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The best books on Samuel Johnson
recommended by Peter Lilley
Samuel Johnson, author of the 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, was not a hard-hearted Tory caricature, but a champion of the poor and enslaved, according to Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Peter Lilley.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
by John Wain
by Walter Jackson Bate
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage - a biographical mystery
by Richard Holmes
The Politics of Dr Johnson
by Donald Greene
1 The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
2 Samuel Johnson by John Wain
3 Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate
4 Dr Johnson and Mr Savage - a biographical mystery by Richard Holmes
5 The Politics of Dr Johnson by Donald Greene
Your first book is by a contemporary of Johnson's, James Boswell.
This is the groupies' biography in that Boswell was a cloying groupie but, nonetheless, he wrote the greatest Johnson biography of all time and the best known. It was written at the time and, of course, Boswell took down every word Johnson said. It is extremely vivid, though you never know to what extent Boswell was tarting it up at the end of the day, but, given that Johnson had this pithy style, it's probably hard to embellish very much. Johnson made it a practice from his earliest youth never to say anything unless he said it as well as you could possibly say it. He had a crisp style and spoke Latin so his English was very good.
Your next book is the John Wain biography.
Wain was a poet and novelist and he wrote this biography in the late 1960s, I think. I got him to come and speak at the Bow Group. He was not a great Tory, but he was conservative with a small "c" and he was a bit of an angry young man. Samuel Johnson was an angry young man and a Tory, a Conservative with a capital "C". This book is wonderful for its sheer sympathy, perhaps because it is written from the point of view of a fellow poet and novelist. I knew Johnson was a Tory and I knew he had that boring old Tory caricature of being a crusty old reactionary, as all Tories do – supporting the rich against the poor and the privileged against the underprivileged. But it was a surprise to find that he was actually very bohemian. He had a strong sympathy with the poor ("Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed" – London) having grown up poor and having lived on Grub Street.
He tried to set up as a schoolmaster in Lichfield and failed, so he walked to London in 1737 with his pupil, David Garrick, who, of course, became a famous actor and much richer than him. Garrick went on to make a great fortune.
Wain has sympathy for Johnson as a writer and as a person and, in some ways, I think John Wain sympathises with his moral attitudes. It was out of fashion in the 1960s to be a moraliser. Johnson, of course, wrote about morals and good and evil in The Rambler (1750-52).
And now the Bate biography.
Bate, certainly prior to the latest Peter Martin biography, which I haven't read, is, despite being marred by a slight touch of Freudianism, the definitive modern biography of Johnson. It is easier to read than the Boswell and more comprehensive than the John Wain. He has absorbed all the existing material and research and has also done his own research.
Everyone gets very uptight, and there is a great mystery, about whether or not Johnson was having a sado-masochistic relationship with his friend, Mrs Hester Thrale. The evidence is taken from her letters and notes to him in Latin and from his own notes that refer to "sweet bondage". John Wain thought they had been having a sado-masochistic relationship, but Bate thinks it refers to Johnson's fear of madness and his periods of depression. He had always had bouts of depression, when he didn't finish Oxford (he was at Pembroke College) because his father went bankrupt and he went back to Lichfield for two years. Then, later, he had another breakdown and was rescued by Mrs Thrale and her family. So, he had this fear of madness and was either afraid of being locked up or he wanted someone to lock him up. Personally, I don't know or care very much since it didn't seem to inform his life in other ways if he had a bit of bondage with Mrs Thrale! If he did, I'm sure he regretted it. He was very devout and unsure as to whether his repentance was great enough to ensure a happy afterlife.
It is very hard to see why he was worried. He was incredibly generous and essentially ran a welfare state of his own. There was an old lady he took in and she accompanied him to fashionable places where she caused distress by her poor table manners. His adopted son, Frank Barber, was a freed black slave and became his heir. He took in reformed prostitutes and half a dozen others. He spent half his money on derelicts and drop-outs. He showed a goodness that is rarely practised on this scale. I quoted him in my Party Conference speech in 1992, when I was Social Security Secretary, saying: "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation."
And now the Richard Holmes book about Johnson's friendship with the poet, Richard Savage.
When Johnson was still young and poor in London he got to know Richard Savage who was also poor. Savage claimed to be the illegitimate son of a countess. He was wanted for murder, he was dissolute and dissipated and part of the Jacobite "out group", sympathisers with the House of Stuart. Johnson and Savage wandered the streets, slept out in the open and set the world to rights, as one does at that age! Samuel Johnson wrote the life of Richard Savage in his Lives of the poets, and it's a very sympathetic account, including the dissipation.
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Savage had indeed committed a murder, of James Sinclair in a drunken brawl, and he was convicted and sentenced to death, but was reprieved after the intercession of the Countess of Hertford in 1727. It was a strange alliance, that of a dissolute, drunken and murderous poet and the upright Christian Samuel Johnson. Well, I suppose Savage was Christian too, but just not very good at it. Holmes does a sort of Sherlock Holmes account of their friendship. His book doesn't, as I recall, come up with any kind of key to the mystery of their friendship. The friendship is only a mystery to those who live by stereotypes. Johnson wrote: "Those are not proper judges of his conduct who have slumbered away their time on the down of plenty. Nor will any wise mind presume to say, "Had I been in Savage's condition, I should have lived or written better than Savage."
Now Donald Greene on Johnson's politics.
Greene debunks the whole caricature of Johnson, which has been the predominant view since Thomas Babington Macaulay's great diatribe of 1818 depicting him as a Tory reactionary doing all the things Tories are supposed to do. Macaulay, of course, ignored the fact that Johnson was an early campaigner against slavery and an open supporter of women. He described the poet Charlotte Lennox as being "superior to them all". Johnson belonged to something called "The Club" along with Boswell, Joshua Reynolds, Goldsmith … It's extraordinary to think of them all in the same room at the same time discussing literature, politics. They were not, of course, all of the same ilk politically. Greene describes Johnson as he was. He shows him as an attractive, humane and gentle chap. Boswell tells us that while Johnson was dining in Oxford with "some very grave men" he proposed a toast: "Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies." He was notoriously unsympathetic to the American revolution and said: "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?"
British politics has a tradition of seeing the right as caricatured reactionaries, hard-hearted and callous, but Johnson was a self-proclaimed Tory and Greene shows him as he was – not the caricature at all.
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Home Society Family The Parenting Philosophy Of bell hooks: There Is No Love Without Justice
The Parenting Philosophy Of bell hooks: There Is No Love Without Justice
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Parental upbringing that involves corporal punishment is "love"- a lie most parents and the society feed into the minds of children. This stems from the patriarchal, proprietary notions of parenting where parents always put themselves on a pedestal and children are expected to accept this power dynamic. Domination by establishing upper hand is often the cornerstone of this family hierarchy.
American author, professor and feminist activist Gloria Jean Watkins, more popularly known by her pen name bell hooks, has critiqued this power dynamics in her work, citing that it often leads to parental abuse. A parent's assertive superiority rejects a child's autonomy and even fails to recognise their rights. Hence, coercive measures in parenting become detrimental to a child's growth.
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Liberative parenting ideologies counter such forms of parenting in a heteropatriarchy. The parenting philosophy of bell hooks focuses on liberating children by allowing them to establish their agency in a child-parent relationship. She has put forth two significant aspects of liberative parenting in her books: revolutionary parenting and feminist parenting.
While the former talks about children's rights to effective child care and rejects the societal onus that lies with women solely to provide care, the latter talks about eliminating sexism in parental upbringing. Hence, according to bell hooks, liberative parenting is the way to go to sustain a healthy, nurturing child-parent relationship.
Love does not abuse: Understanding love in child-parent relationships
In 'All About Love: New Visions' published in 1999, bell hooks talks about the various aspects of love in different layers. Even though essentially a book on 'love', she also explores the opposite of love. She comments on our preconceived notions about love and also concurrently examines the consequences of love's absence in life.
In this book, bell hooks stresses on the meaningfulness of 'love'. To understand her parenting philosophy, it is important to contextualise her feminist interpretation of what love is and what it is not. It is important to notice how she distinguishes love from lovelessness.
Hooks asserts justice as an indispensable part of love. How does one ensure justice in love to children? By acknowledging their political and civil rights. Parents are accountable for the life they procreate but their children do not automatically become their property. It is in the best interest of a child to recognise their autonomy and let them voice out their opinions. This will culminate in breaking the problematic structural hierarchies that persist in child-parent relationships
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We learn to perceive love since childhood. From being physically held by a loved one at a very young age, we learn to understand the nitty-gritties of love from our parents. They are the guardians who guide us in some way or another but along the way, they often feed us lies. In a child-parent equation, the child is mostly looked down upon.
Disciplining, subsequently followed by punishments, no matter how harsh they are, is always justified under the garb of "love". This is "for your own good" and "I'm doing this because I love you"- are the most common statements fed to children by parents in attempts to normalise corporeal punishment and abuse.
bell hooks describes the home, be it functional or dysfunctional, as "the original school of love" and love simply as a "good feeling". But the coercive measures adopted by parents to discipline children create nothing but confusion and conflicts in their minds. Their parent's abusive behaviour makes the child question the meaning of love.
Also read: Abraham Maslow And Indian Parenting: Does Every Parent Deserve A Child?
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In 'All About Love: New Visions', bell hooks mentions "cathexis", the act of investing emotions and feelings in people who truly matter in our lives. She says, "We all know how often individuals feeling connected to someone through the process of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting or neglecting them. Since their feeling is that of cathexis, they insist what they feel is love."
Hooks precisely distinguishes love from cathexis. She argues that love does not abuse. Parents tend to overlook the fact that abuse and neglect cannot exist along with love. bell hooks has debunked this "social myth" by stating, "Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love."
Justice is an indispensable part of love
Parents become the oppressor in the process of inflicting harsh power dynamics and punishment on the children. Gaslighting children to believe that cruel and bitter punishment is a part of genuine love has become commonplace in our culture. Time and again, bell hooks has challenged these notions of parenting in her work.
Hooks asserts justice as an indispensable part of love. How does one ensure justice in love to children? By acknowledging their political and civil rights. Parents are accountable for the life they procreate but their children do not automatically become their property. It is in the best interest of a child to recognise their autonomy and let them voice out their opinions. This will culminate in breaking the problematic structural hierarchies that persist in child-parent relationships.
Power, control and domination, when exerted in parental upbringing creates a toxic culture of abuse. Bell Hooks rightly puts the onus on adults to defend the rights of children. This responsibility lies with all adults who engage with children. To foster a more loving, empathetic culture, every adult needs to protect and safeguard children's autonomy. Children rely on us and learn from us about love, personal autonomy and power hierarchies. We must strive to build a secure, loving world for them to live in
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Domination in parental upbringing counters a child's rights. It not only fails to recognise their civil rights but also fails to create a loving, nurturing, safe space for them within the family. Hooks find this to be deeply rooted in patriarchal thinking. She says, "We have all been socialised to embrace patriarchal thinking, to embrace an ethics of domination which says the powerful have the right to rule over the powerless and can use any means to subordinate them." The way to manifest true love in any relationship is through cooperation and partnership.
bell hooks urges parents, guardians and caretakers to fight against sexism. She does not fail to simultaneously criticise women for preserving patriarchy in parenting through repetition of conditioned patterns. Considered as the "primary parental caregivers" and being the biggest victims of patriarchy themselves, mothers end up passing the same traditional mandates on to their children.
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She asserts that men must play an equal part in parenting and child care, like their female counterparts. She asks them to discard sexism and practice 'feminist parenting'. The onus of liberative parenting lies on all parenting figures, irrespective of gender.
Power, control and domination, when exerted in parental upbringing creates a toxic culture of abuse. bell hooks rightly puts the onus on adults to defend the rights of children. This responsibility lies with all adults who engage with children. To foster a more loving, empathetic culture, every adult needs to protect and safeguard children's autonomy. Children rely on us and learn from us about love, personal autonomy and power hierarchies. We must strive to build a secure, loving world for them to live in.
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Jessie Eden (née Shrimpton; 24 February 1902 – 27 September 1986) was a British trade union leader and communist activist, most famous for leading between 40,000 to 50,000 households during the Birmingham rent-strike of 1939. She was also involved in the construction of the Soviet Union's Moscow Metro, convincing women at Birmingham's Joseph Lucas motor factory to join the 1926 UK General Strike, and leading an unprecedented and successful strike of 10,000 factory worker women in 1931. For her commitment to helping improve the working conditions of English factory workers, she was awarded the T&G gold medal from Ernest Bevin. Later in life, she served for three decades as Birmingham city's federation of council house tenants. Her involvement in the trade unions of the English Midlands led to a massive increase in women joining British trade unions. She was a lifelong supporter of both the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G), and of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) of which she was a leading member.

