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The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued a final rule that not only requires companies to report to the federal government major incidents stemming from operations on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), but to report the near-misses.
Current regulations require producers, operators, pipelines and other companies to report all major incidents — explosions, fires, blowouts, hydrocarbon leaks and deaths — to MMS, but the new final rule “broadens the scope of serious accidents and serious injuries to include those incidents that had the potential to be serious,” the agency said in the final rule, which was published in the Federal Register Monday.
“MMS is requiring reporting down to this level to learn more about the causes of all incidents. MMS considers these less serious incidents to be the ‘near misses’ that could have resulted in more serious consequences,” it said.
Under the final rule, the agency has expanded its list of reportable incidents to include the following serious accidents or accidents that had the potential to be serious:
“Our intent in requiring the reporting of all of these incidents is to catch the ‘near misses’ that do not result in fatalities, injuries, fires, explosions or blowouts, but that could have resulted in serious outcomes,” the MMS said. “We estimated that there could be an increase of up to 351 reports per year due to the new requirement to report the [near-miss] incidents.”
In a concession to the offshore industry, the MMS noted that it “scaled back most of the requirements contained in the proposed rule that the commenters asserted for overly burdensome.” For example, industry members objected to the multiple time frames for verbal and written reporting of incidents as being too complicated. “We agree with these comments, and have revised the rule to require immediate reporting of certain incidents via oral communications, with a written follow-up within 15 calendar days. In addition, the rule requires written reporting of certain less-severe incidents within 15 calendar days.”
The MMS said it also dropped the requirement that written reports be submitted electronically. “The final rule does not specify or mention any method. You may submit written reports in whatever manner (mail, courier, personal delivery, fax or e-mail) you choose.”
The Interior agency further agreed with industry members who said the personnel injury categories in the proposed rule were not realistic for reporting purposes. “[We] have simplified the categories. This rule requires the immediate reporting of all injuries that require the evacuation of the injured person(s) from the facility to shore or to another offshore facility. A written follow-up report within 15 calendar days is required for any injury that results in days away from work, restricted work or job transfer,” it said.
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But if he trended to the south he might reach Spain and the Barbary States
. To his north would be Flanders and the country of the Eastlanders and of the Muscovites."
1801: The American Navy schooner USS Enterprise captured a Tripolitan polacca at the start of the First Barbary War, fought by the US and Sweden against four North African states known as the Barbary States
Decatur was famous for his daredevil acts of valour, especially for the burning of the frigate USS Philadelphia, which was in the hands of pirates from the Barbary States
. Having captured the ship with just a handful of men, Decatur set the ship on fire and came back victorious without losing a single man in his army.
Both state and state-sponsored actors working under the deys, beys and bashaws of the Barbary States
were active in slave raiding and seizing trade vessels.
The four Barbary states
demanded payment for the right to enter the Mediterranean.
President George Washington asked for the ships in 1794 to force the Barbary States
of North Africa to stop capturing American merchantmen and enslaving their crews.
President Thomas Jefferson observed more than 200 years ago, when American merchant ships were being attacked by pirates from the 'Barbary States
' and their crews held to ransom, "The surest way to create peace at sea," was to "impose rule of law on the land where pirates hid."
No nation dares to attack us or our allies because they know that's the path to ruin." It may be hard to believe that two centuries ago, the US did not have a credible navy or army, and the country was so weak that it could not protect its merchant ships carrying goods to Europe from ragtag pirate ships operating from the Barbary states
of North Africa - Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli.
Navy states a mission for "deterring, disrupting and suppressing piracy." Whether by the Barbary states
, Somali pirates or the Israeli Navy, seizing a ship in international waters and abducting its crew and passengers is an act of piracy flagrantly violating international maritime law.
While the Caribbean proved fertile ground for piracy and privateering, the rampant extortion of commerce by pirates in the Mediterranean, operated by the independent Barbary States
of Morocco, Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis, was what first spurred the new United States to action.
I have heard excuses for terrorist behavior ranging from, "If they weren't so economically downtrodden then they wouldn't attack anyone'' to, "If the United States were nicer, then they would be nicer in return.'' This is incorrect because the Barbary States
used the Quran to justify the enslaving/killing of American ship workers when we had no quarrel with them in the past.

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Pride celebration to be held this month
Bermuda Pride is to throw a beach party to celebrate the island’s LGBT people and supporters.
The organisers of the group said: “The founding principles of Pride are community and togetherness.
“Whilst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has meant that we have had to plan much smaller celebrations this year, embracing our founding principles during these difficult times is more important than ever.
“We hope the beach day event will be a safe and happy celebration for our LGBTQI+ community and allies.”
The event is scheduled for August 28 at Cooper’s Island in Castle Harbour from 2pm to 8pm.
A large group exemption for the party was approved by the Government.
Partygoers will have to have an in-date SafeKey to attend and masks will be required where a distance of six feet from other people cannot be maintained.
There will be hot dogs and burgers available from 5pm to 7pm, but people were encouraged to take their own food and drinks.
The organisers also backed the use of the WeHealth app, available free from the Apple App store and Google Play store, for contract tracing.
The special event was set up almost two years on from the island’s first Pride parade on August 31, 2019.
Anyone who wants to attend the party should RSVP to https://bermudapride.net before August 26.

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GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. – Several Glynn County Police Department employees have been disciplined in connection to a body cavity search for drugs on a shoplifting suspect in February. The Glynn County public safety director said they did not follow protocol.
