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Welcome! This is a Non-Political and a Non-Profit site (to include its authors and contributors) and does not subscribe to any revisionist organizations. This site is only to explore the combat role and history of the European Waffen-SS in World War II. Enlistment rolls show that a total of 950,000 men (German and foreigners) served in its ranks between 1940 and 1945. This blog contains a collection of real events and information on these volunteers for historical research and documentation.
La bataille de Normandie, Die Schlacht um die Normandie, the Battle of Normandy (French: Normandie, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normand, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages)
Battle of Normandy
Both sides frequently failed to observe the Geneva Convention during the Normandy Invasion. It is not as if Allied war crimes are not known - it is just that it tends not to get talked about. The worst of these were the bombing raids on medical stations and ambulance convoys, many of which contained Allied servicemen being treated by Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross). Historian Peter Lieb has found that many U.S. and Canadian units were ordered not to take prisoners during the D-Day landings. If this view is correct it may explain the fate of 64 German prisoners who did not make it to the POW collecting point on Omaha Beach on June 6 1944. An example is the U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor who instructed the men of 101st Airborne Division to take no prisoners according to American historian and ProfessorStephen Edward Ambrose. Some 30 German prisoners were in fact massacred by U.S. paratroopers at the French village of Audouville-la-Hubert. A documentary made by CBC News confirmed British eyewitness (Edward Ashworth) accounts of Canadian troops cutting the throats of German prisoners and that Canadian tanks run over German soldiers with their arms in the air during the Battle of Normandy. The rumor spread through the entire 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend that the Allies were killing fellow soldiers trying to surrender. In the days and weeks that followed, Canadian soldiers were executed following their capture by men of 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend. The SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 25 was responsible for the killing of seven Canadian prisoners at it´s Headquarters at L’Ancienne Abbaye Ardenne. Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke was implicated in the killing of another 35 Canadian prisoners, all of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, at Fontenay-le-Pesnel on June 8 1944, though he never faced a trial for any conclusion as to any query of involvement. Canadian war crimes investigators were never able to establish with certainty the units involved, much less the individuals. After World War II, Allied investigations established that separate atrocities were committed by German troops in 31 different incidents involving 134 Canadians, 3 British and 1 American. Image: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Both sides often took no quarter in tit-for-tat reprisals. According to a report by regimental adjutant Count Hauptmann Clary-Aldrigen who was captured by British troops near Hill 102 along with six senior officers and men, including regimental commander Oberst Luxenburger and battalion commander Major Zeissler of Panzer-Artillerie-Regiment 130 of the Panzer-Lehr Division on June 8 1944. The British forces were two scouting parties numbered 2 and 6A of C Squadron of the Inns of Court Regiment. According to the war diary of the Inns of Court Regiment on June 8 1944: Lieutenant Yodaiken, Lieutenant Wigram, Corporal Fowler and six other ranks. When the German officers refused to voluntarily ride on the English armored reconnaissance vehicles as shields against bullets, the one armed Luxenburger was beaten up and tied to the vehicle, covered in blood. After respective orders had been received by radio, Major Zeissler, Hauptmann Clary-Aldrigen, the NCOs and men of the group were shot by the retreating British still with Oberst Luxenberger tied to one of their vehicles. Clary-Aldrigen survived the gunshot wounds and regained consciousness and crawled, badly wounded, in the direction of the village of Le Mensil-Patry. The next day, in retaliation, three Canadian prisoners, Private Harold Angel of Cameron Highlanders and Privates Frederick Holness and Ernest Baskerville of Royal Winnipeg Rifles were ordered shot at Le Haut du Bosq on June 9 1944 by Brigadeführer Wilhelm Mohnke. SS-Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Siebken opposed the summary executions and called Division HQ and spoke to divisional Chief of Staff (Ia). He was told that POWs are to be treated according to the Geneva Convention. Mohnke returned to Battalion HQ looking for Siebken, who was away at the front, he then ordered SS-Untersturmbannführer Dietrich Schnabel to execute the Canadians. At Schnabel’s command the three Canadians were shot. At the end of World War II, several trials of Axis war criminals took place. However, in Europe, these tribunals were set up under the authority of the London Charter, and could only consider allegations of war crimes committed by persons who acted in the interests of the European Axis countries. Siebken and Schnabel (both of SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 26) were accused of the above war crime. Knight's Cross Holder Bernhard Siebken and Dietrich Schnabel were found guilty and hanged in Hameln on January 20 1949. Reference: Hubert Meyer - the official historian of 12.SS-Panzer-Division. Image: an SS-Sturmmann of 12.SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend (Normandy June 1944). Commons: Bundesarchiv.
The theft and looting of Normandy households and farmsteads by liberating soldiers began on June 6 1944 and never stopped during the entire summer. One woman - from the town of Colombieres - is quoted saying: They are looting everything and going into houses everywhere on the pretext of looking for Germans. Even more feared, of course, was the crime of rape - and here too the true picture has arguably been expunged from popular memory. The evidence shows that sexual violence against women by Allied servicemen in liberated Normandy was common. Reference: William Hitchcock´s The Bitter Road to Freedom. According to the American Professor and historian Robert Lilly, there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of World War II. According to an article in Der Spiegel by Klaus Wiegrefe, many personal memoirs of Allied soldiers have been willfully ignored by historians until now because they were at odds with the "Greatest Generation" mythology surrounding World War II, but this has recently started to change with books such as "The Day of Battle" by American journalist and author Rick Atkinson (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) where he describes Allied war crimes in Italy, and "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy" by British historian Anthony Beevor. References: Spiegel Online 05/04/2010. Credit: Wikipedia. Image: a young Waffen-SS Grenadier on the outskirts of Caen in June 1944. Photographer: SS-Obersturmführer and Kriegsberichter Friedrich Zschäckel. Commons: Bundesarchiv.

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Ever wanted to own an entire town? It may sound like the premise of “Schitt’s Creek,” but there’s a real town in Tennessee that’s currently up for grabs.
Water Valley was built around 1900 and sits on seven acres of land. There’s an original barn, four general stores, and a three-bedroom, three-bath residence waiting for someone to call it home.
According to realtor Crista Swartz, the four owners she represents have already had interest from Los Angeles.”We’ve had a couple calls from Hollywood asking if they might buy the whole town to use a movie set.”
But they’re hoping Water Valley will stay true to its Tennessee history.
Just how much would a buyer need to shell out to call Water Valley, Tennessee, their town? $725,000.
That’s less than the median price of a single-family home in the state of California, according to the California Association of Realtors.
“I think this is very much a steal,” Swartz adds. “For someone who has more money to invest in it to make it what it should be, this is an incredible bargain.”


