Viewing academic advising as an educational process moves it from a paradigm of teaching that focuses on information or inputs to a paradigm of learning that focuses on outcomes for student learning. In this way, academic advising supports key institutional conditions that have been identified with promoting student success. Such conditions include setting high expectations, providing support, offering feedback, and facilitating involvement in learning through frequent student contact with faculty and staff.
The posting below looks at the importance of academic advising in student learning. It is by By Susan M. Campbell, associate vice president for academic affairs, University of Southern Maine; and Charlie L. Nutt, executive director, National Academic Advising Association. The article is from the Winter, 2008 issue of Peer Review, Volume 10, Number 1. Peer Review is a publication of the Association of American Colleges and Universities [www.aacu.org/peerreview] Copyright © 2008, all rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
In her article "Losing Sleep over Student SUCCESS?" in the spring 2006 issue of The Presidency, France A. Cordova, then chancellor of the University of California-Riverside and now president of Purdue University, stresses the importance of student success and achievement to all higher education stakeholders-parents, students, educators, as well as the public at large. She also acknowledges the challenges inherent in supporting a concept that is sometimes difficult to articulate. Cordova suggests that a renewed focus on student success could "reinvigorate the public's appreciation" of higher education as a place of opportunity in which to grow, to dream, and to think. In this regard student success is about facilitating curiosity, wonder, and immersion in the college experience and, as Cordova says, institutions should focus their efforts on supporting those college experiences that create, foster, and cultivate student curiosity and engagement in learning-all in service of their achievement or a set of essential outcomes as the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has suggested. While certainly there are many ways to support student immersion and engagement in learning, one strategy that is increasingly being acknowledged for its potential in this regard is academic advising.
In his seminal work, Leaving College, Tinto (1993) describes retention not as a goal but as a by-product of a successful and engaging college experience. AAC&U's 2007 report, College Learning for the New Global Century, also notes that retention and graduation rates are important, but the ultimate measure of progress and success is whether students have learned what they need to know to be successful both professionally and in their personal and civic lives. Thus, for institutions, the focus of attention ought to be on developing value-added educational opportunities that actively engage students in their own learning. If we do this, the by-product will be increased student satisfaction, learning, and persistence toward graduation. How does academic advising fit into this scenario? Tinto indicates that institutions have come to understand that quality academic advising is at the very core of successful student success initiatives, for it reflects an institution's commitment to the education of its students. Indeed, in Making the Most of College, Richard Light (2001) found that academic advising was perhaps one of the most "underestimated characteristics of a successful college experience," adding further evidence that academic advising, when done well, adds value to the college student experience.
The concept of engagement in learning is not that old, but not that new, particularly in student affairs. In Involving Colleges Kuh, Schuh, Whitt, and Associates (1991) concluded that institutions that value and expect student initiative and responsibility encourage involvement. These researchers also suggested that campuses should "spend more effort encouraging student involvement in learning opportunities than designing new ones." AAC&U has identified a set of these practices that research demonstrates have an impact on student success. In a forthcoming AAC&U publication, George Kuh makes the further point that these practices have an even greater positive impact on students who are still underserved by higher education. Effective academic advising practices are especially important for these often first-generation students. Encouraging students to take advantage of learning opportunities that are designed to challenge their intellectual and social development and add value to the college experience is central to good academic advising and at the heart of student engagement.
Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, Whitt, and Associates (2005), talk about the dimensions of the college experience as including both student behaviors and institutional conditions. They describe engagement as the intersection between student behaviors and institutional conditions over which institutions have at least marginal control. The challenge is directing students toward those activities that are the "right" ones for student learning and success. The concept of engagement is significant when thinking about academic advising, for we would argue that all institutions have some control over the design and delivery of academic advising. We would also argue that, when done well, academic advising can serve as a powerful lever in improving the college student experience and in supporting an institution's goals with regard to persistence and time to graduation because it provides the structured opportunity to direct student behavior toward the 'right' activities.
Hunter and White (2004) write that academic advising is "perhaps the only structured campus endeavor that can guarantee students sustained interaction with a caring and concerned adult who can help them shape a meaningful learning experience for themselves." As such, academic advising can and should play a pivotal role in directing student behavior toward those activities that will nurture and support their success toward educational, career, and life goal achievement.
This preamble outlines several key concepts to guide academic advising on campuses today. First, the concept frames academic advising around a student's learning-learning that concerns much more than knowing about institutional policies and processes and includes knowledge about the broad essential outcomes of a good college education. Second, the concept outlines that the activities of academic advising are intentional and occur throughout a student's undergraduate experience and not merely in the first year, first semester, or until a program of study as been developed. Sequencing and scaffolding learning experiences as part of a comprehensive educational plan assumes a collaborative partnership between students and advisers in which the roles and responsibilities of each are clearly defined. Finally, since we recognize academic advising really is a form of teaching, we must explicitly develop and articulate the curriculum for academic advising, address the myriad pedagogies available to address students' individual learning styles, and identify the expected outcomes for student learning within the context of the academic advising experience. The challenge for academic advising is significant; facilitating the development of coherent educational plans across a student's educational career is no small task and requires those who are committed to the intellectual and social development of students both in and outside the formal classroom.
Marc Lowenstein (2005) articulated the comprehensive nature of the academic adviser's role in this way: An excellent adviser does the same for the student's entire curriculum that the excellent teacher does for one course.
The similarities between the role of an academic adviser and the role of a teacher should not go unnoticed: both develop clear curricula that specify expectations for learning, both craft clear sets of student learning outcomes, both create a variety of learning experiences for students to learn what is expected, and both identify appropriate measures to determine the level of achievement of these outcomes in relation to learning expectations. Lowenstein's portrait of the academic adviser as educator suggests that, regardless of who serves in the formal academic advising role-professional staff member, faculty member, student peer adviser, etc.-the inherent importance of the role and the responsibilities of academic advising should be valued and supported as being integral to the teaching and learning process.
Nationally, campuses are taking seriously the potential of academic advising in improving student success. The trends include acknowledging the contribution of effective academic advising to the quality of the college student experience by integrating improvements into campus planning; aligning statements of mission, goals, and program objectives with a campus's overall mission, designing initiatives to identify key outcomes for student learning and the delivery of academic advising, and implementing effective reward and recognition systems for academic advising. What emerges from these national (and international) trends in academic advising is the following set of guidelines that institutions can use to develop a coordinated, effective academic advising program that is linked to teaching and learning and focused on student learning success.
Identify clear outcomes for student learning and the delivery of academic advising that are derived from the philosophy/mission and that guide the development of learning opportunities. It perhaps goes without saying that in order to link an academic advising program to an institution's teaching and learning mission, the program must be outcomes-based and student-learning focused. Increasingly, campuses are developing assessment plans for academic advising that identify what students are expected to learn as a result of participating in academic advising. Framing the intentions of academic advising in this way changes the conversation about what academic advising is and, in turn, how it is delivered. Treating academic advising as curriculum development opens avenues through which the intentions of academic advising can be communicated to students. Increasingly, campuses are adopting a syllabus format to communicate the intentions of and expectations for academic advising. The advising syllabus articulates the particular, and perhaps unique, goals and outcomes for academic advising, acknowledges the variety of ways in which academic advising might be organized (e.g., individual school/college-based, centralized advising center) and delivered (e.g., faculty, professional academic advisers, peer advisers), and identifies expectations for students and advisers in the academic advising relationship. More recently, some academic advising programs have elected to submit these syllabi to school/college curriculum review committees for official review and validation as valued institutional experiences.
Develop campus programs and structures that recognize the value of academic advising and reward advisers for quality academic advising and for their contributions to the field. Increasingly, campuses are demonstrating, in key ways, the value of academic advising to the success of their students by rewarding the work of professional and faculty advisers. There is significant work being done on many campuses to develop career ladders or paths for professional advisers that reward such things as advanced graduate work in the field as well as research and publication in the field of advising. These career ladders or paths demonstrate, in very concrete ways, the institution's commitment to quality academic advising. For faculty members, more and more institutions are beginning to revisit policies concerning how academic advising is regarded in promotion and tenure processes. Research and scholarship in advising are becoming more universally accepted and supported as a field of applied research and publication.
The trends in academic advising indicate that institutional recognition of academic advising is a campuswide responsibility in which all constituencies-administrators, students, faculty, and staff -work together to promote student success. As higher education continues to find itself increasingly under the microscope of internal and external scrutiny, it must identify strategic ways to demonstrate student satisfaction and learning. If considered integral to the teaching and learning mission of an institution, academic advising then offers the potential for this visible demonstration of student satisfaction and learning through the experiences of students who are well served and connected to the campus. As Kuh, Kinzie, Schuh, Whitt, and Associates (2005) write in Student Success in College "Advising is viewed as a way to connect students to the campus and help them feel that someone is looking out for them." Indeed, these connections are essential to student engagement and the role of academic advising in facilitating them should not be underestimated.
Lowenstein, M. 2005. If advising is teaching, what do advisors teach? NACADA Journal 25(2): 65-73.


