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At the Auditorium: Mainly Mozart, the Brain and Musical Forms, SD Symphony
At the Auditorium at TSRI in La Jolla CA, Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Chamber Music series will present a concert on Saturday, May 17, 7:30 PM, with the Orion String Quartet and the Windscape quintet performing Bach's Art of the Fugue and works by Mozart and Dvorak. A pre-concert reception will be held at 6:30 PM. Ticket and program information are available at the Mainly Mozart website.
The San Diego Symphony's Chamber Music Series will present a concert on Tuesday, May 20, 7:30 PM, featuring award-winning violinist Vadim Repin performing Bartók's Piano Quintet in C Major, Op. 14. For ticket and additional program information, visit the symphony's website.
The Mozart and the Mind series will present American experimental music pioneer David Rosenboom, exploring "Concurrent Complexity—Linked Brains and Musical Forms" on Saturday, May 31, 5 PM, followed at 6 PM by free open-air, interactive performance by Ringing Minds, featuring Rosenboom, ethnomusicologist Alex Khalil and neuroscientist and artist Tim Mullen. Additional information is available on the Mainly Mozart website.
Mainly Mozart's Spotlight Chamber series will offer a concert, Romance of D'Ambrosio, on Saturday, May 31, 7:30 PM, featuring musicians Ida Kavafian, Benjamin Beilman, Paul Neubauer, Che-Yen Chen, Peter Wiley and Eric Kim performing D'Ambrosio's String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 42 and Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18. Ticket and program details can be found on the Mainly Mozart website.
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Passing the Baton for Cancer Research
With a group of bikers traveling to research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa, Kathy Spencer, left, of TSRI and John Towart of Siemens stop at Scripps California to pass a high-tech baton to members of the TSRI community for the Siemens/Stand Up To Cancer Baton Pass fundraiser. For each handoff, Siemens donated $1 to cancer research efforts. The May 12 event raised $500 and Siemens will continue to donate $1 for each "Like" on the campaign's Facebook page until September 5. (Photo by Cindy Brauer)


Colliding with a large commercial truck has poor odds for the passengers and drivers in the other vehicle. Of all the fatalities that occur from large truck accidents, over 70% of them are passengers or driver of other vehicles. One common type of accident involving large trucks is when other vehicles slide under the truck, essentially cutting the passenger vehicle in half and often causing fatalities. Although some safety precautions are in place, more needs to be done to prevent these types of accidents.
Under-carriage, also known as under-ride or under-run accidents happen when a large cargo or semi-truck collides with a passenger vehicle. This can happen from any angle; being hit from behind, the side or running into the back of the truck. The passenger vehicle does not have any guards to protect it above the bumper and hood or trunk, allowing it to easily slide under the truck. The impact, regardless of safety features, generally will crush or even remove the area of vehicle at the level of impact. For most cars, this would be at about the level of the dashboard.
The Insurance Institute For Highway Safety did a study on 1,000 large truck crashes that happened between 2001-2003 and were part of the federal Large Truck Crash Causation Study. Only 78% of the crashes did not have any under-carriage damage to the other vehicle and in 82% of the cases where there was a fatality, there was severe under-carriage damage that occurred during the accident.
The main safety measure that is used to prevent under-carriage accidents is an under-ride guard that is installed on rear end of large trucks. Although these may prevent some cars or trucks from going underneath the carriage, it is not enough. In another study done by the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety, they tested different rear guards at different impact speeds and variables. Even with a rear-guard in place, at only 35 MPH, some crashes lead to impact to the head area of the crash dummies and serious damage to the test passenger vehicle.
One concern is how these rear guards are tested. Instead of being tested as a whole system, which the bolts, guard and welding in place, only the individual parts are required to be tested. Another concern is that even if rear guards are able to prevent some under-ride accidents, there is nothing in place to prevent under-carriage accidents from the side or front of a large truck.
There is still a long way to go in preventing under-carriage accidents. The trucking industry needs to continue to press forward in new standards to protect other vehicles on the road from becoming victim to sliding under these large trucks in an accident. Until more safety measures are taken, there will continue to be high rates of fatalities and decapitations in this type of accident.
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The Isle of Man is among the most spectacular localities within the Viking world. Settled by the Norsemen in the ninth century, it played a significant part in the control of seaways in and beyond the Irish Sea. Traces of Norse culture in the Isle of Man are manifold – spectacular and lavishly equipped ship burials, settlement sites and fortifications, silver hoards, and magnificent stone crosses with runic inscriptions and mythological and heroic imagery. We will work closely with schools, museums, archaeologists, re-enactment specialists and some eminent local scholars in addition to visiting the Island's most important archaeological sites and monuments, in preparation for mapping a Man Viking Trail. Participants will learn about heritage management and public engagement with adults and children; opportunities to consider and develop relationships between academic knowledge, tourism and writing about local Old Norse and Viking topics for a popular audience are central to the programme. A particular focus of the Man project is the illumination of the diverse rituals and beliefs shared by Scandinavian immigrants: the performance of Viking funerals, their symbolism and material remains, as well as the ways in which the Norse pagan myths and beliefs were transformed and 'translated' in the post-conversion centuries. The project is led by two scholars – Dr Carolyne Larrington (Oxford University, UK), who has a long-standing interest in heroic legend and its translation into different media and Dr Leszek Gardeła (Institute of Archaeology, University of Rzeszów, Poland) an archaeologist with a particular interest in past mortuary practices, symbolism and worldviews.


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Q: How do you listen for custom events in Polymer Dart 1.0? I've been trying to do something like the following inside a Polymer Dart 1.0 element
@PolymerRegister('some-element')
class SomeElement extends PolymerElement {
    ...
    void fireEvent() {
        fire('someevent');
    }
    ...
}

I then listen for it in this manner
<some-element on-someevent="handleSomeEvent"></some-element>

with the method defined inside the Polymer Element that I'm using  in defined thus
@reflectable
void handleSomeEvent([_, __]) {
    ...
}

The problem is I get an
Unhandled exception

which wasn't helpful, and it took me a while to figure out that the above was causing it.  If I remove the
@reflectable

annotation from the event handler method, I get the following
method `registered` not defined

I was wondering if there is a special way to handle custom events in Polymer Dart 1.0?
I can handle it this way
on['someevent'].listen(handleSomeEvent);

which does work, it's just I don't see why I shouldn't be able to handle it both ways.  I'm thinking I'll be submitting a bug report on this, but I thought I'd put it here and check to see if I've done this correctly, since what I did, apart from using
@reflectable
which is Polymer Dart 1.0 specific, is what they say you should do in Polymer JS whose documentation can be found here
UPDATE
I should clarify, this exception happened at load time, when the element was being registered.  I'll put the full exception in later, when I have a bit more time.
The exception I'm getting is the following
Exception: Uncaught Error: Unhandled exception:
Reflecting on un-marked type 'JsObjectImpl'
#0      _InstanceMirrorImpl._InstanceMirrorImpl (package:reflectable/src/reflectable_transformer_based.dart:150:9)
#1      ReflectableImpl.reflect (package:reflectable/src/reflectable_transformer_based.dart:1216:16)
#2      _setupReflectableMethods.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:polymer/src/common/polymer_descriptor.dart:151:49)
#3      JsObject._callMethod (dart:js:678)
#4      JsObject.callMethod (dart:js:618)
#5      PolymerRegister.initialize (package:polymer/src/common/polymer_register.dart:19:13)
#6      loadInitializers.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:initialize/src/static_loader.dart:46:32)
#7      _runInitQueue (package:initialize/initialize.dart:35:24)
#8      _runInitQueue.<anonymous closure> (package:initialize/initialize.dart:38:26)
#9     _RootZone.runUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1165)
#10     _Future._propagateToListeners.handleValueCallback (dart:async/future_impl.dart:502)
#11     _Future._propagateToListeners (dart:async/future_impl.dart:585)
#12     _Future._completeWithValue (dart:async/future_impl.dart:376)
#13     _Future._asyncComplete.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/future_impl.dart:430)
#14     _microtaskLoop (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:43)
#15     _microtaskLoopEntry (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:52)
#16     _ScheduleImmediateHelper._handleMutation (dart:html:42565)
Stack Trace:
#0      JsObject._callMethod (dart:js:678)
#1      JsObject.callMethod (dart:js:618)
#2      PolymerRegister.initialize (package:polymer/src/common/polymer_register.dart:19:13)
#3      loadInitializers.<anonymous closure>.<anonymous closure> (package:initialize/src/static_loader.dart:46:32)
#4      _runInitQueue (package:initialize/initialize.dart:35:24)
#5      _runInitQueue.<anonymous closure> (package:initialize/initialize.dart:38:26)
#6      _RootZone.runUnary (dart:async/zone.dart:1165)
#7      _Future._propagateToListeners.handleValueCallback (dart:async/future_impl.dart:502)
#8      _Future._propagateToListeners (dart:async/future_impl.dart:585)
#9      _Future._completeWithValue (dart:async/future_impl.dart:376)
#10     _Future._asyncComplete.<anonymous closure> (dart:async/future_impl.dart:430)
#11     _microtaskLoop (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:43)
#12     _microtaskLoopEntry (dart:async/schedule_microtask.dart:52)
#13     _ScheduleImmediateHelper._handleMutation (dart:html:42565)

