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Awards Grants Honors
Habermas Declines Sheikh Zayed Book Award
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Last week, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas was declared the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award "Cultural Personality of the Year." Over the weekend he announced he will not accept the award.
The award is bestowed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government and named for Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the first president of the UAE. It is intended to honor a prominent Arab or international figure or organization for their contribution to the advancement of Arabic culture, and comes with a prize of 1,000,000 UAE dirhams (approximately $272,000).
"Rarely do we find prominent figures in the philosophical, cultural and intellectual field like Jürgen Habermas. His career has been full of accomplishments and distinguished works, which have made him the most present and influential voice in German cultural life for more than 50 years," said Dr Ali bin Tamim, Secretary General of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, according to news reports.
Habermas had initially agreed to accept the award, but then changed his mind. "That was a wrong decision, which I correct hereby… I didn't sufficiently make clear to myself the very close connection of the institution, which awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi, with the existing political system there," he said via his publisher, according to The Washington Post. (This article summarizes human rights violations in the UAE.)
The UAE, on its website, said said it "expresses regret" for Habermas' decision "but respects it," according to the Associated Press.
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WiseGuy
I'm sure he would decline a prize from the NEH or the Royal Institute, too. After all, just in the last few decades, the political systems that are associated with these countries have engaged in illegal wars, war crimes during those illegal wars, etc. etc.Report
Kenny Easwaran
Reply to WiseGuy
I don't think he's making a condition that he will only accept prizes from governments with *no* problematic behaviors. He's just setting a *threshold*. (I think the UAE was involved in nearly all of the illegal wars you are mentioning *in addition* to their domestic repression, and completely anti-democratic nature.)Report
Reply to Kenny Easwaran
Fair point, Kenny. I sill find it funny when European and American academics feel very heroic when they boycott third-world countries or even Israel while (i) their own governments do worse things internationally, and (ii) most of those dictatorial regimes live on financial and military support from the US and Europe.
(I don't think UAE was involved in the Iraq war. Though their involvement in Yemen is bad enough).Report
Alex Hughes
How heroic do you think Habermas feels?Report
Reply to Alex Hughes
[insert white savior meme]Report
PhilosoArab
The UAE is not a third-world country….Report
Reply to PhilosoArab
Well, "third-world" is silly anyways. "Developing" is the better term. UAE is that. Despite the tall building.Report
Matty Silverstein
In what sense is it a developing country? It's growing, but that's neither here nor there. According to the UN's 2019 Human Development Index, the UAE is among those countries with the "very highest human development." It is ranked 31st overall, just below Italy and above Greece.Report
Reply to Matty Silverstein
Obviously, these are always contested terms. But here is UN's classification of world economies
https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/WESP2020_Annex.pdf
And here is IMF's classification:
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2021/01/weodata/groups.htmReport
Milliardaire Syverain
I don't understand the outrage. Many a great writers and philosophers have declined the Nobel Prize in literature. Jean-Paul Sartre was one of them.Report
Reply to Milliardaire Syverain
In fact only one other person besides Sartre (1964) in the 100+ year history of the Nobel Prize in literature has ever declined it: Boris Pasternak (1958), who was forced to do so by the government of the Soviet Union.Report
I don't think it's fair to assume that a person's primary motivation is self-aggrandizement just because they did the right thing…Report
David Wallace
One other relevant difference is that NEH and the Royal Society are fairly insulated from the political leadership of their respective countries. (I'm not sure the UK government has any control over the Royal Society at all, beyond giving it a block grant. The US president appoints the NEH chair but I think it's usually been pretty non-political.)
Note Habermas's wording: "I didn't sufficiently make clear to myself the very close connection of the institution, which awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi, with the existing political system there".
(I also agree with the threshold point, FWIW.)Report
Reply to David Wallace
Point well taken.Report
Cal-guy
It doesn't matter what he does. His gesture has no value. This article is the extent of the influence this will have.Report
Haberawal
Reply to Cal-guy
What a pessimistic view… But wrong nevertheless; for any little gesture recorded has the potential to change some other person's view. Very much like a little pebble that dislodges itself way up a steep hill side and starts a huge rock slide… Bravo Mr. Habermas, integrity is not for sale yet.Report
Jason Kropsky
Reply to Haberawal
If it was Foucault he would have accepted the prize, as demonstrated by his eager embrace of the Ayatollah's regime around the time of the revolution. Supporting or accepting regimes (or prizes from regimes) with anti liberal policies should be a line in the sand. Unfortunately, even with the hypocritical stench of America First Nativism & the U.S.'s active role in maintaining, and in some cases, upending international security, the question of what constitutes a rule of law regime is put into question. But the UAE & SA (especially Saudi Arabia) practice domestic repression & engaged in the Yemen bloodbath. Habermas's award rejection was consistent with his commitment to international norms lending to peace and security. Granting legitimacy to autocratic (i.e., anti democratic) monarchs is not a good look. Other zealots like those in the Shiite dominated Islamic Republic also shouldn'tbe propped up.
Post modernists are too playful to draw lines in the sand.Report
Oran Kelley
One thing some folks seem to have missed here: Habermas is clearly embaresed that he let this happen, not proud that he gets to make a big point of his disapproval of the UAE. He fucked up in not looking into this thoroughly. He knows it. His statement owns up to it.Report


