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Hi, can anyone offer and advice? There was a brief storm yesterday and 1 roof tile fell off my property onto my tenants car roof. As far as I’m aware the roof is in a good state of repair. I rang my landlord insurance this morning and they said they won’t accept liability for the (luckily small) car damage as these freak weather events happen and the roof was good. Am I liable to cover her repair? We would feel bad about not doing. What are the legalities? Many thanks, Sarah.
She can get it repaired through her own insurance. As good will you could cover the excess.
If I have been in a similar situation with the neighbour I have asked them to take the car to my mechanic for repair and I have paid for it.
Then you know the cost is not being inflated and your mechanic may give you a good deal knowing the circumstances.
You’ll want to be careful - they can probably get it fixed through their own insurance, but then their insurance company might come after you or your insurance if they think you’re liable. If it’s only slight damage you’re probably best off paying for it & keeping insurance companies out of it. Even if you’re not liable, your tenant will appreciate it & next time they’ll return the favour over something else by waiting before calling you, or offering to fix\paint etc. something else.
Wise words, thanks both.
It’s hard to see why you wouldn’t be liable, and as such it’s best to sort it asap. It’s not the tenant’s roof but yours, and even when it’s an accident and the roof was in good order you’d be responsible.
Very odd the insurance said they wouldn’t cover it, but it’s probably best not to claim through insurance anyway.
I thought that was what public liability was for?
So did I which I said to the insurance company but he said not.
I would challenge that. That is why there is insurance. However the first £500 or whatever might not be covered ,so you might well be better paying yourself
Hi Colin, they said I could Cla m for the house roof but it probably wouldn’t be worth it after the excess of £150. It is my tenants car he said they wouldn’t cover, so I’ll see what I can do for her myself.
Was your insurance company not able to offer any information on liability?
I suspect its an ‘act of god’ and your not legally liable unless they can show that the roof wasn’t properly maintained, but you should probably check that with a solicitor.
Just found this: Claims For Damage Caused By Falling Slates
That was exactly what they said 'cos the roof was otherwise sound.
You are 100% responsible, insurance should cover.
Insurance excess is a double whammy, £150 and only payments above, if it’s £250 to do the roof, then you save a £100 but have a claim on your insurance and we know hat happens to premiums after. Get 3 quotes for repair to the damaged area only!
Do u mean I’m liable for the car roof?
I have ended up in a similar situation. What was the outcome in your case?
Hi Tim, in the end, cos she’s a good, trouble free tenant, I knocked £250 off her rent that month to cover her motor claims excess which she felt fair, and we still have a good relationship.

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The Honorable Chuck Hagel
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Dear Mr. Secretary,
We write to request that you intervene to end the force-feeding of competent hunger-striking prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, which constitutes cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. We also urge you to investigate and address recent allegations of the use of excessive force, isolation, temperature manipulation, and forced sleeplessness in Guantánamo, which could also constitute cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, and which raise even greater concerns if applied in combination with force-feeding.
At least 100 of the 166 men currently held at Guantánamo are on hunger strike, including many who have long been approved for release from the prison. By all accounts, the root cause of the hunger strike is the prisoners’ belief that they will be indefinitely imprisoned and likely die in Guantánamo. At the most recent count, 29 of the men are being force-fed.
The force-feeding process is inherently cruel, inhuman, and degrading. The prisoner is strapped into a chair with restraints on his legs, arms, body, and sometimes head, immobilizing him. A tube is inserted up his nostril, and snaked down his throat into his stomach. A liquid nutritional supplement is then forced down the tube. The prisoner is restrained in the chair for upwards of two hours to prevent him from vomiting. As Guantánamo hunger-striker Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel explained recently: “I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way. As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn’t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before.” Debilitating risks of force-feeding include major infections, pneumonia, collapsed lungs, heart failure, post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological trauma.
Because of force-feeding’s invasive nature, the World Medical Association (WMA), the preeminent international organization in the field of medical ethics and practice, has repeatedly condemned force-feeding of competent prisoners. The WMA’s Tokyo Declaration, adopted in 1975, states that doctors shall respect a competent prisoner’s right to refuse artificial feeding. And, in its Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikers, adopted in 1991 and revised in 2006 in large part due to developments in Guantánamo, the WMA states that “[f]orcible feeding is never ethically acceptable. Even if intended to benefit, feeding accompanied by threats, coercion, force or use of physical restraints is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment.” The American Medical Association, a member of the WMA, has endorsed these unequivocal principles, as evidenced by its April 25, 2013 letter to you. The International Committee of the Red Cross has similarly stated: “The ICRC is opposed to forced feeding or forced treatment; it is essential that the detainees’ choices be respected and their human dignity preserved.”
Force-feeding as used in Guantánamo violates Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, which bar cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment. It also could violate the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits the “cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment” of prisoners “regardless of nationality or physical location.” Indeed, a 2006 joint report submitted by five independent human rights experts of the United Nations Human Rights Council (formerly the U.N. Commission on Human Rights) found that the method of force- feeding then used in Guantánamo, and which appears to remain in effect today, amounted to torture as defined in Article 1 of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994. The report also asserted that doctors and other health professionals authorizing and participating in force-feeding prisoners were violating the right to health and other human rights, including those guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which the United States ratified in 1992. Those concerns were reiterated this month by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and three UN Special Rapporteurs.
In light of the above, we urgently request that you order the immediate and permanent cessation of all force-feeding of Guantánamo prisoners who are competent and capable of forming a rational judgment as to the consequences of refusing food. We request that you allow independent medical professionals to review and monitor the status of hunger-striking prisoners in a manner consistent with international ethical standards. We also request that you investigate and rectify any abusive conditions and treatment in addition to force-feeding.
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Asylum and Human Rights Program, Boston University School of Law Bill of Rights Defense Committee
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Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture Witness Against Torture
 Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, Gitmo Is Killing Me, NEW YORK TIMES (April 14, 2013), available at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-....
 World Medical Association, Declaration of Tokyo - Guidelines for Physicians Concerning Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Relation to Detention and Imprisonment, 1975, as revised, 2006, available at http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/c18/index.html (“Where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or she shall not be fed artificially.”).
 World Medical Association, Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikers, 1991, as revised 2006, available at http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/h31/index.html.
 Hunger strikes in prisons: the ICRC’s position (January 31, 2013), available at http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/faq/hunger-strike-icrc-posit....
 Situation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Report of the Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Leila Zerrougui; the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Leandro Despouy; the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Asma Jahangir; and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Paul Hunt. Commission on Human Rights, Sixty-second session, E/CN.4/2006/120 (February 27, 2006).
 Press Release, IACHR, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, UN Rapporteur on Torture, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, and UN Rapporteur on Health Reiterate Need to End the Indefinite Detention of Individuals at Guantánamo Naval Base in Light of Current Human Rights Crisis, Organization of American States (May 1, 2013).
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Eshay Brantley didn’t know what to expect walking into the Theatre I class at Washburn High School in Minneapolis. But, having felt as though she hadn’t found her niche in school yet, she went in with an open mind.
Two years later, Brantley’s a senior, and identifies as a spoken word artist and has competed in the spoken word competition Brave New Voices through Tru Art Speaks, performed at locations including Macalester College, and received an award for her role as a youth educator at the Twin Cities Social Justice Education Fair.
“We save lives here every single day, just by having students get on stage and actually speak from their heart,” Brantley said.
Theatre I is just one of five classes now being taught at Washburn through their Black Box Acting Program. The series, which started in 2008, provides three levels of theater classes, as well as a spoken word class and one aimed at students with developmental disabilities. The program is meant to help students further explore social justice issues, and teach them skills to help them better advocate their needs and beliefs.
Brantley said she came from a family that didn’t talk about social justice issues, so the theater classes provided her with an outlet to explore social issues like marginalized communities and systematic oppression. The classes also helped her figure out her role in those issues and within her community, she said.