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Over 19,000 Los Angeles city workers woke up this morning to learn that a new health and pension deal had been struck between unions and the city. The tentative agreement announced yesterday by Mayor Villaraigosa, Councilman Eric Garcetti and other city officials, calls for employees to contribute more to health care benefits and for an end to furloughs for most workers covered. The three year pact is being touted as a landmark deal that will save the city $400-million and impact about half of L.A.'s municipal workers. The plan does not include cops and fire fighters, but the Mayor hopes it will be a template for future negotiations. The deal still needs to be ratified by union stakeholders. Will they sign on? Or might union members balk at the increase in contributions? In the first year, the deal would only save the city $69-million, which is still far short of the city's projected $350-million debt -- should workers be giving more?
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
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• Company has lodged complaints over the invasion of its land with security officers who promised to stop it.
• Some individuals have established stone-cutting machines.
Be on the lookout for people claiming to sell land belonging to the pineapple and global fruits processor Del Monte.
That's the warning from Mithanga/Kakuzi deputy county commissioner Angela Makau.
She said the company has complained some individuals and groups are invading their land and illegally subdividing parcels that are then being sold to unsuspecting Kenyans.
The swindlers are charging Sh5,000 to register their land buying companies and Sh50,000 for a share of a 50x100 parcel of the Del Monte land.
Others have established a quarry and have started mining stone.
Makau expressed concerns that illegal groups are taking advantage of the ongoing lease renewal process for the company’s land to intrude into its property.
She said numerous buyers are being brought by the land buying companies from as far as Kiambu and Machakos counties, lured by the prospect of owning land in the prime area.
“The subcounty security team has visited the invaded land and confirmed that some individuals are quarrying and have even installed stone cutting machines,” she said.
She said the equipment illegally found on the property will be confiscated to stop the intrusion, urging land buyers not to be lured into spending their hard-earned money on the land.
The company, she noted, has acquired court orders prohibiting the illegal invasion of its land.
Delmonte Company is on more than 22,000 acres of land, of which more than 18,000 are in Murang’a county.
The company has however hived off parts of its land and ceded them to Murang’a and Kiambu county governments as part of its lease renewal agreements.
Murang’a has received 1,400 acres from the company that the county government plans to use for an affordable housing project and construction of social amenities such as a Level 5 hospital.
The county government last year issued a notice to locals not to be swindled into paying any money to individuals who were purporting to sell parts of the land ceded to it.
“We will partner with other relevant security stakeholders to ensure the invasion of the private land is stemmed,” Makau said.
She also appealed to the National Land Commission and other agencies involved in the renewal of the company’s land lease to publicise how far the process has gone for the public.
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I think you are correct in your opinion that there was no marriage between William Henry Pendarvis and Amanda Foster, but I believe that there was a marriage-like union.As you know, Amanda is listed in the 1850 census as a Pendarvis and listed in the position to be William Henry Pendarvis' spouse.A "Mrs. Pendarvis" died in Mobile on July 15, 1853 (a date that would fit Amanda Foster's probate records), and I am surmising that their union was considered to be a marriage by at least part of the community.If there was no proper marriage, and it seems that there was not, that would explain why young William A Pendarvis was called an orphan.Illegitemacy was both a societal blemish and a legal thorn.Often individuals with children born out of wedlock would leave their children property by will , but not referring to them as illegitemate or even as their own children in the will, so as not to put in force laws meant to protect what were considered legal heirs.Since he married Catherine Fettus in 1854, it seemed even more likely to me that the union with Amanda Foster was a marriage-like union, as he didn't marry anyone else during Amanda's lifetime.All of this is not to say that William A Pendarvis was not possibly an orphan who took the Pendarvis name or a Pendarvis of unknown origin.There was that other James Pendarvis who died in 1851 and who was living with the constable in the 1850 Mobile census.Perhaps he and Amanda had some sort of relationship and William Henry was left young William A as a ward.I am continuing to research Amanda Foster in order to more firmly establish her role in the Pendarvis family.Catherine Williams Fettus Pendarvis seems to have raised William A at least part of his teenage years.Her parents died in Charleston, SC, and she and William Henry shared in part of their estate.
I also agree with you about the spelling of Jane Harriet's name.Believe it or not, I agonized over spelling it as Jayne in my posting, and only did so because part of her descendants spell it that way.They also always spell Jane as Jayne so I was very unsure.
I'm glad you brought up James Washington Pendarvis' marriage records.As you know he had his children by Jane Harriet Alford Davis before their marriage.I don't know whether they were unable to legally marry or whether they simply chose not to.If they were unable to marry legally it would certainly most likely be that one or both of them were legally married to someone else.While both of the James and Mahala Pendarvis and the James Washington Pendarvis families have family legends of divorces or separations, I have no idea whether they are accurate.It did, however,seem to fit the circumstance.Mahala's husband James was listed in 1850 while in Hancock, MS, but not while in Pike Co., MS, where Mahala returned after her husband's death or disappearance.She is listed in both places in the 1850 census, with James in Hancock and without him in Pike.As Pike is historically a place that Pendarvises lived it seems more likely that she was returning to Pike after losing a husband in Hancock, rather than the other way around.As Jane Harriet Alford Pendarvis' first child with James Washington Pendarvis was born in April of 1851, we know that she took up with him at least by about July or earlier of 1850.Since the cutoff date for the 1850 census household listings was June 1, 1850, the timing is all on target.Mahala while interviewed in Hancock still lived with her husband or expected him to return, but by the time she moved home to Pike, assumed he was not going to return.If James Washington Pendarvis was one of the Pike Pendarvises then he almost had to be a brother to Benjamin Henry Pendarvis and therefore son to William and Elizabeth Zeigler Pendarvis.
As for the Dec 7, 1817 birthdate for James Washington Pendarvis, I received that indirectly from the Stella Oceana Pendarvis descendants.Perhaps it is a typo.Have you personally checked James Washington Pendarvis' tomb?I'm not doubting you, I'd just like to know which is more reliable.The Mobile Pendarvis settler James Pendarvis, who died between 1817 and 1826 in Alabama was living in Alabama prior to Dec 1817, and as James Washington Pendarvis was reported to have been born in SC in 1817, per the other source, I had thought it more likely that the James Pendarvis born in 1808 and who died in 1851 was the son of James (the Alabama settler) Pendarvis than James Washington.
James Pendarvis, the Alabama settler, and William Pendarvis, the Pike Co., MS settler, were brothers.William moved to Pike County between 1818 and 1820, while James moved away from SC between 1806 and 1810 and into Alabama in or prior to 1817.Again James Washington Pendarvis' possible birth of 1817 in SC makes him more likely the son of William, especially considering that there was another James of the correct age already living in Mobile, though dead in 1851.
All of this comes from years of researching all Pendarvis lines and using some tools of elimination.The Alabama and Pike Co., MS Pendarvis branches are clearly those out of Barnwell/Orangeburg Co.s, SC, and, I think,only a small amount of personal research in the Barnwell records would bring all doubters to the same conclusion.


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Catalogue of valuable printed books including the Property of the late Sir Tobias Rodgers, Bt [other title:] Continental and English literature and history; modern first editions, letters and manuscripts (catalogue for an auction conducted by Bloomsbury Book Auctions, London, 19 June 1997)
London, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 1997
(25 cm), 97 (3) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 367 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Lots 1-118 are property of the bookseller Sir Tobias Rodgers (1940-1997), many with the distinctive shelf-mark of the Cullen House Library. Offered as “The Property of a Gentleman” was John Donne’s copy of Joannes Creccelius, Collectanea ex historiis (1614), formerly in the J.H.P. Pafford collection (Keynes, Books from Donne’s library, p.267 and 273). ¶ Unmarked copy. No Price list.