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Q: Iteration returns the same result while crawling I'm new to Scrapy and i'm browsing through the manual book. I'm doing some exercises and stuck with these issue. While iterating through the list of books, the results always return the same ''key: value" pairs after iteration, despite tha fact, that there is 20 different elements in the page.
This is my code:
import scrapy

class MyBooks(scrapy.Spider):
    name = 'bookstore'
    allowed_domains = ['books.toscrape.com']
    start_urls = ['http://books.toscrape.com']

    def parse(self, response):
        for book in response.xpath('//article[@class="product_pod"]'):
            yield {

                'title': book.xpath('//h3/a/text()').get(),
                'price': book.xpath('//p[@class="price_color"]/text()').get(),

            }

And this is my result:
2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>
    {'title': 'A Light in the ...', 'price': '£51.77'}
    2020-02-07 12:03:00 [scrapy.core.scraper] DEBUG: Scraped from <200 http://books.toscrape.com>

Why is that? Where i'm wrong?

A: I am not really familiar with xpath selectors, but for some reason it looks like book.xpath('//h3/a/text()') and book.xpath('//p[@class="price_color"]/text()') return a list of selectors with every book's data in them. To confirm this, you can call .getall() instead of .get() on these selectors, you will see that it returns a list of every book's result. I got it working with CSS selectors though:
    def parse(self, response):
        for book in response.xpath('//article[@class="product_pod"]'):
            yield {
                'title': book.css('h3').css('a::text').get(),
                'price': book.css('.price_color::text').get()
            }

You can read more about selectors here.

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Pocket Switched Networks (PSNs) are created using short range, ad hoc wireless links between personal mobile devices.
There is no other network infrastructure (No Internet!).
Links rely on human mobility, and are unreliable. End-to-end paths change constantly, if they exist at all.
An example of Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN).
Over 1 billion smartphones worldwide - October 2012.
Bluetooth/Wi-Fi LP should make opportunistic message delivery between neighbours possible.
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Possible new applications for smartphones.
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Clusters can be used for opportunistic data delivery when the probability of a device being able to deliver a packet is unknown or difficult to calculate.
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If social ties are known in advance, or can be gathered from online social networks, then we can label clusters [Hui, Bigwood].
Epidemic label propagation [Leung, Herbiet].
We can experiment with these methods using Reality Mining data-sets which contain encounters between humans.
In all of these methods, mean cluster size increases over time. In most cases cluster size increases monotonically.
Example cluster sizes over time using the Simple [Hui] cluster detection method.
Cluster based message delivery methods copy messages to devices in the same cluster as the destination.
Thus larger clusters can lead to more message duplication.
Graphs with edges formed from encounters in the reality mining data-sets densify with a Densification Power Law [Leskovec] of around 1.25.
Number of edges growing with number of connected devices in the Cambridge data-set.
Activity within the data-sets is "bursty".
Each new burst contains encounters between devices which have not met before, and may never meet again.
Monotonically increasing cluster sizes means that obsolete cluster membership persists.
Could clusters better reflect current network conditions instead of increasing in size monotonically over time?
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A rough estimation of the expected cumulative duration of encounters with a device during a discrete time frame.
Returns an estimated mean relative to some variation in a time series.
We don't have to store all the data of previous encounters, only mean values for the past w frames.
Time frames help us to measure connectivity despite the parking lot problem.
x is the cumulative encounter time between 2 devices during a time frame.
Cup was added to control the size of clusers if need be.
Removing devices from clusters is done at the end of time frames using the same test but in reverse.
Devices are added and removed from local cluster tables using the previous tests.
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Local cluster tables of neighbours are stored in the branch column.
Local cluster table example for di.
Examble using the Haggle Cambridge data-set.
Three policies for transfering a messages upon encountering a device were tried.
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If destination (e.g. dl) is anywhere in the local cluster table of encountered device (e.g. dj), transfer a copy of the message.
Local cluster table example for dj.
If destination (e.g. dl) is in a row of the local cluster of the encountered device (e.g. dj) which also contains the transfering device (e.g. di), do not transfer the message.
If a path to destination exists which does not appear to contain a routing loop, transfer a copy of the message.
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Overheads = (Number of messages relayed - number of messages delivered) / number of messages delivered.
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DEBTT looks the most promising.
Given a little in processing overheads associated with tree traversal, but gained efficiency.
DEBTT is not more complex than Bubble which uses centrality calculations as well as clustering.
Automatic frame size detection would be great.
We need frames or some other mechanism to solve the parking lot problem.
Human movement is mostly diurnal so it doesn't make sense to have frames longer than 24 hours.
If frames size is less than 1 hour, every encounter becomes significant.


