. Seasonal flu causes severe illness in 3–5 million people each year and is responsible for 250,000–500,000 deaths worldwide. Most at risk are generally old people, young children, and people who are already chronically ill. An added factor with the H1N1 virus is that as it’s a new strain, many people do not have immunity to it. This is possibly why it is typically affecting healthy young adults and young children, and fewer elderly people than a ‘typical’ winter flu. It’s assumed that people who were exposed to the flu pandemics of the late 1950s and 1960s may have some residual immunity to the virus. Flu Symptoms To Watch For Whether it’s seasonal flu or H1N1, watch out for these symptoms and deal with them quickly, Dr Gottlieb advises. sudden onset of fever, myalgias (muscle pains), In some cases, diarrhoea and vomiting also occur. What To Do If You Have These Symptoms Quarantine yourself: Stay away from work, school, or anywhere you could infect others. Don’t go to hospital unless your doctor tells you to. Take antivirals: Oseltamivir (tamiflu) is very effective if taken as early as possible within first 48 hours of symptoms, Dr Gottlieb says. “Tamiflu limits the period of infectivity (and therefore voluntary isolation) to three days versus a week.” While tamiflu is helpful for all people with flu symptoms, he says it is best for people who are more vulnerable – those with chronic diseases, pregnant women, and children under four. Hygiene: Commonsense in Limiting Flu Despite the H1N1 pandemic, not everyone will catch the flu and not everyone with flu will exhibit symptoms. Commonsense hygiene can help limit your exposure to the virus or spreading it unawares to others. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot water or alcohol wipes after being out in public, travelling on buses or trains, eating in cafes and restaurants or using public toilets. Cover your mouth and nose with a hanky or tissue when coughing or sneezing to prevent the spread of airborne virus particles. Wear a surgical mask if you’re gong to be in close contact (less than a metre) with an infected person. Julianne Hough’s Wardrobe Malfunction Didn’t Seem to Bother Her at All Playing the Odds	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line466
__label__wiki	0.718441	0.718441	Pete Earley Bestselling Author and Mental Health Advocate Thomas Silverstein: Held In Isolation Cells For 36 Years, Major Character in The Hot House, Has Died by Pete Earley (Note: My blog announcing Silverstein’s death prompted complaints by some readers who said I was overly sympathetic. I responded by posting a second blog about their criticism.) (5-12-19) Thomas Silverstein, a major character in my bestselling book, The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison, and one of America’s most famous federal prisoners, has died. He died Saturday (5-11) evening in a Colorado hospital from heart complications. He had been hospitalized for several weeks. He was 67. Silverstein had been held in isolation since 1983, after he killed Corrections Officer Merle Clutts at the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois. At the time, there was no death sentence for murdering a correctional officer. Bureau officials told me, while I was researching my book, that they created a new punishment for Silverstein called “no human contact” designed to completely seal him off from other prisoners and the outside world. Prison officials explained they had little choice but to isolate Silverstein. By the time he murdered Clutts, Silverstein already had been found guilty of the brutal murders of three other prisoners, although his conviction of one of those murders was later overturned. Initially, he was held in the bureau’s Atlanta maximum security penitentiary with absolutely nothing in his cell with the lights on 24 hours per day. He later was moved to an isolation cell in the bowels of the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth where I first met him in 1987. The lights were kept on 24 hours per day there too – under the pretense they were needed so that cameras could monitor him. For months he was only provided with freezing cold water for showers. Most of the officials who oversaw him refused to speak to him. He had little idea whether it was day or night, and no idea what was happening in the outside world. Prison officials gradually began granting Silverstein privileges, such as books and art supplies for his paintings. This was not necessarily done out of kindness, but for practicality. Having something to take way as punishment if he didn’t obey a direct order – such as return a food tray after eating. Silverstein spent his last 36 years in isolation – believed to be the longest an American has been held in such conditions by federal officials. He prided himself, in his words, “for not letting them break me!” He was serving a life sentence in an isolation cell at the federal “Supermax,” the United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX (USP Florence ADX) in Colorado, when he became ill earlier this year and was taken to a Denver hospital for treatment. Even when he was incapacitated and incubated, I was told that his BOP guards initially kept him in four point restraints tied to a hospital bed with as many as three officers standing watch. Hospital officials told callers that there was no patient named Silverstein being treated and get-well cards were returned “undeliverable” apparently to keep his location a secret. (Before his death, his ex-wife, daughter, and his fiancee – were allowed to see him.) While other inmates have periodically attacked and killed correctional officers, Silverstein’s actions were responsible for ushering in a new era in modern day corrections. In the early 1980s, federal prison officials had begun sending the so-called “worst of the worst” prisoners to the penitentiary in Marion, this included gang members. The BOP (federal Bureau of Prisons) identified Silverstein as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a notorious and feared white supremacy prison gang, although he never acknowledged being a member. By 1983, Marion had become dangerous for both inmates and those who worked there. The same day that Silverstein murdered Officer Clutts, another inmate, Clayton Fountain (an acknowledged Aryan Brotherhood member) fatally stabbed Correctional Officer Robert Hoffmann. (Fountain died at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri in 2004.) With two officers dead, then-BOP Director Norman Carlson ordered USP Marion to be put on an indefinite lockdown until staff could regain control of the prison. That lockdown led to the BOP practice of keeping its high profile and dangerous prisoners locked in solitary confinement for long periods and ultimately led to the creation of the “Supermax” which opened in 1994. Soon, state prisons began copying the Supermax, leading to widespread use of solitary confinement as punishment. After I met Silverstein, we began corresponding regularly. He was a year younger than I am and early on, I would frequently think of him as I was experiencing ordinary life events, such as having children, holiday celebrations, graduations, marriages, and the deaths of my parents. Such experiences for him were recounted only through letters and phone calls. In a drawing that Silverstein did for me, he wrote: “Sitting, silently, thinking, screaming 4 freedom from this constant insanity and endless solitary confinement…” I asked him once what it was like to be in isolation. He suggested that I go into my bathroom, shut the door and not come out for twenty-four hours. I lasted less than an hour. Despite such isolation, I received a letter from him once, in which, he wrote: “It is two a.m. and I need to get to bed, but I still have a lot to do…” He occupied himself by painting – becoming a skilled artist. He sent his drawings and artwork to those who corresponded with him. The BOP refused to allow him to show or sell his art. He also practiced meditation and yoga. After my book was published, he became a celebrity, and spent hours writing letters, including to several individuals in foreign countries. Articles about him often glamorized him, much to the dislike of the BOP and the Clutts’ family. The last time that we spoke about Officer Clutts, Silverstein told me that he deeply regretted killing the veteran officer. It wasn’t because he felt sympathy for Clutts or sorrow for murdering him. He insisted that Clutts had “tortured” him by destroying his artwork, tampering with his food, and not delivering his mail, rather he regretted his actions because, in his words, “killing him cost me my life too.” He told me that he frequently had nightmares about killing the officer. His letters were filled with contempt toward the BOP and the criminal justice system. He frequently reminded me that since Clutts’ murder, he had become a “model” convict, with no major infractions, but none of that mattered in how he was being treated. At one point during riots in Atlanta, he had an opportunity to take revenge against BOP officers being held as hostages. He chose not too and was bitter when he later learned that federal officials had been given permission to “shoot on sight” if they encountered him while regaining control of the penitentiary. (In the end, it as a group of prisoners who overpowered him and turned him over to federal law enforcement.) I spent a year at Leavenworth between 1987-89 and during my research I saw first-hand how Silverstein had become a mythical figure. Most correctional officers had never met him, yet they considered him the devil incarnate. (He claimed to me that every new warden put in charge of him, immediately stripped him of his privileges to show he didn’t believe in coddling him.) Meanwhile, convicts, most of whom had never met him, spoke of him as if he were a convict super hero. In truth, he was neither. I have always condemned his decision to take Clutts’ life in writing and in our conversations. Nor did I agree with his political and world views. But during the 32 years that Tom Silverstein and I corresponded and spoke on the phone, we developed an unusual friendship and respect for one another. He helped me better understand the insular prison world that he lived in. He was also one of the strongest persons mentally whom I’ve met. I will remember his resilience, how differently we saw the world because of our circumstances, and his sense of humor despite his being in isolation. I once asked him in my best Barbara Walters/Oprah Winfrey probing manner how he managed to sleep with the lights turned on twenty-four hours per day. “Pete,” he said, “I shut my eyes.” Until he became sick, he believed that someday he would be free. He finally got his wish. Pete Earley is the bestselling author of such books as The Hot House and Crazy. When he is not spending time with his family, he tours the globe advocating for mental health reform. Learn more about Pete. An Australian Mental Health Worker Whose US Relative Couldn’t Get Help Asks Why Our System Is So Broken Assistant Secretary Urges States To Re-Examine Civil Commitment Criteria, Pushes For Greater Use Of Advance Directives Why Won’t You Take Your Medication? A Son’s Schizophrenia – Violence & Incarceration – A Parents’ Endless Efforts To Help Gabriel “How to convince someone with schizophrenia to get treatment?” Sister Asks. Also, Suing Insurance Companies After They Refuse Treatment Long-Time Advocate Reports From NAMI Convention – “Our Movement, Our Moment.” Elyn Saks Podcast Interview With Virgil Stucker: 3 Keys To Her Successful Management of Debilitating Schizophrenia Show Me A Kid With A Mental Illness And I’ll Show You A Mother Who Blames Herself: How To Stop Blame Nathaniel Ayers of Soloist Fame & Forced Medication "Pete Earley is a fair-minded reporter who apparently decided that his own feelings were irrelevant to the story. There is a purity to this kind of journalism..." - Washington Post "A former reporter, Mr. Earley writes with authenticity and style — a wonderful blend of fact and fiction in the best tradition of journalists-turned-novelists." - Nelson DeMille, bestselling author "A terrific eye for action and character. Earley sure knows how to tell a story. Gripping and intelligent." - Douglas Preston, bestselling co-author of The Relic About Pete Earley As a former reporter for The Washington Post, Pete uses his journalistic background to take a fair-minded approach to the story all while weaving an interesting tale for the reader. Learn more about Pete here. 3 1/2 Years Demanding Treatment In Hospital, Rather Than Prison. A Chance For Redemption Sign up to receive blog posts and the latest from Pete including new books and resources. We will never send spam and you can unsubscribe at anytime. Copyright © 2019 Pete Earley, Inc. All Rights Reserved \| Contact\| Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line467
__label__wiki	0.87593	0.87593	Hear the First Recorded Blues Song by an African American Singer: Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (1920) in Music \| July 16th, 2018 1 Comment Historian John Hope Franklin once described the decades from the end of slavery through the advent of Jim Crow as “The Long Dark Night" because of the legislative chicanery and extreme violence used to disenfranchise and dispossess African Americans after the failure of Reconstruction. It is during these years that the blues emerged from the rural South into the cities, and the age of the “race record” brought black music into popular culture in ways that irrevocably defined what the country sounded like. The source of the blues, writ broadly, is the sufferings and strivings of those anonymous rural folk who transmitted their experiences through song, “whether in the cotton fields or in lumber camps, on the levees or in the shacks of field hands or housemaids,” as Dave Oliphant writes in Texan Jazz. But when it comes to naming early sources, the waters get murky. Jazz writer Ted Gioia refers to the period before the mid-1920’s as “the Dark Age of myth and legend” in blues history for its paucity of written detail. We do know that blues songs gained much popularity throughout the first two decades of the 20th century, many of them penned and published by Memphis composer and “father of the blues,” W.C. Handy. These blues were first commodified and recorded in the 1910s for white audiences by white vaudeville singers like Nora Bayes and Marion Harris. It wasn’t until 1920 that a blues record by a black singer was recorded and released, “and in a sense it was happenstance,” says Angela Davis in the NPR segment below. “Earlier in the year,” Davis explains, “[Ukranian-born singer] Sophie Tucker had been scheduled for a recording session but became ill and [blues songwriter] Perry Bradford managed to persuade Okeh Records to allow Mamie Smith to do the recording session instead.” And so we have at the top what Gioia calls the “breakthrough event” of Smith’s “Crazy Blues,” recorded on August 10, 1920, significant because “the first recording companies were reluctant to promote black music of any sort,” and then only when it was performed by white entertainers. In the decade of "Crazy Blues," that changed dramatically, as record companies realized a huge untapped market of talent and potential buyers in the working-class black community. “Crazy Blues” was a hit, selling 75,000 copies in its first month. This release and subsequent recordings by Mamie Smith eventually “led the way,” says Davis, “for the professionalization of black music for the black entertainment industry and indeed for the immense popularity of black music today.” Though not strictly a traditional blues, as Oliphant and Gioia both note, the song, and Smith, established an enduring template. Mamie Smith had been a vaudeville performer, working since childhood as “an all around entertainer,” as the Library of Congress’s Michael Taft remarks on NPR. The Blues Encyclopedia points out that her theatrical background and flamboyant personality lent much to the “the archetypal ‘Queen of the Blues’ persona” inhabited by so many later singers. She was, we might say, the first in a long, distinguished line of songstresses, from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, who delivered music of hardship and struggle with glamor, glitz, and swagger. The Women of the Blues: Hear a Playlist of Great Blues Singers, from Bessie Smith & Etta James, to Billie Holiday & Janis Joplin Women of Jazz: Stream a Playlist of 91 Recordings by Great Female Jazz Musicians Stream 35 Hours of Classic Blues, Folk, & Bluegrass Recordings from Smithsonian Folkways: 837 Tracks Featuring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie & More Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Washington, DC. Follow him at @jdmagness by Josh Jones \| Permalink \| Comments (1) \| Barry says: I see you left out the line about “Chinaman”; I should point out that New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz, had a Chinatown that was knocked down by Roosevelt’s WPA, because PROGRESS! ;)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line469
__label__cc	0.704782	0.295218	Receiving the Message and Bearing Fruit: On the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost Source: Metropolitan Anthony Sourozh Archive How many of us listen to the words of the Gospel, listen to the words of preaching, read books that are full of interest and depth, and they store it in their memory, they enjoy it — but that is the end. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh \| 26 October 2014 A Call to Activism Closed Communion A Word of Warning, A Word of Hope. On the Parable of the Sower In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. How familiar, and how simple seems to us, appears to us today’s parable of the seed and of the sower (?) ; and yet, how (?) relevant it is to us, and how much more thought we should give to it. We forget the setting itself of the parable, the imagery of the sower and the seed, and we don’t see in it an image of Christ, walking along the roads and the paths of Galilee and Judea; and everywhere He went, people came to the roadside because they have heard, as the Blind Man have heard of whom Saint Marc report, that He was a Teacher, that His words were true, that had in them a power of life. And people came, and lined the roads, and lined the streets, and listened. Some were prepared for the message; some have been in an agony of mind, have been asking themselves questions which hitherto no one have been able to answer. But others came, as so many people come now to a preacher, to an evangelist, to a leader of any side, came to see a man of whom one spoke, and to listen to what he had to say. He was not answering any of their questions, He was not meeting any of their needs, except perhaps the desire to see someone that was ‘outstanding’, someone unique in his time. They heard the word, but it fell at their ears (?), they find it beautiful, lovely, true — but it did not go beyond this. They were listening to words, they were not listening to the cry of their own soul that was hungry for words of truth. And so, when He had passed, they all returned to what was their ordinary, their ‘normal life’. They might have gone home and repeated these words, saying, Wasn’t it lovely? Didn’t He speak well? — and then they went back to what was life, ordinary life, day-to-day life… Others, who had come to the roadside, received the message with emotion, it stirred something in their hearts, something in their minds, it answered s o m e t h i n g in them. And they received it and hugged it to themselves, and returned home; but the moment they were no longer by the road, at home, the concerns of home overwhelmed them: there was so much to do, so much to think about, there was s o much in life, there was no time to reflect again and again on the words heard, there was no time to sit quietly and to look in imagination at the f a c e they had seen, to rehearse the v o i c e they have heard. We have another parable about those who have been called to the Bridal Feast of the King: they heard a call, they knew they were called personally — but could they go? The one had bought a field, he was rooted in it, tied to it, a prisoner of it; others have bought five pairs of oxen — they had to try them, they had something to do in life, a vocation, a job, something great — or something simply that matters supremely in a personal way, as the last one: he had taken a bride — how could he spend time for anyone else? Those are the people who receive the word, who receive it truly, in their heart, b u t there are so many things that matter — tomorrow will do, or, if we only could reduce the message to something livable, simple, not to the absolutness of it! And then, those who receive the message, like the rich soil that could receive the message, receive a seed and bear fruit. Those people were not simply better people, they probably were n o t better people; they were people who had a question in their mind and heart, people who had a longing, people for whom their daily life was too narrow, too small, people who were aware that their soul was deep, and vast and could not be f i l l e d with the trivialities — or even the noble, the good things of life: they receive(ed) the message, they took it to heart, d e e p into them, and they bore fruit because it was answering a n e e d. Now, we can apply it to ourselves: how many of us listen to the words of the Gospel, listen to the words of preaching, read books that are full of interest and depth, and they store it in their memory, they enjoy it — but that is the end; they can quote it, they can (?) on to others, — but that is all. And there are so many of us who have received the message with enthusiasm, with passion, k n o w i n g that this message is an a n s w e r to all there is in us of longing, of hunger, of greatness, indeed; but then, life is so complex, there is so much to do! And in all this doing, in all this complexity the words is left aside — for another time, for another day, when I will be old enough not to have any concerns: then I can turn back to this glorious moment when l i f e unfolded itself in all its splendour — I keep it in my memory!.. What about us, receiving the message and bearing fruit? But how does this message (reach?) us? I remember a Russian priest saying to me, ‘I read the Gospel daily, and I respond to it very seldom. But I read it daily because I never know whether today, or tomorrow, or on another day I will be the barren roadside, or the weeds by the way, or, of a sudden, whether this word will not fall on a small patch in me which is capable of receiving it and bearing fruit’. Isn’t that simple, isn’t that encouraging? We all are the three things described in the (parable (?) Gospel; but if we give a chance to God Who speaks, to God, Who passes through our life, to God Who knocks at our heart — from time to time we will receive the message with joy and let go of it; but from time to time it will reach a depth in our heart, a core of our life and be the a n s w e r that will change it. Let us therefore listen, listen to the words of the Gospel day in and day out; listen to the voice of our conscience, listen to what the deepest self says to us about life, about truth, about reality; and from time to time we will have been the good ground that can bear fruit. This parable, so simple, so clear, if we only apply it, can be a beginning of a new life. Amen. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh How many of us listen to the words of the Gospel, listen to the words of preaching, read books that are full of interest and depth, and they store it in their memory, they enjoy it — but that is the end Commentary on the Gospel about the… As we begin the fifth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark, I would like to… In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In one of his homilies St.… “We Are Walking on This Sea on Which St. Peter Walked” Think, I am not an unbeliever, on the contrary, but I believe passionately in the communion with God… The Way We Look And See Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 6, Verses 22-33 22 “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore…	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line471
__label__wiki	0.870913	0.870913	First Transit Forms Partnership with Lyft for Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles July 10, 2019 (PRLEAP.COM) Business News SAN FRANCISCO – First Transit enhances mobility options by forming a partnership with Lyft to pilot on-demand wheelchair accessible vehicles (WAVs) in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Using the Lyft app, individuals who use a fixed frame or non-collapsible wheelchair can request a WAV with a ramp. Now launching in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Lyft app allows passengers with accessibility needs to enable Access Mode. When the Access Mode is enabled, passengers may request a WAV that is specially outfitted to accommodate fixed frame or non-collapsible wheelchairs. "This partnership with Lyft allows us to expand into new mobility offerings with Lyft beyond the Boston and Toronto markets, further establishing First Transit as a leader in mobility solutions in North America," said Justin Pate, senior vice president of global business development and marketing for First Transit. "Our team is looking forward to offering additional mobility options to residents of San Francisco and Los Angeles." First Transit will provide the WAVs, operational support, maintenance and drivers for the partnership. "At Lyft we think of accessibility broadly and are thrilled to take this next step in expanding mobility options in the San Francisco and Los Angeles counties," said Anthony Foxx, chief policy officer at Lyft. We remain dedicated to working with First Transit and our community partners to build upon our current products and policies and to provide affordable and convenient transportation for all." About First Transit: First Transit, Inc. has 60 years of experience and is one of the largest private-sector providers of mobility solutions in North America moving more than 300 million passengers annually. First Transit, Inc. provides operation, management and consulting for more than 300 locations in 39 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama and India for transit authorities, state departments of transportation, municipalities, hospitals, universities and private companies. First Transit employs more than 19,500 dedicated transit professionals. For additional information, please visit FirstTransit.com. Jay Brock First Transit Email First Transit Follow @firsttransit	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line472
__label__wiki	0.741733	0.741733	Racin’ Today’s Links Jim Pedley John Sturbin Larry Woody Rick Minter Jeff Hood Deb Williams Special to Racin’ Today Sprint Cup Series Camping World Trucks Home » Sports Cars De Ferran Has Big Day At Road America Jonathan Ingram \| Senior Writer, RacinToday.com Saturday, August 15 2009 Gil de Ferran set the fastest lap in Saturday morning’s practice session for the Time Warner Cable Road Race Showcase at Road America. He then went on to win the pole in the afternoon. (American Le Mans Series photo) By Jonathan Ingram \| Senior Writer RacinToday.com Elkhart Lake, Wis. – While the rest of the world is all a-Twitter these days, Gil de Ferran is merely tweaking. In his last tour as a driver, de Ferran drove to the pole at Road America on Saturday aboard his XM Acura, edging the Patron Acura of David Brabham by 0.823 seconds. The owner of de Ferran Motorsports gave the credit to his engineers after his second straight LMP1 pole in the ARX-02a chassis and the team’s sixth in seven American Le Mans Series starts. “The car has been fantastic since we unloaded,” said de Ferran, who averaged 134 mph in his pole-winning lap. “We’ve just been tweaking on it.” Coming out of retirement following a decade in CART and the IRL, de Ferran got back behind the wheel to launch his own team at the request of Honda Performance Development. After a season and a half – his first in sports cars – de Ferran is again saying his final farewell to some of his favorite tracks in winning style. Last week, he won the pole at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. “They just don’t make tracks like this any more,” he said of Road America’s storied swoops, straights, bends and Carousel. “I guess it’s going to be my last time here,” he added, “so it’s a great feeling.” Highcroft Racing and Brabham had to do more than tweak its chassis and did not get close to an optimum set-up, facing double jeopardy. The Patron-sponsored car was jittery in the slower corners on the 4.0-mile track and understeered in the high-speed turns. “We have to find a lot more speed in the car,” said Brabham of the search for grip. “We’re going to do our homework tonight and look at everything.” In the two hour, 45-minute race, Highcroft will attempt to break de Ferran’s four-race winning streak. Brabham believes the presence of the Porsches in the Challenge class is likely to bring out full-course yellows that will play a role in the team’s search for a second victory this year. Challenge cars brought out several red flags in practice. “We have to maintain our focus be prepared to take advantage of anything that takes place tomorrow,” he said. The pole-winning Acura’s lap of 1:48.216 was well short of the ALMS qualifying lap record of 1:46.935, set by Lucas Luhr in an Audi R10 last year. After placing fourth in LMP1 during practice behind the Intersport Lola-AER, the Ginetta-Zytek of Corsa Motorsports did not participate in qualifying due to mechanical problems in the engine bay of its hybrid prototype. Marino Franchitti scored his second career pole in LMP2 and first since Sebring in 2004. It was the first pole for the Lola-Mazda of Dyson Racing — and the first ever for the Japanese manufacturer in the ALMS. The Scotsman stayed on the track while Adrian Fernandez ran several hot laps aboard his Acura ARX-01b in an effort to grab the top spot on the LMP2 grid. He fell 0.212 seconds short. “I thought my lap was not going to be enough,” said Franchitti. “It was a pretty scruffy lap. I think I used up the front tires in the first two corners.” There was an upset in GT2, where the BMW M3 of the Rahal Letterman team claimed its first pole with Joey Hand at the wheel. It was hardly a fluke. Teammate Dirk Mueller was second in the production-based category, just a tenth of a second behind Hand’s lap of 2:06.950. “I usually go in thinking the worst and hoping something good happens,” said Hand. “But I came here with a good attitude.” The turning point for the Rahal Letterman team came in a test at Mid-Ohio in July, said Hand, due to developments with the shock absorbers in conjunction with the Dunlop tires. Known for its handling, the BMW chassis gains its edge in the middle of corners and by getting onto the long straights at a better clip. That, said Hand, compensates for the relatively larger frontal area and drag versus the competition. “If I can gain two miles an hour versus my competition coming onto the straight, they’re going to have gain four miles an hour to pass me on the straightaway,” he said. Working on a five-race winning streak, Joerg Bergmeister’s lap of 2:07.362 was third quickest, followed closely by the new Corvette C6.R driven by Jan Magnussen, who clocked 2:07.387. Guy Cosmo won the pole for the Challenge class made up of Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. 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__label__cc	0.741814	0.258186	Last Week's Tasting Notes (6.28.19) Côté Mas"Aurore" 1 L ($12.99) "Innovation and a passion for the Languedoc are what drives Jean-Claude Mas. Innovation and a passion for the Languedoc are what drives Jean-Claude Mas. Since taking the helm of his family’s winery in 2000, he has prioritized sourcing the highest quality grapes to craft wines of authenticity and refinement. 20% of estate vineyards are farmed organically; the rest is farmed using sustainable practices, certified under Terra Vitis. Soil is composed of clay and limestone. The Mediterranean climate is warm and dry, with some regulating influence by the Atlantic ocean. The grapes are destemmed and each variety is vinified separately. Gentle pressing occurred with a pneumatic press; only the free-run juice is used. The fermentation occurred at 62°F in temperature controlled stainless steel for two weeks. The wine was aged on its lees with regular stirring for 40 days in new coated cement vats. This process is to obtain maximum fruit flavor intensity while preserving natural acidity and aroma. Aromatic with cherry, strawberry and floral aromas evolving toward soft candied fruit notes. The palate is rich and smooth with ripe red fruits and well-balanced acidity. Have an aperitif or pair with grilled chicken, shrimp, and goat cheese salads." Light, bright, well-made for its price point, easy to drink, larger bottle. What more could you ask for? This is a larger production wine than I usually carry, and you do see it everywhere, but I hold onto it because I think it overdelivers for the price, and because I like to offer a bigger bottle size. I noticed that this vintage is a little more refined than last year's, too, so I'm 100% on board with this wine. Mas de la Dame "La Gourmande" ($13.99) Les Bau-de-Provence, France "Cited in the predictions of Nostradamus, painted by Van Gogh, evoked by Simone de Beauvoir, the Mas de la Dame has been producing wines and olive oil for four generations. Caroline Missoffe and Anne Poniatowski , the great granddaughters of the founder, today manage this estate which covers three hundred hectares including 57 hectares of vineyards and 28 hectares of olive trees. Located at the foot of the mythical village of Les Baux de Provence , on the southern slopes of the Alpilles, sheltered by the mountain barrier, the wines benefit from a unique terroir and a very specific microclimate. On a very draining soil, consisting of stony scree of clay-limestone origin, resulting from the disintegration of the rock, specific to this part of the Alpilles, the vines grow and mingle with the surrounding scrubland in a harmonious balance. The persistent 'mistral' favors a good sanitary condition and the exchange of aromas. WINEMAKING & VINTAGE NOTES Entirely hand-harvested in late August early in the morning under cool temperatures. Elaborated partly by bleeding at low temperature, and by direct press. Vinification in stainless steel at low temperatures. Each variety is vinified separately then blended. The wine was filtered and bottled late December. Tender pink color. On the nose, ripe red fresh berry, blood orange, peaches and rose. On the palate, crisp on the attack, subtle, aromatic. Round and perfumed on the finish. This wine is best served chilled with any kind of relaxed meal like barbeque, salads, and pesto pasta, or fish and grilled meat. Also as an aperitif with olives and tapenade." I was lucky enough to visit the commune of Les Baux-de-Provence when I was 14, and it left its impression. There's a small medieval mountain village whose streets lead up to a ruined castle--magical is not an overstatement for this place. In the area surrounding it, there are only a handful of winemakers, whose standard farming practice is, and always has been, organic. The wines are a little like Provence and a little like the southern Rhone, but they really are a thing unto themselves. This particular wine's light salmon hue belies the strength of its flavor profile, which is distinct enough to hold up to stronger meals. Tres Palacios Rosé of Cabernet Franc ($10.99) Cholqui Valley, Chile "The Viña Tres Palacios winery and vineyards are located in the Cholqui sector of the Maipo Valley, 16 km (10 miles) from the city of Melipilla. Cholqui is a closed valley 9 km (5.6 miles) south of the Maipo River, although it is separated from it by a chain of hills that surrounds the area to the north, east, and south. The Horcon de Piedra Mountain, one of the highest peaks in the Coastal Mountain Range, lies toward the eastern end of the valley. The western side is open to the influence of the Pacific Ocean 30 km (25 miles) away, and cooling breezes from the sea and inter-mountain circulation refresh the vineyards in the summer. Tres Palacios is the only winery in the Cholqui Valley and all of the wines are estate produced. A vibrant rosé of Cabernet Franc that is bursting with flavor. The Palacios family and winemaker Camilo Rahmer bring a zippy value from Maipo with the second vintage release of this wine." I really like the balance of fruit and vegetal notes in this wine. It's not completely "savory," but you certainly know it's different from most other pink wines. It's clearly not from southern France! The unique flavor profile and the slight weight on the palate make this wine unusual, but very approachable. Particularly if you've not had Chilean rosé before, you should try this one.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line481
__label__wiki	0.736231	0.736231	U.S. Congress holds hearing on Medicaid for territories, LBJ hospital Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata attended a hearing of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health, examining ways to strengthen health care in the U.S. territories. This follows a similar hearing in the House Committee on Natural Resources committee held on May... Kruse wants confirmed answers on the whereabouts of drug defendant Kelemete Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Chief Justice Michael Kruse has ordered the court marshal to find out whether statements by the Public Defender’s Office regarding the whereabouts of Sonny “Mu” Kelemete are true. If not, Kruse said, the court will issue a bench warrant for Kelemete, for failure to... NZ company preps ground for American Samoa fono Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A New Zealand company has begun drilling in preparation for pile driving that United States authorities require for the construction of American Samoa's new Legislature. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said that is because the new building will be located in a... Man who forged and cashed checks belonging to his former boss pleads guilty Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A former employee of Pacific Store Services, accused of stealing over $1,000 from his employer 2 years ago, has admitted to the criminal charge against him. Manuele Taulapapa, 27, was initially charged in two separate criminal cases. He was charged with stealing and... Kokoland robber serving probation tests positive for meth Pago Pago, AMAERICAN SAMOA — A man, who is serving probation for a 2014 conviction for assaulting a Korean woman in connection with a robbery in Kokoland in 2013, re-appeared in court yesterday morning for a probation revocation hearing on the allegation that he violated conditions of probation.... Amata welcomes children’s immunization and maintenance assistance grants for American Samoa Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed a federal health care grant for American Samoa from the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. The discretionary grant of $588,815 was awarded to the American Samoa Department of Health by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... AG proposes immigration changes — some fees would be going up Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Certain fees will increase for immigration services, including the Certificate of Identify fee, which will double from $50 to $100 — but at the same time, it will be valid for one-year instead of six months, under proposed amendments by the Attorney General’s Office to... Kokoland road conditions deteriorate after work on ASPA lines Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — This recent photo taken by Tualauta Rep. Larry Sanitoa shows a large ditch along the side of the road entering the Kokoland area, next to the CCCAS Ierusalema Fou Church. This is an area of the road that was dug by Paramount Builders Inc., which was contracted by the... StarKist supports SNAP program rule changes — allowing larger variety of food choices Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — StarKist Co., which operates StarKist Samoa in the territory, has lent support to the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) proposed rule that would expand the definition of "variety”, saying “it would provide small format retailers with greater flexibility to stock healthy,... Taxi driver from Samoa pleads guilty to possession of marijuana Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of violating local drug laws has admitted to the charge against him. Luluga Onosa’i, a 35-year-old taxi driver from Samoa, pled out last week. Onosa’i was initially charged with one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), a... Samoa News \| Trending Now Honolulu memorial service held for Scheyenne Sanitoa in Local News (6 days 19 hours ago) Update: Incident with American Samoa Women’s Rugby 7s coach in Regional (4 days 24 min ago) in Sports (1 day 19 hours ago)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line482
__label__wiki	0.551745	0.551745	L7 - "Dispatch From Mar-a-Lago" [Single] (Don Giovanni) Focus Track: 2 FCC: 1 Format: Top 200, Triple A Artist Info: Legendary pioneers of American grunge punk, L7 have released their electrifying onslaught of a new single, “Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago” on Don Giovanni Records. The track is the result of Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner’s first writing collaboration in 18 years. A raucous, bombastic party rock anthem for the sinking Titanic, it is a sardonic yet joyous middle finger of a track that sits somewhere between “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “Springtime for Hitler”. “We knew we wanted to make some new L7 music, but also didn’t want the pressure or expectation of that First Track weightiness so we went for pure fun and absurdity.” explains Sparks.“The lyrical musicality of the word Mar-a-Lago just lent itself to an inspired song of these crazy assed times”. L7 is Donita Sparks (Vocals, Guitar), Suzi Gardner (Lead Guitar), Jennifer Finch (Bass) and Dee Plakas (Drums). The formidable foursome’s original line-up came together in the studio with producer Billy Bush at EastWest Studios in Hollywood. The new song is released in advance of their highly anticipated world wide launch of the documentary L7: Pretend We’re Dead released worldwide October 13 on Blu-ray/VOD. Other channels to be announced soon. L7: Pretend We’re Dead offers engrossing insight into the band’s 20 year plus her-story and features exclusive interviews with Exene Cervenka (X), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Krist Novoselic (Nirvana), Joan Jett, Brody Dalle (The Distillers), Lydia Lunch, Allison Robertson (The Donnas), Louise Post (Veruca Salt), and more. The film is currently in the midst of a US theatrical run with a stop in NYC next week.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line483
__label__wiki	0.938112	0.938112	Councils Honor Sacrifice, Service On Pearl Harbor Day By PETER ATKINSON, Deputy Editor Those serving at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Dec. 7, 1941, and those serving today were remembered and saluted in Navy League events on the 71st anniversary of the attack on U.S. naval forces there by the Japanese. Two Pearl Harbor survivors joined Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell during the annual Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, hosted by the Richmond Council. More than 100 people attended the event, which pays tribute to the 44 Virginia service members who were killed during the attack. As the name of each service member was called, the bell from the retired Navy guided-missile cruiser Virginia was tolled by an active-duty Sailor, while a second Sailor rendered a hand salute in their memory, according to a report compiled for the Richmond Council newsletter, The Lucky Bag. McDonnell helped lay wreaths honoring the dead at the War Memorial’s Shrine of Memory and gave the ceremony’s keynote address. The governor acknowl- edged the Pearl Harbor survivors in attendance — 92- year-old Bill Thornton of Richmond and 94-year-old Max Green of Highland Springs — during his remarks, noting, “It’s always important, on days like this, to remember why we’re here. It’s to honor Max and Bill and the others who went through that horrific day in Hawaii. … “It’s critically important we take time every Pearl Harbor Day to reflect and remember the significance of the day and the men and women who served and gave their lives.” This was the second consecutive year that the gov- ernor, whose father and father-in-law served in World War II, took part in the commemoration. Prior to McDonnell’s attendance last year, it had been decades since a Virginia governor had participated in the event, according to Council Past President Ed Gibbons. During his remarks, McDonnell also noted that remembering those who have served, and paying them COURTESY OF ED GIBBONS From the left, Bagpiper Maj. Tim Lewis Batten, Robin Beres, Tom Thornton, Virginia Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Terrie L. Suit, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, Pearl Harbor survivor Max Green, Wes Pruitt, Bill Akers, C.W. Enos and Jay Baumgardner take part in the wreath-laying ceremony during the annual Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance Ceremony at the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, hosted by the Richmond Council. the respect they deserve, sets an example and is an inspiration to those who might consider serving in the future. “George Washington said it best. He said the will- ingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any way, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veter- ans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by the nation,” McDonnell said. “If you do not honor the peo- ple that serve, we will not raise up the next generation of Americans to be able to serve in the wars of the future which will certainly come, and therefore will not preserve the cause of liberty.” Following the ceremony, the Richmond Council hosted a luncheon. Guest speaker at the event was retired Rear Adm. John E. Roberti, former command- ing officer of USS Nassua, one of the council’s adopted ships, and former deputy director for Strategy and Policy at the Joint Staff. In Texas, Cmdr. Andrew Hertel, commanding officer of the attack submarine USS Texas, made a special effort to join members of the Greater Austin Council at the Texas State Capitol via Skype from the boat at its homeport in Pearl Harbor for a ceremony Dec. 7 that was both solemn and celebratory.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line484
__label__wiki	0.597493	0.597493	On Writing, with Shane Peacock Submitted by Grace on October 25, 2011 - 1:42pm The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case is the newest installment in Shane Peacock's popular Boy Sherlock Holmes series (McClelland & Stewart). Shane Peacock talks to Open Book about Davies, Dickens and disappearing dragons. Open Book: Tell us about your new book. Shane Peacock: The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case is the second-last novel in this series and perhaps the strangest one yet. It opens with Sherlock, now nearing age 16, attending a magic show at The Egyptian Hall in London with Irene Doyle. The show is the talk of the city because at its climax the performer makes what appears to be a real dragon appear on the stage. That very night, the magician is accused of murdering his great rival, who just happens to have stolen his wife. Sherlock is trying to stay out of detective work at this point, but Irene, who has theatrical ambitions that the accused has promised to aid, convinces him to look into the sensational case and hopefully free her benefactor. Thus tempted by a woman, Holmes gets much more than he bargained for: illusion after illusion and a frightening journey into an underground world of bizarre creatures and evil intent. Victorian London, much like our time, was fascinated by celebrity. This novel explores that abiding human interest. OB: What was the most challenging part of writing this book? SP: It was, at times, a challenge, to make my story believable, since it becomes almost surreal at certain key moments. But I wanted a different story from all the others in the series and think I was able to take it right to the edge, and still have it all make sense. With what character (or characters) in your book do you most identify? Well, it has to be Sherlock Holmes. Some of that may be wishful thinking. It?s my theory that one of the main reasons this character has always been so popular is that we ALL want to be like him: brilliant, able to bring villains to justice with the flick of his brain. For what age group are you most drawn to writing? To be honest, I prefer writing for adults, but writing for young adults is a great deal of fun too. I like to try to almost BE my characters and being 15 again is marvelous! Having said all of that, the Boy Sherlock Holmes series is really for all ages, or at least for ages 10 to 99, and I receive many letters about it from adults. I try to write each book in the series as if it were an adult novel ? but with a kid as the hero (an awfully smart one, albeit). What recurring themes do you notice turning up in your writing? I write a great deal about human ambition, and also about people who are very conscious of the life they are living, rather than those who just plunge through it without considering it. I believe that human beings are the only true living things with complicated consciousness and I think that art is the reflection of that consciousness. What book did you read as a child or young adult that has stayed with you into adulthood? My parents read Oliver Twist to me when I was a boy and I absolutely loved it. I remain an immense Dickens fan to this day. Jules Verne said, ?everything is in Dickens,? and he was right. I?m actually reading Peter Ackroyd?s 1,000-page biography of CD right now (for the second time) and loving it. Our family, three kids included, enjoy watching the BBC Dickens productions, many last 15 hours or so, but the longer the better ? even for the kids! He keeps them on the edge of their seats because they know he will do anything ? even kill off the main child in the story! That rarely happens in other stories they see or read. Who are some people who have deeply influenced (fellow writers or not) your writing life? My mother, as I said in the dedication to Eye of the Crow gave me ?a writer?s soul,? just by being who she was — an amazing, sensitive woman; my father told me stories and taught me to love that art; and in university, I was taught by Robertson Davies. That?s a pretty good trio. I am working on the final Boy Sherlock Holmes novel, developing two new young adult novels and a novel for adults. I used to write journalism, TV documentaries and plays, but I love writing novels and don?t seem to want to do anything else these days. Shane Peacock was born in 1957 in Thunder Bay, Ontario, one of four brothers. He attended school in the northern town of Kapuskasing, before attending university, where he studied history and English literature. A biographer, journalist and screenwriter, he is also the author of six novels and three plays, and has been nominated for numerous awards including several National Magazine Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award for crime fiction. When not writing, Shane Peacock enjoys playing hockey with his three children and watching sumo wrestling. He lives near Cobourg, Ontario. For more information about The Dragon Turn: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His 5th Case please visit the McClelland & Stewart website. Buy this book at your local independent bookstore or online at Chapters/Indigo or Amazon. Ontario's Literary Landmarks	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line495
__label__wiki	0.505282	0.505282	Norma Jean came into stardom during a time that was ripe for her different class of style and freedom. Through her large success she has helped spark many things in the future. Steven Marshall ;xNLx;Mr. Anderson;xNLx;History 102;xNLx;Period 6 Norma Jean was born in L.A End of WW2 The war made the industry perfect for Marilyn's arrival. Men coming home from war expected to settle down and have their fill of American superiority. This started an age where all the women were expected to find a man and become homemakers. The people wanted to look good and decent on the surface acting as if they were keeping with the good values of an older time. There definitely was not any adult themes portrayed on television and the children of the day were kept away from anything that had to do with it. Though it looked like this on the surface in reality, there was a lot of sexuality going on away from prying eyes. Marilyn being a very openly sexual person rocked the entertainment world. She was something different on screen and was like a breath of fresh air to the stuffy innocence that was so popular. Men of the day loved for her beauty and sexual appeal. No other actress had the same pull Monroe did. She became famous at the perfect time where she was able to use this to her advantage. Men coming back from the war had a very specific body type they were looking for. All the Gi's wanted to settle down and have many kids as this was made possible by America's economic boom. Because of this want of children men looked for a bustier body type. Whether instinctual or just by coincidence women with wider hips and a large bust were seen as better stock for having good healthy children. This is what defined beauty in women back then. Marilyn was in every man's eyes a perfect iteration of their bodily desires. Once again, she rose to fame at a perfect time when her specific body type was in high demand. She being of a busty nature was desired greatly and she knew this. She used her own sexuality to her advantage and it landed her as one of the most famous actresses of the time. During the 50's conformity was on the rise. Due to a fear of communism being different was seen as strange. Most people tried to keep up with their neighbors and have similar things as them. No one went against the social constructs that were put up for all to follow. No one but the baby boom generation. Due to the attempt to keep everyone similar and the attack against impurity, the young children of the decade became more aware to what was going on. They could see through the façade their parents had put up. They started to realize that they have bodies and that the bodies were meant to be used. This would eventually lead to the big sexual revolution where the tension is finally released and the children of the 50's are now young adults of the 60's and are now more sexually loose than the generation before. Marilyn being so open about her sexuality helped the young teens break from their oppressive chains much like Elvis helped them. First Edition of Playboy When Playboy was first released it was undated because it was unknown if it would have another issue, well it did. In fact, it had many more to come, but Playboy meant more than pleasure back then. In a time where sexual topics were not discussed openly, Playboy was like a slap in the face. It was a form of expression that was not very often seen during those times. This was just another indication that there was sexual tension brewing beneath the surface. Marilyn was on the first cover and spread of Playboy. When men for the first time saw this magazine, this expression of sexuality they saw Marilyn at the forefront. This most likely stayed with them for years to come and finally helped the tension release from them during the 60's. Objectification of women Women were often paired with products and appliances. Not only was this a marketing ploy to get men to buy the object , but also an incredibly sexist view of women as a form of property. This affected women socially and politically where they had less than optimal condtions to live in. In the "7 Year Itch " Monroe was often paired with appliances like air-conditioners and refrigerators as a means of a social commentary of the 50's. 7 Year Itch Height of Monroe's fame Second wave of Feminism Marilyn could be considered one of the first feminist of the time. She did things no other woman would dare. When she felt like she was going to be type casted, she left and created her own production company. That takes a lot of courage even when you are the biggest actress in America. She also garnered a lot of respect from many people also unheard of during this time. During the 60's, a second wave of feminism hit. Women felt more empowered now that the 50's, a time of repression for females, was now over. They also had a bit more support than before with the counterculture-moving fast behind them. It was generally successful in fighting against domesticity. Feminists like Betty Friedan attacked the patriarchy with her argument that placing women only at home limited their talents whether it be in the workplace or out somewhere in the world. By becoming a strong woman in the eyes of not only the industry she loved but in the eyes of men everywhere she made women realize what could be possible through their independence. During the mid-sixties, a new movement started to take form called Free Love. After the 50's all of that sexual tension burst. When it finally did, people believed that sexuality was okay. They started to realize that they had bodies and that sex was a beautiful thing. The hippie movement started with the growing popularity of counterculture. Thousands of young, spiritually free people all advocating for sexual liberation and the beauty. They rejected any form of bondage due from sexual constructs such as marriage. The movement went against everything that the 50's stood for. Marriage was a sacred social construct back then. Not to be married and to be so openly sexual was so taboo back then. The main purpose of the Free Love movement was to have State separate from all affairs involving love and sex. Again, the counterculture is going against the 50's. In the 50's , the government had say in what you could and could not do with your bodies. Take for example the ban on contraceptives and abortions. The Free Love movement was against that and said that those decisions should be left to the people and not the government. She has had the longest run as a sex symbol in probably all of history. For someone who was famous decades ago to still be big in modern times are spectacular. She has inspired females from young and old to be more confident in themselves and to feel beautiful no matter who calls them out. She has become a symbol female strength now in modern times that has a significant impact on how females perceive themselves. For males, she has given them a vision of a woman who demands respect and can look vulnerable in doing so. No woman at this time was like that until she came along and inspired many other women to be their own person. She has kickstarted a change in the dynamic in how women are perceived in the film industry and in life. She was one of the first "modern women" who went against the domesticity of the 40's and 50's and became an independent strong working class woman. Her Death has been shrouded in controversy ever since.