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“Soo Dhawoow!” The phrase is translated to “Welcome!” deriving from the native Somali tongue and the greeting displayed on the homepage of Araweelo Abroad. It is seemingly mundane – a word of kind greeting, a polite phrase to greet the arrival of their readers. But as we delve further into the online community that is Araweelo Abroad, the greeting translates into more than just a “welcome” but something much more wholesome and familiar to the community it’s created for.
Established in 2014 and founded by Ifrah Ahmed and Sagal Abdulle, Araweelo Abroad is “a cyber homecoming for the baati babes and nomadic camel queens currently living outside the motherland”.
Ifrah titled the online magazine after the ancient Somali Queen Araweelo; defier of gender roles and advocator of women’s liberation. A well-known figure in Somali folklore, Queen Araweelo is the epitome of female empowerment in the eyes of many Somali women and the perfect inspiration for the publication.
Welcoming Somali women all around the globe to a safe place, Araweelo Abroad provides them with the opportunity to reflect, celebrate and discuss their experiences through creative means of their choice. No restrictions, no limits – completely unabridged. It’s a permanent place for Somali women, not just a temporary space online.
Both originating as individual voices on Tumblr, the founders of the online community wanted to broaden the presence they’ve created on their dashboards into a more tangible platform where they, and other Somali women, can continue to tell their narrative and so Araweelo Abroad was born.
The online publication not only provided them with a space to express themselves wholeheartedly, something that they were unable to do in the surroundings of the offline world due to heavy scrutiny, but it also amplified their voices.
I didn’t see myself represented anywhere. Where were the Somali girls who were writers? Went to punk shows? Made visual art or music? Nothing in pop culture or literature seemed to strike to the core of my identities and experiences.
Ifrah Ahmed, Editor and Law Student
It’s a narrative all too familiar in today’s society. The lack of representation in the media of people of colour in different communities is lamentably real. But this did not deter the duo. If anything, it was the spark needed to start the fire. And now, as the presence of other Somali zines and magazines are slowly being acknowledged in the digital world, it only fuels them further. The essence of sisterhood is at the heart of the community – the secure sense of solidarity as Somali women from every corner of the world gather to present their stories to a platform that wants to tell it is what makes the platform reputable.
An integral part of the Somali culture, the act of storytelling is second nature to each voice in Araweelo Abroad, and it is executed beautifully. The articles and images published online to provide a sense of the individual’s voice – women who are at liberty to express their emotions about the mundane and the extraordinary aspects of the lives they are leading.
The collaboration of stories, interviews, photography and poetry exudes insight of the creative, resourceful and empowering minds of Somali women. It highlights their struggles and their empowerment. The gratifying, heartfelt experiences. The nitty gritty, taboo issues. The interviews are intuitive, the poetry honest and the art raw. It’s a culture worth experiencing and different lifestyles worth being exposed to.
To the viewer of each article; it’s a momentary insight of the individual’s world – to the individual creator of the content, it’s their lasting impression made in the digital sphere.

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Who is Amy Gilbert, Age, Instagram, and, more!: A piece of shocking news is coming into the headlines about Lauren Goodger and Charles Drury that the two have broken up recently after Charles’s fling came to the light. This news has been going viral on the internet right now. All their fans are shocked after getting the news. Lauren is going through a tough time right now after knowing about Charles’ fling with Amy. However, Amy herself revealed about her fling with Charles Drury. Now, their fans want to know what exactly happened between the couple. In this article, we are going to give you all the details about their break-up. Follow More Update On GetIndiaNews.com
Who is Amy Gilbert?
According to the reports, Lauren Goodger has broken up with Charles Drury. Yes, you read it right that the former TOWIE star is no longer with Katie Price’s ex Charles. She is not living with him in her Essex home since his fling with Amy has come to the light. It has been reported that Charles bedded Amy Gilbert in the course of her short-term separation from Lauren Goodger in the year 2021. As a result, Lauren kicked him out after getting to know about his fling with Amy Gilbert.
Amy Gilbert: Age and Instagram
An insider told the glossy magazine that Laurent was heartbroken when she got to know about Charles’ fling with Amy. She was extremely angry at him and was unable to understand how could he do this with his family. After knowing his fling, she asked him to leave. Lauren shared a daughter with him whose name is Larose. The news of Charles and Lauren’s separation came when the Instagram model Amy revealed about her fling with Charles.
She revealed that she began noticing Charles after his separation from Lauren, last year. She said that they both connected and after he broke into her Instagram DMs and went to meet her for sex at his East London Home. She said that she and Charles spent the whole weekend together before he went to patch-up with his ex, Lauren.
She told The Sun that they were missing for a couple of days and then he asked her to meet him in a local place where he was living and she did so. She added, “I slept with him on that night, it was quite intense first of all, then he asked to see me again the following day. I then went and met him again.” She said, later, she went to Lauren’s place and talked to her “woman to woman” and told her everything that happened between them when she got to know about their reconciliation.


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The journey continues
September 12, 2019
In Matthew 10:24-25 it is written, “A taught one is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the taught one to become like his teacher and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!”
John 14:21 it is written, “He would possess My commands and guards them it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father and I shall love him and manifest Myself to him.”
I love the Scriptures, the Word of Elohim. If anyone will spend much time with me, they will know how I...


text: This recipe is my family's favorite recipe for cranberry sauce. It appeared in a local newspaper about 10 years ago and I have made it every year since then. I always make two sauces if I'm having more than 8 guests - the other is usually Cranberry Sauce with Pears and Cardamom, which is very different from this sauce and gives people a choice of very different flavors and textures. I've always used Grand Marnier instead of the other choices of orange liqueur or orange juice concentrate, although when it comes to the fruit, I've used Minneola (aka Honeybell) or Orlando Tangeloes instead of Naval oranges. Hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do!

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Former American Idol champion and multi-million selling country star Carrie Underword saw her fourth album rise to the top of the Billboard 200 and has sold 600,000 copies in the US.