Many pre-owned bags will show not only signs of use and wear, but sometimes will have specific issues such as internal grubbiness, pen marks or staining.
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Student given a suspended sentence
A 23-year-old Fiji Maritime Academy student has been given a suspended sentence by the High Court in Suva. Waisake Lalabalavu appeared before Justice Thushara Rajasinghe alongside his co-accused Jone Teji
by fonua talei, suva
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A 23-year-old Fiji Maritime Academy student has been given a suspended sentence by the High Court in Suva.
Waisake Lalabalavu appeared before Justice Thushara Rajasinghe alongside his co-accused Jone Teji last Friday. They were convicted for one count of aggravated burglary and three counts of theft.
The court heard that Lalabalavu was a final year Maritime College student pursuing his Advanced Bachelor in Nautical Science.
He was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, suspended for three years.
On the first count of aggravated burglary between March 27 and 28, 2018, at Navua, the duo entered the Vunibau Village Hall with intent to steal. For the second count of theft they stole a Samsung brand S6 white mobile phone valued at $2009, the property of Sela Matakibau.
On the third count of theft they stole a Samsung brand J7 gold coloured mobile phone valued at $400 the property of Jioji Ralovo.
For the fourth count of theft they stole a black HP branded laptop valued at $350, the property of Joana Tatalu.
Both accused men pleaded guilty to the offences on May 28, 2018.
The summary of facts revealed that they entered the village hall while the three complainants were sleeping and stole from the items.
Justice Rajasinghe said burglars invaded others' space and freedom in order to steal from them.
Hence, he said the offence of burglary was one of the dangerous forms of property crimes because offenders can instil fear and insecurity among people.
Teji was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment with a non-parole period of 11 months.
Edited by Percy Kean
Feedback: fonua.talei@fijisun.com.fj
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Carvers & Creators – Ep. 45 with sculptor and carver Lenny Calvin
June 2021 – Season 1, Episode 45 features Lenny Calvin who is a sculptor, carver, carpenter, and self-taught artist based in Long Beach, New York. Lenny has been seen carving…
Carvers & Creators – Ep. 8 with sculptor and carver Lenny Calvin
August 2020 – Season 1, Episode 8 features Lenny Calvin who is a sculptor, carver, carpenter, and self-taught artist based in Long Beach, New York. Lenny has been seen carving…
August 2020 – Unfortunately, due to a storm, Lenny could not join us on this episode. He later joins us in Episode 8. Despite that, we have some great conversation…
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Here are some things to know on your journey through activism.
Congratulations! Your lives just changed. From now on you will be involved citizens and voters. Welcome to the club.
My life changed in 1951, when my classmates and I went on strike over a despotic mayor, a run-down school and teachers' salaries. Our issues pale in comparison to yours, but we unseated the mayor. Yay! We're still politically attuned, and some of us went on to serve in political office.
The Second Amendment was adopted when the Revolutionary War was over, and the army was disbanded. (Our founders were suspicious of standing armies.) That left only a few state militias to protect our people. Hence, "A well-regulated militia …"
Follow the money. (Business Insider, "How The Gun Industry Funnels Tens of Millions of Dollars To The NRA," Jan. 16, 2013, et al.) Usually, after a mass shooting, the NRA shouts, "They're coming for your guns!", supporters rush out to buy more guns and ammo, industry profits rise, they kick back money to the NRA, the NRA buys more legislators, they in turn gerrymander their districts to ensure their re-election … and in all of this the voice of the public is lost. This cycle will not be overturned easily, even though most Americans may agree with you. Prepare for a long struggle.
When you estimate votes, know that you will run up against one-issue voters. They will agree with you regarding the best candidates for gun safety, but if your candidates don't also support their one issue (usually abortion, pro or con), they will vote against.
It is said that facts do not win elections; emotions do. Probably true, but decisions based solely on emotion do not hold up over time. So, learn the facts first; then build an emotional case around them.
Don't turn your backs on classmates who disagree with you. They have valid points, too, that may improve your eventual positions.


St. Mary's Pulmonary Support Group located in Evansville, Indiana is having a fundraiser picnic on Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 11 am to 2 pm. The community, patients, family, and friends are invited to attend. Funds raised at the picnic will support community members in our community with lung disease.
The fundraiser picnic will be held at St. Mary's Manor Auditorium, 3700 Washington Avenue, Evansville, Indiana.
Activities will include live music, bingo, silent auction, corn hole competition, card making, dessert competition, kids games and other booths/activities. Lots of great door prizes and a BIG prize drawing at 2 pm. Tickets are $10 pp; $20 per couple; $30 per family of four (2 adults/2 children). Tickets include all activities and your meal (two piece fried/grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, macaroni and cheese, dinner rolls, dessert, tea, lemonade and water. For tickets or information, contact St. Mary's Pulmonary Rehab department at 812-485-5230. Payment is required with reservation. Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door.


