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English Provinces: Oxford: Town Hall (1898-1993)
One box of programmes from the Town Hall, from 1898 to 1993. The programmes are largely from the 1920s, 1930s and 1950s.
The programmes are largely from orchestral concerts, but the collection includes a number of programmes from recitals and opera performances.
The first programmes in the collection is from a "Matinée Musicale" given on 1 March 1898. This included songs, stories, dance and sketches. The next programme is from a concert given on 18 May 1898, which was a recital of recitations given by Clifford Harrison. The remainder of the collection dates from the twentieth century.
The collection includes a large amount of programmes from Oxford Subscription Concerts, particularly from the 1920s and 1930s. The programmes are largely from orchestral and recitals. Opera programmes are chiefly from performances given by the Oxford University Opera Club (from the 1950s and 1960s); the remainder are from performances given by the Chelsea Opera Group.
The programmes are arranged in chronological order.
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19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899
20th century - early 1900-1930
20th century - late 1971-1999
20th century - mid 1931-1970
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The CPH collections now form part of the RCM Library. The majority of the concert programme collections are stored off-site so you need to request items before arriving. Requests for programmes are processed on Thursday for delivery to the library the following week. The Library itself is open Monday to Friday during term times and Tuesday to Friday during vacations. We can advise you about our hours when you contact us.
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It is not accessible from script. This feature is for OriginPro only.
Specifies fit report sheets fitted with the same model and different dataset.
1 Decide whether to output Fit Parameter table for each dataset.
1 Decide whether to output Fit Statistics table for each dataset.
Data1 Specify the display name for the first dataset in the report sheet.
Data2 Specify the display name for the second dataset in the report sheet.
<new> Specify where to put the output report.
This tool compares two datasets by fitting the same function. It is used to determine whether two datasets are significantly different from each other for the same fitting model. Thus, the tool determines if the two datasets are representative samples from the same population or not.
Consolidated Report (all the fitting result reports of multi-datasets are in one worksheet) can not be recorgnized, so we need to ensure that results are in separate sheet when fitting multiple datasets.
This example implements the data comparison below with Labtalk script.
fitcmpdata -r 2 result1:=2! result2:=4!;   // compare the two datasets based on the fitting results of the exponential function.
1. Import Exponential Decay.dat on \Samples\Curve Fitting folder.
2. Highlight Col(B), select Analysis: Fitting: Nonlinear Curve Fit to open dialog. Set Function as ExpDec1. Click OK to get result sheet.
3. Highlight Col(C) and select Analysis: Fitting: Nonlinear Curve fit: 1<last used> to quick fit Col(C) with same model.
4. Select Analysis: Fitting: Compare Datasets to open dialog.
5. Click browse button to open Report Tree Browser and select 1 item for Fit Result1.
6. Repeat same operation to select another item for Fit Result2.
7. Select Fit Parameters and Fit Statistics and click OK.
8. From F-test table, we can roughly draw conclusion that Col(B) and Col(C) are different when fit with expDec1 model.
RSS1 is residual sum of square of fit with 1st dataset, RSS2 is residual sum of square of fit with 2nd dataset. SSRcombined is residual sum of square of fit with combined data of 1st dataset and 2nd dataset.


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IPL Trading Checklist: Ultimate Cricket Trading Update!
By Mr. X April 7, 2021 Cricket
The Indian Premier League kicks off soon, and you will really make your life easier with an IPL Trading Checklist.
Markets on Betfair will have incredible amounts of money going through them. Liquidity will be sky-high as all eyes of the cricketing world focus on IPL trading.
This year will be different compared to other years. We are only going to see cricket at six venues this year – Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Ahmedabad. This should make trading easier as we will be able to form a better idea of conditions. With that in mind, I've put together the ideal IPL trading checklist to have you prepared before each game.
IPL Player Stats
The IPL teams will change ahead of each season and this year is no different. We had an auction and there's been a bit of movement – for example, Maxwell to RCB is a big move and we're likely to see some big scores from him at their home ground in Bangalore. That pitch should suit him.
From a trading point of view, I have formed some excellent list in the IPL Checklist in the Cricket Guide. Users should find these very interesting. I have broken down strike rates by;
Highest Strike rate in Overs 17 to 20
Highest Strike rate in Powerplay
Highest Strike rate in Middle Overs
Balls Per Boundary in Powerplay
I also looked at Over Economy Rate. I took the runs from every over and created an average. This is only a loose guide, but it represents in a small manner when to be on the bowling team, historically. The game is changing over the year as batsmen get better, although the economy rate for the first over is still under 6.
Cricket Guide users will also have player stats from the last four years to check out – top five batters and bowlers per team, along with top economy and top six hitters. There are some small nuggets in there with a local domestic player who the market could underrate.
IPL Scores Batting First
With the focus on six grounds this season, it should make reading conditions easier. I won't be focusing on Chennai or Ahmedabad however, as we don't have a sample size big enough to form an opinion. At the other four grounds, I have broken down the average score batting first, high/low total and then how many successful chases as a percentage in the Cricket Guide.
The chasing record is remarkably similar. For example, it's 57% at Mumbai, Kolkata and Bangalore. When you're looking for trades, it seems wise to focus on the batting side in the second innings where the market is more likely to move with you rather than against you. I'm sure conditions will change during the tournament as they always do, but the ground data is very interesting because the IPL occurs at more or less the same time each year. There are patterns, and they can be easily worked into trading strategy.
Current Trading Conditions
While doing the Player and Ground analysis can be very popular, it can all go out the window when current conditions change. A green pitch in India doesn't always mean tricky to bat however (like it does in England). A green pitch in India sometimes means big runs, I would definitely spend at least 30 minutes before each IPL game trying to do a bit of research on what's to come. Twitter and other social media is always a good tool, along with checking the weather radar which is a no-brainer.
There will be some heavy dews in the IPL this year, as there always is. We know bowling with dew is a nightmare and that will really favour the batting side – and a lot of the time that means the chasing side. That's always an angle to watch out for, although a lot of the time that will be priced into the market because everyone knows how hard it is to bowl with dew. It can still provide some nice trades.
We all know this saying! The IPL is a very long tournament, and with cricket every day it can quickly become quite overwhelming if you go on a bad run. Confidence is always hard to find when that happens, but you have to remember it's a long-term tournament and with the right strategies, you will come out on the right side. That is far easier said than done, however! The IPL is relentless, and it's good to be prepared for that. Take the knocks and get back up.
Because the tournament is so long, staking and discipline can easily slip too. It's easy to chase on the second game of a doubleheader, it's easy to increase stakes on a good run and have it all come crashing down. These are the things to be fully aware of. The market moves so quickly, it's easy to get your head fried. Just being aware of what can happen and trying to avoid it will prove very profitable. Avoiding the bad days is just as important as cashing in on the good days when a tournament goes on for the best part of two months!
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Hi Caan, this is my 10th year of trading IPL having started in 2011 and it's after several setbacks , learnings and un leraning i would say in IPL barring 10-20percent of matches you will never get a game which will not swing like a "savan ka jhoola"( hindi slang for multiple see saw tide ).So these researches are perfectly fine but the real nuggets are
Discipline with staking no matter what.
Picking value (when return is atleast twice the stake) so that if you are wrong also you get multiple opportunities to get out
Keeping your powder dry helps a lot and not to get trapped at silly odds range of (1.5-2.5)
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UN resolution jeopardizes religious freedom worldwide
Christians in Muslim-dominated countries are facing increased persecution. Over the last month, churches in Indonesia have been attacked and forced to close. A mob of Pakistani Muslim extremists shot and beat dozens of Christians, including one cleared earlier of "blasphemy" charges.