“[It] made me think less about myself and more about the people around me and what I see is affecting the people around me,” Brantley said.
Brantley’s experience with the program is not an anomaly. Spring said that while some students sign up because they have older siblings or friends who have taken the class, others receive the class as part of their schedule. “They don’t really know what to expect and it ends up being a good fit, or not,” she said.
The Black Box Acting Program is modeled after a similar program from St. Paul Central High School, said program founder Crystal Spring. Through the program, students look at social issues early on, she said, and focus on issues they witness within their personal lives, their communities or around the world.
“I think most protests and movements in the world have started with students and with young people, because they have the energy and they have that hope for things to be different,” said Spring. “I think it is just a very natural fit and when you give kids the space and the platform and the opportunity, it’s not hard for them to figure out what is frustrating or what isn’t right in the world or community. “
The social justice focus provides students with an outlet that they may not be receiving in other classes, Brantley said, and they have seen significant changes occurring in the Washburn demographics since they began there, specifically a growing homogeneity within the student body.
A 2008 initiative to improve the school was a focus on the International Baccalaureate program, Brantley said, which provides college level courses in high school for gifted students. While these advanced classes may have the intention of helping to close the current achievement gap, she said, they actually make things worse.
“I took an IB class and there were only two African American students, there were only two mixed race students, and then the rest of the students were predominantly white,” Brantley said.
But Brantley said the lack of diversity isn’t about intelligence, but rather a lack of resources like internet access, and a lack of time. Brantley currently works 40 hours a week, she said, and can’t participate in more IB classes. And this has her feeling like she isn’t being provided the opportunity to fully prepare herself for college, she said.
Spring said Washburn’s previous principal worked hard to maintain classroom diversity before her time at Washburn ended. And while there is still intentional integration happening, she said, she can now walk down the halls and see classes with all one type of student. “It worries me. I understand that things are going to change, but I don’t think that’s who Washburn is, necessarily. That’s not the Washburn I know,” said Spring.
The diversity of the Black Box Acting Program’s classes provides students a break from those stresses, said senior Myles Kuchar, a student in Theatre I this semester. Kuchar said the class has helped him realize the benefit of interacting with very different people. “It opened my eyes to a lot of people’s lives and how we all like different art forms,” he said. “It has made me more open minded.”
Senior Abdul Mohammed said the classes provide a safe space for students to talk about personal beliefs and feel comfortable expressing them.
“This class has taught me to stand up for myself and to talk about what I believe in and to express my views,” he said. “This is called a safe space because we talk about things that are deep.”
Each semester Spring said she applies for a $500 grant from the Washburn High School Foundation to fund the classes. This is added to all profits from the program’s ticket sales during performances, she said, and almost all of the money goes to hiring outside artists to come to class. “That’s kind of the text for the kids, to be able to see a living, breathing artist who does the work, and to get to learn dance, spoken word, playwriting, or acting.”
The program also receives support from organizations like Intermedia Arts and Pillsbury House Theatre for fieldtrips to performances.
“That’s the most important thing for me, getting the kids engaged in the community in that way and seeing themselves as a part of that community and not as something separate,” Spring said. “Because when they leave, they are the next generation of artists, so we need them to envision themselves in spaces like theaters and art spaces.”
Spring said she also likes to use class trips to show students what it would be like to study arts and social justice in a college setting.
Students are always welcome to come back and visit after they graduate, she said. “The black box is like a home, they can always come back to it and share and give and take what they need from that space and from me. I want to support them as much as I can every step of the way.”
Brantley said she plans on using what she has learned from Spring and the connections that she has made during her time with the program after she graduates. Her current plans are to study theater and social justice in order to develop a similar program at a school elsewhere, possibly Chicago.
“I want to do education so that I can come back and I can teach kids,” Brantley said. “I’m really passionate about history because I think that once you know your history, nobody can tell you anything about yourself. And that’s where a lot of your confidence comes from, is knowing yourself and knowing where you came from.”
When asked how the program is affected by its small amount of funding, Brantley said, “It’s not. That’s not going to stop us from reaching the end goal, which is informing youth about their power.”
This story was written by a Twin Cities Daily Planet intern for the TCDP college internship program, in partnership with HECUA.
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly attributed a quote to Crystal Spring. Brantley said, “I want to do education so that I can come back and I can teach kids.”


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Durga Puja celebrations go global
Cultural programmes, contests and performances by well-known artistes from India are planned, as Bengalis across the world celebrate Durga Puja.Updated: Sep 29, 2006 15:51 IST
Cultural programmes, contests, performances by well-known artistes from India and food festivals are planned as Bengalis across the world celebrate Durga Puja.
In Houston, the Houston Durga Bari society is all set to welcome goddess Durga. Members of the society have lined up a long list of cultural events. This year's event will feature songs ranging from devotional to modern Bengali songs.
According to the society's website durgabari.org, the puja committee this year wants to serve up a feast of entertainment, palatable to various sections of the community.
For Indians in Florida, this year is a special one. The Bengali Society of Florida will celebrate its 24th year of existence. This year, the puja will be held Oct 7, at a Hindu Temple at Casselberry.
In San Francisco, a day event is planned out at the Chabot College Performing Arts Center. Bollywood singer Babul Supriyo is all set to add colour to the celebrations.
At Sunnyvale, California, the puja will be celebrated at the Sunnyvale Hindu Temple in a traditional way. The organisers have invited Utpalendu Chowdhury, one of the most popular singers of Bengal.
In North Carolina, the Hindu Society of Greensboro celebrated the event Sep 24.
In the south German city of Stuttgart, puja celebrations will enter the 11th year. This year the priest is being specially flown in from London.
In Cologne, puja is being organised by Indischer Kulturverein (Bharat Samiti). This puja is rated among the biggest in Germany.
In London, for the first time the idol of Durga is being made at the British museum by artisans flown from West Bengal. After the celebrations are over, the idol will be immersed in the Thames Oct 2.
Traditional bhog would be served in both London and Cologne. Bengali food festivals would be laid out where both expatriates and locals would be served a variety of dishes cooked by women in typical Bengali style.
In Australia, the Bengali Association of New South Wales (NSW) will mark the puja during the weekend.
In Helsinki, puja will be celebrated Saturday, and most Bengalis living in Finland are trying to ensure that they make it an annual event.
In Muscat, Bengalis are gearing up to celebrate Durga Puja on a grand scale and spread over five days. Families are busy chalking out plans.
Most Bengalis will gather at the Hindu temple in Sohar, in old Muscat. Bengalis in this part of the world have been celebrating the Durga puja since 1982.
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I’m kind of a Disney fanatic. I prefer the old school movies like Little Mermaid and Lion King, but I also love the newer movies like FROZEN of course. And don’t get me started on how many episodes of Dog with a Blog and Austin and Ally I’ve seen in the past year. For some reason I don’t get as lonely at home if the TV is on, so we end up watching a lot of Disney Channel because it’s one of the few channels I feel comfortable with K watching. Luckily for me, my SNAP secret sister was also a self-proclaimed Disney addict. As one of her secret sister gifts I decided to make her a new Disney board game that she could play with her cute kids when she got home, since I knew they would be missing her like crazy. I designed the game for anyone to be able to play, not just my secret sister, so here you go – a free printable Disney board game complete with printable trivia cards.
The game is simple enough, but don’t worry, I also created a set of instructions in case you get stuck. Everyone chooses a character. I just stuck stickers to coins (because they fit well on the game pieces), but you could easily use game pieces from any other board game as well. You’ll want to borrow a die from another board game (or just purchase one to go with this game).
Once you’ve determined who will go first, you roll the die and if you land on a space that says, “Take a card,” you take a card and follow the instructions on the card. I created three different types of trivia cards – straight Disney trivia (e.g., who was Tarzan’s girlfriend), identifying Disney characters, and singing the next line in a Disney song. If any of the cards are too difficult for your family, feel free to just use one set and add in the others when you’re ready. Continue playing until someone reaches the finish line.
