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namespace DD.CBU.Compute.Api.Contracts.Network20
{

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    public partial class PortListSummaryType
    {

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string id;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string name;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class createPortList
	{

        /// <remarks/>
        public string networkDomainId;

        /// <remarks/>
        public string name;

        /// <remarks/>
        public string description;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("port")]
        public PortRangeType[] port;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("childPortListId")]
        public string[] childPortListId;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class editPortList
	{

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute(IsNullable = true)]
        public string description;

        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool descriptionSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("port", IsNullable = true)]
        public EditPortListPort[] port;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool portSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("childPortListId", IsNullable = true)]
        public string[] childPortListId;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool childPortListIdSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string id;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    public partial class EditPortListPort
    {

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public ushort begin;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool beginSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public ushort end;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool endSpecified;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute("portList", Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class PortListType
    {

        /// <remarks/>
        public string name;

        /// <remarks/>
        public string description;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("port")]
        public PortRangeType[] port;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("childPortList")]
        public PortListSummaryType[] childPortList;

        /// <remarks/>
        public string state;

        /// <remarks/>
        public System.DateTime createTime;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string id;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class portLists
    {

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("portList")]
        public PortListType[] portList;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public int pageNumber;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool pageNumberSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public int pageCount;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool pageCountSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public int totalCount;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool totalCountSpecified;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public int pageSize;

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
        public bool pageSizeSpecified;
    }

    /// <remarks/>
    [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.6.1055.0")]
    [System.SerializableAttribute()]
    [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
    [System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types")]
    [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute("deletePortList", Namespace = "urn:didata.com:api:cloud:types", IsNullable = false)]
    public partial class DeletePortListType
    {

        /// <remarks/>
        [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAttributeAttribute()]
        public string id;
    }
}


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Use percentage of fuel subsidy funds for health insurance for vulnerable, Okowa tells FG
Home / COVID-19 / News / News Reel / Use percentage of fuel subsidy funds for health insurance for vulnerable, Okowa tells FG
by Editor in COVID-19, News, News Reel
Delta Governor, Senator (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has called on the Federal Government to use 25 percent of funds expended on fuel subsidy to provide health insurance for vulnerable Nigerians.
Okowa made the call on Friday when he received the Minister of State for Health, Dr Olurunnimbe Mamora, who visited him at Government House, Asaba.
He said that the Federal Government spent lots of money in subsidizing fuel for the rich, without consideration for the vulnerable in the society, adding that the country would experience peace if 25 per cent of the subsidy funds was deployed for an insurance scheme for the less-privileged.
He commended the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, the Federal Ministry of Health and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for their efforts in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The governor stated that God had been very merciful to Nigerians and Africans in the face of the pandemic by preventing many deaths as was earlier predicted.
He lauded the management of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, saying they had been of immense help to the government in the handling of COVID-19 patients in the state.
"I am glad that you are in Delta to inaugurate the ECR machine at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba.Although we have lost some lives, God has kept us safe and the anticipation of the world didn't come to pass.
"We are in a very difficult time in our nation Nigeria and the more we pay special attention to the vulnerable people the better the society we will have.
"I thank God that the 7th Senate passed the National Health Bill which became an Act, and I must commend you and the Ministry for making funds available for the running of the basic health care fund provision.
"The basic health care fund provision has come to the aid of local government areas and the primary health care centres.
"If we are able to address health insurance for the vulnerable in our society, it will help us to reduce maternal mortality and the more we are able to reduce those indices the better for us as a nation.
"The money being used to subsidise fuel today, if 25 per cent is spent to provide health insurance for all Nigerians that have not been able to afford health care, it will help us as a nation.
"We must continue to direct our policies in favour of the poor because if the family is well enough it can take care of itself.
"If a reasonable chunk of that money is spent on the education of the poor children, it will help to check insecurity and unemployment to a large extent and we must continue to voice this narrative to change things in this country," he said.
Okowa encouraged Nigerians to make themselves available for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, saying that it was safe.
"Nigerians should not doubt the efficacy of the vaccine because the World Health Organisation and European Medicine Agency have also spoken positively on the vaccine.
"We believe that when a large percentage of the population is vaccinated then we can get back to normal life," he said.
Earlier, the minister had told the governor that he and his delegation were in Delta to inspect facilities at the FMC, Asaba and thanked him for his contributions to the management of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
He said Okowa was a distinguished Senator and medical doctor, who distinguished himself at the Red Chamber, and had continued to distinguish himself as governor.
Mamora commended Okowa for his support to the FMC in Asaba, saying "Mr Governor, so much has been said about the support you have given to us at the FMC.
"You have kept a good relationship and huge support to the Federal Medical Centre in appreciation of the fact that the primary beneficiaries of the services of the hospital are people of Delta State.
"Without any iota of doubt you have shown serious commitment to the welfare of the FMC, Asaba and your kind gesture is highly appreciated and that's why we are here to acknowledge your good deeds and support.
"I am aware that even while at the Senate, you influenced certain things to the FMC and the opportunity of becoming governor of the state has encouraged you to do more for the hospital.
"As Chairman Senate Committee on Health, you were very instrumental to the passage of the National Health Act and that has gone a long way in providing basic health care for our people.
"What you are doing right now in Delta is a follow-up to what you did at the Senate, and on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Health, we thank you for your support."
Tags: Covid-19, Delta State, Dr Olurunnimbe Mamora, Federal Medical Centre, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa
2023: DPV reaffirms commitment to Okowa's leadership
by Editor Jan 15 2022
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Late Ogeh, intelligent professional – Okowa

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text:
<?php

require_once './vendor/autoload.php';
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;

class RunAllFoldersTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * @dataProvider dataProvider
     */
    public function testSecurity($folder, $expectedVulns)
    {
        $context = new \progpilot\Context;
        $analyzer = new \progpilot\Analyzer;

        $context->setAnalyzeHardrules(true);
        $context->setAnalyzeFunctions(false);
        $context->outputs->taintedFlow(true);

        $nbVulns = 0;
        $context->inputs->setDev(true);
        $context->inputs->setFolder($folder);

        try {
            $analyzer->run($context);
        } catch (Exception $e) {
            echo 'Exception : ',  $e->getMessage(), "\n";
        }

        $results = $context->outputs->getResults();

        foreach ($results as $vuln) {
            if (isset($expectedVulns[$nbVulns])) {
                $expectedSourceName = $expectedVulns[$nbVulns][0];
                $expectedSourceLine = $expectedVulns[$nbVulns][1];
                $expectedVulnName = $expectedVulns[$nbVulns][2];

                // taint-style
                if (isset($vuln['source_name']) && isset($vuln['source_line'])) {
                    if (is_array($expectedSourceName) && is_array($expectedSourceLine)) {
                        foreach ($expectedSourceName as $oneSourceName) {
                            $this->assertContains($oneSourceName, $vuln["source_name"]);
                        }

                        foreach ($expectedSourceLine as $oneSourceLine) {
                            $this->assertContains($oneSourceLine, $vuln["source_line"]);
                        }
                    } else {
                        $this->assertContains($expectedSourceName, $vuln["source_name"]);
                        $this->assertContains($expectedSourceLine, $vuln["source_line"]);
                        $this->assertEquals($expectedVulnName, $vuln["vuln_name"]);
                    }
                } // custom
                else {
                    $this->assertEquals($expectedSourceName, $vuln["vuln_line"]);
                    $this->assertEquals($expectedSourceLine, $vuln["vuln_column"]);
                    $this->assertEquals($expectedVulnName, $vuln["vuln_name"]);
                }
            } else {
                $this->assertTrue(false);
            }

            $nbVulns ++;
        }

        $this->assertCount(count($expectedVulns), $results);
    }

    public function dataProvider()
    {
        $tab = include("foldertest.php");

        return $tab;
    }
}

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Former Kentucky Wildcat Karl-Anthony Towns might have to miss a game or two after the NBA All-Star was involved in an auto accident.
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Ryan Saunders told the media this morning the car accident happened as Towns traveled to the airport for the team's road trip to New York. He was excused from this morning's shoot-around and is considered "questionable" for tonight's game against the Knicks.
There were no further details about Towns' accident, but luckily, it does not sound severe. Best wishes from the BBN to a speedy recovery for the Big KAT.
Contractually, why he allowed to drive? He needs a driver, at minimum, to and from the Airport.


1 Shops at Carriage Crossing Collierville TN Hours of Operation.
2 Shops at Carriage Crossing Collierville TN Holiday Hours ~ Open or Closed?
Shops at Carriage Crossing Collierville TN Hours of Operation.
Shops at Carriage Crossing Collierville TN Holiday Hours ~ Open or Closed?
The majority of Carriage Crossing stores are closed on Christmas Day, Easter Sunday and Thanksgiving Day. Stores close early on Christmas Eve and on New Year's Eve.
The Shops at Carriage Crossing operates EXTENDED opening hours on Black Friday and REDUCED hours on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. The mall has EXTENDED hours in the holiday period between the Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas Eve. We recommend that you call ahead to your preferred Carriage Crossing stores to confirm their holiday opening hours.
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Daroji is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Sandur taluk of Bellary district in Karnataka.