These Christians, and many more worldwide, are not free to believe.
Open Doors USA is launching an advocacy campaign called "Free to Believe." The campaign will focus on helping persecuted Christians who currently do not have religious freedom like Christians do in the United States.
The campaign is a response to the United Nations Defamation of Religions Resolution which threatens the freedom of religion and expression for Christians and members of minority faiths worldwide.
This resolution seeks to criminalize words or actions perceived as attacks against a religion, with the focus being on protecting Islam. Passing this resolution would further result in the United Nations condoning state-sponsored persecution of Christians and members of other faiths.
Many of the countries supporting this resolution are the Islamic-majority countries of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) that persecute Christians and other religious minorities. Members of minority faiths such as Christians or Jews who make truth claims or even evangelize can be accused of "defamation," and those individuals can be punished under national blasphemy laws as frequently happens in countries like Pakistan. Tragically, the UN resolution provides legitimacy to these countries' blasphemy laws.
While the Defamation of Religions Resolution has been introduced and passed by the UN in the past–in various forms and under various titles since 1999, support for the resolution has been eroding in recent years. The Open Doors advocacy team has been lobbying countries which have voted for the resolution or abstained from voting on the issue in the past. The resolution is up again this fall for re-authorization.
It is important to encourage key countries to change their vote on this resolution. These countries are not easily influenced by American citizens. But they are more receptive to pressure from our legislators. That's why we're asking you to send a message to your legislator, asking him or her to ask key countries to change their vote on the Defamation of Religions Resolution. A sample letter is provided for you to send which includes the necessary information for your elected officials to lobby the target UN country missions.
To send a message, go to www.freetobelieve.info
"It's dangerous and alarming that a UN resolution provides legitimacy to national blasphemy laws that are used to persecuting Christians and other minority faith groups," says Open Doors USA Advocacy Director Lindsay Vessey. "The United Nations Defamation of Religions Resolution in effect amounts to the UN condoning state-sponsored persecution. We as Christians need to speak out against it and do all in our power to stop its passage. Everyone should be free to believe."
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Christian Child Abducted, Forced into Bonded Labor in Pakistan
Muslim landowner offers to remove chains from 11-year-old boy if he converts to Islam.
WAZIRABAD, Pakistan, June 21 (CDN) — An 11-year-old Christian boy here is growing weak and ill from malnutrition from working in slave-like conditions for a Muslim landowner who kidnapped him and is forcing him to work off his family's debts, his mother told Compass.
Katherine Bibi said landowner Ashraf Cheema of Dhonikay village, Wazirabad, has offered her son better conditions and possibly cancellation of the debt if he will convert to Islam.
"He is frequently invited to convert to Islam by Ashraf Cheema, and in return he is promised that he will be freed from the iron chains and his work will be eased and he will be served better meals," she said. "Cheema has said, 'The debt of your father and brother might also be forgiven if you convert.'"
Young Danish Masih works without break from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m., often in iron chains, on half a loaf of bread per day, according to Dawood Masih of the National Commission of Justice and Peace (NCJP).
"Due to the lack of sleep and immense physical and mental pressure, he is becoming weaker and ill," Dawood Masih said. "And he is doing this bonded labor without any kind of leave, including sick leave, for the last one-and-a-half years, in place of his father Riaz Masih and elder brother Adnan Kashif."
The boy's father and older brother had been working for Cheema to pay off a debt of 142,000 rupees (US$1,640), but their employer was neither paying their monthly wages nor deducting the amounts from their debt, said Emmanuel Berkat Gill of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA). Riaz Masih's monthly wage was 3,000 rupees (US$35), and Adnan Kashif earned 2,500 rupees (US$29) per month.
Cheema also extorted land worth 35,000 rupees (US$404) from the boy's older brother, again without deducting the amount from their debt, and ransacked the family's house in Ali Naggar village, stealing Katherine Bibi's dowry worth 200,000 rupees (US$2,308), she and Gill said.
"Being a rich, powerful and influential Muslim landowner, Cheema did all of this and also had the cruelty to not deduct the amount from the debt," Gill said.
Suffering under Cheema in this way, the family decided to flee to Islamabad, 165 miles (102 miles) away, Katherine Bibi said. About 18 months ago, however, the peaceful life they had begun anew was shattered when Cheema abducted their youngest son, also known as Mithu, and took him to his farmhouse at Dhonikay village near Ali Naggar in Wazirabad.
"After all these cruelties, Ashraf Cheema owes us some amount, rather than us owing him," an inconsolable Katherine Bibi told Compass by telephone.
She has gone to court to recover her son – both her husband and older son do not risk provoking Cheema by attaching their names to the case – and on June 10 District and Sessions Judge Chaudhary Muhammad Ilyas sent a bailiff to Cheema's farm to secure the return of the 11-year-old.
"But the bailiff returned unsuccessfully without Mithu, as Ashraf Cheema, being an influential and rich landowner, was told beforehand about the raid by an anonymous insider, and he hid the child," Katherine Bibi said.
She said that since the bailiff failed to recover her son, Cheema has hurled threats at her and her husband, saying, "After this raid by the bailiff, you will neither be able to get back your son, nor will you be granted a cancellation for your debt."
After joint efforts by Gill of APMA and Dawood Masih of the NCJP, however, Cheema agreed that if Riaz Masih would work in place of his son, he would release the child, Gill said. When Gill, Dawood Masih and Riaz Masih went to Cheema's farmhouse, however, the landowner went back on his word and refused to hand over the boy.
Contacted by Compass, Cheema said that no such boy works at his farm or fields, and that "someone must have misled you."
Besides the court recognition of the abduction, however, Gill and other credible sources assert that Danish Masih works from dawn to dusk under a sizzling summer sun without any break or meal.
At press time local Christian leaders had petitioned the deputy superintendent police of Wazirabad to recover Danish Masih.
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Belarusian officials continue to persecute Christian church
Belarusian officials continue to harass New Life Full Gospel Church, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. On 4 January the church received a summons from the Minsk City Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Committee, claiming that the church had polluted the ground around its building with oil, causing large amounts of damage.
Church members reject the allegation, Sergei Lukanin noting that "for some reason they only took samples from the road which comes into the car park. Of course they're going to find traces of oil there."
Belarus also continues to persecute people for the "offence" of unregistered religious activity. Challenged about two heavy fines of a pensioner for this "offence", Lyudmila Paprakova of Grodno Ideology Department told Forum 18 that "we don't have such persecution here. We're absolutely democratic." After a woman was fined for allowing her home to be used for unregistered worship, Alla Starikevich of Brest City Ideology Department described the role of officials who started the case as "to maintain mutual relations with religious communities."
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Accused Pakistani Christian Says Muslims Tried to Coerce Him
Freed on bail, Naveed Masih on trial for killing Muslim in Islamist attack on Gojra.
LAHORE, Pakistan, December 29 (CDN) — A Pakistani Christian accused of killing a Muslim during the Aug. 1 Islamist attack on Christians in Gojra said he was arrested and tortured only because he was a key witness of the mob assault that left at least seven Christians burned to death.