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In November 2020, Korean Air will introduce the option to use a combination of miles and cash/credit card to purchase flight tickets for a test-run period.
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Affiliation SLDF
Parent Command XLVI Corps
The 161st Mechanized Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.
In 2764 the 161st was assigned, as a part of the XLVI Corps, Nineteenth Army, to the Periphery Military Region, but was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery by 2765, to take part in the SLDF response to the Periphery Uprising. The 161st took heavy losses during the Uprising, and the division was disbanded.[3] An ad hoc regiment of personnel from the 161st defected to the Taurian Concordat in 2766, but was destroyed in 2767.[1]
Commanding Officers of the 161st Mechanized Infantry Division
Major General Alexandra Duford 2764[4]
The Mechanized Infantry Divisions of the Star League were used offensively to exploit gaps in the enemy front created by the BattleMech Divisions. They also bore the brunt of defensive actions.
The Division comprised two Brigades of Mechanized Infantry and a single BattleMech Brigade. Also attached was a Ground Aero Wing.[5]
↑ 1.0 1.1 First Succession War, p. 34, "Those Left Behind (Continued)"
↑ Field Manual SLDF, page 223
↑ The Star League, p. 157, "Nineteenth"
↑ Field Manual: SLDF, p. 223, "LVI Corps"
↑ The Star League, p. 133
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On Friday December 19th, a check for the amount of $500.00 was presented to Hasbro Children's Hospital.
Congratulations to Nick Cerra who was presented with our 2014 "Man of The Year" award. He was presented this award at our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner witnessed by over 650 people. A well deserved honor.
Another successful Thanksgiving Dinner was held on November 20th at the West Valley Inn with over 650 attendees. Food, spirits and and prizes galore.


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Who Owns Your Tower?
Published on July 16, 2012 December 6, 2016 by Brett Miller
A year or so ago I wrote about the importance of changing your Antenna Registration through the FCC's registration system whenever there is a change in ownership of a station and the station assets include a tower. Not all towers require registration, we know, but IF the tower(s) is registered and if title changes through the sale of a station, this is one of those often over-looked tedious details that get ignored…and sometimes come back to haunt you. The most recent example of this occurred in Nevada. In 2006, Ely Radio acquired KWNA-AM/FM from Sheen Broadcasting. The purchase agreement would seem to reflect that the tower went with the deal. The FCC's Antenna Registration section shows that Sheen Broadcasting is still the owner.
Now, six years later, comes along a tower lighting issue and a resulting fine. The FCC says Ely Radio should be liable for the fine but Ely protested by saying they did not own the tower. The FCC did not accept the argument and the fine remains with Ely Radio.
The point is not whether Ely Radio owns the tower or if Sheen Broadcasting owns the tower. The point is that if you sell or buy a tower, change the ownership records with the FCC! It appears (for the moment) that Sheen Broadcasting dodged the bullet. However, the decision and the fine could just as easily gone the other way.
But here's an interesting twist: Ely Radio is losing ownership to a creditor through a liquidation for debt. Question: Who owns the tower? If Ely Radio maintains it does not own the tower (even if the FCC says it does) and the tower is registered to Sheen Broadcasting (even though Sheen maintains it does not own the tower), who will wind up owning the tower…Ely, Sheen, or the creditor?
The job is not done until the paperwork is completed, right? Whether you're a seller or a buyer, make sure the tower ownership records are correct.
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Hans Staininger oder Steininger (beide Schreibweisen sind überliefert, * um 1508 in Pfarrkirchen; † 28. September 1567 in Braunau am Inn) war Stadthauptmann von Braunau und wegen seines außergewöhnlich langen Bartes berühmt.