In popular culture, she is best known for her depiction in the fictional British television series Peaky Blinders (played by Charlie Murphy), causing both controversies over how her personal life was portrayed and a renewed interest in British trade union history.

Early life
Jessie Eden was born on 24 February 1902 at 61 Talbot Street, which was then listed as Birmingham's All Saints sub-district. Her mother was a 17-year-old suffrage campaigner also called Jessie, and her father was a "jeweller journeyman" called William. She grew up with her family in the Jewellery Quarter of Hockley, Birmingham. This district of Birmingham was close to the Lucas Electrics factory, where Eden later become a worker, and would become famous for due to her trade union activism. Jessie was the eldest of three daughters belonging to Jessie and William, the other two called May and Nell. By 1911 the family were living at 32 Court 2 House, Bridge Street, and her father now aged 27 was working as a "wireman".

A brief marriage in the summer of 1923 in Kings Norton to a man called Albert Eden would see Jessie change her last name from Shrimpton to Eden, the name for which she would become most known. Later in life, she described her short marriage to Albert Eden as a "folly", and that she was unsatisfied with being married to somebody who did not share her political beliefs. Despite the marriage's short length, the couple adopted a son called Douglas (Douggie to friends), however, his parental status is disputed and many members of Eden's family believe that Douglas was a blood relative of Jessie Eden (see Personal and Family Life).

Union leadership and political activism

1926 general strike
Eden became a factory worker filling shock absorbers at Birmingham's Lucas Electronics factory and a union steward for the factory's only section of unionised women. During the 1926 United Kingdom general strike, she convinced these same unionised worker women to walk out of the factory and join the strike. Both of her parents were very supportive of her trade union activism, with her father joining her during the general strike and her mother hanging a red flag from their home's front window.