Naveed Masih, released on bail on Wednesday (Dec. 23), told Compass that several Muslims have offered him large amounts of money to alter his testimony regarding the assault in Gojra, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Faisalabad in Punjab Province. The mob attack, prompted by calls from Muslim clerics spreading a false rumor of "blasphemy" of the Quran, included banned Islamic terrorist groups and resulted in the looting of more than 100 houses and the burning of 50 of them; at least 19 people were injured.
Masih said one of the Muslims accused in the attack, Qadir Awan, approached him at an early court hearing and invited him to come to his house to strike a cash-for-testimony deal.
"He said that I could make lots of money because I was the witness of the ransacking, but I feared God," the 32-year-old Masih said. "Because I was not prepared to take money, he had me implicated in the counter-charges."
He said that several other Muslims contacted him in jail to tell him that they could help him.
"I told them that my brothers and sisters in Pakistan and abroad are more than enough to help me," he said. "I said, 'You take care of yourself – you people beg our brothers and sisters in the United States for aid and financial assistance to run the country, how is it that you can help me?'"
Fearing for his life now that he is out on bail, Masih said he has asked several organizations for assistance and, assuming he is acquitted, eventually for safe passage out of Pakistan.
"I would not be left alive if I live here in Pakistan," he said.
In counter-charges filed as a cover for accused Muslims after Christians filed charges, he said, 129 people including Bishop of Gojra John Samuel were accused in a First Information Report (FIR), yet only Masih and his brother Nauman Masih were arrested. The Faisalabad Anti-Terrorism Court released the 25-year-old Nauman Masih on bail in October.
The Lahore High Court granted bail to Naveed Masih last week after the Faisalabad Anti-Terrorism Court had denied it to him in October. Naveed Masih is accused of killing one of the assailants in the Gojra attacks, Muhammad Asif. He is said to have fired warning shots from a rooftop into the air and at the feet of the approaching Muslim mob to try to disperse them, but both brothers deny using any weapons.
The brothers gave shelter to 300 people during the attacks; they were arrested in early September initially for "rioting with deadly weapons and spreading terror with firing."
Naveed Masih said police knew the counter-charges filed by Muslims nearly two months after the Aug. 1 attack were entirely concocted, but that they arrested and tortured him anyway.
"When I was arrested, the policemen said, 'Catch this choohra [a racial slur typically used against Punjabi Christians],'" he told Compass. "They asked me which organization I belonged to, what my mission was and who had sent me on this mission."
Authorities beat him the first several days in jail, he said.
"They blindfolded me and hung me in a dark well, and sometimes I hung all night upside down without clothes," he said. "They also kept me hungry and tried to force me to confess that some religious organization funded me to fire a weapon and instigate Muslims."
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Akbar Munawar Durrani, an attorney for the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement, said that the prosecutor in the trial has told the court that Christians were the ones who instigated Muslims by firing weapons, and that for this reason Asif died.
"I told the court," Durrani said, "that it is strange that two days before the Aug. 1 incident, dozens of houses of Christians were burned in [nearby] Korian village, and then in this incident of Aug. 1 more than 100 houses of Christians were burned, and the prosecution keeps trumpeting this claim that Christians were the aggressors."
Durrani said that when Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Sharif asked Investigation Officer Muhammad Aslam about his findings, Aslam told the court that if Christians hadn't provoked Muslims then nothing would have happened. The judge asked Aslam how many Christians and how many Muslims died, Durrani said, to which the officer replied one Muslim and eight Christians.
"Still you say that Christians were the aggressors," the judge told Aslam in a reprimanding tone.
Durrani, an executive member of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said he told the court that Masih was implicated in the killing of Asif only because he was one of two witnesses in the FIR filed against the Muslims. If Masih hadn't defended Christians that day, he told the court, then the Christian Colony in Gojra would have suffered much more harm.
Masih said that he had learned that during the Aug. 1 attack, a member of the banned terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba stopped the motorbike he was riding, took gas out of it and set houses on fire.
Nauman Masih has told Compass that of the 17 Muslims named in the FIR on the Aug. 1 attack, only one, Abdul Khalid Kashmiri, was in jail. Kashmiri has offered 1 million rupees (US$12,500) if the Christian complainants would withdraw the case, he added.
The rest of the Muslim assailants are still at large, and sources said police have no intention of arresting them.
Naveed Masih said he learned that even before he was sent to jail, inmates were murmuring that he had killed a Muslim during the mob attack.
"I told them that they only talked about the Muslim who actually came to attack and got killed, but they never mentioned eight Christians who had died during that rampage," he said. "'Christians are also human beings,' I told them, 'why don't you count those who were killed by Muslims?'"
He said Muslim inmates often asked him "nonsense questions," but that he always answered them sensibly.
"I am sure that the Holy Spirit helped me answering them, because once they had asked any such questions, then they never again raised such questions," he said.
Masih said police stopped torturing him after the first several days in jail. He said he continually prayed for God to free him, as well as for all Christians who supported him and his brother through their ordeal.
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Lunar missions could prove creation true
Current space programs may set their sights on Mars, but a team of astronomers and a biochemist at the science-faith think tank Reasons To Believe (RTB) publicly encourage NASA and other space agencies to revisit the lunar surface—to look for the remains of Earth's oldest life-forms, reports Maureen Bell and Kathy Ross, special to ASSIST News Service.
Astronomer and RTB president Hugh Ross says, "The Apollo program helped researchers solve the mystery of the Moon's origin. Return missions to the Moon could solve the mystery of life's origin."
According to biochemist Fazale Rana, "Chemical signatures confirm life was present on Earth in fair abundance back to 3.8 billion years ago." What's missing, he says, are the fossils. "Wind and water erosion and plate tectonics have destroyed the fossils of Earth's first life. [But] there are good reasons to expect them in abundance in pristine forms on the Moon."
Ross and fellow astronomer Jeff Zweerink point out that when the Earth was young, it was "bombarded" by asteroids and large meteorites. "These collisions sent large amounts of the Earth's surface material into outer space, and much of that material landed on the Moon—about a million kilograms on every 100 square kilometers of the Moon's surface."
New research by British earth scientist Ian Crawford indicates that at least some of this Earth material made it to the Moon with its fossil structures still intact. Crawford affirms that "substantial survivability is to be expected."
In their book Origins of Life, Rana and Ross present their model for the origin of life. This model, totally compatible with the Bible, predicts that (1) Earth's first life would be both complex and diverse; and (2) the origin of life occurred suddenly, as soon as Earth's physical conditions permitted. Non-theistic models predict the opposite.
As Ross stated in a lecture at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, "We are thrilled with the prospect that lunar missions could put our creation model to the test, either affirming or showing us wrong. Finding and analyzing pristine fossils of Earth's first life could help settle, finally, one of the great creation-evolution controversies."
Reasons To Believe is a California-based science-faith think tank. Founded by Hugh Ross in 1986, the organization strives to demonstrate that science and faith are, and always will be, allies, not enemies. Through myriad resources—including books, print periodicals, podcasts, and a content-rich website—speaking engagements, and radio and TV interviews, RTB scholars present reasons for confidence in the findings of science and in the authority of the Bible. For more information and resources, visit www.reasons.org
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Turkish Police Official Axed amid Allegations in Murders
Head of intelligence allegedly hid evidence, failed to prevent slaying of Christians.
MALATYA, Turkey, October 22 (CDN) — The head of Turkey's police intelligence department was removed on Friday (Oct. 16) amid allegations that he failed to prevent the murder of the Christian editor of an Armenian weekly and the slayings of three Christians in this city in southeastern Turkey.