Daroji is a village which has many tourist destinations, such as Beautiful Lake, Shree Veerabhadreshwara SwamyTemple on the hill, Jumbugan Park and Inspection Bungalow.
Its main tourist attraction is Daroji bear sanctuary.

Some kannada movies were shot in Daroji, including Male banthu Male and Manasa Sarovara.

Demographic
 India census, Daroji had a population of 8861 with 4450 males and 4411 females.

See also
 Bellary
 Districts of Karnataka

References

External links
 http://Bellary.nic.in/

Villages in Bellary district

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Manassas, VA – The NRB 2011 General Session on Saturday, February 26th in Nashville, TN, will feature a performance by world-renowned female vocalist Nicole C. Mullen.
Nicole C. Mullen is a wife, mother, award-winning singer, songwriter, and choreographer. She grew up in Cincinnati, OH, and is no stranger to heartache and pain. As a young girl, Mullen looked to Queen Esther, an orphan, and King David, a shepherd boy, for encouragement. "The not so good old days can make you weak or make you brave," says Mullen. She has chosen the latter, "to be made brave".
Mullen has traveled with the Billy Graham Crusades, Franklin Graham, Will Graham, Luis Palau, and Women of Faith, to name a few. She has shared the stage with Ambassadors, Heads of State, dignitaries, and the President of the United States. Mullen has sung in the Royal Albert Hall, Carnegie Hall, mega-churches and small storefronts. Her travels have led her throughout the United States as well as overseas to countries like Uganda, Australia, Rwanda, Sweden, England, Kenya, and South Africa. Mullen has also won multiple Dove Awards, including Song of the Year ("Redeemer" and "On My Knees"), Female Vocalist of the Year, Contemporary Song of the Year ("Call on Jesus"), and she is the first African American to win Songwriter of the Year, in addition to being nominated for two Grammy Awards.
Recognizing the importance of mentoring young people, Mullen has started two mentorship programs. Baby Girls Club mentors girls (ages 5-18) and teaches them the love of Christ through the arts, and Team NCM trains young guys and girls (ages 9-17) who are gifted in the arts, and provides them with outlets to showcase their talents while growing as disciples of Jesus Christ. Mullen has also penned two children's books, Black, White, and Tan, and Baby Love. She is currently working on a book about her life's story.


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Metock-sagen, der blev afgjort ved EF-Domstolen den 25. juli 2008, handlede om fire EU-borgere, der ikke havde irsk statsborgerskab, men arbejdede midlertidigt i Irland, og derfor viste sig at have ret til familiesammenføring med deres fire afrikanske ægtefæller Metock, Ikogho, Chinedu og Igboanusi, ifølge EU's opholdsdirektiv. De irske udlændingemyndigheder afslog i første omgang deres ansøgninger med henvisning til, at ægtefællerne ikke tidligere havde haft lovligt ophold i EU, men da de fire par anlagde sag mod myndighederne ved EF-Domstolen, fik de samlet medhold i Metock-dommen. Dommen præciserer, hvordan dele af opholdsdirektivet skal fortolkes.

Selvom Metock-sagen var anlagt mod de irske myndigheder, berører dommen også 10 andre EU-lande direkte, herunder Danmark. Efter dommen har EU-landene ikke længere lov til at kræve, at personer fra tredjelande, dvs. som kommer fra lande udenfor EU, skal have haft lovligt ophold i EU for at få lov til at blive sammenført med EU-borgere, som benytter sig af EU-reglerne til at opnå familiesammenføring. Dette opholdskrav blev tidligere anvendt af 11 EU-lande: Cypern, Danmark, Finland, Grækenland, Irland, Malta, Nederlandene, Storbritannien, Tjekkiet, Tyskland og Østrig.  Af samme grund kom disse lande med indsigelser mod Metock-dommen, før den officielt blev offentliggjort,  mens der har været stor forskel på deres senere reaktioner.

Samtidig har dommen en række særlige konsekvenser for den danske Udlændingeservice, og har især været omdiskuteret i Danmark.

EU-reglerne før og efter Metock-dommen

EU's opholdsdirektiv beskriver EU-borgernes rettigheder til at indrejse og bosætte sig i andre EU-lande end deres eget.  Denne ret gælder både for EU-borgerne selv og for deres nærmeste familiemedlemmer, hvis disse familiemedlemmer enten ledsager eller slutter sig til EU-borgeren i det pågældende land. Hvad angår familiemedlemmer gælder retten til indrejse og ophold, uanset om familiemedlemmet selv er EU-borger eller er borger i et tredjeland. EU-reglerne på dette område gælder for alle statsborgere fra de 27 EU-lande samt Schweiz og de tre EØS-lande Norge, Island og Liechtenstein.

Opholdsdirektivet beskriver kun EU-borgernes og deres familiemedlemmers rettigheder, så længe de opholder sig i andre EU-lande end deres eget. EU-domstolen har imidlertid i flere kendelser fastslået, at det ville begrænse den fri bevægelighed, hvis en EU-borger ikke kunne være sikker på at have mulighed for også at tage sin familie med sig tilbage til sit eget land. Den seneste af disse er Eind-dommen fra december 2007

EU-domstolens praksis siger ikke noget præcist om, hvor lang tid en EU-borger skal have opholdt sig i et andet EU-land for at få ret til at tage sin familie med sig tilbage til sit eget land. Ved en tidligere dom – Franca Ninni-Orasche-dommen i 2003 – erklærede EF-Domstolen, at 10 ugers ophold, i det konkrete tilfælde, var tilstrækkeligt til, at EU-borgeren havde udnyttet sin ret til fri bevægelighed som arbejdstager.  Dette er ikke ændret med Metock-dommen. Det er muligt, at senere domme ved EF-Domstolen vil sænke dette krav.

En EU-borger har ret til at tage sin familie med sig tilbage til sit eget land, også selvom han/hun kun har opholdt sig fast i et andet EU-land for at opnå denne ret. Det blev fastslået med EF-Domstolens Akrich-dom i 2003.  Med samme dom sagde EF-Domstolen god for, at EU-landene havde lov til at kræve, at familiemedlemmer fra tredjelande i forvejen skulle have haft lovligt ophold i EU for at kunne få familiesammenføring med EU-borgere, men med Metock-dommen har EF-Domstolen omgjort sin tidligere beslutning.

Metock-dommens betydning for Danmark
EU-reglerne gør det muligt for danske statsborgere at få familiesammenføring med personer fra tredjelande udenom den danske udlændingelovgivnings langt mere omfattende krav. Det kræver blot, at de bosætter sig i et andet EU-land i en periode og lever op til Opholdsdirektivets bestemmelser om enten at være arbejdstager, selvstændig erhvervsdrivende, tjenesteyder, pensioneret arbejdstager, pensioneret selvstændig erhvervsdrivende, pensioneret tjenesteyder, udstationeret, studerende eller
selvforsørgende. Personer, der bor i Danmark uden at have statsborgerskab i noget EU-land, skal dog stadig leve op til den danske udlændingelovgivnings krav for at få familiesammenføring, og kan ikke benytte sig af EU-reglerne.

Metock-dommens vigtigste konsekvens i Danmark er, at den indirekte har underkendt en praksis, som blev indført i 2004 af Integrationsministeriet og den daværende Udlændingestyrelse.

En dansk statsborger, der ønskede familiesammenføring efter EU-reglerne, skulle ifølge denne 2004-praksis have arbejde i Danmark, når han/hun kom tilbage fra det andet EU-land, og måtte ikke være pensionist, studerende eller selvforsørgende under udlandsopholdet. Dette forhindrede blandt andet de mange danskere, som er bosat i Sydsverige og arbejder i Danmark som grænsependlere, i at anvende EU-reglerne til familiesammenføring i Danmark, fordi en grænsependler i EU-retten anses for at høre under kategorien selvforsørgende. Et notat fra Integrationsministeriet vurderede, at denne praksis næppe kunne holde til at blive prøvet ved EF-Domstolen. Den blev dog indført alligevel, med den begrundelse at der endnu ikke var afsagt nogen domme, der underkendte den omtalte praksis.

Da Metock-dommen blev afsagt fire år senere, udarbejdede Integrationsministeriet et juridisk vurderingsnotat, der fastslog, at den danske 2004-praksis nu var underkendt, og derfor ikke kunne fortsætte.  Dog havde danske pensionister allerede inden da fået ret til familiesammenføring, da EF-Domstolen havde præciseret dette i Eind-dommen i december 2007.

Ændringen gjorde det lettere for danske statsborgere at få familiesammenføring i Danmark efter EU-reglerne og førte derfor til, at antallet af sådanne familiesammenføringer steg fra 105 i 2007 til 467 i 2009 og 286 i 2010

En anden konsekvens af Metock-dommen er som sagt, at den har underkendt EU-landenes mulighed for at stille krav om et familiemedlems forudgående lovlige ophold i EU. Selvom dette formelt set også kan gøre det lettere for en dansker at få familiesammenføring, er det tvivlsomt, om det har haft nogen mærkbar betydning for antallet af familiesammenføringer til danske statsborgere. Årsagen er, at de danske statsborgere, det drejer sig om, også før Metock-dommen havde let adgang til at bo sammen med deres udenlandske ægtefæller i Sverige, også selvom det måtte dreje sig om personer, der ikke i forvejen har haft ophold i EU. I disse tilfælde har et dansk opholdskrav ingen betydning for parrenes mulighed for at bruge EU-reglerne til at slå sig ned i Danmark.