Further Info
Next time I ask for help, I'll just use the exact code I'm using.  The method I'm annotating with
@reflectable

is called registered.
@reflectable
void registered([_, __]) {
    ....
}

If I change the name of this method to something else like
@reflectable
void someOtherName([_, __]) {
    ...
}

The exception doesn't occur.  Sorry about that, it didn't occur to me the name of the method might have something to do with it.  Again sorry, but I still would like some explanation as to why the name of the annotated method matters in this case.

A: This is just fine.
@reflectable
void handleSomeEvent([_, __]) {
    ...
}

Can you provide the project in a GitHub repo that allows to reproduce the problem?
An additional method would be
@Listen('someevent')
void handleSomeEvent([_, __]) {
    ...
}

(You don't need to add anything to HTML for this method).

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Berkeley Earth Day brings the Bay Area environmental community together to celebrate our vision for a sustainable future.
Join us for a book release event celebrating "After the Death of Nature", by ESPM Professor Carolyn Merchant, edited by Ken Worthy, Elizabeth Allison, and Whitney Bauman.
Photojournalist Mr. Alfredo Bini will present his documentary on land grabbing in Ethiopia "Land Grabbing or Land to Investors?", followed by a round-table discussion with Prof. Claudia Carr (ESPM), Prof.


When Tina Gunderson heard about the Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) emergency Schedule I ban on kratom, which goes into effect September 30, she was devastated. Like many Americans, Gunderson uses kratom (Mitragyna speciosa), a species of tropical evergreen tree related to coffee plants, to treat chronic pain naturally. Kratom is also regularly used as an over-the-counter method to wean off opioid addiction.
Gunderson is now worried she will soon become a felon for the way she treats her many chronic conditions, including a rare, incurable autoimmune syndrome known as Behçet's disease. Thousands like her now face similar punishment.
By Monday, September 26th, another 49 politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, had signed on in support of the letter.
Which isn't to say the kratom ban has caught many people by surprise. For more than two years, the Food and Drug Administration has been ordering customs to seize large shipments of the supplement worth as much as $400,000. Six states (Alabama, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Indiana and Arkansas) have already outlawed kratom. Given the DEA's longstanding stance against kratom, many feel like it was only a matter of time before the agency took action.
What is surprising, however, are the circumstances in which the ban has been put into place.
A staffer speaking on behalf of Rep. Pocan's office told Reset.Me that the ban is "clearly an overreaction" by the DEA, a decision rooted in politics and not fact.
Had the DEA instead chosen less severe classification—say Schedule II or III or even V—those universities wouldn't risk losing their funding overnight. Ironically, banning a substance for having no "accepted medical use" also prevents research from discovering that potential. It turns out the reason the agency can't choose a lower schedule with an emergency ban actually has to do with how the Controlled Substances Act is written, according to Slate. Perhaps this is more evidence that the DEA should not have this kind of authority in the first place.
The DEA's decision is based on a spike in poison control calls related to kratom—26 in 2010 jumped to 263 in 2015—but in 2013 alone, there were "11,000 calls related to pens and ink, 15,000 for air fresheners, 19,000 for deodorant, 20,000 for hand sanitizers and 40,000 for bleach," according to the Washington Post. It would seem that kratom is safer than many of the items in a typical bathroom. Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims 78 Americans die every day from opioid overdoses, an epidemic kratom might actually be able to mitigate.
So if the ban is not based on much science or addressing actual hazards to public safety, what's the real motivation behind it? Many presume major pharmaceutical companies are somehow behind the deal—and their fears may not be far off.
Consider that TRV130, a drug branded as Oliceridine by pharmaceutical developer Trevena, is currently in phase three testing for the intravenous treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain.
TRV130 shares something in common with kratom: neither drug engages the β‑arrestin 2 pathway. Morphine, however, does—and this mechanism is what causes side effects in opioids, such as respiratory depression (slow breathing), analgesic tolerance, and constipation.
In other words, the DEA is banning an opioid-like substance, kratom, which has far less side effects than common opioids, while another, highly similar drug has been granted Breakthrough Therapy designation by the FDA, giving it expedited development and review.
Trevena isn't the only organization trying to make drugs similar to kratom. In the last decade, scientists have developed MGM-9, MGM–15, and MGM-16, synthetic versions of kratom's main ingredients. In the race to find safe, non-addictive pain killer alternatives, the federal government seems to want to cut out the competition.
In other words: You can't patent a plant—but you can ban it.
Also consider that DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg was once partner at Hogan Lovells (formerly Hogan & Hartson), one of the largest lobbying firms in the nation—and one that deals heavily with pharmaceutical regulatory law. While his tenure there did not involve pharmaceutical law, but rather white collar criminal defense, Rosenberg did make an important connection with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who was partner at Hogan Lovells during the same period.
The DEA's Public Affairs department refused a request for comment.
To say there is not the possibility of some sort of conflict of interest in this kratom ban—especially given the DEA's flat-out refusal to hear public comments on the issue—would be ignoring some very troubling facts. Indeed, the kratom ban is about much more than just kratom.
Troy Farah is a journalist and photographer from Phoenix, Arizona. He's written for VICE, LA Weekly, Phoenix New Times, and others. His website is troyfarah.com, and you can find him on Twitter.


