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10 Things Speaker Ryan Could Do to Address Poverty Right Now
NETWORK Lobby
NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice welcomes anyone, any time, to the conversation about how to make sure no one in the United States lives in poverty. But we strongly dispute the claim that this is a deeply complicated problem requiring a brand new agenda, such as the one likely to be presented by Speaker Paul Ryan in the coming days. The fact is Congress knows, and has always known, how to end poverty. It is simply not that difficult, in the richest country the world has ever known, to create an inclusive economy where everyone has the resources to live with dignity.
In fact, we could do much of it as early as tomorrow.
Toward that end, we offer Speaker Ryan, the driving force behind the Republican "anti-poverty" agenda, 10 things he could bring to the House Floor tomorrow that would actually work. This is not everything that has to be done to mend the gaps in the fabric of our society, but it's a darn good start.
Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour — Even as the economic recovery has brought lower unemployment, too many people working full-time jobs (or even two or three of them) don't make enough to get by. A study by the National Employment Law Project found that $15/hour was the lowest wage that would still allow a single worker to meet the basic cost of living just about everywhere in the United States. Speaker Ryan could help lift thousands of workers out of poverty by passing H.R. 3164, the Pay Workers a Living Wage Act introduced in Congress last year.
Guarantee paid sick leave — 49% of workers in America still lack paid sick leave and are forced to choose between losing the salary they desperately need and jeopardizing their health and the health of those around them. After passing a comprehensive paid sick leave policy New York City found not only that it improved the health and financial security of workers, but also that unemployment dropped and businesses grew.The Healthy Families Act (H.R. 932) was introduced in Congress more than a year ago. There's no excuse not to pass this legislation today.
Guarantee paid family leave — In addition to ensuring that everyone has the ability to take a sick day to care for themselves or their family, we must also guarantee paid leave for new parents and those who have to take extended time to care for a sick family member. Only 5% of workers in the lowest 25% wage category have access to paid family leave, compared to 22% of workers in the highest 10% wage category. The FAMILY Act (H.R. 1439), introduced in Congress last year, builds on successful legislation passed by cities and states around the country to create an insurance program that provides workers with the family leave they need.
Expand and protect the Earned Income Tax Credit — The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of our most effective anti-poverty programs. It provides tax relief to low-income workers to ensure that no one who labors to earn a basic wage is taxed back into poverty. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the EITC helped lift 6.2 million people out of poverty in 2013. But the current law overlooks too many workers in need, including those low income workers without children and workers under 25 or over 65. Speaker Ryan himself discussed his support for addressing these gaps when he was Chairman of the House Budget Committee, now he has the means and the opportunity to make those changes today.
Expand childcare subsidies — The high cost of quality childcare takes a dramatic toll on low-income families across the country. A report from theEconomic Policy Institute found that in every state, quality childcare cost more than 30% of a minimum-wage worker's earnings. Access to high quality childcare allows parents to support their families and better prepares children to learn and grow into healthy adults. We shouldn't ask people to choose between their kids and their paychecks — H.R. 4524, the Child CARE Act, is one way that Speaker Ryan could solve that problem.
Ban the box — It's no secret that admitting to having a criminal record is the kiss of death for job applicants. Conviction records are likely to reduce the prospect of a job offer or interview by almost 50%. There are currently 70 million people in America with arrest or conviction records, we are only just beginning to realize the massive economic implications of discriminating against the people who are reentering society and the workforce. Passing the Fair Chance Act (H.R. 3470) would allow people seeking to reenter the workforce the opportunity to apply based on merit, without facing discrimination.
Pass immigration reform with a path to citizenship — For the millions of people who live in the U.S. without documentation or with only temporary permission to work, finding stable employment can be nearly impossible. Many more immigrants are barred from accessing the social programs they need because of decades of anti-immigrant legislation. By allowing immigrants to come out of the shadows and fully participate in society, immigration reform would benefit individual families and our community; the CBO estimated that immigration reform would reduce our federal budget deficit by $200 billion over ten years. H.R. 13, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, had the votes to become law in 2014 and is a viable solution to fixing our broken immigration system. Speaker Ryan should work with his fellow members of Congress to pass real immigration reform now.
Expand eligibility and opportunity for low-income housing units — There is a significant shortage of affordable housing units across the country. Bipartisan legislation in the Senate rumored to be introduced in the House of Representatives (The Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act) would incentivize the building and preservation of almost 1.3 million homes. Speaker Ryan can move forward with his commitment to end poverty by developing a housing plan that focuses on ensuring that everyone has a home.
Continue to make healthcare more affordable — The Affordable Care Act was a critical step toward making sure that all Americans can access the healthcare they need, but it stopped short of realizing the goal of universal healthcare. H.R.3241, the State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2015, would allow states more flexibility and freedom to work toward universal healthcare. Speaker Ryan can move forward today to ensure that no one lives in the healthcare gap and take a powerful step toward alleviating the economic uncertainty and financial burden of families still left without health insurance.
Reauthorize and improve the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act — The landmark legislation that helps feed children in schools across the country has been under attack by congressional Republicans. Congress has sought to cut the number of schools eligible to feed all of their students and increase the amount of time and effort schools must put into qualifying for the program. Beyond these initial changes that will kick thousands of students out of the program, Republicans in Congress want to replace the entire program with 'block grants' that will seriously jeopardize our ability to feed children in need. Congress has an opportunity to improve child nutrition programs to feed more children who are hungry. If Speaker Ryan wants to lead on poverty, he can start by leading his party away from policies that take food from children.
As NETWORK's Nuns on the Bus reminded Congressman Ryan in 2012, to implement programs that work to eliminate poverty, Congress must have the political will to raise reasonable revenue for these responsible programs. We can pay for these programs by closing tax loopholes and having the courage to fix our broken tax system. Right now, a loophole in tax law allows hedge fund managers to call a portion of their earnings a 'capital gain' instead of 'income' and that small difference costs the nation billions in tax revenue every year. The Carried Interest Fairness Act (H.R. 2889) is one such piece of legislation that promotes tax fairness in the United States.
Creative solutions to solving poverty are necessary, but we don't need to look far to find the answers. What if — instead of giving the billionaires another break — we took that money and used it to expand Section 8, the federal program that helps low-income families find affordable housing? NETWORK Lobby judges all legislation by how it would affect people experiencing poverty. If Speaker Ryan is serious about this issue, we encourage him to use the same criteria.
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore.
This entry was posted in Food Security, Front Page, Healthcare, Housing, Immigration, Income, Taxes, Women and Families on June 7, 2016 by networklobby.


