This composition was painted by a talented artist Shishkin Evgeniy from the village of Fedoskino.
It shows how Russian lacquer miniature artists are able to bring hand-painted masterpieces into regular people's homes."Morning in the Woods" as this work is entitled was originally painted on canvas by Ivan Shishkin. Exhibited in the Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, it is one of the most popular pieces viewed in the entire museum. It has become something of a national symbol for Russia, which lacquer miniature artists were quick to adopt into their work.
Painted originally in 1889, the scene shows a mother bear watching her three cubs playing on the fallen trunk of a tree. The landscape, executed in transparent technique, presents real Russian impenetrable thickets with mighty firs and pines, lacy foliage and lush grass.
Greens and browns make up the tonal majority in the foreground, while the artist paints the background with aluminum paint in the under layers. By doing this on one of the first layers that was painted, and building on top with layer upon layer of paint, the artist creates a good sense of compositional depth. This helps to convey the infinity of the forest in the background, and also put the foreground into clearer focus. The brushwork is impeccable, which reveals the intricate details throughout the foreground. Each bear is painted as Shishkin had them in his work, and they are the single element in this work that defines it as a masterpiece. The painting is filled with the sensation of magnificent wild nature of the Russian North.
The composition is framed with a golden border, the sides are decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box is made out of paper-mache. It has a hinge from the top of the composition and rests on a wavy platform. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. The work is signed with the artist's name, 2011 and the village of Fedoskino.


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Too often, The Blacklist is forced to divide its time unevenly between the plotting of Elizabeth Keene's increasingly awkward and dangerous domestic situation with husband/operative Tom, and the often banal, auxiliary storyline granting the series the procedural element that gives Ressler, Cooper, and Malick something to do. Generally, then, Red falls somewhere between the two, often participating as an omniscient observer, adviser, or all-powerful Svengali, depending on how interested the episode is in advancing the story around him.
For its part, 'The Pavlovich Brothers' was touted as "the episode you cannot miss," promising some kind of interaction between Liz and Tom that would finally bring questions of what he's been up to and why to light. The confrontation between the two has been a long time coming, as the series has spent most of the season in a state of overemphasized suspense, doling out revelations piecemeal, in an effort to, among other things, establish talking points about the series via a central mystery that offers an incentive to watch beyond the procedural and titular blacklist elements.
If ever there was an episode that could have allowed the series its chance to break away from the procedural, this was it. And for the most part, The Blacklist took that opportunity and ran with it.
In that sense, a surprisingly small portion of the episode actually focuses on the titular brothers Pavlovich and the scientist they kidnapped, due to her connection to a germ warfare program that sounds like it took its name from a '70s disco outfit. Unless White Fog somehow factors into the larger storyline, the brothers' plotline is about as ancillary as can be, seeing as their principal function here briefly shifts from packaging a woman in a shipping container, to providing Red with the means to capture Tom and deliver him to Liz. Of course, all of this is before the brothers are ultimately dispatched in a shootout with Ressler and the FBI.
The Liz and Tom showdown is the centerpiece of the episode and to the writers' credit, they at least moved past the issue of the characters hiding their knowledge of one another, to outright confrontation. Liz's interrogation of her fake husband admirably takes a swing at demonstrating the effect such a grand scale deception might have on a person. But, in a manner indicative of the difficulties The Blacklist has previously had in pinpointing the emotional core of its characters, the scene bunts, resorting to Tom blankly spouting, "I was doing my job," while Liz's shakes the series to its core by revealing not only did she never like Tom's pancakes, she hates pancakes in general!
"This is an end," Red tells Liz, finding her bruised and alone, pondering Tom's insistence that he's one of the good guys. The episode may have been an ending of sorts, but it's not a conclusive one – which actually works out to be a good thing for The Blacklist, as Tom's parting gift is yet another suspense-building mystery, itself promising to reveal some truth about Red (a shocking distaste for deviled eggs, perhaps?) that will alter his mysterious relationship with Liz forever.
While the efficacy of continual suspense building in lieu of greater, more meaningful story progression likely depends on the viewer's level of engagement in the characters outside of Red (i.e., Liz and Tom), 'The Pavlovich Brothers' does at least offer one of the series' better examples of mashing its two primary elements together. We're no closer to the show demonstrating it is really about something, but one has to applaud The Blacklist for at least sticking to its guns and choosing to jump from mystery to mystery while it figures that out.


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Emma Maldoff takes a shot with Trace Lindemann behind the chair during a basketball tournament at Silver Creek High School in Longmont. Unified Sports is an inclusive sports program that partners special education athletes with general education students as teammates for training and competition in sports.
Trace Lindemann, facing, has high fives for Cole Smith, as Sierra Noel looks on during a Unified Sports basketball tournament Saturday at Silver Creek High School in Longmont.
By Sydney Worth |
For students of St. Vrain Valley high schools, basketball doesn't discriminate.
Special needs students and traditional students gathered on Saturday morning for an inaugural basketball tournament against schools.
Silver Creek High School set the scene for friendly competition between various Unified Basketball teams. The program focuses on bringing students with special needs together with typical athletes similar to the Special Olympics.
Kyle Schuyler, the athletic director for Silver Creek High school, helped organize Saturday's event. He and other organizers sought to create a positive environment that gives participants a fun way to provide support. He said he hoped to "see the community and kids cheering for each other."
Emma Maldoff, a senior from Mead High School, said that making new friends has been her favorite part about participating in the program.
Erin and Christian Maldoff, Emma's parents, believe it's not only a great way to get Emma involved in her school, but help other students empathize with kids like her.
"The priority is the involvement and the awareness for those kids that maybe don't understand what it's like," Erin Maldoff said. This is one of the reasons the Maldoffs liked Mead High School.
St. Vrain Valley School District was the first to roll out the program back in 2014 with Silver Creek being the first to implement it. Over 700 high school students in the district have disabilities on a physical or learning level, according to a statement made by Jackie Whittington, executive director of student services for the St. Vrain district in a 2014 interview.
The unified basketball team is entirely volunteer-based. Typical students, or partner athletes, work with the special education kids once a week for 30 minutes.
Special needs students receive coaching on typical drills and techniques in basketball all while learning how to work within a team. The competitive atmosphere of basketball gives students the opportunity to work together toward a collective goal.
While the program places its focus on facilitating a fun environment for special needs students, Schuyler has found that partner athletes develop leadership skills, as well.
Adam Peña, a senior at Longmont High School, has been participating in the program for the past couple years.
He said, "It's a great way to give back," and at the end of the day, partner athletes are there to be friends.
"Everybody loves sports. It brings them together," Peña said. "It's a valuable opportunity. It brings that aspect of connection."
While special needs students play in competitive district games, the tournament didn't include the same competitive element. Each team played three games without taking score — Saturday was about the fun of the game.
"The best part is seeing the joy it brings them," Peña said.
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So, I've officially had my iPad Air that I earned through an Avon inventive for 6 months now. Squee!
If you had asked me prior to that, in fact many people did, about whether or not it could ever replace my Asus Transformer Pad Infility I would have said no but in actuality it has. Well, as my primary device. I still use both and and wouldn't say that the iPad Air has completely replaced the Transformer Infinity, just made my life a bit easier.
The first trade-off was the lighter weight. Most of us girls already have enough crap... I mean essentials, in our purses. While the thickness is almost the same the iPad Air is only a few ounces lighter than the Transformer Infility you can definitely feel the difference. I don't go anywhere without my tablet, so having a lighter one was much appreciated.