Bortfaldet af opholdskravet har dog haft den betydning, at det er blevet muligt for borgere fra de andre EU-lande at få familiesammenføring med ægtefæller fra tredjelande efter EU-reglerne, selvom parret ikke tidligere har boet sammen i et andet EU-land end Danmark. Før Metock-dommen var f.eks. en svensker, som bor fast i Danmark, nødt til at søge om familiesammenføring efter de langt skrappere danske regler, hvis han efter sin flytning til Danmark giftede sig med en tredjelandsborger.

Som følge af Danmarks retsforbehold deltager Danmark ikke i EU's fælles asyl- og indvandringspolitik. Derfor har Metock-dommen teknisk set ingen betydning for Danmarks udlændingelovgivning. Til gengæld har retsforbeholdet ingen betydning for danske statsborgeres ret til at få familiesammenføring efter EU-reglerne, da de stammer fra en ældre del af EU-retten, som Danmark har tilsluttet sig gennem sin deltagelse i det indre marked. Dette er årsagen til, at Metock-dommen indirekte har fået betydning for den måde, Udlændingestyrelsen (efter marts 2006 Udlændingeservice) i Danmark har tolket EU-reglerne på.

Den danske regerings reaktion på Metock-dommen
Integrationsminister Birthe Rønn Hornbech fik den 3. august 2008 bragt en kronik i Berlingske Tidende, hvor hun i generelle vendinger kritiserede EF-Domstolens mulighed for at udbygge EU-retten gennem sine domme.
Dette blev i store dele af de danske medier tolket som opbakning til et ikke nærmere præciseret "opgør" med EU-reglerne eller ligefrem et "oprør" mod EU, hvor den danske regering nægtede at rette sig efter Metock-dommen. Den 6. august understregede statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen dog, at Danmark ville rette sig efter EU-reglerne, og nedtonede sagens betydning for antallet af danske familiesammenføringer.
Venstres udenrigspolitiske ordfører, Søren Pind, har direkte anbefalet, at Danmark ikke skal følge Metock-dommen, men taler ikke på regeringens vegne i denne sag.

På EU-plan har regeringen valgt at håndtere sagen ved at arbejde for en ændring af opholdsdirektivet, så det atter bliver muligt for EU-landene at stille opholdskrav. Hovedargumentet er, at opholdskravet er et vigtigt redskab i EU-landenes kamp mod illegal indvandring.
En ændring af opholdsdirektivet skal i givet fald foreslås af Europa-Kommissionen og derpå støttes af et flertal i både EU's Ministerråd og Europa-Parlamentet.

Kommissionen mener dog ikke, at der er behov for en ændring. Dens modargument er, at risikoen for, at uønskede personer fra tredjelande kommer til EU ved at misbruge EU-reglerne, i forvejen er begrænset af, at det i hvert enkelt tilfælde kræver, at en EU-borger ønsker at gifte sig med vedkommende. Proformaægteskaber er i forvejen ulovlige ifølge opholdsdirektivet, og det underkendte opholdskrav betyder ikke, at illegal indvandring er lovliggjort, men at myndighederne i de enkelte EU-lande skal vurdere hver enkelt ansøgning særskilt.  Europa-Kommissionens formand, José Manuel Barroso, har dog samtidig udtalt: "Med hensyn til fremtiden er der ikke noget, der er udelukket på forhånd. Hvis der er bevis for væsentlige problemer, så vil vi handle og foreslå løsninger".

Den danske regering har modtaget en svingende grad af opbakning til sit forslag om en direktivændring fra adskillige af de lande, der tidligere havde opholdskrav, især Irland, Storbritannien og Østrig. Foreløbigt har regeringen dog kun modtaget direkte støtte fra Irland og Østrig, der har krævet en direktivændring på et møde i Ministerrådet den 22. september 2008, mens Sverige, Luxembourg og Finland er direkte imod.

Integrationsminister Birthe Rønn Hornbech har erklæret, at målet for den danske regering er at få skubbet "retstilstanden" tilbage til tiden før Metock-dommen.
Foreløbigt er det dog usandsynligt, at opholdsdirektivet vil blive ændret i en overskuelig fremtid. Og selv hvis EU-landene igen får lov til at stille opholdskrav, vil dette stadig ikke give Danmark mulighed for at genindføre sin 2004-praksis og udelukke studerende, pensionister og selvforsørgende fra at få familiesammenføring efter EU-reglerne.

Metock-dommens betydning for forholdet mellem den daværende VK-regering og Dansk Folkeparti
Metock-dommen gav anledning til en række spændinger mellem VK-regeringen og dens støtteparti Dansk Folkeparti. De to regeringspartier gik ganske vist ind for, at antallet af familiesammenføringer i Danmark skulle være begrænset, men ønskede samtidig at overholde EU-reglerne. Dansk Folkeparti var modstander af disse regler, og på partiets landsmøde i september 2008 gik flere af dets folketingsmedlemmer ind for, at Danmark skulle meldes ud af EU. Dansk Folkepartis ledelse havde dog lagt hovedvægten på at fortsætte sit samarbejde med regeringen, da det var helt urealistisk at få Venstre eller Det Konservative Folkeparti til at "gøre oprør" mod EU eller arbejde for en dansk udmeldelse.

Den 22. september 2008 indgik regeringen en udlændingepolitisk aftale med Dansk Folkeparti som følge af Metock-debatten. Store dele af aftalen handlede dog hverken om udlændingepolitik eller Metock-dommen, men opstillede i stedet en række nye betingelser for bl.a. at kunne modtage kontanthjælp eller få dansk statsborgerskab. Desuden præciseredes en række krav til danskere, der søgete om familiesammenføring efter EU-reglerne, men de gjorde det ikke vanskeligere at opnå dette, medmindre der var tale om proformaægteskaber. Med aftalen havde Dansk Folkeparti anerkendt, at regeringen ikke ønsker noget "opgør" med EU eller EU-reglerne, selvom partiet selv fortsat var modstander af dem.

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Q: Ubuntu using script to add JAVA_HOME path to bashrc not working I am trying to write a script which will add the JAVA_HOME path to bashrc. But I keep getting the wrong output.
Using the script below:
echo "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

I get the output below in bashrc
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle
export PATH=/home/ubuntu/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr$

The desired output is export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin for the path.
This script is not just intended for adding java path, I wan't to add path for hadoop, spark and hbase. I get same output for each of those. Any help would be appreciated.

A: What is happening is that $PATH and $JAVA_HOME are being expanded before the line is added to .bashrc.
They need to be escaped; e.g.
echo "export PATH=\$PATH:\$JAVA_HOME/bin" >> ~/.bashrc

or
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

However, you want to be really careful with this kind of "brute-force" editing of shell "rc" files.  It can be dangerous.
A better idea would be to either do the changes by hand, or put the settings into the respective wrapper scripts that launch your Java-based applications

A: echo is just outputting the command text, get rid of the echo, and actually execute the command.

A: The issue is that you are using double quotes. These evaluate the variables (in this case $JAVA_HOME, which isn't set yet). If you use single quotes instead, it will output the literal instead of the evaluated.
e.g.

echo 'export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
See Difference between single and double quotes in Bash for more information.