Ramazan Akyurek is also accused of withholding evidence in those cases and improperly investigating the murder of a Catholic priest in 2006.
After a Malatya trial hearing on Friday, prosecution lawyers in the case commended the removal of Akyurek for negligence but said it came too late. Akyurek has been placed in a different position within police headquarters in Ankara.
Prior to the January 2007 murder of Hrant Dink, editor of the Armenian weekly Agos, Akyurek allegedly received a report about the orchestrated plan to kill him. That clearly implied that Akyurek was one of the masterminds behind the murder, according to Erdal Dogan, one of the prosecuting attorneys in the Malatya case.
While heading the investigation of the Dink murder, Aykurek reportedly not only witheld intelligence but also tried to affect the outcome of the trial, claiming in his investigation report that a group of "friends" planned to kill Dink because he offended Turkey.
"This is a disaster," Dogan said. "The same happened with the Malatya massacre. "We know he had information on all the developments of the massacre, but he didn't act on it. He tried to cover it up. We know that they were following the movements of the killers."
Turkish Christians Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel and German Christian Tilmann Geske were bound hand and foot, tortured and then slain with knives at the Zirve Publishing Co. in April 2007. Dogan said that had Zirve staff members not suspected that something was wrong and called police, the five young men who were caught at the scene of the crime most likely would not have been apprehended.
"It's difficult to know to what extent this character affected the investigations during that time," Dogan said. "This is why the fact that they took him from his position was important, but they removed him late; they removed him very late."
Akyurek was head of police in the city of Trabzon in 2006 when Catholic priest Andrea Santoro was killed. It was under his auspices that a young man was arrested and imprisoned for the murders without investigation into who was behind the murder, according to Dogan.
In the same year, Akyurek was promoted to head Turkey's police intelligence unit.
"Even though Aykurek was incompetent as a police head and covered up crimes, he became the head of intelligence with access to all of Turkey's intelligence," Dogan said.
More Evidence Sees Light
Akyurek was fired about a week after Turkish press received leaked documents showing payments the Malatya gendarmerie made in exchange for intelligence on missionary activities between March 2007 and November 2008. The amounts totaled nearly 10,000 Turkish lira (US$6,840).
At Friday's hearing the Malatya court heard the testimony of Murat Gokturk, a former petty officer in the Malatya intelligence department at the time of the murders. Gokturk had made contact with Huseyin Yelki, a Christian volunteer at Zirve who is one of the suspects in the murders because of his heavy involvement with gendarmerie in the months leading up to and directly after the slayings.
Gokturk testified that he contacted Yelki and requested a New Testament in Arabic so he could learn the language better, as he has an Arabic heritage. He claimed that when he contacted Yelki from his gendarmerie office, he and the intelligence department were not following missionary activities.
"Missionary activities are legal," said Gokturk. "This is a religious and conscience right. It's not a crime."
Prosecuting lawyers asked that the judges record Gokturk's statement that missionary activities are legal. They later explained that since all other evidence shows that officials did spy on missionaries in Malatya, such a statement showed they were aware that they were doing so in violation of their legal jurisdiction.
"We questioned the witness [Gokturk], but he tried to hide the truth either by saying, 'I don't remember,' or by lying," said Dogan. "But evidence shows that he and Huseyin Yelki had a very close relationship and information exchange, and it's obvious that this was not a simple information exchange. They met many, many times."
The European Union Commission report on Turkey's progress in 2009 was also published last week. Under the section on democracy and the rule of law, the report noted that high-profile cases such as the Malatya and Dink trials, which are connected to the alleged criminal network Ergenekon, raised concerns about the quality of investigations. The report noted a need "to improve the working relationship between the police and the gendarmerie on the one hand and the judiciary on the other."
Concerning freedom of religion, the report noted that missionaries are widely perceived as a threat to the integrity of Turkey and Islam. It also pointed out that the Ministry of Justice allowed judicial proceedings under Article 301 of the Criminal Code – which criminalizes "insulting Turkishness" – in the case of Turkish Christians Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal for sharing their faith with others.
This last case has also been linked to the Ergenekon cabal believed to have masterminded the Santoro, Dink and Malatya murders. It has continued for three years with no resolution.
"It's finally clear that there is a connection between Santoro, Dink and Malatya and everyone is talking that way," said Dogan, noting how the prosecuting lawyers in the cases as well as the media perceive the link. "It is now obvious that these three crimes came from the same center."
The Malatya court is still waiting for an answer from the Ergenekon judges about whether the murder of the three Christians will be joined into the the latter case, under which more than 100 former military, political figures, journalists and others have been arrested.
Dogan, however, said that whether the Malatya case is connected with the Ergenekon case is now secondary, and that it is probably better for the Malatya trial to stay separate to determine what really happened.
"It's enough for me that this picture is clear," said Dogan of the link between the cases and Ergenekon. "There is no doubt for me. If they connect them or not it doesn't matter. Because when the court case goes there, Ergenekon is so complicated that the Malatya case could get lost in it."
The next hearing of the Malatya trial is set for Nov. 13.
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UGANDA: THREATS, EXPULSIONS FOR CHRISTIAN COUPLE
Hostilities evident in Muslim area where missionaries were slain.
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 26 (Compass Direct News) – When a young Muslim woman in northern Uganda heard about Jesus in February 2005 and began having dreams about the cross of Christ, it marked the beginning of a nightmare.
Between the dreams and otherwise sleepless nights, Aleti Samusa of Yumbe district soon converted to Christianity; her family immediately kicked her out of their home.
Economically devastated and deprived of that which is most valued in the communal culture, Samusa sought refuge in a local church in Lotongo village. There she found the man she would marry later that year, David Edema, who was raised a Christian but who began sharing in the sufferings of a convert from Islam by virtue of becoming one flesh with one.
His bride's family did not attend the couple's wedding, Edema told Compass, and it wasn't long before her relatives threatened to break up their marriage. With Samusa's family threatening to forcibly take her from Edema, the couple fled Lotongo village to Yumbe town. Their troubles had just begun.
"The Muslims started sending people, saying that I am not wanted in Yumbe town and that I should leave the town," Edema said.
Most houses in Yumbe are owned by Muslims, he said, and since 2006 the couple has been forced to move from one rented house to another without notice.
"The owner just wakes up one morning and gives us marching orders to vacate the house," the 29-year-old Edema said. "Nowadays, the situation is getting worse. Muslims are openly saying even in their mosques that they plan to take unknown action against my family."
One potential danger amounts to a death threat against his wife, now 24.
"The Muslims are saying that they are going to send some Jinns [evil spirits] to my wife because she forsook Islam, and that this spirit will kill her," he said.
Asked what steps he has taken in the face of these threats, Edema was resigned.
"It will be pointless to take this matter to court, because the people who are to hear the case are Muslims," he said. "I feel no justice will be done."
Area Violence
Edema said he and his wife are hoping that God will open a door for them to move to another town.
"The sooner the better for us," he said, "for we do not know what the Muslims are planning to do with us."
Violence in Yumbe district is not without precedent. On March 18, 2004, seven suspected radical Islamists dressed in military fatigues murdered two African Inland Mission missionaries and a Ugandan student in an attack on a college run by local aid group Here is Life. Warren and Donna Pett, both 49 and agriculture experts from the U.S. state of Wisconsin, were teachers at the Evangelical School of Technology. The slain student was Isaac Juruga.