Second was the drawing/note taking programs. While I haven't been sketching as much as I'd like to, the ability to quickly jot down notes or a quick sketch when the feeling rises has been great. I was really surprised that some of the apps I use on Android devices have completely different layouts on IOS. The appearance of many of the apps on IOS are better and, as much as I hate to say it, more streamlined. Once you get the hang of Apples stupid one button system. I honestly still struggle with not having a menu button sometimes.
As a result I use my Transformer as a small laptop because I also bought the keyboard attachment when I got it. I now use it mostly as a reading device. I've even been playing games on it less because the Retina display on the Air is sooo much better! Most of the time I'll read my study material on the Transformer and take handwritten notes on the Air or switch it up. When I need to type I read on the Air and type on the Transformer.
I can also interact better with other people because I have both operating systems. For example, yesterday I needed to edit an image for a friend, He messaged it to me from his iPhone and using my iPad I saved it to my images. Dropbox syncs across my devices so I was able to open the image on my desktop, edit it in Photoshop, save it back to Dropbox and send it back to him in messenger. Yes, I know he also could have emailed it to me but it was just nice to keep the file transference within our ongoing messenger conversation.
Staples of my existence are apps like Evernote, Dropbox and now Cloud-On (one of those apps that work better on IOS) make working on multiple devices and having whatever you need at your fingertips a breeze. I hate paper and I don't think I could function as well without them. Especially as a mobile business owner. While I'm in the field I sometimes need a file for reference or to share. These apps make that possible without keeping a file cabinet in my trunk. As I said before. We already have enough stuff to carry around.
Another IOS app that I've found invaluable is Noteshelf. It has actually become one of my favorites and a big factor in making the iPad numero uno. I mentioned drawing and note taking before and after testing a bunch of other apps like Penultimate, Bamboo Paper, Sketches, and Paper by 53, it has become my go to app. While every app has it's perks Noteshelf fulfilled the most of my top needs.
I can write (and have my text recognized in Evernote) and sketch properly with its unlimited variety of pens, pencils, highlighters and colors.
I can export notes to Evernote for organization and search-ability, so I have everything in one place.
It allows me to have many separate notebooks for different categories almost like a 5 subject notebook. So, I have a notebook for architecture work stuff, another for Avon stuff, and another for personal stuff. I can also tag separate pages across notebooks.
A bonus feature was that I can markup and redline drawings in the field, save them to my photos and open them in Dropbox when I get back to the office or have my co-workers see them even before I get back to the office!!
When Avon offered the iPad air incentive I was just so excited at getting gadgets for free! I had no idea that it would become such an asset to my business.
As a gadget enthusiast, I have been able to try and test a range of tablet items. My personal favorite is the Apple iPad Pro Tablet for its a Brilliant True Tone display, 2 gigs of RAM, onsite storage up to 256 GB, latest iOS 9.3. 12 MP iSight Camera. 10-hour max battery life. Quad speakers and Retina Display, 2048 x 1536 pixels. It's jam-packed with excellent features. You do not need another phone or a camera with this one. And its worth its price.


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Co-Chairman (Deputy Michael Healy-Rae)
I thank my Co-Chairman, Deputy Pat Deering. We shall proceed with the next part of today's meeting. Before we begin, I convey the apologies of the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence, Deputy Brendan Smith, who, unfortunately, is unable to attend today. For the second time today, this time on behalf of the joint committee, I welcome everyone present. I welcome Mr. Christian Zörner, University College Dublin, Ms Cornelia-Adriana Baciu, Dublin City University, and Ms Michaela Reilly, University College Cork, all of whom have kindly agreed to make presentations on the challenges facing Europe in respect of common security and defence policy. The format of the meeting is that we will hear the witnesses' opening statements, after which we will have questions and answers with members. Mr. Zörner will be followed by Ms Baciu and, last but not least, Ms Reilly.
Mr. Christian Zörner
I thank the Co-Chairman for the opportunity to speak. When I was asked to speak about the European common security and defence policy on the occasion of Europe Day the first topic to come to mind was the role of Irish neutrality. The debate is probably as old as the country itself but has surely not lost its intensity since then. I finally decided to address the issue because recent developments in the area of European common and security policy make neutrality very topical again. I draw attention to a couple of developments that place neutrality back on the agenda and demand urgent discussion of its meaning and implications.
The first of these is Brexit.
The loss of the major Atlanticist power within the European Union has serious consequences for the further development of the European Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP. Having always tried to prevent or at least slow down integration in this policy field, the United Kingdom has been a kind of natural ally to Ireland in trying to keep security issues out of European integration. The consequences of this development are already visible. Not long after the Brexit vote, the President of the EU Commission, the French President and later the German Chancellor were calling for the creation of an EU army. Although for the time being this is not much more than a blurry vision, it became obvious where integration in the European Common Security and Defence Policy field is heading.
Already in 2018 permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, was launched, marking a huge step in integrating security and defence co-operation towards a military alliance. Causing a lively discussion in Ireland, its participation was finally backed by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, denying a conflict between Irish neutrality and participation in PESCO. Of all the other neutral member states of the EU only Malta opted out, choosing to first observe if PESCO and neutrality are compatible. Especially in Finland and Sweden, former neutral states, a consensus has been reached to the effect that EU membership in general is not logically compatible with the traditional notion of neutrality. In practice these EU member states have thus given up their neutrality to a large extent. In Ireland, Sinn Féin proposed a Bill to enshrine Irish neutrality in the Constitution. After a lively debate, in which European politicians were even called warmongers, the Bill was eventually rejected in the Dáil.
Finally, I draw members' attention to a poll by Red C for the European Movement Ireland, published just last week. Apart from an overwhelming support for EU membership in general, the poll revealed that a majority of 58% of the Irish people think that Ireland should be part of intensified EU security and defence co-operation and that PESCO does not pose a threat to Irish neutrality. Approval is even stronger amongst young Irish people.
For me as a German citizen, the whole discussion about neutrality is new. Despite the tabula rasa after the Second World War, Germany did not have the chance to have its own discussion about this, having to align itself to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, in the face of an expansionist Soviet Union. While living in Ireland for one year and studying at University College Dublin it is very interesting to follow the public debate about neutrality and discuss it with my Irish and non-Irish fellow students. This brings insights into this very politicised topic and the fact that Irish neutrality is loaded with different meanings and historical resonances. Various narratives are contesting the nature of Irish foreign and security policy and its expression in Europe's contemporary security architecture. While there seems to be a broad consensus that Ireland can and should make a contribution to global peace and security, this is not the case for the question as to which institutional framework should be used to achieve this.
Due to the aforementioned recent developments, however, Ireland seems to be forced to take a decision. The departure of the major damper of integration in the area of foreign and security policy and the concomitant developments, such as PESCO and discussions of an EU army, make it an urgent topic. For Ireland's European partners, and therefore also for me in this case, it is essential to know where Ireland is coming from in order to fully understand the significance and the implications of neutrality for Ireland.