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Ladies, I gotta come clean. From the first time I saw it on a social media post, #metoo has rubbed me the wrong way. And I don’t mean, like, in a #metoo way.
The first wave of confessions was powerful — a silent but staggering wail that exposed the shocking pervasiveness of sexual assault and oppressive harassment in a nation that regularly applauds itself for equality.
For me, though, the hashtag became a maimed meme when women began tossing unsolicited ass pats and insufferable catcalls into the mix along with the egregious, menacing affronts. Though these may all be evidence of men treating us like property, it feels both insensitive and overly fragile to lump together the rapiest of rape with the old man saying, “Hey, how about a smile, sweetheart?”
Then came the naming and shaming, the firing and blacklisting and the systematic picking apart of each public apology like flesh from a carcass. That’s when my hackles went on high alert — and for a couple of good reasons:
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Schizophrenia - paranoid type
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Paranoid type schizophrenia is a mental illness that involves false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
People with paranoid schizophrenia may have mistaken beliefs (delusions) that one or more people are plotting against them or their loved ones. It is difficult or impossible for others to convince them that they are not the target of a plot. People with this condition may spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect themselves from the person or people they believe are trying to harm them.
Other symptoms may include:
Becoming socially isolated
Feeling tense, suspicious, guarded, and reserved
Having an exaggerated sense of self importance (grandiose delusions)
Having unrealistic feelings of jealousy (delusional jealousy)
"Hearing things" (auditory hallucinations)
Paranoid schizophrenia usually does not involve the disorganized speech and behavior that is seen in other types of schizophrenia.
See: Schizophrenia for more information about schizophrenia and its treatment.
Signs and tests
Calling your health care provider
Addington D, Bouchard RH, Goldberg J, Honer B, Malla A, Norman R, Tempier R. Clinical practice guidelines: treatment of schizophrenia. Can J Psychiatry. 2005;50:7s-57s.
International early psychosis association writing group. International clinical practice guidelines for early psychosis. Br J Psychiatry. 2005;187:s120-s124.
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Access to Information and Privacy Policies Fact Sheet
For Employees of Government Institutions
In general terms, the Access to Information Act gives Canadian citizens, permanent residents and any person or any corporation present in Canada the right of access to information contained in federal government records, subject to certain exceptions. The Privacy Act regulates how the federal government manages personal information under its control. It also provides individuals with a right of access to their personal information and a right to request corrections. Employee personal information is also protected by the legislation.
As an employee, you are responsible for ensuring that any records you create are properly managed to facilitate access to that information. You are also required to ensure that personal information is handled in accordance with the Privacy Act.
The passage of the Federal Accountability Act (FedAA) in 2006 resulted in the most significant amendments to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act since both were enacted in 1983. Among other changes, the scope of application of both laws was expanded and now includes approximately 250 government institutions. Also, the FedAA introduced a requirement in the Access to Information Act to provide assistance to those requesting access without regard to their identity and to provide complete and timely responses to such requests. This is referred to as "duty to assist."
In recent years, the federal government has also begun the work of reducing the number of its policies. With the recent amendments to the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act and the policy renewal initiative, the time had come to update the access and privacy policies that support these laws. These had not been substantially changed since 1993.
On April 1, 2008, the new Policy on Access to Information, the Policy on Privacy Protection, and the Directive on the Social Insurance Number came into effect. Additional directives and standards will be issued over the next few years.
What does this mean for you?
Much of the content of the policies is aimed at Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) officials within your institution. However, there are some new requirements that you need to be aware of when performing your duties as a public servant.
Duty to Assist:
Most notably, the Policy on Access to Information requires that those requesting access to records be assisted and their identities protected. In other words, requestors must be helped regardless of who they are. Your institution will be establishing written procedures (if it has not already done so) that outline how requests are to be handled and what the timelines are. As an employee, you are expected to follow these procedures and respect the timelines involved if you are asked to respond to a request for access. You are also expected to provide assistance.
If your duties involve developing contracts or agreements with outside parties or other public sector institutions, you must ensure that the provisions of both Acts are respected. If a foreign-based contractor or a foreign-based contractor with a Canadian affiliate will be handling personal information from your institution, appropriate privacy protection clauses must be included in the contract with that third party. For more information on privacy and contracting, please see TBS's Guidance Document – Taking Privacy into Account Before Making Contracting Decisions .
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Dialight, Farmingdale, N.J., expanded its MicroLED surface-mount indicator line with three new products designed for high-performance and reliability in electronics, networking, automation and handheld device applications.
The 0402 (1005) SM 5988A Series is a low-current, 5 milliamp signal that’s just .039” (1.0mm) x .020” (0.5mm) x .020” (0.4mm), but delivers a vibrant punch with battery power conservation for small electronics. The small package allows for close-quarters placement, and is compatible with pick-and-place installation automation in a 4,000-piece reel. Also available in 20-piece sample strips, the new 0402 comes in 7 wavelengths, including 635nm and 625 nm Red, 605nm Orange, 590nm Yellow, 570nm Yellow-Green, 525nm Green and 470nm Blue.
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With the help of federal funding, Wake County is getting it own DNA lab to help solve local crimes.
The new laboratory will be housed in the Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification (CCBI) and will be the first local government DNA lab in the Triangle. It will be only the second in North Carolina.
“Our criminal justice system depends on having timely, reliable information,” said Wake County Board of Commissioners Chair Matt Calabria in a news release. “By adding this state-of-the-art lab to its facility, CCBI will be able to quickly and accurately analyze the DNA evidence its crime-scene investigators find in the field, saving precious time and moving cases forward faster.”
Now, local law enforcement officers must send DNA evidence to the North Carolina State Crime Lab, where case submissions have increased 62% over the last five years, according to the news release.
CCBI will accept DNA evidence from all Wake County police departments, but not from agencies outside the county, said Leah Holdren, a Wake County spokesperson.
“However, this new lab will benefit both residents in Wake County and those in counties statewide,” she said, “as it will free up resources at the state lab, enabling them to focus on evidence from other municipalities in the queue.”
The cost of the lab is $360,000 in local money, coming from court-ordered lab fees, and $500,000 in federal money. The lab will be staffed by three employees, whose salaries will be covered by Wake County.
“It’s exciting to be part of a project that we know will do so much good for our community,” CCBI director Sam Pennica said in a release. “DNA testing has proven to be extremely accurate and has advanced to become an important 21st century forensic testing technique.”
The News & Observer,which reported on the lab when it was announced last November, noted it would need to meet international accreditation and FBI standards and could begin testing samples by the end of 2022.
Wake County also received $1 million in federal funding to help renovate the ground floor of the Wake County Office Building to build a “state of the art” Emergency Operations Center or EOC. A local government’s EOC is often used before, during and after weather-related storms, but has been used throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
This story was originally published March 23, 2022 1:44 PM.


What are the pros and cons of Hydrovane compressors versus conventional piston types? I am looking to buy a compressor to run a small cabinet type bead blaster. I am in the UK and have 240 volt AC mains able to run up to about 6 Kw (but need to consider starting current, so a staged start twin 3 HP motored piston types the limit) but also have a 3 phase rotary converter that runs a 2 post 2.5 tonne vehicle ramp, or a medium sized lathe or Bridgeport mill OK. If necessary i will have to consider buying a 3 phase generator, having 3 phase mains installed will cost over 6000 UK pounds (about 12,000 dollars US). I was hoping that perhaps a Hydrovane had less start up current draw, or was maybe more efficient? Thanks.
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Egypt Travel Guide
A&K has new, comfortable boats, with internet access, lounge pools, and private docks (which means faster, more accessible loading).
Located east of downtown, this old quarter of narrow alleys and soaring minarets (which dates to the Fatimid period) is the city’s traditional center of culture and commerce.
Youngsters looking for fun before takeoff should head to the play areas in every departure terminal. Look for plastic seesaws and playhouses from American toy company Step 2, touch-screen video games in Terminal 3, and a climbing wall outside the food court in Terminal 3.
Many news and book outlets in the airport are operated by Al Shorouk, Egypt’s largest publishing house. Here you’ll find nonfiction and literature in three languages: English, French, and Arabic.
The grand structure was built in the neo-Islamic style.
Travcoa Escorted Journeys takes small groups of 18 on a guided trip down the Nile. Passengers stay in presidential suites. The tour also encompasses the Upper Delta's ancient sites.
Insider find: A roster of local guides across Africa, including in the Zambezi River Valley, in Zimbabwe, and in Hwange National Park, near the Botswana border. Their walking and canoeing expeditions bring clients face-to-face with bull elephants, rhinos, and lions.
If you anticipate needing a hand with your heavy suitcase or a complicated connection, hire a Cairo Airport staffer, who, for just $50, will greet you upon arrival and guide you through immigration, baggage claim, and customs clearance.
Though this small shop sells Segafredo espresso and plenty of small bites, in-the-know travelers come to Coffee Time for Egypt’s local beer, Sakara.
This oft-overlooked gem in Cairo, holds an impressive collection that reflects modern Egyptian culture.
Search among thousands for scarves, capes, and djellbas.
Composed of many historic ruins under restoration, the museum creates facsimiles put in place to hold up the fragile structures.