The murder case was dismissed in February by the state attorney, who claimed lack of evidence. A Here is Life official who requested anonymity, however, said not enough weight was given to evidence that included a mobile phone recovered from one of the suspected assailants.
"We feel that justice was not done in the ruling of the killing of the two missionaries," he said.
In Yumbe, the administrative arm of the government as well as the judiciary is run by Muslims, said Edema, who added that the district is still not a safe place for Christians.
"Sometimes they even confront me that I should stop converting Muslims to Christianity – this is not true," Edema said. "It is just a way of wanting to pick a quarrel with me."
Edema, his wife and two children belong to Pilgrim Church. Christians and converts to Christianity are a tiny minority in the area, but about three kilometers from Yumbe town is the Church of Uganda in Eleke, with a congregation of about 100. This church has recently sounded alarms about Muslims making land-grabs of its property.
A church leader who requested anonymity said area Muslims have seized a substantial portion of the church's land, but when the matter went to court, the case was dismissed due to lack of a title deed.
In addition, in May Muslim youths beat a female church worker who had taken a photo of a mosque that was under construction 100 meters from the church, he said.
"Rowdy Muslim youths removed the film after destroying the lid of the camera," he said. "The militant youths started beating up the church worker as they dragged her to the police station in Yumbe, where she was interrogated for three hours before being released."
Peter Manasseh, vicar of the Eleke Church of Uganda, said the church has filed a complaint with the local governing council, "but we do not expect any fairness to be done because the person handling this case is a Muslim and will be partisan."
A journalist who works for a Christian radio station, however, decided to look into the case – and was himself beaten. Ronald Oguzu of Voice of Life radio in Arua town went to Yumbe yesterday to investigate, said a senior station official who requested anonymity.
"At the mosque site, the Muslims caught hold of Oguzu, beat him and he had his tooth broken," the official said. "He was then hospitalized in Yumbe hospital and is still receiving some medication."
He said a criminal case has been filed, but that chances for justice were not good.
"We know that this case will be thrown out of the window, just like that of the killing of the two missionaries," he said. "To date no arrests have been made."
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ISRAEL: CHURCH SHOWERED WITH STONES IN NORTH
With attacks mounting, parishioners fear hostilities could escalate.
MIGDAL HA-EMEQ, Israel, June 22
(Compass Direct News) – When the congregation at St. Nicolay church in this northern Israeli town gathered on that quiet Friday morning of May 29, they never expected to be showered with stones.
The Russian Orthodox worshipers, including many women, children and the elderly, had filled the small building to overflow with several outside when they were stunned by the rain of stones. Some were injured and received medical care.
"The church was crawling with people – the worshipers stood not only inside the church, but also outside, as the building is very small, when suddenly a few young men started throwing stones at the direction of our courtyard," Oleg Usenkov, press secretary of the church told Compass. "Young children were crying, everyone was very frightened."
The church had also been attacked earlier that week, during a wedding ceremony. Stones and rotten eggs were thrown from the street, hitting guests as they arrived.
The same night, the Rev. Roman Radwan, priest of St. Nicolay church, filed a complaint at the police station. An officer issued a document to confirm that he had filed an official complaint and sent him home, promising that measures would be taken. But within 24 hours, the attackers again appeared at the church's doorway and no police were present to deter them – although the police station is located a few dozen meters from the church.
The identity of the assailants is unknown – a police officer said the complaint "lacked the exact description of the attackers" – but eye-witnesses claimed they were ultra-orthodox yeshiva students who frequently cursed the church on their way to the school or synagogue.
"They often assault us verbally, curse and yell at us, although we tried to explain that this is a place of worship, a holy place," said a frustrated Usenkov, adding that the police inaction amounts to nonfeasance.
Another member of the congregation identified only as Nina, born in Moscow and now living in Nazeret Ilit, said that she didn't understand where all the hatred is coming from.
"They are heading to the yeshiva or going back home after praying at the synagogue – are they inspired to attack us during their prayers?" she said. "I hope not. We are all Israeli citizens, we pay taxes, serve in the army and are entitled to freedom of choice when it comes to religion."
She and other members of the congregation fear hostilities could escalate quickly if measures are not taken soon. Already the small building, which barely accommodates the worshipers, is surrounded by a stone fence by order of Migdal ha-Emeq officials following a series of arson attempts and other attacks.
Members of the congregation, a few hundred Christians from Migdal ha-Emeq, Afula, Haifa, Nazareth and other Israeli cities still remember how their building was vandalized in June 2006. Under cover of darkness, unidentified men broke in and broke icons and modest decorations, smashed windows and stole crosses.
The identity of those responsible remains unknown.
Established in 2005, the church building was constructed to meet the needs of Christians who do not belong to the Arab Christian minority, mostly Russians who came to Israel from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. Besides the Christians, these immigrants included other non-Jews, as well as atheistic Jews and Jewish converts to Christianity.
No official data on religious make-up of the immigrants are available, especially since many fear deportation or persecution for talking openly about their faith, but Usenkov – a Russian Jew who converted to Christianity after immigrating to Israel in the 1990s – said he believes there are at least 300,000 Christians of Russian or Russian-Jewish origin who live in Israel today.
According to Israeli law, non-Jewish relatives of a Jew are also entitled to citizenship, but Jews who have converted to other faiths are denied it.
Most of the Russian and Russian-Jewish Christians in Israel belong to the Russian Orthodox Church and find it difficult to adjust to Greek or Arabic services common in the Greek Orthodox churches of Israel. Since St. Nicolay's church opened its doors, hundreds of worshipers from across Israel have visited it.
"Many people fear they might pass away without seeing a priest, or they dream of a Christian wedding service," said Radwan, an Israeli-Arab whose family once owned the land on which the St. Nicolay church is located. "Here we can answer their needs. We do not want to harm anyone and wish that no one would harm us."
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VISION FOR MORE OUTREACH DESPITE PERSECUTION IN INDIA
Christians are suffering increasing amounts of persecution across India. Some suggest that a Christian is brutally attacked by a Hindu extremist every other day. There doesn't appear to be an end to the violence. However, this violence isn't stopping the evangelical church from expanding their work, reports MNN.
President of Serve India Ministries Ebenezer Samuel says they are currently supporting 400 pastors who are also missionaries and church planters. Each pastor has a mission, he says, "to reach out to five unreached villages through the church he's already planted."
Samuel says these pastors and their congregations also have a new vision to reach the lost. "They have a vision of reaching out to 100,000 villages through 20,000 native works in the next 15 years."
While Serve India supports 400 pastors, even that number is changing. "We have 400 pastors at this time. This year, 2009, we're praying to double this number. We're not concerned about numbers; we're more concerned about the needs on the field. I'm constantly receiving calls from these unreached communities of India," where church planters and missionaries are needed.
They have a few pastors to help with these needs, says Samuel. "Right now we have at least 100 pastors who are part of the ministry who have no support. And we're also setting up many more mission fields. So in the next two months, we're going to be having at least 200 more pastors who are going to need support."
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AUSTRALIA: NEW SOUTH WALES AWASH – Flooding
The severe weather that has moved south from Queensland into New South Wales in the form of an active monsoonal trough has now developed into an East Coast Low of the New South Wales North Coast. This system is bringing a lot of rain and flooding along the Mid-North coast and Great Lakes region.