To create the board, all you have to do is print out the game board pages below. I recommend printing them on white cardstock and then laminating them. Once they’re laminated, tape the edges of the board together where the path lines up so that it forms a square game board. Like any other game board, once it’s all taped together, you can fold it up nicely. One thing you’ll notice as you’re printing out the game board is that there are no pictures on the downloadable version. When I went to get mine printed, I actually was told I couldn’t print it because it had copyrighted images on it (downloaded from Disney.com), and they weren’t allowed to print them even for personal use. So that being said, print out the game board and add some of your own Disney stickers or even let the kids draw pictures if you want before you laminate them.
And that’s it! Here are all of the downloadable materials for the game, but before you go download them, see if you can answer this trivia question – Who Wrote the Song “I Will Go the Distance,” from Hercules? Leave the answer in the comments. Good luck!
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Chocolate surprise puddings
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- 255g (1 1/4 cups, firmly packed) brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
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- 60ml (1/4 cup) milk
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- Press Release
- Dec 7, 2022
NASA Planetary Division Management Responds to Community Concerns
James L. Green, Director, Planetary Science Division
The President’s FY13 budget for the Planetary Science Division (PSD) was reduced by 21% from its FY12 level. This reduction has not been equally distributed throughout the program. For instance our flight programs have taken the greatest reduction with the withdrawal of significant NASA participation in ESA’s Mars 2016 and 2018 missions, and significant changes in the Discovery and New Frontiers flight rates. It is a fact that a reduction in Planetary Division funding will reduce science with the additional expectation that there will be increased proposal pressure in many of the Research and Analysis (R&A) programs as missions wind down with no new mission selections and participating scientist calls to take their place.
The projected R&A funding for FY13 is planned to be $228M, which is more than 19% of the entire Planetary Science budget (a historic high percentage). The PSD is following closely previous recommendations and findings of the Planetary Science Subcommittee (PSS) to better manage its R&A program consistent with funding constraints while addressing critical R&A issues such as slow notification and budget stability. It is important to note that NASA is currently being funded under a continuing resolution whose procedures are to provide partial funding at regular intervals. Therefore, many of the PSD Program Officers (PO) do not currently have all their R&A program funding to meet their current commitments and selections. To take this situation into account, the following are the PSD R&A management principles:
1. FY13 funding targets have been provided to all program officers (PO) for each of the PSD ROSES program elements.
2. All POs will meet current ongoing grants commitments before new selections can be made.
3. Awards will be made and announced beginning one month after the review panels have met.
4. Section announcements will be either: selected, notselected, or selectable.
5. Proposals in the selectable category will be selected as funding becomes available throughout the fiscal year. This means that selection rates for a program will increase as additional selections are announced.
As an example, recent selection announcements in the Planetary Astronomy and Planetary Atmosphere R&A programs did not report the “selectable” letters that went out to many proposers that would be funded as funds become available later in the year.
Contrary to statements being made by some individuals in the science community, the recent announcement of the Mars 2020 rover has nothing to do with the current R&A selection rates nor has it impacted the current or projected amounts to be spent in the R&A program. The Mars 2020 rover will be designed to “conduct mobile surface-based science at a site selected for its ability to preserve evidence of life, and prepare for the future return of samples per the NRC Planetary Decadal Survey.” A call for the membership of the Science Definition Team (SDT) for the Mars 2020 rover has just been release. For more information on this SDT please see:


Alexander treats prescription drug abuse
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., today announced he and Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., have secured inclusion of their bi-partisan proposal to combat prescription drug abuse. The proposal will be attached to legislation reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration.
"Tennessee ranks second in the nation for prescription drug use--much of which is legitimate, but some of which is abusive--so we worked to include this provision that will help Tennessee and other states better monitor and prevent the increasing problem of prescription drug abuse, " said Alexander.
Casey added, "Prescription drug abuse has reached unprecedented levels in Pennsylvania and across the country, leading to deaths, serious injuries and costly hospitalizations."
The legislation is currently before the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee. Alexander's proposal, according to a joint press release, "directs the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA to undertake a review and make recommendations to better track and promote the safe use of prescription drugs. The recommendations would enhance data collection at the federal level, the coordination and effectiveness of prescription drug monitoring programs at the state level, and provide guidance to health professionals about recognizing and reacting to signs of abuse. The proposal would also require the FDA to reveal within six months how it will review and approve new tamper-resistant products designed to prevent abuse."
Tennessee has paid lip service to the problem of prescription drug abuse, creating the Tennessee Drug Diversion Task Force more than four years ago. Yet, as reported in the News Sentinel last year, the Task Force never received any funding. Alexander's proposal addresses a serious problem, one state government has certainly identified but has yet to see as serious enough to fund.


The vehicle registration department for the State of Florida is becoming decentralized. Each county will now handle its own registration process and will issue its own license plates. However, there needs to be some centralized checking so that counties do not duplicate license plate design yet are still distinguished from other counties. Counties also need to notify each other if an address listed for registration is not within their county but is within another county to check for fraud and tax evasion.
Additionally they must maintain employment records to assist the court collection division of the state.
So while there is all the traditional information that must be kept for vehicle registration there is also information that must be maintained for other state purposes. A consulting firm has narrowed the choice of programming language to Java and Pascal. Which language do you think would be more appropriate for this application and why?
In my opinion the Programming Language to implement such a Vehicle Registration sytem should be Java. I present the following points in favour of my recommendation.
a) Java is an Object Oriented Programming Language which encodes real life entities into objects. Other objects may not be able to access certain (private) parts of an ...
This solution discusses the issues with implementing a decentralized application for the Vehicle Registration Process for issuing license plates. This case study will help understand why Java is preferred in such a situation.


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W. H. Auden - "The Language of Learning and the Language of Love"
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Book DescriptionThe second volume in the Auden Studies Series, The Language of Learning and the Language of Love considers Auden primarily during the first decade of his literary career as a public figure as well as private man. It includes previously unpublished poems, prose, and letters by Auden - each with a scholarly introduction and full annotation - which reveal how the well-known poet, teacher, dramatist, and sage battled with his literary ancestors, experienced love, and devised a rhetoric to express both homosexual feelings and artistic impulses. Contributions to this volume include poems, songs, and a piece of early travel writing introduced by Auden's new biographer, the historian Richard Davenport-Hines. Lyrics offered to Benjamin Britten as cabaret songs are presented by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Nicholas Jenkins. Also in the volume is a fascinating array of essays about Auden by leading scholars in the field, including Stan Smith and Katherine Bucknell, and the German scholar and close friend of Auden, David Luke. A further Supplement to B.C. Bloomfield's magisterial Auden Bibliography of 1972 is supplied by Edward Mendelson.
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Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
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Hilarious Pictures of the week -70 pics- I Requested Minions Of Darkness And You Send Me Fluffy Jellybeans
Minions, Jellybean Fluffy, Funny Cat, Funny Pictures, Baby Kittens, Funny Animal, Jelly Beans, Book Jackets, Black Cat
Funny Pictures of the day, 64 pics. I Requested Minions Of Darkness And You Send Me Fluffy Jellybeans
Hilarious Pictures of the week -70 pics- I Requested Minions Of Darkness And You Send Me Fluffy Jellybeans funny cats
Fluffy jellybeans. Minions of darkness. Same dif. (I love fluffy jelly beans, thank you Jen!)
Minions of darkness // funny pictures - funny photos - funny images - funny pics - funny quotes - #lol #humor #funnypictures. I have a black cat and she is never like this lol
baby kittens - Fluffy jelly beans
Funny. Funny cat. Funny kitten. Funny kitty. Funny animal.
And this prom dress.