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CCPR/C/SR.3387
International Covenant on Civil and Political R ights
120 t h session
Summary record of the 3387th meeting
Held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva, on Wednesday, 12 July 2017, at 10 a.m.
Chair:Ms. Waterval (Rapporteur)
Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant (continued)
Initial report of Pakistan (continued)
The meeting was called to order at 10.05 a.m.
Initial report of Pakistan (continued) (CCPR/C/PAK/1; CCPR/C/PAK/Q/1 and Add.1)
At the invitation of the Chair, the delegation of Pakistan took places at the Committee table.
Ms. Malik (Pakistan) said that a jirga (tribal council) composed of 25 women had been established in Swat and had settled many cases involving women. Jirgas had become more structured and victims of criminal offences were increasingly seeking redress before criminal courts rather than jirgas. Women Complaint Centres provided free legal aid and other assistance to women in distress. With regard to the honour killing that had occurred near Abbottabad in May 2016, the perpetrators had been detained and would be prosecuted.
Steps were being taken to control the harmful practice of ghag; (forced marriage of women); the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elimination of the Custom of Ghag Act had been passed in 2013, for example, and was being properly enforced. In order to promote women's participation in political life, it had recently been established that women should account for 5 per cent of the candidates put forward by any party and for 10 per cent of the votes cast in any constituency. In addition, persons with disabilities were now able to vote by post.
Mr. Shafique (Pakistan) said that the National Commission for Human Rights operated independently of the Government. To his knowledge, the Chairperson of the Commission had not been prevented from serving as a member of the delegation; he would like more information on the allegations that had been made in that regard.
Mr. Naz (Pakistan) reaffirmed that the Commission was entirely independent and was not subject to pressure from the Government.
Mr. Amil (Pakistan) said that the decision to lift the moratorium on the death penalty had been based on a national consensus that had been reached following a horrific terrorist attack on children. The Government had respected the wishes of the people, as expressed through their members of parliament. Since the moratorium had been lifted, 562 persons had been sentenced to death and 428 persons had been executed. Between 2015 and 2017, there had been a steady decline in the number of executions. The Government was constantly reassessing the situation, with a view to narrowing the scope of application of the death penalty. It was important to stress that minors were never executed and that, under the Constitution, any person sentenced to death could file an application through the Ministry of the Interior for pardon, reprieve and respite and for the remission, suspension or commutation of his or her sentence, to be granted by the President.
Ms. Javeri Agha (Pakistan) said that an abortion could be performed lawfully after 12 weeks of pregnancy if the mother required necessary treatment or if her life was in danger. The concept of necessary treatment could be interpreted very broadly. Nobody had ever been convicted for performing or undergoing an abortion. Thanks to the work of many NGOs, the provision of women's health services had improved greatly. It was also worth noting that the government of Punjab had developed guidelines on safe abortion and postabortion care.
Between 2000 and 2017, the maternal mortality rate had dropped from 490 to 250 deaths per 100,000 live births and the mortality rate for children under 5 years old had dropped from 138 to 85 deaths per 1,000 live births. The health budget had increased and the country had established an extensive network of female health workers, with 120,000 women providing primary, secondary and tertiary care.
Mr. Heyns said that the Committee was concerned by reports of extrajudicial executions by members of the police force and the military, and by the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators of those crimes. It was also concerned that the death penalty was not being applied in accordance with the substantive and procedural safeguards provided for in the Covenant. The phrase "the most serious crimes", contained in article 6 (2) of the Covenant, was generally understood by the international community to refer to acts of murder, yet only 20 per cent of the persons sentenced to death in Pakistan had committed an act of that kind.
The right to a fair trial was not sufficiently protected, particularly in military courts. The State party had claimed in paragraph 8 of its replies to the list of issues that no prisoner with mental health problems had ever been executed; the Committee had been informed, however, that Mr. Muneer Hussain, a prisoner suffering from a serious mental illness, had been executed in 2015.
He would be grateful if the delegation could provide an example of a case in which clemency had been granted, for it appeared that applications for clemency were invariably unsuccessful. With regard to the execution of minors, the Committee was concerned by cases such as that of Shafqat Hussain, who had been executed in 2015, having been arrested for murder at the age of 14 in 2004.
Pointing out that the State party was responsible for requiring that medical examinations be conducted to determine the age of the accused, he asked whether that requirement was met and what other measures were being taken to prevent the execution of minors.
Mr. de Frouville, noting that the grounds for discrimination set out in articles 2 and 26 of the Covenant were not explicitly mentioned in article 25 of the Constitution, said that he would like to know whether there were plans to adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, as recommended by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in paragraph 20 of its concluding observations on the initial report of Pakistan to that Committee (E/C.12/PAK/CO/1) and whether there was any case law to support the State party's claim, in paragraph 47 of its report, that the judicial interpretation of article 25 of the Constitution was broad enough to address discrimination on all grounds mentioned in article 2 of the Covenant.
It remained unclear whether the State party had considered withdrawing its reservations to article 3 of the Covenant, on gender equality. In that connection, it would also be useful to know whether there were any plans to amend the discriminatory provisions contained in the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat Application) Act of 1962 and the Law of Evidence. Lastly, he wished to know whether the State party intended to decriminalize same-sex relations, as recommended by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in paragraph 22 of its concluding observations, and what other steps it might take to combat discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Ms. Cleveland said that she would like to know whether the concept of necessary treatment, in the context of abortion, covered mental health treatment; whether it remained the case that abortion was not permitted in the event of rape, incest or fetal impairment; and what legal instrument served as a basis for the interpretation of article 338 of the Criminal Code. It would be useful if the delegation could indicate what efforts had been made to inform medical students, health service providers and the general public of the circumstances in which abortion could be performed legally; to ensure that abortions were performed safely by qualified service providers throughout the country, including in provinces where the local government was responsible for regulating abortion; and to combat the stigmatization of women seeking an abortion.
Recalling that the death penalty must not be implemented in a manner that constituted torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, she said that the Committee had received reports of a number of failings in that regard, including botched executions owing to a shortage of trained staff and a lack of communication with family members. She would like to know what was being done to ensure that death sentences were carried out in accordance with article 7 of the Covenant.
She asked whether the State party planned to re-enact the Protection of Pakistan Act, which had expired in 2014. If so, it would be useful to know whether the Act would be amended in order to take account of the Committee's concerns over the breadth of authority it bestowed, including the use of force during arrests and lengthy pretrial detention. She also wished to learn of the outcome of trials conducted under the Act and action taken in respect of pending cases.
The extensive jurisdiction of antiterrorism courts was a matter of concern. Moreover, as a result of the broad definition of terrorism, ordinary murder, kidnapping and robbery could be understood as falling within their purview and the courts were reportedly overburdened with cases that should be handled by civilian courts. She asked what measures the State party intended to take to ensure fair trials, narrow the definition of terrorism and reduce the backlog of cases.
The Committee was concerned by the extension of the jurisdiction of military courts to cases transferred from antiterrorism courts and to persons detained under the Actions (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation. According to information before the Committee, there were incidents of secret detention, incommunicado detention and ill-treatment, and approximately 90 per cent of convictions were based on coerced confessions. There was also concern over the fact that military court proceedings were secret; defendants had reportedly no opportunity to choose a lawyer; the identity of judges was not revealed; and neither the evidence nor the grounds for conviction were made public. Such proceedings were inconsistent with articles 14 and 15 of the Covenant. Although military court judgments could be appealed, civilian courts appeared to have limited jurisdiction and she wished to know in what way the State party afforded a meaningful right of appeal, what civil oversight mechanisms were in place and what kinds of remedies were available. She requested the delegation to comment on reports that five of the individuals convicted by military courts were victims of enforced disappearance, and that the Supreme Court had rejected an appeal lodged by families on grounds of coerced confessions.
Although the State party had claimed that no juveniles had been tried in military courts, one person had reportedly been arrested at the age of 14, gone missing, and reappeared when convicted by a military court six years later. She invited the delegation to comment. It would be useful to know what measures the State party intended to take to reform military court proceedings, improve conditions of confinement and ensure due process. With regard to the State party's assertion that all allegations of torture were duly investigated, she asked how persons held in incommunicado or secret detention could file complaints of torture or ill-treatment. Could the delegation provide data on torture-related court proceedings?
She asked whether refugees and asylum seekers without identification cards were subject to restrictions on freedom of movement. With regard to the provisions of the Exit from Pakistan (Control) Ordinance 1981, she asked the delegation to explain the difference between the Exit Control List (ECL), the Black List and the Visa Control List and to specify the criteria used for placing individuals on those lists. It would be useful to know whether individuals were informed when placed on a list, whether the decision could be challenged, and when a name was removed from the list. According to information before the Committee, the Exit Control List was used to curtail freedom of movement of persons accused of blasphemy, journalists and activists, among others. She asked what safeguards were in place to ensure that travel restrictions were not imposed improperly, whether it was true that entry and exit to Balochistan had been blocked repeatedly, under what circumstances passports were cancelled, and which areas of the country were currently subject to travel restrictions for foreigners.