1931 Birmingham women's strike
In 1931 Eden organised another strike, this time leading 10,000 non-unionised women on a week-long strike, during which she joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Before the strike, Eden had noticed that factory supervisors had been closely observing her work, and it was soon discovered by Eden and her fellow workers that the supervisors were monitoring her because she was a fast worker and that they planned to use her work speed as a standard for all the other workers in the factory. Eden approached the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), however, they did not allow women to join their membership, so she instead approached the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&W). In protest to the factory's plans, Eden organised a mass walkout of 10,000 women, who refused to work for a week. The strike was successful and the Lucas Electrics factory management was forced to back down. After the victory, the overjoyed factory workers were so ecstatic that the factory could not function during normal hours and had to be closed early. One of the communist activists who had encouraged Eden was raised up upon the shoulders of factory workers at a dinner hour in celebration.

This strike was described by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) as "unprecedented at the time", and led to the T&G's leader (then Ernest Bevin) to award Jessie Eden with the union's Gold Medal. Eden's leadership and organisation of the strike prompted a massive increase in the number of women in the midlands joining British trade unions.

Life in the Soviet Union
After the 1931 strike the Communist Party (of which she was a lifelong member) arranged for her to travel to the Soviet Union to help rally women workers to help build the Moscow Metro in 1934. She spent two and a half years in the Soviet Union, although despite her skills in worker organisation, her work did very little to speed up the progress of the Moscow Metro, due largely to language difficulties. During her time in the Soviet Union, she became involved with the Comintern's Lenin School, and was elected a Shock Worker at the Stalin automotive plant (later renamed the ZiL automotives).

Later in life, Eden told her daughter-in-law that she had travelled to the Soviet Union in secret, and that most people believed she had disappeared.

1939 Birmingham rent strike
After returning from the Soviet Union, Eden again led another successful strike in the city of Birmingham. In 1939, as a protest against slum-like conditions of housing in the city of Birmingham, Eden organised a mass rent strike of nearly 50,000 tenants. She would continue her activism in the field of housing rights and spend nearly three decades as the leader of Birmingham city's federation of council house tenants.

Election campaigns
Jessie contested the Handsworth constituency during the August 1945 general election, winning 3.4% (1,390) of the votes.

Later in November 1945, she took part as a candidate in the municipal elections, short of winning by 2,887 votes.

Appearance in Peaky Blinders
Season 4 and 5 of Peaky Blinders introduced a character named Jessie Eden, portrayed by Irish actress Charlie Murphy. Although the reception was mixed, some people who had known Eden personally took offence to the way she was depicted. Graham Stevenson, a historian of British communism, a personal friend of Eden and the author of her biography, criticised the show."I knew Eden, and as a callow 22-year-old, I didn't ask the 70-year-old Jessie about her relationships, let alone sex life. But I doubt her private life was as complicated or dramatic as her eponymous character's. Nor can I see any young woman during the 1920s gratuitously going into a gents' toilets, as Eden is shown doing, for any reason at all other than life or death. The social values of the programme are ahistorical. It is surely the conceit that Tommy Shelby, the gangster villain-hero of the series, could ever convince a woman like Eden to be wined and dined, let alone be seduced, that finally reveals the true motives of the creators of the programme."

At a round table event featuring Stevenson, poet Dave Puller, and cultural historian Professor Paul Long, the three discussed the series and its depictions of the British working class. Long rated the series positively and praised the series as a "great representation of interesting working-class protagonists". Puller had mixed feelings and was disappointed that the show chose to focus on Eden's fictional romance with Tommy Shelby, rather than her real achievements as a communist and a trade union leader.

Personal and family life
Eden married twice, once briefly in 1923 to Albert Eden who she quickly broke up with, citing his differing political views. During this short marriage, the couple adopted a son called Douglas (Douggie to friends), who later joined the Royal Navy, and became a lifelong communist party member until he died in 1977. After his death, various members of the Eden family spoke of him as being a blood relative, and that Douglas had lived his entire life never knowing that he was not Jessie Eden's biological son.

In 1948 she married for a second and final time to fellow communist party activist Walter McCulloch, and they stayed together until his death in 1978. McCulloch was a carpenter and CPGB member who oversaw the construction of the communist party's Star Social Club for the Midlands branch.

Eden died in Birmingham on 27 September 1986.

See also

 Claudia Jones
Dorothy Kuya
Mark Ashton
 Harry Pollitt
 Shapurji Saklatvala
 Alan Winnington

References

1902 births
1987 deaths
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
British trade union leaders
Women trade unionists
English anti-fascists
International Lenin School alumni
Communist Party of Great Britain members
British expatriates in the Soviet Union
British feminists

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Report: "Codex Hackathon, a Two-Day Marathon Of Tech For Books"
Filed by Gary Price on January 19, 2016
From The Boston Globe:
…the CODEX Hackathon, a weekend-long event at MIT timed to coincide with the American Library Association's midwinter conference in Boston. The second of its kind, it united programmers with librarians, students, and others with an interest in books to dream up and create apps and websites meant to expand the frontiers of publishing — all in the space of two days.
"There are a lot of really talented developers who love books, and who would love to participate if they knew the problems that needed to be solved," said organizer Jennifer 8. Lee, the author of the best-selling 2008 book "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles" and cofounder of literary studio Plympton.
Participants ranged from high schoolers to bearded hackers and entrepreneurs to gray-haired librarians. Though some projects were as whimsical as Van Seters and Mohankumar's, others targeted major current dilemmas in library science and publishing. One common goal was to help readers better access and use online repositories of information — plentiful these days, but often clunky or hard to navigate.
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For the latest hackathon, Lee secured about $35,000 in funding from sponsors including Google and the Harvard Book Store. That money went toward travel stipends for attendees — organizers prioritized stipends for women and underrepresented minorities, Lee said — and for hacker fuel: sandwiches, Indian cuisine, and a steady supply of coffee, soft drinks, and bags of chips.
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Q: Using web.config to block content based on IP address Is it possible to block a specific content based on IP address in web.config, for IIS8?
For example:
<location path="somesite">
    <system.webServer>
        <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="redirect/somesite" />
    </system.webServer>
</location>

Would it be possible to block a specific entry as above based on IP address, and redirect to a 404 error page of some sort?

A: I believe this wont be possible via web.config, though I may be wrong also. However I have successfully used global.asax for doing these kind of nasty stuff. Mind it that you cant be 100% sure about the Ip address, they can be spoofed, so you donowanna use it for security crital task.
Step 1. add a global.asax if you dont have
step 2. create a method as
      protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
      }

Application_BeginRequest is fired every time a resourse is requested.
Step 3. In this method verify IP address and redirect them where ever you want.
I hope I am clear.