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Komenda Sugar Factory to be retstarted in 2022 - Akufo-Addo assures
Tue 19th Oct, 2021 01:33
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said government is working tirelessly to get the defunct Komenda Sugar Factory operational by the first quarter of 2022.
He said despite the poor planning into the operationalization of the factory by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, his government had resolved to revive the factory to create jobs and enhance socio-economic development.
The President was speaking to the media in Cape Coast as part of his two-day working tour of the Central Region.
"The NDC's strategy to build the factory without raw materials is like building a house from the roof without foundation. How does the house stand?" President Akufo-Addo queried.
"The Trade and Industry Ministry is working hard to get a technical partner to run the facility and according to information from the Ministry, by the first quarter of 2022, the factory is going to start running again. The NPP cannot let the huge investment in the factory go down the drain," the President reassured.
Currently, the $36-million factory located at Komenda in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, had been taken over by overgrown weeds resulting from three years of lying idle.
The harsh weather conditions and the salty breeze from the Atlantic Ocean that lies about three kilometres from the factory have triggered rapid corrosion of the metallic parts of machinery at the factory.
President Akufo-Addo, also reiterated the government's commitment to make Ghana a self-sufficient country capable of producing its own products.
To this end, he said the Government would continue its rapid industrialisation agenda with the aim of transforming the structure of the Ghanaian economy from one dependent on production and export of raw materials to a value-added, industrialised economy.
He said the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed the need to expedite the process of moving Ghana to a situation beyond aid.
The key projects under the CARES (Obatanpa) Programme include: supporting commercial farming and attracting educated youth into commercial farming; building the country's light manufacturing sector; developing engineering/machine tools and ICT/digital economy industries; and fast-tracking digitalisation.
Others include developing Ghana's housing and construction industry; establishing Ghana as a regional hub; reviewing and optimising the implementation of government flagships and key programmes; and creating jobs for young people, as well as expanding opportunities for the vulnerable in society, including persons with disabilities.
Earlier, the President inspected a state-of-the-art Engineering laboratory and Workshop at the Cape Coast Technical University, (CCTU).
The facility, which sits on a one-acre land, seeks to give in-depth hands-on training to technical and vocational students to enable them fit directly into industry and for commercial purposes.
It comes with a two-year warranty and five-years after sales service from AVIC International Engineering Holding Corporation from China.
The facility is a collaboration between the Ministry of Education, the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET) and AVIC International Engineering Holding Corporation.
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Team • ARCHEWORKS | Archeworks mission is to use the power of design to challenge social, cultural and environmental challenges in Chicago.
Andrew is a Chicago-based leader operating in the fields of architecture, urbanism, public policy, sociology, and academia. Working closely with influential leaders in the public and private sector, ranging from architects and planners to government officials and social activists, he creates research platforms with universities to explore many forms of cultural production. In practice, Andrew has worked on projects that are broad in typology and scale - ranging from small civic centers to super-tall towers to entire urban districts. Andrew was a Senior Designer at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in Chicago on several award-winning projects located all over the globe. He received an MScAAD and an MArch w/distinction from the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Andrew joined Archeworks as Executive Director in February 2015.
David is an architect, entrepreneur, journalist, and educator. He maintains an ongoing commitment to design theory and regularly publishes essays and interviews. Recent topics include Anticipatory Design, World Population and Human Values, Spaces of Hyper-Creativity, and Leadership and Creativity. He has been honored as an Emerging Leader by the Design Futures Council and has been certified as an EVOKE Agent by the World Bank Institute.
Nilay is a landscape architect, urban designer and educator. Nilay has executed placemaking projects across the world. His work seeks to expose networks and material flows in the urban landscape. Nilay holds degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Illinois and has been visiting faculty at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. His ongoing research has led to numerous community involvement and construction initiatives in the USA, Asia, and Africa. Nilay currently serves as the Program Strategist for Archeworks.
Maria holds a BS and Masters of Architecture as well as a Masters of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. While a student she worked for ZGF, NBBJ, Anderson Architects, Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders, and the Cincinnati Community Design Center. Upon graduation she became a bcFELLOW at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP, and then helped grow the Dallas office of Boulder Associates Architects, a sustainable healthcare design practice. She has been involved in the Open Architecture Collaborative, and is currently helping found JustDesign, an interdisciplinary design cooperative in the public interest. Maria is curious, committed, and creative. She allies herself with the Catholic Worker Movment, and lives and works in Su Casa, a shelter for bilingual families. She loves light, water, hiking, and preparing food from farm to table.