Laughing, Wedding Dressses, Funny Pictures, Wedding Dresses, Fails, Ebay, Funny Stuff, Humor, China
HAHAHAHA this is why I don't buy shit from China! It's shit quality omg the stylist makes me laugh. We both agree we've both just seen the shittest dress ever bought. Especially for a fucking wedding omg just NO :P i'd send them home if they arrived in something minging and not formal
Cheap Wedding Dresses From China On Ebay - http://wedding-ideas.party/cheap-wedding-dresses-from-china-on-ebay-7/
Fashion fail! This is why you shouldn't order a dress on eBay from China!
Goodbi Twinkie, Cincinnati Bakeries, Hostess Snacks, Work Outs, Funny Stuff, Twinkie Plants, Goodbye Twinkie, Plants Close
Twinkie plant closes
Hostess is closing their Cincinnati bakery along with two other plants. How did that Teamsters Union strike work out for you? Hundreds to lose their jobs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqUqgSW2NEs=player_embedded
I just laughed so hard
Laughing, Giggles, Funny Stuff, So True, Truths, Humor, So Funny, Satan Anus, Bananas Anatomy
Banana Anatomy. I laughed so hard I got tears. SO TRUE!
banana anatomy, I literally burst into giggles after reading this... Holy Lawd!
Banana Anatomy. WHY DO I FIND THIS SO FUNNY?!
I laughed so hard. So much truth!
I just laughed so hard at this!!! So true!! Lolololol satan's anus!!
lol banana humor "satan's anus"
OMG I haven't laughed this hard in a long time. Funny stuff!
What do you do with Kitty Pity?
Pity, Laughing, Funny Pics, Funny Meme, Crazy Cat, Funny Stuff, Humor, Hadnt Declaw, Animal
But really, declawing is no laughing matter. It is senseless mutilation. Want a cat? Live with claws. Get those little plastic claw tips.
teehee:) only true guard members understand this one:D
Color Guard, Guard Things, Marching Band, Guard Life, Guard Member, Guard Girls, Guard Problems, Colorguard Stuff
color guard problems
Color guard life
Only color guard girls understand this.
It's a guard thing. You wont understand
Only color guard members will get this
Oh so true!
Laughing, Quotes, Truths, Funny Stuff, Humor, Ecards, Women, E Cards, True Stories
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - TRUTH
True story. Very relevant to how i feel today #ecard
Ugh... I should not pin this...but it makes me laugh. :)
If You're A CNA then You'll appreciate the humor . Get Your Limited Edition "Keep Calm and Take Off Your Pants (I'm A CNA)" shirt before they're gone http://teespring.com/takeoffyourpaints
Funny ecard women
fact. #GirlPower #women #girls #quotes
Soooo me e card
Funny Movies Ecard: Pinterest says it could not fetch pin. Pinterest, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen!
Awesome, Mean Girls Quotes, Movie, Girl Humor, Ecards, Girls Reference, So Funny, Mean Girls Humor, Mean Girl Quotes
Mean Girls & Pinterest. So funny. Ecards
Funny Movies Ecard
Oh Mean Girl humor!
Mean Girls <3 Awesome movie
yess mean girls quotes! @Ellie Geenen
Bahahaha! Mean girls reference :)
That's how they work.
Thoughts, The Doors, Inspiration, Quotes, Giggles, Close Doors, Doors Close, Funny Stuff, Doors Work
Funny quotes with pictures... #humor #funny #quotes +++For more of the funny stuff, visit http://www.quotesarelife.com/
When one door closes another one opens OR you can open the closed door...Humorous Fruit For Thought
Inspirational quote. When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That's how doors work.
funny disparaging quotes that make you chuckle I prefer to open the door. I mean I've got this door in my house that closes by itself all the time....
Made me giggle
Dairy Cattle, The Real, Food Safety, Vegans Lifestyle, Black White, Funny Stuff, Moo Bitch, Drinks Water, Dairy Cow
Dairy cattle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .... Just my own reminder of why I need to stick to a dairy free, vegan lifestyle!
Dairy cows can make milk for years after birthing a calf, but only if they are continually milked. Drawing the milk out of the cow generates more milk. What a great and tasty model of abundance! As far as I can tell, the same holds true with ideas. Continually share your ideas, and they’ll keep coming, richer than ever.
The real villain in the California drought isn't almonds — it's red meat
7 foods even food safety experts wont eat.
moo bitch haha!
Cow female black white
That escalated quickly
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My parents everytime. Lol...Funny Pictures & Funny Quotes @ http://pinteresthumor.com #humor
Click the picture for more funny stuff! I know it would be painful to look at the other pictures. Perhaps this site would help http://PainKickers.com/back-injuries/
true story, just look at the one I am showing you ok?!
Haha this made me laugh
Bahaha I love this
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So true, sorry about the mf bomb but this is my LIFE.
Bahahahaha. It is an art.
an art. So true!!!
So me!!! Just ask my boyfriend
lol totally me!!!
Happens with roommates
Haha clever kid
Like A Boss, Evil Genius, Boys Rooms, Sons, Well Plays, Smart Kids, Challenges Accepted, Little Boys, Brother Rooms
Well played, son!
Legos like a boss. Smart kid.
Well played evil genius. Well played.
Legos like a boss it looks like my brothers room
Best Of, “Well Played…” – 27 Pics | Damn, thats one smart kid.
Lego minefield? Well played, sir and challenge accepted.
Well played - I think this is my boys room!
Well played little boy. Well played.
This is my life.... totally my boys
My Boys, My Life, Accur, My Children, Small Children, So Funny, Can'T Stop Laughing, Kid, Conspir
Every morning of my life. I always knew they were secretly conspiring against me....
Trying to leave the house with small children - OMG my life!
BY FAR! the most accurate description of my kids!!
SO funny! Kids are never in as much of hurry as you.
Sounds about right! This IS MY LIFE EVERY MORNING WITH MY CHILDREN! Can't stop laughing!!!!
Best pun EVER
Cards Puns, Jokes, Discount Tent R, Discount Tentsr, Funny, Tentsr Green, Butt, Love Puns, Tent R Green
I love puns
Richard III joke
Best pun EVER! Still laughing my butt off.
literary card pun
Sheldon Valentine's Day Card. So sweet. Haaa
Valentine Day Cards, Big Bang Theory, Sheldon, Big Bangs Theory, Funny, Valentinesday, Valentines Cards, Beckham, Valentines Day Cards
I love you like Sheldon loves his spot #love #cute #funny the big bang theory
#BIgBangTheory #Bazinga #SheldonCooper #Sheldon #Penny #JimParsons #ValentinesDay #SNL #CBS #Love #Funny #BigBang #TV #TheBigBangTheory #MayimBialik #Leonard #Torrent #NeildeGrasseTyson #Coffee #GameofThrones #Shamy
Hahha oh yes.
Dance Teacher, Dancers Problems, Dance Quotes, So True, Dance Problems, Band Problems, Cheer Problems, True Stories, Dance 3
dance problems cheer problems
#Dancer Problems #UMKC
Sydney!!! Just Dance 3 at your house lol
True story! Espescially for Deidra!!
So true my dance teacher does this!
dance problems... so true
Dance problem? More like band problem.
Motivation Poster, Hotdogs, Funny Shit, Funny Pictures, Dirty Mind, Funny Stuff, Dirtymind, Hot Dogs, Demotivational Poster
#dirtymind if you have one, you'll see it. #ketchup #hotdog #letsgetwordy
Demotivational Posters - A Dirty Mind
funny motivational posters | Funny Motivational Posters
Signs, Remember This, Funny, Children, David Bowie, The Labyrinths, Best Movies, Goblin King, Kid
Just remember this next time you try to pawn your misbehaving children on me!