The District Attorney’s Office found the officers involved did not act criminally. However, an internal review found they broke police department policy, and they were reprimanded.
After being pulled over on Interstate 95, a shoplifting suspect told law enforcement she was carrying a 14 grams of methamphetamine “inside her person,” police said.
According to a spokesperson for Glynn County Police, drug paraphernalia was found on the suspect. Police said the suspect showed signs of “stress” and “duress,” and officers on the scene decided to immediately try to remove the drugs she claimed she had concealed through a body cavity search because they were concerned for her health.
Police reports say it appears the suspect vomited and said the drugs were burning her.
An internal investigative report shows a female officer performed two body cavity searches in an attempt to remove meth from the woman’s genital area, but they didn’t find any drugs. According to police records, the search was conducted while the suspect was wearing shorts and not in view of the public. Police records say the woman was then sent to the hospital before being booked into jail.
The police department’s policy said body cavity searches should only be conducted by a doctor with the written permission of the watch commander when a search warrant has been issued and that only people of the same sex are to be present during the search.
Police were initially called to a report of shoplifting from an Academy Sports store in Brunswick. According to the Glynn County Police Department, the woman who was searched was in the passenger seat of one of two cars driving off with stolen merchandise.
A spokesperson with the GBI said Glynn County Interim Police Chief O’Neal Jackson contacted them about the incident, but the GBI responded that they don’t conduct internal investigations for other law enforcement agencies unless there’s something criminal involved.
Records Jackson and another officer received a written reprimand while the female officer, who conducted the search at the direction of the other officer under the supervision of Jackson, received a verbal reprimand.
News4JAX Crime and Safety Analyst Lakesha Burton said while it appears the police department took quick action to follow up on this important matter, they could still be at risk of a civil lawsuit.

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The Emotional Chaos that is currently happening - 18 May 2017
The world is really turned on its head right now…. chaos is erupting everywhere and things that have been stuck for years are finally starting to move.
At the core of our digging, basically we’ve found that some (maybe many?) of us were stuck in alternate realities.
So we’ve been doing all the work and seeing growth and information results, but not seeing the results trickle through into our lives. Basically everything was blocked from entering reality. You probably felt it in your heart chakra - and that’s what’s been causing all the emotional outbursts and release the last few days.
Heart chakra is the bridge between physical (base, sacral and solar plexus) and spirit (throat, brow and crown). So for those of us who suddenly started with gastrointestinal stuff like vomitting and heartburn the past ten years, this is the big underlying cause.
Even though we’ve only been trapped for four years, the glitch that caused this alternate reality and trap actually happened about 10 years ago, and those of us who are more sensitive would have started feeling shockwaves then. If you’re having heartburn and tummy related stuff now, it’s definitely this shift.
Where the healing did manage to escape out into reality, it often brought results for people around us, improving their lives and relationships in the ways we had working on for ourselves. That made the contrast of being stuck feel even heavier.
Then we did what we always do… we tried to heal it.
But we’re working in a world of energy, so every time we tried to heal it, we were basically reinforcing the split, reinforcing our alternate reality and making ourselves more stuck. If you’ve got the goosebumps and energy movement… this this is what’s been happening to YOU as well.
Be honest now…. how many times did you think that the healing work was making everything worse over the past few years? How many times did you suspect someone was lying to you? How often have you had the feeling of it should be moving already? That heavy impending doom like something big is about to explode through?
How much worse was the isolation, loneliness, abandonment and feeling of being stuck? It was worse - you were trapped alone or with one or two others in a different reality altogether. If you had those thoughts a few times, then you were likely one of the ones stuck with us.
I’ve started a series of events with certain people to realign the fields - basically carry over every bit of healing that was applied in the alternate realities into our current reality.
So first off, this our first conscious unity healing of the morphic field. We’re aligning the timelines ourselves and changing the realities. So stop, and take a moment, and just help the process in the field in your area. The statement: we call forward all healing applied in fantasy to apply now in reality. We are separated geographically so that we each balance the field in our area.
This is four years of healing that has been stuck… of course it’s gonna feel like a roller coaster. I mean you know how hectic one single issue shift can be.
Effectively what we’re doing is undoing and redoing time. Four years of time in one fell swoop.
So we’re rolling back the results that shouldn’t have been, first as I leveled the playing field by sending the lie that had trapped me back to its source. So step one - if you need to reveal a secret that has been weighing heavily on you, do that. Break privacy. Ensure you’re doing it for the right intention though - this is for healing and revelation, not your personal gain.
So here all the people that got the results that they shouldn’t have will first be restored to where they should be. Ways you’ll see this are sudden falls from grace - a happy marriage that suddenly collapses into divorce, or someone wealthy that suddenly loses a business or job, perhaps even deaths and terminal illnesses making sudden appearances.
Once this has cycled out, which I’m starting to see might be in about 20 hours from now (currently 2PM SA time on 18 May 2017), at around 10AM tomorrow morning, we move onto time being redone the way it was meant to play out. The timing comes from how they delayed my session time until tomorrow morning.
At that point tomorrow morning we are forcibly realigning the healing work that was done over the past few years into our current reality. So in about 24 hours the roller coaster could get very wild because we’re all already connected.