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A Kickstarter update
follows up on news of layoffs
at developer Gas Powered Games with a video from Chris Taylor explaining the situation at his company. He tells us that without the cuts, the company would have to immediately shut down if the Kickstarter failed, unable to fulfill any of its remaining obligations. Showing some emotion he says he was unwilling to gamble with people's livelihoods in this economy as the reason he mad that "tough decision." Chris then share another "tough decision," asking if he should continue the Kickstarter to see if the response to it improves so he can hire back the staff that wants to return, or shut it down and "call it done." They will tabulate votes from the comments to judge whether the campaign should continue.
Chief Creative Officer Rob Pardo has added his thoughts
to the forum post
from Jay Wilson about leaving the Diablo III
team. Rob expresses disappointment at some responses to this, expresses pride in the action/RPG sequel, restates Blizzard's commitment to refining Diablo III "until it is the best game in the franchise," and takes full responsibility for who the game turned out:
This thread saddens me greatly. I know that the Battle.net forums have earned a reputation for rough justice, but I do not believe justice is being served by how people are speaking about Jay’s departure from Diablo III.
I am very proud of the Diablo franchise and what the team was able to accomplish with Diablo III. As a gamer I have enjoyed the game and played for many, many nights with friends and family. I’m not, however, going to use that as an excuse. The Diablo community deserves an even better game from Blizzard and we are committed to improving it. We have a talented team in place and have no intention of stopping work on Diablo III until it is the best game in the franchise.
I’m the only person in this thread who has actually worked with Jay. I hired Jay to head up the Diablo project and had the pleasure of getting to work with him, both in building the team and designing the game. He has great design instincts and has added so much to the franchise with his feel for visceral combat, boss battles, and an unparalleled knack for making it fun to smash bad guys. I’ve worked with many, many designers at Blizzard and Jay is one of the best. He has a great career at Blizzard ahead of him and I guarantee that you will enjoy Jay’s game designs in future Blizzard games.
If you love Diablo as much as we do, then please continue to let us know how you feel we can improve the game. If you still feel the need to dish out blame, then I would prefer you direct it at me. I was the executive producer on the project; I hired Jay and I gave him advice and direction throughout the development process. I was ultimately responsible for the game we released and take full responsibility for the quality of the result.
There's a listing on Amazon.fr
for a Windows edition of GTA V, the next installment in the open-world action series. It is not clear if this is an error, or just a premature revelation of an actual PC edition of the game, which remains unconfirmed. Thanks VG247
The antechamber to Antichamber
will open later this month, as Joystiq
reveals a January 31st release date for the Windows edition of this indie puzzle game. "After several years of obsessively watching people play and trying to get inside their minds, refining and then watching some more, this is what I've discovered," says developer Alexander Bruce. "And it's finally time to share that with the world." Thanks nin.
R.I.P.: Fiery Orioles Manager Earl Weaver Dead at 82
. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
The SimCity Website
is accepting registrations to test the upcoming reboot of the urban planning series. Here's word on the beta, which will run from January 25-28:
The day that Mayors have been clamoring for is almost here - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) today announced that the SimCity™ beta will run from January 25 – January 28. Those who previously signed up are already in consideration for access to the beta, limited slots are still available for late applicants. Eager fans who want to get an advance look at SimCity have a limited time to sign up at www.simcity.com/beta before the application process ends at 2am, GMT on January 21. Developed by Maxis, SimCity will be available March 8 and is available for pre-order right now.
“It is always an exciting moment to share a game that is still in development with its biggest fans prior to launch,” said Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA’s Maxis Label. “This beta will help the team improve the live service aspects of SimCity to ensure a smooth and user-friendly experience at launch. I want to thank everyone for signing up - we are excited to share one of our most beloved franchises with our fans.”
Running from 5pm GMT on January 25 until 8am GMT on January 28, the SimCity beta offers fans the chance to play a one hour slice of the game** and to deliver feedback that will help shape the final product. As a live service, SimCity will continue to provide updates that evolve the experience, delivering a dynamic platform that grows and expands over time.
The Bethesda Blog
has word that the Windows and PlayStation 3 editions of the Dragonborn
DLC for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
will be released next month. The PC edition is expected on February 5th and the PS3 edition does not have an exact date, but they say all three DLC packs should be out for Sony's system by the end of February.
Paradox Announces a one week setback to Dungeonland
, saying the game will get some last-minute polish before it is released on January 29th:
Today we're announcing that upcoming hack ‘n’ slash title, Dungeonland, will have its launch postponed by one week. Originally slated for release on January 22, the irreverent co-op game will be available on leading distribution channels come January 29.
As we continue our quest to ensure game experiences on day one are as pleasant as possible, we're making a few last minute updates before releasing the game to the masses. We work around the clock for our devoted community, and we appreciate everyone’s patience here as we get things finalized.
Gas Powered Games has laid of some staff shortly after the launch
of their Wildman Kickstarter
seeking $1.1 million for a new action/RPG. This is reported by Kotaku
, who confirmed that the company has cut some staff with honcho Chris Taylor after getting wind of them through the grapevine. Taylor did not confirm the extent of the layoffs, however, so there are dramatic elements to the Kotaku report which remain speculative, as one source told them these were due to the Kickstarter underperforming, while other sources have told them that almost everyone who worked for the company was let go. There's a follow up to this on Gamasutra
. "The studio is still operating, but we had to slim WAY down to conserve cash reserves," Chris Taylor confirmed for them, confirming some earlier comments
that they are all in on Wildman: "We spent all the last dough that we've had, and the last several months working on it. So we're betting the company on it."
the bonuses for those who preorder Might & Magic Heroes VI Shades of Darkness, the upcoming standalone expansion for Might & Magic Heroes VI, their strategy sequel. Those who preorder via the Uplay shop will receive a Master of all Darkness pack containing:
The Angel of Death pack – an exclusive hero and his weapon:
- The exclusive hero Belketh
- His unique weapon: the Dragonbone staff
The Dynasty Armory pack – two dynasty weapons:
- the Dragon Flametongue
- the Perfect Silksword
An Exclusive Dynasty Weapon:
changes to the upcoming version 5.2 patch for World of Warcraft
on the Public Test Realm for the MMORPG. The notes now include additions and deletions dated yesterday reflecting the most current state of the update. The lastest update
about this patch suggests it's still weeks from going live.
The Infinite Space Website
has a new patch to update Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
to version 1.30. Here's word on what this changes in Digital Eel's spacey sequel: "The update swaps Eelmix for OpenAL, fixes a potential crash bug involving alien fleets without homeworlds (Tchorak, Ravian) and tweaks/brightens up the ship graphics a little to make them more visible."
notes that THQ games are no longer available for preorder on GameStop PC Downloads
due to "uncertainty of delivery."
The Kickstarter page
offers a second update about Gas Powered Games' proposed evolutionary action/RPG. They respond to requests to see the game in action with Video Update #1
showing prototype gameplay and featuring Chris Taylor overcoming his camera shyness to answer further inquiries about their plans. Oddly the in-game footage is shot second-hand off a monitor, allowing us to pretend this is leaked shakycam footage of an E3 presentation or something illicit like that. Continue here to read the full story
seeks funding for an iPad edition of Vendetta Online
, Guild Software's multiplatform space combat MMORPG. In addition to this new tablet version, they outline other goals that will impact the game in its entirety: "All players and platforms share the same universe within Vendetta Online, so iOS users will rub elbows with those on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and WinRT. Beyond iPad support, the Kickstarter could also help fund the next major expansion of the title's gameplay, including enhanced player-owned capital ships and territorial conquest, and is scheduled for completion near the end of 2013."
The AMD Support Hub
now offers new version 13.1 WHQL-certified reference drivers for AMD/ATI graphics cards. These offer new a 3D settings and profile management user interface, all the performance improvements and bug fixes introduced in the Catalyst 12.11 beta 11 along with Ubuntu 12.10 production support. They also offer a new standalone un-installation utility that will remove all traces of an existing Catalyst installation, since graphics card drivers can be difficult about things like that. All the downloads are neatly grouped on this page
Codemasters is undergoing a consultancy that could result in layoffs, reports GamesIndustry International
, saying that cuts would center on the company's digital and publishing efforts. They say a "strong source" tells them about 80 out of 500 positions may be cut, mostly from Codemasters' Southam studio responsible for racing games. They also have an official comment: "As the Company realigns its operations to focus on areas of increased strategic importance and decrease resources in areas that are not delivering value for the business, the Company has proposed the restructure of certain aspects within its digital development and publishing units in line with future product strategy," reads the official statement. "As a result of the proposed restructure, the Company has therefore entered into a period of collective consultation with the affected employees. The restructure is not company-wide and is not anticipated to impact the development of its core console and PC titles such as GRID 2 or its annual FORMULA ONE title."
new details on changes coming "in the relatively near future" to PvP gear in World of Warcraft
, their MMORPG. They outline the reasoning for changing how gear is handled for PvP beginning with the upcoming version 5.2 patch and give an idea of the changes this will involve. All this is explained by the general goals of "making PvP more accessible and less punishing, gearing more consistent and flexible, and flattening the power curve out over the course of a season."
Open beta testing of Akaneiro: Demon Hunters
will be extended through January 22nd, reports VG247
, so there is more time to act for those interested in this upcoming/RPG from American McGee's Spicy Horse Studios. To sign up for the beta, head over to this page
This downloads page
now offers an updated version 2.288 of Evochron Mercenary, the space combat and exploration game from indie developer StarWraith 3D games. Here are the changes in the new version, which is also available as a trial version: Continue here to read the full story
Huffington Post - Video Games Hold No Answers.
If there was any truly meaningful link between homicide and media exposure from any source, then by now one would have seen a whole body of supportive forensic research being used in our courts. If any of this research being trotted out now held even a glimmer of hope for a person accused of murder, attorneys all over the country would be mounting vigorous defenses based upon this connection -- but we haven't. And the reason we haven't is that the connection between the psychological and behavioral dynamics of youth homicide and violent video games and violent movies is simply not there.
- The EU edition of DragonNest begins closed beta testing on February 27th…
- Pirate-themed, browser-based MMOG Kartuga is also now accepting beta signups…
Happy Internet Freedom Day
. Thanks GamePolitics
. And thanks Internet.
Well, with three more games left in the NFL season I have no chance of getting even in the playoffs. A perfect run from here on out would just even me up for a 1-3 week last week, but what can you do? Yes, pick better, I know. Speaking of picking better, almost everyone else faired better than I. Here are last week's results: Verno, Topevoli, sauron, and Creston 3-1; dj LiTh, Jivaro, Cutter, and Batman 2-2; and mag was also 1-3.
This week: Patriots and 49ers.