A: Take a look at An IP Address Blocking HttpModule for ASP.NET in 9 minutes. It does what you want (404) but keeps ips in a separated file. That makes more sense because changing the web.config every time will lead to an application restart.
And if you want to block IPs on IIS level, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730889%28WS.10%29.aspx

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Mazzaglia Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of UNH Student
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The Dover man convicted of the rape and murder of 19-year-old UNH student Elizabeth "Lizzi" Marriott was sentenced to life in prison Thursday at the Strafford County Courthouse.
Seth Mazzaglia was shackled and dressed in green jail garb, his expression inscrutable, as 13 of Marriott's loved ones conveyed their grief.
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Bob Marriott, Lizzi's dad, walked a picture of his daughter around the courtroom.
"I want you to know, unequivocably, that I hate you," Lizzi's mother Melissa Marriott told Mazzaglia.
Marriott's uncle, Tony Hanna, also vented his anger at Mazzaglia. "You live your life in fantasy, darkness and control. Now the justice of the world has you," Hanna said. "You will live your life and your days in the dim light you relished. You'll never be a free man to shed your wickedness on others."
Many also took time to remember Marriott's generosity and warmth. Loved ones sported blue heart-shaped stickers featuring a pink octopus – a symbol of Marriott's love of sea creatures and her ambitions in Marine Biology.
Marriott's girlfriend, Brittany Atwood, told the courtroom, "Lizzi was, still is and always will be the most amazing, wonderful, beautiful, and talented person, friend and girlfriend in the whole entire world. I mean universe. Those are pretty much the last words I texted her that horrific night. I just hope to God that she saw it.
"No one will ever compare to her," Atwood told Mazzaglia. "I can't eat, can't sleep, can't think. My life has been filled with tears and sleepless nights."
Melissa Marriott told Seth Mazzaglia "I hate you."
Given an opportunity to speak, Mazzaglia maintained his innocence, insisting "I did not rape and murder Elizabeth Marriot."
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On Tuesday, Mazzaglia's lawyers argued that Mazzaglia had the right not to be present for the sentencing. However, Mazzaglia withdrew his motion nearly an hour after that court appearance.
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The Gifted Season 1 Episode 4: eXit Strategy Recap
October 24, 2017 October 24, 2017 ~ Metacrone
This week on The Gifted, characters are faced with decisions that force them to cross lines they don't want to cross, and work with people they don't want to work with, in order to successfully rescue Lorna and Reed. Some are faced with the negative consequences in this episode, others will face continuing consequences down the road. Jace is just plain old screwed, and even more determined to screw everyone else in the future.
We begin with a flashback to a rescue op two years ago, at a mutant relocation facility, somewhere in Georgia. John and another mutant, Pulse, wait outside a security fence for the mutants who are inside.
Pulse is impatient. He wanted to go in and use his powers to shut down the power and other systems in the facility. John tells him that the guards would have known what was going on if he did that. They're trying for more of a stealth operation, so they'll wait for the signal.
Just then, gunfire breaks out, and they hear shouting. Marcos and another mutant run through a hole in the fence. Two others are dead. Pulse volunteers to shut down the automatic weapons while the others run ahead. John protests, but Pulse says he'll be right behind them.
He's shot instead, and apparently killed. John yells to him and wants to go back, but Marcos drags him away.
In the present day, Lorna is moved to a temporary holding cell in preparation for her move to the detention center. She's in the cell right next to Reed. She asks if the same jerk who tried to use her unborn child against her, to get her to turn against her friends, is in the next cell because it's her birthday? This is why I like Polaris. She never pulls her punches.
Reed tries to win her over as soon as they have a quiet moment. She's not so easy.
At the underground HQ, the mutants are meeting to discuss the rescue operation. As we just saw in the flashback, Sentinel Services facilities are high security and heavily guarded. Sage, a math mutant, says there's an 86.5% chance of failure.
Marcos makes an impassioned speech, one of his mutant powers, about how much Lorna needs them and how much she's helped every person in the room. The usual suspects and a few others volunteer to help.
Everyone takes a moment to lament over the small size of the rescue crew. Caitlin, optimistic mom to the world, won't let anyone give up. As usual, the mutants try to convince Caitlin that she's useless because she's not a mutant, and Caitlin rules her kids out because they're kids.
Caitlin overcomes her disability by being the only strategist in the group, suggesting that they rescue Lorna and Reed while they're being transported, like any sensible rescue mission would. Everyone seizes on the idea immediately, quickly completing the basic plans.
Marcos will need to find out the route and time for the transport from the Colombian drug cartel that he worked for before he joined the underground. He'll get in touch with those contacts.
It turns out that his cartel boss has retired, and the boss's daughter, Carmen, who is coincidentally Marcos' old girlfriend, is now in charge of the local franchise. Oh, and Marcos dropped her for Lorna. Oops. It probably goes without saying that she makes Marcos work for her help with the "magnet girl".
Carmen only does favors for her friends. He needs to prove that he's her friend again by torturing some information out of a drug thief, which he reluctantly does. Carmen says she'll continue to call him, and he'll continue to help her, and their friendship will work out just fine. She does give him the promised information.
Meanwhile, Johnny gives Dreamer a hard time for not confessing to Clarice about the inserted memories. Dreamer feels the memories will fade in time, so she doesn't have to confess. Clarice is dreaming about the memories every night, and confused about whether they're real or not, since she can't place them in her own timeline.
Now that Marcos is getting the specific information on how Reed and Lorna will be moved, the mutants need a way to quickly and quietly stop the transport bus so that Clarice can open a portal for Reed and Lorna's escape. Lauren seeks out Andy, and they develop a way to combine their powers, so that he blows out a bus wheel, and she contains the damage.
Caitlin doesn't like the idea of bringing the kids into danger, but Reed's their dad too. They should be allowed to help. They all agree that Lauren and Andy will stop the bus, then get out.
Reed tries again with Lorna. He explains that he always did his job, followed the law, and assumed that the people who broke the law were guilty, knew what they were doing, and deserved their punishment. Then his kids turned out to be mutants, and destroyed a school. They'll get 10 years with mandatory minimums, even though the whole thing was accidental.
His kids didn't mean to hurt anyone. They were just defending themselves. But a few days ago, he would have been the one sending them to prison, without a second thought. He didn't understand. He's sorry.
Lorna doesn't give an inch:
"Congratulations on figuring out you're one of the bad guys. So what? If you would have thought about it a little longer, you wouldn't have destroyed so many lives, huh? You want forgiveness? Ask the little boy who I stuffed into a bus, begging to join his mommy in prison, where you sent her. Ask the hundreds and hundreds of lives you and your friends ruined. Don't ask me."
She's seen the evil his willful ignorance has done. "I didn't understand what I was doing" isn't a good enough excuse, not when the mutants were in front of him, telling him and showing him. But it's an easy excuse, and one I've heard a lot, now that sexual harassment is a constant topic of conversation. Just like "I knew about it, but it wasn't my problem, and I didn't want to disrupt my life," isn't a good enough excuse when it comes to significant issues.
Marcos is still shaken up when he gets back to the compound, and it triggers a montage. Must be another one of his powers. He tells Johnny that he doesn't want to talk about it, then prays in his room. Clarice continues to have borderline pornographic dreams about John. Dreamer hovers over John while he goes over the mission plans again. Lorna and Reed are taken to the transport bus.
John shows Clarice the transport route, and where she should be able to open a portal. She needs to be able to see into the bus through a window to open a portal. She's still thinking about her dreams, and asks if they went outside alone together the night they met. He tells her they didn't.
Marcos is waiting for the op to start with Dreamer and Harry/Trader. He tells them to leave and save themselves if things go sideways. He's not leaving without Lorna, even if it turns the rescue into a suicide mission.
Andy chokes when it's time for him to stop the bus. Lauren thinks quick, again, and baits Andy into anger, so that he can activate his powers. He blows the tire and axle, and Lauren contains the explosion, just like they practiced, but the bus is now in the wrong place for Clarice to see to open a portal. Jace quickly realizes it's mutants.