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Is Modest Mouse still alive?
September 30, 2020 September 30, 2020 Charlotte SmithPopular tips
Is Modest Mouse still alive? Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon…. Modest Mouse Years active 1992–present Labels Epic Up K Matador Glacial
Is Isaac Brock an alcoholic?
Is Modest Mouse an emo?
Did Isaac Brock do drugs?
Where did the band Modest Mouse come from?
When does the new Modest Mouse album Come Out?
Where did Modest Mouse play at Coachella 2013?
When does strangers to ourselves by Modest Mouse Come Out?
Modest Mouse is an American rock band formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington, and currently based in Portland, Oregon….
Labels Epic Up K Matador Glacial
Associated acts Ugly Casanova Seasick Steve The Shins Grandaddy Cold War Kids
Website www.modestmouse.com
Isaac Brock has written to, admitted to, and even written songs about extensive drug use and alcoholism. Drugs hes admitted to using range from meth to marijuana, acid to crack. There was a period of time in his life where he possessed an "up for anything" mentality. "There's been a lot of drug abuse.
Modest Mouse would likely not be considered an emo band by music aficionados. For most people, the band perfectly embodies peak mid-aughts indie rock crossover, complete with cameos on The O.C .
Drug Use. Isaac Brock has written to, admitted to, and even written songs about extensive drug use and alcoholism. Drugs hes admitted to using range from meth to marijuana, acid to crack. There was a period of time in his life where he possessed an "up for anything" mentality.
Modest Mouse formed in 1992 in Issaquah, Washington.
The new album from Modest Mouse. Out June 25th.
Modest Mouse was one of the main acts in the Good Vibes Festival held in Sepang, Malaysia on August 17, 2013. The lineup featured other internationally renowned bands such as Smashing Pumpkins, Ash, and Japandroids. In April 2013, Modest Mouse performed at Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California.
Eight years after the release of We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse released Strangers to Ourselves on Tuesday, March 17, 2015. On December 13, 2014, the title and release date were confirmed to be in early 2015.
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Feeling the heat of the credit crunch
When the current international economic crisis unfolded several months ago, few people in the developing world understood the potential impact it has on countries like Rwanda.
James Munyaneza
Published : February 07, 2009
Obama behind bail out.
And those who did, largely looked at it from the point of view of a likely reduction in development aid from the western world.
However, it has not taken long for some of us to come face to face with the reality that the world is truly on an economic downturn.
For a few days now, soccer lovers in Rwanda have been wondering how pay TV, GTV, had started to become inconsistent in transmitting live European games, particularly those in love with the Premiership.
I personally belong to that club. And so it happened that the so-called big four of European premier league were over the last weekend all involved in crucial games.
As usual local fans rushed to their viewing joints, only this time round to be disappointed by the main broadcasting channel – GTV.
Those who did not give up easily combed the city suburbs searching for alternative channels which were showing the matches.
But for Gateway Broadcast Services – suppliers of GTV service – they were virtually out of business.
In a January 30 statement, the company announced that its Board of Directors had unanimously approved a plan to liquidate the company. Reason: The current economic crisis.
"Increased instability in global markets interrupted our ability to secure funding on an acceptable timescale and have left us no choice but to cease operations," the company spokesman conceded in the communiqué. While this is just another international company to go burst in just days, it has signaled to us the reality about this crisis.
Football federations in several African countries including Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya will all be directly affected because this company has been sinking considerable funding into football programmes in these countries.
But the magnitude of the effects of the credit crunch in developing world is in no way comparable to the effects it is having in the developed countries.
A friend of mine resident in the UK told me recently that he had just lost a job he got two months earlier because of the credit crunch.
"Jobs have been lost, retailers are out of business because they have no money; and people are not buying stuff because they are broke," explained.
That is the grim reality that is forcing multinational companies to close shop, and Governments to approve billions of bailouts in frantic efforts to tame the recession.
Some have publicly blamed the US for this crisis, the origin of it all, believed to be stemming from reckless lending pattern by banks and other financial institutions.
Lack of prudency in the financial sector resulted in non-payment of mortgages, and this led to banks stopping lending to each other, and to people.
Amid speculation, depositors rushed to banks to pick their deposits, further crippling economic activities.
Since the financial sectors of countries like Rwanda are less connected with the international financial system, we are not likely to be as hard-hit as the developed world.
But at least no one should rule out the possibility for the most difficult economic times in years. To avoid the worst therefore, the drivers of our economy need to be on their guard.
It's encouraging the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, and the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) have announced they are keenly watching the developments in the global economy, and promised to do all possible to ensure that our economy is not severely hurt.
But the private sector needs to be as watchful. Banks and cooperatives need to observe the rules, and debtors should honour their repayment schedules.
The move by some local banks to threaten bad debtors to publish their names in the press besides legal redress in case of default is laudable.
However, measures should be put in place to prevent speculation among depositors because speculation has played a part in the ongoing global recession.
The author is Rwanda Workforce Development Authority (WDA) Marketing & Communication Specialist.
Email: munyanezason@yahoo.com
Follow https://twitter.com/JMunyaneza


On Saturday, 18th August, renowned air-cooled Porsche specialist BS Motorsport of Westcott, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, is holding its first open day in five years – with free admission.
The precise format of the event is still being finalised, but it is expected that visitors will be able to look round the engine-building facility – one of the best-equipped in the country – and to view a recently reassembled 930 Turbo unit being put through its paces on the dyno. Also in action will be the company's state-of-the-art Bosch machine for testing and calibrating MFI fuel pumps, and the fascinating device by means of which historic Porsches can be made to give up the sometimes nefariously concealed secrets of their chassis numbers.
Best take your credit card or some cash, too. The company's recently acquired and well-publicised hoard of second-hand air-cooled 911 parts from the south of France has now been sorted and catalogued, and is ready and waiting to give life to potentially hundreds of enthusiasts' projects. Treasures range from dashboard tops to doors, from carburettors to crankcases, and from exhaust systems to complete engines and gearboxes. There is even a genuine Carrera 2.7 RS motor up for grabs.
There will be plenty of space for parking up and socialising on the leafy edges of an historic World War Two bomber base, and with the BS Motorsport staff on hand the chance to talk through Porsche triumphs and tribulations. Naturally many of the near-priceless cars in the company's storage facility will in deference to their owners remain discreetly out of sight, but it is hoped that a significant number of the latter will none the less agree to putting some on show for everyone to enjoy.


Farm groups call on U.S. to "bust up big ag"
ANKENY, Iowa (Reuters) - A coalition of family farmers, consumers and other critics of corporate agriculture on Thursday called on the U.S. government to crack down on what they see as unfair consolidation of the nation's food system into the hands of a few multinationals.
Chanting "bust up big ag," a group of more than 250 packed a town hall meeting in the top corn-growing state of Iowa to rally support ahead of a Justice Department meeting on Friday aimed at scrutinizing concentration in the seed business.
The Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are holding a meeting Friday in Ankeny to look at the "competitive dynamics in the seed industry." U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Christine Varney, the Justice Department's assistant attorney general for antitrust, are slated to attend.
The meeting in Ankeny is the first ever of its kind and is slated as the first in a series of five such gatherings planned by federal officials to gather input on concentration in the poultry, dairy and livestock industries.
While corporate giants like Wal-mart and Cargill are among the companies facing attack from the farm and consumer groups, the events in Iowa this week are largely targeted at global biotech seed leader Monsanto Co.. The Justice Department and several state attorneys general are probing allegations that Monsanto controls the U.S. commercial seed market via unfair, and in some cases illegal, practices.
"This monopolistic system is rigged against family farmers," said George Naylor, and Iowa corn and soybean farmer who said he struggles to find seed to plant that is not controlled by Monsanto.
Monsanto critics say the company, which develops, licenses and markets genetically altered corn, soybeans and other crops, manipulates the seed market by buying up independent seed companies, patenting seed products and then spiking prices.
Monsanto's Roundup Ready seed traits, which are genetically engineered to resist Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, are embedded in the majority of all soybeans and corn grown in the United States, a penetration level that helped Monsanto post net income of $2.1 billion for 2009.
The farm groups said they hope the attention by the Justice Department will spur policy moves in Washington, chiefly a change that would eliminate the ability of companies like Monsanto to patent seed germplasm, and re-establish farmer rights to save seed from their harvested crops and replant it.
"Any new activity proposed must avoid the unintended consequence of chilling innovation, investment or job creation in American agriculture," the senators said in letters sent Wednesday to Vilsack and Holder.