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line498
__label__cc	0.73542	0.26458	Vacation Santorini like Royalty… By Snakeye On November 17, 2013 · 7 Comments …but on a peasant’s budget. I think Pam missed her calling as a travel agent… but I’ll settle with her choice in speech therapy since it’s probably a little more lucrative. To celebrate our 10-year anniversary, Pam really wanted to go see Greece. Perhaps not the most romantically done by my part, our 10-year lacked the surprise and thoughtfulness that I normally deliver as part of some big anniversary production. Pam truly did all the legwork. I just funded her research with the credit card. That combination worked out pretty well though, because the 4 days we spent in Santorini were awesome (and relatively inexpensive). Here’s how to do it: Sometime in the 1960s, someone got the bright idea to turn the 28-square-mile desert island of Santorini into a tourist paradise. And trust me, it truly is a desert; in fact, travelling the countryside reminded me a bit of the barren parts in Iraq or Afghanistan with dust everywhere and trash caught up on the scraggly bushes. Unlike those countries, you get a 360° view of the sea regardless of the direction you face. The “wow” factor of Santorini is derived from the stark contrast of the blue-domed, white-washed buildings and the sheer volcanic rock and cliffs upon which they sit; it makes for a very pleasant sight. If you’re like me, you hate crowds. I used to not mind them when I was young and single, but now I want to enjoy my surroundings rather than be surrounded by a stampeding herd of vacationers. Santorini in summertime is just that: a stampede of people that will put New Orleans to shame during Mardi Gras and Pamplona to shame during the running of the bulls. Once the summer is over and it starts getting frigid (like 75°F according to the locals), about 85% of the restaurants and shops close down and the locals sail off to spend the winter on the mainland. Santorini becomes a ghost town. This mass exodus begins in October and culminates with boarded-up buildings during the first week of November. Because of this, it is a must to go to Santorini in late October or the first week of November. Avoiding “Where’s Waldo” while on vacation gets you: Our tickets from England to Santorini were $50 per person one-way. Seriously. Fifty dollars. Moreover, this was my view (when my eyes weren’t shut) on the four-hour flight there: Yes, including us, there were only 8 people on this flight. The airplane was yours to stretch out in… for $50! Pam found us a room with a view for about $100 per night. Upon landing in Santorini, the owner picked us up from the airport in his own car. We didn’t have to worry about a bus, taxi or shuttle. We arrived at the “hotel” and were greeted with two glasses of white wine (wine that the owner brewed himself from vines in his backyard) and a free upgrade to their Honeymoon Suite (our balcony at right). To top it all off, we were the only ones staying in the hotel! The privacy bestowed upon us was an unexpected touchdown. We stayed at the Aroma Suites. I highly, highly recommend them (especially during off-season!). During the summer, the restaurants are booked full. According to the staff, you have to make reservations a few nights in advance just to eat dinner at the average restaurants. What we experienced was quite different from that. After checking into the hotel, we walked to the nearest eatery and were one of only three couples waiting to rip into the Greek fare. We were presented with a feast of fish, shrimp, squid and octopus tentacles. Grilled octopus tentacles are probably one of our new favorite novelties now. Here’s the point though: We were consistently only one of 3 or 4 couples eating at a restaurant that had the capacity for 200 people. We received five-star service at every restaurant we went to. The waiting staff was a pleasure to chat with and took the time to get to know us. We were given a free liter of wine (a little more than a bottle) every place we went to (and we didn’t even pull out the “10-year-anniversary card”)! Not one meal fell short of heavenly. And the prices tended to be a little less than they are during peak-season. That seafood platter pictured above, along with a huge Greek salad, dessert, and 2 bottles of wine, cost about $80. Score. The places we ate: Naoussa: Serves the standard Greek Mediterranean fare. The food was excellent. This restaurant is one of a few that have the same owner. It’s branding is more Applebee’s-like: it’s great food and atmosphere, but at a more reasonable price adhering to less of a dress code. Ellis: The uppity twin of Naoussa. Roughly the same traditional Greek fare with gourmet twists and better presentation. Señor Zorbas: This is probably the best Mexican food I’ve had in Europe, hands down. I was a little skeptical at first because 1) Mexican in Europe? and 2) the prices seemed steep. Take comfort: the portions match the prices. The portions are huge! And then I found out why it’s so authentic: the owner is an expatriate from Colorado. Lithos: A nice view. A lot like Naoussa and Ellis in the fare: traditional Mediterranean Greek. Different owner. We rented a trusty steed and set out to experience the island (by the way, I now officially hate motor-scooters. Compared to my Harley, it’s so wobbly and cramped. I felt like it was going to tip over its nose the entire time we were riding). On the southern shore of the island lies an excavated settlement. It’s 3600 years old, dating to 1630ish BC. To put this in perspective, Pompeii was buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, 1700 years later. Moreover, Biblical followers will be impressed that this is around the same time Moses was panhandling the Egyptian Pharaoh to let his people go. This is what blows me away: here you have a civilization from almost caveman times, yet they sported pottery, wine, running toilets, and hot/cold water plumbing! The same most certainly cannot be said of mankind from just 1000 years ago. Alluded to above, the reason the excavations are so pristine is because of an enormous eruption that took place around 1630 BC, burying everything in ash preserving the colorful frescos, pottery and buildings. Go take a look at the map and you’ll see Santorini looks suspiciously like a volcano rim with a crater of water in the center. There are theories abound resulting from this cataclysmic explosion… The Lost City of Atlantis. That’s right. First written down by Plato in 360 BC, there’s very convincing evidence that these remnants, that thrived on the side of a volcano, were the city of Atlantis. Why? Well, look at the amenities for one (plumbing, toilets, etc). Also, the excavations show that almost every house had a fresco in it, bringing about the belief that there were no poor people. If everyone was “rich” enough to have beautiful frescoes, then the culture fits the mold for the advanced socialist utopia fabled from Atlantis. And lastly, the city was teeming with people and trade (like Akrotiri) until it was destroyed in a day and a night. The cause of Moses’ Biblical Plagues. This volcanic eruption was a major event… it was probably one of the most violent eruptions mankind has bared witness to. Some theories say that the resultant ash cloud that engulfed the Mediterranean region blotted out the sun, killed many crops, and brought about a considerate climate change. The sky darkens for a while, the crops die, water sources become poisoned from the volcanic fallout and fish die, then disease starts to flourish from the weakened environment. Any of these sound familiar? Like I said above, Moses’ tribulations date to around the same time the volcano of Santorini blew its lid. The Booze Cruise Go to the sea-port and hop on a boat that takes you to ground zero of a sleeping volcano (it’s like $30 for two). The last time it blew was in 1950. The island is completely devoid of life: no plants, no insects, no wildlife. Just us stupid humans scrambling around the volcanic rocks. A 20-minute walk will take you to the new volcano crater… don’t worry, you’re not looking down into the lava of Mount Doom to throw your ring into. It’s all buried with rocks and stuff. But you can still see yellow-white stained rocks with sulfur-smelling steam coming off them. After the volcanic hike, the boat takes you to some lava-heated springs in the sea off the island. I didn’t go swimming in them, but the locals say it’s not all that… they’re more like luke-warm springs. The rest is just eating and enjoying the royal treatment. Though we didn’t do it, the locals suggest hiking to the top of the highest mountain on the island for a view. The village of Oia (pronuonced Eeyah) on the northern part is renowned for its sunset view, but it didn’t seem any better than where we were staying in Fira. The Santorini wine is quite good as well (though they don’t have the luscious Italian-style vineyards you would expect… they almost look like weeds growing out of volcanic rock! – at right). The whites are better than the reds. We meant to do the wine tour, but miscommunication prevented it. Book it in advance here, and be sure to follow up with a phone call (our mistake and lesson) once you reach the island. For the beer: the Grecian powerhouses (Alpha, Fix and Mythos) are about as tasty as their American counterparts (Bud, Coors and Miller)… meaning they’re kinda shit. But rest assured, there are some gems to be had on the island. Santorini Brewing Company makes their Donkey beers which are quite good. I only had the “Donkey Yellow” – and I can attest that it tasted like beer (though I’ve never tried the alternative to compare…). The Volkan is also a delectable beer, which reportedly uses the perforated volcanic rock as a filter during the brewing process. Yep. For three nights, we got a peak into what royalty feels like… Tagged with → Pam • Traveling • Vacation The Most Worthless Invention in the World Smokin’ Hot Bullets & Bait Days of Yore Grab-ass Opinions & the News P&T Show: Season 2 Pam & Trav Show Photoshop & Art Z Car	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line506
__label__wiki	0.805496	0.805496	Home digital marketing Facebook instagram latest social media x-featured-x New Study Examines the Impact of Social Media Campaigns, and it’s Good News for Advertisers New Study Examines the Impact of Social Media Campaigns, and it’s Good News for Advertisers Wednesday, November 15, 2017 digital marketing, Facebook, instagram, latest, social media, x-featured-x In news that is sure to delight those in the digital marketing industry, an in-depth new study conducted by Kantar Millward Brown and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, which sought to examine the effectiveness of social media campaigns in terms of metrics including brand awareness, perception, and customers’ motivation to buy, has found that campaigns which were run on Facebook and Instagram had a mostly-positive impact. The researchers assert that the study is “unique” due to the depth of analysis used, combing through Kantar data regarding a total of 235 campaigns across 110 separate brands for the Facebook and Instagram arm of the report alone. While the report did incorporate data from global campaigns, most of those included ran in the US, UK, and Canada; 49% of the 235 campaigns were run on Facebook exclusively, 48% made use of both Facebook and Instagram, and just 3% ran on Instagram alone. “Most campaigns that ran on Facebook and Instagram had a positive outcome on brand saliency, associations and motivations for consumers,” stated Professor Andrew Stephen, Associate Dean of Research and L’Oréal Professor of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. There were found to be few recorded cases of campaigns which had no effect at all on customer perception, although some did admittedly have a negative impact overall. It is the considerable difference of up to 35% between the most- and least-effective of the analysed campaigns which is most telling however, as it shows that content and style do in fact have a remarkable impact on how a customer will ultimately react to an online campaign. In an effort to understand the factors which contributed to this sizeable difference in effectiveness, Prof. Stephen and his team at Saïd Business School first eliminated factors including; the format type, number of ad units, number of creative types, industry, geography, and the recorded disparity between Facebook as a sole platform vs. Facebook and Instagram used in unison, from the equation. “None of these variables significantly explained the differences we were seeing in campaign effectiveness, so we decided to examine a hypothesis that it was the brand’s behaviour that made a difference,” explained Prof. Stephen. “We did natural language processing on texts from the brands’ owned media on Facebook, and classified each brand as to whether they were more personable, emotional and/or functional.” The team subsequently found that brands classified as being more personable and emotional yet less functional, i.e. more human, had a more positive impact in regards to brand awareness; this ‘human-like’ behaviour however had little to no correlation with brand association or motivation to buy, although Prof. Stephen speculates that these factors may be indirectly impacted. The team also scoured through Kantar’s database of 8,811 global campaigns run over the past seven years in order to ascertain the difference in effectiveness between desktop and mobile platforms in terms of brand lift. “We found that desktop has a constant 2-4% impact on effectiveness. Mobile, on the other hand really spiked in the earlier days but with the maturity of the medium, it’s now basically the same level as desktop,” said Prof. Stephen. “This decline is either organic, as people get more familiar with the platform and it loses novelty, or commercial environment forces change,” added Jane Ostler, Managing Director of Media and Digital at Kantar Millward Brown. When asked point-blank if he thought social and digital advertising was worth the time and money spent on it, Stephen replied, “Yes, but a cautious yes. I think it’s good for advertisers to experiment with any different kind of media channel. Plus you need to be where your consumers are.” Ms Osler said in conclusion, “We’ve found that consumers do have expectations of campaigns based on the formats used and they are quite sensitive in their reactions to it. And of course, none of these campaigns run in isolation, they are contributing to a broader cross-media execution.” New Study Examines the Impact of Social Media Campaigns, and it’s Good News for Advertisers Reviewed by Unknown on Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Rating: 5 digital marketing Facebook instagram latest social media x-featured-x	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line507
__label__wiki	0.875374	0.875374	Home apps Facebook latest social media x-featured-x Facebook Launch ‘Messenger Kids’ App with Full Parental Control Facebook Launch ‘Messenger Kids’ App with Full Parental Control Tuesday, December 05, 2017 apps, Facebook, latest, social media, x-featured-x Use of the Facebook platform is restricted to those aged 13 and above; at least that’s what the terms and conditions say. In reality there are hordes of preteen children using the site on a daily basis, and Facebook are now taking steps to address this issue. This is the justification used by the social media giant as they launch ‘Messenger Kids’, a brand new app available on Apple devices which purportedly aims to provide a safer environment for those young children who are using Facebook’s existing Messenger service anyway, but who by doing so risk exposure to content that may be considered harmful to kids of their age. Img: Facebook The new app comes with a slew of parental controls; for example the service won’t let children add their own friends or delete messages, only their parents can do that. Also, the child does not get a separate Facebook or Messenger account when signing up to the new app, and are instead given access to the service via an extension of their parent’s existing Facebook account. Kristelle Lavallee, a children’s psychology expert and content strategist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University, advised Facebook throughout the design process. She warns that when young children do make use of services not designed for them, they risk harm through the very nature of such platforms. “The risk of exposure to things they were not developmentally prepared for is huge,” she said. In light of this, Ms Lavallee insists that Messenger Kids has been designed from the ground up to provide a “useful tool” that “makes parents the gatekeepers”. The interface and functions are apparently “a result of seeing what kids like,” which basically means an overload of images, emoji, and memes. Lavallee asserts that providing such a platform for kids who are just learning how to form relationships and stay in touch with parents digitally could actually be highly useful to their development of such traits. The major legal problem for Facebook when it comes to underage users on their main platform is that federal law prohibits internet companies from collecting personal information on kids under 13 without their parents’ permission, and imposes restrictions on advertising to them. Given the vast amount of preteens already signed up to Facebook, the company are undoubtedly in breach of this law whether intentionally or otherwise. As such the launch of the new service is, according to CEO of the non-profit Family Online Safety Institute Mr Stephen Balkam, visible validation that Facebook is trying to deal with the situation pragmatically by steering young Facebook users to a service designed for them. Facebook insist that the Kids app will not show ads or collect user data for advertising purposes, though they did state that some data will be collected but only that which is necessary for the proper operation of the service. The company also somewhat allayed fears that the new app was purely a way to ensure that users were signed up to their main platform as soon as possible with their insistence that it won’t automatically move users to the regular Messenger or Facebook when they get old enough; they may however give users the option to move contacts to Messenger down the line. Despite all these apparently well-intentioned claims, some remain unconvinced. One such critic is James Steyer, CEO of the kids-focused non-profit group Common Sense, who admits that while he does like the idea of a messaging app which gives control to the parents, he worries about some aspects of the service. Among his concerns are whether Facebook’s promise to keep the service ad-free will last, and whether these ads will simply be passed on to the parents instead. “Why should parents simply trust that Facebook is acting in the best interest of kids?” Steyer said in a statement. “We encourage Facebook to clarify their policies from the start so that it is perfectly clear what parents are signing up for.” Facebook Launch ‘Messenger Kids’ App with Full Parental Control Reviewed by Unknown on Tuesday, December 05, 2017 Rating: 5 apps Facebook latest social media x-featured-x	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line508
__label__wiki	0.627808	0.627808	Article in PUBLIC EYE ONLINE, Maseru, Lesotho, 14 March 2015 Cyclist goes round the world for Aids TEBELO TSOELIANE Link: http://www.publiceyenews.com/site/2015/03/13/cyclist-goes-round-the-world-for-aids/ MASERU – An Indian-born cyclist, Somen Debnath, (31), who has been travelling around the world on a bicycle to create awareness on HIV and AIDS in different schools, colleges and universities, is in Lesotho. “I started my journey on the 27th of May 2004 from a remote area in India called Basanti, which is located in Sunderbans in the province of West Bengal. My aim is to spread awareness on HIV and AIDS in 191 countries and I have already travelled 97 countries so far,” he said. He further stressed that his mission is that by the year 2020 he would have covered 200,000km and reached nearly 20 million people. He arrived in Lesotho on 7 March 2015 and he will be leaving on Sunday. “Presently, I am in Maseru, Lesotho and I am expecting to spend 10 days in the mountain Kingdom. Lesotho is the 97th country I am travelling on bicycle and so far I have travelled 116 400 km. Debnath said he had already met some people with HIV and Aids in Lesotho. “I already met people with HIV and Aids in Botha-Bothe and what it’s enticing about Lesotho is that people with HIV and Aids are no longer isolated or discriminate against. “People living with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho are living in harmony which is what I am advocating during the course of my journey through different countries. I also give seminars on Indian culture,” he said. He further highlighted that he was about to meet some university students. Asked what compelled him to embark on this adventure he said when he was 16, he saw a one youth die of AIDS. “From that day I told myself that I have to travel and create awareness about HIV and Aids but initially my aim was to travel to a few provinces in India. Later on it dawned on me that since HIV and Aids is a global problem, therefore this crucial initiative should not be confined to India. So, I told myself that I have to travel all over the world and that’s how my journey started”, he explained. Asked why he decided to use the bicycle as a mode transport, he said he had no money for other modes of transport. “I chose a bicycle because I had no money for better transport, besides, a bicycle is environment- friendly,” he added. Somen Debnath About Somen Debnath Dear friends, my name is Somen Debnath. I am a resident of the village of Basanti, Sundarbans, West Bengal, which is a great mangrove forest and the largest tiger reserve in India. My "Around the World Bicycle Tour for HIV/AIDS Awareness Programme & Presentation of Indian Culture" started on 27th of May 2004, two days after I acquired Bachelor degree in Zoology from the University of Calcutta. I have also completed 'Visarad' in Fine Arts from the Sarbabhartiya University. My goal is to cover 191 countries till 2020. I will travel 200.000 km in the whole world and reach nearly 20 million people. 