Paola is founder of Borderless Studio, an urban design practice based in Chicago; she has been trained as an architect and urban designer, and her professional experience includes working with government, universities and architecture/urban design offices both in Mexico and the United States: University of Chicago's Place Lab, City Design Practice at SOM (Chicago), New York University's Office of Strategic Assessment, Planning & Design, and the Municipal Institute of Planning of Chihuahua. Paola's transnational background and strong collaborative approach focus her research and design practice on multidisciplinary exchange and urban systems integration. Paola received her Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard School of Design; she is also founder of The Borderless Workshop, a collaborative platform focused on rethinking the US-Mexico border region.
Julka is a researcher, designer, and trend/futures analyst. Her work has been largely focused on cultural and civic institutions exploring how design and thoughtful visions of the future, can empower individuals and communities. She has worked as a design researcher at IDEO and the Mayo Clinic, and teaches design students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD at the intersection of anthropology and design from the University of California, Irvine.
A practicing architect in the Midwest, Charles discovers design opportunities in the latent culture of the middle-class. Not one to accept the traditional confines of contemporary academic & professional hierarchies or highbrow rhetoric, Charles' wide-eyed optimism lies within the creativity of everyday Americans. His career-long thesis aims to run a national workshop to educate micro-regions throughout the country through social & cultural programs, emphasizing the importance of considered design in everyday life, and as a means to institute meaningful community growth. Charles is from CLE, OH.
Odile is an architect and a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She brought to Chicago, 18 years ago, her experience of 15 years, facilitating public workshops, designing public buildings, planning urban developments in Central France. For her, a vital aspect of sustainable design involves weaving a network of knowledge, experience, and connections, so that endeavors in one arena become sources of creative solutions in another. Her work with theaters has permeated her architecture practice, which she sees as a collaborative effort, allowing for many voices to be heard, leaving some space and time for the unpredictable.
Pam is a practicing product designer and an instructor at Northwestern University. Her work experience includes roles as a Director at IDEO, a global design & innovation consultancy, and previously as a Senior Vice President at Starcom MediaVest Group in the media communications field. She has a passion for developing creative leaders of all ages, and inspiring fresh thinking to address problems that matter. She is a founding partner of DesignHouse Chicago, an organization dedicated to growing local manufacturing through design.
Natasha works on increasing economic empowerment through collaborative innovation across sectors. She is the Managing Director of the Stanford College Transition Collaborative. Natasha previously worked at McKinsey and as the Director of Chicago's Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, with organizations in the US, Africa, and Asia. Natasha is a Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leader and was a Chicago Mayoral Fellow. Natasha holds a Bachelors of Arts in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Architecture from the University of Michigan.
Luis works in Chicago's government in the urban planning public sector focusing on land use, economic development and zoning policies as key elements that shape the fabric and livability of cities. He is a believer in creative interdisciplinary participation as the way to resolve pressing dilemmas like access to transit, housing affordability and employment creation of the urban arena. Luis holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad Autonomoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and a Masters of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Ryan is the co-founder of Barker Nestor Architecture + Design - a leading hospitality design firm based in Chicago with a 20 year portfolio of hundreds of highly-regarded restaurant, bar, hotel, and entertainment design projects spanning the US. Awarded baccalaureates of architecture and science in environmental design from Ball State University, Ryan later diversified his education at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. There, he was a member of both the Law Review and the nationally-recognized Trial Advocacy Team. Ryan sits as a guest jury critic and guest lectures at numerous Chicago area universities, and is a Visiting Instructor at TU Delft in the Netherlands.
Casey is a registered architect with professional experience ranging from supertall towers in the Middle East and China to kinetic art installations and academic publications. In a similar wide spectrum, his inspiration can be found somewhere between computational geometry and Brutalism. He received his M.Arch from MIT, and is currently a Senior Associate with HOK in Chicago and Adjunct Professor with the Chicago Studio for Virginia Tech. Previously he worked as a designer with VJAA in Minneapolis, Howeler + Yoon in Boston, and as an Associate and Senior Designer at SOM in Chicago.
Dawveed Scully is a Senior Urban Designer at SOM in Chicago. While his background is in architecture he has experience on the Urban Scale projects working on everything from campus scale projects to new cities around the globe. In recent years as a member of SOM city design practice he has developed a focus on the revitalization of the American city, working on a variety of projects on the south side of Chicago and most recently a project in Detroit's East Riverfront looking at similar issues of how to engage underserved/undervalued communities with strategies and tactics to catalyze equitable development in the future.
Tim is an innovative designer, urban strategist and thought leader whose international portfolio of work explores the specificity of place and the prospect inherent in culture. He frequently lectures on topics ranging from demographic shifts and new community typologies to aligned urban mobility systems. He is part of the United Nations Habitat's Placemaking Leadership Council, the Chicago Loop Alliance Placemaking Committee and is a former adjunct lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy and Principal Mentor for the IIC Fellowship program, both at the University of Chicago. Tim is currently the Practice Leader at CannonDesign in Chicago.