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     constructor(
        public stixService: StixService,
        public route: ActivatedRoute,
        public router: Router,
        public dialog: MatDialog,
        public location: Location,
        public snackBar: MatSnackBar) {

        super(stixService, route, router, dialog, location, snackBar);
        stixService.url = Constance.THREAT_ACTORS_URL;
    }

    public ngOnInit() {
       this.loadThreatActor();
    }

    public editButtonClicked(): void {
        const link = ['../edit', this.threatActor.id];
        super.gotoView(link);
    }

    public deleteButtonClicked(): void {
        super.openDialog(this.threatActor);
    }

    public saveButtonClicked(): Observable<any> {
        return Observable.create((observer) => {
               const subscription = super.save(this.threatActor).subscribe(
                    (data) => {
                        observer.next(data);
                        observer.complete();
                    }, (error) => {
                        // handle errors here
                        console.log('error ' + error);
                    }, () => {
                        // prevent memory links
                        if (subscription) {
                            subscription.unsubscribe();
                        }
                    }
                );
        });
    }

    public loadThreatActor(): void {
         const subscription =  super.get().subscribe(
            (data) => {
                this.threatActor = data as ThreatActor;
            }, (error) => {
                // handle errors here
                 console.log('error ' + error);
            }, () => {
                // prevent memory links
                if (subscription) {
                    subscription.unsubscribe();
                }
            }
        );
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}


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Calif. Health Care System Merger Finalized, Questions Remain Around Access to Abortion and Transgender Care at Religious Hospitals
By: Hayley Penan
The newly merged entity of religious hospitals in California, called CommonSpirit Health, is now the nation's largest nonprofit hospital system by revenue. It is worth $29 billion and has 142 hospitals and more than 700 care sites across 21 states. These are hospitals that serve diverse populations, including people with private insurance coverage and Medi-Cal—the California State Medicaid program—among other types of health care coverage.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra approved the state merger in fall 2018, including certain conditions for the conditionally approved merged entity. Under California law, the attorney general must approve mergers and other similar transactions involving non-profit health facilities or systems, and has authority to impose conditions on that approval. Attorney General Becerra put in place many of the conditions the National Health Law Program and allies recommended to preserve access to reproductive health and other critical services, protect against discrimination by the merged entity, maintain Medi-Cal and Medicare contracts charity care, and community benefits, and provide a mechanism for regular compliance reporting from CommonSpirit Health to the attorney general. However, there remain areas where we believe Becerra could have required stronger protections to preserve and expand health access and services.
One key continuing concern is the remaining ambiguity around the application of the updated version of the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs), both as applied to this merger as well as any future mergers or transactions involving Catholic health facilities. This is particularly concerning as it applies to CommonSpirit Health facilities outside of California, to which the California attorney general's conditions do not extend.
The ERDs are a set of mandates promulgated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that provide rules for how and what care can be provided by Catholic facilities, and severely restrict access to certain reproductive health services, end-of-life care options, and services for transgender patients without regard to medical standards of care. An updated version of the ERDs was released in the summer of 2018, which includes broader restrictions on mergers and other collaborations between Catholic and non-Catholic health facilities. While the Catholic Church approved the CommonSpirit Health merger despite requirements that California non-Catholic hospitals in the system maintain providing services that may be prohibited by the ERDs, it is not clear how the Catholic Church will approach these kinds of deals moving forward. Reproductive health and health care advocates must remain vigilant to future Catholic hospital mergers, and continue to push for access to the full range of reproductive and sexual health care for all patients at Catholic health care facilities.
For more information about the updated ERDs, see the National Health Law Program's fact sheet: The Ethical & Religious Directives: What the 2018 Update Means for Catholic Hospital Mergers. See more analysis of the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives.
California Leads the Way in Becoming a Reproductive Freedom State
Jasmine Young and Fabiola Carrión
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization held that the Constitution…


§ 184-3 Prohibited acts; order to disperse.
§ 184-5 Penalties for offenses.
Remaining idle in essentially one location and shall include the concept of spending time idly; to be dilatory; to linger; to stay; to saunter; to delay; to stand around and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging around."
Any place to which the general public has access and a right to resort for business, entertainment or other lawful purpose but does not necessarily mean a place devoted solely to the uses of the public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern or other place of business and also public grounds, areas or parks.
There have been numerous citizen complaints directed to the Mayor and City Council members and other local officials concerning the incidence of persons gathering in the public areas of the city without a legitimate reason for being there. Investigation of these complaints has resulted in the finding that in the places complained of, extremely large quantities of refuse, empty beverage containers and other litter have accumulated. In addition, it has been recognized and reported that such illegitimate gatherings have discouraged citizens from legitimate utilization of these areas.
The complaints received and the investigations show that such illegitimate gatherings very often are participated in by very large groups of people and are associated with noise, yelling, often of an obscene nature, fighting and rowdiness in addition to litter.
It is also found that where this kind illegitimate gathering occurs, acts of vandalism have been found to occur and damage to public and private property has been sustained. It is also found that the protection of the health, safety and welfare of the community requires action in the public interest to regulate such behavior.
In such a manner as to obstruct any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building by hindering or impeding or tending to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic or pedestrians.
In such a manner as to commit in or upon any public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place of building any act or thing which is an obstruction or interference to the free and uninterrupted use of property or with any business lawfully conducted by anyone in or upon or facing or fronting on any such public street, public highway, public sidewalk or any other public place or building, all of which prevents the free and uninterrupted ingress, egress and regress therein, thereon and thereto.
For the purpose of engaging in any activity prohibited by law.
Within 100 feet of any tavern, bar or store engaged in the sale of alcoholic beverages, for either on-premises or off-premises consumption, between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
When any person causes or commits any of the conditions enumerated herein, a police officer or any law enforcement officer shall order that person to stop causing or committing such conditions and to move on or disperse. Any person who fails or refuses to obey such orders shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter.
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Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit orderly picketing or other lawful assembly.
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Metal-free syntheses are currently under intense investigation as potentially cheaper and less-polluting alternatives to reactions involving stoichiometric or catalytic metals. In the Driess group's recent contribution to Nature Chemistry, they report a silylene compound that activates O2, a biologically and industrially relevant reaction that tends to be associated with transition metals. In addition, they were able to isolate and crystallographically characterize the first dioxasilirane, the silicon-based analogue of the more familiar dioxirane reagents. Importantly, Driess's dioxasilirane is capable of intramolecular O-atom transfer with the resulting silanone having the shortest silicon-oxygen bond reported to date.
The Driess synthesis is shown above and is notable for a few reasons. First, they use a modified diketiminate ligand that has been deprotonated to make a strongly π-donating, dianionic ancillary ligand to coordinate the silicon atom. The synthesis of the silylene is interesting in itself (shown below), as its precursor was prepared by an unexpected dehydrohalogenation of a putative (diketiminato)SiBr3 in the presence of tmeda followed by KC8 reduction (DOI: 10.1021/ja062928i). The similarity to N-heterocyclic carbenes is immediately obvious, with the nitrogen atoms reducing the electrophilicity of the silicon atom of 1a and 1b by π-donation.
Second, the reaction with O2 proceeds in good yield (79% and 69% from 1a and 1b, respectively) to provide the novel dioxasiliranes, which are stable at room temperature. This is in sharp contrast to the previously reported dioxasiliranes, which were spectroscopically characterized below -233ºC in argon matrices. The stability of 2a and 2b should thus enable for the first time a careful study of dioxasilirane reactivity, especially in relation to the analogous dioxiranes.
Third, they employ a bulky carbene ligand to stabilize the silicon center. The stabilization is likely both electronic and steric, providing electron donation to the electrophilic silicon of 1–3 as well as steric protection for the polar Si=O bond of 3. In addition the carbene serves as an oxygen atom acceptor in their intramolecular O-atom transfer reaction.
Last, the Si=O double bond is notable as being the shortest reported Si-O bond at 1.532(2) Å. However, the crystal structure of the silanone 3 reveals the geometry at Si to be clearly pyramidal (O-Si-O angle of 112.2º) implying the contribution of the ylide-like resonance form shown below.
For this chemistry to be ultimately useful, dioxasiliranes will need to be capable of intermolecular O-atom transfer to substrates which remain unbound (or transiently bound) to the silicon center. Furthermore, the silicon-based reagent would have to be an improvement on the common dioxiranes, which are based on carbon and prepared from abundant materials (e.g., dimethyldioxirane is prepared from acetone).
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Q: Change position of current gameObject in C# on condition I have been searching and racking my brains for a while now to try and get this code working, to no avail. Hopefully you guys can help.
I have a simple set up with a cube that moves position every frame. I need the cube to go to an x position when it reaches a different location.
Example: Cube starts at position 0, moves forward in the x axis until it gets to position 15, then reverts back to 0 and stops.
Vector3 startingPosition;