118.000 km I will travel for charity, that's why I'm selling my Km to people. The support I will get from people buying my kilometres will help me fulfill my other dream: to build a Global village in my native place, Basanti, Sundarbans. Previous: Meeting Indian Brothers in Maseru, Lesotho, 13 March 2015 Next: Meeting friends in Maseru, Lesotho, 14 March 2015 Sometimes we need to fight for our rights! Getting a visa as a longtime traveler in Lesotho	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line509
__label__wiki	0.810144	0.810144	Listing Of Unsolved Murders & Missing People In Canada » Saskatchewan Unsolved Murders & Missing People » Saskatoon's Missing Aboriginal Women Author Topic: Saskatoon's Missing Aboriginal Women (Read 15363 times) Desespere This article is from January 28, 2006. I've only posted certain parts, it is a fairly long article. There is also a very long list of missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 20 years. http://www.missingpeople.net/missing_in_canada.htm Daleen Bosse went missing May 18, 2004. She was 26 years old and is described as 5'5, 170 pounds and wears glasses. She is a member of the Onion Lake First Nation and was last seen by her family in Saskatoon. RCMP say they cannot release the names of the 17 missing aboriginal women under their jurisdiction due to privacy reasons, but they have confirmed that Amber Redman is one of them. The secrecy makes writer Warren Goulding frustrated. "I don't understand why they're afraid to show that information. It just makes no sense at all," he said. Goulding is the author of Just Another Indian, a book that candidly details the brutal murders of convicted serial killer John Martin Crawford, a man who targeted aboriginal women in Saskatoon. The dedication to the book reads, "It is a tribute to the families they left behind. May they come to know that many Canadians share their sadness," and that expresses exactly what troubled Goulding so much about the Crawford killings -- many people didn't care. In the 1990s, the disappearance of aboriginal women in Saskatoon was followed quickly by the discovery of their bodies just outside of town. They were Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, Eva Taysup, and Mary Jane Serloin. Crime and court reporter for the Saskatoon Star Phoenix, Goulding came upon the Crawford killings innocently. "Initially, when the bodies of the three women in the book were found in 1994 and I, as a reporter, at that time was following the story and covered the investigation right from the first remains being found right until John Crawford was convicted." What amazed Goulding how little attention people paid to a serial killer in their own community. "Unlike many of the sordid characters with whom he shares the designation 'serial killer,' John Martin Crawford shuns publicity. He has staked his claim as one of the nation's most prolific sex killers with little fanfare," he writes. "Housed in the Saskatchewan Penitentiary in Prince Albert, serving three concurrent life sentences, he is anonymous, his deeds virtually forgotten." Crawford has been the "beneficiary of a disinterested media and an equally impassive public," charges Goulding. Fifteen years later, aboriginal women are still going missing and are still being murdered. Thinking of the recent publicity in British Columbia regarding the alleged serial killer Robert Pickton, charged with the deaths of 27 prostitutes from Vancouver's downtown eastside, and in Edmonton, where police have identified the possibility of a serial killer since the bodies of nine sex trade workers were found in the outskirts of the city, Goulding can't help but think that the situation in Saskatchewan isn't the same. "The Saskatchewan disappearances are really different, aren't they? It's not like these are girls that are working the street or even living in a high risk area or anything," he said. "I don't know if that's part of a pattern." According to RCMP in Saskatchewan, it's not one. "We, the police agencies, haven't identified a trend," said media officer Cpl. Brian Jones in an interview. "To me, a trend implies that there's a connection between those. There is a similarity in that they are aboriginal and that they are female." Trend or not, people are paying more attention to missing aboriginal women. "I guess the only good thing about it is that we're talking about it and we care. Look at 1992 when the women disappeared in Saskatoon. Nobody even knew about it, let alone cared about it. So, that's a positive in a very sad story," said Goulding. The Webmaster Re: Saskatoon's Missing Aboriginal Women Interesting. There was a serial killer in Saskatoon and I never heard of him before. Carol-Lynn Rebecca Jean King has been located safe. I don't have any further details /. Yes, please do post that information. That would be wondeful! Hello Sue I have heard about the walk and I wish I could have walked with them,I would do the walk twice if it would help bring justice and closer for all the missing women.Thank You for joining the board and I hope to see you here more. That is terrifc news, thanks! HaveThoughtsWillTravel It's a fine line between genius and insanity. John Martin Crawford - The Lady Killer www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPN0BqmmWLc	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line518
__label__cc	0.644362	0.355638	Enough Already! Creating Success on Your Terms – Mike Iamele How Mike define’s success. What happened in Mike’s life that inspired him to write his book Enough Already. He shares the personal story that gave him the name for his book. Why Mike gave up a high-powered public relations career to create his own version of love, success, and happiness. Not feeling good enough and needing outside validation are the most common challenges Mike finds with spiritual entrepreneurs have in creating success? Mike Iamele seemed to have it all. By the age of 24, he was raking in the money at his own public relations firm. Turns out it was killing him in every sense of the word. When a stress-induced illness hit him head on, he began to question everything he believed about success. It was at that point when Mike decided he had enough. He was ready to have success on his own terms – not everyone else’s. Mike Iamele is an international writer, clinical herbalist, business coach, and author of the book Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms (Conari Press 2015). He specializes in helping entrepreneurs redefine and create success on their own terms to turn their passions into thriving businesses. After recovering from a debilitating illness, Mike gave up his high-powered public relations career to find his own version of love, success, and happiness. Today Mike and I talk about how to create the success of your dreams. www.bostonwellnesscoach.com https://twitter.com/mikeiamele https://www.facebook.com/bostonwellnesscoach Get a copy of Mike’s book Enough Already Life + Biz Through Sacred Branding – Mike Iamele says: […] Episode #47 – Enough already! […]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line519
__label__wiki	0.778943	0.778943	ECTC Paid To Riot Via Covington & Burling? Paid Anti-Freeway group to Riot to disrupt public hearings on I-266 Bridge poised at Georgetown University According to Gilbert Hahn Jr.: The Notebook of an Amateur Politician (and how he began the D.C. subway) http://books.google.com/books?id=6mZWVFsxFg8C&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Reginald+Booker+freeway&source=bl&ots=KVpr2SHlgH&sig=5TWeeQ27IZPFP0gy3Hnu6p2lbjI&hl=en&ei=JZbfStC_NIrIlAehvOBK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Reginald%20Booker%20freeway&f=false “…Arrayed against the freeway lobby was a fiercely vocal, but not very impressive group called the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis. This was a group headed by an otherwise very nice young man named Reginald Booker and included Sammy Abbott, former Communist candidate for the House of Representatives from Buffalo and later the mayor of Takoma Park. It also included Julius Hobson and, as one of the chorus, Marion Barry. I held some freeway and Three Sisters Bridge hearings, which immediately broke up into several famous riots (but more of that latter.) The committee [ECTC] was funded by solid citizens of Georgetown, like attorney Ed Burling. Their interest in the matter was to prevent the Three Sisters Bridge – or any highway – through Georgetown, and so they funded Reginald Booker and all of his conferees very lavishly. When a hearing on the Three Sisters Bridge broke up yet in another riot, I had Ed Burling and his fellow Georgetowners to thank for paying Booker and Company to riot. Among other things, I was hit with a flying ashtray. Why was I so adamant? I don’t give myself any particular merit badges for agreeing with the argument that freeways would ruin the city and Balkanize its different parts by putting up a “Chinese Wall” through the middle of a neighborhood. It’s just that I thought that it was a good thing not to have the freeways and the Three Sisters Bridge, and a better thing if I could manage to get the subway system funded instead. This curiously ignores the concept of urban freeways below ground in tunnels, versus say that of surface and elevated RR berms that quad sect Washington, D.C. Sammie Abbott & Reginald Booker Evening Star photo The proposed I-266 'Three Sisters Bridge' pointing at Georgetown University Perhaps this curious RR-freeway double standard has something to do with this significant backer being a RR industry attorney? Edward B. Burling (1877 - 1966) The name "Burling" within the name of the law firm Covington & Burling refers to its co-founder, Edward B. Burling. According to the firm's web site: "Judge J. Harry Covington and Edward B. Burling opened the doors of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC, on January 1, 1919. " http://www.cov.com/washington/ "The founders of Covington & Burling LLP foresaw the pervasive effects of the forthcoming era of federal legislation, regulation, and taxation. In 1919, they sought to create a firm in the nation's capital that could advise and represent corporations located anywhere in the nation or the world on a wide range of legal issues. Today our Washington office has over 300 lawyers representing clients according to the highest standards and fulfilling the firm's strong commitment to public service." Edward Burling, who would die in 1966, had a son, Edward Burling Jr. According to his 2002 obituary: (excerpt) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/us/edward-burling-jr-94-senior-partner-at-a-top-law-firm.html Edward Burling Jr. was born in Chicago on Feb. 5, 1908. His wife, Frida Frazer Winslow, said he was not given a middle name, but was called junior to avoid confusion with his father. He graduated from Milton Academy in 1925, Yale University in 1929 and Harvard Law School in 1932. He then volunteered to work for the presidential administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thomas G. Corcoran, a presidential aide and later a powerful Washington lawyer, assigned him to work for the legal staff of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a New Deal agency. He next worked on the staff of the Treasury Department. In 1935, he joined the law firm that his father had founded with Mr. Covington, and, except for his war service, in the Army Air Force in World War II, stayed there until his retirement at 65. Two of his principal clients were the metal-cutting tool industry and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He acted as financial adviser to corporate clients and represented their interests before regulatory agencies, particularly the Federal Power Commission, now the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Mr. Burling was known for extensive philanthropy, and among the recipients were child adoption agencies in Washington. The law firm Covington & Burling has long been allied with the private organization, the "Committee of 100 on the Federal City", which along with U.S. National Capital Planning Commission, was founded by Frederic Adrian Delano, uncle to 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and brother in law to Burling via marriage to a pair of sisters. 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue the Covington & Burling building Covington & Burling's other co-founder, former U.S. Congressman James Harry Covington, was a law professor at Georgetown University. James Harry Covington (1870 - 1942) James Harry Covington (August 15, 1863 – May 14, 1939) was an American jurist and politician. He represented the Maryland's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1914, and served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia from 1914 to 1918. Covington was born in Easton, Maryland, and attended the Maryland Military Academy at Oxford. He entered the law department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1891, attending at the same time special lectures in history, literature, and economics, and graduated in 1894. Soon thereafter, Covington began to practice of law in Easton. He was an unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the Maryland State Senate in 1901, and served as State’s attorney for Talbot County, Maryland, from 1903 to 1908. He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1908 and served the 1st Congressional district of Maryland from March 4, 1909 until his resignation on September 30, 1914, to accept the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Covington served as chief justice of that court from October 1, 1914, to June 1, 1918, when he resigned to practice law in Washington, D.C.. He was a professor of law at Georgetown University from 1914 to 1919, and was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson as a member of the United States Railroad Commission in January 1918. He and Edward B. Burling established the law firm of Covington & Burling on January 1, 1919. Covington died in Washington, D.C., and is interred in Spring Hill Cemetery of Easton. Covington served as Worthy Grand Master on the Supreme Executive Committee of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity from 1892–1894. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Harry_Covington Kappa Sigma Official Site Kappa Sigmas are taught to live their lives by the Star and Crescent, which are the symbols of the Fraternity that make up the official badge: The Star and Crescent shall not be worn by every man, but only by him who is worthy to wear it. He must be a gentleman... a man of honor and courage... a man of zeal, yet humble... an intelligent man...a man of truth... one who tempers action with wisdom and, above all else, one who walks in the light of God.[9] The Star and Crescent is also used as part of the guidlines behind Kappa Sigma's strict no-tolerance anti-hazing policy. The Fraternity takes all allegations of hazing very seriously and routinely pulls charters from guilty chapters which can be as old as 130 years. They also follow the four cornerstones of the Fraternity: Fellowship, Leadership, Scholarship, and Service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Sigma Frederic A. Delano's 'Family' Posted by Douglas Andrew Willinger at 10:00 PM Labels: Covington and Burling, ECTC, I-95 John_David_Galt said... If you can really prove that those people were paid to riot, I would think you and all the other victims would have a slam-dunk lawsuit, and maybe even a RICO case. I don't think anyone except the labor unions considers rioting to be covered by freedom of expression, and it's certainly not peaceable assembly. Douglas A. Willinger said... All I know about this allegation is that its is what I found in that book while doing an intensified series of Google word searches following Ruth Abbott's death last week. What I do know is that law firm is deeply involved with a lot of topics that I blog about (go to my profile and see the tag "Covington & Burling" in each of my blogs), and that its co-founder Ed Burling was a railroad industry attorney. A studio of Ed Burling and his involvement with the RR industry would be an excellent avenue of research IMHO. Douglas A. Willinger From GGW comments: Anyone interested in these issues--or uninterested in them for this matter--should check out Douglas Willinger's excellent cri du cerveau: http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2009/10/ectc-paid-to-riot-via-covington-burling.html Hugely entertaining. by oboe on Dec 19, 2011 11:25 am http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/13076/the-outer-beltway-the-bad-idea-that-wont-go-away/ ECTC's Creation Assisted By Roman Catholic Church ... ECTC Creations Roads for the Many Through The Homes of Few Ruth Abbott - Widow of Sammie Abbott -- Dies	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line532
__label__wiki	0.519325	0.519325	Debbie Millman \| Audio Brian Singer Brian Singer is a San Francisco-based artist and designer. He currently manages the Communication Design team at Facebook, where he leads a group of designers, engineers and filmmakers. Brian is the creator of The 1000 Journals Project, a global art experiment that has been covered in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal and many others. It is the subject of a book, a feature length documentary, and was exhibited at both the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. In 2013, Brian joined the national board of AIGA, the professional association for design. Prior to that, he was president of the San Francisco Chapter of AIGA and served on the advisory board for the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. Posted in: Arts + Culture, Business, Design Matters, Graphic Design, Technology Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, strategist, and host of the podcast Design Matters. More from Debbie Millman Stephen Gates On this episode, Debbie talks with designer Stephen Gates about why it’s important for a brand not to be liked by everybody. On this episode Debbie talks with Seth, the artist behind the book Palookaville, about why his generation of cartoonists broke away from fantasy. Tea Uglow Debbie talks with Tea Uglow about experimental digital projects that are pushing the boundaries of tech and art. Debbie talks with Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love about the love of her life and her latest book City of Girls. Debbie talks with artist Shantell Martin about her unorthodox career, her collaborations, and about the business of making art.