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Q: No se suben todos los archivos a Github al hacer commit Me surge la siguiente duda:
Estoy trabajando con un proyecto en PHP y pesa alrededor de 1.5 GB. Y además de esto contiene un poco más de 5000 archivos.
Al hacer el git add . y el git commit -m "Comentarios del commit" no ocurre ningún problema, de echo tampoco lo hay cuando realizo el git push origin master, pero al momento de abrir github me percato de que no están todos los archivos que tengo en mi proyecto de manera local.
¿Alguna idea del por que sucede esto?

A: Si estas utilizando algun framework normalmente estos trae un archivo llamado .gitignore que lo hace es contener una serie de nombres tanto de archivos como de carpetas, el git viene he ignora estos archivos. Con que fin? simplemente es por eso, para no subir cosas que no sean necesarias, como son los modulos q pueden ser descargados con una linea de comando, esos modulos que has agregado se guardan en un archivo package.json tambien se utiliza para ignorar archivos de conexion a la base de datos.
puede leer mas sobre .gitignore Aqui

A: Es posible que eso suceda es porque esta trabajando en un directorio dentro del proyecto, por lo tanto al hacer el git add y el git commit -m "" no va a tomar todos los cambios realizados en todo el poyecto. En ese caso lo que debe hacer es ubicarse en la raiz del proyecto.