This is going to be four years of emotional release to hit us in one go - and I have no idea what to expect. I never would have consciously built up a bank of energy like this. It seems quite dangerous to me to be honest, but it needs to explode now before it does without our knowledge. It feels a bit like a ticking time bomb…. so that constant pressure of something is about to explode badly will also probably release in the next few days.
But…. here’s the big but… it will have repercussions in your life when we do release it, probably. Actual events that explode and play out. So be prepared to deal with some real life 'reality' chaos.
They’re releasing this on a Friday morning - so I’m thinking we might need at least the weekend to recover from it all.
You know the drills - loads of water, rest, listen to your body and cravings. Let the emotions flow, both good and bad - just don’t act on them yet, unless you feel compelled or can’t move forward without action.
Normal physical symptoms are sweating, burping, throwing up, passing gas, frequent urination, a working tummy or a runny tummy, nausea, vomitting, headaches, pain, heartburn, and so much more. Including heart palpitations and even fainting spells. The more your resist the worse the physical symptoms of ‘illness’ will appear.
DON’T GO TO THE DOCTOR!!!!
Don’t get medicine - this will pass. It’s just your system letting go of the stuff.
Symptoms and integration last three weeks on average, so expect lack of sleep and crazy dreams as well over the next three weeks.
Also remember we did A LOT of healing over the past four years - so you will go from one extreme to another in terms of emotions, realizations and thoughts.
So as always, rule one is: WAIT BEFORE YOU ACT!!!
If we’ve done this all correctly we really should start seeing real forward movement now. If you can get to a healer this weekend please do. If your modality requires you to use a person as a proxy to help with the field’s realignment to reality, then you are welcome to use me. So much moving through me anyway, I can handle the load right now. Whirlwinds don’t get any busier than being crazy LOL :)
I just ask that if you do proxy me for the realignment, that you do the prayer to dedicate relationships to holiness first:
Prayer for dedicating relationships to holiness: http://lifecoachestoolbox.com/index.php/dedicating-relationships-to-holiness
I desire a holy relationship for myself so that I may share it with my brother whom I love. It is not possible for me to have a Holy Instant without my brother, or for him to have one without me - yet it is wholly possible for us to share one now.
And so I choose this instant as the one to offer the Holy Spirit, that His blessing may descend on us both, and keep us in peace.
Holy Spirit, take this relationship and dedicate it to Holiness so that my brother and I may walk in the love of God, complete once again.
Also please ground after you proxy me, and please consciously pull back all cords from yourself. I don’t want to have to spend weeks clearing cords and attachments. I open this only for healing directly related to realigning our alternate realities to the morphic field of reality so that all unrealized healing can apply.
Thank you for being here and understanding what we do. Even when you don’t LOL :)
The Heart of the Mother will return. We will have Heaven on Earth. The Goddess is become.
Love & light always
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Xoxoday | Webinar on working one's own physical and mental health
When it comes to the daily grind of professional life, one often forgets that the mental toll that a job takes on one’s health affects more than any physical workout in the world. A fit team would walk into the workplace as a healthy group of employees and it would ultimately impact their productivity in a positive manner.
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Impact Advisors to Participate in National Health IT Week
Firm celebrates healthcare IT through awareness activities
Chicago, IL (September 27, 2017) – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is partnering with hundreds of organizations across the country to celebrate National Health IT (NHIT) Week from October 2nd – 6th. The firm will be promoting the important role that health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America by participating in several awareness activities throughout the week. “As a firm, we are excited to celebrate NHIT Week and share the many reasons why we are so passionate about the industry we serve every day,” said Pete Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “Health information technology is about improving relationships and improving lives.”
Initiated in 2006 by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), NHIT Week has emerged as a landmark occasion for celebrating and promoting health IT as part of the overall solution to improve America’s healthcare as a bipartisan, federally led, market driven initiative.
NHIT Week includes participants from all fields of healthcare, such as: vendors, provider organizations, payers, pharmaceutical/biotech companies, government agencies, industry/professional associations, research foundations, and consumer protection groups. The week brings these organizations and individuals together, at events across the country, to elevate national attention to the benefits of advancing health IT. For more information, visit www.healthitweek.org.
Impact Advisors will be participating in NHIT Week by promoting and celebrating the virtual events internally. In addition, the firm will be promoting the week on its social media sites and website.
Media Contact: RoseAnn Haedt, Chartwell Agency, email@example.com.


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COLLEGE PARK - Like a ghost of Christmas past, the memory of Maryland's loss to American had gnawed at the Terps for the better part of a year. It was a confidence-rattling specter that wouldn't go away.
Until perhaps now.
By beating American, 67-51, last night - exactly one year since last season's disaster, and on the same court - the Terrapins might finally have expelled their nightmare before Christmas.
Last season, the somnolent Terps went nearly 11 minutes in the first half without a field goal. Last night - as if not wanting to leave any doubt - Maryland stormed to an 11-0 lead. More than six minutes had elapsed by the time Jordan Nichols converted a layup for American's first score.
The Terps avoided another upset by raising their defensive pressure relative to last year's game and coming out higher and more aggressively on American's diminutive but dangerous senior guard duo of Derrick Mercer and Garrison Carr.
Maryland coach Gary Williams said the key was his team's second-half pressure. Aided by defense, the Terps went on a 19-5 run in the second half to take a 65-42 lead.
"They beat us last year. It was the same exact situation, and they were a year older," Williams said. "You try to win a game any way you can."