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Sheila Austin
Finding Her Road to Ministry
By Jasmine Gomez | Photography by Mary Grace Johnson
On Syracuse's South Side stands an outreach center where those in need can find a hot meal, toiletries or a pair of boots during the winter. It's more than simply a soup kitchen. The St. Marianne Cope Center for Outreach opened in May 2017 on South Salina Street after being housed at St. James Church for several years. It not only houses a commercial kitchen and dining space, but also a washer, dryer and shower for those who need it.
For those looking for somebody to just talk to, they'll also find a friendly face: Sheila Austin, the director of the Road to Emmaus Ministry of Syracuse. Like everyone who helps with outreach there, Sheila's position is volunteer-based, but that doesn't limit the number of hours she spends at the center helping some of the South Side's most vulnerable residents, even if it's the last thing she ever saw herself doing.
"I was fearful of the South Side, of people who were different, and I tended to avoid all those situations," Sheila said, "but this ministry forced me into that environment and, as a result of it, what I was most fearful of, it changed."
Sheila's involvement with the Road to Emmaus Ministry started about nine years ago, when she was a parishioner at St. James. She was starting to reconnect with her faith and Father John Manno was newly assigned to the church. He had a vision of engaging the parish in active outreach, Sheila said, which meant meeting those in need where they were.
Before Father Manno's arrival, the church's outreach involved making sandwiches for a men's shelter, a place the volunteers never actually visited. Sheila didn't even know where the shelter was located, she said. Father Manno suggested she start there.
"He presented this challenge to us as people of faith and I remember saying, 'No,'" Sheila said. "I was in a cold sweat. I was scared to death, but I also knew that I was being stirred inside, too."
After initially resisting, Sheila decided to take on the challenge. She researched the location of the men's shelter, only to find it was in the area of town she typically avoided — the South Side.
For about a month, she would drive her car closer and closer to the shelter and never actually make it there, until one day, with pans of baked ziti and other volunteers, she finally did.
For Sheila, that first experience was illuminating, she said. She remembered a man thanking her for the food, and asking her if the place was too distasteful for her to want to come back. She immediately responded she would return.
"There was something very special about the spirit that was in there that helped me and our volunteers to recognize that this was a ministry," Sheila said. "Not just making some food and bringing it to somebody, [but] that it had more of a spiritual component to it, and that's where we started to grow from."
Now, years later, those fears Sheila first had are gone. She spends many hours at the center, sometimes alone, welcoming homeless men and women who need to shower, eat or wash clothes. Her faith and the selflessness of the volunteers who serve with her keep her going, she said.
"I don't have the fear that I had growing up as a younger person," she said. "I think it's because I've allowed myself to be familiar with people in general, and not just people that I'm comfortable [with]."
Sheila's formed relationships with the many faces that frequent the center. The center is open for service at least four times a week, whether it's for breakfast on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, or laundry and showers on Wednesdays.
People who come in are like children to her, Sheila said. Before dedicating most of her time to the ministry, Sheila was a nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital, working in the intensive care unit and operating room. There, she met a her future husband, a doctor. The two never had children, but now she said she has more than 100 kids.
"I feel that maternal and nurturing sort of thing and, honestly, I think they look at me that way, as well," she said. "I feel comforted by them. My heart is just full of love and compassion for all of them as if they were my own."
In the process of helping those who are most vulnerable, Sheila aims to be an example for those who have the same fears she once had. To an extent, she feels the responsibility to help people open themselves up to "people who have addictions, people who have psychiatric issues, the homeless people [and] people who just look different," she said.
"If I could do it, anybody can," Sheila said. "It's just a matter of leading them by the hand and giving them opportunities to come here, witness, volunteer and help break the ice for that experience for them, because it can be life-changing." SWM
For more information on Road to Emmaus Ministry of Syracuse, visit emmausministry.org.
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In response to IBJ's April 26 editorial, "Simon could score for city library," I thought it important for your readers to know members of the Simon family have a long history of supporting Indianapolis' public library system and continue to be regular donors. In fact, based on their financial support, the American Library Association awarded the Simon family the prestigious Major Benefactors Honor Award a few years ago, a recognition reserved for our nation's top library philanthropists.
Last year, The Herbert Simon Family Foundation made a major gift to the Library Foundation to support early literacy outreach, a primary component of the library's strategic plan. Over the next five years, this funding will help the library expand numerous initiatives to prepare children under the age of 5 for a successful start in school and reading.
In 2003, Mel Simon and members of his family made a leadership contribution to the Library Foundation's capital campaign for the renovation and expansion of Central Library, a vital resource that serves thousands of visitors daily.
In addition to these major gifts, family members make annual contributions to the Summer Reading Program. With more than 55,000 annual participants, our Summer Reading Program is among the largest in the country and would not be possible without the Simons and our other generous donors.
Indianapolis is a recognized center of learning, culture, commerce, recreation and entertainment. To maintain and build upon its world-class status, our community needs to leverage robust philanthropic and public resources to support diverse services and amenities that enhance our residents' quality of life. This includes the financial support of the library by families like the Simons and our other donors for whom we will always be immensely grateful.


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Conservative group demands removal of statue of Ancient Greek philosopher in Turkey's Sinop
August 23 2017 12:25:00
A local religious conservative foundation staged a protest in the Black Sea province of Sinop on Aug. 22, demanding the removal of a statue of Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes.
The Erbakan Foundation said it was protesting the fact that the Greek ideology being attached to the province rather than arts.
"We are not against arts and sculptures. We are against the fact that they are attaching Greek ideology to Sinop under the cover of the statue. We want the Diogenes statue to be taken from the entrance of Sinop and moved to Balatlar [a local Byzantine church]. We will put in effort for this. We will struggle to the end, whether a petition or a permanent press statement here is required," said İsmail Teziç, the foundation's Sinop provincial representative.
Born in Sinope, modern-day Sinop, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC, Diogenes is known as one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was also noted for having publicly mocked Alexander the Great.
After being captured by pirates and sold into slavery, Diogenes eventually settled in Corinth, Greece, where he died in 323 BC.
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Barbara Mullan, a fellow of the Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia, teaches and lectures about textiles throughout Australia and overseas. Barbara is the face of Indian textiles in Adelaide and the wider Australia. She is a sought after textile-tour leader with a strong bond with the artisans from the desert regions of Gujarat, India's westernmost state.
On her second trip to India a year later, Barbara set out to visit the desert regions of Gujarat. "I love deserts and tribal textiles and Gujarat certainly ticked both boxes. I kept in email contact with Salim since my first trip and made a point of meeting up with him and his father again." From them, Barbara learned about the different Kutchi regions and tribal areas they regularly visit to buy their textiles.
Four years after this visit to Gujarat, Barbara was approached by Kate Harper from World Expeditions, a Sydney-based travel company, to take a group of "textile people" from Australia to Gujarat. "I immediately contacted Salim and his father, suggesting that Salim be our tour guide through Bhuj and the Kutchi area up to the Great Rann of Kutch." Salim, now qualified as a tour guide but as yet unemployed, grabbed the opportunity with both hands.
When the Khamir Craft Centre was established not far from Bhuj, Mr Wazir, one of the exhibitors, invited Barbara and her group to attend the opening as his guests. Afterwards, they joined Mr Wazir and his family, including Salim, who by this time had a wife and children, to share a celebratory meal and festivities.
Ansie van der Walt is a freelance textile writer based in Adelaide, South Australia, where she settled with her family after living in Africa and the Middle East for many years. She writes regular columns and feature articles for Inspirations Magazine, the Adelaide Review, and other local and international publications. She has a special interest in ethnic and traditional textiles and craft. When she is not writing, she loves to travel, photograph architectural details, and crochet. Websites: www.ansievanderwalt.com, and www.thefabricthread.com.
Toured Gujarat with Barbara and Salim in 2011. Most wonderful an memorable experience.
Thank you for this wonderful article on our dear Barbara. I have learned even more from this.


Sections 1 to 14 of the bill require podiatrists, physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, and optometrists, starting July 1, 2021, and dentists and practitioners serving rural communities or in a solo practice, starting July 1, 2023, to prescribe schedule II, III, or IV controlled substances only via a prescription that is electronically transmitted to a pharmacy unless a specified exception applies. Prescribers are required to indicate on license renewal questionnaires whether they have complied with the electronic prescribing requirement.
Section 15 specifies that pharmacists need not verify the applicability of an exception to electronic prescribing when they receive an order for a controlled substance in writing, orally, or via facsimile transmission and may fill the order if otherwise valid under the law.
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SACRAMENTO / FBI doubted al Qaeda sighting in Lodi, agent testifies / Defense questions her in attempt to discredit informant
By Demian Bulwa
Published 4:00 am PST, Thursday, March 30, 2006
2006-03-30 04:00:00 PDT Sacramento -- Attorneys for a Lodi father and son facing terrorism-related charges opened their defense Wednesday by attacking the credibility of the FBI informant who first put the two men on the agency's radar.
The attorneys established that Naseem Khan, 32, whom the FBI hired as an informant in late 2001 after he told agents he had spotted Osama bin Laden's chief deputy in Lodi two years earlier, had remained on the payroll even after the agency discounted the information.
FBI agent Rachel Pifer, Khan's onetime handler, testified that the likelihood that bin Laden aide Ayman al-Zawahiri had been in the Central Valley city in the late 1990s was slim. She said she had investigated Khan's report using agency databases and other sources of information before concluding he was probably wrong.
But Pifer added that she didn't think Khan had been lying. "I believe that's what he thought he saw," she said.
Khan is the key witness in U.S. District Court against Hamid Hayat, 23, who is accused of supporting terrorism by attending a Pakistani training camp in late 2003 and is also charged with initially lying about it. His father, 48-year-old Umer Hayat, is charged with lying about his son's alleged camp attendance.
Wednesday's testimony punctuated a trial subplot that began to unfold March 13, when prosecutor Laura Ferris prompted Khan to bring up his tip about al-Zawahiri. She explained then that she wanted to make sure jurors understood there was nothing untoward about how Khan had come to work for the FBI.
Defense attorneys initially objected to the line of questioning, not realizing that Khan was going to mention al-Zawahiri and thereby give them an opportunity to attack Khan's credibility.
Khan testified that FBI agents had first visited him at his apartment in Bend, Ore., on Oct. 17, 2001, during an unrelated investigation. He testified that he had told agents he recognized a person pictured on television with bin Laden as a man he had seen in Lodi when he lived there in the late 1990s.
An agent then pulled up the FBI's Web site, and Khan identified the man as al-Zawahiri, he testified. He later said he had seen two other men on the FBI's list of most wanted international terrorists in and around Lodi -- reports that terrorism experts have said are improbable.
Khan suggested in his testimony that the FBI's Sacramento office had hired him as an informant on the strength of his al-Zawahiri tip.
Pifer, however, said the tip was a "point of interest" for the FBI but not a "significant event," because such tips often do not pan out. She said agents had never gone to Lodi's mosque to ask members whether they had seen any of the wanted terrorists in the city.
"They continued to use an informant that they didn't believe," defense attorney Wazhma Mojaddidi said outside court after Wednesday's session. "That's a problem."
Testimony at the trial has also suggested that Khan was an asset to the FBI because he was enthusiastic, because he was familiar with Lodi, and because he was a native of Pakistan -- like Umer Hayat -- who spoke Pashto and Urdu.
Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday, and defense attorneys expect to call witnesses for about the next two weeks.
The men's trials in front of separate juries have been focused in part on statements that Hamid Hayat made to Khan, who pretended to be a holy warrior as he befriended him.
The prosecution's case primarily relied on videotaped confessions that the father and son gave to FBI agents in June after the younger man returned from a two-year visit to Pakistan. Defense attorneys say he never went to a terrorist training camp but, when pressed by FBI agents, said he had done so in a misguided attempt to be helpful.