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While the Open Meetings Act itself does not address discussions concerning individual students, to the extent that these discussions would tend to prejudice the reputation or character of the student, they would be a permissible topic for an executive session, subject to the rights of the part of the person being discussed to notification and opportunity to require a public session. There are many student records that are legally required to be maintained confidential, in particular those covered by the federal "Buckley Amendment," or Family Educational Privacy Act of 1972. See 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. Matters involving consideration of government records that by law are not subject to public disclosure are properly considered in an executive session. So, for example, in an otherwise public hearing concerning discipline of a school teacher, a claim arising out of or relating to that teacher's alleged improper handling of an IEP plan for an individual student would presumably be conducted in a closed session, and with a separate sealed record. A school district or school district employee with information that a student or employee of the district has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) must keep the information confidential except from public health officials and certain district personnel on a need-to-know basis. 4 AAC 6.150.
Curriculum discussions must be done in open meeting. Ariz. Att'y Gen. Op. No. I81-060.
See also Section II.B.1, supra.
A school board may meet in executive session in student expulsion cases if requested by the parent or guardian of the student. Though the board may hear testimony and deliberate in private, it must reconvene in public to vote. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-18-507(d)(2). See Ark. Op. Att'y Gen. Nos. 96-009, 87-478. This statute provides for an executive session only in the case of expulsion hearings, and a school board must meet in public when considering an appeal from a student who has been suspended. Troutt Brothers Inc. v. Valley View School Dist., CIV-2000-343(F) (Craighead County Cir. Ct., July 2, 2000). An executive session is not allowed simply because the school board will consider educational records that are exempt from disclosure under Section 25-19-105(b)(2) of the FOIA. Ark. Att'y Gen. No. 97-298. Moreover, because the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, neither qualifies as an exemption nor supersedes the FOIA under the Supremacy Clause, it does not permit a school board to hold a closed meeting to discuss the records of a particular student or former student. Id.
Community Colleges, State Universities and the Regents of the University of California: The meetings of the governing boards of state universities and the Regents of the University of California are subject to the Bagley-Keene Act and must be open to the public. Cal. Educ. Code §§ 89920, 92030. Tafoya v. Hastings College of the Law, 191 Cal. App. 3d 437, 445, 236 Cal. Rptr. 395 (1987). The meetings of the governing boards of community colleges are subject to the Brown Act. Cal. Educ. Code § 71022. However, meetings of bodies that advise the Regents or exercise authority delegated to them by the Regents are not subject to the Act. Cal. Educ. Code § 92030; see Tafoya, supra.; see also 66 Ops. Cal. Att'y Gen. 458 (1983). For instance, meetings of the faculty and the UC Academic Senate may be closed. See Tafoya, supra.
School Districts and County Boards of Education: The meetings of school districts, county boards of education, and school boards are subject to the Brown Act. Cal. Educ. Code § 71022; Baca v. Moreno Valley Unified Sch. Dist., 936 F.Supp. 719 (C.D. Cal., 1996); 66 Ops. Cal. Att'y Gen. 252 (1983). A governing board of a school district may hold a closed session to consider the suspension of, disciplinary action against, or any other action against a student, if a public hearing would lead to the disclosure of "directory information" on that student, in violation of Education Code Section 49073. Cal. Educ. Code § 35146. However, this rule does not apply if the governing board is considering expulsion of a student. Cal. Educ. Code § 35146.
Colleges and Universities. Closed. Governing boards of institutions of higher education may vote to hold executive sessions to review actions, investigations, charges, complaints, or reports concerning individual students, where public disclosure could adversely affect the persons involved, unless the student has specifically consented to or requested disclosure. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-6-402(3)(b).
Elementary and High Schools. Closed. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-6-402(4)(h) authorizes executive sessions to consider actions, investigations, reports, charges, and complaints against any elementary or high school student. See also Colo. Rev. Stat. § 22-32-108(5) (boards of education may meet in executive session).
The Act does not exempt meetings regarding students. In fact, the Georgia Supreme Court held that even when student committees handle student disciplinary matters the meetings cannot be closed. Red & Black Publishing Co. v. Board of Regents, 262 Ga. 848, 854, 427 S.E.2d 257 (1993) (Board of Regents "cannot hide behind meeting at which official action is taken on their behalf, and for which they are responsible, by contending that a group of students, none of whom are members of the [Board] is taking that action").
The statutes do not specifically address meetings of or concerning students.
An executive session may be held to consider the evaluation, dismissal or disciplining of a public school student. Idaho Code § 74-206(1)(b).
A meeting may be closed to hear student disciplinary cases or to discuss matters relating to the placement of individual students in special education programs and on other matters relating to individual students. See 5 ILCS 120/2(c)) (9) and (10).
Executive sessions are permitted to discuss, before a determination, an individual's status as a student, and to discuss before any placement decision a student's abilities, past performance, behavior and needs. Ind. Code §§ 5-14-1.5-6.1(b)(6)(B), (b)(8).
Confidential: a. when concerning suspension or expulsion, Iowa Code § 21.5(1)(e); b. to the extent necessary to receive federal funds, Iowa Code § 21.5(1)(a); 20 U.S.C. §1232g.
In a hearing regarding appeal of student suspension, student right to request open session under § 21.5(1)(e) is paramount, regardless of the fact that teacher's aide who was disciplined for the same incident requested closed session under § 21.5(1)(i). Schumacher v. Lisbon Sch. Bd., 582 N.W.2d 183, 185-86 (Iowa 1998).
This meeting may be closed to the public unless requested by the student to be made open. K.S.A. 75-4319(b)(5).