He said last night's strategy - and it seemed to work - was to wear the Eagles down with the press.
Carr had four of American's 15 turnovers. The Terps scored 23 points off turnovers, compared with American's eight.
Carr (11 points) and Mercer (12 points) still did their damage in spots. But, this time, the Terps always seemed to have an answer. Unlike last season, Maryland generally played like a team that knew it could lose if it didn't play with urgency.
Forward Landon Milbourne, who had been stunned to hear boos as he walked off the court after last season's game, scored 14 points, had five rebounds and appeared far more poised than last season, his first as a starter. In last year's game, Milbourne scored four points and missed seven of eight from the field.
Maryland's other forward, Dave Neal, also scored 14. Neal had two points in last season's game, his first since suffering a shoulder injury five weeks earlier.
Maryland was led early on by Neal. The Terps repeatedly freed Neal by kicking the ball inside and then passing back out to him at the three-point line. Neal's 12 first-half points included a pair of three-pointers.
"Greivis [Vasquez], being the star player, he's going to penetrate and the defense is going to collapse on him," Neal said. "I'm capable of hitting the open shot. Greivis said, 'Keep shooting.' "
Maryland took a 35-27 halftime lead, then pulled away.
The Terps didn't ease the pressure until they had taken their biggest lead of the game, 65-42, on Vasquez's layup. The basket followed Sean Mosley's block of a shot by Mercer - a play that elicited one of the loudest cheers of the night from a crowd eager for vengeance.
"We had taken over the game before that [block], but it got the crowd into it," Mosley said.
PLAY IT AGAIN
Keys to the game
Maryland's defensive pressure and its press rattled American - particularly in the second half. The Terps got 23 points off turnovers.
Did you notice that ...
* Maryland set Comcast Center records by holding American to three free-throw attempts and zero conversions. High Point (Nov. 24, 2006) had the previous low with six free throws and two conversions.
* Freshman Sean Mosley scored one point but made a hustling block and won the praise of coach Gary Williams, who called him a "team player."
Left to ponder
Interesting that the Terps, minus the graduated Bambale Osby and James Gist, came up so much better than last year against essentially the same American team.
BRYANT (1-9) @MARYLAND (8-2)
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The Best Stylish Dish Racks – 2022
After hours of researching and comparing all models on the market, we find out the Best Stylish Dish Racks of 2022. Check our ranking below.
Our Picks For The Top Stylish Dish Racks
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Fifteen people — including patient attendants, kitchen staff, maintenance workers and cleaners — have packed their bags and said goodbye to partners, parents and children to move into the Manoir Stanstead seniors' home where they work.
Also taking up residence is a bulldog-Shih Tzu mix named Snow White.
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The Third Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur during September 2016.
The Dialogue meeting was hosted by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia.
The Dialogue is going from strength to strength, proving its value as a neutral place to discuss policy and operational options for States and others who are grappling with complex forced migration issues in the region.
After successfully engaging and influencing the Bali Process earlier in 2016, we intended to follow up with a solid policy agenda and outreach to a broader set of stakeholders in the second year of the Dialogue. We achieved much of this in our Kuala Lumpur meeting.
We once again had an excellent group of individuals participating. We were honoured to have Khun Kasit Piromya, former Foreign Minister of Thailand, participate in the meeting and address us at our Dialogue Dinner. He reminded us of the need to maintain a focus on our common humanity as well as striving for the political and institutional leadership needed to address forced migration in the region.
New Dialogue members included Hasan Kleib (Director General of Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Indonesia), Chowdhury Abrar (Director of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Patcharamon Siriwatana (Department of International Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand), Elina Noor (Director of Foreign Policy and Security Studies, ISIS Malaysia).
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The Dialogue continued its focus on better long-term preparedness for mass displacement in the region, including the national capacities, policies, standards and regional structures needed to respond better to all forms of forced migration now, and into the future.
Dialogue members explored the security considerations of forced migration, recognising that law and order and community safety issues are legitimate priorities and responsibilities of governments in the region. Although the links between these concerns and forced migration can be misperceived, Dialogue members noted that there is a particular security threat in not knowing who is in one’s territory. Members agreed to communicate to regional stakeholders that responding to the challenge of identification and registration of forced migrants in a predictable and coordinated way is a necessary condition to facilitating more secure and prosperous outcomes for governments, communities and individuals.
The private sector are increasingly aware of the commercial and geostrategic risks associated with mass displacement crises. Business can and do play an influential role in addressing forced migration through investing in humanitarian support for fragile environments, counteracting trafficking and exploitation in recruitment and supply chains, and working with government to expand labour migration pathways for forced migrants. We agreed to the inclusion of business representatives in future Dialogue meetings and to engage the private sector strategically to build a business case for more concerted action on forced migration.
Dialogue members plotted the key points we will make in our submission to the Bali Process Andaman Sea Crisis Review. This will include detailed consideration of how the Bali Process might operationalise the commitments made in the Bali Declaration to respond effectively to future mass displacement in the region. Of particular focus will be how the new consultation mechanism can be developed to broker early understanding of situations of potential, and actual, displacement, and generate co-ordinated and effective responses. This may include leveraging core contact groups in affected countries and developing an early warning system to prevent and manage displacement.