Reed convinces Lorna to take any opportunity to escape, and to trust him to help. John runs Clarice through the building to find a sight line to the bus, including busting through walls. When they find a spot, something interferes with their powers.
Harry has used his camouflage powers to do reconnaissance, but he's seen and shot when his powers are disrupted. John looks around and sees Pulse, alive and being forced to work for Sentinel Services. He's using his powers to disrupt the mutants' powers.
Marcos' powers are also suppressed, so he pulls out a gun. He hides behind a car to provide cover fire while Dreamer helps Harry.
Caitlin gets the kids to their getaway car, but an agent has gotten there first. Caitlin pulls a syringe full of a sedative out of her med bag, sneaks up behind the soldier, and drugs him. She sends the kids off in the car. Human ingenuity for the win.
Lorna and Reed finally have their chance. Their two guards try to move them to a working vehicle, but both Lorna and Reed fight them. One guard is knocked unconscious, but the other subdues the two prisoners.
Johnny watches for his chance, then runs out, takes out one of the soldiers, then tries to get through to Pulse. Pulse doesn't seem to even know him. Johnny knocks him unconscious and everyone gets their powers back.
Eclipse uses his powers to explode a car, just 'cause he can, and it feels good to get a bit of revenge. Dreamer and Harry are able to escape through Clarice's portal as the soldiers who'd been pinning them down scatter.
Lorna's powers return, but there's no metal on the bus for her to use. Reed tells her to use the metal screw in his leg. She rips it on out and takes out the guard.
Jace orders his men to shoot to kill. They've obviously forgotten what Lorna's power is. She's stops the bullets and turns them back on Sentinel Services. Marcos and Johnny meet Reed and Lorna in the street, then Caitlin pulls up driving the getaway car. She and Reed have a brief reunion, and they race away.
Jace stomps around, screaming for everyone to chase the mutants, but his second in command says they'll catch up to them later. Jace says he doesn't just want those mutants. He orders them to shut down every safe house, every sympathizer, and everyone that's ever helped a mutant. He wants them all.
Jace is going full on Javert, to Reed's Jean Valjean.
But who will be Marius???
Pulse can disrupt all kinds of systems. He and John were in the Marines together. The Underground rescued Pulse out of the relocation facility shown in the opening. He's clearly had experiments done on him, likely by Dr Campbell. Creepy. Are they reversible?
Pulse has a significant tattoo/brand on his wrist. I'm betting it's the logo for Dr Campbell's lab. Pulse is now a trademarked product of the lab.
There are no bug repellent mutants.
Clarice's lizard green contacts look much better this week. Did she get an upgrade?
Marcos wasn't just a street kid who eventually ran into Lorna after he left home. He was muscle for a drug cartel, dating the boss's daughter and heir apparent. The boss approved of him and was grooming him to run the business with Carmen eventually. Daddy was very sad when Marcos left.
Carmen is definitely going to try to lure Marcos back in, as boyfriend and business partner. He's a powerful asset in the business, and she's not happy about losing what was hers to another woman. Lorna should have some interesting things to say about that.
Carmen: "Moving drugs from Mexico, moving mutants to Mexico, which one is more illegal?" Doesn't take much of a change in wording to make it fit real life. It's pretty clear which one the real life federal government wants to make more illegal. Hint: It's the same as on the show.
The cartel connection may come in handy when they get to the point of moving people across the border again. This explains why Marcos is in charge of border crossings.
Ooh, let's play a little Les Mis character association, just for fun:
The student rebellion is the main, ongoing storyline in this version of Les Mis. Reed's employment as a prosecutor and the Struckers' oblivious upper middle class lifestyle were equivalent to Jean Valjean's time as the mayor and factory owner, when he was trying to run away from his past and ignore the problems of the poor and lower classes. Cosette and Fantine His kids and Lorna have opened Jean/Reed/Caitlin's eyes to the reality of life for the poor/mutants. Jean Valjean couldn't ignore the suffering of children, once he became aware of it, even if it meant risking his life and safety, just as the Struckers can't ignore the suffering of mutants anymore.
Javert- Jace
Jean Valjean- Reed, alternating with Caitlin (Yes! to gender parity in our heroes.)
Bishop- Danny (He's a reluctant version of the character, but he's still the influential benefactor who drives the angry mob away from the hero.)
Cosette- Lauren
Gavroche- Andy
Fantine- Lorna (This Fantine had better live to raise her child.)
Éponine- Clarice
Tenardiers- Carmen and drug cartel
Enjolras- Marcos (The hot head who makes impassioned speeches.)
Grantaire- John (The more level-headed best friend. We're going to ignore the gay subtext in the novel.)
Students- mutant underground
I'm not seeing a conflicted young Marius yet. Eventually a flawed mutant love interest will show up for Lauren, and/or, they'll continue to play out the Cosette/Marius/Éponine love triangle with Dreamer/Johnny/Clarice. They're also setting up another Cosette/Marius/Éponine triangle with Lorna/Marcos/Carmen.
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Yankees' Rotation After Sonny Gray Moves to Bullpen
By Joecalabrese
Updated Aug 2, 2018 at 8:22pm
Sonny Gray
Starting pitcher Sonny Gray has been moved to the bullpen, according to New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.
Gray will be made available in relief on Saturday, as the Yankees continue their scheduled four-game series against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
Sonny Gray sent to the bullpen. Said he will be available there Saturday. Gray said it's been a struggle but he will keep working and hopes to contribute. Boone told him from personal experience that it's possible to struggle and then change the narrative.
— Sweeny Murti (@YankeesWFAN) August 2, 2018
The 28-year old Gray, acquired from the Oakland Athletics last season, has had a rough 2018 in pinstripes.
In the Yankees' 7-5 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday, Gray was pulled after allowing seven earned runs in 2.2 innings. Overall, he is 8-8 with a 5.56 ERA and 99 strikeouts in 103.2 innings pitched this season.
Lance Lynn, who was acquired in a trade with the Minnesota Twins for Tyler Austin and Luis Rijo on July 30, a day before the trade deadline, will replace Gray in the rotation.
Sonny Gray demoted to bullpen; Lance Lynn promoted to rotation, #Yankees announce
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) August 2, 2018
Lynn, 31, signed a one-year contract with the Twins in the offseason. He is 7-8 with a 4.89 ERA and 105 strikeouts in 106.2 innings pitched this season.
Lynn, who has previous experience pitching out of the bullpen, came out in relief and went 4.1 innings, allowing no earned runs in the Yankees' loss to the Orioles.
Here is how the Yankees' starting rotation looks moving forward:
Luis Severino
J.A. Happ (when Happ is activated off the 10-day disabled list)
Masahiro Tanaka
CC Sabathia
Lance Lynn (replacing Sonny Gray)
On Thursday, Cashman appeared on The Michael Kay Show on 98.7 ESPN New York to discuss the move and the implications it has for the Yankees' rotation moving forward:
"Sonny Gray is a very good major league pitcher we just haven't had the opportunity to really see that play out over an extended period of time. I know that if he winds up somewhere else pitching, he's going to be pitching extremely well, because the equipment is all there, the stuff is all there, (but) consistently it's not playing out right here."
Along with the Happ roster move (hand, foot, and mouth disease), the Yankees recalled pitcher Luis Cessa from Triple-A Scranton Walks-Barre, who may be an option to start sometime early next week if Happ isn't activated by then.
Saturday's start for the Yankees is still free to a good home. Cessa is likely, but he's available in the bullpen tonight and tomorrow if length is needed. Lance Lynn, of course, was burned yesterday after Sonny's start. I'd still put my money on Cessa.
— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) August 2, 2018
Lynn or Cessa will likely start Saturday against the Red Sox in Boston. The Yankees' current scheduled starter has still yet TBA.
MLB, New York Yankees, Sonny Gray
Starting pitcher Sonny Gray has been moved to the bullpen, according to New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.Gray will be made available in relief on Saturday, as the Yankees continue their scheduled four-game series against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Sonny Gray sent to the bullpen. Said he will be available there […]


Each category has a checklist with suggested measures and practices. Businesses can select measures on the checklist, or propose their own. The program allows for flexibility, as businesses are not required to fulfil all five categories at once, to become certified. The certificate reflects the category icons in which the business has been certified.
Most businesses will use the "general" checklist, but some specialized businesses (Restaurants, Automotive, and Printer/Copier) may use a checklist that addresses their individual needs.