Goblin King #Children, #Labyrinth, #Bowie, #Funny, #Jareth YESSSSS
children beware..labyrinth is one of the best movies ever
Amazing shop sign, watch out kids, David Bowie will put you in the labyrinth and those red things that pull off their heads will get you!
Unattended Children will be Given to the Goblin King. There he will learn the secrets of dance magic.. movies, David Bowie, labyrinth, Signs, goblin
Gingerbread crack house
The Holidays, Gingerbread Crackhous, Crack House, The Neighborhood, Crackhouse, Funny Stuff, Gingerbread House, So Funny, Christmas Projects
Gingerbread Crackhouse @Tammy Chinn don't move to the neighborhood looks like that! ;)
crack house gingerbread house | Gingerbread crack house
Gingercrack House - Funny Stuff
Making this for the holidays this year
gingerbread crack house, so funny!!
Some totally wrong (but hilarious) gingerbread houses. Gingerbread Crackhouse is my personal favorite
Rick Perry, Eye Contact, Corndog, Corn Dogs, Funny Stuff, Humor, So Funny, Lol Pics, Good Advice
Rick Perry corn dog remix
good advice! OH CRAP
And don't make eye contact when eating a banana.
Always check your surroundings… Can't stop laughing! So terrible, yet so funny!
Surrounding matters - #OnlyForU, #funny, #lol, #fun, #humor, #rofl, #gif, #troll, #comics, #meme, #gags, #new, #lol pics, #lol gifs, #Funny pics, #Funny gifs,
I wish I could see funny stuff like this in real life!
Red Shirt of death!
The Walks Dead, Redshirt, The Walking Dead, Stars Trek, Startrek, Walkingdead, The Originals, Red Shirts, Star Trek
hahaha the red shirts || Star Trek || The Walking Dead
Star Trek Red Shirts - The Original Walking Dead
Red shirts are The Walking Dead! Lol! #startrek
Star Trek / The Walking Dead Oh those poor redshirts...
Hahahaha! Oh my god I'm dying
Laughing, Quotes, Giggles, Funny Stuff, So True, Too Funny, Ecards, Kids, So Funny
I can't stop laughing!!!!! Don't have kids but still so funny
I don't have kids, but this made me giggle.
Hahaha! This makes me laugh even though its kind of crude, and plus I never did that, so I can't use this quote personally...but it made me laugh.
I don't have kids, but this is too funny hahaha.
Bahahahahahahahahahahahaha. i don't have kids, nor do i want them.. but THIS is funny stuff. and something i would say
hahahahahahhahahahah!!! YESSSS!!!! Best ecard ever!!
I laughed. I laughed so hard. @Johnna Zeytoun OMG, so so so true. my creeps always say that, especially when im dancing and trying to embarass them...lol
Thoughts, Clams, Jungles, Gift, Tigers Lost, God, Real Life, So Funny, Can'T Stop Laughing
is this real life?
Is your tiger lost in the jungle? LMAO,, so funny!!
Christmas gift for your tiger?
your tiger lost in the jungle? oh my god i can't stop laughing
your tiger lost in the jungle? hahahahahaha!!!!!,,,What's even funnier is that I thought it said "tigger" Hahahahahaha...
I laughed way to hard at this...for girls is it 'is ur clam lost in the reef??'

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If you read our recent posts on ActionScript/Flex refactorings, you might have noticed that UML diagramming in freshly released IntelliJ IDEA 9 works not only for Java. That’s right, you can use it to analyze your ActionScript and Flex classes.
In addition to other refactorings, Maia also has this useful refactoring: push members down the classes hierarchy. Again, let’s try it on a simple example.
Today we’re continuing our series of posts about new ActionScript/Flex refactorings that you can find in the latest Maia EAP, with presentation of this new aid: pull class members up the classes hierarchy. Let’s have look at this simple example.
Next Maia’s EAP will bring you new refactoring that helps to be more productive when coding ActionScript or Flex. Now you can easily move static methods, properties, fields and constants between AS classes and Mxml components: just place caret on … Continue reading
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ASME produces codes and standards that are the most widely used in the world for the design, operation, maintenance, and repair of pressure vessels and nuclear facilities.
This course will provide you with an understanding of valves and how they interact for optimum system performance. During the course you will receive guidance in making cost-effective decisions and tips for avoiding poor valve system operation. You will also learn how valves are used across different industries.
The course is structured in a sequence, starting from basics to detailed discussion of various aspects of valves. The objectives have been designed to help you to develop a full understanding of valves starting from selection, installation, operation, maintenance, to trouble shooting. Two case studies are provided to help support the learning process.
You Will Learn To
- Explain how to select the correct valve for a system
- Identify the most cost effective methods to control flow
- Describe how to reduce equipment costs by proper selection of valves in the system
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- Identify how to control costs by avoiding improperly selected valves
- Explain how to install, operate and maintain valves
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Lithuania, like other Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, faces middle-income trap. Despite significant (compared to GDP) public investment in research and development (R&D), innovations and higher education, the innovativeness of these economies grew slowly. This contradicts the expectations and is the basis of the regional innovation paradox. The research project aims to explain this important paradox.
The main thesis of the proposed research is that innovation activities of firms depend on their positions in global value chains (GVCs) and competences of employees, determining absorptive capacities of companies. Firms involved at the beginning or the end of GVCs have opportunities and incentives to innovate, and their employees are constantly learning at the workplace, which further increases innovation potential. Meanwhile, firms creating low value‐added in GVCs (despite subsidies for innovation or training) do not have incentives to invest in risky innovations, and their employees eventually lose competences.
The research aims to explain and estimate the links between participation in GVCs, skills, and innovativeness in the context of CEE countries. The study seeks to:
- Contribute to theoretical understanding of GVCs and middle-income trap by developing a conceptual model for explaining the relationship between firms’ positions in GVCs, innovativeness and employees’ skills.
- Quantitatively analyse firms’ positions in GVCs in CEE countries at sectoral level. This involves analysis of international input-output tables covering 1995-2014.
- Estimate factual competences of employees. This involves development a new measurement based on types of tasks that employees carry out at the workplace, indicating the actual use of their skills. This measure will be compared against other existing indices
- Empirically estimate relationships between position in GVCs, skills and innovativeness at sectoral level by employing quantitative analysis. This will allow estimating the impacts of position in GVCs and competences on innovativeness, testing the proposed conceptual model.
- Identify ‘success factors’ of knowledge‐based growth via case studies in Lithuania and Estonia in selected sectors.
- Propose policy recommendations that could contribute to developing strategies for escaping the middle-income trap, based on obtained evidence.
The project is funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (grant No. S-MIP-17-116).
- Krūminas P., Paliokaitė A., Martinaitis, Ž., Tiits, M. (2019). Global Value Chains, Skills and Innovation Activities in Firms: Conceptual Issues. Paper presented at 6th annual AIB-CEE conference in Kaunas, held by Kaunas University of Technology, 25-27 September 2019.
- Krūminas P., Rybakovas E., Paliokaitė A. (2019). Global Value Chains as Pathway to Innovation: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at 31st Annual EAEPE Conference in Warsaw, held at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, 12-15 September 2019.
- Krūminas P., Rybakovas E., Paliokaitė A. (2019). Global value chains and middle-income trap in Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at 21st annual ESDG conference in Bern, held by World Trade Institute, 12-14 September 2019.
- Martinaitis Ž., Christenko A., Antanavičius J. (2018). High or low? Approaches to measuring skills of labour force. Paper presented at 30th Annual EAEPE Conference, held at University Nice Sophia Antipolis, 6-8 September 2018.