We considered how ASEAN can take a more constructive role in the interest of its member states, including by expanding its disaster management activities to include mass displacement, and will write directly to ASEAN and encourage it to take a coordinated approach to the governance of forced migration issues in the region. The ASEAN Secretariat will be invited to participate in our next meeting.
The fourth Dialogue meeting will be held in Indonesia in March 2017 and will focus on human trafficking. The fifth meeting will be held in the second half of 2017.
As the world negotiates the Global Compacts on Refugees and Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration will continue to advance an effective, dignified and durable approach to forced migration in our region.
The third ADFM meeting was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 4-6 September. This followed meetings in Melbourne in August 2015 and Bangkok in January 2016. The ADFM’s first set of recommendations were adopted in March by the Ministerial Conference of the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime.
Travers McLeod, CEO of the Centre for Policy Development, one of the ADFM’s conveners, said the Asia-Pacific region was poised to play a leading global role.
“The Summits have generated important new pledges, but their lasting contribution is to kick-start two years of negotiations for separate Global Compacts on Refugees and Migrants. Concerted progress in the Asia-Pacific region on trafficking, disaster preparedness and the new Bali Process consultation mechanism on mass displacement are a catalyst for greater global ambition.”
“Our region could be on the cusp of a collective, regional approach if we sharpen the focus on preventing crises like that in the Andaman Sea in 2015 from happening again, and if all countries step up to the plate. This will only occur when domestic and regional approaches are in sync.”
“Asia has seen large forced migration flows in the past but the last year has witnessed a respite”, said Sriprapha Petcharamesree, from Mahidol University’s Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies. “This presents policymakers with the space to deal more effectively with human trafficking, asylum seeker protection and refugee status determination, and improve regional cooperation.”
Steven Wong, Deputy CEO of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, which hosted the third ADFM meeting, reinforced this view.
“The Bali Process Review of responses to the Andaman Sea crisis is underway and will consider how national, regional and subregional contingency preparedness can be improved.”
“The ADFM made important progress in Kuala Lumpur in the examination of national security concerns arising from forced migration flows and the need for better regional information cooperation and national identification and registration systems. It also considered how ASEAN can take a more constructive role in the interest of its member states and how the private sector could be strategically engaged. Our next meeting in Indonesia in March 2017 will focus on human trafficking networks.”
“New York is where the global talks have been, but this region may be where the action is. Countries must shy away from short-term, unilateral responses on forced migration and prioritise building a system with staying power that allows countries and people to flourish.”
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By: Chuck Colson|Published: February 16, 2016 6:20 AM
Topics: Christian Living, Culture/Institutions, Politics & Government
Is California quietly developing state-level citizenship?
By Gigi Cook
There are 11.3 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States today. The national debate on immigration rages, but while everyone is talking about immigration, one state, California, is quietly moving past the conversation and forward with its own program for local integration.
“The California Package” a term used in referring to a dozen or more laws passed since 2001, collectively re-designs the state’s relationship with the undocumented population. It is being touted by some as laying the ground work for state-level citizenship.
According to a policy brief published by the University of California-Riverside, California’s unique set of laws provide a “never before seen level of opportunity and freedom of movement to unauthorized immigrants.” Public Policy Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan says the package is more progressive than the immigration reform President Obama is currently advocating.
Most recently, California’s legislature passed a bill removing the word “alien” from the state’s labor laws, complementing the expansion of healthcare access to all undocumented children. Many of the children impacted are protected from deportation under the White House’s 2012 “DREAMers” deferred action program.
California is also setting aside funds to insure the undocumented. The bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed provides Medicaid coverage to roughly 170,000 children at a cost of $132 million per year. In a national first, Sen. Ricardo Lara is sponsoring a bill to expand that coverage to allow undocumented residents access to Obamacare insurance.
Gabrielle Lessard, a health policy attorney at the National Immigration Law Center says: “In the absence of federal action on comprehensive immigration reform, states and immigrant communities are just tired of waiting. It makes more sense for them as individuals, for the community as a whole and for the health care system.”
In other policy moves, the state has re-formed education qualifications for in-state tuition based on the number of years any person has spent in the K-12 system rather than their immigrant status. In 2014, the state passed a law requiring professional licensing boards to consider all applicants regardless of immigration status. Unauthorized immigrants are able to qualify for the California state bar, and by 2016 they’ll be eligible for 40 state professional licenses.
The federal government maintains a database called E-Verify that allows companies to easily check the authorization status of potential employees. California bans any municipality from instituting such a requirement.
Currently all California residents can obtain a driver’s license regardless of immigration status. While this is the law in 10 other states, in California more than half of new driver’s licenses are issued to unauthorized immigrants.
Another measure awaiting Gov. Brown’s approval, the California Agricultural Act establishes a work permit program allowing undocumented workers already living in the state to work lawfully in the agricultural industry. Opponents say the bill will in essence create a legal slave-labor class of residents.
While only Congress can change a resident’s immigration status, other states are also dramatically changing their laws. Connecticut has extended eligibility for in-state tuition and driver’s licenses to its undocumented population and has recently passed a similar law called “the Trust Act” limiting deportations. In 2014, President Obama attempted an executive action that would also expand deportation relief to almost half of the undocumented population; the action is on hold due to a lawsuit to stop the move.
Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), says California’s moves signal a weakening in the enforcement of immigration laws. “If you see a camel’s nose under the tent, it’s not too long before the whole camel will be in the tent or the tent will be on the ground,” he laments. According to FAIR, illegal immigration costs California taxpayers more than $25 billion annually.