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Report: Apple to use Mini-LED tech in 2020 for better iPad and MacBook screens
Apple has long had some of the best displays on the market, but recently it's been somewhat behind the curve. While other manufacturers had long moved onto OLED technology with perfect blacks, Apple only started using them on its smartphones in the past few years, and has stuck to old-school LCDs on its laptops and tablets.
A new report from reliable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) suggests Apple is planning a big leap in image quality with some of its devices next year, although it still won't adopt OLED on the iPad and MacBook. Instead, Kuo says the company is opting for Mini LED on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and 16-inch Macbook Pro. This technology that brings some of the benefits of OLED to LCD panels without the prohibitive cost or potential burn-in associated with the former.
To be clear, we're talking about Mini LED here, not Micro LED. You might've heard of the latter before, which is essentially billed as a replacement for OLED, especially for large displays. Like OLED, each Micro LED pixel emits its own light, allowing for pure blacks and accurate colors. But while its difficult to manufacturer large OLED panels, Micro LED promises bigger, brighter screens, with less burn-in.
MiniLED screens, on the other hand, are similar to regular LCD displays in that they instead shine a backlight through pixels, which act as filters to display specific colors. The main benefit of Mini-LED is that you can stuff a lot more LEDs into a display than on a typical panel. This allows you to use local dimming – turning off or dimming the LEDs in certain areas – for greater contrast.
This feature is often present in high-end TVs, but practically unheard of for laptops and tablets (other than OLED panels, in which each pixel is basically its own backlight). That's because there's only so much room for backlighting on a portable device. Mini LEDs are far smaller than typical LEDs though, meaning local dimming could soon be a reality on laptops and tablets.
Kuo estimates that the 2020 12.9-inch iPad and 16-inch MacBook Pro will use as many as 10,000 Mini LEDs – each smaller than 200 microns – giving them ample flexibility for local dimming and high contrast. LG and GIS are said to be Apple's primary suppliers.
Point is, Micro LED could provide most of the important benefits of OLED with little of the downsides. We'll have to wait and see if the rumor pans out.
Published December 2, 2019 — 21:32 UTC
December 2, 2019 — 21:32 UTC


This is not a portrait of Jesus many are familiar with and it is probably not thought all that often. We are used to seeing Jesus teaching, laying hands and healing, having little children gathered around him. But we don't expect Jesus to use a whip and chase people out of the temple. Our present culture is more comfortable with a kinder gentler Jesus, not one who is on fire and chasing away those who use his father's house as a means for running financial scams and treating the temple as common. Jesus said this was to be a house of prayer but uneven scales and all the merchants using the temple as a place of commerce infuriated him. I wonder if Jesus confronted the church today what tables would he overturn who would feel the whip first?
Stop conforming to the culture- the temple had become a common the church today can easily become enmeshed in marketing its ware, promoting fellow servants to celebrity status and justify its extravagance by saying we have to be relevant to the world if we want them to hear the gospel. But is this attempt to attract the unbelieving world by copying its methods really helping to further the kingdom of God or is it hurting the church?
Bait and switch- many years ago I worked in the retail industry. We would put out these adds that had giveaways and super discounts on computers but the store sometimes didn't have enough in stock and there would be panic because we didn't want to be accused of bait and switch that is where we had a different product than that which was advertised with fewer features. I'm afraid the church in an effort to gain followers has engaged in bait and switch where the pastor may avoid certain difficult, controversial or unpopular positions in order to get seekers to stick around in hopes of later on them becoming a disciple. While I know that there are many who believe in this model of church I think we are doing a great disservice to the kingdom of God at large as well as the one seeking the truth. If we are deliberately ambiguous on the details of the gospel message and the need for repentance from sin if we only focus on love an not only holiness and how God sanctifies than we are being less than honest and leading on those who are not ready to give their lives to God. We also end up filling our ranks with people that have no intention to live the life of a follower of Christ. Jesus never minced words he didn't nuance the truth on by leaving out hard to swallow teaching or promise us s life without troubles, in fact, he warned that life will have its trouble. I believe in being honest about what the Bible teaches and letting people make an informed choice. People don't go to church to receive what they could get in any business seminar or late night infomercial they need something different. They need to hear from God.
Transformational truth must be taught- why are so many professing Christ but remain unchanged? Why do we Christians settle for managing our sin rather than exercising authority and power over it? Yielding to sin enslaves us. Refusing to yield breaks its power.
I was listening to a touching testimony by Jeffery McCall. A man who for many years identified as gay and who also identified as z Woman who was known as scarlet. He tells of his many struggles and how he had started taking hormones to begin to transition himself into a woman until he discovered the power of Jesus Christ who gave him the strength to break free to renounce his lifestyle and leave scarlet behind re-identify as a man.
100s of testimonies like Jeffery's exist that destroy this idea that one cant leave the lgbt life. Go to voice of the voiceless Facebook page.
The same power that delivered Jeffry can deliver you from a life that has been under the power of sin whether it be the power of addiction, the power of rage or anger, the power of lust.
Jesus died to break the power sin has over us but we must exercise that power by not yielding to it and enslaving ourselves to it. By resisting sin we gain strength and break the power it had over us. By learning the scriptures we learn to defeat the lies the devil tells us to convince us we not free.
We are living in times were people think that truth is relative, flexible, that it can change. Truth has not changed but people seem more willing than ever to believe lies.
2 Timothy 3:1–5 (ESV): But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Doesn't that sound like today? The problem is not that Jesus cant break the power of sin, it's that too many are lovers of self and lovers of pleasure but put on the mask of a Christian and play the part. There is s form of godliness with no real power. To say that we have no choice in how we act out and what lifestyle choices we embrace is to claim that the redemption power of the cross is only limited to a small list of sins and to make God small in our lives.
Power of prayer-just this week there was another mass shooting in New Zealand in a mosque while we grieve for the loss of life and show compassion to those who grieve some took the opportunity to mock prayer by saying prayers don't stop bullets. While prayer alone may not eliminate evil from a fallen and corrupted world neither will some law stop demons from using people to steal kill and destroy other people. To mock prayer displays an incredible ignorance of the spiritual realm which as believers in Christ we draw our power from. If we are going to see revival gods people need to turn their hearts toward prayer. And not just 5 minutes of god protect my family. There is much going on in the world that deserves my attn that though I might not be in a worldly position to do much about I can pray as if I believe that God is attentive to my prayer. I consider George Mueller who ran an orphanage for children would be running out of food and would pray than shortly after someone would come knocking on his door asking if they needed food. Daily these kinds of prayers would go up to God and be answered. jesus said his father's house should be a house of prayer. That is how chains are broken, needs are provided and the victory is won.