Ms Cornelia-Adriana Baciu
My name is Ms Cornelia-Adriana Baciu. I am studying at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University. Today I will address four key challenges facing the Common Security and Defence Policy. The first is related to strategic coherence and internal cohesion. In the counterfactual scenario in which the EU is not able to manage internal cracks such as the rise of nationalism, so-called souvereignism or major differences in member states' strategic cultures, future risks and challenges to CSDP might be endogenous. A failure to co-ordinate efforts on the CSDP might draw Europe back to the US. Some researchers argue it might return the European security landscape to the 1950s. The EU will thus need to find innovative ways to solve the crises of sovereignty of borders and of defence. What Europe wants is not easy to operationalise because of increasing polarisation or even fragmentation of European integration.
The CSDP is a domain in which some argue differentiated integration might work better. This is because states' national strategies are driven by different threat perceptions, strategic environments, capabilities and strategic interests. My research suggests that differentiated integration in the form of a role-player model in the CSDP could enhance strategic knowledge production and capability development. Security and defence collaborative regimes such as the CSDP can have an empowering effect on member states. However, an unintended consequence of the role-player model could be a "Europe à la carte" in which members would only support the policies in which they see a benefit for their own national interests.
I will now refer to Brexit. The anticipated withdrawal of the UK from the European Union is forecasted to strain the CSDP budget. In 2018 the UK accounted for approximately 16% of the CSDP budget. To compensate for this an increase in member states' investments in security and defence can be expected. A series of peace and defence co-operation mechanisms were adopted after Brexit. The major examples are PESCO, the European Defence Fund, EDF, the co-ordinated annual review on defence, CARD, the European peace facility and the European intervention initiative. For the new instruments to be effective it is important for the EU to manage member states' expectations and ensure they will enable the achievement of strategic objectives.
I will now address the external strategic environment and external sources of instability. A particular tendency in US leadership and what some have termed a US strategy underpinned by a logic of "retreat" and "systemic competition" with China have pushed the EU to think more seriously about the scenario of US abandonment. Some researchers argue that strategic autonomy would allow the EU to gain an element of independence from US decision-making and pursue an agenda of international peace and security based on its own normative vision with mediation, diplomacy, trade co-operation, peace missions and global justice at its core. Some argue that the road to strategic autonomy might lie in a merger between the CSDP and NATO, that is, the Europeanisation of NATO. Multipolarity and great power competition represent another challenge with implications for the CSDP. In the future, the EU is expected to aim at having good relationships with all countries and avoid a return to bipolarity. This is because a bipolar logic might push countries to choose and some of them might choose China for economic reasons.
My last point is related to new security technologies. Future and emerging technologies such as autonomous robotics and artificial intelligence can have a disruptive and transformative impact in the security and defence domain. If the EU invests sufficiently in research and development, it might be in a position to harness the benefits of new security technologies. New funding of transnational and interdisciplinary research, under the European Defence Fund inter alia , will have the potential to address capability shortcomings and technological and industrial weaknesses to a certain extent. The EU could establish a new area of competence in dual-use technology, that is, technologies which can be attributed to both civilian and military purposes.
Ms Michaela Reilly
I would like to extend my gratitude for the invitation to discuss some of the challenges the European Union is currently facing with regard to security and defence. On this day it is particularly important to recall why the EU was initially established; to end frequent and bloody wars between neighbours and to unite European countries both economically and politically to secure lasting peace across the Continent. We can largely say that this has been successful. At the moment, however, huge challenges are ahead for the EU in the area of common security and defence. As is true for most of the challenges the EU faces, Brexit crops up in this area. The greatest challenge is the development of a common policy on security and defence that includes a cohesive development of policies with third countries in future missions, especially the UK once it leaves. This policy must simultaneously protect the integrity of the European Union and the sovereignty of member states. It is very important that there is a balance between these three concerns. The greatest challenge lies in finding this balance.
Different visions of the CSDP proposed by the initial "big three" member states, Germany, the UK and France, have long created space for smaller member states like Ireland to avoid hard choices concerning issues of security and defence. A more cohesive EU in the post-Brexit future presents significant challenges for all states that have long thrived in the murky waters of strategic ambiguity.
Indeed, it could be argued that the United Kingdom leaving removes a significant stumbling block for European defence co-operation. British scepticism has previously allowed others such as Denmark and central European states to avoid hard questions on tensions between formal military non-alignment and the realities of being part of a deeply integrated organisation because NATO has long provided what they have seen to be the primary security provider in the European theatre.
The UK's absence from future Common Security and Defence Policy debates after Brexit will likely push these states into the limelight in terms of blocking or opting out from security co-operation. Our greatest challenge is how we deal with this. While the EU must grapple with the loss of its transatlantic alliance partner, it is imperative that it now attempts to balance a bilateral agreement on Common Security and Defence Policy with the UK that also complements a type of unified EU approach to issues of security and defence, encompassing the considerations of small states, such as Ireland, and big states such as France and Germany.
That is not to say that the EU has not taken any steps thus far. If we look at the decision taken by the High Representative, Ms Mogherini, to forge ahead with the publication of the EU's new global strategy in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum in June 2016, it is apparent that some attempts have been made by the EU to push ahead with CSDP. Although faced with something of an existential crisis, the EU found a response in building a security architecture to reinvigorate EU institutions and to reunite the remaining 27 member states. This provided a common ground for co-operation without reopening a Pandora's box of institutional reform that would be required to deal with more traditional areas of European co-operation such as market regulation.
The Common Security and Defence Policy may not have always been high on Ireland's agenda but the aftermath of the Brexit vote has been particularly challenging for us all. We now must strongly reconsider our own security and defence policy, in addition to that of our position in the wider EU CSDP. Brexit has uncovered a number of political and constitutional fault lines, none more serious than its potential impacts on the Good Friday Agreement. The Government deserves credit for the way in which it has managed the Brexit negotiations to date, particularly in securing support from our European partners concerning Ireland's position on the Border. However, what price will we pay for this in future negotiations on matters such as common security and defence?
The reduced room for manoeuvre on common security and defence for small states, such as ourselves, in an EU that will be more dominated by France and Germany than before, must be taken into account. In a Franco-German EU, the space for constructive ambiguity is likely to be greatly reduced. Ireland's hesitancy and ambivalence on this matter may no longer be sustainable. Irish attitudes to European security and defence might best be characterised by paraphrasing Winston Churchill, in that Ireland is with common security and defence policy, but not of it. We are linked, but not compromised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. It is perhaps time that we do become absorbed in greater co-operation with the EU on issues of common security and defence that extend beyond PESCO, as others here have noted, as we lose the shelter of the UK in future debates.
The threats of a no-deal Brexit and the medium to longer-term security threats posed by any kind of withdrawal have yet to be provided for. Both the Irish State and the EU as a whole faces profound challenges in this regard and are there, as of yet, no signs that neither it nor the EU is prepared to address them.
I thank Ms Reilly and all the contributors and call on Deputy Durkan.
I apologise that I had to absent myself earlier due to questions in the Dáil. I compliment all the witnesses who I have heard so far this morning on the quality and depth of their submissions and the knowledge and research that went into them. They are all to be complimented on the even-handed and balanced way in which they went about their business.
I raise a question about the Common Security and Defence Policy. It is an issue which has been with us for a very long time. Over time, different emphases occur. It is important to note that we are a neutral country. There is nothing incompatible between our neutrality and our membership of the European Union or certain associations in the peacekeeping and defence areas. In the past, we have excelled in peacekeeping and have shown ourselves to be international leaders in that area. We have a useful influence and role to play in the European context. I note modern terrorism has no boundaries and can reach far into neutral countries, peacekeeping countries and so on. Do the witnesses see a space in which Ireland might be expected to defend itself in such a situation?