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Pasta with Zucchini and Pesto
This zucchini pesto pasta recipe comes to us from the authors of several fascinating books on food philosophy, John Thorne and Matt Lewis Thorne. You can subscribe to their bimonthly food newsletter called Simple Cooking. Find them online at www.OutlawCook.com. They write:
'In the past several months, there has been an exponential leap in the quality of zucchini at our local supermarket. Usually, in every season but summer, the typical specimen is flabby, thick, coarse-skinned, dull, and bruised. But these fellows—firm, slim, smooth, and as appealingly bright shade of green—have been impossible to pass by. For me, at least, this represents a change of heart.
One of the first essays I ever wrote for this food letter was prefaced by a quotation from the Maine writer John Gould: 'The first time I saw a zucchini, I killed it with a hoe.' This perfectly expressed my own feelings about that vegetable, which I then considered a mushy, weedy-flavored cousin of the firmer-textured and better-tasting summer squash. At that point, Simple Cooking only had only about fifty subscribers, but one of them sent me a recipe, which, she said, would forever cure me of my disdain for zucchini. And when I finally got myself to try it, that's just what happened.
The recipe called for a procedure I had already used when preparing eggplant—cutting up the vegetable, tossing it in coarse salt, letting it sit until most of the moisture had come out, and then wringing it dry within a dish towel. When applied to zucchini, however, the outcome is noticeably more dramatic, giving it a denser, almost chewy texture and intensifying its flavor into, well, flavor. (I should note that virtually all the salt is squeezed out with the excess moisture.)
In the original recipe, the zucchini is sauteed in garlicky olive oil and served with shredded basil leaves and grated Parmesan as a summer vegetable dish. But it also works well as a featured ingredient in a few of our favorite pasta dishes. The first of these is prepared with a locally made pesto, which makes for a quick and easy meal.
We sometimes combine the pesto with french-cut green beans, which is very good, but when the born-again zucchini is used instead, the result is phenomenal. The other dish is made with Italian sausage—preferably freshly made and with not so much fennel as to obscure the sweet and delicate taste of the meat.'
Submitted by: John Thorne from Northhampton, MA
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2 medium zucchini
1/4 teaspoon powdered red chile
1/2 pound regular, or thin, spaghetti
1/2 cup homemade, or good-quality, prepared pesto
to taste, grated Parmesan cheese and freshly ground black pepper
Cut the zucchini in half (through the middle, not stem to stern). Slice each half into slivers about the size of a kitchen match. Toss these in a bowl with the tablespoon of salt and let this sit for thirty minutes, turning it over occasionally. Meanwhile, get a big pot of salted water heating.
When the pasta water is about to boil, place the olive oil, the minced garlic and the pinch of salt and powdered red chile into a skillet. Put this over medium heat, and cook until the garlic turns translucent.
Drain the liquid from the zucchini, spread an old but clean dish towel in the kitchen sink, and turn out the zucchini onto it. Wrap them up in the cloth and twist this as tightly as you can, extracting every possible bit of moisture.
Put the pasta into the boiling water.
Add the wrung-out zucchini to the contents in the skillet and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently but gently, until the pasta is almost ready. Scoop out 1/4 cup of the pasta cooking water and add this to the zucchini. Then stir in the pesto. Remove the skillet from the heat.
Drain the pasta and divide between two plates, doling the sauce out on top. Serve with freshly grated Parmesan and lots of freshly milled black pepper.