As reported by The Christian Post, “some lawmakers, mostly conservative Republicans, are calling for federal legislation to cut off funding for states and sanctuary cities for refusing to cooperate with or inform Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.” Such legislation was blocked in the United States Senate, but passed the House.
Despite calls for immigration reform, supporters say the “California Package” is more than a personal promise, calling it is a set of laws designed to operate parallel to national citizenship. They boast that California is boldly moving away from the federal immigration quagmire into a state-designed integration program. Those wanting immigration reform want leadership from the federal government and for states to enforce those policies.
People of faith should pray that:
- America’s lawmakers will lead wisely
- Upcoming elections will usher prudent and faithful representatives into office
- God will bless America’s children and establish their future place in the world
Gigi Cook’s work has been featured in major radio markets, media publications and corporate leadership programs. She is a writer, speaker, and program facilitator with a Masters Degree in psychology. Residing in Salt Lake City, Gigi enjoys her family, her work, and restoring American Antiques.
Sarah Padbury | WORLD News Service | Monday, August 31, 2015
Denver Discriminates Against Chick-fil-A Over CEO’s Marriage Beliefs
Several Denver City Council members want to stop Chick-fil-A from opening at Denver International Airport (DIA), claiming the fast food chain CEO’s support of “biblical marriage” would hurt the city’s reputation.
Chick-fil-A, along with several other potential vendors, applied for a seven-year concession lease at DIA’s Concourse B food court to replace the exiting Steak Escape. DIA concession officials chose Chick-fil-A to fill the spot because travelers gave the chicken sandwich chain the second highest number of votes in a 2013 survey about potential eatery options. Chipotle ranked first but did not apply for the lease, The Denver Post reported.
Despite being closed on Sundays, DIA officials predict Chick-fil-A will make more money for the city than other concessions that are open seven days a week. After a 10-year absence from the airport, the returning restaurant is expected to generate $4.1 million in its first year—$616,278 in concession fees—according to The Denver Post. Chick-fil-A’s restaurant locator shows 30 franchises already operating in the metro-Denver area.
But when DIA officials presented the plan to the city council’s business development committee for approval on Aug. 18, several members publicly balked at the idea. They declared the religious beliefs of Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy, son of founder Truett Cathy, would be bad for the city’s reputation.
In 2012, Dan Cathy stated he believed in “the biblical definition of the family unit” in an interview with the Baptist Press. At that time, politicians in Boston and Chicago unsuccessfully threatened to deny Chick-fil-A operating permits due to Cathy’s comments.
Denver Councilman Paul Lopez told the committee the restaurant would bring “really, truly a moral issue on the city.”
“We can do better than this brand in Denver at our airport, in my estimation,” Councilman Jolon Clark said at the meeting, according to The Denver Post.
Councilwoman Robin Kniech, the council’s first openly gay member, told The Denver Post she worried about the franchise generating “corporate profits used to fund and fuel discrimination.”
The committee decided to put off a decision on the concession contract until Sept. 1 and seek legal advice on their options, according to the meeting minutes. Assistant City Attorney David Broadwell told the committee he was shocked by the discussion and had never seen a contract controversy like this “in all my years,” according to The Denver Post. Broadwell has worked as Denver’s Land Use and Revenue Supervisor since 1999.
After The Denver Post reported the committee’s discussion, Chick-fil-A found it had a surprising number of supporters. Usually left-leaning columnists pointed out the committee’s potential violation of the restaurant owner’s First Amendment rights.
“The government may impose all sorts of conduct requirements on concessionaires, including non-discrimination rules, but it may not penalize a potential concessionaire because of the political expressions or beliefs of its owners or managers,” wrote Jonathan Adler of The Washington Post. “Private individuals and private companies are free to take such concerns into account when deciding where to take their business. Governments may not.”
The Denver Post editorial board ran its own blunt editorial on Aug. 20: “Think this one through, Denver City Council. If you block Chick-fil-A from returning as a vendor at Denver International Airport, how far might you then go in imposing political litmus tests on corporations seeking to do business there—or elsewhere in the city? And what are the implications for free speech in America if such political vetoes by cities were to become the norm?”
After to the firestorm, some of the committee members tried to backtrack. During an appearance on NBC 9News, Kniech and Clark said they “have conversations like this about contracts all the time” and this “pause” was a “common process to make sure we know who we are doing business with.”
In a statement issued in response to the debate, Chick-fil-A noted both its corporate organization and its franchised restaurant owners are “equal opportunity employers, employing more than 75,000 individuals who represent many diverse viewpoints, opinions, backgrounds, and beliefs.”
Despite the ongoing narrative about Chick-fil-A being a discriminatory organization because of its Christian corporate culture, the facts don’t bear that out, Hans Bader, senior attorney at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Adler. Bader noted a search on Westlaw, an online legal research service, reveals Chick-fil-A has “basically no lawsuits against it for [sexual] discrimination. Or any kind of discrimination.” While other fast food chains like McDonald’s face lawsuits over everything from wage and hour conflicts to sexual harassment, Chick-fil-A franchise lawsuits are “rare,” he said.
“There is no evidence that Chick-fil-A discriminates against gay patrons, and it has restaurants in many cities than ban anti-gay discrimination,” Bader wrote. “Maybe it treats its employees very well.”