void Start ()
{
    startingPosition = gameObject.transform.position;
}

void Update ()
{
    if (gameObject.transform.position.x == 15) {
        gameObject.transform.position = startingPosition;

    } else {
        float translation = Time.deltaTime * 2;
        transform.Translate (0, 0, translation);
        transform.Translate (Vector3.forward * translation);
    }
}

}
Currently the cube continuously moves (no stopping point), it's x position having no affect on the positioning.

A: Change your == to >= and see if that makes a difference. My guess is that position.x is never exactly equal to 15, either due to floating-point precision errors or due to your translation logic skipping over 15 from one frame to the next.

A: I have had an issue with a animation not working correctly and feel like I have scoured the internet for days trying to get it to work, so this was very helpful. In my situation, the animations' GameObject was at a position of y=1 and should have moved to y=9, but would not update unless I clicked the transition in the animator. I changed the code from x == 15 to y <= 9 and Vector3.forward to Vector3.up and it works perfectly now. Hope this might help someone else with the same issue. using Unity v 2017.1.2

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Micro-flow imaging (MFI) is a sensitive, simple and automated method for the analysis of sub-visible particles and translucent protein aggregates that provides particle size, count and morphology. Because it quantifies particle shape, this technology can discriminate groups of particles from each other, and evaluate how these groups change over time. In this article, we provide an overview of how biopharma is using MFI to characterize and monitor their protein formulations in new and emerging applications.


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Q: Python: os.path.getmtime() for TZ agnostic timestamps originating from SD cards with different formats (Note: This may be a Superuser question, since it deals more with how a computer interprets a timestamp... but it has implications for all programming that deals with timestamps originating from an external device.)
Problem construction:

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*Format 3 SD cards in FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT

*Create a file on each of them using a TZ agnostic device (eg a camera, or scientific instrument where you set a time and date, but no TZ) at precisely 12:00:00

*Copy those three files to a computer on California time (UTC-7)

*Run python: os.path.getmtime() on each. Results will vary.

IT seems #3 is the critical step. Here is what I believe happens to the timestamps -- can anyone confirm if this is correct?

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*Since FAT32 records timestamps in localtime, the computer assumes the file was created at 12:00:00 California time (UTC-7) and thus copies the file with a timestamp of 19:00:00 (UTC)

*Since NTFS records timestamps in UTC, the computer assumes the file was created at 12:00:00 UTC, and thus copies the file with a timestamp of 12:00:00 (UTC)

*Since exFAT is odd, it stores in UTC -- but can include TZ offset in the master record -- so all assumptions go out the window. Does a computer assume UTC or UTC-7 as it copies an exFAT timestamp without TZ offset?

Related:
How do I get the correct modified datetime of a FAT32 file, regardless of timezone in .NET?


Codemotion: Expanding the Design Space of Learner Interactions with Computer Programming Tutorial Videos. Kandarp Khandwala and Philip J. Guo. ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, 2018.
Love them or hate them, videos are a pervasive format for delivering online education at scale. They are especially popular for computer programming tutorials since videos convey expert narration alongside the dynamic effects of editing and running code. However, these screencast videos simply consist of raw pixels, so there is no way to interact with the code embedded inside of them. To expand the design space of learner interactions with programming videos, we developed Codemotion, a computer vision algorithm that automatically extracts source code and dynamic edits from existing videos. Codemotion segments a video into regions that likely contain code, performs OCR on those segments, recognizes source code, and merges together related code edits into contiguous intervals. We used Codemotion to build a novel video player and then elicited interaction design ideas from potential users by running an elicitation study with 10 students followed by four participatory design workshops with 12 additional students. Participants collectively generated ideas for 28 kinds of interactions such as inline code editing, code-based skimming, pop-up video search, and in-video coding exercises.
Zillions of these videos now exist within YouTube, livestreams, MOOCs, and coding tutorial websites. These can get really long, especially if the instructor is demonstrating how to build a realistic app from scratch with all the nuances of nitty-gritty coding details; the Harvard video above is over 2 hours long. Since videos simply consist of pixels with no semantic information about the underlying code, it's hard for learners to navigate through them or to find which parts are most relevant to their learning goals. What better video player interfaces could we build if we could automatically extract the code present within these videos?
To play with this idea, we created Codemotion, a computer vision algorithm that takes existing videos and automatically extracts the source code within them and how that code morphed over time (the motion of code!!!). Our algorithm handles visual features commonly found in screencast videos such as multiple editor panes in split views (like the C and Python editors in the above Harvard video), GUI windows moving around and getting resized, and differing color schemes. It essentially reverse-engineers the video to reconstruct the instructor's exact code edits over time, to the extent that it's visible on-screen.
The UI first uses the extracted code edits to split the original video into intervals based on groups of closely-related edits. Each mini-video represents the times when the instructor was coding up one specific component of their demo. The corresponding portion of the speech transcript (YouTube can automatically generate these) appears above each mini-video.
As each mini-video plays, the code that's being written in that video gets displayed in a text editor alongside that video. The user can copy-paste the code to play with it themselves.
If there are multiple code editor panes present in a given video, the user can choose which one gets displayed in the UI.
The user can search for code (or any text) within the video, and string matches get highlighted in each mini-video.
While we think our prototype interface is neat (after all, we designed it!), we also acknowledge that we're not the target audience. Learners are the true target audience for the screencast video viewing improvements we'd like to make. Thus, we wanted to get them to help us come up with new interface ideas.
To do so, we ran four participatory design workshop sessions with three computer science students in each one. We showed them what Codemotion was capable of so that we could get them to brainstorm (both individually and in a group) what kinds of new interfaces they'd like to see us develop.
Overlay an editable version of the code directly on top of the original video. This will let viewers copy-paste, annotate with their own notes, file bug reports at exact points if there are typos or other errors, and maybe even run the code.
Instead of a video-centric interface, make a code-centric interface where all the extracted code is shown in an IDE. When the user hovers over specific parts of the code, that will pop up the corresponding part of the video where the instructor was writing and explaining that code.
When the user searches for a particular code construct, stitch together a bunch of related videos that feature the queried code so that the user can see multiple independent demonstrations of experts working with that code.
Generate active learning activities based on code that's being written within the video. For instance, before showing what the instructor actually codes up, give the viewer a quiz (multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank) to see if they can guess correctly before watching to see what really happens.
In some imaginary ideal future, everyone would record computer programming tutorials using specialized monitoring tools (like Torta!) that provide detailed metadata about the constituent source code, edit histories, outputs, and provenance so that these tutorials are not simply raw pixels stuck within video files. But in our current reality, screencast videos are still one of the most convenient and pervasive ways to record computer-based tutorials, so zillions of such videos now exist on sites such as YouTube and MOOCs. This paper's contribution works toward helping learners unlock the insights hidden within their pixels.