Hans Steininger wurde sechsmal zum Stadthauptmann von Braunau am Inn gewählt. Sein Barthaar war dreieinhalb Ellen (rund zwei Meter) lang, obwohl es heißt, er habe es sechsmal abschneiden lassen. Er soll an den Folgen eines Sturzes gestorben sein, nachdem er auf seinen Bart getreten war (den er sonst aufgerollt in der Tasche trug). Nach seinem Tod wurde ihm der Bart abgenommen und als Familienreliquie aufbewahrt. 1911 wurde der Bart an die Stadt Braunau vererbt und ist heute im Bezirksmuseum (Herzogsburg) zu sehen. Die Echtheit des ausgestellten Barthaars ist chemisch und mikroskopisch nachgewiesen.

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Der erste Band der Sagensammlung von Benedikt Pillwein enthält die Geschichte "Hanns Steininger mit seinem langen Barte in Braunau". Auch Joseph Kyselak erzählt in seinem Reisebericht Steiningers Geschichte:
"Eine Seltenheit, auf welche sich die Braunauer nicht wenig zugute rechnen, macht der Bart eines ihrer einstigen Magistratsräthe, des Hanns Steininger, welcher, wie die Abbildung und Jahreszahl am Salzburgerthor zu Braunau weiset, im Jahre 1567 der Stadt vielleicht weniger mit seiner Einsicht, wie mit dem bis an die Zehenspitzen dicht herabreichenden Barte zum Ruhme half. Schöner und bleibender erhält sich dieses Bartwunder an der Pfarrkirche, auf einer grossen Marmorplatte halb erhaben in Lebensgrösse ausgehauen. Dieser Hanns Steininger mußte das Opfer seiner angestaunten Merkwürdigkeit werden; denn, als er einst einem durchreisenden Fürsten seine Ergebenheit zu bezeigen, den gewöhnlich abgemessenen Schritt übereilte, trat er sich selbst auf den Bart, und durch den Fall im Leibe etwas abschlagend, starb er baldigst an den Folgen der Verletzung — als Märterer seiner eingebildeten Schönheit!"

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Das Epitaph in der Stadtkirche mit dem Bild von Hans Staininger und seinem Bart regte eine Reihe von Künstlern zu eigenen Werken an. Nachgewiesen sind eine Lithographie, die Antoine-François Lomet 1807 anfertigte, als er französischer Verbindungsoffizier in Bayern war. In der Sammlung des Pariser Louvre ist ein kleinformatiges Gemälde eines unbekannten deutschen Malers erhalten, das Staininger vor einer Gebirgslandschaft zeigt. 1814 erschien in London eine Radierung Stainingers unter dem Titel A true portraiture of John Staininger of Braunau von R.S. Kirby. Im Kemptener Stadtarchiv wird ein lebensgroßes Ölgemälde Stainingers verwahrt, weitere Abbildungen sind in der Münchner Residenz und in der Altenburg bei Bamberg nachgewiesen.