I refer to the question of whether something in this area will be attached to the discussion on Brexit and if a quid pro quo be sought. I do not think that will be the case. We are very strong members of the European Union with a strong commitment to its ideals which have existed from the beginning and get stronger over time. It is not likely that we would be expected to concede one for another in this context. I think that because the European Union must prevail. If it does not and it fragments, going in different directions, and if demands are made within itself, of itself, by itself or by single member states, then there is a grave danger that the European Union will cease to be. If that happens there will be great political, military and economic implications for the entire Continent of Europe and outside. I do not need to tell our witnesses this; they are experts on this area, but the question arises as to whether we want to go back to where we were. Some member states refer to the good old days, which presumably was the first half of the 20th century. My question to young people is whether they want to go back to those much referred to good old days, when almost 70 million people died in the conflict which followed when Europe turned upon itself. All these things relate to military matters and peace. We should remember that the EU was the single most important peace agreement that the world has ever known. For all those years we have been peaceful. There can come times of turbulence occasionally and in times of economic difficulty, someone is always sought to blame. I encourage our guests to focus on the alternatives, because they are not good, and they can proceed to work in an equitable manner, to be fair to all people including refugees from outside. As we know, some of the people of Europe were themselves refugees in the not too-distant past.
Senator Paul Gavan
I begin by congratulating all the contributors for their very well researched and thoughtful pieces. This is very timely. There are debates at the moment relating to plans for an EU army. It is clear from this morning's contributions that despite the denials from some on the political right that an advanced conversation on this is taking place. The contributions here have been challenging. While I acknowledge the poll undertaken by the European Movement, which would be very much in favour of changing our policy, we should recall that a Red C poll last year also showed tremendous support in Ireland for Irish neutrality. I ask if Irish people would really support what PESCO is doing off the coast of Libya, for example, if they knew.
If they followed the reports of Sally Hayden, the Irish journalist, she has highlighted EU support, including Irish financial support, for funding death camps in Libya. That funding was confirmed to me by the Minister of State, Deputy Helen McEntee, just a few weeks ago in the Seanad. These are camps in which people are tortured, raped, mutilated and killed. This is the reality of PESCO as it operates right now. One does not have to take my word for it. Sally Hayden has documented and continues to document it in an effort to bring attention to the realities, unfortunately, of what PESCO is doing. Do we think the Irish people would support funding of €13 billion in research subsidies for the defence industries of Europe as set out in the next financial plan for Europe? That is a reality of PESCO. The final question I ask is as follows. Surely, the best people to decide our future neutrality are the people of Ireland. That is why Sinn Féin was right to pursue the Bill. As democrats, the best way forward in this debate is to support that call for a referendum. Let us have a full debate on the future of Irish neutrality. I thank the witnesses for their thoughtful contributions today.
Deputy Mattie McGrath
I apologise for having had to leave for a meeting of the Business Committee. I am delighted to welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. We are at an important crossroads in Europe. Certainly, I have concerns about some activities taking place under the flag of and with the financial support of the European Union. We need to be more awake, engaged and vocal and to scrutinise more deeply legislation that comes before us on PESCO and other situations. Europe as a project must be preserved. We must work at that and learn from it. A recent report I intend to raise on Leaders' Questions today is on the future of farming in Europe. It states that 1,000 farmers and farm families are leaving farming every week right across the EU. That is leading to the degeneration, neglect and slippage of rural Ireland at a time when we are talking about rolling broadband out to rural areas. If we do not maintain sustainable farm families in rural Ireland, North and South, and across Europe, it will lead to more factory farms and large conglomerates buying up land, which is not good. In my own county of Tipperary, we have an equine company purchasing every square perch of land that becomes available. It has amassed almost 28,000 acres. While it provides employment and has great prowess in the equine industry, it is disgraceful that we do not have a land commission or other land agency to monitor and curtail what is happening. The family farm is the lifeblood of Ireland. In the two previous recessions to the one we have just come out of, it was agriculture that led us back to growth with, I might add, the support of the EU. People were always there on family farms and working the land in parishes and communities nationally. Every euro that goes into agriculture is spent locally. Farm families support schools, sports clubs, the tourism industry and everything else. It is therefore timely to have this discussion. I thank our visitors for attending today. It is my first time speaking in this new Chamber. I am delighted. It is an honour to be here.
Senator Alice-Mary Higgins
I thank all those who have contributed. The situation around security events is not a stark one. It is more the case that there are real choices and priorities to address. It is true that Europe came out of a project of peace. The wonderful thing about Europe was that after literally thousands of years of conflict, countries which had experienced in some cases hundreds of years of war against each other decided to come together to determine how to live together more peacefully and constructively. That is absolutely true. However, while there is an incredible legacy of peace in the European project, being European and being part of the European project means thinking about that constant question of how we live together. It is about being critically present and asking critical questions, as the witnesses have. That is part of being pro-European. It is about caring enough about Europe to care about the decisions it makes.
There are very important decisions being made and there are priorities and concerns. It was a decision for Ireland to opt into PESCO. Ireland was not required to opt in, rather it chose to do so. PESCO moved us further away by involving us, for example, in joint purchases of military equipment. Ireland has an incredibly strong tradition of peace and neutrality and of leading disarmament. One of the most moving things I have ever been involved with was the global ban on cluster bombs, which are basically like landmines. The global ban was negotiated here in Ireland because Ireland was free from some of the military-industrial pressures experienced by other countries and was able to lead the way. It is not a choice between Ireland and our neutrality and Europe. It is about Ireland being a voice for peace, neutrality and disarmament within Europe. That is a key point. It is a service we provide. It was Eamon Gilmore, a former Irish parliamentarian, who represented the European Commission in Colombia to negotiate the peace deal. That is because Ireland's neutrality allowed us to have that strong voice.
We cannot turn a blind eye to militarisation. It is a disservice to Ireland and Europe if we do. It was very concerning that, just two weeks ago, the European Parliament voted against having oversight of the €13 billion European Defence Fund. That is the European Parliament choosing not to scrutinise what that fund is spent on. Will it be on autonomous weapons? How does it relate to UN mandates? We must question constantly. When we have global challenges for Europe and the world like climate change, which we will discuss later, we must ask whether we should be spending €13 billion on European defence. I do not think so. Peace and security are put together. Peace is work. We know that from the Good Friday Agreement. The work of peace is about investment in community building, understanding and social exchange. If we spent some of that €13 billion to build understanding between communities, not just here in Ireland but across the Balkan states which have come out of an experience of war as recently as the 1990s, that would deliver far more than to ramp up military spending on our borders and invest huge amounts in Frontex. As was mentioned, it is a real concern to see these immigration control deals whereby we are funding border police and military actions in places like Sudan and Libya. Those are things we need to look to. These are very important choices.