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Richard F. Duncan Sherman S. Welpton, Jr. Professor of Law and Warren R. Wise Professor of Law
Professor Duncan joined the faculty in 1979. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) in 1973. In 1976, he received his J.D. degree from the Cornell Law School, where he served on the Board of Editors of the Cornell Law Review. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1977. From 1976-79, he was associated with White & Case, a New York City law firm. Professor Duncan teaches Property, Constitutional Law, and First Amendment. He is a passionate and enthusiastic classroom teacher, whose style is not so much Socratic Dialogue as Socratic Performance Art. He spends most of his passion and energy teaching, writing, and speaking about social justice issues such as the right-to-life, religious liberty, freedom of speech, the pursuit of happiness, and other inalienable rights and liberties. He has spoken and debated at nearly 100 law schools on numerous issues concerning social justice and constitutional law. He loves teaching at Nebraska Law, especially in Room 113 which he claims to own by adverse possession. His favorite legal idea is "first come rights, then comes government to secure those rights."
Here is a link to Professor Duncan's video CLE for the 2020 Nebraska Bar Annual Meeting on The Masks of the Law from Slavery to Abortion: https://use.vg/jQuD5e and here is a link to his CLE on Compelled Speech from "salute the flag" to "bake the cake": https://use.vg/rqmKFE
Professor Duncan lived for many years on a country road in rural Nebraska. He currently resides in South Lincoln. He and his wife, Kelly, have five children (Casey, Joshua, Rebecca Joy, Hannah Grace, and Kathleen Noel) and three grandchildren. His activities outside law include following professional baseball and hockey, weightlifting (especially going heavy on the incline bench press), and attending theatrical productions on Broadway. He has seen Hamilton: An American Musical 11 times (including twice on Broadway with the original cast). He is a member of the Federalist Society and, much more importantly, of Country Bible Church in Bennet, Nebraska.
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Colleen E. Medill Robert & Joanne Berkshire Family Professor of Law & Director of Undergraduate Academic Programs
Professor Colleen Medill is nationally recognized as a scholar of Employee Benefits Law and as a teacher of Property and Legal Skills Development. Professor Medill is the sole author of Introduction to Employee Benefits Law: Policy and Practice (West Academic 6th ed. forthcoming 2023), Experiencing Property (West Academic forthcoming 2023), Developing Professional Skills: Property (hardcopy by: West Academic 2011; interactive digital-only version forthcoming 2023), and Acing Property (West Academic 3rd ed. 2021). She is a co-author of Contemporary Property (West 5th ed. 2019).
Professor Medill is nationally recognized for her scholarship on federal employee benefits law and related public policy. Her scholarly articles have been published in such journals as the Cornell Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Emory Law Journal, the North Carolina Law Review, and the Michigan Journal of Law Reform. Her textbook, Introduction to Employee Benefits Law: Policy and Practice, is the most widely adopted textbook in the field. She regularly speaks at national conferences on the responsibilities of employers and the rights of employees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), and has testified as an invited expert witness at the Department of Labor on trends in fiduciary plan administration and the outsourcing of ERISA fiduciary duties.
In the fields of Property and Legal Skills Development, Professor Medill has been at the forefront of the movement in legal education to integrate the teaching of doctrinal theory, legal skills, and the ethical responsibilities of lawyers. Her book, Developing Professional Skills: Property, focuses on teaching legal drafting, advocacy, negotiation, and client counseling to first year Property students through exercises that also introduce students to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The approach to professional skills training pioneered in Developing Professional Skills: Property formed the basis for West Academic Publishing's Developing Professional Skills series. The series is now being converted to an interactive digital-only format for students to practice and self-assess their professional legal skills and substantive knowledge. Professor Medill regularly speaks at national conferences and workshops for law professors regarding how to introduce skills training into traditional doctrinal courses and assess student performance.
Professor Medill graduated first in her law school class from the University of Kansas School of Law. Following graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Deanell Reece Tacha on the United States Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. After her clerkship, Professor Medill practiced law in Kansas City, Missouri for seven years. Her private legal practice focused on federal employee benefits law and federal and state laws regulating banks and bank holding companies. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Nebraska, she was a faculty member at The University of Tennessee College of Law from 1997-2004. While at Tennessee she won multiple awards for both teaching and scholarship. At Nebraska she is has been selected four times as the Professor of the Year by the law students, honored by the College of Law with the Alumni Council Distinguished Faculty Award and the Bunger Memorial Award for Excellence in teaching and research, and recognized by the University of Nebraska for her national impact on teaching as a recipient of both the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award and the John E. Weaver Award for Teaching Excellence. She also was selected for advanced training in higher education as a participant in the Big Ten Academic Leadership Program.
Professor Medill served as one of 15 members on the United States Department of Labor's Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, known as the ERISA Advisory Council, from 2017 to 2019. She is an elected Fellow of the prestigious American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and an elected Member of the American Law Institute. Professor Medill was selected by her peers in the practicing Bar for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America 2020TM in the field of ERISA Litigation. An active member of the Association of American Law Schools, she has served as an officer for three different sections of the AALS (Employee Benefits Law, Property, and Women in Legal Education). At the College of Law, Professor Medill serves as the Director of Undergraduate Academic Programs, working primarily with the Nebraska Honors Program and the College of Business. She also is the faculty advisor for the College of Law's Solo and Small Firm Practice Concentration, the Program of Concentrated Study in Real Estate Law, the Program of Concentrated Study in Human Resources Law, and the Program of Concentrated Study in Wealth Management Law.
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Jessica A. Shoemaker Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law
Jessica Shoemaker joined the law faculty in 2012 and is currently Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. She has been recognized both nationally and internationally for her work on adaptive change in pluralistic land-tenure systems, as well as property law's power to shape the contours of human communities and natural environments. Her work focuses specifically on issues of racial justice and agricultural sustainability in the American countryside and on systems of Indigenous land tenure and land governance in the United States and Canada. Her most recent law-review articles, including Fee Simple Failures: Rural Landscapes and Race and Transforming Property: Reclaiming Modern Indigenous Land Tenures, have been placed in top journals, including the Michigan Law Review and the California Law Review. Her work has been reviewed three times in JOTWELL, an online journal that highlights important and notable recent legal scholarship, and she is cited widely by interdisciplinary and international scholars.
Beginning in Fall 2021, Professor Shoemaker has been awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to analyze how property law has shaped who owns agricultural land in America and why, as well as what might come next. From 2018-2019, she also served as the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Legal and Resource Rights at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in Edmonton, Alberta.
Prior to becoming a legal scholar, Professor Shoemaker worked as an agricultural writer, a VISTA volunteer, a rural community outreach worker, and a public-interest attorney for diverse, smallholder farmers across the United States as a Skadden Fellow with Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. During her Skadden Fellowship, Professor Shoemaker focused particularly on access and equity issues for BIPOC farmers and ranchers and on strategies for community ownership of new renewable energy developments. Professor Shoemaker also clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and has experience interning for both the Crow Nation Court of Appeals and Indian Probate Judge George Tah-Bone with the Department of the Interior, helping with federal probate proceedings across reservations in North and South Dakota. As a practicing litigator for five years at Arnold & Porter LLP in Denver, Colorado, Professor Shoemaker has also worked on all aspects of complex litigation in several different courts, including amicus work before the United States Supreme Court and significant roles in several important cases involving Indigenous land and religious rights. Professor Shoemaker graduated first in her class from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
At Nebraska, Professor Shoemaker teaches Property I and II, Native American Law, Wills and Trusts, and a seminar in rural development and energy law. She has supervised numerous law student externships, including student opportunities with tribal governments and the Center for Rural Affairs. She also advises the College's Equal Justice Society.
She is a Founding Fellow of the Rural Futures Institute, a Fellow and former Governor of the Center for Great Plains Studies, and the current Program Chair for the Association of Law, Property, and Society. A product of a chore farm in Iowa and generations of Wisconsin farmers who grew everything from strawberries to ginseng, she is also currently working to establish and co-direct The Rural Reconciliation Project at the University of Nebraska.
Watch how Professor Shoemaker is defining a rural landscape through property law.
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Hobbyist are speculating if the Euro pirate, Radio Bila Hora will recommence their annual New Year's Eve broadcast for 2018. If the station follows suit as in past years, they should broadcast on 3381.260 kHz. The station has also broadcast on 3334.82 kHz.
Last year's broadcast was logged from 1500 - 2330 UTC, and heard from remote SDR units in Germany, Hungary, Norway, and Sweden. The station's power at one time, was reported as 150 watts, and the transmitter was constructed by one of the radio operators. The exact location is unknown, but was mentioned as "outside the territory of the Czech Republic." The 2017 broadcast included two anthems played at 2300, speech segments, pop and local Czech music.
The 2017 broadcast also included a pre-recorded program presented by the former Czechoslovak pop singer, Richard Adams who was very popular in the 1950's and 1960's. Mr. Adams died in 2017 at age 86. He prepared the program for Radio Bila Hora several years ago, and the station presented it in his memory.
The station's English ID as, "Radio White Mountain," is a reference to the historical significance of the Battle of White Mountain, the most famous battle in Czech history.
On Sunday December 30th, FRS-Holland will traditionally ring out the Old Year with its Seasonal Broadcast on 7700//5800 kHz. Programs will run from 08:52- 14:05 UTC/ 09:52- 15:05 CET.
changing and as a result, signals will likely skip large areas. For that reason the final three hours- starting just after 16:00 UC/ 17:00 CET- will go out on an extra 3rd frequency: 3975 kHz.
many years ago. And a new edition of FRS goes DX will be aired including news from the world of (free) Radio. Just listen for yourself!!
Important: it can happen that we are forced to change frequency during the broadcast. In such case FRS will publish it on the website. So...if there's latest news...you will find it at http://www.frsholland.nl/ at Latest News.
express the wish that 2019 will become a peaceful, successful and healthy year !
probably be on the air Saturday-Sunday only.
Power is only 200 W, which of course is a very low on the 19 meter band, propagation is quite poor on this band now - and the aerial (a simple dipole) is not very efficient so reception is quite difficult and irregular.
So far - poor to fair reception in Southern Europe has been observed in daytime till around 1300 UTC and fair to good reception in Ireland, Scotland, western England and Iceland has been experienced during evenings around 17-20 UTC.
Transmissions on 5840 kHz continues 24/7 with a power of 100 W.
The transmitter site for 5840 as well as 15805 kHz is Randers, Denmark.
Please note that the current QSL-design will be used for reception reports covering reception in 2018 only. A new design will be used in 2019.
An eQSL is available for reports sent to wmr@wmr.dk - a reply can be expected within a month or so.
A printed QSL is available for reports sent to World Music Radio, PO Box 112, DK-8960 Randers SØ, Denmark. Return postage is kindly required. For a fast reply enclose 5 euro or 5 USD (QSL will be mailed from Denmark, where postage rates are the highest in the world - 29DKK for a post card). If less return postage is enclosed, you will still get a QSL-card, but will have to wait some time till the QSLs can be mailed out from outside of Denmark.
Please note that no QSLs are available for reports made by listening via remote receivers.
No news as for 927 kHz Copenhagen. Still struggling to find a transmitter site there.
The humble municipal Christmas decorations featured in last weekend's program resulted in many nice shortwave-enhanced MFSK64 images, submitted by listeners via email and Twitter (@SWRadiogram). Some examples are below.
Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program 79) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 2030 UTC), Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1400 UTC) and Lolo sdr in Spain (Sunday 2330 UTC). The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.
This weekend we stay with MFSK32 and MFSK64. The show will include eleven images, including the second of six images in the Tecsun Radios Australia decoding competition.
Slow Scan Radio transmits SSTV images and text modes Saturdays at 1300-1330 UTC on 6070 kHz (and maybe also 7440 kHz) via Channel 292 in Germany -- according to the latest schedule information I have. The website is http://www.slowscanradio.com. Reception reports to x@xdv.me.
Broad Spectrum Radio is (sometimes) transmitted by WRMI Florida Sundays at 0700-0800 UTC on 5850 and 7730 kHz. MFSK32 is broadcast during the second half hour of the show. Reports to broadspectrumradio@gmail.com.
Thank you for listening, decoding, writing in, tweeting, producing videos, and for all your support in 2018. Wishing you a great 2019!
Images decoded by Zach in Alabama, 21 December 2018, 2030-2100 UTC, 7780 kHz from WRMI Florida. Zach writes: "Don't laugh, but I always enjoying seeing the decorations that cities put up for Christmas! Ultra modern or totally old-fashioned, they're all getting me in the spirit of the season."
Ralf in Germany received these images 22 December 2018, 1400-1430 UTC, 9400 kHz from Bulgaria.
The Saturday 1400 UTC images were also received by Lorne in New Zealand.
Al in Florida received these images 23 December 2018 during the 0800-0830 UTC show on 5850 kHz from WRMI Florida. He wrote: "Visions of sugar plum images danced in my head as I set up FLDigi and settled into bed. In northern Florida not a creature stirred 0800z on 5850 kHz not even my mouse! Awoke & away to my Windows I flew like a flash to find Santa had left me this nice little stash... "
With some more distance from the Florida transmitter, Hal Fi in California decoded even clearer images on 5850 kHz.
On 23 December, the 2330-2400 UTC broadcast, 7780 kHz from WRMI in Florida, was decoded by Marco in Italy.
Solar activity was very low throughout the period. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed this period.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached moderate levels each day of the period.
Geomagnetic field activity was quiet to unsettled on 18 and 20 Dec with quiet conditions observed throughout the remainder of the period.
throughout the remainder of the period.
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to reach active levels on 29 Dec, 04 Jan, and 16 Jan due to recurrent, CH HSS influence. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected throughout the remainder of the outlook period.
Teak Publishing wishes all of our global followers a very Merry Christmas in 80 languages !
Hello shortwave listeners! I never like doing any self-promotion but nobody would know about this otherwise.
Coming up this Tuesday the 25th of December (Christmas) I will have a special onw hour program broadcast to North America on 9350 kHz via WWCR (100 kW) at the time of 2100 UTC, 3 PM Central or 4 PM Eastern.
The show will feature some lively talk and mixed music - some Christmas tunes and some alternative/indie/classic rock music as well. I just hope for it to be a fun show on Christmas afternoon for whoever listens.
Spread the word to any DX groups that might be interested. Feedback is most welcome at vorwinfo@gmail.com and I've even designed a special QSL just for this program.
The transmitter will be tuned up from around 08:30 (07:30 UTC) and a message* will be transmitted at 09:00 (08:00 UTC).
It has tradition and exudes a very special pre-Christmas mood: On Christmas Eve greetings are sent to the sailors from all over the world on NDR Info starting at 8:05 pm. And on the most different channels and technical ways, so that the greetings and messages can be guaranteed to be received on all seven seas.
The ship's crews have several options to receive the message "Greeting on board". Also the shortwave belongs to it.
The livestreams of the program (20.05 to 22 clock and 23.05 clock to 24 clock MEZ) can be found here: NDR Info and NDR Info Special . In addition, there is the possibility to listen to the program via the NDR radio app. NDR Info can also be received via FM, DAB + and DVB-S radio, NDR Info special only via DAB + and DVB-S radio.
NDR Info sends the "Greetings on Board" from 20:05 to 22:00 CET. Then follows from 22 to 23 clock MEZ the transmission of the Protestant Christmette from the Neustädter Hof and Stadtkirche in Hanover. From 23.05 bis 24 clock MEZ there is the second part of "Greeting on board".
From late in the evening you will find a recording of the show here to listen - for legal reasons, however, without much of the music recordings.
The staff at KTWR wants to give their listener's with DRM receivers, a Christmas gift this year. The DRM broadcast will be on the following schedule.
Japanese will be at 350 degrees; ANZ will be at 165 degrees; and South Asia will be at 285 degrees.
Previous IRRS programming was on 6075 kHz daily.
For a QSL request of 16 Gwendoline Street, email your program details to gwendolinestreet@gmail.com. A brief run of QSL cards have been printed with the programs updated details.
Don't forget to tune-in to 16 Gwendoline Street for the special Christmas programming.
Videos of last weekend's Shortwave Radiogram (program ) are provided by Scott in Ontario (Friday 2030-2100 UTC) and Ralf in Germany (Saturday 1400-1430 UTC). Also, Paul in Belgium produced a video showing his decode an MFSK image by placing his Tecsun PL-310ET near his Android phone. Finally, three brief videos (one two three) from RadioMan96 in Russia. The audio archive is maintained by Mark in the UK. Analysis is prepared by Roger in Germany.
Slow Scan Radio transmits SSTV images and text modes Saturdays at 1300-1330 UTC on 6070 kHz and 7440 kHz) via Channel 292 in Germany. John will also have a special transmission 26 December at 2100-2130 UTC, also on 6070 and 7440 kHz. The website is http://www.slowscanradio.com. Reception reports to x@xdv.me.
SV1XV in Greece received these images during the previews of the Tecsun Radios International competition, 7 and 14 December 2018.
Gough Lui in Australia used the University of Twente SDR in the Netherlands to receive these images and text during the Friday 2030 UTC show.
On 15 December, there was not much trans-Atlantic reception of the Saturday 1400-1430 UTC broadcast on 9400 kHz from Bulgaria, but Al in Florida was able to decode these images, including a very artistic St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.
Lorne in New Zealand received these images Saturday, 1400-1430 UTC, 9400 kHz from Bulgaria. Also the image (top left) from The Mighty KBC, 1330 UTC, 11600 kHz, also from Bulgaria.
The winter solstice, plus or minus, is the time to receive the Sunday 0800-0830 UTC transmission in Europe. Frederic in France received these images and text on 7730 kHz from WRMI Florida.
Carroll in Oregon had good reception of text and images Sunday at 0800 UTC.
Marco in Italy stayed up late and was rewarded with good images and text during the Sunday 2330 UTC broadcast.
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Throughout our modern world, there are many remarkable and spectacular bridges. The longest bridge in Europe is the 7½ miles long Vasco da Gama Bridge that crosses the Tagus River in Lisbon Portugal.
The bridge with the tallest piers in the world is also found in Europe. The Millau Viaduct Bridge in France is suspended from seven tall towers, one of which stands at 1125 feet, a little less than a quarter mile.
In the United States, the iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is a dramatic suspension bridge 1¾ miles long that is sometimes photographed with its upper structures above the cloud line. This now more than 80 year old bridge carries more than 100,000 motor vehicles daily.
The General Belgrano Bridge in Argentina South America is one mile long and it spans the Parana River, thus connecting the two cities, Corrientes and Resistencia. Another spectacular bridge in South America is the Orinoquia Bridge in Venezuela. This three mile long roadway and railway bridge crosses a small island in the Orinico River. Three countries; Dubai, South Korea and Vietnam; have each erected spectacular bridges that now spurt waters that are lit in color at night.
It seems that China can boast the most superlative bridges in the world. Their Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is a high speed railway bridge that spans the Yangtse River Delta in China for 102 miles, the longest in the world.
Their Duge River Bridge is the highest in the world. It is a roadway bridge three quarters of a mile long and it stands more than a quarter mile above the gorge below.
China has also erected several spectacular tourist bridges with panels of glass up to six inches thick. Many pedestrians are terrified at crossing any of these high level bridges, one of which has a specially prepared area that gives the fake appearance of cracking as it is crossed.
Towards the end of October 2018, China opened the world's longest over the ocean bridge in the world. This new China Bridge spans 34 miles of open sea waters across the Pearl River Estuary and it joins formerly Portuguese Macau with formerly British Hong Kong, and with Zhuhai in mainland China. This mega-bridge system cost the equivalent of multi-trillions of dollars to construct and to establish for daily usage, and it was built to withstand massive earthquakes and the strongest of typhoons.
The islands of Macau, at the farthest extent of the New China Bridge, were a Portuguese colony for around 500 years. This territory is considered to be the world's most densely populated area, with a total population of two thirds of a million people.
Macau still issues its own currency even though the territory was absorbed into mainland China at the turn of the century. Tourism makes it one of the richest territories in the world, with an influx of more than 20 million visitors each year.
On the wireless/radio scene, the Portuguese authorities established a small wireless communication station in Macau soon after the end of World War 1. This new facility with the callsign CRS was installed on Siac Island, a small island of ¾ square mile, just off the main populated area of Macau. The callsign CRS seems to indicate China Radio Siac.
Then in 1925, as reported by the American monthly journal, Radio News, there was a small low powered radio station on the air in Macau, in March of that year. This new station, we would suggest, was an amateur radio station installed privately on Macau Island, and it was in use occasionally for the broadcast of entertainment and informational programming, as was the custom for amateur radio stations back then. Radio News described the station as an excellent station.
Macau Island itself was originally an island of 3¼ square miles, though land fill has subsequently joined the island to mainland China as a peninsula. The crossover point between Macau and mainland China is just 1,000 yards wide.
In 1933, a new communication station was installed in Macau under the callsign CQN. This 500 watt shortwave station was noted occasionally in the United States, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Even though it was specifically a communication station, yet occasional radio broadcast programs were noted in the 49 metre band.
Four years later (1937), station CQN was closed in order to renovate the ailing transmitter. Then on December 26 in the next year (1938), the station was again heard back on the air in Australia, though now under a new callsign. Shortwave station CQN had became CRY9, and it was still operating in the 49 metre band.
The utility communication station CRY9 was owned and operated by the government of Macau, and the entire facility was housed in the relatively new Post Office Building which was located at the intersection of Senado Square and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in Sé, Macau. This communication station was on the air with program broadcasting for just a couple of hours one evening a week. Their chosen channel was usually 6080 kHz, and they were listed officially with 500 watts, though in reality it was only about half that power, at 250 watts.
With the ever increasing threat of Japanese aggression in mainland China, and the possibility of some form of involvement for Portuguese Macau, the government broadcasting service established a Foreign Service that was broadcast by their 250 watt transmitter in the 19 metre band. This new international program service was officially inaugurated by the territorial governor, His Excellency Gabriel Maurício Teixeira, on May 28, 1941. Programming during that era was broadcast in Chinese, Portuguese and English.
A 1947 listing of communication stations worldwide shows station CRY Macau on the air with four different shortwave transmitters ranging in power from 300 watts up to 2½ kW. Each shortwave channel was listed with a CRY callsign, followed by a suffix number indicating the specific frequency. Then, a much later listing in 1978 shows the communication station in Macau under another new callsign, this time XXF.
More about the radio scene in Macau and Hong Kong, another time.
NHK World Japan, is launching on January 15th of next year (2019) a new online Chinese-language service. NHK Huayu Shijie will broadcast some of the most popular programs that focus on news, culture and current events.
The program will also have a trends feature, give medical information and air a documentary from the Asian region.
Nanami Sakuraba, presenter of the program, said that she hopes the service can introduce emerging trends in Japanese culture.
NHK Newscaster James Tengan said he will prioritize objectivity and neutrality when he reports the news.
NHK announcer Chiaki Kamakura said that more than 30 million people have visited Japan this year. She added that about half of them speak Chinese so it makes sense to provide them relevant information.
The number of foreign visitors is expected to grow with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020 and the World Expo in Osaka in 2025.
While performing internet research on the Kerala medium wave stations a while back, we came across an item of surprising information. Surrounded by the state of Kerala on three sides, with the Arabian Sea on the west, is a small territory of just three square miles known as Mahe. Apart from border irregularities with Pakistan and Bangladesh and Myanmar, this Mahe must be one of the very smallest political territories in mainland India.
This Mahe enclave is geographically, and racially, and linguistically, a part of the territory of Kerala on the west coast of India, though these days it is politically part of a territory some three hundred miles distant, over on the east coast of India at Pondicherry. This is what happened.
Back in the colonial days the French also (in addition to the English and other European powers) established several trading posts, military forts, and small isolated colonies on the Indian subcontinent. These extra-territorial enclaves, about a dozen in number, ranged in size from just a small commercial building up to Pondicherry, the major French territory in India, with a total area of about 200 square miles.
All of these once-upon-a-time French territories were absorbed into the Union of India soon after the end of World War 2, and four of these previous enclaves are these days administered directly by the Government of India as a single unit. Pondicherry is the chief territory, and the three other smaller territories, Karaikal, Yanam and Mahe are linked with the administration in Pondicherry.
The French enclave of Mahe on the west coast of India was generally part of the French empire right up until the year 1954. At this stage, Mahe was taken over by India, seven years after British India was accorded independence as the Union of India. These days, this Mahe is considered to be part of ex-French Pondicherry, and hence, under the Union government of India, it is administered by Pondicherry as part of a Union Territory.
The ex-French enclave of Mahe is located on the west coast of India, towards the northern end of the Indian state of Kerala. It is just a small territory of some 3 square miles at the mouth of the Mahe River and it is surrounded by the state of Kerala on three sides and the Arabian Sea on the west side. Mahe has a resident population of some 41,000, and three languages are recognized as official languages; Malayalam, French and English.
Major radio coverage for the small enclave of Mahe is provided by the 50 mile distant All India Radio station at Kozhikode or Calicut as it was known under the British. This powerful mediumwave station emits 100 kW on 684 kHz over a wide area, and thus it provides a good signal into Mahe also.
However, there is indeed a small radio station in Mahe, or more exactly, in New Mahe, just across the river from Mahe itself. This small community radio broadcasting station is housed in the Post Office Building in New Mahe and it is operated by the Academic & Technical Education Development Society. Community FM station Radio Janvani operates on 90.8 MHz with just 50 watts.
In addition in the state of Kerala, there are more than 40 FM stations, three quarters of which are on the air as community radio stations. AIR All India Radio also operates a dozen FM stations, five of which provide coverage in regional cities, and in shadow areas as slave relay stations.
Thus far in our sequential features regarding the mediumwave scene within the Indian state of Kerala, we have presented the story of their four mediumwave stations. In a list of mediumwave callsigns in India as published during the year 2011, it becomes apparent that a three letter callsign is composed with the first two letters VU for India, followed by a third letter, which is the first letter in the name of the city. Where there is more than one city whose name begins with the same letter in the English language alphabet, then a suffix number is added.
QSL cards verifying these four mediumwave stations can be obtained from AIR headquarters in Delhi, and QSL letters may be obtained from each of the mediumwave stations in Kerala for reception reports sent direct to the station.
However, in addition to these four mediumwave stations as listed above, there is also one other, and it is located on a nearby island where the Keralese language Malayalam is spoken. This territory, the Lakshadweep Islands, is associated with Kerala, though it is officially a union territory under the direct administration of the central government in New Delhi.
On one of these islands is another mediumwave station operated by AIR All India Radio, and that will be our story on the next occasion when we present information on the radio scene in India.