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Harm-Jan van Dam, trans. Hugo Grotius: De imperio summarum potestatum circa sacra.
Harm-Jan van Dam has produced a painstakingly thorough critical edition as well as an English translation of Hugo Grotius' most sustained treatment of the relationship between church and state. The De imperio, completed in 1616/17, last appeared in print in 1780 when it was incorporated into a book published in Naples and devoted to refuting Grotius. That early modern editors did not establish the best text of the De imperio is due not least to the fact that Grotius never sent his text, which exists in several manuscripts, to press. Van Dam's edition rests upon a full collation of the two best manuscripts with the first two editions (1647, 1648) and a partial collation of other manuscripts. Those interested in the complex origins and transmission of Grotius' text will learn a great deal from van Dam's careful analysis of the extant manuscripts and printed editions.
This analysis appears in van Dam's lengthy and detailed introduction. Here he also sets the De imperio within the specific contexts of Grotius' political and literary career and of the religious controversy between Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants in the young Dutch Republic. Not surprisingly, Grotius, the Remonstrant, opposed the political interference of the Reformed church, and his De imperio, like its predecessors Ordinum pietas (published in 1613) and Tractatus de iure magistratuum circa ecclesiastica (completed in 1614 but never published), argued that the summa potestas, the supreme power or civil state, enjoyed ultimate authority in religious matters.
In 1679, the De imperio appeared in volume 3 of Grotius' Opera Theologica, but van Dam rightly classifies the work as a political, not a theological, text. The first six chapters deal with rather abstract issues such as the nature, function, and jurisdiction of civil power as well as the exercise of judgment. The power and jurisdiction of the state is all-encompassing. Subjects may not resist the state's commands, even if they violate divine law; they may not resist the state even if it uses force in the name of religion. Grotius rejects Calvinist resistance theory, which allows inferior magistrates to oppose ungodly decrees of superior magistrates. The remaining six chapters examine more specific topics such as the state's authority over synods and over the election of pastors.
Within the context of the legal and political analysis of De imperio Grotius' theological irenicism becomes manifest. He laments the confessional divisions among Christians and, in an Erasmian vein, believes one should define as few doctrines as possible in order to preserve Christian unity (1:309-13). Chapter 11, a lengthy discussion of "offices in the church which are not strictly necessary," is itself not strictly necessary since the supremacy of the state is not the principal theme, as it is in every other chapter. In this chapter, as van Dam observes in his commentary, "Grotius stresses toleration and unity of the Protestant churches" (2:847). Grotius commends both Anglican episcopalianism as well as Calvinist ecclesiastical polity.
The heaping up of quotations from a variety of sources (classical, biblical, patristic, legal, historical, scholastic, etc.) is a conspicuous aspect of Grotius' methodology in De imperio. Van Dam duly advises readers not to dismiss these quotations as textual clutter. Instead, they bear witness to the nature of scholarship common to Grotius' age, which preferred the historical grounding of claims to innovation (1:108). Nevertheless, at the very beginning of his introduction, van Dam warns that Grotius' prolific use of quotations and examples neglects "their context, or the meaning and overall views of their authors." Thus Grotius appeals to Calvin and Roman Catholic authorities to support his positions. (1:5).
The historical elucidation of Grotius' use of sources is one of the tasks that van Dam assigned himself in the commentary, which forms the most important part of the second volume of the edition. The commentary also provides the reader with helpful and essential bibliographical, historical, theological, philosophical, and legal information. Like the commentary, the translations purpose is to make Grotius' long-neglected text accessible to a wider audience. The translation, which faces the Latin text in the first volume, reads well, but in some places, where a more literal or idiomatic rendering would be appropriate, I would quibble with it.
These minor disagreements notwithstanding, van Dam's fine edition has put into the hands of scholars an important text that merits more attention and that should expand interest in Grotius. Clearly, problems other than the freedom of the seas exercised the mind of the renowned Dutch intellectual. Research on the debt of the De imperio to sixteenth-century humanist conceptions of the relationship of church and state as well as the text's anticipation of absolutist discourse of the seventeenth century is now possible and would be most welcome.
HILMAR M. PABEL
Simon Fraser University
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Even the slightest implication of a conflict of interest can give a public charity a black eye and endanger its reputation. Some conflicts, however, may be unavoidable given the nature of the relationship between organizations and their officers, directors, and trustees.
According to the IRS, “A conflict of interest occurs when an individual’s obligation to further the organization’s charitable purposes is at odds with their own financial interests.” Conflicts frequently exist when compensation and benefit packages are being discussed for officers, directors, or trustees. Conflict can also arise when a contract between the organization and a business owned by an officer, director, or trustee is up for a vote.
Form 990 Spells It Out
The questions on Form 990, Part VI, Section B outline how the IRS expects tax-exempt organizations to handle the conflict issue. Organizations should:
o Have a written conflict of interest policy
o Annually require officers, directors, trustees, and key employees to disclose interests that may result in conflicts of interest
o Monitor and enforce policy compliance consistently and on a regular basis.
If and when a conflict arises, you should have a process in place that protects your organization from charges of impropriety by ensuring that the individual(s) involved in the conflict are not involved in the resolution of the matter.
Full disclosure: Board and staff members should be encouraged to disclose an interest they may have in any matter or transaction that could potentially be viewed as affecting objectivity. This applies to all individuals with the ability to influence decisions, including board members, staff members, and parties related to them.
Recusal: Board members who have a material conflict should recuse themselves from all discussions and votes.
Documentation: The disclosure of any conflicts and the actions taken in response (e.g., recusal, abstention, etc.) should be fully noted in the minutes.