May be closed if discussion may lead to discipline or dismissal of student. See Ky. Rev. Stat. 61.810(1)(f).
May be closed unless student requests that meeting be open. La. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 42:17(A)(7).
Meetings to prepare, administer or grade scholastic, licensing or qualifying examinations may be closed. § 3-305(b)(11).
A public body may meet in a closed session to consider the dismissal, suspension, or disciplining of a student under two conditions: if the public body is part of the school district or institution which the student is attending, and if the student's parent or guardian requests a closed hearing. Mich. Comp. Laws Ann. § 15.268(b).
No specific exemption. However, the provision allowing a closed session for prevention of needless injury to the reputation of an individual might apply. See Neb. Rev. Stat. §84-1410(1).
May be closed under general provision allowing closed meeting to consider character or alleged misconduct. In addition, school board of trustee hearings concerning suspension or expulsion of students may be closed. NRS 392.467(3).
There is no case law on this issue. See RSA 91-A:5,VII (exempting "unique pupil identification information collected in accordance with RSA 193-E:5").
Discussions regarding individual students and student records may be held in closed session. N.J.S.A. 10:4-12(b)(3).
The discussion of personally identifiable information about any individual student may be in a closed meeting unless a student's parent or guardian requests otherwise. NMSA 1978 § 10-15-1(H)(4).
Immediately, although no special statute of limitations applies to the Open Meetings Act.
The question of whether student disciplinary proceedings are public was litigated in DTH Pub. Corp. v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 128 N.C. App. 534, 496 S.E.2d 8, (1998). The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sued the Undergraduate Court for access to the Court's proceedings and records. The University defended on the basis that the Court is not a public body within the meaning of the Open Meetings Law and that the records are exempt from disclosure pursuant to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. The trial court found that the Undergraduate Court was a public body subject to the Open Meetings Law but that it was entitled to conduct its inquiries in closed session pursuant to FERPA. The North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's findings in all respects. Noting the 1994 changes to the definition of public body, the Court of Appeals had little trouble finding the Undergraduate Court subject to the Open Meetings Law. "Here, the parties' stipulations demonstrate that the Student Body President and the Student Congress derive their authority to appoint and confirm Undergraduate Court members from the Chancellor, who in turn derives his authority on this matter from the UNC-CH Board of Trustees. The Chancellor and the UNC-CH Board of Trustees derive their authority from the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina (UNC) which, in turn, derives its authority from N.C. Gen.Stat. § § 116-11(2) (1994) and Article IX, Section 8 of our North Carolina Constitution. Thus, the Undergraduate Court members are clearly appointed and confirmed by those who are authorized to do so under the laws of this State and pursuant to the policies and regulations of UNC-CH and UNC." Id. at 11. However, the court also found that the potential withdrawal of federal funds was sufficient to establish a federal "requirement" that schools not disclose student records and that, therefore, closed sessions were justified to maintain the confidentiality of students brought before the court. Id. at 12-13.
Generally closed under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which is a specific exception to the open records law.
All discussions about students must be held in open session, except discussion of a charge or complaint against a student in a public educational institution. Ohio Rev. Code §§ 121.22(G)(1) and (B)(3)(a).
Governing boards of state operated institutions of higher education may not hold executive sessions to hear evidence and discuss student disciplinary matters which may come before it. 1981 OK AG 135.
Student discipline may be the subject of an executive session under ORS 192.660(4) from which the media may be excluded.
Exemption (8) excludes executive sessions of school committees conducting disciplinary hearings or reviewing other matters relating to the privacy of students and their records. However, students may require the meeting to be public. R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-46-5(a)(8).
A school board could meet in executive session to consider promotion, demotion, discipline or release of an individual student. S.C. Code Ann. § 30-4-70(a)(1).
The Open Meetings Act makes no specific exemption for such matters. But see T.C.A. § 10-7-504(a)(4) (making most records of students in public educational institutions confidential).
Section 551.082 permits closed sessions when school boards consider "discipline of a public school child," unless an open hearing is requested in writing by a parent or guardian of the child. But see United Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Gonzalez, 911 S.W.2d 118, 127 (Tex. App.—San Antonio 1995, writ denied per curiam, 940 S.W.2d 593 (Tex. 1996) (right to open session waived where, after providing written demand for open meeting, the student failed to object to the board president's announcement that the board would retire to executive session to consider expulsion).
Discussions about a student's character or physical or mental health would be exempt from the Open Meetings Act. See Utah Code § 52-4-205(1)(a).
Closed if discussion concerns academic records, suspension or discipline of student. 1 V.S.A. § 313(a)(7); see also Caledonian-Record Publ'g Co. v. Vt. State Colleges, 2003 VT 78, ¶ 11-12, 833 A.2d 1273, 1277-78 (Vt. 2003) (affirming denial of request for access to student disciplinary records and proceedings).
Discussion concerning admission or discipline of student(s) of any public institution of higher education or any state school system. Va. Code Ann. § 2.2-3711.A.2.
The OPMA has no provision for closing a meeting to discuss an individual student. Moreover, meetings of a student board which is the governing body of the recognized student association of a campus of a public institution of higher education must conform to the requirements of the Act. RCW 42.30.200.
Another broad exemption under the Act authorizes executive sessions to discuss the "disciplining, suspension or expulsion of any student in any public school or public college or university, unless such student requests an open meeting." W. Va. Code § 6-9A-4(b)(3).
A governing body of an agency may hold closed executive sessions on issues of student conduct. Wyo. Stat. § 16-4-405(a)(xi) (1977, Rev. 1982).