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line533
__label__cc	0.528587	0.471413	Other Events‎ > ‎ Our newest book, Before Wheatland tells the story of Wheatland before it became a city. It was written by local author, Ron Jauch, and is now available. ($15.00 book + $1.16 sales tax + $2.66 shipping) The Wheatland Hop Riot book commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Wheatland hop riot in 2013. The Pictorial History of Wheatland includes historical photos of Wheatland, its citizens, buildings, and activities. The Wheatland 1874-1974 book was originally published for the Wheatland Centennial. Purchase a book at the Wheatland History Museum or send your name and address with a check for the appropriate amount P.O. Box 164, Wheatland, CA 95692 The Wheatland Historical Society was formed in 1974 for the centennial of the founding of the city of Wheatland. It was active until 1991. During its active period it identified historic buildings, places and events, and had several plaques installed for identification. In 2006 the original non-profit corporation was reestablished. One of its first major projects was to complete a pictorial history with Arcadia Publishing, and in the process collected over 2,500 pictures and many items and articles on the history of Wheatland. A committee of six members from the historical society authored both the Arcadia book and the Hop Riot book on behalf of the society. Those six members were Ron Jauch, Jamie Newman, Rick Paskowitz, Jane Stineman Paskowitz, Chris Bogdanoff Bare, and Pat Camarena. The members of the committee represent families who have been in Wheatland since the 1850s and continue to live in the area today. The historical society hopes to preserve and protect as much of the colorful history of Wheatland as possible.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line535
__label__wiki	0.880909	0.880909	Wilma / May 2019 / May Spotlight Area women making news photo courtesy of Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity Habitat's Women Build Returns This Month Coming off its successful reboot last year, the CAPE FEAR HABITAT WOMEN BUILD takes place May 4-11 and June 3-8. Thirteen groups made up of area organizations and volunteers have been raising money and holding fundraising events leading up to the actual build days. That’s up from ten sponsoring groups last year. “Our goal with the Cape Fear Habitat Women Build is to build a home in partnership with a local hardworking family and provide access to an affordable mortgage,” organizers say. “This home will be funded and constructed primarily by women and will provide a female-friendly worksite that empowers women to take leadership roles and learn new skills while building homes, community, and hope.” The build will be led by professional builders such as Beth Pancoe, president and founder of SDI Construction. “Supporters can honor a strong woman during the first week of May by making a $50 donation in the name of someone they wish to honor, and a card will be sent to the honoree recognizing the gift made in their name,” says Cape Fear Habitat for Humanity’s Kerry Celestini. “A perfect Mother’s Day present for the mom that has asked you to stop buying her gifts!” Area Companies Pick up CEA Awards Several women-led businesses were included in this year’s Coastal Entrepreneur Awards. The awards, a joint effort of the Greater Wilmington Business Journal and UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, recognizes ten companies or nonprofits in various categories. Among this year’s category winners are: COMPASS BRACELETS (Retail), owned by Samantha Dudley, that sells bracelets with unique tag numbers allowing wearers to track them as they are passed along; MYBEEHYVE (Internet-Related), founded by Jennifer Turnage and Megan Sumrell to serve as an online platform for contact management; and the Good Shepherd Center (Nonprofit), headed up by executive director Katrina Knight (above). All of the category winners will be honored at a breakfast awards event May 22 7:30-10 a.m. at UNCW’s Burney Center. The overall 2019 Coastal Entrepreneur of the Year also will be named at the event. Info: coastalentrepreneur.com Temple of Israel Installs Female Rabbi EMILY LOSBEN-OSTROV has been installed as the first female rabbi for the TEMPLE OF ISRAEL, North Carolina’s oldest Jewish house of worship. The installation ceremony, which formally recognizes the new rabbi as the spiritual leader of the temple, took place April 12. Originally from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Losben-Ostrov has served the Jewish community in many parts of the country – from New York to Missouri. Before coming to Wilmington, she was rabbi of Anshe Hesed in Erie, Pennsylvania, for three years. She is also the founder of the Pesach Project for HUC-JIR, which has sent hundreds of rabbinical students on service trips to the former Soviet Union, and has held an annual healing service for two decades to raise awareness about AIDS. Since coming to the Port City, Losben- Ostrov helped lead a community prayer vigil in the wake of the Pittsburg synagogue shooting in October and spoke at the local Women’s March in January. “She is the right spiritual leader,” says Temple of Israel President RICHARD LERNER, “at the right time for our Temple of Israel family.” -Hannah Smith CFCC Coach Wraps Up Record Season CFCC’s LADY SEA DEVILS women’s basketball team finished third in the nation in the NJCAA DII Women’s Basketball National Tournament this year. And, head coach LORI DRAKE was named DII District J Women’s Basketball Coach of the Year. Sixteen teams competed in the DII National Tournament, held March 19-23 in Harrison, Arkansas. Going into the tournament, CFCC was seeded No. 7 with a season record of 25-4. In addition to their third-place national finish – the highest ranking won by any CFCC athletic team in the school’s history – the Lady Sea Devils set three tournament records. “I am beyond proud of what this squad has accomplished over the past two years but especially the growth going into this,” Drake says. Although nine of the ten players are leaving the CFCC program to continue their careers at four-year universities, Drake says she is optimistic. “We are bringing back our lead point guard and key player, Ny Langley. She will have a strong freshman class coming in next season,” Drake says. “We are excited about not only our freshmen but our transfers as well.” Drake joined CFCC in 2011 and built the women’s basketball program from the ground up. After one year as assistant coach at High Point University in 2016, she returned to CFCC. -Marianna Boucher	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line537
__label__wiki	0.715816	0.715816	Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jury instruction that added a requirement for proof that is not in the statutes was harmless error State v. Courtney C. Beamon, 2013 WI 47, on review of published court of appeals decision; case activity; majority opinion by Justice Roggensack Beamon was tried for fleeing an officer under § 346.04(3), which requires proof that the person knowingly fled or attempted to elude an officer in one of three ways: 1) by willful or wanton disregard of a visible or audible signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the police officer or other vehicles or pedestrians; or 2) by increasing speed; or 3) by extinguishing the vehicle’s lights. (¶¶29-32). The trial court, however, instructed on this element in the conjunctive, telling the jury it had to find both that Beamon acted with willful and wanton disregard and that he did so by increasing the speed of his vehicle. (¶¶33, 35-36). On appeal, Beamon argued the evidence was insufficient under the jury instructions, which constituted the “law of the case, because there was no testimony Beamon increased his speed. (¶¶7-9, 16). The court of appeals disagreed, concluding the instruction was erroneous but that the error was harmless. 336 Wis. 2d 438, ¶¶6-11. The supreme court now affirms the court of appeals. Sufficiency claims are usually decided by reference to the jury instructions; however, the court holds, when the instructions “do not accurately reflect the statute enacted by the legislature,” sufficiency of the evidence must be measured against the statutorily defined elements, not the erroneous instructions. (¶¶22-23, 28). Using the erroneous instructions “would, in effect, allow the parties and the circuit court in that case to define an ad hoc, common law crime,” contrary to the rule that crimes are defined by statute. (¶¶23, 45). Moreover, the due process right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every element of the offense carries the corollary that a defendant does not have a right to proof beyond a reasonable doubt of something that is not an element. (¶¶22, 28). Because only statutes create crimes, an instruction that does not accurately state the statutory elements is erroneous. (¶24). Erroneous instructions are subject to harmless error analysis, “so long as the error at issue does not categorically vitiate all the jury’s findings.” (¶24, quoting Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1, 11 (1999)). Instructions that err by leaving something out, or by taking judicial notice of an element, have been found harmless, e.g., State v. Smith, 2012 WI 91, ¶¶60-63, 342 Wis. 2d 710, 817 N.W.2d 410; State v. Harvey, 2002 WI 93, ¶47, 254 Wis. 2d 442, 647 N.W.2d 189. Therefore, the court concludes, “[i]f an error that relieves the state of part of its burden can be harmless, then, logically, a jury instruction that directs the state to prove additional requirements also may be subject to harmless error analysis.” (¶25). If the erroneous instruction is harmless under the standard test, which asks whether it is “‘clear beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the error'” (¶27, quoting Harvey, 254 Wis. 2d 442, ¶49 , and Neder, 527 U.S. at 18), the court should then go on to review the sufficiency of the evidence “by comparing the evidence with the statutory requirements of the crime.” (¶28). Applying these holdings to Beamon’s case, the court concludes the instruction erroneously combined two alternative methods of proving or committing the second element of the offense, and thus “had the effect of creating an additional requirement for the offense….” (¶¶35-36). It then concludes the error was harmless, citing both the evidence and the language from the information, which was read to the jury as part of the instructions and correctly stated the three methods for fleeing in the disjunctive. (¶¶38-39). That same evidence is also sufficient to convict under the statutory elements of the method charged in the information. (¶40). An unusual issue, for how often will the state ask for an instruction that requires it to prove more than the applicable statute requires? And it was the state that requested the instruction, a fact mentioned only in passing in the majority (¶47) but made clearer in the dissent by Justices Bradley and Abrahamson (¶¶66,68, 88). The majority also misses a fact noted by the dissent (¶80): The trial court, as is standard, told the jurors they must follow the law given in its instructions. Why then didn’t the instructions become the “law of the case” for determining sufficiency, as Beamon claimed (336 Wis. 2d 438, ¶6) and the dissent concludes (¶¶71-78)? The majority’s answer is that the elements are created by statute, not the instructions, and applying erroneous instructions creates crimes not recognized by statute. (¶¶23, 45). In addition, Wisconsin has not explicitly applied the “law of the case” doctrine to jury instructions, unlike the jurisdictions cited by the dissent, (¶¶77, 78 n.8)–though a few cases have applied a functionally similar analysis. State v. Courtney, 74 Wis. 2d 705, 247 N.W.2d 714 (1976); State v. Wulff, 207 Wis. 2d 143, 557 N.W.2d 813 (1997). Courtney is closest to this case, for there an “element” was added to the instruction. The court addressed the defendant’s sufficiency claim by reference to the the instruction with the erroneous element, though without invoking “law of the case.” 74 Wis. 2d at 713-15. It also found the erroneous inclusion of the extra element to be harmless, however. Id. at 715-16. (On Wulff, see below.) The dissent questions whether the instruction is erroneous, suggesting the additional language about Beamon increasing his speed was “a factual theory of prosecution” that proved to be inadvisable because unsupported by the evidence. (¶¶65-68). If it’s a factual theory, though, not an element, can the defendant claim there’s insufficient proof of that factual theory? After all, due process doesn’t require proof of a specific theory of guilt, in addition to the elements, and including something in the instruction doesn’t transform it into an element. Ultimately, though, it isn’t clear why the state asked for the language in this case, and its mimicry of another statutory method for proving the element suggests it was added by mistake. Assuming the instruction is erroneous, then, the next step is the well-established harmless error standard for assessing instructional error. But the court doesn’t stop there; it goes on to do a sufficiency analysis. Why? A finding of harmless error will not just “typically” mean the sufficiency claim will fail, as the court says (¶28); it means the sufficiency claim will necessarily fail because a finding beyond a reasonable doubt that a rational jury would have found the defendant guilty absent the instructional error necessarily means the evidence a rational fact-finder could have found guilt. Perhaps the court felt compelled to address the issue actually raised by Beamon, but the extra sufficiency analysis is superfluous. Finally, a note about Wulff, where the evidence consisted of testimony about a sexual assault defendant’s attempt to commit fellatio, but the jury was instructed that intercourse was defined as anal or genital intrusion; fellatio was not included as an alternative. Because there was no evidence of attempted anal or genital intrusion, the evidence was insufficient in light of the instructions. 207 Wis. 2d at 147-54. The court distinguishes Wulff because the instructions there were correct: They omitted one alternative, but didn’t mistakenly add something not in the statute. (¶44). Somewhat ominously, however, the court notes Wulff was decided before Neder and Harvey, though the court doesn’t decide whether the instruction in Wulff would be subject to harmless error analysis. (¶46). One must ask how it could be if, as the court just said, the instruction “conveyed a correct statement of the law, and thereby informed the jury of the requirements of an actual statutory offense.” (¶44). Being correct, there’s no error, and no harmless error analysis. This discussion should serve as warning: Insist that legally correct instructions not supported by the evidence are governed by Wulff, not this case, and resist any argument that an instruction is somehow “incorrect” because it doesn’t match the evidence showing the crime was committed by some method other than the one the jury was instructed on. Next post: TPR — consideration of parent’s incarceration; exercise of discretion at disposition Previous post: Interstate Agreement on Detainers — delivery of request for disposition to prosecuting officer; applicability of substantial compliance doctrine	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line538
__label__cc	0.705086	0.294914	Most people seem to fall in one of two groups when it comes to Alice in Wonderland: they either love it or they hate it. Either it's just too weird or you love it for its weirdness. I happen to be one of those who loves it. :) I remember repeatedly watching the Disney animated film when I was younger. When I was a teenager I read the classic book and enjoyed it. I own and enjoy both the 1933 film (Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle!) and the newer Tim Burton movie. The SyFy mini series Alice had been on my Netflix queue for quite a while, but when it arrived a couple of days ago, I was really not in the mood to watch it. The cover of the DVD had this casino look going on, and all I could think was, "Do I really want to watch this cheesy made for TV film tonight? I could be watching Doctor Who." :) I'm sort of obsessive about watching my Netflix DVDs the day I get them and sending them back the next day so I can consistently get 2 DVDs a week. I like having a routine. :) So even though I never send back movies without watching them, I came this close to doing just that. But I didn't. I decided to just watch it. And goodness...I'm so glad I did! I loved this mini series. I thought about it so much today that I decided I needed to blog about it. :) I wasn't expecting much for a mini series that aired on the SyFy channel. I thought it would look low-budget and be really cheesy, to be honest. But I was so impressed. It wasn't perfect, of course. It was overly dramatic at times, the special effects were cheesy, and some of the acting was questionable. But for the most part, I really felt like I was watching a film instead of a TV movie. (Note that I don't have any prejudices against BBC mini series. I guess I just don't except the same quality from the SyFy channel. Especially after they changed the abbreviation from SciFi to SyFy...don't they know that it stands for science fiction?? SyFy is an abbreviation for nothing.) Alice had sort of a futuristic, even dystopian feel about it. Maybe that's part of why I liked it so much...I do love dystopian. :) The Wonderland of the future still has gorgeous green forests and natural scenery, but it's also got a city built high in the sky full of rundown buildings and steampunk-ish aircraft. The Queen of Hearts kidnaps people from our world and brings them to play at her casino, where their good emotions are drained from them and bottled for the people of Wonderland to purchase and experience. Maybe the bottled emotions part is what felt so dystopian to me. The world-building was just really great, and so different from the typical Alice in Wonderland stories. But there were references from the original story throughout the film, even some of the more kooky, obscure ones that seem to be skipped over in most adaptations. That was really neat. :) I also loved the characters. Alice was pretty good, though sometimes she seemed a little rash and single-minded to me. (And I couldn't figure out who she reminded me of, appearance wise. Finally it hit me: Lizzie Bennet of the LBD.) The Queen of Hearts, played by Kathy Bates, was also played nicely, though there seems to be only one way to play that part so there's never much variation in adaptations. And the Hatter. Oh my...the Hatter. He was just so darn adorable and awesome. :) There's nothing mad about him here- he's really one of the most sensible characters. I have to say I wasn't too crazy about him at the very beginning. They didn't give him the most favorable introduction, in my opinion, but he grew on me quickly. :) I absolutely loved his character! Just a few things to like about him: his English accent, the way that his clothes look like he stepped out of the 70s and he somehow manages to pull this off, how he takes Alice under his wing though you're not really sure if it's for selfless or selfish motives at first, the way his hair sticks out from under his hat, etc...:) And Charlie the White Knight. He was hilarious and crazy in the best sort of way. :) That's really all I can say about him. Mad March looked so wonderfully creepy, so it was a shame he turned out to be sort of a wimpy villain. I think it was his voice that made him less credible, though his actions didn't help. There were a few parts of the plot that seemed a bit odd. I felt like the part about the resistance in the kingdom wasn't developed as much as it should have been, and the whole scene at the library felt out of place somehow. Also, one of the main plot points that develops was something that I didn't see coming, and at first it didn't seem to fit with the story, but it all worked out in the end. Speaking of the end, it was perfect. :) Aw. happy sigh So yeah, Alice was way better than I expected. Though I can't really explain it, this adaptation just clicked with me, and honestly, I think I prefer this one to the Tim Burton version. I did love that one at the time it was released, but I think I'm much more likely to rewatch this one and enjoy it more each time. Also...the pink flamingos? I want one. {P.S. In case you're wondering, this mini series was pretty clean. There's a bit of mild scattered language, and some suggestive lines and moments, mostly in connection with a character called Duchess, who also dresses immodestly.