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Cooking TogetherRecipes for Immigration Justice Work
New Doctrine of Discovery Discussion Guide
View and download the new Doctrine of Discovery discussion guide.
"The First Sight of the New World: Columbus Discovering America"
In January UUA Trustees voted to place a responsive resolution repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery on the General Assembly business agenda. The Doctrine of Discovery—the legal justification for colonizing the Americas and subordinating aboriginal people—is a narrative unfamiliar to many Americans. The Doctrine is so deeply embedded in American and Western culture that it hides in plain sight. (more…)
Gail Forsyth-Vail
Education, Reflection
A Call from our Arizona Immigration Justice Partners
Our partner organizations in Arizona have called for the repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery and the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. What do Unitarian Universalists need to know in order to respond faithfully to this call from our partners? This third post in our series was written by the Pacific Southwest District Executive Ken Brown. – Ed.
This past August a number of Arizona Unitarian Universalists met with community people we had been working with for a number of years on issues of migration and the border. The conversation was around what our partners in Arizona would like to see happen at our General Assembly. Our partners gave us a very clear message that they would like us to pass a resolution calling on President Obama and his administration to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. When this Declaration was adopted by all but four nations in 2007, the United States was one of the four not adopting it. Three years later, in December 2010, President Obama adopted the Declaration, making the United States the last nation to sign on to this document.
Watch this video made by Tupac Enrique about Columbus from TONATIERRA, a Cultural Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples supporting local-global holistic indigenous community development initiatives in accord with the principle of Community Ecology and Self Determination.
As President Obama declared when he signed the Declaration, "What matters more than the words – what matters far more than any resolution or declaration – are actions to match those words." (more…)
Education, Witness and Action
Restoring Indigenous Peoples' Rights: A Pathway from Australia to Arizona
At the January meeting, the UUA Trustees voted to place a responsive resolution to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery on the business agenda for the General Assembly. What is the Doctrine of Discovery? Why have our partner organizations in Arizona called for its repudiation? How are we as Unitarian Universalist people of faith called to respond? For the next several weeks, Cooking Together bloggers will address these questions. This post was written by the Dave Weiman, who has been working with others to educate UUs about this issue. – Ed.
At 7:30 pm on December 3, 2009, Joy Murphy Wandin, senior woman of the Wurundjeri People, was the first person to greet the 6,000 plus people who had come together for the Parliament of the World's Religions in Melbourne, Australia, with this traditional 'Welcome to the Land':
On behalf of the spiritual ancestors and the traditional owners of Melbourne, I invite you to Melbourne in 2009, for the Parliament of the World's Religions to share in the traditions, culture and spirit of Australia. (more…)
Education, Reflection, Witness and Action, Your Recipes
Immigration and Indigenous Theology
At the January meeting, the UUA Trustees approved a motion to include a report from their Right Relationship Monitoring Committee on the Doctrine of Discovery in their report to congregations, as well as to place a responsive resolution to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery on the business agenda for the General Assembly. What is the Doctrine of Discovery? Why have our partner organizations in Arizona called for its repudiation? How are we as Unitarian Universalist people of faith called to respond? For the next several weeks, Cooking Together bloggers will address these questions. This post was written by the Rev. Colin Bossen, who was arrested on July 29, 2010 in an act of civil disobedience. He describes how he learned about the Doctrine of Discovery- Ed.
I did not go to jail expecting to meet a theologian. But jail was where I met Tupac Enrique Acosta. Tupac, like me, was arrested in front of one of the Maricopa County Sheriff's offices for protesting against Arizona's anti-immigrant law SB1070 on July 29, 2010. Unlike me, Tupac had an analysis of the bill's place in history that put it firmly within the context of the ongoing repression of the indigenous peoples of North America.
Tupac, who would probably reject the label theologian, is the leading figure behind the Phoenix-based Nahuacalli, an organization that describes itself as "A Cultural Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples." He is also closely linked with Puente, the grassroots organization behind many protests against SB1070 in Phoenix, and Puente's leader Salvador Reza. Understanding his views on SB1070 illuminates that, for some, the struggle over immigration is about something larger. (more…)
Education, Reflection, Witness and Action
Writing the Children's Immigration Curriculum
In this post, Mandy Neff, author of the newly published children's RE curriculum, With Justice and Compassion, shares some of the background story behind the curriculum.- Ed.
My mother escaped as a teen during the Hungarian Revolution. I grew up hearing her stories of running from soldiers, a long wait eating thin soup in a refugee camp, and finally several demanding years of learning English with the family that adopted her here in the US before she was naturalized. I knew her immigration was no small thing. But despite the difficulties, she was welcomed into a new culture when she arrived. She was one of the lucky ones – and I have benefited from that.
After several years of Buddhist studies, I have learned the power of the Metta, or lovingkindness, meditation for myself. Through its repetition of the same words for yourself, then a loved one, in ever-widening circles until you reach someone you consider an enemy and have to send them lovingkindness, it is a profound tool. As a Religious Educator, I am always searching for ways to teach compassion and respect to our children and youth. This was an ideal tool to give them. (more…)
With Justice and Compassion: Immigration Sessions for Children's Religious Education
With Justice and Compassion
In the month of February, we will provide materials to help Unitarian Universalists of all ages engage in theological reflection and prepare for the work of Justice GA in Phoenix and the work of our local congregations in support of immigration justice. In this post, we are pleased and proud to announce the publication of With Justice and Compassion: Immigration Sessions for Children's Religious Education, by Mandy Neff.
The four-session curriculum includes plans for children in grades 1-3 and children in grades 4-6, as well as plans for a Family Night, where children share what they have learned and take part in a service project. Grounded in our second Unitarian Universalist principle and in the Buddhist lovingkindness meditation, the curriculum invites children to explore their own family stories while learning about immigration in the United States. It lifts up justice and compassion as guiding values as we consider immigration justice issues in our own time.
Please let us know if you use this program, and tell us how it comes to life in your congregation!
Pacific Central District Youth Prepare for Justice GA
In this post, Dylan Colbert, a youth who belongs to the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, Walnut Creek, CA, reports on Pacific Central DYGT's (District Youth Get-Togethers) focused on immigration justice issues. With the support of Mt. Diablo youth advisor Nancy Jasa, the youth are organizing educational events to help them learn more about the issues, and working on fund raisers to enable a large contingent of youth to attend Justice GA in Phoenix. – Ed.
The upcoming General Assembly in Arizona, focused on the inhumane treatment of America's immigrants, has captured the attention of the youth in the Pacific Central District in California. In an effort to fully understand the immigration issues present today, youth in this district have organized a series of "DYGTs" -District Youth Get Togethers- so that they may understand the issues, brainstorm solutions, and raise money so that they may attend GA. As a youth in this district, I have been pleasantly surprised at the dedication shown by the other youth. Many of them have sacrificed weekends and many hours to researching immigration issues and leading events. So far, the youth have created and discussed a timeline of major events pertaining to American immigration policies and discussed terms relevant to immigration and how they apply to current situations. In future DYGTs, we hope to fully understand the different laws currently in place and continue fundraising so that we may send more youth to GA.