Nolan Arenado #28 of the Colorado Rockies hits a home run in the fourth inning against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field on April 17, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois.
CHICAGO — Nolan Arenado is back in the zone.
He hit two home runs Sunday in the Rockies' 2-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs, the seventh multihomer game of his career and the second within the last five games. His 16 RBIs lead the majors.
His first home run Sunday came off Cubs lefty Jon Lester. Arenado drove Lester's first-pitch 89 mph fastball into left field. With the wind blowing in at Wrigley Field, Arenado's homer barely got out, but there was enough power to lift it into the basket above the dormant ivy.
"When I first hit it, I thought it was gone," said Arenado, who now has six homers. "But then the wind got it, and I saw that (left fielder Jorge Soler) was camped, so I was like, 'Oh, no!' But thank God it went into the basket.
Story's story. Rookie shortstop Trevor Story continues to strike out a lot. He whiffed twice Sunday, bringing his season total to 22, most in the National League. But he also also hit seven homers and has a .294 average, and he ripped a first-inning single to left field off Lester.
Manager Walt Weiss said he's not worried about Story's mounting strikeout totals. And while Weiss might give the rookie a day off soon, he doesn't think Story has hit the wall.
Gray watch. Weiss said the team has not decided when right-hander Jon Gray will rejoin the rotation. After pitching two rehab games for high Single-A Modesto, Gray is expected to rejoin the team in Cincinnati on Monday, but he's not yet on the Rockies' pitching schedule.
Footnotes. The Cubs lost their first series of the 2016 season. … Tyler Chatwood became just the second Rockies starter to pitch at least seven innings while allowing only two hits against the Cubs. The other was Pedro Astacio on Aug. 1, 2000.
It's up to Lyles to keep the momentum going. The Rockies took two of three over the weekend against the Cubs when Colorado's three starters combined for a 1.00 ERA. Lyles' fastball has been reaching 96 mph in the early going, but his inability to command it and his penchant for falling behind in counts have gotten him into trouble early. In two starts, he has yet to get through five innings before getting the hook. Straily, who has made three appearances out of the bullpen, will make his first start of the season. In 8 innings, he has given up three runs, struck out eight and walked four.


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Iranian Activists Stand Up for Dozens of Detained Teachers
Be Voice of Iranian Teachers is a campaign being launched by Iranian teachers' rights activists, human rights organizations and activists, journalists, teachers, and lawyers, including 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
New Initiative Calls for an End to Judicial Persecution of Teachers in Iran
(September 26, 2012) The Iranian Judiciary and security apparatus should immediately release teachers imprisoned for their participation in teachers associations. They must also stop all persecution and prosecution of teachers exercising their basic rights to assembly and association, the International Campaign for Human Rights said today. The Campaign gives its full support to a new teachers' rights initiative, Be Voice of Iranian Teachers.
"This initiative to raise awareness about the condition of teachers in Iran is a valuable effort by Iranian activists. It highlights the worsening situation of those who dedicate their lives to the future of Iran," said Hadi Ghaemi, spokesperson for the Campaign.
As the United Nations' World Teachers' Day approaches on October 5 and a new school year begins, Be Voice of Iranian Teachers has issued a partial list of nearly 40 teachers who have been detained, imprisoned, and harassed by Iranian officials since 2009.
"The published list of imprisoned teachers is not a complete list, because, fearing persecution by the Intelligence Ministry, some families requested that their relatives' names be excluded from the list," Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the activists behind Be Voice of Iranian Teachers, told the Campaign. "Therefore, the list only includes the names of some individuals who have decided to embrace problems with the Intelligence Ministry, and their names are included."
"Increasing the intensity and the expansion of violence against teachers imposed by the security and judicial organizations…, as well as illegal confrontations with teachers' trade unions, have caused considerable worries which require serious attention by educational and human rights organizations," Be Voice of Iranian Teachers writes in its statement accompanying the list of imprisoned teachers.
The list, released September 20, 2012, highlights 39 teachers who have been detained since 2009, including 15 who have been sentenced to prison and 3 who have been sentenced to death. It also describes several others who have been summoned before security, judicial, and police bodies, where many teachers have been interrogated and threatened.
Most of these teachers have been targeted because of their activity and participation in trade unions and organizations, a basic right enumerated in Articles 26 and 27 of the Iranian Constitution and supported in various international treaties signed by the Iranian government. Beginning after trade demonstrations in 2006 and 2007, the Disciplinary Violations Board of the Ministry of Education has handed down hundreds of dismissals and exiles to teachers who participated in the demonstrations.
"These teachers are being systematically targeted and silenced, with strategies ranging from removal from their professional positions to judicial sentencing," said Ghaemi.
"In our religious lessons, to which Iranian statesmen claim they are committed, it is stated that teaching is the job of prophets. And we put our teachers in prison only because they have trade demands, or object to their low wages, or they have union-related demands," Shirin Ebadi told the Campaign.
Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to
Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated
Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests,
Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still


Judicial Precedent- Decision made by higher courts that has to be followed by the lower courts in later similar cases. Follows the principle of stare decisis.
Stare Decisis- To stand by the decision that has already been made and not unsettle the established.
The input of stare decisis and judicial precedent should lead to fairness as it shows common law in all courts being the same. The majority of decisions we follow come from the Supreme court (or house of lords) and the court of appeal.
Judicial precedent is set in the highest courts and binds all courts lower than it e.g the Supreme Court binds itself and all lower courts.
The Supreme Court binds all lower courts and itself. However, the Supreme court can depart from its own decisions when it feels it is right to do so. Therefore if there is an issue with the law then the Supreme court can rectify it and set new precedent for lower courts to follow.
Both divisions of the Court of Appeal bind all lower courts and themselves but do not bind each other as they set different law.
The High Court is bound by all courts above it (House of Lords/Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal). The High Court can bind those below however if a case comes along where a new precedent is to be set it is often sent to Supreme Court.
Ratio Decidendi- The reason for the decision, binding.
An example of obiter dicta in use is Lord Denning in the High Trees house case when he stated obiter that 'had the claimant tried to reclaim the half rent for during the war he would have been estopped from doing so'.
Per in curium- In error. E.g if a precedent was made per in curium it wouldn't have to be followed.
Practice statement- The practice statement is exclusive to the Supreme Court. If the Supreme court find that their previous precedent is wrong then they can go back on it by using the practice statement.


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A replacement shoulder strap for your handbag. Available in high quality red or taupe leather with skivved down (thinner) ends. The strap is 50 3/4 inches (129cm) long its width is 5/8 inch (15cm). The strap needs stitching/riveting into the seam of your bag, so it does require some degree of leatherwork.


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De perzikscheutboorder (Anarsia lineatella) is een vlinder uit de familie van de tastermotten, de Gelechiidae. De spanwijdte van de vlinder bedraagt tussen de 11 en 14 millimeter. De soort komt verspreid over een groot deel van de wereld voor, in de buurt van de teelt van soorten prunus. De overwintering vindt plaats als rups.

Waardplanten
De perzikscheutboorder heeft allerlei soorten prunus als waardplanten. De rupsen eten van jong blad en in tweede instantie ook van de vruchten. Ze kunnen zich tot plaag in de fruitteelt ontwikkelen.