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Publication date: August 31, 2015
Associated Press – Thursday, August 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous family says the landmark Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage shows that laws prohibiting consensual adult relationships are outdated even if the unions are unpopular.
Kody Brown and his four wives argue in court documents filed Wednesday that their family life chronicled on the reality TV show “Sister Wives” shows that polygamous marriages can be as healthy as monogamous ones.
The Browns are defending a legal victory they won when a federal judge struck down key parts of Utah’s law banning polygamy, removing the threat of arrest for plural families.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is appealing. The state contends the law prevents abuse of women and children and courts have long upheld anti-polygamy laws.
Unlike the same-sex marriage case, the Browns aren’t seeking full legal recognition of polygamous marriages.
DES MOINES, Iowa (August 24, 2015)- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says defending religious liberty is a top issue in his Republican presidential campaign.
Monday, August 24, 2015
A pro-immigration enforcement organization is praising one GOP presidential candidate for his stance on the issue.
Last week Rick Santorum released his immigration plan, which suggests ending automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.
Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, says Santorum is presenting proposals that benefit U.S. citizens hurt by out-of-control illegal immigration.
“If you look back over the last few years about so-called immigration reform,” says Mehlman, “there has been nothing about the public interest or the national interest. It’s been all about, What do we do for the people who’ve broken our laws? What do we do about cheap labor interests that want to hire more workers in this country?”
Thanks to Santorum discussing the issue, says Mehlman, the presidential campaign is finally talking about how to protect the interests of Americans.
Santorum, the former Pennsylvania U.S. senator, has already enjoyed high marks by immigration organization Numbers USA. He has consistently earned an “A” on its Worker-Protection Immigration Card Grades.
The GOP candidate, meanwhile, is struggling in the current primary, polling at one percent and sitting in 12th place among 15 candidates.
“We ought to select people based on their individual merit,” Mehlman argues, “what they’re likely to contribute once they come to the United States, and that seems to be what Santorum is suggesting.”
The immigration analyst says Santorum, along with Donald Trump and Scott Walker, are all saying that our country’s immigration policies should serve the best interests of the American people.
An Iranian American pastor who has been imprisoned in Iran was recently subjected to a raid by guards on his prison cell.


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The Nokia X is all set to be unveiled today. Hours before the same, it has leaked in all its glory. The pictures are courtesy of a store in China getting ready for the unveiling today.
Nokia’s first phone with a notch
Let’s take a look at what’s in store. The Nokia X has a full screen display with a notch which houses the earpiece, front camera and other sensors on the top with the Nokia logo sitting on the chin. On the back sits a vertically aligned dual camera setup coupled with an LED flash. Right below the cameras sits the fingerprint scanner. The back seems to be made of glass with plastic running around the corners. The 3.5mm headphone jack sits on the top left corner of the frame.
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If recent reports are to be believed, the Nokia X will be a mid ranger powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 chipset coupled with 6GB RAM, or the Helio P60 chipset coupled with 4GB RAM depending upon the market. Apart from this, the X is speculated to sport a similar dual camera configuration as the Nokia 7 Plus. Apart from this, there’s not a lot known about the upcoming smartphone. It was about a week ago that we first heard about the smartphone. Looks like Nokia wanted to keep this under the wraps as much as possible.


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Dr. Vijan's Plush clinic is equipped with latest technology and equipment and is staffed with dentists and doctors whose prime focus is giving the best service to people and designing perfect smiles for each one. All dental procedures are conducted under one roof, with a team of 10 doctors dedicated to the studio, procedures include Tooth colored restorations (Fillings), Crown & Bridge, Whitening, Laminates & Veneers for Teeth, Implant Placements, Dentures(Fixed & removable), Periodontal surgeries & Sinus lift procedures. Oral prophylaxis for adults as well as all dental procedures for children of all ages (Pediatric Dentistry)are conducted here. Single sitting Root Canal Procedures, Tooth Extractions (Surgical, Non-surgical, Wisdom), Orthodontics (Buccal, Lingual, Invisalign) are carried out under special care and attention. The clinic also provides cosmetic procedures like Botox and Fillers.
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Remember how, in 2001, when he was first running for mayor, Michael Bloomberg vowed to require all public school students to wear uniforms, to bring in private companies to take over long-failing schools, and to re-evaluate tenured teachers every two years?
These are among the fun facts included in a self-evaluation Bloomberg released today, running through all the promises he made in his 2001 and 2005 campaigns, and reporting that he’s followed through with most of them (97% in 2005, the report says).
The list of education promises Bloomberg terms stick-a-fork-in-it “Done” (as opposed to those he “reconsidered”) includes many that did obviously happen, but it also includes claims that could inspire challenge. Four promises that caught my eye:
- Improve access to selective schools for students in under-served communities. (2005 campaign promise) The mayor’s report notes that the city now offers summer workshops for parents to encourage them to consider having their children take the entrance exam for selective high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science. The city has also offered summer test-prep institutes for low-income students. Still, The New York Times reported last year that proportionately fewer racial minorities were taking the admissions exam, and a lower percentage were passing. There was little change when the paper reexamined the figures this year. Gifted and talented programs for primary school students, meanwhile, have also gotten less racially diverse under Bloomberg’s watch, The Times reported.