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The California Democratic Party is convening Assembly District Meetings to elect delegates in each of the state's 80 Assembly Districts on Saturday and Sunday.
"This is a great way to become more engaged in local politics as well as statewide coordinated plans," Yolo County Democratic Party Chairman and 4th Assembly District Co-Convener, Bob Schelen. Assembly Delegates also help select delegates for the California Democratic Party's State Convention, scheduled for April in Sacramento.
The 4th Assembly District meeting will be Saturday with registration starting at noon and lasting until 2 pm. The actual meeting will be from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East St., Meeting Room One.
The new 4th Assembly District contains so much area that there will be two simultaneous meetings, with one in Woodland and one in Napa.
Votes will be counted simultaneously from both meetings to elect the delegates for the full district. The new district consists of Yolo County (except West Sacramento), all of Napa County and portions of Lake and Solano Counties.
West Sacramento is now contained in Assembly District 7, which will hold its caucus on Sunday at 4100 Truxel Road, Sacramento. Registration begins at 11 a.m.
"This is an excellent way for local Democrats to become more engaged, and a larger part of the successes, in both local and statewide policy. The we've built strong momentum in 2010 and 2012, and we're looking forward to the new year and 2014 elections," stated Schelen. "We want to represent the broad community, so we'd like everyone who is willing to become active."
Each of the 80 Assembly District's will elect 12 people (six men and six women) to be members of the California Democratic State Central Committee. These 12 people will represent their Assembly District for both the 2013 and 2014 Conventions.
Following the Assembly District caucuses, Yolo County Democrats are invited to participate is the organization meeting of the 2013-2014 Yolo County Democratic Party. This meeting will be Monday, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m., in the Yolo County Administrative Building, 625 Court St., Woodland, in the lower conference room.
"We had a very successful 2012 for Democrats in Yolo County. It needs to continue in 2013 and 2014 to make sure the Democratic vision gets enacted into policies," stated Schelen. "We have super majorities in both houses of the Legislature, two United States Senators and helped our new Congressman John Garamendi get elected. This was all done in a presidential year. We cannot rest on our laurels in a non-presidential election year. Democrats, Stay or get involved!"
The Yolo County Democratic Central Committee serves as the official representative and governing body of the California Democratic Party in Yolo County, carrying out such duties as are consistent with the Elections Code of the State of California and the By Laws and policies of the California Democratic Party and Democratic National Committee.


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PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING EVENT RENTALS THROUGH
Gallery 874 is a unique space that has been transformed from a large, open warehouse into a state of the art Modern/contemporary Gallery. We offer 2 distinct spaces that can accommodate large events to small and intimate settings such as corporate events, party venues, wedding receptions, Bar Mitzvah’s and of course art sculptures and exhibits.
The main gallery is 8500sf of open space with 16ft ceilings, a VIP area and a prep kitchen. The walls are adorned with the artwork of Mousa. This space can be masterfully transformed through Lighting, Sound, Draping with easy access to rigging points and power throughout the space.
The artist studio consisting of 5000sf that houses the artist work as well as work in progress. This space is ideal for anyone who is looking for something unique. You and your guest will have the rare opportunity to view the artist work in progression and see the work in its most vulnerable state. This is the kind of setting that opens up dialogue for guests. The artist may be available to be present at the event for a limited time to talk to your guests and engage them in the process of his artwork. Mousa loves the opportunity to talk about his work with others.
- 299 Guests – Seated or Cocktail
Main Gallery: $5,500 Sun-Friday $6,500 Saturday
- Artists Studio: $2,000 additional when combined with Main Gallery
- Corporate Meeting rates vary based on size and duration
For an additional $2,000; the following are included:
- 1 additional hour for the event
- Bridal ready room, Draped in the nook
- 1 hour rehearsal Day before the event (Time of day is dependent on other events in the Gallery)
- Cocktails in the Artist Studio while main gallery is setup by your caterer for reception
- Serve your own alcohol with no corkage fee
- 8 hour Event Rental (3 hours set up, 4 hour event time and 1 hour cleanup) Additional time if required is $250 /hour.
- On-Site Manager
- On-Site security during the 4 hour event for the first 150 guests. An additional Security Officer is required for larger events
- Valet parking – 2 Valets included with each rental, Additional Valets are available for $125 for 4 hours
Tables & Chairs
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Children orphaned by the earthquake in Pakistan are being conscripted by followers of the Religion of Peace™ to be turned into soulless killing machines: Quake orphans ‘adopted’ for jihad. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
Pakistan’s leading human rights organisation, the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust, said jihadi groups fighting the Indian government were taking orphans off the streets and putting them in training camps.
The organisation said it also had evidence that sympathetic government officials were passing children on to the jihadis to be looked after.
The popularity of the Islamic militants has risen sharply since the earthquake struck on October 8, killing more than 87,000 people.
The militants were among the first to arrive with aid at some of the worst affected villages. Their organisation and ability to commandeer lifting equipment and tents have generated significant new support. But according to human rights campaigners they are using their new popularity to smuggle weapons and recruit the young and vulnerable.
“We have heard from very reliable sources and seen with our own eyes that orphaned and lost children are being taken by jihadi organisations in northern Pakistan to be trained,” said Fahad Burney, of the trust.
Jamaat-ud Dawa, one of the largest jihadi groups in Pakistan, has called openly for orphans to be handed over for an “Islamic education”.