There has been some flooding near Bellingen and Gloucester, and also some flooding around Bulahdelah where I live. There has been no let up in the rain since Friday night. Previous to this we had but 12 mm of rain for the whole of 2009 to this point. I have heard that there has been over 10 inches this weekend, which is roughly 250 mm.
Minor Flooding is being experienced along the Bellinger River above Thora and near Bellingen. Moderate to Major flooding is expected along the Williams and Paterson Rivers in the Hunter region, with Minor flooding along the Hunter River in the Hunter Region. Minor flooding is also taking place along the Gloucester River.
From what I have heard in Bulahdelah, there is localised flooding along tributaries of the Myall River and in Bulahdelah itself, with water covering the main street.
Flooding is also occurring in the north-west of New South Wales, with Bourke receiving record amounts of rain.
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Taking notes is not a skill that comes naturally to many students, but it is also not a skill that is taught in many classrooms. Note Taking is one of the most important study skills for High School Students and College Students. Because note taking is so important to educational success, it is important that students learn proper methods for taking thorough notes. The outline method of note taking is one that will look familiar to many students.
The outline method of note taking starts on the left-hand side of the paper.The most important points are placed at the left edge of the paper.Less important points, which are typically ideas that support the main points, are indented to the right.Each set of less important points is indented more to the right.It is easy to see, at a glance, the level of importance of the different ideas because of the distance between them and the major points.
An alternate form, which requires a little more thought, is to start with minor points to the left and indenting as points get more important. The alternate outline form is best used in lectures where minor ideas are used to build up to the most important ideas.
With either form, indentation is enough to show the importance of the ideas and the relationship between them. If you would like something more concrete, however, you can opt for using dashes, bullets or a Roman numeral and letter combination for further emphasis. For the sake of speed and being able to focus on the lecture, you may want to consider adding the marks after class when you review your notes.
The outline method of note taking has several advantages. The outline method not only shows the content and main points of the lecture, but also shows the relationship between points. With an outline, it is easy to identify the main points of the information, and reviewing can be as simple as turning main points into questions. In addition, the outline is set up so simply that it takes very little, if any, editing for notes to be easily understood.
A major benefit of the outline method is the ability to focus on the lecture. Outlining does not require speed or great detail in the writing, both of which take away from your ability to listen to what is said. Outlining does require that you pay enough attention to the lecture to be able to outline the kn>ey ideas, which can help you retain more of the information.
There are some disadvantages to the outlining method. The outline method can be difficult to use in science and mathematical courses because those courses need more of an ability to show sequential relationships than outlining offers. Courses with fast-paced lectures may also be difficult to outline, partially because outlining requires the note-taker to think about organization.
For teachers, you may wish to familiarize students with different styles of note taking in addition to Outlining, such as charting and mapping. There is plenty of information online or you can use a Lesson plan for taking notes.
The outline method is somewhat familiar to most students, and can be easily used for many classes. Although it does require the student to think about how to organize the notes, the outline method is simple in design and allows students to focus on the lecture. The outline method of note taking is an excellent way to ensure your educational success.
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When you have to submit your notes either in a Cornell or Outline format- knowing what your doing really does help. I only wish there was a more detailed example.
Well Vanessa if you curse then you ARE stupid because you obviously don't know how to express your feelings. Its not good to curse. And you won't be stupid if you don't curse thank you. But yes, you're right that this is useful.
Great resources. Wish i could find more info like this from other people! Thanks!
Interesting thought! You have covered almost all part of the the Outline method. However one thing I would like to is that "Outlining records content as well as relationships. Outlining also reduces editing. Your notes are easy to review by turning main points into questions." 5 tips to take great usable notes- 1. Make clear and accurate notes, 2. Minimize distractions, 3. Come to class prepared, 4. Organize your notes, 5. Use abbreviations and symbols.
I have learned the above 5 important points of note taking from a book Secrets SMART Study System offered by 4 hour study week. It helps to learn the power-napping techniques and sleeping habits that will instantly boost your focus, creativity and ability to learn and memorize better. More importantly it helps a student to secure better grades in the class.
I believe this website is very helpful. When I note take, I write in the outline format. I find it to be more useful when it comes to taking many notes. I start off by writing my main idea. Then, I place bullets under the main idea to write down important information on the main topic. If there is still more to be emphasized, I then place numbers.
Thanks for your comment. The thing about taking notes is that it isn't taught and most people end up taking notes one way by default without realizing there are a number of different ways to do it. Everyone is different and there is no right or wrong way. Whatever works for you is the best way!
Though I already know this format, and the only reason I came here is because my online lesson said to, I did find this very helpful. I will be browsing the rest of your site and hopefully will find more great tips 🙂 Also, just kinda throwing this out there, if you find this annoying or "stupid" or "gay" then don't read it. No one is MAKING you read it, or take it's advice. By the way, if you're going to use the term gay, find out it's correct meaning. Gay means happy, but has been turned into SLANG for Homosexual. Also, the word stupid, that means someone is lacking intelligence or common sense. Here's an example of the correct way to use the word stupid; If you are ignorant enough to post random remarks which make no sense, are only there to start controversy, and are completely INCORRECT and cannot even use terms in the correct way, then YOU dear sir/miss are stupid. If you wish to form a meaningful sentence and be taken seriously, learn common sense and read a dictionary.
Am glad I could find such information. Keep up with the great work! Very precise and helpful.
I like this website it is really helpful. I not only learnt about note taking from it but also the meaning of some words. Thank you C for the great comment you posted. I really appreciate it.


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Гамлет () — місто () в США, в окрузі Річмонд штату Північна Кароліна. Населення —  осіб (2010).

Географія
Гамлет розташований за координатами  (34.889203, -79.710612).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році місто мало площу 13,86 км², з яких 13,63 км² — суходіл та 0,23 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкало  осіб у  домогосподарстві у складі  родин. Густота населення становила 468 осіб/км².  Було 2858 помешкань (206/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 6,2 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 26,9 % — особи молодші 18 років, 57,3 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,8 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 37,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 85,7 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 80,1 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  долари для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 27,5 % осіб, у тому числі 40,3 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 16,3 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  особа. Основні галузі зайнятості: виробництво — 22,9 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 17,6 %, роздрібна торгівля — 13,1 %.

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The Sad Tale ofCameroon Refugee Camp Where Mothers are Selling their Babies
The world is not paying attention to the plights of Cameroonian Refugees as conditions worsen.
By Olumide Oyekunle.
Its the Solomon era of famine in a camp where mothers are shunning the role of a caregiver in the face of extreme hunger.
Claudia, a 20-year-old woman, has been at the Adagom refugee camp since she arrived in Nigeria on October 2018. She escaped the crisis in Cameroon, pregnant with Gina, alongside 40,000 other refugees to seek asylum in Cross River, Southern Nigeria.
Like many inside the camp, they must do anything to survive. The worst part of this sad tale came three weeks ago when she struck the deal to sell her child for $185 (about N70,000).
TheCable news reports that the buyer, whose name could not be immediately ascertained came to the camp where he met a resident named, Victor, a barber; seeking a child to adopt.
"The boy that bought the baby told the barber to find someone to stay with him. So, the boy agreed to help him get someone," Ojon said.
"He met the girl and explained things to her. It was when the girl came that they later agreed she will sell the baby to the man. She followed him to a hotel in town where they stayed till the next morning before he settled her and paid her the money.
"I remember when she came to the camp pregnant, she delivered shortly after she arrived here but has been struggling to survive."