I decided to try my hand at writing a historical romance after throwing a novel across the room while saying "I could write a better book than that!" I'm the kind of person who, first of all, never throws anything anywhere! And, second, I don't believe in saying I can do something better than someone else until I've actually tried it. So, I felt compelled to give it a try. I did write the book but I don't know if it was a better book or not. But by doing it I realized how much I loved writing.
The answer to this question is a very big YES! I started out writing romance novels. But even then I couldn't commit myself to just one genre within that genre. Among the romance novels I have written are historical/family saga, suspense, paranormal, contemporary, horror, and humorous.
Next, having pretty much used up all my romantic ideas, I turned to what I would call metaphysical fiction. I am still wrapped in this new genre and can see where I might write several more books within it.
My most recent genre obsession is horror. I call it women's horror, but my readers are by no means exclusively women. My newest book, The Mortician's Wife, is in this genre.
I would have to say Horror is the most fun to write. I get to let my imagination go where it has never gone before!
The story of how The Mortician's Wife came about, and how I came to choose the title, are a story in themselves. There actually is a haunted old building in my town that had at one time been a mortuary. And there actually was a woman who had been married to the last mortician and continued living in the building for four decades after her husband died. The story of The Mortician's Wife was inspired by these events, but the story is entirely fictional. It is a result of my asking myself, why would she stay there all by herself for all of those years? Had something terrible happened there that made her stay?
I always give my books a title while I am beginning to write. However, I do sometimes change the title after I have finished writing it. The Mortician's Wife was one of the books where the title came to me early on and just seemed to stick.
What is your "work in progress" or upcoming projects?
I am currently working on a sequel to The Mortician's Wife. In this book, the wife is no longer the central character—instead, the mortuary is. When I learned that because the actual building is within my city's Historical District, it would be very difficult to destroy it, I realized that no matter how dangerous the hauntings may become, the building will always be there. And, if the building is there, so will the stories of its ghostly inhabitants.
The cover for The Mortician's Wife was created by Tim Hewtson, my editor. After taking a tour though the building he decided that it just had to be a part of the cover. I believe Mr. Hewston captured the essence of the house and the story beautifully.
There are several things I would tell someone who was considering becoming a writer. Or, at least, those who chose to write fiction. First, don't even consider doing it if it isn't something you love. In other words, don't do it simply for the money. Like so many of the creative arts, fame and fortune come to only a few fiction writers. With luck you may make a fairly decent living, but only if you (and this is my second piece of advice), never give up! Join a writer's group, preferably one that is specifically within your genre, such as RWA (Romance Writers of America) and Mystery Writers of America. Go to their conferences. Then, write what you love. And, of course, read, read, read.
Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to talk to you about my newest book, The Mortician's Wife, and about my career in general. Was a pleasure and an honor.
"I have spent the night in supposedly some of the most haunted buildings in America. I have met people who could fairly be described as evil incarnate. I have been to the Old Mortuary in Dunsmuir. It is gorgeous but I wouldn't spend a single night there." Kathleen McKenna, author of horror novels 'The Wedding Gift' and 'Family Matters'.
Five miles from the new age Mt. Shasta City, the sleepy Northern California town of Dunsmuir plays host to a nightmarish house – the Old Mortuary – where the mortician's wife spent four decades alone, and some say insane, sleeping in an alcove off one bedroom where she believed the evil spirits of the house could not get to her, harboring terrible secrets.
With the steady flow of dead bodies through the basement and the murderous events upstairs, this is the story of how the Old Mortuary of Dunsmuir became one of the most haunted houses in America as a result of the personality and misdeeds of one man, Horace Carpenter, whose eternal soul most certainly does not rest in peace, as many will attest, and probably never will.