- Krūminas, P., Rybakovas, E., Paliokaitė, A. (2018). Global Value Chains in Transition Economies: Integration Paths in Central and Eastern Europe. In: A World of Flows: Labour Mobility, Capital and Knowledge in an Age of Global Reversal and Regional Revival. 2018 Annual Conference of Regional Studies Association. 3rd –6th June 2018, Universita Della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
- Paliokaitė A., Jašinskaitė E., Tiits M. (2021). GVC Upgrading and Business-University Collaborations: case studies of successful innovators, Triple Helix, 31 Mar 2021, 1–43. https://doi.org/10.1163/21971927-BJA10016
- Krūminas P., Paliokaitė A., Martinaitis, Ž. Tiits M. (2019). Global value chains, skills and innovations: conceptual issues, in review.
- Krūminas P., Rybakovas E., Paliokaitė A. (2019). Global value chains and middle-income trap skills, innovation, and integration in CEE, in review.
- Martinaitis Ž., Christenko A., Antanavičius J. (2019). Upskilling, deskilling or polarisation? Evidence on change in skills in Europe, Work, Employment and Society, 00(0), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020937934
- Rybakovas E., Krūminas P., Paliokaitė A. (2019). Global Value Chains Participation Productivity of Central and Eastern Europe Countries Manufacturing Industry Sectors, in review.
- Paliokaitė A. (2019). An innovation policy framework for upgrading firm absorptive capacities in the context of catching-up economies. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 15(3), 103-129.
- Paliokaitė A., Krūminas P. et al. (2019). Global value chains and middle income trap in the Central and Eastern Europe: policy implications.
- Paliokaitė A. (2019). Upgrading in the global value chains – the CEE case. Presentation to the decision makers from three Baltic States, the European Commission and the OECD at the seminar ‘Smart specialisation strategy as a tool to better anchor Baltic States in global value chains, Riga, 19 September 2019.
- Project results discussed at the Smart Regions Conference 3.0: Transformation through Smart Specialisation, panel discussion “Development of value chains in catching up regions”, Brussels, 15 November 2019.

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Ben is being bullied at school. Other boys shove him, call him names and leave him out of games. Who can help him? What can he do?
One in five children are bullied at school. Bullying can be overt: physical and verbal, or covert: passive-aggressive and excluding. Bullying can create a legacy for life if no one intervenes.
Beating the Bullies is a guide for 7–11 year old boys and girls written by Clinical Psychologist Dr Lucy Blunt. In the form of an innovative children’s chapter book, it gives age-appropriate information aimed to “upskill” the child and give them “bully-proof strategies” for coping. Beating the Bullies also has two invaluable resource guides; one for parents (who often feel powerless and helpless at this time) and one for teachers (with class specific questions and activities).
Illustrated by Dr Blunt’s daughter, Chloe Osborn, Beating the Bullies is engaging and interactive and an essential resource to tackle the damaging and important issue of bullying.


Increase fines for stupid drivers: OPINION
IT'S time for the State Government to raise fines for people who drive through flood waters.
Despite numerous warnings and a major media campaign NOT to dive through flood waters, some people continue to flirt with danger.
Police currently have the powers to fine drivers who risk, not only their own life, but those of the emergency crews who have to come to their rescue. But this amounts to only a few hundred dollars.
If it was raised to a minimum $5000 fine and automatic loss of licence for 12 months, I don't think we'd be getting so many cars getting caught in flood waters, do you?
Some common excuses coming back from drivers caught out seem to be: I knew the road well; I was in 4WD; I have done it before; I thought I could make it; I just wanted to get home other drivers were doing it as well.
If we want to stamp out drivers doing death defying stunts in family sedans, it is time to make driving through flooded creeks just the same as drink driving or driving under the influence of drugs.
Because it is a total abdication of responsibility to say drivers aren't aware of the issues of driving in such dangerous conditions.
Until there is an incentive to do otherwise, we will continue to see stupid behaviour on our roads.
Local politicians did make some noises about doing something about this issue after the last major rain event. Now is the time to ramp up that campaign.


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Kuechly registered eight tackles during Sunday's 31-24 loss to Atlanta.
Kuechly's high-level performance puts to rest any concerns regarding his knee injury heading into the Week 2 divisional contest. A healthy Kuechly at 100 percent should bode well for Carolina moving forward.
Kuechly played through a hyperextended knee during the Panther's season-opening victory over the Cowboys, logging 13 combined tackles. Carolina's star linebacker appears to have recovered from the minor knee issue and should be expected to suit up against the Falcons on Sunday.
Kuechly was held out of the offseason program while recovering from January shoulder surgery, but his Week 1 availability hasn't ever seemed to be in doubt. He does have a worrisome medical record, however, and has missed 10 games over the past three seasons. The multiple setbacks on the health front haven't derailed Kuechly's standing as an elite IDP when he's able to take the field, however, as he's averaged 9.1 tackles per contest over that three-year stretch and has chipped in eight interceptions and four forced fumbles.
Kuechly (shoulder) said his rehab is on schedule and he still hopes to be ready for training camp, Jourdan Rodrigue of The Charlotte Observer reports.
Kuechly missed the entire offseason program while recovering from surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder. The Panthers likely will encourage a cautious timeline for him returning to practice, as the seventh-year pro has nothing to prove besides his health. Kuechly is elite in both real-life and IDP terms, but he hasn't played a 16-game season since 2014.
Kuechly (shoulder) is expected to return to practice in time for training camp, David Newton of ESPN reports.
Kuechly has been recovering from shoulder surgery the past few months and will be missing all of Carolina's offseason program. However, he isn't expected to miss a beat once training camp begins, and barring setback he should be a full go in the 2018 regular season.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her record on police reform Tuesday and took aim at those seeking to deny her a second term in office during a combative forum hosted by WTTW News three weeks before Election Day.
Lightfoot said her administration had made significant progress toward reforming the Chicago Police Department, which will remain under the control of a federal judge and a consent decree at least until 2027, drawing scorn from her opponents: Ja’Mal Green, Ald. Sophia King (4th Ward), state Rep. Kam Buckner, Willie Wilson, Brandon Johnson, Paul Vallas and Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th Ward). U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García bowed out of WTTW’s forum at the last minute to attend President Joe Biden’s state of the union address in Washington, D.C.
“I appreciate that all these folks want to throw bombs from the cheap seats, but the fact of the matter is absolutely clear,” said Lightfoot, who has clashed with her opponents repeatedly at a series of forums and debates hosted by neighborhood groups and media organizations. “We are in compliance or improving our compliance every single day. And this nonsense that you’re hearing from some of these folks really, really completely belies the facts.”
A coalition of more than two dozen groups working to reform the Chicago Police Department sent a letter to Lightfoot on Monday telling her they are “deeply troubled by the city’s lack of consent decree progress.”
“The city and the CPD have had years to move from improved policies to reformed operations,” according to the letter. “Chicagoans have fought, bargained, and waited long enough for public safety grounded in people’s inherent value and humanity. Chicago cannot suffer any more delays.”
In addition, a November report from Maggie Hickey, a former federal prosecutor who is the court-appointed independent monitor keeping tabs on the police department’s compliance with the consent decree, said that reform efforts have been compromised by staffing shortages throughout the department.
Lightfoot has defended the decision by police brass not to fire an officer after a probe by the city’s watchdog found he lied about his ties to the Proud Boys, a far-right, anti-government group.
“Of course we should not hire, we should not support, we should not retain any officer that is associated with any hate group,” Lightfoot said, adding that the department conducted a “fulsome investigation.”
Ald. Sophia King (4th Ward) said she would have fired that officer — not Robert Boik, who was fired by Chicago Police Supt. David Brown from his position as the head of the department’s Office of Constitutional Policing. Boik was terminated after he asked Brown to reverse an order moving officers from the reform effort to patrol duties.
That exchange grew tense when Lightfoot objected to Vallas’ decision to join the debate.
“I’m talking to Mr. Vallas who’s … trying to treat me like I’m some child,” Lightfoot said.
Then Johnson jumped into the debate, prompting Lightfoot to ask Johnson to stop speaking.