"The barber told her she will take N30,000 while he collects N40,000"
All seemed to have gone perfectly well until Claudia went back to the camp with the money (having been paid), to settle Victor who had linked her with the buyer. However, Victor wanted to take the Lion's share at the ratio of 55:45 which triggered anger from the mother whose baby had been sold.
Elvis Manget, one of the refugees on the security team of the camp, told TheCable the deal was discovered when an argument ensued over the money.
"The barber told her she will take N30,000 while he collects N40,000," he said, adding that the woman protested.
"She said no, that it is her child; so she will take the N40,000 while the guy takes N30,000. So it was when they were trying to fight that we saw them.
"The police came and they found out the money. Already, the other man had left with the baby. The barber was called and both of them were taken to the police station but he was later released.
"The money was collected from her and kept. They have been calling the guy but he is not picking. We told him there is a job we want him to do but he said he has already gone to Calabar and up till today, the police are looking for him."
An eyewitness narrated how Claudia and several other refugees had been suffering since arriving at the camp. While many young girls have had to become sex slaves, prostitutes, Claudia's action was no doubt a result of hunger and extreme hardship.
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Blog Categories Blurbs From The Net PAUL STANLEY Slams MARILYN MANSON For Trying To Get Publicity From CHARLES MANSON's Death
PAUL STANLEY Slams MARILYN MANSON For Trying To Get Publicity From CHARLES MANSON's Death Wednesday November 22 2017, 3:44 PM
KISS frontman Paul Stanley has accused Marilyn Manson of trying to get publicity by connecting himself to the death of Charles Manson.
Earlier today, Marilyn Manson tweeted a link to a YouTube clip of his previously recorded cover version of the mass murderer's 1970 track "Sick City". The shock rocker took his stage surname from the late cult leader; his first name came from Marilyn Monroe. In his autobiography, "The Long Dark Road Out Of Hell", Marilyn wrote that his stage name embodies the "balance between good and evil."
In response to a KROQ news report about Manson's tweet, Stanley took to his own Twitter account to blast the 48-year-old rocker. He wrote: "[It's] pathetic when somebody [whose] career never really took off is desperate enough to try for publicity by connecting himself to the news of a murdering scumbag's death."
Back in September, Marilyn Manson described KISS as "four gay dudes in Halloween costumes" when he was shown a photo of the Stanley-fronted band by NME and asked to comment on the image.
One of the most notorious murderers of the 20th century, Charles Manson died on Sunday in a hospital in Kern County, California, north of Los Angeles. He was 83. Charles Manson had been rushed to a Bakersfield, California hospital from Corcoran State Prison earlier this month for an undisclosed medical issue.
In the summer of 1969, Charles Manson persuaded his followers to commit a string of murders in Los Angeles.
Although he was sentenced to death for the crime, Manson escaped execution when the state Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional at the time. Via Blabbermouth
Pathetic when somebody who's career never really took off is desperate enough to try for publicity by connecting himself to the news of a murdering scumbag's death. @RollingStone @UltClassicRock https://t.co/SShmw5Wmse
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) November 20, 2017
Marilyn Manson - Sick City https://t.co/qyybUftAHu via @YouTube pic.twitter.com/qsFdUnLcX3
— Marilyn Manson (@marilynmanson) November 20, 2017
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Finally, we have an update for you all regarding our journey to Gaza. Below, you will find the official announcement from the "Free Gaza Movement", in relation to the 'HOPE' Fleet. Derek and I will both leave for Gaza on board one of the boats in the Flotilla. Regardless of how long the boats are staying in Gaza, we are hoping to stay for 3-6 months. So, the next few weeks will be a surge of organisation, both personally and with regard to the flotilla. As both of us have now decided to stay long term in Gaza, we are technically leaving Cyprus, so our house needs to be emptied, belongings put into storage, bags packed, etc.
We have many hopes, ideas and plans to assist the people of Gaza, once we actually get there, and will keep you all updated as we progress.
DEAR FRIENDS: The Free Gaza Movement will again challenge Israel's illegal closure of the Gaza Strip and collective punishment of its civilian population by sailing the HOPE FLEET, a flotilla of passenger and cargo ships, to Gaza at the end of May 2009 – to be followed by freedom riders this summer. We are turning to you, our friends & supporters, to help make Hope come alive.
Our small yet committed group has already made five successful voyages to Gaza, delivering needed human rights workers & humanitarian supplies, taking out Palestinian students and medical patients, and helping to lessen Gaza's terrible isolation from the world. We are confident that with the universal outrage over Israel's massacres in Gaza we will be able to send a flotilla of ships to shatter the siege and deliver a message of international hope and solidarity to the people of Palestine.March 30th, 2009 marks the BDS (Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions) Global Day of Action against Israeli violence . Responsible BDS actions were used to end apartheid in South Africa. Today, Israeli policies of racism, ethnic cleansing and the brutal military occupation of Palestine demand equally determined & direct action to overcome them. When our governments fail to act, we – the citizens of the world – must stand up and make our voices heard. Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grants all people the right to leave and return to their own country – a right that Israel summarily denies Palestinians.
We are looking for ships wishing to join the Hope Fleet and sail to Gaza in late May, and we are looking for high-profile people, including parliamentarians and celebrities, who want to join us and demand that a besieged Gaza cannot forever remain an open-air prison with no access to the world. The Free Gaza Movement will continue to challenge Israel's brutal policies. We will go to Gaza again, and again, and again, until the Israeli siege is broken and the people of Gaza have access to the rest of the world.
If you are interested in joining or supporting this action, please email Iristulip(at)gmail.com. We will begin collecting names and information as we ready for this historic voyage. With your help, we will make the HOPE FLEET a reality.


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Chicago police officers patrol Cottage Grove Avenue in April. The city is beefing up the police presence in neighborhoods with high crime rates.
On Jan. 4, moments before presiding over the graduation of 56 police recruits, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and an aide met in a small room at Navy Pier with three of corporate Chicago's biggest names: Allstate Corp. Chairman and CEO Tom Wilson, Loop Capital Markets LLC Chairman and CEO Jim Reynolds Jr. and mayoral adviser Michael Sacks, CEO of Grosvenor Capital Management LP.
The subject was the city's scandalous street violence. The horrifying murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the teen who performed at an inaugural event for President Barack Obama, would not happen for another three weeks, but a summer of escalating homicide numbers and high-profile incidents on Michigan Avenue had made the city's safety a national topic of concern.
While no one argues with the goal of reducing violence, the name of the project isn't the only ungainly aspect of the effort. Basic questions remain: How will the organization be managed? Which social service groups will get funding and which will lose out? Is a new group really necessary? And what constitutes success?
Tom Wilson, left, and Jim Reynolds Jr.
This effort is part of a pattern for the mayor, who has appealed to the business community to address public policy issues during his first two years, including fundraising to host last year's NATO summit and the establishment of the infrastructure trust to solicit private financing for public projects.
Ald. Roderick Sawyer, whose 6th Ward encompasses some of the areas that will be targeted by the effort, praises the idea of big business funding to fight neighborhood ills. But he also questions how the participants were selected.
The new group's formal name is the Chicago Public Safety Action Committee. For now, it has no staff, although there are plans to hire an executive director this summer. David Spielfogel, the mayor's chief of policy and strategic planning, is the chief staffer for now.
The Chicago Community Trust will deposit and manage donations ($500,000 is in hand so far) and has waived what would have been a $300,000 fee to do the back-office work. The Civic Consulting Alliance and the University of Chicago will help vet applicants for funding. All those involved have experience that made a public application process unnecessary, Mr. Spielfogel says.