Ms. Brands Kehris said that the Committee would appreciate receiving data on the number of complaints, investigations, prosecutions and convictions under the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act and the Anti-Honour Killings (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act. She also wished to learn more about the implementation of the Sindh Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act and the Balochistan Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act and any obstacles to implementation. She asked what progress had been made with regard to the adoption of the national domestic violence bill, whether the Anti-Rape (Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill included provisions on marital rape and whether the special procedures set forth therein had been applied.
It appeared that the Constitution prohibited the use of torture for the extraction of evidence, but remained silent on its use for other purposes, and that the definition of torture fell short of that provided in article 7 of the Covenant. She asked whether the State party had taken any steps to bring its definition of torture into line with the Covenant. She also wished to know why the penalty for acts of torture set forth in the Police Order of 2002 was half that of the penalty established in the Penal Code, and what had been done to ensure that penalties were commensurate with the gravity of offences. Could the delegation provide the text of the relevant Penal Code article? It would be useful to know whether the Torture, Custodial Death and Custodial Rape (Prevention and Punishment) Bill had been adopted, and whether the shortcoming concerning the independence of the investigative body had been addressed. She enquired why section 21-H of the Anti-Terrorism Act did not contain any safeguards to ensure that defendants were not tortured or ill-treated to obtain confessions, and whether there were plans to include such safeguards in the future.
Could the delegation inform the Committee of any specific measures that had been taken to implement its legislation prohibiting bonded labour? The practice reportedly continued to exist and was widespread, especially in the brick kiln industry and among Christians and Dalit, and she asked whether workplaces were being monitored, whether district vigilance committees were effective and whether specific steps been taken to address bonded labour in domestic work. The Committee would welcome data on bonded labour-related proceedings, on awareness-raising activities, and the implementation of the Prevention and Control of Human Trafficking Ordinance.
Mr. Iwasawa reiterated the questions he had raised at the previous meeting regarding enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, which had remained largely unanswered.
According to information before the Committee, the security forces, the military and the intelligence services used torture systematically to obtain confessions. He asked what had been done to combat such practices and to prevent impunity. Could the delegation provide information on criminal proceedings opened against police officers suspected of committing torture, sanctions imposed and compensation awarded? It would be useful to know why members of the military and paramilitary forces were granted retrospective immunity from prosecution for torture under the Actions (in Aid of Civil Power) Regulation and the Army Act, and whether there was independent oversight of police conduct. He asked whether the Human Rights Cell of the Supreme Court and the National Commission for Human Rights investigated allegations of torture effectively, and whether there were any other independent mechanisms serving that purpose. He wished to know whether any Pakistani authority had conducted an independent investigation into the torture and death in custody of political activist Aftab Ahmad in May 2016.
Given that unsentenced prisoners reportedly made up the majority of the prison population in the State party, and that individuals might remain in detention for periods exceeding the maximum sentence, he wished to know what would be done to reduce the length of pretrial detention. Information before the Committee suggested that, under the Anti-Terrorism Act, security agencies could detain any person suspected of involvement in the activities of a proscribed organization for a period of up to one year. Could the delegation comment on the veracity of that information? He asked how many habeas corpus writs had been filed in order to obtain release from security-related and preventive detention, how often release had been granted, through what mechanism the court monitored compliance with release orders, and in how many cases the courts had granted compensation for illegal arrest.
Additional information was required on the outcome of the judicial reforms undertaken in the framework of the National Judicial Policy of 2009. He wished to know what criteria were used for judicial appointments. What measures would be taken to increase the insufficient budget allocations for the judiciary, improve the working conditions of judges, address the shortage of judges, combat corruption in the judiciary and guarantee its independence? It would also be useful to know what progress had been made with the protection of victims, witnesses and legal professionals, and how many persons had been tried and convicted for threats and attacks against legal professionals.
Mr. Ben Achour, referring to the recent lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty, said that one of the purposes of a human rights system, in democracies in particular, was to prevent popular excesses. In that connection, he would welcome a comment on reports that the decision to lift the moratorium had been made not by consensus, as the State party had claimed, but by the Government alone. He wondered whether any of the State party's Presidents had ever used their constitutional prerogative to grant a pardon to a person sentenced to death.
Turning to the issues of torture, ill-treatment and deprivation of liberty, he said that the State party's reliance on Jail Committees to ensure that conditions of detention were adequate was a commendable practice. However, the State party's 97 prisons were operating at nearly double their official capacity, and the Committee had received reports of cases of torture in both prisons and police holding facilities.
Ensuring that the Constitution and federal laws were applied throughout the State party, including the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, was a complex task. It would be interesting to know, for example, what progress had been made by the Reform Committee that had been constituted to ensure that the jurisdiction of the State party's courts and the scope of its laws extended to the Tribal Areas. Ensuring the application of article 8 of the Constitution, under which any laws inconsistent with or in derogation of fundamental rights were to be void, posed particular problems, as doing so required reconciling the imperatives of human rights and Islamic law. In that regard, he wondered what the State party's authorities believed could be done to reconcile two of the introductory clauses of the preamble to its Constitution — one stating that sovereignty over the entire universe belonged to the almighty Allah alone and the other that it was the will of the people to establish an order wherein the State was to exercise its powers and authority.
That reconciliation was of prime importance in the area of human rights, as a number of Islamic laws, those dealing with family and criminal matters in particular, did not lend themselves to the exercise of the rights recognized in the Covenant. It seemed unlikely, for example, that all persons under the jurisdiction of a State that required the President and the Prime Minister to be Muslim, as Pakistan and a number of other Muslim countries did, were equal before the law. The constitutional provision stating that no law repugnant to the injunctions of Islam should be adopted was itself contrary to the Covenant. He wondered whether the State party's laws on the status of women, as inspired by the injunctions of Islam, were consistent with article 25 (2) of its own Constitution, which prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex. Were the laws that allowed a man to take more than one wife, that deprived women of equal inheritance rights and that made their testimony worth half that of a man not incompatible with that constitutional guarantee?
As Muhammad Iqbal, the intellectual father of Pakistan, had noted, the Qu'ran was not a code of law. Many Muslim countries had amended their laws to bring them into line with the spirit of the times. Pakistan, which had been one of the first countries to promote a form of Islam characterized by tolerance, should consider making a similar effort. Pakistan, like much of the Islamic world, was the victim of a contradiction: it endured the effects of the terrorism and religious radicalization for which it provided a breeding ground by insisting on a strict interpretation of the inegalitarian aspects of Islam.
The meeting was suspended at 11.45 a.m. and resumed at 12.05 p.m.
Mr. Michael (Pakistan) said that Pakistan was a religiously and culturally diverse country. Efforts had been made to encourage tolerance and mutual respect. People of various backgrounds enjoyed equal rights under the Constitution, and religious and other minorities were free to visit their places of worship. There was no organized intolerance directed against religious minorities.
National Minorities Day was observed every year on 11 August, and political leaders, including the Head of State and the Head of Government, made it a point to take part in the festivals of the country's religious minorities, including its Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i, and Buddhist communities. In addition, 5 per cent of all posts in the federal services were set aside for minorities, and Interfaith Harmony Committees, which did much to promote harmonious relations between adherents of different faiths, had been established by the provincial governments. The new Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony was formulating a national interfaith harmony policy, and in 2014 the terms of reference of the National Commission for Minorities had been revised to make the Commission more effective.
The Constitution ensured that he himself and his fellow Christian Pakistanis, as well as other national minorities, enjoyed the same rights as Muslim Pakistanis, including the right to freedom of worship. Pakistan was the only Muslim country to provide its minority communities with public funds to help them build or renovate places of worship.
Seats in the country's main law-making bodies, including the National Assembly and the Senate, were set aside for minorities. Christians and other minorities were given the opportunity to contribute to the development of their country. He himself, for instance, had served Pakistan in various capacities, including as Minister for Human Rights and as head of the present delegation. His appointment to those positions was evidence of the effectiveness of his country's efforts to ensure that all its citizens enjoyed freedom from discrimination. Those efforts, which involved legislative changes, training and awareness-raising, would only intensify as the country's democracy matured.
Mr. Amil (Pakistan) said that answers to a number of the many questions asked by Committee members, several of which did not lend themselves to a brief oral reply, would be provided in writing in due course. He had not realized that he and his fellow delegation members would be called on to comment on the legitimacy of the Qur'an as a source of law. A discussion of such a topic would require the participation of scholars fully conversant with the subtleties of Islamic jurisprudence. Members of the delegation wished to engage with the Committee, but it was simply not possible to answer all the complex questions they had been asked in the little time they had been given.