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The esoteric beats of Tez Nubian Queen's latest hit single, 'Voodoo', hit you right in the chest and force you to wake up and truly listen
Published on : March 12, 2020 March 12, 2020 Published by : citybeats
The esoteric beats of Tez Nubian Queen's latest hit single, 'Voodoo', hit you right in the chest and force you to wake up and truly listen to the sounds coming out of your speakers. Combined with Tez's hauntingly beautiful voice, the melody carries you down a smooth flow, reminiscent of that old school blues and R&B.
A true, thoroughbred love song, 'Voodoo' makes you feel a wide array of sentiments – from her Tez's own private insecurity, to the arduous, all-consuming adoration and devotion for the person she's serenading.
'Voodoo' also has a really pleasant way of pairing Tez's soft, melodious voice with a hip hop beat and a male voice, rapping in the background, thus giving it the perfect balance between mellow and rough, making it a fast favourite for both the 'lighter' crowds, as well as those who prefer a tougher, street-edge to their music.
The Nubian Queen's song, 'Voodoo', true to its' name creates an overall mystical atmosphere for the listener, while at the same time carrying old-school '80s and '90s vibes, but putting a more modern span on them. It's Whitney Houston meets Alicia Keys meets… well, you, right this second, because Tez's music has that rare skill of connecting with the audience and making you feel as if she wrote it this song with you, specifically, in mind.
'Voodoo' is part of Tez's EP, Mrs. Dunston, which she dedicates to her husband (which definitely explains where the besotted mood of this piece comes from). Although this particular album has, as one might expect, a focus on marital love and devotion (with such tracks as 'Bleeding in Your Love' and 'Addicted'), Tez has demonstrated, in the past, her enormous musical skill and versatility.
With songs like 'Thot Bitches', the Queen has proved that she is not merely an excellent soul/blues singer, but a gifted hip-hop artist, as well. Tez, whose real name is Tezonia Quartman, is obviously very dedicated and very passionate about her music, never shying away from a challenge, and skilfully managing to express her feelings, be they love, or anger in her songs.
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Government of Bangladesh Vs. Md. Abdul Karim
Government of Bangladesh (Appellant)
Md. Abdul Karim (Respondent)
ATM Afzal CJ
Judgment : June 14, 1995.
Department Proceeding
A departmental proceeding against an employee is competent besides a proceeding in a Court of law.
Irrespective of the question whether conviction on a criminal charge in a Martial Law Court is covered by rule 8 of the Rules or not the order of punishment cannot be interfered with, for, no fault has been found with the Departmental Proceeding which was an independent proceeding apart from the proceeding in the Martial Law Court although based on the same facts………………………………………………………(8)
Administrative Tribunal Act 1980 (VII of 1981)
Section 4 (2)
For the purpose of limitation of moving the Administrative Tribunal against the order of punishment the respondent was entitled to avail of the benefit of the date of the Memo communicating result of the appeal.
Cases Referred to-
State of Punjab vs. Amar Singh Harika, AIR 1966 (SC) 1313; Ram Bilas Paswan vs. Union of India (Cal) (1991) 16.
Lawyers :
B Hossain, Deputy Attorney General, instructed by Mvi. Md. Wahidullah, Advocate?on?Record-For the Appellant.
Kazi Shahadat Hossain, Advocate, instructed by Mr. Md. Nawab Ali, Advocate?on?Record ? For the Respondent.
Civil Appeal No.16 of 1994.
(From Judgment and order dated 15th November, 1993 passed by Administrative Appellate Tribunal No.33 of 1993).
ATM Afzal CJ.- This appeal by leave at the instance of the Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice and Parliamentary Affairs arises out of a proceeding under the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1980 (Act No.VII of 198 1) and is from the judgment and order dated 27.11.1993 passed by the Administrative Appellate Tribunal, Dhaka in Appeal No. 33 of 1993 upholding those of the Administrative Tribunal, Bogra passed in AT Case No. 27 of 1992.
2. Facts of the case, briefly, are, that the respondent Md. Abdul Karim, who was an Accountant?cum?Bench Assistant in the First Court of Munsif, Sirajgonj District Pabna at the relevant time, was tried by a Summary Martial Law Court under Regulation No. 11 of Martial Law Regulation No.1 of 1992 for allegedly taking a bribe of Taka 25.00 from a party, convicted thereunder on 14.11.1982 and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for six months and a fine of Taka 500.00 in default to RI for two months more. The Zonal Martial Law Authority reduced the sentence to a fine of Taka 200.00 in default to RI for three months.
On 30.11.1982 the District Judge, Pabna started a Departmental Proceeding, Case No.7 of 1982, against the respondent on the basis of the aforesaid case which ended in his conviction. The Subordinate Judge, Sirajgonj who was appointed Enquiry Officer in the proceeding by his report dated 31.3.1983 found the respondent not guilty under rule 3(c) of the Government Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1976, briefly, the Rules. The District Judge, however, did not agree with the opinion of the Enquiry Officer and by an order passed on 8.5.1983 retired the respondent compulsorily from service under rule 4(3)(b) of the said Rules. Respondent took an appeal against the said order to the appellant but the same was (allegedly) dismissed on 20.1.1991 whereupon the respondent filed the aforesaid case before the Administrative Tribunal on 10.2.1991 for setting aside the order of compulsory retirement and for a direction to reinstate him in service with all arrear salaries, etc.
3. The appellant contested the case by filing a written objection stating, inter alia, therein that the order of compulsory retirement was legally passed and confirmed in appeal because of the respondent's conviction on a criminal charge in a Martial Law Court.
4. It appears that the decision in the matter at both the trial and the appellate stage turned on the question as to whether the conviction of the respondent in a Martial Law Court would justify a Departmental Proceeding and further whether the said conviction was covered by rule 8 of the said Rules. Both the Tribunals relying upon the case of Monoranjan Mukharjee vs. Election Commission, 1990 BLD 17 = 41 DLR 484 held that the respondent could not be punished in the Departmental Proceeding on the basis of his conviction in a Martial Law Court. Accordingly, the order of compulsory retirement was set aside by the Administrative Tribunal, Bogra by its judgment and order dated 18.2.1993 and the opposite parties were directed to reinstate the respondent (therein) in his former post with all back salaries and other attending benefit. This order was upheld in appeal by the impugned judgment and order.
5. The Appellate Tribunal in its judgment held that rule 8 of the said Rules does not refer to a 'conviction' by a Martial Law Court and it does not refer to an 'offence' under the Martial Law Regulation or Order but "it simply refers to a criminal charge and conviction as provided in the Judicial hierarchy or by special tribunal".
6. Leave was granted to consider the submission that both the Tribunals below fell into an error in overlooking completely that the impugned action was taken against the respondent upon an independent enquiry under the aforesaid Rules 1976 in which the District Judge who passed the impugned order recorded his own finding as to the guilt of the respondent on the basis of the evidence on record and, as such, the consideration whether the conviction of the respondent in the Martial Law Court was a 'conviction on a criminal charge' within the meaning of rule 8 was wholly irrelevant. The other submission was that the Appellate Tribunal was in any case wrong in holding that rule 8 of the Rules of 1976 does not refer to a conviction by a Martial Law Court and it only refers to a criminal charge and conviction as provided under the ordinary law.
7. At the hearing of the appeal the learned Deputy Attorney General has pressed the first submission as above and modified his second submission by urging that the aforesaid decision in Monoranjan Mukharjee's case was wrongly applied in the facts of the instant case resulting in a miscarriage of justice.