News Controversy the word on everyone's lips in 2018.
Politics After an 11-month battle a group of unpaid subbies have some joy.
Breaking The deputy premier could have good news for local unpaid subbies.
Politics Pacific Highway contractors still have something to hope for.
Politics Controversial MP switches parties for shot at his old seat.
Politics Former Clarence MP turns out for Shooters and Fishers Party.
Politics "John seemed genuine about trying to help us."
Business Former MP says non-payment of subbies a low act.
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Suburban school district cancels classes after 125 teachers, staff call off from vaccine side effects
By Dane Placko
Updated 10:06PM
A suburban school district was forced to shut down because 125 staff and teachers had side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine.
CHICAGO - A suburban school district was forced to shut down on Thursday after125 staff and teachers had side effects from the COVID-19 vaccine.
Teachers and staff at the Kaneland district were able to get their vaccine shots this week.
Early Wednesday morning, the district made the decision to pull the plug on school for Kaneland's 4,200 students Kindergarten through 12th grade.
Starting Tuesday, about 600 teachers and support staff began receiving their second shot of the Moderna vaccine, and 125 of them called in sick with reactions like headaches, fever and achy joints.
The district says they didn't have enough substitutes to open doors.
It is unknown if school will be open or closed Friday. Some other districts have closed preventatively the week that they're giving vaccine shots, knowing that this could possibly happen.