Committee members appeared to be operating under the misconception that the Government had lifted its moratorium on the death penalty unilaterally. That had not been the case. That decision had been made, after the murder by terrorists of a 5-year-old girl, in the wake of a conference of all the country's political parties. It had been the people's will, and Pakistan, it should be emphasized, was a democracy.
In 2010, Pakistan had set up a body to investigate reports of enforced disappearances. The Commission of Inquiry, as it was known, received complaints from a number of sources, including the family members of missing persons, and filed incident reports with the police at the direction of the Supreme Court of Pakistan or on its own authority. Pakistan was concerned about disappeared persons and their families, but it should be kept in mind that people sometimes disappeared of their own volition, in some cases to join terrorist organizations. Pakistan had the legal and governmental infrastructure to deal appropriately with enforced disappearances, but as a developing country of some 200 million people, it had limited financial resources.
Foreign interference, including State-sponsored terrorism, was a problem in parts of the country, and in some cases people unwittingly entered areas where security operations were under way, putting themselves and their rescuers in harm's way. One such case had involved a United Nations official.
Pakistan was fortunate to have a vibrant civil society and an active broadcasting industry. There had been no reported cases of reprisal, harassment or intimidation concerning families of allegedly disappeared persons, human rights defenders or lawyers. The family members of disappeared persons attended the hearings held by the Commission of Inquiry. In some cases, such family members received monthly allowances or other financial assistance. Safeguards had been put in place to protect victims and witnesses, in particular women.
The Commission, which was supported by governmental departments at the federal and provincial levels and by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, had disposed of 2,416 cases between March 2011 and November 2016. A total of 1,798 persons had returned home or had been confined in prisons or in internment or rehabilitation centres. The remaining 618 cases had been closed on various grounds. There was no single authentic source of data for enforced disappearances and sometimes inflated figures were quoted. The Commission had received a total of 284 cases of alleged enforced disappearances concerning the Province of Balochistan. By 30 June 2017, 180 cases had been disposed of and 104 remained under investigation.
His country's counter-terrorism efforts under the National Action Plan were in compliance with its international human rights obligations, inasmuch as terrorism had deprived thousands of innocent civilians of their right to life. With regard to the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty by a political consensus in 2014 and its reinstatement as a penalty in extreme cases, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a friendly Western Government had reported that there had been 1,009 terrorist attacks in 2015, compared to 1,823 in 2014, which was equivalent to a 45 per cent decrease.
The Protection of Pakistan Act 2014 had not granted extraordinary powers to law enforcement agencies but sought to provide speedy justice to families of victims of terrorism. The Act had been adopted in response to the demands of the people and it also provided protection for judges and witnesses. It was only invoked in extraordinary circumstances involving heinous terrorist crimes.
The military courts were authorized to conduct trials of persons involved in offences related to terrorism. The names, qualifications and rank of the judges remained confidential to ensure their security. The proceedings were not held in public, but convicted persons could appeal to the Supreme Court. Moreover, the military courts had not tried or imposed a death penalty on any juvenile. All cases to be tried in the military courts must be approved by the relevant provincial apex committee and sanctioned by the Federal Government. The Supreme Court, in its judgment of 5 August 2015, had provided for judicial review on the ground of coram non judice in relation to any order issued, decision taken or sentence awarded in such trials. Convicted prisoners could lodge an appeal with the Court of Appeals. They could also appeal to the Army Chief of Staff and clemency appeals could be addressed to the President under article 45 of the Constitution. Persons due to appear before the military courts must be informed of the grounds for their arrest within 24 hours. They were entitled to engage a defence counsel of their choice. If they were unable to do so, defence counsel would be provided, on request, at State expense. All allegations of torture had been duly investigated by the competent authorities and disciplinary action had been taken against those responsible.
The Penal Code prohibited wrongful confinement, injury or torture of a person to extort a confession. The Code of Criminal Procedure required police to conduct house searches in the presence of two or more witnesses, and the Police Order of 2002 imposed penalties on police officers who tortured or abused a person in their custody. The Torture, Custodial Death and Custodial Rape (Prevention and Punishment) Bill was currently being considered by parliament.
Women could not be imprisoned overnight during an inquiry.
As noted in paragraph 42 of the replies to the list of issues, section 21-H of the Anti-Terrorism Act was compatible with article 7 of the Covenant.
Allegations of the prevalence of a culture of impunity were misleading. The judiciary had prosecuted many State officials for breaches of regulations, and departmental disciplinary committees had taken action against government officials. Details of such proceedings would be provided to the Committee in due course.
The Human Rights Cell of the Supreme Court was mandated to process expeditiously complaints and grievances received from the general public. There was also a National Commission for Human Rights and the provincial Government of Sindh had established the Sindh Human Rights Commission.
Standing instructions had been issued to embassies and consular officials requiring them to visit citizens detained abroad, particularly in cases involving the death penalty, and to provide legal assistance if necessary. Fees for needy persons could also be paid from the Pakistani Community Welfare and Education Fund. The Government could file requests to foreign governments for amnesty or a pardon, while respecting national procedures.
Ms. Javeri Agha (Pakistan) said that the Police Order of 2002 prescribed a penalty of 5 years' imprisonment for abuse of power. Section 44 established the District Public Safety Commission to address complaints against the police. Other bodies included a Provincial Public Safety and Police Complaints Mechanism, the membership of which included two women members of parliament, a Federal Police Complaint Authority and a National Public Safety Commission. Criminal justice coordination committees had been established under district and sessions judges. They were composed of local police, the prison superintendent, representatives of the Bar Association and parole officers. A Citizens Liaison Committee established a bridge between the Government and civil society, and there were two standing committees in the Senate and National Assembly that addressed human rights violations.
She would provide the Committee with a list of the number of incidents of police abuse and the outcome of criminal proceedings. She would also provide it with a list of people who had received compensation for abuse of power. The Health Department was required to confirm whether torture had occurred, and the Ministry of Human Rights had a revolving fund for victims of torture. The Punjab Civilian Victims of Terrorism (Relief and Rehabilitation) Ordinance, which had been adopted in 2016, also provided compensation to victims.
Ms. Malik (Pakistan) said that vigorous action was being taken to combat discrimination. Transparent and sustainable policies were being pursued, but the goals could not be achieved in the short term. The Constitution enshrined the principles of equal rights and non-discrimination in several provisions of the preamble, in the chapter on fundamental rights and in the chapter on policy principles. The preamble stipulated that adequate provision should be made for minorities freely to practise their religions and to develop their cultures. Article 3 required the State to eliminate all forms of exploitation. Article 4 enshrined the right of citizens and other persons in Pakistan to legal protection and to treatment in accordance with the law. Article 8 stipulated that any law that was inconsistent with fundamental rights was null and void. It also prohibited the State from enacting any such law unless its purpose was to ensure the maintenance of public order by members of the armed forces or the police. Article 25 provided for equality before the law. Article 26 provided for non-discrimination in respect of access to public places on grounds of race, religion, caste, sex, residence or place of birth. Article 27 provided for equality of employment in the public and private sectors. Articles 11 and 37 prohibited trafficking in human beings and prostitution. Article 32 made special provision for the representation of women in local government. Article 33 required the State to discourage prejudice on parochial, racial, tribal and sectarian grounds.
The Government's Decent Work Country Programme comprised a strategy and plan of action to promote the creation of decent work based on gender equality. The Labour Protection Policy 2006 also recognized non-discrimination as a basic human right. The Benazir Income Support Programme provided cash grants to women heads of household to ensure their financial independence. Furthermore, 50 per cent of the Prime Minister's interest-free loans served the purpose of empowerment of girls and women through education.
Ms. Javeri Agha (Pakistan) said that quotas for women had been increased in a variety of areas. They now accounted for 17 per cent of members of the National Assembly, 33 per cent of members of the provincial assemblies, and 15 per cent of public-sector posts. The ratio of women in the labour force had increased from 11 per cent to 16 per cent in 2017.
Mr. Amil (Pakistan) said that the Government had deleted 4,987 names from the Exit Control List. The only persons whose names remained on the list were those involved in anti-State activities, espionage, acts of terrorism, acts prejudicial to the integrity, security or defence of Pakistan, persons involved in drug trafficking, human trafficking or money laundering, members of proscribed organizations, deserters from the defence or security forces, and perpetrators of economic crimes or institutional fraud. If investigations were being conducted, the period of placement on the list was one year, and the placement was subject to review by a committee in the Ministry of the Interior. Following the investigations, the period of placement was three years, except in cases of terrorism, espionage, subversion, drug trafficking and human trafficking. Any person aggrieved by an order of the Federal Government could request a review of the order within 15 days. The Federal Government was required to issue a decision within 60 days.
Ms. Malik (Pakistan) said that the National Commission on the Status of Women had collected abundant data on cases of marital violence and rape, which were addressed in the same context as domestic violence. The data would be forwarded to the Committee in due course.
The meeting rose at 1 p.m.