8. As far as the first submission in concerned it is found that both the Tribunals attached no importance to the Departmental Proceeding in which there was an enquiry held in respect of the same allegation on the basis of which the respondent was found guilty in the Summary Martial Law Court. It is well settled that on the self?same allegation a Departmental Proceeding against an employee is competent besides a proceeding in a court of taw. In the present case it is true that the proceeding was started on the basis of the conviction of the respondent in the Summary Martial Law Court, but, nevertheless, it was an independent enquiry in which the respondent had examined several witnesses in his defence. Neither of the Tribunals has, found any fault with the enquiry procedure and the relief given to the respondent was not on the ground that there was any lapse in procedure in holding the enquiry or that the respondent was prejudiced for any reason. The order of compulsory retirement was set aside only on the ground that it was based upon conviction on a criminal charge in a Martial Law Court which is against the principle laid down in Monoranjan Mukharjee's case. Whether that case has been rightly applied will be seen presently but the fact remains that the order of punishment was passed following an independent Departmental Enquiry and the order has been affirmed in appeal filed under the Rules. Therefore, irrespective of the question whether conviction on a criminal charge in a Martial Law Court is covered by rule 8 of the Rules or not the order of punishment cannot be interfered with, for, no fault has been found with the Departmental Proceeding which was an independent proceeding apart from the proceeding in the Martial Law Court although based on the same facts. We, therefore, find force in the first submission of the learned Deputy Attorney?General, Kazi Shahadat Hossain, learned Advocate appearing for the respondent, submitted that the Departmental Proceeding was not a Departmental Proceeding in the true sense of the term, that the learned District Judge, Pabna failed to apply his independent judicial mind while rejecting the finding of the Enquiry Officer who had examined witnesses and found the respondent not guilty of the alleged offence of corruption after giving the respondent a personal hearing and that the learned District Judge had acted upon the direction of the Summary Martial Law Court. We cannot entertain and examine these submissions of the learned Advocate because the Tribunals below had not granted the relief on the grounds now canvassed before us.
9. The question for consideration before us is, whether the Tribunals below were justified in interfering with the order of punishment on the ground as given by them in support of their orders. The only ground, as we find, is the principle as laid down in the case of Monoranjan Mukharjee which has been invoked in toto. It remains to be seen, therefore, whether the principle of that case has been correctly appreciated and applied in the facts of the present case.
10. In the said case (1990 BLD 17) the question arose whether a candidate for Chairmanship of a Union Parishad who was convicted and sentenced by a Summary Martial Law Court in 1984 could be said to be disqualified under section 7(2)(d) of the Local Government (Union Parishads) Ordinance, 1983 which provides that a person shall be disqualified for election or for being a Chairman or a member if he has been, on conviction for a criminal offence involving moral turpitude, sentenced to a term of not less than two years, unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release. The Returning Officer rejected the nomination paper but on appeal the appellate authority set aside the order and allowed the candidate to contest the election who ultimately returned successful. The appellate order was dated 13.1.1988. In repelling a challenge to the said order the Division Bench held that the Local Government Ordinance, 1983 was an ordinary law and when it refers to "criminal offence" and also speaks about "conviction", it invariably refers to ordinary offences provided for by the ordinary laws of the country and also refers to trial and conviction by an ordinary criminal Court within the judicial hierarchy or a Special Tribunal created by ordinary law. It was held that extra constitutional offences tried by extra?constitutional Courts are not contemplated by the ordinary laws of the country and they remain good as long as the extra ? constitutional dispensation, namely, Martial Law period lasts; but with its departure it?no longer casts a shadow upon the ordinary law. In other words, it was held that after the lifting of martial law, while reading any provision as to conviction for a criminal offence in any ordinary law, the conviction by a Martial Law Court for a Martial Law offence cannot be read in such law, although it will be permissible as long as the Martial Law itself remains in force. This is, as we can see, the true import of the said decision.
11. Now in the present case the order of punishment was passed on 8.5.1983 while the Martial Law was in force. That being the position, it must be said that the Tribunals below had wrongly followed the principle of the said case and thus allowed themselves to be misled. Kazi Shahadat Hossain, learned Advocate for the respondent, has however submitted that the said decision was rightly applied because the order of the District Judge was finally upheld by the appellant in appeal on 20.1.1991 when the Martial Law was no longer in force. The submission of the learned Advocate is not based on correct fact as it is found from the record that the appellate order rejecting the appeal was passed on 2nd November, 1983 (vide resolution of the Ministry of Law and Land Reforms, pages 75?77 of the Paper Book). Mr. Hossain has referred to page 73 of the Paper Book containing an order of the Ministry dated 7.1.1991 addressed to the District .Judge, Pabna wherein the learned District Judge was requested to inform the respondent about the result of the appeal who had written to the Ministry that he was not aware of the result of his appeal. The District Judge by his Memo dated 20.1.1991 informed the respondent about the appellate order dated 2.11.1983. Mr. Hossain submits that an order does not take effect unless it is communicated to the person concerned and inasmuch as the respondent was informed about the appellate order, in which the original order had merged, on 20.1.1991. the order will be effective from that date. It was evidently after lifting of the Martial Law in November 1986 and, therefore, the principle in Monoranjan Mukharjee's case was rightly held applicable in the instant case. In support of his contention he has referred to a passage in State of Punjab vs. Amar Singh Harika, AIR 1966 (SC) 1313 which has been quoted in Ram Bilas Paswan vs. Union of India (Cal) (1991) 16 Administrative Tribunal Cases 18 which reads as follows :
"The mere passing of an order of dismissal is not effective unless it is published and communicated to the officer concerned. An order of dismissal passed by an appropriate authority and kept on its file without communicating it to the officer concerned or otherwise publishing it does not take effect as from the date on which the order is actually written out………….."
12. It cannot be denied that the respondent's appeal was dismissed by the appellant by order dated 2.11.1983 and a copy of the said order was forwarded to the District Judge, Pabna for information, necessary action and communication to the respondent. The respondent, however, it appears from the Ministry's letter dated 7.1.1991 (at page 73) complained that he had not received the result of his appeal. He was, therefore, communicated the order dated 2.11.1983 dismissing his appeal by Memo dated 20.1.1991. For the purpose of limitation of moving the Administrative Tribunal against the order of punishment the respondent was entitled to avail of the benefit of the date of the Memo communicating result of the appeal but the fact remains that the appeal was disposed of in 1983 when the Martial Law was in force and an order of conviction by a Martial Law Court could be looked into by the authority at that time. On the principle of Honoranjan Mukharjee's case the conviction on a criminal charge in a Martial Law Court was relevant and good when the order of punishment was passed and confirmed in appeal. We are, therefore, of the view that the principle of that case has not been correctly appreciated by the Tribunals below and wrongly applied in the facts of the present case. Thus, in any view of the matter we do not think that the Tribunals below were justified in interfering with the order of punishment passed by the District Judge, Pabna.
In the result, therefore, the appeal is allowed without any order as to cost. The impugned judgment and order are set aside.
Source : 47 DLR (AD) (1995) 146