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Q: Python - Retraining multiple Gluonts models with forced reinitialization I am trying to train multiple gluonts models with different end dates for backtesting.
The setup I currently have is each row I have a different backtest loaded, with a training and test listdataset loaded in to each rows cell.
The structure looks like

I then have a training function defined as
# Defines Trained Models
def train_models(row):
    mx.random.seed(7)
    np.random.seed(7)
    trained_model = 1
    #model = row['model']
    #model.initialize( mx.init.Xavier(magnitude=2.24), force_reinit=True, ctx=self.ctx)
    #trained_model = model.train(row['train_set'], force_reinit = True, num_workers=None)
    trained_model = row['model'].train(row['train_set'], force_reinit = True, num_workers=None)

    # Make Predictions
    mx.random.seed(7)
    np.random.seed(7)
    forecasts, ts_it = make_evaluation_predictions(
        dataset=row['test_set'],
        predictor=trained_model,
        num_samples=10,  # number of sample paths we want for evaluation
    )
    # Convert to list
    forecasts_list = list(forecasts)
    #test_set_list = list(ts_it)
    len_test_ds = len(row['test_set'])

    del trained_model
    #return forecasts_list
    return pd.Series([forecasts_list,
                      ts_it,
                      len_test_ds],
                     index = ['forecasts',
                              'ts_it',
                              'length'])

This works when I call a .apply using this function - but I feel it is not retraining the model for each backtest.
The first backtest uses the full 25 epochs, when the model trains the second epoch, early stopping kicks in about halfway through the 25 epochs, and the third backtest immediately hits the min_lr.

Is there a way to reset the training so each time the function runs, it fully retrains the network?


Hi. What's up. It's been a while, I know. Should I even consider the last post an actual blog post? I have this idea that these things have to be substantial; blog posts should engage the reader for at least 30 seconds, like a glance, a quick read, something that makes you chuckle, or go "hm, that's interesting", and then click back on your Facebook or Twitter tab, waiting for something else to pique your interest.
Of course, considering the chaos of our times, I wouldn't be able to continue before stating this: I donated some money to the Japan Society, who according to their twitter is donating "100% of donations to our #Japan Earthquake Relief Fund will go directly to victims http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake" – I've known about the Japan Society and their programs for a few years now, so I had no qualms knowing that my donation would be put to good use through them. It's saddening to see so much devastation going on there, especially since I just came back from a trip there a few months ago, so my thoughts are definitely with Japan right now.
I usually don't post about too much of what I do professionally, but, I figured a few things are worth noting, not necessarily because I worked on them, but because they are interesting projects in their own right.
may have been a starting point for a theme that's been associated with me and my skills as an animator: sports.
… Yes I'm still working on my comic. Yes, it's going really slow, thanks for asking ;p!
Heyyy, how's it going? So this is what you've been up to all this time. I'm blown away, man! Spectacular exaltation of the human figure in motion for sure. I'd love to see a whole short animation like the cricket one (ob Anipages dork comment: reminds me of Shinji Hashimoto's action scene in Spriggan). Don't be so shy to let us know about your awesome ad work in the future.


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Sandpebbles is located on Head Street, opposite Pebbly Beach and The Tanks, which is a great location to enjoy swimming, surfing, fishing or a walk.
The kids can play at The Tanks and there is a play ground at Pebbly Beach. Take an early morning stroll along the scenic walking tracks that span from Pebbly Beach to Bennetts Head and back to Forster Main Beach. Sandpebbles also features rear access to tennis courts, squash courts and aquatic centre.
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Forensic experts work at the scene of a stabbing attack near the former offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, France, on Sept. 25, 2020. Photo by REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
Suspect says prophet caricatures prompted Paris stabbings
PARIS (AP) — The chief suspect in a double stabbing in Paris told investigators he acted out of anger over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad recently republished by the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, France's counterterrorism prosecutor said Tuesday.
Two people were seriously wounded in last week's attack, which took place outside the newspaper's former offices where Islamic extremists killed 12 people in January 2015. The two brothers involved in the 2015 attack targeted Charlie Hebdo because they believed the newspaper blasphemed Islam by publishing the same Muhammad caricatures.
Authorities are investigating Friday's stabbings as an Islamic extremist attack. A judicial investigation has been opened for "attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise" and "terrorist conspiracy."
Counterterrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said the Pakistan-born suspect identified himself as Zaher Hassan Mahmood, 25, after a photo of his passport was found in his mobile phone. He initially told police he was going by the name of Hassan Ali, aged 18.
Ricard said the assailant did not claim an affiliation with a specific extremist group.
The suspect said he had seen videos from Pakistan on Charlie Hebdo's decision to reprint the caricatures as more than a dozen people charged in the newspaper attack and another outside a kosher grocery store in Paris went on trial this month, according to the prosecutor.
Describing himself as "angry," the assailant said he allegedly decided to carry out the attack without knowing the newspaper had moved, Ricard said.
"Initially, he wanted to enter the building, if needed….When he came in front of it and saw the victims, he thought they worked for the satirical publication and decided to attack them," Ricard said.
In a 3-minute video broadcast on social media on Friday morning, the suspect, speaking in Urdu, "announces his act," Ricard said, quoting him as saying he's going to "rebel" against the new publication of the caricatures.
The prosecutor said that some of his relatives described him in recent weeks as "looking abundantly at Khadim Hussain Rizvi's videos, the head of the radical Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistani party known as TLP, who in September following publications of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, organized demonstrations."
Several associates and relatives of the knifeman have all been released without charges.
Ricard said the suspect arrived in France two years ago, presenting himself as an unaccompanied minor. He was not on police radar for Islamic radicalization and not known to French intelligence services.
Charlie Hebdo lost 12 employees in an al-Qaida attack in 2015 by French-born extremists who had criticized the prophet cartoons. The newspaper, which routinely mocks religious figures of all kinds, decided to republish the caricatures the day before the trial into the 2015 attacks opened this month. The publication drew threats from militant groups, as well as criticism from Muslims in multiple countries.
The two people wounded in Friday's attack were a woman and a man working at the Premieres Lignes documentary production company who had stepped outside for a smoke break.