"This is a case of building the plane while flying it," acknowledges Roseanna Ander, executive director of the U of C's Crime Lab and Urban Education Lab, which will research and measure the success of the program and whose work is being funded by a separate $1 million-a-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
The new group insists it will focus on preventing violence in the near term, at least according to one corporate donor.
PNC Bank in Chicago pledged $500,000 over five years and wanted to direct the money toward early-childhood education, an issue the bank long has supported. But Get In Chicago organizers "want to focus on programs that right now affect at-risk youth, so that wouldn't be specifically early-childhood education. They made that clear," says Scott Swanson, regional president at PNC Illinois.
The company made the donation anyway. "We recognize that it's a public issue, and violence in a highly competitive business environment isn't the kind of attention we want attracting headlines," Mr. Swanson says. "We give separately to other early-childhood programming, so we feel good about the $500,000 commitment" to the anti-violence effort.
The first Get In Chicago project will spend $2 million on a purposely small summer program for 250 people ages 14 to 24. Some 40 organizations applied for a portion of the funding.
"We didn't want to gush money out until we knew what we were doing," Mr. Spielfogel says of the project, noting that $2 million will cover intense mentoring and programming that will extend through the school year.
The summer project is directed at youth in the Englewood, Auburn Gresham and Greater Grand Crossing neighborhoods, many of whom will be referred from agencies including the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice and Chicago Police Department.
"It's neighborhoods with the highest crime rates, the most devastation and the most need of investment," Mr. Reynolds says.
University of Chicago researchers, who will help choose the service providers, also will monitor the results.
The crime lab estimates that gun violence costs the city of Chicago $2.5 billion a year. That includes direct costs like those incurred for police and medical care, as well as the intangibles such as losing residents to the suburbs because they fear crime.
Robert Blackwell Jr., owner of Electronic Knowledge Interchange, a tech consulting firm in the Loop, says that the anti-violence campaign is laudable but that it doesn't look at the real issue of economic stability.
Mr. Reynolds is confident the new effort will produce results. "It's not remotely conceivable that we will put this amount of thought and leadership from concerned people as well as capital and have zero impact," he says.


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DEAN ALLISON
Member of Parliament for Niagara West
About Dean
Niagara West
Dean Allison MP
BEFORE POLITICS
A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with a degree in Economics, Dean established himself in the Niagara and Hamilton area through working for a major franchise organization and eventually starting
and running a number of successful businesses in Southern Ontario.
In addition to his successful business career, Dean served his
community as President of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, as President of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce,
as a Director of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and as a board
member of Junior Achievement in Niagara.
Dean is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation in Canada and the Belarus Children of Chernobyl program
that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.
MY POLITICAL CAREER
Dean Allison was elected as the first MP for the newly formed riding
of Niagara West-Glanbrook on June 28, 2004, and was re-elected
with resounding majorities in the 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2015 general elections. On October 21, 2019 Dean began his sixth term as the MP
for the riding of Niagara West.
During his tenure on parliament hill, Dean has served in many
capacities in addition to being the Member of Parliament for
Niagara West.
Parliamentary Roles
Shadow Minister for International Trade
Shadow Minister for
Critic for Seniors
Parliamentary Committees
Chair, Scrutiny of Regulations
Chair, Public Accounts
Chair, Foreign Affairs & International Development
Chair, Human Resources, Skills & Social Development
Chair, Liaison
Parliamentary Associations
Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association
Canadian Section of ParlAmericas
Canadian NATO Parliamentary Association
Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe Assembly
Canada-Isreal Parliamentary Association
Canada-China Legislative Association
Canadian Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
Canada-Japan Interparlimentary Group
Canada-United States Interparlimentary Group
Canada-United Kingdom Interparlimentary Association
Canada-Ireland Interparlimentary Group
Canada-Italy Interparlimentary Group
A MESSAGE FROM DEAN
The residents of Niagara West deserve competent, honest and accountable government. That's what motivated me to become politically active and is still the reason that I am proud to be your MP. I am honoured that you continue to place your trust in me to represent your views in Ottawa,
and I take this responsibility very seriously.
Each day in the House of Commons, Members of Parliament are tasked with the duty of developing, debating and voting on legislation that effects all Canadians.
As your elected representative,
I will always keep your best interests at the forefront
in making these important decisions.
I encourage you to contact my office for any information
or assistance you may require in dealing with the federal government and its many agencies, or just to simply voice your comments and concerns.
Dean and his staff are here to help.
As your Member of Parliament, Dean and his staff, both in Ottawa and the constituency, are working hard to serve the people of Niagara West.
The Parliamentary office team is dedicated to assisting Dean with all of his parliamentary duties and functions, both in relation to his duties as the Member of Parliament from Niagara West, and in the House of Commons and in Standing Committees.
The Constituency office team is dedicated to serving constituents from all corners of the riding in navigating through federal government services, helping to arrange meetings with Dean and coordinate greetings and congratulatory certificates for special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, grand openings, etc.
Should you need assistance with any matter related to the federal government, you are encouraged to contact Dean's office toll free at 1.877.309.3326 or by email at info@deanallison.ca
for assistance with:
Canada Pension Plan
Canadian Revenue Agency
Citizenship & Immigration
Employment Insurance
Passports & Foreign Affairs
Social Insurance Numbers
Veteran's Issues
Greetings or Commemorative Requests
Obtaining Canadian flags, stickers and pins for travel abroad
Commissioner of Oaths for taking affidavits
Dean Allison was elected as the first MP for the riding of Niagara West-Glanbrook on June 28, 2004, and was re-elected with resounding majorities in the 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2019 general elections. On October 18, 2021 Dean began his seventh term as the MP for the riding of Niagara West.
A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with
a degree in Economics, Dean established himself in the Hamilton and Niagara area through accumulating businesses and working for a major franchise organization.
He served his community as President of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation, as President of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce, a Director of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and board member of Junior Achievement in Niagara. Allison is also a founding member of the Dave Thomas Adoption Foundation in Canada and the Belarus Children of Chernobyl program that brings children affected by the Chernobyl disaster to Canada.
With regard to his parliamentary duties,
Dean has served as Shadow Minister for International Development and has chaired the Human Resources, Skills Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities committee, the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, and the Standing Committee on International Trade. He also chaired the Liaison Committee for almost 10 years. Additionally, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Dean to the Red Tape Reduction Commission which released an influential report on the relationship between government and
the private sector.
As a committed advocate for his constituents, Dean works tirelessly on their behalf and can often be found at community events and meetings in the riding. Through his efforts, hundreds of individuals and numerous businesses have seen positive results.
Dean lives in Pelham with his wife and children.
THE HILL UPDATE | BILL C5, THE FISCAL UPDATE, AND CANADA'S VACCINE REPORTING SYSTEM
Dean welcomes Dr. Patrick Phillips for a discussion on Canada's transparency when it comes to reports of adverse effects to vaccines.
THE HILL UPDATE | WEST COAST FLOODING, HOUSING, AND A HILL UPDATE
Today on The Hill Update, Dean is joined by Former MP Ron Cannan to chat over his time in the house, rebuilding in BC, and the public's...
THE HILL UPDATE | HOT TOPICS IN THE HOUSE
Dean is joined by the host of Canadian Innovators, Jocelyn Bamford, to go over the latest issues from the house floor.
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