It is important to note that the current Commission is an outgoing one. We will have a new European Commission soon and it needs to hear from the witnesses about their priorities. Among the priorities the outgoing Juncker Commission has brought to today's European Council meeting on the future of Europe, what it calls "protective Europe" is number one. That means a European defence union. We must be very clear that there are high-level people in Europe who want a European army. However, that is not the same thing as saying Europe wants a European army. There are also brilliant parliamentarians and passionate Europeans from every member state of the EU 27 who want to work together on peace. That is the narrative we can push and strengthen. I would love to hear in response what the witnesses think the work of peace should be. It is not just about saying we do not want militarisation. What is the work of peace? That is the work from Good Friday and the work we have seen across the world. How does Ireland lead the work of peace within Europe to make Europe a champion on human rights and peace? It is a real choice. We cannot do that while also spending €13 billion on a European Defence Fund which we do not scrutinise. We must all challenge these issues because we want Europe to live up to its brilliant and historic past and to shape a better future. The following point is very important. In the initial PESCO agreement, the words "peace" and "peacekeeping" were not even used once. We need something that is not the PESCO agreement but which is rather a European mandate on peace work. That should be the centrepiece of Europe's next five-year strategy. I would love to hear the witnesses' thoughts on that work of peace.
Does Ireland's participation in PESCO, in particular in regard to cybersecurity, impact on its neutrality? I now invite the witnesses to respond to members' questions. While I do not wish to cut anybody short I ask the witnesses to be conscious that we are running out of time for this particular session.
I will try to address the many interesting questions posed. On defending ourselves, territorial defence is mandated to NATO. One of the issues on the agenda for discussion is to what extent EU member states should start thinking more seriously about gaining an element of strategic autonomy and independence from US decision-making. Territorial defence, leadership and nuclear weapons are some of the points linked with this debate, but many states have been silent on this particular aspect. There is also the scenario of the US abandonment, which I addressed in my opening statement. The United States has withdrawn from several multilateral or bilateral agreements. The US foreign policy narrative might in the future be linked with developments in the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. In the case of US inability to provide security guarantees in Europe, the EU should have a plan B and give serious consideration to the territorial defence aspect.
From a rational choice perspective, into the future, the Common Security and Defence Policy, CSDP, for member states will be, probably, a trade-off between utility and strategic choice. It is important to emphasise that security is a prerequisite and will remain a prerequisite for the other benefits of EU membership, including economic and political benefits. It is a precondition of other benefits as well. The major challenges to CSDP in the future will probably be linked to member states' commitment and the robustness of CSDP institutions. I mentioned the new strategic instruments that are likely to generate new assets and perhaps increase the value of defence co-operation in Europe.
In regard to Irish neutrality, last year I wrote an article on security, multilateralism and Irish neutrality based on debates in the Irish Parliament from 1998 to 2018, which is available online. One of my key findings was that the concept of Irish neutrality is multifaceted. I found different concepts associated with it, including positive neutrality, negative neutrality, total neutrality and so on. Every time there is a debate in Brussels related to security implications, there are intensive debates in the Irish Parliament on the implications for Irish neutrality. There is informed decision-making on a case-by-case basis. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, Irish neutrality was found to be strongly linked with UN peacekeeping and stabilisation missions. From this we could infer that there is a compatibility between the Irish foreign policy and EU foreign policy narrative. The EU global strategy has been focused on peace and stabilisation missions in fragile states. Recent statistics show an increase in the support of Irish people for the CSDP. One explanation for this might be that the Common Security and Defence Policy works at intergovernmental level and it is likely to remain so into the future. Security might be an area in which intergovernmental co-operation is more effective. Sovereignty is not transferred at supranational level. Any change in this regard will require a change in the EU treaty.
On the value added of PESCO, for Ireland the value added is that the capabilities developed under PESCO remain in the possession of member states. For Ireland this means that capabilities developed under PESCO can be utilised in UN peacekeeping missions and other missions. As far as I am aware, Ireland has been active in providing personnel and staff to EU and international civilian and military missions since it joined the European Union in 1973. As of December 2018, there were approximately 650 Irish personnel deployed to such missions.
On Brexit, much of my research recently has been focused on the implications of Brexit. I recently co-authored a book with my supervisor, Professor John Doyle from DCU, on this subject. Brexit will transform relationships between the UK and the EU from multilateral to bilateral. This will have implications for the European Union evolutionary stable equilibrium. The EU will need to find a way to address this equilibrium to remain stable over time and to be able to cope with so-called atypical sequences or shocks, of which Brexit could be one. The literature argues that continual change is the prerequisite to remain relevant and competitive. The implication or consequence of this would be geopolitical adaptation of the EU. This will have further implications for future transatlantic relations, the EU global strategy and international security as a collective good.
It was mentioned earlier that peace is work. Modern peace is based on anticipation, resilience and integration of aspects of daily life. One could imagine modern peace at the intersection of three epistemological debates, international - liberal values; national - nationalist sometimes as a destructive force; and, everyday life level - daily interactions and power relations between people. We have to see all three sides as knowledge production sides. Knowledge is very important for concepts such as peace, order, justice, security and so on. This is, perhaps, a matter we should further address in our research.
Would any other witness like to comment?
It is not often mentioned that the European project was based on political and economic values. Cultural values were disregarded. Questions were posed in regard to neutrality, PESCO and peace.
If we look at the culture of all European states, it comprises the cultures of 28 different states, soon to be 27. These have very different cultural values. After 70 years of this project, it is time to introduce new ways of looking at things. It is not always driven by politics and economics, although we are in a political chamber. It is very important that we look towards cultures. I am sure most Irish people would not be impressed to hear that we are supporting PESCO. Claims were made that money we pay into the European budget for defence goes to camps in Libya and so on. That is not what we anticipated our tax money would be used for. There are also cultures within Europe that really promote a strong, hard-line defence policy, which we do not. We are more focused on peacekeeping and neutrality. There needs to be a balance in how we look at cultures and cultural values. Only in that way can we address all of the issues that have been brought up.
I thank Ms Reilly very much. On behalf of Deputy Brendan Smith, who is the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Defence, the members of that committee, and all Members present, I thank the witnesses for that excellent and informative session. Their questions were put very well and comprehensively. We will now move on to the next session, which will deal with climate change and sustainable development. This session will be chaired by Deputy Hildegarde Naughton.


Two things: Number one, the brick. There is a TON of brick on campus! Almost all the buildings are completely brick, the sidewalks and pathways are brick, and of course, the brickyard in front of the library. It adds a special character the campus. I find it very pretty, it also makes the green of the grass and the trees really pop when everything is in full bloom. Number two, class sizes. In my major of education and mathematics, I am in the College of Education (CED) and the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PAMS). CED is highly selective in who they select to be a part of their college. This allows me to be a part of small classes (15-40 students) at such a large university. Only three of may classes have been above 50 students.
I feel that the faculty and resources are the best things about my school. The professors are highly qualified and offer a great deal of help when asked. They are easy to talk to connect with. Professors and other faculty also aid students substantially in networking. They often contact students about events and job/internship opportunities which helps a great deal. Many students, myself included, are often bogged down with work and don't have much time for other things. With professors informing us about these events/opportunities, it makes life much easier.
Where to start? The reason I chose NCSU was because of all the amazing opportunities offered at the undergraduate level. Instead of applying into your major two years into college, students are already in their given major by their freshman year. In addition to that, the faculty are constantly involved in research and giving undergraduates the opportunity to get research experience early on. With a beautiful campus and long standing traditions, students at NCSU truly feel apart of the Wolfpack family even in the largest public school in North Carolina.
The opportunities at NC State are plentiful. The number and variety of student organizations, from sports to academics, mean that there really is something for everyone. As a woman in engineering I expected to be one of the few, but NC State was ready. Through Women in Science and Engineering, or WISE, I have met fellow women with similar interests. WISE helped me transition to college, they showed me where my classes were and have tutors available to guide you through college classes. If you want to learn and have fun, NC State is the place to be.