The DYGTs are an outgrowth of the excitement generated by a highly successful Immigration Conference at Mt. Diablo. The Mt. Diablo congregation has financially supported youth attendance at General Assembly in Phoenix, including donating the proceeds of their craft fair to help with expenses. How has your congregation or your district included youth in your immigration justice work? What plans have you made for fundraisers to support youth attendance at Justice GA? Send us your stories! – Ed.
Dylan Colbert, a high school junior who is part of the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, is one of the organizers of the DYGTs in Pacific Central District and plans to attend General Assembly in Phoenix.
Education, Witness and Action, Your Recipes
Who Belongs Here? Exploring Immigration with Children and Youth
Many UU congregations are looking for help in engaging children and youth with immigration justice issues. In February, the UUA will publish a four-session curriculum for children. With this post, we publish an annotated list of websites and books about immigration compiled by religious educator Karen Scrivo as a course project at Starr King School for the Ministry. In this post, she introduces her project- Ed.
When my Italian grandparents came to the United States as children during the early 1900s, they and their parents arrived at Ellis Island without papers, passports or visas. My grandma Rose Siciliano was about 7 and my grandpa Louis Scrivo was 12. Their families made the long arduous trans-Atlantic journey to escape the harsh poverty that gripped southern Italy. They came knowing no English and with dreams of finding a better life in America.
Their stories are similar to those of many of today's immigrants – except then there were no quotas for how many Europeans could enter the United States. So their undocumented status did not brand them as "illegal aliens," nor did they constantly look over their shoulders, worrying they might be deported. Had they been coming from Mexico, they would have not have encountered high barbed wire fences or been detained or turned back by menacing border patrols.
My grandparents went to school, learned English and later met and married in Freeport, Pennsylvania. A carpenter, my grandfather built a house and also worked in the coal mines near Pittsburgh. My grandmother sometimes worked as a seamstress for a local department store. They raised three sons – my father Bill and his older brother Bob and younger brother, Vic and lived to see their many grandchildren. (more…)
Education, Reflection, Your Recipes
"When a Stranger Sojourns with You in Your Land…"
This is one in a series of posts exploring the wisdom Jewish and Christian scripture and tradition offer as we strive to faithfully respond to immigration issues. This post was written by Shawna Foster, student minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Topeka, Kansas. It first appeared in the congregation's newsletter- Ed.
I recently started to volunteer at VIDA Ministries on Monday nights. VIDA is a outreach ministry sponsored by 12 Presbyterian congregations in the Topeka, Kansas that provides free volunteer-led programs and activities for Spanish-speaking immigrants, including an ESL class along with homework tutoring and nursery for participants' children. I built their new website and included a biblical quote at the bottom. It's Leviticus 19:33, and clearly puts forth a call to care for the immigrants in our midst.
When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
The director of VIDA was totally surprised to learn that this instruction is in the Bible. I was surprised that he was surprised – wasn't the call to care for the stranger who sojourns in your land the whole reason VIDA was a ministry of these churches? (more…)
Introducing … "The Journey Toward Phoenix" on blogtalkradio
I am pleased to be a guest speaker for this exciting new project organized by Rev. Carlton Elliot Smith of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA. Here's a chance to do some "cooking together" on immigration justice issues using talk radio as a medium- ed.
What if we could have a live national conversation among Unitarian Universalists about our Justice General Assembly this June? What if we could learn in real-time about what other congregations across the country were doing to address "Immigration as a Moral Issue"? What if there was an audio forum where UUs could be in dialogue with leaders in our movement about how to prepare for this unique gathering in our 50+ years of history?
It's all happening, starting this Saturday, January 7, 4:00pm-5:00pm EST. Welcome to "The Journey Toward Phoenix", an internet-based talk-radio program originating from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia. Each week, the program will provide a platform to showcase what local congregations are doing regarding the immigration issue in their communities, as well as providing information about resources available from the UUA as we look toward our Justice General Assembly in Phoenix, June 20-24. Leaders in our association will share experiences, plans, and details as they develop, and listeners will be able to call-in live to ask questions of our guests.
Among the topics we expect to cover over the next six months are youth involvement in Justice GA, the DREAM Act, Secure Communities, the emerging detention industrial complex, UU curricula and resources regarding immigration, participating in Justice GA on a budget, our public witness in Phoenix, and working with community partners.
This week's topic is "Immigration as a Moral Issue." The program will feature Marilyn Baker and Sarah Bazzi, co-conveners of the Immigration Working Group at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Virginia, in the first half-hour. In the second half-hour, we welcome Gail Forsyth-Vail, Adult Programs Director at the Unitarian Universalist Association (and editor of this blog!). Listen in to the conversation this and every Saturday from 4 -5 PM Eastern. There's a phone number on blogtalkradio page so you can pose a question of our guests or contribute a comment.
Looking forward to greeting you on the radio as "The Journey Toward Phoenix" becomes reality!
Rev. Carlton Elliott Smith is a Team Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA. Throughout 2010-2011, much of his attention is going toward the congregational/denominational focus on justice for immigrants and their families.
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Attacks On Journalists In Uttar Pradesh State In India
The International Federation of Journalists strongly
condemns two shocking cases of violence and intimidation directed against
journalists and media workers in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in
recent days.
In the first of these
incidents, Mohammad Abdul Waheed Chishti, a reporter for a local Urdu daily was
abused and attacked by supporters of an Islamic cleric at a press conference on
October 14 in the state capital Lucknow. The press conference was called by the
Imam (or head) of the historic Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi to discuss a recent
judicial verdict regarding a site in the town of Ayodhya, the centre of a
dispute between different religious institutions since
Chishti was verbally
abused by the Imam after asking a question on the possibility that some of his
statements may have aggravated the public response to the verdict, before being
assaulted by the Imam's personal assistants and
bodyguards.
In the second incident,
the Kanpur
offices of the HT Media group were raided by a team of local policemen at 11pm
on October 15. Editorial and other
staff members of the media house, which publishes two widely circulated dailies,
the Hindustan Times in English
and Hindustan in Hindi, were
detained and the premises sealed, preventing distribution of the following day's
editions.
The raid was in response
to the newspapers' reporting of a case where a nine-year old girl was allegedly
sexually abused and murdered by the son of her school's manager. The reports
compelled local police to prosecute the suspect after an unexplained delay of
eighteen days.
The Delhi Union of
Journalists, a constituent unit of the IFJ-affiliate, the Indian Journalists'
Union, has called for the state government to
take immediate action in both cases.
"We join our partners in
India in denouncing these two shocking incidents in Uttar Pradesh and call on
the local authorities to do all that is needed to see those responsible for
these acts brought to justice," IFJ
Asia-Pacific Director Jacqueline Park
"Journalists must not
be subjected to unwarranted attacks and harassment when they are exercising
their duties to inform people of what is happening in their
communities."
For further information contact IFJ
Asia-Pacific on +612 9333 0919
The IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in 125
Find the IFJ on Twitter: @ifjasiapacific