“Mr. Johnson, please,” Lightfoot said. “I know you want to mansplain up here, but you got to give me the opportunity to finish.”
After the debate, Johnson said he had apologized to Lightfoot for the exchange, telling reporters that he thought she was done speaking when he began his remarks, but said that it wasn’t mansplaining, which is when a man explains something to a woman that she already understands.
Lightfoot told reporters she was pleased Johnson apologized, but insisted it was mansplaining.
King said that exchange was a microcosm of what is wrong with Chicago politics.
”This is exactly what the people of Chicago don’t want: People up here bickering,” King said. “They want to hear our solutions to problems.”
Johnson, Green and Buckner said they would scrap plans to launch a new gang database. More than three and a half years ago, the city’s watchdog warned the police department’s gang databases were riddled with errors, ripe for abuse and disproportionately targeted Black and Latino Chicagoans.
After the forum, Vallas said a database to track gang members is a crucial tool for police and he would ensure that it operated properly.
“The gang database has not made us safer,” Buckner said. “In fact, it has made people in communities, many of whom look like me, not be able to walk around the city and participate in a way that’s fair and equitable.”
Johnson said he was proud of his 2019 vote to ban the Cook County Sheriff’s Department from using a similar database, saying the system was of not value to law enforcement officials, noting that it included an 8-year old and a 108-year-old.
“That is the oldest G in America,” said Johnson, using a term for gangster and drawing laughs from the crowd.
The crowd also laughed when Wilson complained Lightfoot was getting too many questions, adding that she is “responsible for all the problems.” Wilson later criticized Lightfoot for interrupting him.
Johnson joined Lightfoot in attacking Vallas’ record, blaming him for worsening the Chicago Public Schools’ finances by using funds to pay for operating costs rather than pensions. Vallas led the district from 1995 to 2001, before being hired to lead school districts across the nation.
“Paul (Vallas) was the (city) budget director during the time in which pensions weren’t being paid,” Johnson said. “Look, everywhere Paul Vallas has been in charge of finances, he’s been run out of the city.”
Johnson bristled at questions about where he differs with the Chicago Teachers Union. Johnson, whose campaign has been largely funded by progressive labor organizations, was a member of the teachers’ union and a paid organizer.
Johnson said he favored fully funded schools, affordable housing and worker protections, issues at the heart of the teachers’ union negotiations with city officials, and said he would serve as a counterweight to the “interests of corporations” that he suggested had been overrepresented in city government.
“If you’re asking me if I do not believe in public education, what kind of question is that?” Johnson said.
Early voting will expand to all 50 wards on Monday. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote on Feb. 28, the top two finishers will head to a runoff on April 4.


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Fighting For The Soul Of The Carpenter's Union
By Shamus Cooke
27 June, 2012
All working people should pay attention to the egregious assault on union democracy happening in the Carpenters Union's Pacific North West Regional Council, which covers all the Carpenter's Locals in Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, and Montana.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters has a proud history and should take immediate action to overturn a recent Regional Council decision that disciplined innocent, union-dedicated Carpenters with fines and a loss of membership privileges.
Those punished included twelve Carpenters who had recently won elections to lead their local union - mega-Local 156 of Oregon and South West Washington - as well as many regional delegate seats. The newly elected President and Vice President of Local 156 - as well as the other newly elected officers on the slate - are now facing fines up to $1,500 and six years of stripped membership privileges (the Carpenters interviewed for this article chose to remain anonymous, for fear of further retaliation).
What were the crimes of these long standing union Carpenters? They held a "get out the vote" phone bank. For this they were charged with:
1) causing dissent in the ranks 2) failure to uphold the union oath 3) defrauding the union.
The real crime of the convicted Carpenters was that they ran a well-organized election campaign promising to reform their union on a pro-democracy basis, and they won.
Their campaign succeeded because they reached out to the union rank and file at the work sites while campaigning to fight for more democracy and transparency in the union and, more importantly, for better contracts by fighting harder against the employers attempts to reduce the standard of living of the membership. The reform group raised all of the money at their disposal at work sites from rank and file Carpenters.
Turmoil had been simmering in the Regional Council for quite some time, since century-old Carpenters locals throughout the state of Oregon and South West Washington were shut down and merged into a "mega-local,” which was done in a way that restricted the democracy previously enjoyed by the smaller locals.
For example, rural carpenters were made to drive hours to attend a union meeting if they wanted a voice in their union, since their local office was closed. Statewide decisions were centralized without the ability of carpenters to participate in the decision making process on a local level. The connectedness that Carpenters felt to their union was removed by hundreds of miles; their personal investment in their union was forcibly made impersonal.
The "mega-local" phenomenon has been a virus running throughout organized labor for years, creating the above, predictable effects. The reform-minded Carpenters saw this happening in their union and fought back against it.
This restriction of democracy was also occurring at the Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, which had centralized power over the encompassing states by the Council's ability to appoint business agents, staff organizers, and bargain contracts. Instead of the union fighting the employer for better wages, the Regional Council talked endlessly about "partnerships" with the boss, which came at the direct expense of the wages of Carpenters.
There is no evidence that the convicted carpenters did anything wrong. In fact, they have federal labor law on their side. The Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA) was created to give basic democratic rights within all labor unions and covers basic standards for union elections and free speech rights. (An excellent book on the interesting history of the LMRDA is Rebels, Reformers and Racketeers by Herman Benson.)
The accused Carpenters used these rights by campaigning and winning elections in their union. Unfortunately for their accusers, a "get out the vote" phone bank is not against any Carpenter rule, nor against federal labor law.
Staff from the Regional Council falsely accused the convicted carpenters of "stealing" the Carpenter's membership list - with no evidence - and proceeded to slander them to the membership through a website and numerous mailings, calling the accused "thieves" and "liars,” unacceptable behavior in any union.
After losing the election the displaced leadership complained to the Carpenters International and a second set of elections was then organized. The reform Carpenters won that election by a larger margin. So now the candidates they defeated are trying to get them out of office using internal charges, based on the phone banking "scandal.” The LMRDA does not allow unions to target activists using vague accusations like "causing dissension."
Dissent simply means disagreement, which is perfectly normal and natural in every union, which is why there are federally regulated union elections to express this dissent. Also, "dissent" is an overly broad concept that, in this case, infringed upon the Carpenter's federally protected free speech rights, making the convictions illegal.
Perhaps the best evidence that these convicted carpenter's were wrongly convicted was the composition of the jury that decided their fate. The Carpenter's "trial committee" is supposed to be a standing (ongoing) committee comprised of regional delegates, picked by lottery. However, for this trial the standing committee was abolished, and a new committee put into place.
The lottery system could not have been used to select the new trial committee. One third of the lottery pool consisted of delegates from Oregon, and the trial committee had zero Oregon delegates: there is a 1.2 percent likelihood that this could happen in a lottery. The hand picked jury contained no Oregon delegates because the convicted Carpenters were Oregonians.
The injustices committed against these carpenters negatively affects all unions, since such undemocratic practices look horrible to the general public, and provides anti-union groups with easy ammunition.
The convictions also weaken the carpenters union directly, since many of their hardest fighting pro-union members are members without membership rights. A weakened Carpenters union consequently weakens labor as a whole.
The convicted Carpenters are now appealing their conviction to the Carpenter's International, who has a chance to right a wrong and a legal duty to strike down the above violations, by reinstating the convicted Carpenter's membership rights, as well as reinstating them into their elected leadership positions.
Shamus Cooke is a social service worker and trade unionist. He can reached at email@example.com
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A once star-swimmer of the Nineties, Kutraleeshwaran gave up his passion in pursuit of a certain lifestyle. Through his latest venture, he is now giving it all back to the sport
Perched atop a docked boat, Kutraleeshwaran Ramesh looks pensively at the sea. It has been a few years since he visited Chennai’s Marina Beach, an all-too familiar place that gave him a shot at fame when he was just nine.