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2nd October 2022 was a landmark day in the modern society where the Honorable Supreme Court has passed some important decisions in the judgement of a case where a 25-year-old girl has put forward a plea to terminate her 23 weeks old pregnancy by the permission of the court as per the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules 2021. The judgement has been misinterpreted in all social media as the court has criminalized the marital rape. Even though the court has observed about the marital rape in its obiter dictum (Reasons for the judgment) but criminalizing the marital rape through the judgment has never occurred. The hearing of criminalizing the Marital rape is undergoing in the Supreme Court and awaits the final judgment only. Even though criminalizing the marital rape has never occurred through the judgment, we can undoubtedly say the judgment as a steppingstone towards the criminalization of marital rape and ensuring the reproductive autonomy of a woman. Let us discuss the status of marital rape in India and the reproductive rights of a woman through this blog.
Marital Rape in India: The present Scenario
Surely everyone who read this article is aware about the social evil rape. If you are a person who is having 18 years or more, you will be surely exposed to the knowledge and happenings in our society about the social evil called Rape. What is rape in the legal sense is more complicated. It is simply the sexual intercourse with a woman against her consent. Even though sex requires the mutual consent and cooperation of both men and woman, the legal world is giving more emphasis to the women as it strictly requires the consent of a woman without mentioning the consent of a man. This shows the supremacy of a women and her decisions in sex. Any sexual intercourse without the consent of woman is rape.
Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 375 is defining what is rape. As per the IPC 375, any sexual intercourse against the will of a woman is rape provided nothing given in the exclusions. IPC 375 excludes the sexual intercourse by a husband with his wife who is elder than 15 years of age is not rape. This exclusion does not mention about the consent of the woman in the marriage. Thus, the IPC silently but explicitly eradicating the will of a woman in sex in a marriage. The act of sexual intercourse by the husband against the will of the wife is called marital rape and unfortunately it is not a crime in India as of now. Justice Verma committee constituted after the Nirbhaya incident suggested that marriage should not be a defense for the un-consented sexual intercourse and the provision of exclusion in IPC should be prohibited. Numerous judgements of various High courts have observed the same but has not been an amendment act or nullifying decree so far. The Supreme court is hearing the case challenging the validity of the IPC 375 exception and will be anticipating a decree which criminalizing the marital rape in India.
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 and Body Autonomy
Medical Termination of Pregnancy act is the legislative framework to regulate the termination of pregnancy (so called abortion) and the ground for doing the same. In India abortion is a taboo and is always a huddle between the ethical concerns of life and family and the bodily needs and integrity of woman. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 in its earlier form didn’t permit the woman to undergo abortion as per her needs and it was strictly regulated only a medical termination is allowed that too it causes any health. Now the judicial interpretation has given the act giving more emphasis to the bodily and reproductive of autonomy of woman.
The significant changes happened so far in the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971 and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Rules can be summarized as below:
Pregnancies happening outside the umbrella of Marriage
Initially the MTP act gives the right only to a married woman. The term married woman was specifically included in the Act as well as in the rules. MTP act section 3, Explanation 2 says as: Where any pregnancy occurs as a result of failure of any device or method used by any married woman or her husband for the purpose of limiting the number of children, the anguish caused by such unwanted pregnancy may be resumed to constitute a grave injury to the mental health of the pregnant woman. Here the specific addressing of married woman and her husband has been replaced by ‘any women and her partner’. Thus, the act has widened its scope outside the marriage institution. Thus, by taking purposive view of beneficial legislation like MTP act, the rights conferred by the act has been given to all thew woman irrespective of the ones who are in the marriage institution.
Increasing the Time limit of Pregnancy Termination
Initially the act permitted the termination of pregnancies for less than 14 weeks. In 2021 it has been increased to 20 to 24 weeks of pregnancy. If the pregnancy is gone beyond 20 weeks and is less than 24 weeks, it can be terminated by the approval of a registered medical practitioner. This time limit beyond 20 weeks may not be easy at all. A Delhi 25-year-old girl gone with a plea of terminating a 23-week-old pregnancy has been terminated by the court.
Including Marital Rape as a ground for Termination of Pregnancy
This is the landmark observation done by the court recently. As per the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971, pregnancy can be terminated if it terribly affects the mental health of the woman. For the purpose of this provision, the act has been explained in such a way that, the pregnancy occurred as a result of the rape might cause anguish and serious mental health concerns to the woman and can be terminated as per the above provision of the act. So, in order to figure out what is rape for the meaning of this act, again we have to revisit the IPC for the definition of the rape in which we can see, marital rape is not included. But on 2nd October 2022, the court has observed that for the purpose of the provision of this act, Marital rape can be considered as a rape. Thus, pregnancy occurred as a result of the marital rape can be terminated as per the MTP Act, but marital rape has not been criminalized.
Even though the marital rape has not been criminalized yet, the decision of the Supreme Court to include marital rape as ground for termination of pregnancy as per the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act is a brave move and an indication for criminalizing the marital rape. Anyways as a competitive exam aspirant make sure you have gone through the present legal status of the marital rape in India and the reproductive rights and autonomy conferred by the woman in India. Enrol Entri for more such general awareness and ace your preparation. Keep studying Keep winning


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Fans are quite excited to witness Rocky Bhai building his empire in Narachi and his violent clash with the antagonist Adheera, Ramika Sen, Inayath Khalil and other government officials. However, before the big stage is set, the makers are all set to enthral all with the official trailer on March 27 at 6.40 pm.
Darling has several big-budget movies in a row including Salaar, Adipurush, Project K and Spirit. The makers have made high bids on these movies with the roaring popularity of Prabhas. Earlier, Prabhas was trolled for his bulky figure and following that several rumours circulated on social media that Prabhas will be shading weight to meet the requirements in the movie.
Shot simultaneously in Kannada and Telugu, 'Salaar' will be dubbed in other languages as well. The music will be composed by Ravi Basrur while cinematography will be handled by Bhuvan Gowda.
Cine buffs are up for a visual treat on Baisakhi next year as three big films are all set to hit the theaters on that very day – the 14th of April. Aamir Khan on Saturday (November 20) announced that his upcoming film ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’, alongside Kareena Kapoor, will be releasing on April 14, next year.
The movie has been described as the celebration of "victory of good over evil". Touted to be a visual extravaganza, the movie is expected to be a treat for VFX fans. It is even stated that the graphics in the mythological movie would have triple VFX than the 'Baahubali' series.
Undisputed king of the box office and one of the most popular Tollywood celebrities Megastar Chiranjeevi, continues to rule the hearts of millions, thanks to his impeccable acting skills. Chiranjeevi has many interesting movies in the pipeline. And if reports are anything to go by, actress Shruti Haasan is being considered as the female lead for Chiranjeevi's upcoming project.
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Prabhas will be playing the character of Vikramaditya, who is a Palmist. The period romance film is set in Europe in the 1970s. The video begins with Prabhas' voice in the background: "I know you, but no, I won't tell you."
Prabhas, popular as 'Young Rebel Star' is on a high and currently has several big projects lined up for release. After 'Radhe Shyam', the 'Baahubali' star's next collaboration with KGF maker Prashanth Neel for their upcoming film 'Salaar' is one of the most anticipated movies fans are excited about.
Radhe Shyam will mark Prabhas' return to the romantic genre after several years.
Prabhas also took to Instagram and wished his co-actor: "Happy Birthday bro @mesunnysingh . Had lots of fun with you on the sets. Have a beautiful day."
KGF 2's Prashanth Neel is all set to use entirely new technology for his upcoming flick Salaar with Prabhas.
Television actress Divya Agarwal has been enjoying limelight ever since she lifted the Bigg Boss OTT trophy. Now, there is also good news coming in for the Bigg Boss OTT winner as the actress may just have landed a movie role opposite Baahubali star Prabhas.
Prabhas is frequently hitting the headlines for his upcoming movies. All his upcoming movies are rated among the highly anticipated movies. However recently, the actor was immensely trolled by many on social media after some of his pictures went viral. Prabhas got snapped in Mumbai without makeup
Meanwhile on Sunday, Hombale films announced the final release date of the most anticipated movie KGF Chapter 2 release date. The makers have locked April 14 as the final release date which is the same date locked for Salaar.

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"My work as a documentary filmmaker is very personal and intimate in many ways and being able to pass those aspects onto the viewers in a discrete way is what I’d like to achieve."
Reiner Holzemer has been working as a documentary film director since 1983. The portraits of internationally renowned artists, especially from the fields of photography and fashion, are the focus of his work to date.
His film DRIES, which portrays fashion designer Dries Van Noten, and MARTIN MARGIELA IN HIS OWN WORDS have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and sold in over 64 countries.
In 2020, the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER voted Reiner Holzemer's film about Martin Margiela the best fashion documentary of the decade.
His latest documentary portrait about the exceptional actor Lars Eidinger premiered at Filmfest Hamburg and Vienna International Film Festival in October 2022.
1958 Born in Gemünden, Germany.
1976 Studies drama and social sciences in Erlangen.
1980 Foundation of a group of independent filmmakers. Self-taught training as author, director, cameraman and editor of documentary films.
1983 Foundation of the Reiner Holzemer Film Production. Until now, more than 35 documentary films and artist portraits have been produced: William Eggleston, Juergen Teller, August Sander, Walker Evans, René Burri, Magnum Photos, Dries Van Noten and Martin Margiela are examples of those.
1985 Reiner Holzemer teaches at the State Technical University in Nuremberg.
Since 1985 regular participation in international documentary film festivals, e.g. the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin. The artists' portraits have also been shown at renowned museums worldwide such as the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in NYC.
1999 Warded the city of Nuremberg´s Culture Grant.
MARTIN MARGIELA – IN HIS OWN WORDS is nominated for the German Documentary Film Award.
MARTIN MARGIELA SE RACONTE is nominated for the Belgian Grand Prix du Film sur l'Art.
Since 1993 RH directed more than 350 commercials worldwide.
Since 2002 RH is a member by appointment of the German Society for Photography.
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