Washington, March 26: Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan said Monday he had authorized USD 1 billion to build part of the wall sought by President Donald Trump along the US-Mexico border.
The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 92 kilometers of 5.5-meter fencing, build and improve roads, and install lighting to support Trump's emergency declaration as concerns the border. Donald Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Wall Along US-Mexico Border With Federal Money.


Welcome to the March 2019 Wrapup a look back at the highlights of March, also in this edition - A request for your feedback.
That's a wrap for February!
It'd be super convenient if a total was shown for the various Products/Services, Domains, and other products!
I have a client with a TON of domains. Active, Expired, Transferred, etc... It'd be a real time saver, if those counts could be also be included within the appropriate section. I realize that there's a total count up top, in the Products/Services box, but some of these pages and up becoming *super* long to scroll back and forth in.
Welcome to the October 2018 Community Wrap-up a look back at some of the highlights from the community over the last month. WHMCS.Community is here to help you so please do send your feedback thru!
Welcome to the September 2018 Community Wrap-up a look back at some of the highlights from the community over the last month. WHMCS.Community is here to help you so please do send your feedback thru!
In Mid September we closed off the WHMCS v7.6 Release Board and moved the threads into the main parts of the community, i'd like to thank everyone that contributed to the board during the time we had this board open, your assistance and contributions to this board where fantastic and we will bring this back in all future WHMCS releases.
That's a wrap for September!
Now 7.6.x has been in the wild for well over a month we're shutting the board down and moving the threads to the appropriate thread in the community existing threads can be replied to in this board while we move them to their new home.
Thanks for making the 7.6 release board a success, we will return these boards with future releases as they do prove to be popular with the community.
When running a business we all experience abandoned orders or accounts that are overdue. These can cause the Active Client Count within our installations to be more than the actual number. Therefore, we would recommend using the following configurations within your installation to suspend and terminate any unwanted products, services, addons or domains.
When displaying your payment options during the final stages of the checkout process, the available payment gateway options are shown as text – in a number of different ways based upon the order form template being used. If we wanted to make this more attractive, we could replace the text of any or all of the gateways, with an image or logo, by editing the viewcart.tpl template within the active order form template.
A community member David Duarte has provide a range of templates that will help users develop their Domain Renewal Notices.
Tell us about the new invisible reCaptcha feature in version 7.6!
Tell us your experience of the new WHMCS Namespinning service in v.7.6!
In 7.6 Beta we have added support for 2Checkout Inline checkout style. We want to hear about your experiences with this feature!
One of the key new features in WHMCS 7.6 Beta 1 is Domain Verification Support. During testing we want to hear about your experiences with this feature.
Share your experience of minfraud v2 in the v7.6 beta!
Twitter have made some changes to their API this week which impacts our WHMCS Sign-In Integrations more information on the changes Twitter have made are outlined on their community. In essence, we can no-longer override the Callback URL used by the Twitter App. Instead the Callback URLs settings on the Twitter Developer site now act more like a whitelist. The Callback URL sent by WHMCS must match exactly with the Callback URL specified in the app settings, or the login will fail.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the WHMCS 7.5 public beta. Our public beta program gives you direct access to try our early pre-production releases and help test and contribute to the development process. To get started, read this post.
How are you using our new HipChat & Slack intergrations?
2018 is a time to reflect on our community guidelines and remind everyone about these. In the last few weeks we've had a range of people not abiding by these, we want to take a minute to remind everyone about our guidelines and rules. Please take some time to review the guidelines and remember these as you interact on the community during 2018.
Welcome to the December 2017 Community Wrap-up. A look back on the statistics and top content for December on WHMCS.Community. We'll be posting a look back at 2017 on the community in the coming days. There was a lot that happened in 2017 and we'll begin unveiling some of our 2018 plans soon.