} Have you seen this mini series? What's your favorite Alice adaptation? Posted by Kristin at 8:54 PM Labels: Alice, review, TV Rissi July 17, 2013 at 9:29 PM THIS MOVIE ROCKS! Welcome to the awesomeness of Alice, Kristin, glad you chose to watch it. Funny thing is, my mom and I both liked it which is weird since she doesn't really enjoy sci-fi or quirky movies like this. Basically this post makes me smile - thanks for reminding me about its coolness. Abrupt though it may be - that ending also RULES! How sweet it was!?'Nuff said. ;) Kara July 19, 2013 at 1:44 AM Oh, I'm so happy you liked it! As Rissi says, IT ROCKS! :D I wasn't sure what to expect on my first viewing either, but oh what fun! Quirky and funny and sci-fi-ish and crazy. It has just about everything! And my, my that ending. Mmmm. I don't think there are words to describe my happiness about this movie. :) Dyeing more yarn (Kool-Aid and mordanting). I Am Understood? {Music Monday 5} Blue polka dot Hawthorn. The perfectly purple baby sweater. Somebody Sweet To Talk To {Music Monday 4} Cheap book finds. Hand carded and spun. Landslide {Music Monday 3} Natural beauty products. Time After Time {Music Monday 2} Our family farm. A rainbow of books. Swept Away {Music Monday 1}	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line539
__label__wiki	0.697403	0.697403	Tijuana Declares ‘Humanitarian Crisis,’ Seeks Help From UN Posted 5:12 pm, November 23, 2018, by Associated Press TIJUANA, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 23: Members of the 'migrant caravan' worship during a street worship service outside a temporary shelter set up for members of the caravan on November 23, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. Around 5,000 migrants from Central America have arrived in the city with the mayor of Tijuana declaring the situation a 'humanitarian crisis'. Some migrants have chosen to sleep in the streets due to poor conditions in the main temporary shelter located in a mostly outdoor soccer complex. Parts of the migrant caravan have been arriving to Tijuana after traveling for more than a month through Central America and Mexico to reach the U.S. border. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and said Friday he was asking the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants, most of whom were camped out inside a sports complex. The comments by Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum came as city officials and volunteers worked together to assist the 4,976 men, women and children who had arrived after more than a month on the road. The Trump administration has spent weeks lambasting the caravan, which it said was filled with criminals, gang members and even — it insinuated at one point without any proof — terrorists. Manuel Figueroa, who leads the city’s social services department, said Tijuana was bringing in portable toilets and showers, as well as shampoo and soap. It wasn’t enough. “Because of the absence, the apathy and the abandonment of the federal government, we are having to turn to international institutions like the U.N.,” Figueroa said. Rene Vazquez, 60, a Tijuana resident who was volunteering at the stadium, said Mexico’s federal government ignored the problem by allowing the caravan to cross the country without stopping. Now the city of 1.6 million is stuck with the fallout. “I don’t have anything against the migrants, they were the most deceived, but this is affecting us all,” Vazquez said. Gastelum vowed not to commit the city’s public resources to dealing with the situation. On Thursday, his government issued a statement saying that it was requesting help from the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Vasquez, who plays on a soccer team that uses the sports complex, said Mexico should step up now and process humanitarian visas for the group so they can start looking for work. Meanwhile, since his soccer team can no longer practice in the stadium, he was spending time passing out donated pizzas and roasted chicken to the migrants. The migrant caravan that left Honduras in mid-October was mostly well received by the towns it passed through along the way to the border. Even cities with few resources made sure the migrants had food and a place to rest. But in those places, the caravan stayed at most two nights — with the exception of Mexico City. In Tijuana, many of the migrants who are fleeing violence and poverty are seeking asylum in the United States and face the prospect of spending months in the border city before they have the opportunity to speak with a U.S. official. Gastelum said Friday that the Mexican government has talked about sending 20 tons of resources to Tijuana to help but that three-fourths consisted of materials to reinforce the border and only 5 tons were for the migrants. The mayor also criticized the federal government for not taking more seriously President Donald Trump’s threat Thursday to shut down the border if his administration determined Mexico had lost “control” of the situation in Tijuana. “That’s serious,” he said. The migrants also were receiving support from local churches, private citizens who have been providing food, as well as various agencies of the Baja California state government, which says it identified 7,000 job openings for those who qualify. Adelaida Gonzalez, 37, of Guatemala City arrived in Tijuana three days ago and was having a hard time adjusting. She was tired of sleeping on a blanket on a dirt field, of waiting 30 minutes to go to the bathroom and again to get food and didn’t know how much more she could take. “We would not have risked coming if we had known it was going to be this hard,” said Gonzales, who left Guatemala with her 15-year-old son and her neighbor. She said she was considering accepting Mexico’s offer to stay and work in Chiapas as a refugee. Some of the migrants staged a small demonstration at the city’s Chaparral border crossing Thursday, and a few dozen spent the night there. Police cordoned off the streets around the crossing tangling traffic, but pedestrian traffic across the border continued uninterrupted Friday. Alicia Ramirez, 65, a Tijuana businesswoman, said she had been worried she wouldn’t be able to make her annual Black Friday crossing to do her Christmas shopping, but had no trouble walking into California. About a dozen Mexican police stood by the crossing carrying plastic shields. Still, the threat of a border closure kept her daughters in Los Angeles from coming to see her for the holidays. “My daughters were worried, so they decided not to come,” she said. NYC Mayor de Blasio Is Seeking Democratic Nod For President Washington County Waives Fees To Agencies Bringing People To The Crisis Stabilization Unit Pence: Border Facility Conditions Are Unacceptable NWA Crisis Stabilization Unit Opens To Help Those With Mental Illness Self-Proclaimed ‘Touchy’ Mayor Of Utah Town Admits To Handcuffing Coworker Oklahoma Base Set For Migrant Site Was WWII Internment Camp City Of Winslow Asking For Volunteers To Clean Up Park For Fourth Of July Celebration Fayetteville Mayor Appoints Brad Hardin As New Fire Chief Trump Delays ICE Raids Two Weeks To See If Congress Can ‘Work Out A Solution’ Northwest Arkansas Group Helping Immigrants With 2020 Census 6-Year-Old Superhero Captures Nemesis At Navy Pier, Gets Thanks From The Mayor Inspiring Photo Shows College Grad Standing In The Fruit Fields Where Her Immigrant Parents Work City Leaders Break Ground On New Justice Center In Springdale	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line545
__label__wiki	0.939086	0.939086	Famous Landmarks 16 Roadside Architectural Wonders by Eric Peterson Eiffel Tower Replica: Paris, Tennessee This Eiffel Tower Replica in Paris, Tennessee, was made out of Douglas fir, steel rods, and lots of volunteer labor. Publications International, Ltd. Originally masterminded in 1993 by members of the engineering department at Christian Brothers University (CBU) in Memphis, Tennessee, this 60-foot Eiffel Tower consists of 500 pieces of Douglas fir, 6,000 steel rods and 10,000 hours of volunteer labor. The university donated it to Paris, Tennessee, after the city organized a "Paris U.S.A." promotion 1991 in conjunction with the 14 other U.S. cities named Paris. The tower was dismantled at the CBU campus, transported to Paris, and reassembled there for a dedication in 1993. See the next section for another tribute to European architecture. The Taj Mahal Is Turning Green: The Struggle to Preserve Priceless Monuments 5 New UNESCO World Heritage Sites That Exemplify the List How the Parthenon Came to Live in Nashville Why the Taj Mahal Is Inspiring Protests and Controversy in India What Time Is It? Time for the World's Most Accurate Clock!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line550
__label__wiki	0.586725	0.586725	Preamble – The Constitution of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973 By Advocatetanmoy on October 30, 2017 [In the Name of Allah..] Whereas sovereignty over the entire Universe belongs to Almighty Allah alone, and the authority to be exercised by the people of Pakistan within the limits prescribed by Him is a sacred trust; And whereas it is the will of the people of Pakistan to establish an order :- Wherein the State shall exercise its powers and authority through the chosen representatives of the people; Wherein the principles of democracy, freedom, equality, tolerance and social justice, as enunciated by Islam, shall be fully observed; Wherein the Muslims shall be enabled to order their lives in the individual and collective spheres in accordance with the teachings and requirements of Islam as set out in the Holy Quran and Sunnah; Wherein adequate provision shall be made for the minorities freely to profess and practise their religions and develop their cultures; Wherein the territories now included in or in accession with Pakistan and such other territories as may hereafter be included in or accede to Pakistan shall form a Federation wherein the units will be autonomous with such boundaries and limitations on their powers and authority as may be prescribed; Therein shall be guaranteed fundamental rights, including equality of status, of opportunity and before law, social, economic and political justice, and freedom of thought, expression, belief, faith, worship and association, subject to law and public morality; Wherein adequate provision shall be made to safeguard the legitimate interests of minorities and backward and depressed classes; Wherein the independence of the judiciary shall be fully secured; Wherein the integrity of the territories of the Federation, its independence and all its rights, including its sovereign rights on land, sea and air, shall be safeguarded; So that the people of Pakistan may prosper and attain their rightful and honoured place amongst the nations of the World and make their full contribution towards international peace and progress and happiness of humanity : Now, therefore, we, the people of Pakistan, Cognisant of our responsibility before Almighty Allah and men; Cognisant of the sacrifices made by the people in the cause of Pakistan; Faithful to the declaration made by the Founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, that Pakistan would be a democratic State based on Islamic principles of social justice; Dedicated to the preservation of democracy achieved by the unremitting struggle of the people against oppression and tyranny; Inspired by the resolve to protect our national and political unity and solidarity by creating an egalitarian society through a new order; Do hereby, through our representatives in the National Assembly, adopt, enact and give to ourselves, this Constitution Categories: Islam Tagged as: PREAMBLE Fundamental rights under Constitution of Pakistan 1973 Sunil Mehta & ANR. Vs. State of Gujarat & ANR.[SC 2013 February]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line551
__label__wiki	0.621781	0.621781	Son Shoots and Kills Intruder Who Terrorized His Family In Houston posted by R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter - Apr 13, 2019 A family in Houston is safe after the son shot and killed an intruder who forced his way into their home in southwest Houston, police say. Authorities said the incident began after his father was returning home where three suspects were hiding in the bushes, waiting for him to get back. The suspects pistol-whipped the father, and forced him to open the door to the home, ABC 13 reported. The suspects began ransacking the homes while the family's two daughters took refuge inside a closet, and pushed the panic alarm that had been installed in their home. The suspects tried to get the father to disable the alarm, but he was unsuccessful because the daughters kept pushing it. That's when the suspects realized someone else was home and searched the house for the man's 15 and 20-year-old daughters. As the home invasion was happening, the son arrived home with his mother in separate vehicles. The son noticed something off and went inside the house where he grabbed his pistol. He shot at the suspects as they fled, police said. One of the suspects, who was armed with a pistol, was shot in the head. The suspect was taken to the hospital where he died. None of the other suspects fired back, police said. The other two suspects jumped on the hood of the mother's car, but she was able to drive off and alert police at a nearby Whataburger restaurant. None of the family members were injured, police said. Police are still searching for the two suspects who got away.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line553
__label__wiki	0.713705	0.713705	30 Instagram accounts under investigation in nude photo scandal The SBI says a growing number of law enforcement agencies across the state have now started their own investigations. "They were laughing about it. I got really upset. I started crying my eyes out. I didn't want to go to school, I just wanted to quit. I don't know, it broke my heart," said 17-year-old Kelsey Roberts. Roberts is learning a tough lesson in a very public way. A topless picture of the Davidson County student recently surfaced on Instagram, a photo she sent privately to her now ex-boyfriend. While it did not show her face, the photo did reveal her name and where she lives. It appeared in one of dozens of accounts exposing nude pictures of underage North Carolina girls. "There were over a thousand followers on there. Over a thousand people saw that picture," Roberts said. The SBI is now investigating at least 30 accounts involving nude photos of minors in at least nine counties in North Carolina. Wake Forest police asked the SBI to step in last week after a mother complained about nude photos of her teenage daughter appearing on the social media site. Several other law enforcement agencies in North Carolina, including police in Rowan County, are now launching their own investigations into the scandal. "Even if you're under age and you're creating or receiving these images, you can still be charged with child pornography related crime," said digital forensics examiner Lars Daniel. Daniel tracks photos like the ones surfacing. He says parents need to talk to their children about the dangers of posting explicit pictures of minors, and even consider changing phone settings like turning off the camera function. "You have to remember people can take screen shots, they can save it to their computers, they can upload it peer-to-peer file sharing software. It literally will go everywhere and you will never be able to get it back," Daniel said. The SBI investigation now includes Wake, Durham, Pitt, Craven, Johnston, Chatham, Randolph, Surry and Edgecombe counties. However, the number of affected counties is growing, as law enforcement agencies continue launching their own investigations.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line555
__label__wiki	0.789295	0.789295	Quinn signs education reform bill into law June 13, 2011 (MAYWOOD, Ill.) Gov. Pat Quinn was at Lexington Elementary School in west suburban Maywood for the signing, surrounded by leaders from across the state. A high school marching band set the tone for the ceremony with the national anthem. Political heavy hitters from across the state gathered at Lexington to praise the bill. Quinn signed it in front of a gymnasium full of people and schoolchildren who heard from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and others. The legislation is being hailed by teachers' unions. It is supported by reform groups and school boards. It is an unprecedented agreement on education issues that have gone unresolved. "When we have a big issue in our state, we do not push people to the side. We bring everybody to the table," said Quinn. "The kid in Houston gets three more years of education than the kid in Chicago based on the length of day and the length of the year. When the governor signs this, that is coming to an end," said Emanuel. Talks to put the law together started in November. Lawmakers hope that Illinois will serve as a national model for others to follow. "Isn't it something to say the people of Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey -- more than I care to mention -- there is a better way to do education reform. It is to do it collaboratively. We will show you how to do it right," said Ken Swanson, Illinois Education Association. For schoolchildren, the education reform package will mean longer days in the classroom. It also gives school districts new powers to fire poorly performing teachers, and it bases tenure decisions on performance instead of seniority. The law will also make teacher strikes more difficult. The legislation would allow unions to strike, but it requires school boards and unions to negotiate longer and disclose their positions before a strike can occur. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has praised the legislation. The bill drew bipartisan support in the Illinois House and Senate when it was passed.