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Global corruption a bigger scourge than terrorism
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Anti-corruption protests are growing all over the world from central Europe to South America and some of the poorest parts of Africa. They are being fuelled by social media and the growing sense that enough is enough, Brian Stewart writes.
Anti-corruption protests growing all over the world, as are legislative crackdowns
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Protesters march through down-town Buenos Aires in November 2014, angry about corruption and high crime rates. A much larger crowd, in the tens of thousands, stormed Hungary's parliament to complain about civil service graft. (Reuters)
While the G20 summit in Australia made headlines over global warming, economic growth and terrorism, much less attention was paid to the giant spectre of global corruption.
That is too bad as this is a problem that is arguably more dangerous to humanity than even terrorism because it siphons off an estimated $1 trillion from developing countries annually through bribery, money laundering, tax evasion, extortion and other financial crimes.
Recent World Bank estimates suggest that much of the world's direct aid to the poorest countries ends up stolen, perhaps as much as $40 billion in recent years.
And it has been estimated that up to 3.6 million of the world's poorest die annually from inadequate health care and living conditions directly because corruption has leached away development aid of all kinds.
At its most extreme, corruption causes people to lose faith in government, states to fail and violence to erupt in the form of organized crime and terrorist movements.
Only slightly less malign, it's the dirty grease that keeps many repressive and violent dictators in lavish power.
No country is untouched by corruption, but it is "public enemy No. 1" in the developing world, according to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, who has to fight to keep his bank's $30 billion a year in development aid getting to its proper destination.
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"Every dollar that a corrupt official or a corrupt business person puts in their pockets is a dollar stolen from a pregnant woman who needs health care, or from a girl or boy who deserves an education, or from communities that need water, roads and schools." Kim says, in calling on the world's economic powers to take steps to end this scourge.
Which brings us back to the G20 leaders and the pessimism that surrounds its anti-corruption talk, perhaps because it is made up of some of the world's most bribe-infected and non-transparent economies, including those of China ,Russia, India and Brazil being among the most often mentioned.
At past conferences, G20 leaders have pledged to act robustly against this scourge, but most action has involved baby steps and future promises.
This time, the G20 nations at least agreed to slowly — over three years — strive to expose those shell companies and trusts that hide billions from tax collection while illicit money is laundered.
Spanish Civil Guard, members of a special anti-corruption unit, lead a suspect to court in Seville in November 2014. Law enforcement officers searched local government offices in 13 Spanish provinces on Tuesday as part of a crackdown on politicians and officials. (Reuters)
Critics have long pooh-poohed the idea of leading economic organizations like the G20 or International Monetary Fund trying to tackle questionable activities by its own people.
But some anti-corruption activists sense a change is in the air. The rise of terrorist mega-financing, as seen in the case of ISIS and al-Qaeda, has captured the international agenda.
"The incentive for G20 nations to make progress lies in their own back yards," writes David McNair, the director of transparency at the ONE Campaign against corruption, noting that watchdogs "have highlighted numerous examples of anonymous firms facilitating corruption, enabling the free flow of terrorist financing and sanctions breaking."
Canada stepping up
So far, it's only a handful of the world's 41 or so developed nations that have started prosecuting companies and executives that bribe foreign officials or facilitate corrupt practices.
But these are highly influential players like the U.K., France, Canada, Germany and Australia who have lined up alongside the very tough U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which is rattling boardrooms around the world.
Over the past two years, Canada has enacted amendments to former anti-bribery laws that will permit the prosecution of Canadian companies and citizens on bribery charges, regardless of where the corrupt acts take place.
Limits have also been taken off fines and the potential prison terms have been raised to an eye catching 14 years.
Under a controversial new "integrity framework" any company can be barred from selling products or services to Canada for a full decade if they or their foreign subsidiaries are deemed to have bribed or facilitated business anywhere abroad.
A powerful association of business groups here has recently lobbied the federal government to pull back on these new rules, saying the penalties are far too stringent.
The commission under Justice France Charbonneau into allegations of corruption in the province's construction industry has opened a window on graft at the municipal level. (Graham Hughes / Canadian Press)
But Ottawa has reason to get tough — of 250 global companies blacklisted by the World Bank under its new fraud and corruption policy, 117 are from Canada, albeit many are affiliates of troubled SNC-Lavalin.
The Quebec construction scandals have also harmed our image overseas.
'Name and shame'
It's believed that 35 Canadian companies are currently under RCMP investigation for bribery abroad, and in January 2013 the highest fine to date, $10 million, was levied against Grittiths Energy for paying a $2 million bribe to win land concessions in Chad.
In countries where tough laws are introduced, companies suddenly have every incentive to demand international standards of transparency to make the playing field equal. And so the reform pressure builds.
The other pressure point flows from social media and the unprecedented exposure of corruption it facilitates.
For the first time, people in developing countries are getting solid information about graft, which explains much of the populist anger these days in nations from Ukraine, Hungary, Mexico and Brazil to scores of countries in Africa where public demonstrations denouncing graft are becoming more common.
Adding to this, anti-corruption groups like Transparency International are launching new grassroots campaigns to "name and shame" the excessive spending of ruling families and the like.
It is a message clearly meant to mobilize youth fury against corruption the same way a similar energy was harnessed to fight global poverty a decade ago.
Many despair because this problem seems limitless. But the powerful idea is spreading that the world simply cannot go on like this, rotting at the core.
Brian Stewart
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One of this country's most experienced journalists and foreign correspondents, Brian Stewart is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He also sits on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch Canada. In almost four decades of reporting, he has covered many of the world's conflicts and reported from 10 war zones, from El Salvador to Beirut and Afghanistan.
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Morris County, among the fastest growing counties in the New Jersey, New York, Connecticut metropolitan region, nestles amid rolling hills, broad valleys and glittering lakes approximately 30 miles northwest of New York City.
Rich in historic lore and tradition, Morris County was created by an Act of the State Legislature on March 15, 1738/39 separating it from Hunterdon County, one of the state's largest counties of the period. Named after Colonel Lewis Morris, then Governor of the Province of New Jersey, it originally included what are now the counties of Morris, Sussex and Warren.
The county, first visited by Europeans in 1700, today combines natural beauty and pleasant suburban living with proximity to metropolitan surroundings. Its rolling landscape is dotted with lakes and rivers which form most of its boundaries with the adjacent counties of Essex, Union, Somerset, Warren, Sussex and Passaic.