The best thing here at NC State is the greeting and introduction to a wonderful academic career. You start out by taking tours with the smiling students who attend the very university. Then, when you finally decide to join the Wolfpack, you go through Orientation where you familiarize yourself with the student leaders, and join in on every bit of fun the univeristy has to offer! This kind of welcoming introduces the academically-rich student body into State in such a way that will be remembered for their entire careers at NC State. Go Wolfpack!
The best thing about my school is that it provides a relaxing environment in which you feel accepted and liked. Many colleges are overrated due to their success in such things as sports, which covers up the true reason to attend college. The campus itself is well designed with everything revolving around central campus. As a freshman, I have yet to get lost and I find everything accesible. My professors come from all around the world, and so knowledge is diverse here. The school itself is within the top 10 engineering schools in the United States.
The best thing about my school is the overall environment including both University staff and students. The North Carolina State University environment offers friendly staff who are always willing to help you in any way that they can. The outreach of the people at NC State makes the educational experience exceptional over other Universities because it provides a positive outlook on students' education. There is no excuss for failure at NC State with the number of people waiting to help you with any problem that may arise.
The resources available to students of every major are amazing at this institution. At the moment, I am enrolled in the college of engineering, and we have access to so many opportunities that likely are not available to engineering students at other colleges. For example, we have several 3D printer labs that any student can use. We also have guest speakers visit on a regular basis - several months ago the architect who design the Burj Khalifa visited NC State, and that's just one of many! In general NCSU is awesome.
The best thing about my school is the overall spirit. Students, faculty, and alumni truly love the school and spend countless hours making it a better place. There is great pride in the school and strong bonds between students. This makes for a competetive, but cooperative, environment that is essential to strong performance in the classroom, in research, in athletics, and in the arts. Using this pride, students and others band together to give back to the community on campus and in the surrounding communities.
The best thing about NC State is the location. I love being near the capital. There's job oppurtunities...you aren't too far from the beach or the mountains. There's plenty of entertainment and sports. There are a lot of other things to do other than school. NC State also has excellent extracircular activitites and clubs. I am part of the club lacrosse team. The club lacrosse team gives me the oppurtunity to enjoy the sport I love, stay in shape, and travel to other schools to play their teams.


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BBC Trust publishes NAO report on the BBC's move to Salford
Date: 14.05.2013 Last updated: 23.09.2014 at 09.53
Category: Accountability; Value for money
The BBC relocated to Salford on time and maintained broadcast continuity, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office for the BBC Trust. Moreover, the latest estimates show that the final cost of the move phase should be below the £233 million budget approved by the BBC Trust. However, it is too early to judge the long-term impact and value for money of the move for licence fee payers.
The NAO's findings include the following:
The BBC successfully completed the complex challenge of relocating to Salford, by using the right skills and processes, developing clear delivery plans and maintaining good communications. The BBC recruited staff with expertise in managing relocations and set up a project team that developed and implemented plans for the move.
The BBC exceeded its target to relocate 30 per cent of staff from the 1,500 roles transferring from London to Salford (38 per cent relocated).
To encourage sufficient staff to move, some of the allowances the BBC offered to incentivise and compensate relocating staff and minimise redundancy costs were more generous than it normally offers. For example, the remote location allowance covered the cost of renting property in Salford and travelling to and from London for two years. This allowed staff who were unable or unwilling to commit to moving permanently to keep their homes in the southeast. The BBC benchmarked some allowances, but controls over exceptions to its relocation policy for Salford were inadequate.
The BBC estimates that the final cost of fitting out the buildings at Salford and moving people in will be £224 million, £9 million less than the revised budget approved by the BBC Trust in February 2011. The lifetime budgeted cost of relocation and operating costs up to 2030 is £942 million (or £573 million after discounting future costs to their present values). This cost does not take into account reduced spend on the BBC's estate in London and Manchester as a result of the move.
Whether the move delivers value for money will depend on the BBC's ability to achieve a sustained improvement in audience approval in the north, embed new ways of working to achieve efficiencies of £151 million and provide sustainable economic benefits for the region.
Among the NAO's recommendations are that the BBC Trust should periodically review progress against the aims in the original business case for the move; that the BBC should establish robust systems and maintain clear records when paying allowances, so that it can demonstrate they are appropriate in all cases; and that it should continue to seek recovery of all allowance payments repayable by staff who leave the BBC.
The BBC Trust accepts these recommendations and will ensure that they are implemented. In its published response to the NAO's report the Trust has said that:
It welcomes the NAO's overall conclusion that the BBC managed the relocation to Salford on time and within budget, while successfully maintaining broadcast continuity for audiences.
The BBC was able to maintain continuity for audiences and minimise redundancy costs by establishing a Salford relocation allowances policy that encouraged staff to move. The Trust accepts that such a policy was justified but, having established it, it considers that any exceptions should have been rare, clearly justified and supported by well-documented business cases. It is unacceptable, therefore, that the NAO found BBC management did not adequately document the reasons for all exceptions to the standard policy.
There are encouraging signs that the anticipated benefits of the move are beginning to be realised. The BBC's relative share of overall television viewing and reach to BBC radio in the north-west has increased when compared to the UK average, more collaborative and flexible ways of working have been introduced, some efficiency savings have been delivered and there has been significant economic investment in the region. However, the Trust agrees that it is too early to conclude that the move has met its long-term objectives and it will continue to periodically review progress against the aims for the move, including efficiency savings, at the appropriate points.
Anthony Fry, Chair of the Trust's Finance Committee, said:
"The BBC has struck a sound balance in its handling of this move, part of a commitment agreed during the last Charter to better serve all audiences across the UK. Relocation allowances have helped to ensure continuity for audiences by encouraging a sufficient proportion of London staff to move, while over 250 new staff were recruited from the Greater Manchester area. Now a solid and thriving production base with major live programming broadcast 24 hours a day, Salford has a strong working culture that should deliver long-term improvements in both creativity and efficiency, as long as the BBC keeps focused on these objectives. Given that the move was well-managed and within budget, however, it is disappointing that some of the controls on relocation payments proved inadequate and we would not expect a repeat of this with any future moves."
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said today:
"The BBC relocated to Salford on time and without disruption to broadcast services, and the final cost of moving should be within budget. Skills were maintained and redundancy costs reduced by offering London-based staff more generous relocation packages than it usually offers to encourage them to move, though the BBC could have controlled these better.
"However, it is too early to judge whether the move will achieve value for money for licence fee payers. It is welcome that the BBC has developed an appropriate approach to measuring the future impacts of the move but it still needs to explain how it is going to make all of its planned efficiency savings."
Most of the BBC's decision-making and spending has been historically concentrated in London. To help address this imbalance, the BBC developed plans to relocate a number of its departments to a new regional centre in Salford.
The Trust-approved objectives for the relocation to Salford were to serve audiences in the north of England better, improve quality of content for all audiences, improve efficiency and provide economic and other benefits to the region.
Press notices and reports are available from the date of publication on the NAO website, which is at www.nao.org.uk. Hard copies can be obtained from The Stationery Office on 0845 702 3474.