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line556
__label__cc	0.736875	0.263125	What to do in Thailand, and Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok Many travellers are searching for Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok,Bangkok can well be described as a city of humble beginnings. In fact around 200 years ago, it was simply a small trading center and port community. Despite the fact that the city had grown rapidly and become renowned for being a modern and vibrant place, it has impressively retained its splendid and enchanting glory. That's why a visit to Bangkok should be on everyone's bucket list. You can find Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok travel information. Seeking for Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok. Jungceylon Shopping Center Patong Beach Baan Nisarine Art De Sea Hua Hin Surat Thani Railway Station Surat Thani Sojourn Villas Two T Resort Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok, Wat Pho Also called Wat Chetuphon, it is a temple which was developed for King Rama in Bangkok numerous in the past. It is actually considered to be a spot where people can receive feelings, and was considered one of the first pharmacies in most of Bangkok. Additionally it is the positioning of the first university that was started with a descendent of King Rama, a place where you could now get not simply traditional medicine but a foot massage at very inexpensive prices. It is known mostly for your Temple from the Reclining Buddha that is a Buddha that is laying perched on his arm. It really is enormous, roughly 15 m high by 45 m long, and will simply be viewed in sections due to its size. There are many beautiful gemstones which have been in lead within the soles from the feet, an absolute amount of 108 stones total. This is a number relevant to procession, the wobble in the earth, an issue that is built into lots of the temples throughout Thailand. This is an absolutely beautiful structure which has a considerable amount of history, which is the home of exactly what is called Wat Phra Kaeo. It is actually here the emerald or jade Buddha can be found, in this palace internal 1782, the residence of your royalty that were in charge of the land at that time. This palace includes two hours of not just the palace itself but the Wat Phra Kaew Tour. Our recommendation is that you begin early in the morning to take advantage of everything that you will be able to see, or perhaps execute a half day sightseeing tour to find out either one. You will see an attractive representation of your ancient battles that used to occur between Burma and Siam. This is actually a mixture of Royal Palace and Chapel, and if you can to climb to the top just before sunset, you will notice the sun setting in the Chao Praya River, a wonderful sight to behold. In front of precisely what is called Wat Suthat is exactly what the locals call the giant swing. This is a 27 m high structure, use for religious ceremonies, and its purpose is to go through a ritual which involves teams of three people visiting the top and walking across on the narrow board. There was a significant number of fatal accidents back into the 1930s which cause them to not take advantage of this like a ritual again. However, it really is a beautiful sight to discover, especially looking at Wat Suthat. This is literally something out from the movies, a true floating market that may be about an hour or so beyond Bangkok. It really is considered by some to become the Venice of the East, just like exactly how the folks that part of Italy do this a lot of things on the water. It is also a tourist trap as a consequence of how people are planning to check this out market that may be completely floating on boats manned by people selling their goods. However, once you do go, you will be treated to many of the most delicious food that may be absolutely fresh, served within an authentic way. If you have time, you are able to visit Lumpini Park that is a literal oasis in the middle of the architecture and buildings of Bangkok. There are several lawns that you could chill at, Chinese pagodas, and there is a small lake that you can take a boat on. Is good for relaxing as the park is very tranquil, despite every one of the skyscrapers which can be surrounding it in every directions. The park has become a place where antigovernment protests have occurred, so just be certain that when you decide to travel there, it's just people chilling out to rest. There are many things you could see in Bangkok, and these are the places you could go which can be just a little out-of-the-way. You can go to the skyscrapers if you wish to, and obtain a great view of the area, however these places on earth are incredibly beautiful and will give you a flavor of how Bangkok perhaps once was before modernization. Top 10 Things To Do While In Bangkok \| Things To Do At Chinatown Bangkok \| Tourist Things To Do In Bangkok In April \| Things To Do In Wattana Bangkok \| Shopping In Bangkok Or Pattaya \| Family Friendly Things To Do In Bangkok \| google.com \| plus \| alexa.com \| nasa.gov \| jcprd.com \| doleta.gov \| bts.gov \| hawaii edu \| Youtube	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line558
__label__wiki	0.59448	0.59448	Permanent Collection, McIninch Gallery dc.contributor.author Arthur, Thrall dc.description Arthur Thrall (1926-2015), Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an accomplished painter and printmaker. His works have been shown in more than 500 exhibits in the USA and abroad including England, Finland, Germany, and numerous US embassies. His work is in collections of the Tate Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert museum, and the Strang Print Room of the University College London, the Pori Library (Finland), Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, National Collection of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, IBM, Hilton Hotels, New York Times Company, Wilson Library (New York), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Silvermine Guild Arts Center (New Canaan), DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lessing Rosenwald and Milwaukee Art Museum, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Winner of many awards, Thrall also held the Louis Comfort Tiffany Fellowship in Graphics. He has been a member and represented in annual shows of The Boston Printmakers and the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA), New York for more than 50 years. Thrall held the Ferrar-Marrs Chair in Fine Arts at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin until his retirement in 1990. He was a visiting artist-teacher at the Artist’s Union in Helsinki, Finland, the Slade School of Art at University College and Morley College both in London, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thrall continued to work in his Milwaukee studio until his death. Further information including a link to a documentary of the Artists is available on the Artists website dc.description.abstract Block print in two colors, and with layers of paper, showing a treble clef amid fanciful decorative motifs based on musical notation. Signed Arthur Thrall, imp. 7/30 dc.rights Image ( if available) reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. en_US dc.source Image ( if available) derived from original artwork owned by the McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University. en_US dc.subject.other Colored Print en_US dc.subject.other Music dc.subject.other Multimedia dc.title Clusters en_US dc.type Image en_US dc.accrualMethod Transferred from office of Dr. Robert Craven to Gallery, February 2007 Name: Arthur Thrall ... Format: PNG image A catalog showcasing the permanent collection of the McIninch Art Gallery	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line560
__label__wiki	0.902462	0.902462	« 200 feared dead in yesterday’s air crash in Sao Paulo, Brazil Extreme flight videos » Update on the Brazilian air crash Published July 19, 2007 aviation Leave a Comment It seems that the pilot wanted to abort landing. See today’s news: The pilot of the TAM A320 that crashed late Tuesday at Sao Paulo Conganhas apparently tried to abort the landing and pull up as he contacted the rain-slickened, 6,365-ft. runway at Brazil’s busiest airport. CNN reported that cutting of grooves for rainwater into the recently resurfaced runway, 35L, had not been finished, while Bloomberg News said the airport shut down 18 times during the first quarter because of flooded runways. Brazilian courts addressed the safety of CGH for large aircraft in February, with an appeals court overturning an initial ruling that banned larger planes from the facility. CNN and the Associated Press reported from Sao Paulo that the initial investigation revealed that the aircraft was seen attempting to lift off following touchdown. Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have been located, and at least 158 bodies have been recovered, according to press reports. The aircraft was en route from Porto Alegre. Reuters reported that the airport’s secondary runway reopened yesterday. The A 320 aircraft was manufactured in 1998 and was bought by TAM airlines this January. This way it seems that slippery, bad quality runway was the major cause of the tragedy, although the airport’s officials claim the runway has been resurfaced recently and it was in a good condition. “I can confirm that there was no possibility of skidding on this runway,” said Armando Schneider Filho, director of engineering for the nation’s airport authority Infraero. “Twenty minutes before the accident, Infraero performed a visual inspection of the runway and detected no problems,” he added. “It was wet but there was no accumulation of water.” Pilots say landing on the 6,362-foot-long (1,039 meters) runway at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas airport is so challenging that pilots liken it to an aircraft carrier — if they don’t touch down precisely within the tarmac’s first 1,000 feet (305 meters), they’re warned to pull up and circle around again. The ungrooved runway becomes even more treacherous in the rain when it turns into a slick landing surface. Resource: ATW Online, CNN. By Szafi 0 Responses to “Update on the Brazilian air crash”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line565
__label__wiki	0.956128	0.956128	Tripti Home Tripti Joshi (Editor) I Live my life to the Fullest!!! coz you know you only get one !!! Dracula AD 1972 4.8/102 Votes Alchetron3.6 25% Rotten Tomatoes Director Alan Gibson Initial DVD release October 4, 2005 1/4 Roger Ebert Genre Fantasy, Horror Film series Dracula Writer Don Houghton (screen-play) Release date 28 September 1972 (1972-09-28) Cast Christopher Lee (Count Dracula), Peter Cushing (Professor Van Helsing), Stephanie Beacham (Jessica Van Helsing), Christopher Neame (Johnny Alucard), Michael Coles (Inspector), Marsha A. Hunt (Gaynor) Similar movies Hotel Transylvania 2, Dracula Untold, Blade: Trinity, Dracula, Hotel Transylvania, The Satanic Rites of Dracula Tagline The Count is back, with an eye for London's hotpants . . . and a taste for everything Dracula a d 1972 gazebo i like chopin Dracula A.D. 1972 is a 1972 horror film, directed by Alan Gibson and produced by Hammer Film Productions. It was written by Don Houghton and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Stephanie Beacham. Unlike earlier films in Hammer's Dracula series, Dracula A.D. 1972 has (at the time of filming) a contemporary setting, in an attempt to update the Dracula story for modern audiences. Dracula is brought back to life in modern London and preys on a group of young party-goers, that includes the descendant of his nemesis, Van Helsing. Dracula a d 1972 trailer 1 It is the seventh Hammer film featuring Dracula, and the sixth to star Christopher Lee in the title role. It also sees the return of Peter Cushing as Van Helsing for the first time since The Brides of Dracula (1960), and is the first to feature both Lee and Cushing in their respective roles since Dracula (1958). It was followed by the last film in Hammer's Dracula series to star Christopher Lee, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which similarly has a modern setting and features most of the same central characters. In 1872, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) and his nemesis Lawrence Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) battle on the top of a runaway coach. The carriage crashes and Dracula is partly impaled by one of the wheels. In the struggle, Van Helsing manages to fully push the wheel into the vampire's chest, staking him. This done, Van Helsing collapses and dies from his own wounds. At that moment, a follower of Dracula (Christopher Neame) arrives, collects Dracula's remains and, a few days later, buries them near Van Helsing's grave at St Bartolph's Church. One hundred years later, a new generation of Britons appear who move the tale along: in this case, a group of young hippies that includes Jessica Van Helsing (Stephanie Beacham), granddaughter of Lorrimer Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), an occult expert and descendant of Dracula's old nemesis, and Johnny Alucard (Christopher Neame), who closely resembles the disciple of Dracula seen in 1872. Alucard persuades Jessica and the others to attend a black magic ceremony in the now abandoned, deconsecrated St Bartolph's, where he performs a bloody ritual involving one of their group, Laura Bellows (Caroline Munro). Jessica and the others flee in horror, after which Dracula is resurrected and kills Laura. Laura’s body is discovered, drained of blood, and a police investigation begins, headed by an Inspector Murray (Michael Coles). Murray suspects an occult element and interviews Lorrimer Van Helsing, who is shocked to learn the details of Laura’s death. He realises that Johnny Alucard (whose name is Dracula written backwards) is a disciple of Dracula, and that the Count must have returned. In the meantime, Alucard brings another of Jessica’s friends, Gaynor Keating (Marsha Hunt), to St Bartolph’s, where she is killed by Dracula and Alucard willingly has himself turned into a vampire. The vampire Alucard kills a passer-by and lures Jessica’s boyfriend, Bob (Philip Miller), to a café they frequent, where he turns him into a vampire as well. While Lorrimer is out, Bob goes to the Van Helsing house and persuades Jessica to come to the café, where he and Alucard capture her and take her to Dracula. Lorrimer tracks Alucard to his flat and battles him, in which course Alucard accidentally kills himself with the running water in the bathroom shower. Lorrimer finds Bob's dead body, slain by sunlight before he could reach his resting place, and discovers Jessica in a trance at St Bartolph’s, where Dracula plans to take his revenge on the Van Helsing family by turning her into a vampire. Van Helsing sets a trap for Dracula and waits for him to return at nightfall. After a struggle, Dracula is killed by a fall into a pit of stakes that Van Helsing had previously prepared, and his spell over Jessica is broken. She embraces her grandfather and the title "Rest In Final Peace" is shown. The film's opening sequence was not in the previous film Scars of Dracula, but is completely new and sets a new short series of the Hammer Horror Dracula chronology finishing in the following film The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Christopher Lee as Count Dracula Peter Cushing as Lorrimer Van Helsing / Lawrence Van Helsing Stephanie Beacham as Jessica Van Helsing Christopher Neame as Johnny Alucard Marsha Hunt as Gaynor Keating Caroline Munro as Laura Bellows Janet Key as Anna Bryant Michael Kitchen as Greg Lally Bowers as Matron Party Hostess Flanagan as Go Go Dancer (uncredited) Stoneground as Themselves Michael Coles as Inspector Murray William Ellis as Joe Mitcham Philip Miller as Bob David Andrews as Detective Sergeant Constance Luttrell as Mrs. Donnelly Michael Daly as Charles Artro Morris as Police Surgeon Jo Richardson as Crying Matron Brian John Smith as Hippy Boy Penny Brahms as Hippy Girl Following the success of the modern-day vampire film Count Yorga, Vampire, Warner Bros commissioned two Hammer Dracula films set in the present day, which were to become Dracula A.D. 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Dracula A.D. 1972 began production in September 1971 as Dracula Today and was filmed in Chelsea and Hertfordshire. The film was inspired by the events surrounding the Highgate Vampire case. While the two present-day Dracula films star both Lee and Cushing, they do not correspond to the chronology established in the Victorian/Edwardian era films; the first Hammer Dracula film, Dracula, is set in the 1880s, whereas the flashback sequence of the last battle between Van Helsing and Dracula in Dracula A.D. 1972 is set in 1872—long before the first meeting of Van Helsing and Dracula in the original film. Dracula A.D. 1972 was marketed with the taglines "Past, present or future, never count out the Count!" and "Welcome back, Drac!" When it was released in the United States, a brief clip was played before the film in which actor Barry Atwater (the vampire Janos Skorzeny in The Night Stalker) rises from a coffin and swears the entire audience in as members of the Count Dracula Society. Critical reaction to Dracula A.D. 1972 has been mixed to negative. Upon the film's release, Roger Ebert gave the film only one star out of four. Dennis Prince of DVD Verdict said, "Dracula A.D. 1972 is definitely one of the weakest installments in Hammer's horror catalog and will likely only have strong appeal to Dracula completists." Eccentric Cinema wrote, "One can have a fun time with this movie—mostly because of its faults. It's cheese all right, professionally made cheese that's much better acted and staged than it really has any right to be." The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review called the film "a major disappointment" and "the low-point of the whole Hammer Dracula series" despite "minor positive aspects". George R. Reis of DVD Drive-In wrote, "Considered a low point in Hammer’s roster, Dracula A.D. 1972 is hardly that. ... [T]he film has a number of things going for it. ... Cushing’s exceptional Van Helsing pretty much carries the film. ... Christopher Neame is charismatically evil as Johnny Alucard [and] his stirring fight scene with Van Helsing is a highlight. ... How can Hammer fans not like this stuff?" The film, despite its generally mixed reception, has some prominent admirers and supporters. American film director Tim Burton did at one point claim it to be among his favourite films, and English author, film critic and horror expert Kim Newman chose it as one of his top ten favourite vampire movies. The soundtrack was composed by former Manfred Mann member Mike Vickers, and is in a funky, 'blaxploitation' style that reflects the early 1970s setting of the film. It was not released commercially prior to a long-awaited CD release in 2009. The film also features two songs, "Alligator Man" and "You Better Come Through for Me" by the American band Stoneground, who were a late replacement for The Faces. The Black Mass segment uses the track "Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell" by the pioneering electronic group White Noise. The Black Mass scene with Christopher Neame's dialogue was also sampled by Orbital for "Satan Live" and "Tension". BSX Records (BSXCD 8855) Release date: 4 May 2009 Limited edition of 1500 copies "Warner Bros. Logo (Theme from Dracula)" – 0:09 "Prologue / Hyde Park 1872" – 4:28 "Main Theme: Dracula A.D. 1972" – 2:04 "Johnny Looks at Ring / Legend of Dracula" – 1:01 "Devil's Circle Music" – 3:52 "Baptism by Blood" – 5:18 "Dracula Rising / The Blood Ritual / Laura Screams" – 2:37 "Dracula Returns / Dracula Bites Laura" – 2:55 "Alucard = Dracula / Not the One! / Give Me the Power!" – 4:15 "Dumping the Body / Van Helsing Prepares / Jessica Walks Into the Trap" – 2:09 "Van Helsing Heads to the Club" – 1:35 "Van Helsing Confronts Johnny / Johnny's Ignoble Death Scene" – 3:56 "Johnny Be Really Dead! / Van Helsing at the Church / Van Helsing Confronts Dracula / Rest in Final Peace / Main Theme: Dracula A.D. 1972 (Reprise)" – 11:50 "You Better Come Through for Me" – 3:29 "Alligator Man" – 3:29 The film was released on DVD in the United Kingdom, United States and Germany by Warner Home Video in 2005. It was released as Dracula A.D. 1972 in the United Kingdom and United States and as Dracula jagt Mini-Mädchen in Germany. On 6 November 2007, the movie was released in a film pack along with Dracula, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, and Taste the Blood of Dracula. Dracula A.D. 1972 Wikipedia Dracula AD 1972 IMDbDracula AD 1972 Rotten TomatoesDracula AD 1972 Roger EbertDracula AD 1972 themoviedb.org	cc/2019-30/en_head_0025.json.gz/line568

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