Much of its beauty has been protected and preserved by the Board of County Commissioners through its Park Commission, formed by referendum in 1955 to set aside and develop land for leisure time and recreational use. Over 20,000 acres make up the system, one of New Jersey's finest. Included are outdoor education centers, a marina, golf courses, a riding stable, indoor ice skating arena, cultural center, arboretums, and numerous types of hiking, cycling, wildflower and nature trails.
At its most distant points, the county stretches 30 miles from east to west and 30 miles from north to south. Its temperatures vary widely from area to area, averaging in the middle 20's in the winter months and the low 70's in the summer. About 50 inches of rain and 35 inches of snow fall each year.
Hills and valleys that run east-west, with rocky out-croppings as high as 1,000 feet above sea level, have long hindered transportation from north to south. Major interstate highways (80, 10, 46, 287, 280) connect many municipalities.
There are 39 municipalities in the 477.8 square mile county, varying in size from tiny Victory Gardens Borough with 1,314 residents to Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, with almost 48,500 residents. All together more than 421,000 persons reside in Morris County.
During the Revolutionary War, Morris County was known as The Military Capital of the American Revolution , because of its strategic location, which prompted Gen. George Washington and his Continental Army to make their winter encampments near Morristown on two different winters. Much of the historic lore of these encampments is preserved today in Morristown National Historical Park.
In the years following the Revolution, Morris County was a leader in the iron ore industry, a fact made possible by the abundance of iron ore, timber to fuel the forges, and swiftly flowing streams to provide power. By 1880 Morris was the third county in the nation in the amount of iron ore mined, with 568,420 tons.
To process the iron ore, works and mills were built at several locations, including Morristown, Boonton and Dover. It was in Morristown that the steam boiler and some of the machinery for the Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, and parts of the first American locomotive were manufactured and the telegraph perfected by Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail. The old barn in which the two men conducted their experiments and sent the first message " A patient waiter is no loser ", is still standing.
The Morris iron dynasty faced ruin, when in 1882 the iron industry discovered that iron ore could almost literally be picked off the surface in the Meabi region near Lake Superior. The Dickerson mine became one of the most prominent of the 1880's after giving up more than one million tons of iron ore. Another famous mine, Hurdtown, closed down in 1898 after shafts had been sunk more than 2,600 feet into the earth in search of the elusive ore. Some of the last mines in Hibernia closed in 1913.
As the population grew and the methods of transportation improved, industries sprang up throughout the county, many of them using the iron ore as raw materials for their finished products. Boonton's iron processors gained fame from nail production; Wharton attracted the tremendous foundry of the Replogle Steel Company, which closed in 1919; Kenvil, the giant Powder Company of California, later the Hercules Powder Company, and Dover, an extensive plant for making mine equipment.
In 1831 the Morris Canal, conceived and developed by a Morristown resident, George F. MacCulloch, was completed through the county. Crossing the state from Phillipsburg to Newark, a distance of 90 miles, it played a major role in movement of iron ore, coal and freight until, after many years of service, it fell into disuse and was dismantled in the 1920's.
The tracks of the then fledgling Morris & Essex Railroad reached Morristown in 1838, and 10 years later were extended to Dover, where the railroad's car shops were a major industry at the turn of the century.
By 1900 the nation's business and financial leaders, seeking escape from New York City, the financial capital of the nation, discovered Morris County, its isolation, ideal climate and unspoiled countryside, and started the construction of large country estates. Within a few years it was claimed that more millionaires lived within a one mile radius of the Morristown Green than elsewhere in the world.
The fabulous estates were numerous enough to fill the pages of a pre-World War I vintage picture book entitled Beautiful Homes of Morris County . Possibly the most opulent were those of Otto H. Kahn, Hamilton McK. Twombly, Charles Mellon, Eugene Higgins, the Frelinghuysens, Claflins, James, Allens, Wolffs and Kountzes.
The introduction of the Income Tax sounded the death knell for the large estates and the society style of living they bred. Slowly, through the 1930's and the 1940's the large mansions that lined Madison Avenue, for years known as "Millionaires Row", were demolished to avoid rising property taxes, increased cost of domestic help and the rising cost of living.
Within two years of Morris County's creation, the Townships of Hanover, Pequannock and Morris were formed, followed in 1740 by Roxbury Township and in 1749 by Mendham Township. Several years after its founding the community of West Hanover was renamed "Morristown" and designated the county seat of government.
At first, governing Morris County was a function of the judiciary. As the judges' court responsibilities grew, however, the need for help increased and two Freeholders were elected from each municipality. They were called "Freeholders" because they were men who owned land free and clear of debt. In 2020, the New Jersey state legislature voted to change the name to "County Commissioners."
As the number of municipalities in the county increased, the Freeholder Board grew in size to 25 to 30 members. The appropriate number was a subject of controversy for many years. Eventually the State Legislature passed a "Small Board Law" limiting the number of Freeholders in each county. In Morris, the number originally was five, a figure that was maintained until 1972 when the board's size was increased to seven. All are elected at large.
Since the turn of the century, the character of industry in Morris County has changed from iron mining to research, pharmaceuticals and light manufacturing. In the same period, the character of the land itself has changed from agricultural to residential. Beautiful homes and gardens predominate, both in housing developments, many of them located on the estates of former millionaires, to small country estates. New construction, both residential, commercial and industrial, is constant. There are large numbers of garden type apartments and condominiums, both in the towns and the countryside.
Today, Morris County is New Jersey's seventh largest county. Multi-million dollar shopping centers and highway merchandising malls have combined with construction of world headquarters of name brand firms, discount houses, chain stores and food markets.
New Jersey Transit, the former Erie Lackawanna Railroad, serves thousands of county commuters daily. In addition, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Morristown & Erie Railroad and the New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad cross the county. Bus service links the 39 municipalities to the metropolitan region. Two airports are located within Morris County. The county is bisected by a fine network of approximately 2,000 miles of federal interstate freeways, and state, county and municipal roads.
The area work force exceeds 240,000. More than 50,000 are employed within the county at world headquarters and numerous research centers, and laboratories. The Morris County Chamber of Commerce reports there are 1,139 non-retail employers in the county with 10 or more employees.
Morris County is the home of three universities, a two-year County College, and a County Vocational Technical School. One of every four high school graduates in Morris County attend the County College of Morris which reports a capacity attendance both for full-time and part-time courses. The high registration reflects the fine academic standings of the college, the wide appeal of its varied curriculum, and the relative cost-value of its programs in comparison to other institutions.
The Morris County Vocational School District located in Denville provides vocational and enrichment programs, for high school students and continuing adult education, that inspire and prepare students to succeed in today's world and pursue tomorrow's opportunities. Museums and cultural facilities abound in Morris County to augment those in the nearby metropolitan area.