The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending for Parliament and is independent of government. The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), Amyas Morse, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO, which employs some 860 staff. The C&AG certifies the accounts of all government departments and many other public sector bodies. He has statutory authority to examine and report to Parliament on whether departments and the bodies they fund have used their resources efficiently, effectively, and with economy. The NAO's studies evaluate the value for money of public spending, nationally and locally. Its recommendations and reports on good practice help government improve public services, and our work led to audited savings of more than £1 billion in 2011.
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Sedgwick County commissioner Karl Peterjohn this morning called for New York Times coumnist David Carr to resign, or be fired, because of comments Carr made recently on a TV show.
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As a criminal defense lawyer, I am frequently asked by friends or acquaintances what to expect when arrested or charged with a crime in California. My answer is always twofold: it depends on the crime, and it depends on where you are arrested and charged. Although the California state legislature writes and enacts criminal laws, each jurisdiction within the state enforces those laws differently. While the California Penal Code defines the elements of crimes and the range of possible sentences, local norms and practices also have a significant impact on the outcome of a case. Ventura has a courthouse that serves the entire county.
Across the board, Ventura sees a lot fewer plea bargains than Santa Barbara. The high number of speedy trial cases (i.e. cases that must be dismissed if not tried before a deadline) forces prosecutors to prioritize their trial cases, and when things are highly impacted, dismiss less serious misdemeanor cases or cases with shaky proof. As a deputy public defender, my supervisors encouraged me to assert my clients speedy trial rights and push misdemeanor cases to trial and felony cases to preliminary hearing as soon as possible, and on the other side, the supervising district attorneys train their deputies to quickly get ready on any case that gets filed. Trials move very fast in Ventura with judges motivated to pick juries, hear closing arguments, and get verdicts, then move onto the next one without wasting any time.
In Ventura, as a matter of policy, virtually no reckless driving offers are made, even if the defendant has a blood alcohol concentration at .08.In addition, DUI probations in Ventura are supervised probations.
Ventura almost always requires probation as a component of every sentence, even for the most minor of offenses. There is a belief among defense attorneys that politically conservative jurors tend to make good prosecution jurors whereas politically liberal jurors tend to make better defense jurors. While it is true that these trends probably hold up over large sample sizes, jury trials in Ventura, which is relatively conservative, are still very winnable for a skilled defense attorney who understands the community and knows how to pick a jury. The population in Ventura, which draws jurors from all over the county to a single courthouse, is more openly pro law enforcement than Santa Barbara, but they are also very willing to be transparent about it and let their biases be known during jury selection when there's still an opportunity to have the judge release them for cause, rather than after a verdict is rendered, when it's too late for the defense attorney to do anything but regret that they made it onto the jury at all.
Ventura generally sees a higher volume of drug cases involving methamphetamine, and serious cases like gang cases, felony assaults, robberies, and homicides, and as a result sees stiffer sentences handed down by judges. However, it's impossible to say whether those norms in sentencing are a product of the criminal justice culture in Ventura or if the jurisdiction is simply responding to a more serious crime problem.
Having tried cases in front of juries in Ventura, the facts of the case and my experience trying that type of case determined whether I would be successful in winning that case. Ultimately, sometimes there are cases that even the best defense attorney cannot win because the facts are just bad, but in all other cases, having an attorney that knows how to do trials in front of a Ventura jury can help. If you want to know what to expect when you've been charged with a crime, your best bet is to contact me, and we can discuss the details.
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For most of last week, representatives from the Connecticut Judicial Branch and the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence (CCADV) went back and forth, trying to figure out how to protect state residents who are at risk of domestic violence during the pandemic. For some residents, the state's current motto of "Stay Safe, Stay Home" is sadly ironic. Unemployment claims—though low compared to those of other states—are rising, schools are closed, and sales of firearms and ammunition are up. Early on, domestic violence advocates expressed concern that incidents of violence would increase the longer people are forced to spend time together in close quarters. Meanwhile, the Judicial Branch began closing courthouses around the state to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and those closures made applying for restraining orders difficult.
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You can have prayers. Or you can have teeth. After two mass shootings within 16 hours stunned the nation earlier this month, conversation turned to how best to remove guns from the wrong hands. Seventeen states—including Connecticut—and the District of Columbia have "red flag" laws, also known as "extreme risk" laws, that, depending on the state, allow family members, household members, or law enforcement officials to petition the courts to remove guns from the hands of someone who might do harm to himself or herself, or to others. It's an approach that is supported by 85% of registered voters, according to a 2018 Washington Post/ABC poll.
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The Siekopai once had an immense territory that stretched an estimated 7,000,000 acres between the Putumayo and Napo rivers from Ecuador into Colombia and Peru. They are renowned for their shamanic acumen and knowledge of medicinal plants, with traditional uses for over 1,000 different plant species. The Siekopai now number around 600 people in Ecuador and around 900 in Peru. Missionary activity, rubber extraction, colonization, palm oil production, petroleum activity and a decades-long civil war between Ecuador and Peru have resulted in a greatly reduced and fragmented territory on both sides of the border. In Ecuador, the Siekopai currently have no legal title or recognized rights over their ancestral territory and have been corralled into a much reduced territory of 50,000 acres situated over 100 miles from their ancestral territory and surrounded by oil fields, large-scale African Palm plantations and a network of roads that accelerate illegal logging and land invasion. The parallel impacts to Siekopai culture and traditional way of life have been distressing.
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This site rate SC at 28 and Louisville at 30.
It's a good thing that Farmingdale State College isn't a WBB powerhouse; we wouldn't stand a chance.
I agree as she would help bolster our front court with the loss of Jennings. I'm not sure what the situations are like at Kentucky or Louisville but there is a big opportunity here to be a star up front.
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I can still remember waiting for weeks at a time to receive my next installment of this 8 volume set of Charlie Brown Dictionaries. My original set was probably sold for next-to-nothing at one of Mom's garage sales on Mockingbird Lane. Drats. But, alas, the ironic circle of life for all things nostalgic finally made its round and I found the set pictured below at another garage sale last year for the meager sum of 50 cents a book!
Seems like we got the first volume or (or two) at an "introductory price" and then the remaining volumes were shipped every 4-6 weeks. The wait was brutal for this little grade school boy. The suspense of wondering what Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the gang could teach me about all things beginning with the letter "D" was intense to be sure.
Let's look inside, shall we? Below is the table of contents that included all 50 state maps.
And instructions on how to use the dictionary. I don't think I'd ever read this page before. I like the illustration on this page though (and another below). If ever I got to go to a summer camp, I'd want it to look just like this one.
What better page to sample than my favorite letter - A?!
A. "A" is for Arkansas. Naturally. Note the sub-title of this page reads "The Wonder State" and not "The Natural State."
Gotta have a picture of the band.
And since Walmart is already putting out the Halloween candy, I might as well include this page of the gang in their costumes.


Harvard University announced Monday a series of breaks for middle-income students, slashing tuition costs by as much as 50 percent and eliminating student loans.
The changes, which will take place next fall, are part of a growing national movement to combat the rapidly rising cost of education, and to ensure that elite universities don't shut out all but the wealthiest students. Tuition costs at many private colleges and universities have grown so rapidly during in recent decades that even families earning close to $200,000 a year struggle to afford it.
Harvard's announcement is expected to ripple throughout the world of private colleges and universities and some observers expect it to spur some schools, especially those with large endowments, to follow its lead.
Stanford University, at $17.2 billion, has the third-largest endowment among the nation's elite universities, behind Yale University and Harvard. But officials there were circumspect Monday about Harvard's announcement.