- Give teachers more control over how they teach. (2001 promise) The report explains that this “done” stems from the new availability of “a series of tools for teachers that highlight students needs and provides teachers the information to focus on helping students master their subjects.” I assume that refers to projects like ARIS, the data warehouse, and the periodic assessments known as Acuity, meant to give teachers an ongoing portrait of what students do and don’t know throughout the school year. While some teachers embrace these tools, others say the tools limit the way they teach, forcing them to focus too much time on test preparation.
- Assemble City-owned land for private development to build large-scale housing developments, schools and hospitals. (2001 promise) I reached out to the mayor’s office for explanation on what school projects have happened and haven’t heard back yet. Even assuming that several projects did occur, advocates for easing overcrowding by building new schools have nothing but criticism for the Bloomberg administration, which lowered investments in building new schools in its latest capital plan. New York Magazine recently chronicled the city’s failure to stay ahead of population growth in Manhattan.
- Do not allow any students to graduate until they master the ability to read, write, use arithmetic and develop interpersonal skills. (2001) Bloomberg’s report cites the policy banning promotion to the third, fifth, seventh, and eighth grade if a student hasn’t passed certain standardized tests, plus Saturday school for struggling students, the middle school plan, and beefed up investments in vocational — now called “career and technical” — schools. Still, many students who graduate from city high schools and go onto college end up struggling. The Daily News reported last fall that about two-thirds of city grads who go on to CUNY need to take at least one remedial course. Chancellor Joel Klein has said the rate is falling, though he has not disclosed what the rate is. CUNY is now partnering with the Department of Education to study ways to make the transition to college smoother. There also questions about the way high schools assign diplomas, especially through a process known as “credit-recovery,” which Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch is in the process of re-examining.
The full list is available here, and I’ve compiled all education promises below the jump (divided up by the ones Bloomberg “reconsidered,” like the uniform idea, and the ones he calls complete).
Here are the education promises Bloomberg made and deemed either “Done” or “Done*” (meaning nearly done):
- Expand small school initiative and open more than 100 small schools.
- Create at least 15 new transfer schools small, academically-rigorous high schools for students who are over-age, under-credited and were not succeeding in their original high school.
- Create at least five Young Adult Borough Centers (YABCs), evening programs that combine academic coursework, counseling, and post-secondary education and career development.
- Create new types of GED programs in at least ten locations that offer GED preparation and testing directly linked to Learning-to-Work vocational preparation and eventually with community colleges and career and technical programs, such as those for dental or computer technicians.
- Improve access to selective schools for students in under-served communities.
- Expand the ParentCorps program.
- Integrate and coordinate early child care and education system to foster the healthy development of all children, especially those children who are low-income and disadvantaged.
- Eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools that can be created and double the number of charter schools opening in New York City from 50 to at least 100 by 2009.
- Open at least seven new academically selective secondary schools across the city by 2009 to expand these options for academically gifted students and to provide greater access to students in communities traditionally under-represented in these schools.
- Assemble City-owned land for private development to build large-scale housing developments, schools and hospitals. (2001 promise)
- Do not allow any students to graduate until they master the ability to read, write, use arithmetic and develop interpersonal skills. (2001)
- Ease the process of student enrollment for out of district schools. (2001)
- Give teachers more control over how they teach. (2001)
- Have school-based merit pay determined by performance. (2001)
- Pursue all routes to recruit teachers, including loan forgiveness and housing allowances. (2001)
- Increase the number of certified teachers by making it easier for certified teachers in other states to transfer their certification to New York. (2001)
- Lobby the State to pass the “Dignity for All Students Act.” (2001)
- Streamline the process for firing bad teachers. Do not warehouse them in District Offices for years. (2001)
- Use peer review to decide qualifications. (2001)
Education promises listed as “launched”:
- Create affordable quality daycare and pre-K for City employees.
- Develop and implement performance standards for center-based care to ensure quality across the system.
- Work with the State Legislature to pass legislation giving the Mayor the independent authority to create charter schools in New York City.
- Extend childcare day to 6pm. Offer quality wrap around programs for children between the ages of birth-6 years old until 6pm.
- Improve transition from child care and pre-K to elementary school.
- Develop performance standards and implement a system using the nyc.gov and the 311 information line to share Pre-K childcare center performance information with parents.
Programs listed as “reconsidered (all introduced in 2001):
- Immerse students who do not speak English in the language.
- In the absence of improvement in schools that languish on the Schools Under Registration Review list, make privatization an option.
- Introduce a customer service mentality into the education system. Require teachers, principals and other school professionals to visit the home of every student at least once a year, and call every term.
- Provide loan guarantees to have the private sector borrow, build and lease to the City all schools and offices.
- Require all students to wear uniforms.
- Require teachers to report to principals when there has been no contact with parents or guardians.
- Utilize summer school and year-round school to reduce overcrowding and offer students more opportunities to improve their academic standing.
- Institute a parents’ voice mail system to provide grades, attendance, homework assignments, and special messages for their child from the teacher. (reconsidered 2009)
- Pay teachers more for working in shortage areas. (reconsidered 2009)
- Recognize and reward success by establishing charter districts that would have freedom from bureaucratic meddling. Eligible districts would have the authority to purchase services, with savings going to that district. (reconsidered 2009)
- Reevaluate and re-qualify teachers every second year. (reconsidered 2009)
- Support restoring the categories of sexual orientation, religion, disability and gender to the Dept. of Education’s multicultural curriculum. (reconsidered 2009, not done 2005)


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