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Kenia Live!
Kenia offers a selection of shows, from musical concerts to multi-disciplinary events, that are designed to bring talented performers and exciting material which may be tailored to fit a variety of presenter's needs. Special shows (such as these) are available, along with kickin' concerts featuring Kenia and her band playing some hot Brazilian bossa nova, samba and choro. Contact Mooka Entertainment regarding bookings and to see how a show may be tailored to your audiences, venue and budget. Outreach activities may accompany each show.
Viva Bahia!
Viva Bahia! is an intimate concert featuring Brazilian songstress Kenia for a celebration of vibrant music by legendary Bahian composers such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Dorival Caymmi and Joao Gilberto, the "Father of Bossa Nova."
"Have you ever been to Bahia, Donald?" asks Zé Carioca.
"No I haven't," replied Donald Duck.
"No? Oh, I am sorry for you. Ah, Bahia…" sighs Zé Carioca. "It is like a song in my heart, a song with love and beautiful memories."
This is a scene from "The Three Caballeros," a Disney animated movie released in 1944, where the parrot Zé Carioca—Donald Duck's Brazilian counterpart—takes Donald through an exciting journey to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil.
Bahia is one of 26 states in Brazil, uniquely known for its diverse and creative culture and as the birthplace of many noted Brazilian artists, writers and musicians. Viva Bahia! takes the audience on a trip to a Bahian "state of mind," with songs about the beautiful beaches, delicious foods like vatapa, and call and answer songs that involve the audience and really make you move! The bossa nova and hot Brazilian beats are accompanied by a media projection of the tropical locals and beautiful peoples and arts of Bahia. Ah, Bahia….
This show was first performed in 2011 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre in Pittsburgh by Kenia and her dear friend and jazz legend Ivan Lins (see video).
Repertoire includes songs by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Dorival Caymmi and Joao Gilberto. This show may be customized to suit the venue, from Kenia and her Trio to a full big band.
Outreach activities may include workshops on Afro-Brazilian rhythms for school children; Afro-Brazilian rhythms for adults; master classes in Brazilian phrasing for jazz and vocal students and artists.
A Tribute to Elis Regina
Elis Regina was a dynamic and popular Brazilian vocalist known for her personal interpretation, precise yet flowing vocalization and flamboyant performances. Kenia soulfully presents this great talent's interpretation of songs, in a tribute to both Elis' style and Brazil's Tropicália movement of the late 1960's – music that stepped away from bossa nova to bring in a rock n' roll influence and combine the popular and the avant-garde.
Born in 1945, she won her first festival song contest in 1965 singing Arrastão (Pull the Trawling Net), which, when released as a single, made her the biggest selling Brazilian recording artist since Carmen Miranda. The second LP with Jair Rodrigues, Dois na Bossa, set a national sales record and became the first Brazilian LP to sell more than one million copies. At age 21 she was the most popular and highest paid singer in Brazil. She helped begin and popularize a new musical style now known as MPB (Música Popular Brasileira or Brazilian Popular Music). She died suddenly at the young age of 36 from drug use.
"Regina brought a mischievous streak and a jazz singer's taste for adventure to everything she did. She reimagined samba and bossa nova classics. And in the late '60s, she became a champion of the young Brazilian songwriters who were integrating elements of British and American rock. Her interpretations of songs such as "Nada Sera Como Antes," by Milton Nascimento, helped bring attention to this new generation of talents — the movement known as Tropicália." – Tom Moon, 50 Great Voices, NPR Music.
Repertoire may include Cai Dentro, Madalena, Nada Sera Como Antes, O Bebado E O, Equilibrista, Samba Pra Elis, Essa Mulher, Aguas De Marco, Quaquara – Vou Deitar E Rolar, Casa Forte, E Com Esse Que Eu Vou, Agota Ta, Basta De Clamares, Vera Cruz, Amor Ate O Fim. This show is presented by Kenia and her Trio and may be accented by additional percussion and brass, or presented by a full big band.
Outreach activities include workshops on Brazilian harmony and rhythms; master classes in Brazilian phrasing; lectures and demonstrations describing Regina's influence in Brazilian Contemporary music and on the influence of Brazilian Popular Music on jazz.
A Day in Bahia
"A Day in Bahia" expands on the Bahian musical theme featured in the show Viva Bahia! and presents an inter-disciplinary, multigenerational approach that coalesces to spotlight this unique state in Brazil, known for its diverse and creative culture and as the birthplace of many noted Brazilian artists, writers and musicians. Bahia, settled by the Portuguese and site of the world's largest African slave importation, portrays the blending of many cultures, religions and ethnicities into one society. The day gives the community a chance to participate in celebrating the rich Afro-Brazilian culture of Bahia through a diverse repertoire of music, dance, martial arts and visual arts.
The day begins with one or two workshops in Afro Brazilian folkloric rhythms and/or dance, led by members of the New York-based Ologundê ensemble. Comprised of Brazilians living in the United States and Brazil, Ologundê includes former members of world-renowned music and dance troupes and is under the direction of noted percussionist Dendê from the famed Timbalada band. The ensemble has performed throughout the US since its formation in 2002 and toured Greece as part of the Cultural Olympiad, appearing at the Kalamata Dance Festival and at the Athens Festival at the Acropolis.
In the evening, a spectacular show begins with Kenia and her trio performing the lively music of legendary Bahian composers such as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Dorival Caymmi and Joao Gilberto, who is known as the "Father of Bossa Nova." The music will be complimented by accompanying media projection that showcases the diverse cultures and arts existing in Bahia today. The bossa nova beat gives way to other Brazilian beats, accompanied by members of Ologundê performing rituals associated with Candomblé, a synthesis of the Yoruba and Catholic religions in which various Orixás (gods) are invoked; maculélé, a warrior dance which utilizes sticks and machetes and was originally created in the sugar cane fields by slaves; the breathtaking capoeira martial arts dance, created as a secretive way for slaves to build strength through muscular dance when fighting was forbidden.
A Day in Bahia may also include an exhibit of original paintings of the Baianas (Bahian women) by D. Pires and the beautifully handmade, traditional costumes of the Orixás. The exhibits may be on display one day only or may run for a full week preceding the day of events.
This program is adapted from Week in Bahia, an original six day program presented in April, 2012 in Pittsburgh by Mooka Entertainment and the University of Pittsburgh, PNC Bank, Highmark, the Hunt Foundation and other sponsors. Check out the Week in Bahia website for further information on the artists and material.
Repertoire includes one or two workshops; an evening show including two complete performances of music and dance; an exhibit of original paintings and handmade-in-Brazil costumes.
Artists include Kenia, Ologundê, D. Pires and/or others based on scheduling.
The performances of A Day in Bahia will come together as an exciting, multidisciplinary approach to learning about and experiencing the truly distinctive Afro-Brazilian identity of Bahia. Workshops, performances and exhibits may be tailored to fit a specific venue and budget may be presented at schools, theaters, and other venues.
A Celebration of Sergio Mendes
The Americas in Concert is bringing to the stage of The Kelly-Strayhorn Theater an exciting and yet intimate concert of the best of Samba Jazz made famous by Sergio Mendes, who in the late 60's created the perfect blend of the Brazilian and American pop.
This remarkable opportunity to enjoy the best of samba jazz has been arranged by the three-time Grammy nominee Maestro Jovino Santos Neto (http://www.jovisan.net), one of Brazil's most brilliant musicians, a master pianist, composer and arranger. Currently based in Seattle, Washington, he has throughout his career been closely affiliated with the Brazilian master Hermeto Pascoal. He was an integral part of Pascoal's group from 1977 to1992, where he fine-tuned his artistry, performing around the world and co-producing several legendary records.
Neto will be joined by Jamey Haddad on drums (http://jameyhaddad.com), who has collaborated and worked with Paul Simon, Carly Simon and many other stars; Lucas Ashby on percussion (http://www.reverbnation.com/lucasashby), currently with the Big Mean Sound Machine; and bassist Roberto Occhipinti (http://robertoocchipinti.com) who, among other notable performances, has toured and recorded with Blue Note recording artist Jane Bunnett and Spirits of Havana.
Special guest appearance by Pittsburgh's own KENIA. Together, the group will bring to Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh the best known Samba Jazz worldwide made famous by Sergio Mendes.
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