Back then in the Nineties, as a child who loved being in the water, Kutral took part in a five-kilometre swimming competition at sea. “I came fourth,” he recalls, “After finishing it, I started building sand castles. People were curious; I had accomplished something phenomenal at such a young age and yet was nonchalantly playing.”
Kutral remembers this incident distinctly for it was a turning point in his life. Until then, he mostly swam in pools and felt too “bored”. Swimming soon took over his life and he was hailed a child prodigy: Kutral swam the English channel when he was 12, entered the Guinness World Records for swimming across six straits within a calendar year and represented the country at several international competitions.
And then, when everyone thought he would achieve greater heights, he quit swimming.
Cut to the present, and Kutral has done multiple things; he has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA, worked with Intel and is currently with Nanban Ventures in Canada. “Swimming isn’t a lucrative field. I aspired for a certain quality of life, which wouldn’t have been possible had I continued. Today, I am in a position to give back to society.”
Kutraleeshwaran | Photo Credit: R Ravindran
Life and sport
Kutral hopes to do that with his latest venture, Nanban Sports Foundation, which aims to identify and nurture sporting talents from the grassroots level. “The ultimate vision is that an IT engineer and a sportsperson should have the same quality of life,” he explains.
“We hope to increase the talent pool to represent the country, which will in turn translate to medals. The reason parents push children to pursue Engineering or Medicine is because they see successful people in those professions leading a good life. In sports, you will have to retire after a few years. The financial security post retirement is a big question mark for many.”
He hopes to address that issue too. Under the Legends category, the Foundation will also support star sportspersons who had brought laurelsbut are now financially struggling. “These are two sides of thecoin: people who have been there and done that, are the ones who will encourage future generations to take up the sport,” adds Kutral.
Indian swimmer Kutraleeshwaran, 13, a swimming prodigy who belied his age, snapped on November 16, 1995. PHOTO: THE HINDU ARCHIVES | Photo Credit: PTI
Growing up in the quiet bylanes of Chennai’s Gopalapuram, Kutral was just a normal everyday kid whose life changed once he got into swimming. There was a phase when he hated it — and the recognition that came with it (he was once summoned from a galli cricket match to attend a press interview) — but today, he looks back with a smile.
Fortunately for him, the choice of whether to continue professional swimming or not came just after his Class XII exams, by when he had already represented India in two world series. The option was to choose between swimming and a college education, and Kutral chose the latter. He finished his degree from College of Engineering, Guindy and later went to the US for higher studies. “I feel the word ‘passion’ is overrated. If I’m passionate about something today, it doesn’t mean I would be as passionate about it a few years later.”
Such crucial life decisions have been possible, he says, thanks to the murattu dhairiyam (bravado) he has harboured. “I do not take anything very seriously in life; its easier if you are detached. It also helps that I always see the worst-case scenario while taking decisions. Its a misconception that people think I was a champion swimmer and then left it. I was talented, but my quality of life would have suffered drastically. It was a practical and conscious decision to quit…I have no regrets,” about it,” he signs off.
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Far right online: the rise of "extreme" gamers
In the past five years the number of far-right attacks around the world has more than tripled
Social-media and gaming platforms have created fertile ground for far-right extremists to recruit and radicalise young men in America and around the world. Lockdowns have exacerbated this danger. In this film, we examine the growth of the far-right underground, and what governments should do to confront it.


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The Birthday of the First Pancasila
On June 1, 1945 Sukarno made a speech on the basis of the country he named Pancasila. The date of June 1 is then designated as the Birthday of Pancasila. However, there are those who sue on the grounds Soepomo and Mohammad Yamin also convey the idea of the state base. There is also a vote on August 18 as the Birthday of Pancasila when the 1945 Constitution set on August 18, 1945. This debate will always surface every commemoration of the Birthday of Pancasila.
President Soekarno and DN Aidit, chairman of the PKI CC, during the anniversary of the Indonesian Communist Party on May 23, 1965. Photo:
How was Pancasila's birthday commemorated?
As a digger of Pancasila, Sukarno tried to make the country's philosophy widely known by the people.
According to Mangil Martowidjojo, commander of the Tjakrabirawa Regatta Private Detachment who escorted Sukarno and his family, Sukarno talked about Pancasila everywhere, all over Indonesia.
"I am sure, the people of Indonesia better understand about the birth of this Pancasila because the commoners hear the information directly from the mouth of Bung Karno as the excavator of the five pearls," said Mangil in the Testimony of Bung Karno 1945-1967.
Mangil reveals that at the time Sukarno spoke of Pancasila at public meetings, the characters who listened to his speech on June 1, 1945 were still alive. At that time, no one denied or opposed, either individually or in the newspapers, that the Pancasila was not a Bung Karno excavation.
"This means that all know and understand, it is true that Pancasila Bung Karno who dig from Indonesia earth," said Mangil.
According to historian Peter Kasenda in Bung Karno the Revolution Commander of Sukarno's speech on June 1, 1945 entitled The Birth of Pancasila and published the Department of Information in 1947. Eleven years later, in 1958 and 1959, President Sukarno gave courses at the State Palace of Jakarta, and a public lecture at the Seminar Pancasila in Yogyakarta. The series of speeches and the speech of the Birth of Pancasila on June 1, 1945 was written entitled Pancasila as the State Basis.
Sukarno initially felt enough with the course or general meetings in campaigning Pancasila. However, he was later struck by the statement of DN Aidit, chairman of the PKI CC.
In early May 1964, Aidit made a shocking statement questioning Pancasila as the basis of the state. In a speech entitled "Brave, Brave, Once More Courageous," Aidit said "Pancasila may temporarily achieve its goal as a supporting factor in forging the unity and strength of Nasakom. But once Nasakom becomes a reality, then Pancasila by itself will be no more. "
According to Ganis Harsono, a foreign ministry spokesman during the Sukarno era, perhaps because he was so influenced by Aidit's attitude of perverting Pancasila, the president suddenly demanded the commemoration of the birth of Pancasila on June 1, 1964.
"It was the nineteenth day of Pancasila, and many people find it strange, that it was the official celebration of the Indonesian state for the first time," Ganis said in his memoir, the Political Horizon of Era Sukarno.
Pancasila's Birthday is commemorated for the first time with state ceremony at Istana Merdeka. The slogan chosen is Pancasila All Time. On that occasion, Sukarno outlined how he had formulated Pancasila, following his fifth sequence of silalah.
After making this horrendous statement, Aidit's relationship with Sukarno was tenuous. In fact, Ganis calls "the sense of hatred that arises between Sukarno and Aidit looks even more real."
The PKI then attempted to make an alignment of Aidit's statement by issuing Aidit Defending the Pantjasila (1964). Aidit also shared his views on religion and Pancasila in an interview with journalist Solichin Salam which was
Meanwhile, the Birthday Celebration of Pancasila is then held every year, every June 1st. Finally Sukarno commemorates the birthday of Pancasila on June 1, 1966. After that, the New Order regime made him house arrest until his death on June 21, 1970.
On September 17, 1966, the Minister / Army Commander-in-Chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Soeharto set the date of October 1 as Pancasila Miracle Day - the anniversary of Suharto's success to thwart the attempts of the 1965 coup. Soeharto also commemorated Pancasila's Birthday on June 1, 1967 and 1968.
In an attempt to remove Sukarno's heritage, the New Order regime through Kopkamtib (Operation Command for Restoring Security and Order) banned the anniversary of Pancasila's Birth Day from June 1, 1970. The New Order's commemoration is the Pancasila Miracle Day every October 1st.
On June 1, 2016 President Joko Widodo signed the Presidential Decree (Keppres) no. 24 of 2016 which establishes June 1, 1945 as the Birthday of Pancasila. And June 1 is designated a national holiday starting 2017.
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published by Pembina magazine, August 12, 1964.

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