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English Forum Switzerland > Off-Topic > Off-Topic > General off-topic
Two questions for English speakers
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Re: Two questions for English speakers
My English teacher in the 8th grade would not allow us to use the word "got" in any of our papers. I recommend we eliminate the word entirely! There is almost always a better word to use.
Location: Neuchatel
It is also more typical for an American to simply use "I have" rather than "I've got". I have many American colleagues who would say "I have two sisters", which is something I'd never say.
KeinFranzösisch
ThomasT
Hi, would you have the time to help me with the following language / grammar questions ?
1. What is the difference between: "I was in Indianapolis" and "I was at Indianapolis".
2. What is the difference between "You've got me there" and "You got me there" ?
Wow three pages of this?
You can't be "at" a city. You can only be "in" a city.
and while your second one is neither right nor wrong technically, it refers to the present, not the past.
You got me there -- past tense
(but more likely to say "you got me on that one" for the past)
You've got me there -- present tense
I don't get what you mean.
Do you mean you don't understand what I mean?
Last edited by weejeem; 14.10.2011 at 16:03.
I've palmed my face so many times reading this thread that my skin is starting to wear thin...
I GOT bored reading some of these answers...
Location: The Village
Louis Wu
You're right I didn't ask him for help though, in fairness, the OP addressed his question to speakers of English without qualifying which particular brand of English he'd like (to have gotten?)
American & Canadian English ... I tried to loose my accent but I can't do it here in Switzerland, too many English speakers from different countries, all I get is mishmash. Which is why I'm going back to a rough Swiss accent that is at least identifiable.
Chemmie
I was at Indianapolis.
It was a great race, saw some sick crashes.
specifics :P
Carlos R
Location: Roundn'about Basel
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TiMow
<snip>I was at Indianapolis, may be spoken but is grammatically inaccurate - for an event, you should say: "I was at the (definite article required) Indianapolis 500 (additional clarification required)
I was at London Bridge
I was at Titlis
I was at Barfuzerplatz
In the first instance, 'in' clearly indicates a place since you can be 'in' a city, not 'at' a city. The second sentence is a bit ambiguous since, you wouldn't ever say, "I was at Chicago", for example. You would say, "I was in Chicago, at the train station, on track 5."<snip>
Q: Which station were you at when you realised you'd missed your stop?
A: At Chicago
Not as simple as all that.
Additional clarification may be helpful - when isn't it? - but not as part of the grammar of the sentence/language... Context to both the OP's question and the answers given, is, as ever, missing.
At least it's not gotten your goat; there's nothing worse than an ill-gotten goat, I kid ewe not.
But, in that specific example, Chicago isn't the city, but the Chicago [station], city unspecified (since there could be a Chicago station in a different city). The original guide that you can be 'in' a city, but not 'at' a city still holds, as I suspect the OP understands the context even if it was left out for intentional debate such as this.
As I said earlier, prepositional phrases are difficult to master and not without rules but are best learned through reading, listening to English as it is spoken, etc. rather than dissecting the grammar that even most natives get wrong if pressed to diagram the sentence for clarity.
When I was learning a particularly difficult language with draconian grammar, I found it easier, after trying too hard to get the grammar correct by relying on the books, to simply listen to how the language sounded and watched a lot of local news and other programs where I could rely on the language being mostly correct to guide my choices in words and endings. It worked rather well.
But, the original guide that you can be 'in' a city, but not 'at' a city still holds, as I suspect the OP understands the context even if it was left out for intentional debate such as this.
Q: "How did you get on in London?"
A: "I didn't reach London. The car broke down at Birmingham."
Next, please.
weejeem
That's a different context and case. As I said, there are no simple 'rules' to follow and the grammar is treacherous in many cases so it's easier to simply learn by example.
You've got me there -- present tense I don't get what you mean.
I think most posters seem to agree that the correct preposition of place for a city, is to be in it, with at as the correct one for an event.
But there seems more confusion over the second query , with it appearing to depend on the perceived meaning of the sentences - perhaps a little easier to work out if they were read in context of a larger text.
Personally, I read it the same way as KF and one other poster, that one is present tense and one is past. Howewer, I was reading "You've got me there," as meaning that I don't know the answer to a question, not that I don't understand.
"You got me," I read as being a colloquial, past tense response for either a posed question, or for being outsmarted at something."
That may sound correct (argue it as "common English usage" if you like) but I agree with previous posters. Therefore I think the car broke down in Birmingham. If you are using "at" then there needs to be another word added. For example, "The car broke down at Birmingham station."
No. See #3.
1. (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
2. (used to indicate a location or position, as in time, on a scale, or in order): at zero; at noon; at age 65; at the end; at the lowest point.
3. (used to indicate presence or location): at home; at hand.
4. (used to indicate amount, degree, or rate): at great speed; at high altitudes.
5. (used to indicate a direction, goal, or objective); toward: Aim at the mark. Look at that.
Thanks for that summary. Do you have the equivalent one for the use of "in," especially in relation to it as a preposition of place, please? I don't think your number 3 quite covers the usage in the case of a city and am curious about it.
In the case of a city, the name is being used synecdochally, so 3 does cover it.
Thus, when I say that I "broke down at Birmingham", this means that I broke down in the somewhere in the vicinity of Birmingham, and is not the same thing as breaking down "in Birmingham".
That's a different context and case.
And how, exactly, do you know the full context and case of this question?
Neither is wrong. If someone told me they were at Indianapolis, I would assume they were at the Indie 500 (or another "named" event) - of course further clarification and context would let me know if they meant "in", but you seem to have missed this bit.
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Microreview: Joanna Penn Cooper, What Is a Domicile
Carlo Matos
Topics: Microreview
What Is a Domicile
Joanna Penn Cooper,
Noctuary Press, $14 (paper)
Joanna Penn Cooper has described her new book, What Is a Domicile, as being "about the first few years of a relationship . . . and then about pregnancy and early motherhood." The collection is divided into three sections, with the title section proving the most complex and satisfying aesthetically. Its poems (mostly in prose) explore the spaces where the role of mother comes into contact with the role of poet, where the domestic and the artistic meet but do not, as one might expect, conflict. Cooper's decision to present their interplay as synergistic instead of dichotomous is the collection's great strength and joy; her focus is not on what is gained and lost when one brings new life into the world but on how pregnancy and motherhood manipulate space-time. In a delightful moment of theorizing, she co-opts the term effleurage from massage, making it mean "the mind and body's flagrant disregard for notions of the consistent forward movement of time." Elsewhere she develops this idea further: "It isn't that I'm blind to the unavoidable exigencies / of the space-time continuum, just that . . . / I am compelled / to travel up and down the reality scale, playing whatever / notes create ambience and distract from the lack of plot." This expansive temporal model does not, however, exclude the experience of time as units of resource, which anyone who has raised children knows is nothing to scoff at: "I had something else to say about this, but the baby wakes up smiling."