The tracks are a preview of the Canadian singer's fourth studio album, which is set to drop sometime this year. It will be her first since 2015's E•MO•TION.
"Now That I Found You" is Kylie Minogue-esque pop destined for clubs while "No Drug Like Me" slows things down a bit.
On social media, Jepsen is being hailed as the "Queen of Pop" and "mother of bops." One fan gushed: "We are so unworthy."


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Selective licensing: what every landlord should know
In 2006 local authorities were granted the power to introduce the selective licensing of private landlords to tackle the problems in areas of low housing demand, such as antisocial behaviour.
Gas safety checks: what every landlord should know
NHS figures show more than 200 people end up in hospital in the UK every year and 40 of those die due to carbon monoxide poisoning and the consequences for landlords who do not meet their responsibilities for gas safety in their buy-to-let properties can be serious.
Landlord lessons: dealing with Japanese knotweed
In September 2014 The Daily Mail ran a story about a 91 year-old woman whose house lost half its value due to an infestation of Japanese knotweed in her back garden. The article told how Elizabeth Abraham found out her Swansea house, which was forecast to be worth £80,000, would now sell for no more than £45,000 due to the aggressive wild plant. And even though many landlords seek rental yield rather than capital gain from a buy-to-let, the repercussions of Japanese knotweed taking root in a rental property are clearly alarming.
Landlord lessons: dealing with wet rot and dry rot
Damp and mould can have serious consequences for both landlords and their tenants – with potentially dire effects on the latter's health and criminal prosecutions costing the former upwards of £20,000 if a failure to act is in evidence.
Landlord lessons: preparing a property inventory
Up until 6th April 2007 a tenant who felt they had been treated unfairly by their landlord over the amount of deposit they had been returned at the end of a tenancy had to go to court and argue their case with a judge, but this all changed when the tenancy deposit scheme was introduced.
Landlord lessons: avoiding tenancy disputes
Most landlords will tell you that the buy-to-let business can be hard work with many overheads and potentially expensive mistakes involved. The majority will also tell you that the key to a successful and secure business is looking after tenants and keeping them in your property rather than someone else's. And so, Simple Landlords Insurance has put together a guide to help you keep your tenants on side.