Voorkomen in Nederland en België
De perzikscheutboorder is in Nederland en België een zeldzame soort. De soort vliegt van halverwege mei tot in augustus.

Externe links

 Perzikscheutboorder op Microlepidoptera.nl
 Anarsia lineatella op Bladmineerders.nl
  Anarsia lineatella op UK Moths
   (2019) Peach Twig Borer in Utah Orchards (Anarsia lineatella), Utah State University Extension and Utah Plant Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, ENT-36-07 (pdf)

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Home » Events » The Ghetto, Venice, and the Jews: A Historical Journey.
The Ghetto, Venice, and the Jews: A Historical Journey.
The Jewish MuseumThe Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
19Feb2:00 pm5:30 pmThe Ghetto, Venice, and the Jews: A Historical Journey.2:00 pm - 5:30 pm The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128
This program is at capacity. Limited standing room tickets may become available on a first-come, first-served basis. Centro Primo Levi, in partnership with NYU Casa
This program is at capacity. Limited standing room tickets may become available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Centro Primo Levi, in partnership with NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the Library of Congress and The Jewish Museum, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, as part of the Carnegie Hall festival La Serenissima: Music and Arts from the Venetian Republic, presents a roundtable discussion on Venice's 500-year- old Jewish ghetto.
Speakers: Cristiana Facchini (University of Bologna), Evelien Chayes (Université Bordeaux Montaigne/ IRHT-CNRS), Martina Massaro (Università Iuav, Venezia), Giuseppe Veltri (University of Hamburg), Francesco Spagnolo (University of California, Berkeley)
After the panel, Rav Elia Richetti, renowned cantor and connoisseurs of the Italian Jewish traditions, will accompany the public through a journey into the Venetian Jewish liturgy.
This year of programs, publications and media attention on the 500th Anniversary of the Venice ghetto's establishment, has by and large focused on the idea of ghetto as universal metaphor of oppression and resilience, as the prototype of the religious and racial seclusion implemented with the establishment of Papal ghettos, Nazi ghettos and American urban ghettos.
This roundtable invites a group of scholars to discuss whether such retrospective focus can be meaningfully applied to a time when concepts as rights, identity, resilience and assimilation were not part of the mindset or had very different meanings. Or whether a city-state whose power structure, characterized by high mobility, commerce and multicultural diplomatic codes, may have had more in common with the 21st-century world than with that in which modern ghettos were created.
Is it possible to undertake a reverse journey using as an interpretative model not the ghetto as universal metaphor of seclusion/osmosis but the one established in the Serenissima, at a time when the nation-state as we know it did not exist.
A time when "border" was a malleable administrative and diplomatic concept; citizenship an interpretable tool of government; "foreigners" people with whom to exchange goods and knowledge, whose juridic status was contingent on a vast continuum of wars and treaties both in the Western and Ottoman worlds?
When the Venice ghetto was established, in 1516 as a response to the request of a group of Jews who, fleeing war and persecution, sought legal residency in the city, there was no premonition that forty years later, the Papal State would order the massive segregation of Jews on theological grounds. The Republic, however, maintained its independence through an intricate web of war and peace relations with surrounding powers, including the Church and the Ottoman Empire. Foreigners were allowed to reside on the lagune, conditionally and in secluded areas. Although the first charter of minority residence was not created for the Jews, their quarter, the"ghetto," became a template of segregation, outliving the Venice Republic and becoming a symbolic element in the foundational narrative of modern nation states.
But what did the ghetto mean for the Venetian oligarchy and the minorities that resided in the city? Where does the Venice ghetto stand in the history of the relations between ruling power and minority? What did the Jewish minority seeking residency in the Venice Republic mean by defining itself "nation" in terms of boundaries and relationship with others? Is it possible to reconsider this chapter of history without the retrospective lens created by the rupture between Church oppression and emancipation in modern national states?
We would like to put forward the idea that trying to imagine a society so far removed from ours as that of the Venice Ghetto, will contribute to understand the history of the Jews and other minorities and their dynamics with the majority.
The horizon of the society that produced the Venice Ghetto, may indeed have elements in common with today's globalized world, and can help shed light on the legal and cultural challenges of inclusion and separation throughout history, as well as on the challenges of minorities' self-governance and self-representations within different political systems.
Image: 'Jessica', Joseph Mallord William Turner, Tate Gallery
This program is made possibile through the generous contributions of the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC, Peter S. Kalikow, and the Cahnman Foundation with additional support from the David Berg Foundation.
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Tudor was a somnolent brand that never quite got a firm identity of its own until it introduced the black and orange Heritage Chrono at Baselworld 2010. Modelled on the vintage Monte Carlo chronograph, the Heritage Chrono was accompanied by a fabric band inspired by the British military-spec canvas strap. That was the beginning of the successful Heritage line modelled on vintage watches that includes the bestselling Black Bay, but more importantly the fabric straps showed the world that Tudor finally understood what makes the watch aficionado tick.
Once the preserve of military watch enthusiasts, the NATO strap has almost become a fashion accessory, even sold by J. Crew. Originating from a 1973 tender by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD), the strap gets its name from its NATO stock number. NATO straps are inexpensive, durable and now made by the millions.
All of Tudor's fabric straps are woven by a passementerie manufacturer in Lyon, the centre of French silk weaving since the 15th century. This firm also makes ribbons for Vatican medals as well as passementerie (decorative trimmings like lace and cord for clothing and furniture) for haute couture houses like Chanel.
The straps are woven on a Jacquard loom, an automated loom that relies on a punch card template to weave the motif. While modern Jacquard looms are computer controlled, the looms used by Tudor's supplier are traditional. The resulting strap has a dense weave with a high thread count, giving it a thickness and weight superior to most fabric watch straps.
Natural fibres like cotton and silk, as well as synthetic ones like polyethylene, are combined to achieve the colours and motifs. Particularly notable is the camouflage strap introduced with the Heritage Ranger last year, which has a woven, rather than printed, pattern.
Attention is also paid to the hardware on Tudor's fabric straps, with the buckle echoing the Tudor shield logo. And both the buckle as well as the loops are finished with alternating brushed and polished surfaces.


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Karnaubavax är ett ytbehandlingsmedel. Det kommer från vaxpalmens (Copernicia cerifera) blad. Karnubavax har E-numret E 903.

Karnaubavaxet utvinns från bladen som skärs av, torkas och kokas ur i vatten. Vaxet renas och har en gröngul färg. Vaxet har länge använts till glansvax för läder, så kallad skomakarevax. Det är det hårdaste och starkaste vegetabiliska vaxet och bibehåller länge sin glans. Det är mycket vattenavvisande och det härsknar inte. Vaxet täpper inte till porerna i skinnet utan skinnet bibehåller sin "andningsegenskap".

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Rent vax innehåller cerotin- och carnaubasyra, vilka dels kan förekomma fria, dels förenade med myricyl- och cerylalkohol. På grund av sin höga smältpunkt 83 - 86°C lämpar sig vaxet väl för framställning av olika former av ytskyddsmedel.

Karnaubavax är helt ogiftigt och är godkänt som Bra Miljöval. Karnaubavax används till bland annat till bilvax, möbelpolish, hud- och hårvårdsprodukter och till ytbehandlingsmedel till frukt, godis och läkemedel.

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