Under Harvard's plan, announced by university President Drew Faust, families earning more than $60,000 will pay a small percentage of their annual income for tuition and room and board, rising to 10 percent for those earning between $120,000 and $180,000 a year.
That makes the cost for many families of no more than $18,000 a year comparable to that of public flagship universities, school officials said.
Faust said Harvard will no longer consider the equity in a family's home when calculating whether it qualifies for financial aid. It will consider other factors such as family size, other assets or unusual health care costs. All families that qualify for financial aid will receive that aid in grants, rather than loans.
Currently, families earning $60,000 or less pay nothing.
Stanford adopted a similar plan a year ago, changing its financial aid program to provide free tuition and room and board to parents whose total yearly income is less than $45,000, according to the university's Web site. Students do, however, have to contribute some amount to their education through loans or work-study arrangements, with the contribution considered on an individual basis. Parents with incomes between $45,000 and $60,000 have their "expected parent contribution" reduced.
Over the past several years, a cluster of top universities in addition to Stanford have announced dramatic new aid for the poorest of their students, in some cases covering the cost entirely.
In 2004, Harvard promised that families earning less than $40,000 a year wouldn't have to pay at all; schools including the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary followed. That income level has since risen to $60,000 at Harvard. On Saturday, Duke University also eliminated costs for families earning $60,000 or less.
Several years ago, Princeton University eliminated all loans from financial aid packages, so that its students graduate without the enormous debt burdens some carry. Williams College made a similar commitment last month. In 2006 Harvard, Princeton and Virginia eliminated early-decision admissions programs which they felt gave an advantage to more privileged students.
It's all part of a move to correct a growing imbalance in the student population at elite schools, which have been getting increasingly expensive – the annual cost of attending Harvard is now over $45,000 – and shutting out students who, even with aid, cannot afford it.
That does happen, said Michael Blackman of Upper Marlboro, Md., who works for the postal service. "I'm worried about the cost of tuition," for his son, a senior in high school this year, he said. He said he knows some people just rule out the Ivy League and other private schools because of the expense.
In recent years, said Sally Donahue, director of financial aid at Harvard College, administrators had been hearing increasing distress from parents as they got their financial aid packages, including people wondering if they were going to have to sell their home.
Schools have gotten so expensive that some members of Congress have been asking why schools with fat endowments – Harvard being an obvious target – don't lower tuition. More than 60 schools now have endowments exceeding $1 billion.
According to Harvard officials, grants to students are expected to rise more than 20 percent next year, from $98 million to about $120 million – and perhaps far more in the future, as more students from disadvantaged backgrounds consider Harvard as a possibility.
Mercury News Staff Writer Barbara Feder Ostrov contributed to this report.


4.I haven't got much free time.
5.A good friend for me is a person funny clever and kind.
6.No,I haven't got. My best friend is Marry.
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8.Yes, I have a big family : father, mother, brother, two cousins, two granny, grandpa,aunt, uncle, dog and I.
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22 x 60 minute episodes
Set at the Emerald Point Naval Air Station in Southern California, this CBS series followed the professional and family problems of the station commander.
The man in charge was Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory (Dennis Weaver), a widower and the father of three beautiful daughters.
Celia, 28, (Susan Dey) hated the Navy but was married to a Navy lawyer. Kay, 24, (Stephanie Dunnam) had eyes for a handsome young pilot called Glenn (Andrew Stevens) who – alas – was engaged to Hilary Adams (Sela Ward), a calculating chameleon who happened to be Kay's best friend.
Then there was the youngest daughter, Leslie, 22 (Doran Clark) who made Dad proud by graduating from Annapolis to carry on the family tradition. The series ran for just one season.
Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory
Celia Mallory Warren
Susan Dey
Kay Mallory Matthews
Stephanie Dunnam
Andrew Stevens
Deanna Kincaid
Jill St John
Maggie Farrell
Lt. Cmdr. Jack Warren
Charles Frank
Ensign Leslie Mallory
Doran Clark
Lt. Glenn Matthews
Hilary Adams
Harlan Adams
Lt. Simon Adams
Richard Dean Anderson
Admiral Yuri Bukharin
Robert Loggia
Lt. Alexi Gorichenko
Michael Carven
David Marquette
Michael Brandon
Scott Farrell
Darryl Cooksey
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Head Over Heels For Teaching: Spark Student Motivation-Read to Win!
Last week I blogged about Reading Counts (here) and I promised another idea this week to motivate them to read even more!
I got this idea from Bethany from Fab and Fun in 4th that she linked up to my very first Spark Student Motivation last year!
I call it READ TO WIN!
This week I introduced Read to Win! Very simple (you know I like simple & motivating ideas)! I filled a jar with Gobstoppers and every time they passed a Reading Counts test they earned an entry to make a guess of how many candies were in the jar. For every 2 points they earned they received a slip, so if they read a 10 point book, they got 5 entries. VERY EXCITING!
They brought home extra books to earn these slips!
Look at all those entries!
An eye opener for me was their range of estimations! I had guesses from 37 all the way to 2,489! I know next week's guesses will be closer now that they have an idea of what "250" looks like.
89 entries-I think it's pretty good for a 4 day week and just learning about this new contest on Tuesday! They went crazy as I opened each entry and read the numbers aloud.
Here is the winner! He was closest with 240-the actual amount was 250.
He was one happy READER!
Click the image to download these entry forms if you'd like to try this in your classroom.
It could be used with any reading program you use at your school/class.
I'm not sure if I'll do it every week, but it's definitely a motivator to read and PASS their test, so it builds comprehension and excitement in our classroom!!!
It doesn't have to be just candy, it could be used with stickers, erasers, bouncy balls, etc.
This is way fun!! I might have to add this to my AR reward system!
Great idea! Two for one deal - math and reading! Tricky, I like that:).
Awesome idea! I wonder how I could include this in my room some way. I love the dual purpose; it could get fun with different sized objects each week!
My wheels are turning for ways to incorporate this into my reading program. We don't have a formal program like AR or Reading Counts, but I'm sure I can come up with something. I will let you know. Thank you for sharing this!
You always have such cute ideas! I want to be in your class!
Ooooooh...love this idea! I was too busy to link up today. :( This weekend we are packing up and moving Jerm's mom. I'm on the couch now with my feet up...reading blogs. How many days do you have left until your time is up for Instagram? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH....hugs and kisses my sweet!
Love, love, love this idea, Joanne! I am a TERRIBLE estimator so there is no way I would have won the prize, but kids do love a challenge especially when it involves sugar!


That reminds me of the 60s song "where have all the flowers gone?". Perhaps you should blame the "young girls". There is a German version which is typically more tutonic "sag mir wo die blumen sind" and translates to "tell me where the flowers are!".
It used to be said that they got left in washing up bowl and then went down the plug hole when the bowl was emptied…. Anyone who thinks spoons are to big should remember how little boys used to get their heads caught in railings!


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It's been nearly two weeks since our 2014 Gold Prospecting and Mining Summit in Placerville, California. We are still unpacking some of the boxes and I have yet to return to collect some of our mining equipment from Brian Bartholomew at the placer hands-on training site, but Brian assures me it's locked up and there's no hurry!
We are wrapping up our May 2014 issue of ICMJs Prospecting and Mining Journal and getting ready to send it to the press for their initial review, but I wanted to take a moment to post a few photos of the event.


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