Starting with a formless black space and bringing it to life with composition, lighting and shadow, movement, and color, this is my great passion. 12 hours fly by when I'm on set because I love creating, crafting an image, and pushing through the machine that is filmmaking. I love being part of a team, working with great directors and actors, then bringing to life what started as words on a page.
Been working in this business for close to a decade and each film is just as exciting as the last. I'm lucky to work as a cinematographer doing what I love. New Jersey native where I shot a lot of corporate and commercial video, I came to Los Angeles and started shoot more narrative and documentary based projects.


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With the advent of ringtone rap and hip-hop singles that all sound alike, it is a pleasure to hear some heavy MCs spitting over beats that are more late '90s than late aughts. LA's Strong Arm Steady crew has been rolling together since 2003, and this longevity is evident on "Get Started," where the internal rhymes, political commentary, and clever roasts pop with unbridled energy. Having Talib on the piece only elevates it further, and with Madlib producing, the deal is sealed: "Get Started" is some tight hip-hop for those who are tired of the tacky electro-commercialism of what is played on most "urban" radio stations. From the upcoming Stoney Jackson album on Stones Throw, produced entirely by Madlib himself.
Kidz in the Hall "Change (Work To Do) Remix feat. Bun B and Talib Kweli"


WASHINGTON – A historic phone call between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Sept. 27 capped a significant week in the case of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran.
During the 15-minute call, Obama voiced concern for Saeed Abedini, a U.S. citizen who marked a year of incarceration for his Christian faith Sept. 26. Though Secretary of State John Kerry has called for Abedini's release, this was the president's first time to speak out on the pastor's behalf.
Obama also expressed concern for two other Americans imprisoned or missing in Iran, in addition to dealing with other topics.
The conversation was the first time presidents of the two countries have spoken directly since 1979.
During a CNN interview Sept. 25, Rouhani was noncommittal when asked about Abedini, noting that he "cannot interfere in the judicial process" and that America also held Iranians whom he sought to be freed.
But Abedini's family is optimistic in the wake of the presidents' phone call, as Iran released 91 prisoners of conscience in the days leading up to Rouhani's Sept. 24 speech at the United Nations. Two of them were women held since 2009 on charges of "undermining the national security of Iran" after they converted from Islam to Christianity and joined a house church, according to Morning Star News.
The Abedinis are hopeful that the new Iranian president, elected in June on a platform of reconciliation and engagement with the West, will soon add the pastor to the list of those released.
Earlier in the week, Naghmeh Abedini passed along a letter from her husband to Rouhani when she encountered the Iranian president and his entourage in a New York hotel where she was staying.
As Rouhani approached the elevators Sept. 23, Naghmeh Abedini gave a letter to one of his delegates, who promised to deliver the letter to the president, the ACLJ reported.
On the anniversary of Abedini's imprisonment Sept. 26, thousands gathered for vigils in more than 70 cities across the United States to pray for the pastor's release.
Abedini, whose wife and two children live in Idaho, has spent the last year in Tehran's harsh Evin Prison, known for housing political dissidents. He was handed an eight-year sentence after being arrested while visiting his parents in Iran and working on building an orphanage.
The 33-year-old pastor had converted from Islam to Christianity in Iran in 2000 and planted house churches until 2005. Although Iran has no law against house churches, the government termed his involvement a threat to "national security," even though he had ceased such work after agreeing in 2009 to limit his ministry to humanitarian work, according to Morning Star News.
Before his trial, Abedini was held in solitary confinement, beaten repeatedly and told he would be killed, according to the ACLJ. He was denied medical treatment and suffered serious infections and internal bleeding – presumably sustained during interrogation sessions by prison officials.
That's a wicked act; how can you imprison someone because they are serving God? Iran, be careful God is still God.


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California Church Pressured to Stop Serving Meals to the Homeless Because it Lures the Needy
A church in the upscale neighborhood of Malibu, California has been told by officials to stop serving food to the homeless because they were attracting too many homeless people.
The United Methodist Church has been offering free meals twice a week to the homeless but said it was going to stop after Thanksgiving because they were luring too many homeless people into the neighborhood. City officials made the decision after speaking with organizers, suggesting they were attracting more homeless people into the city, the Los Angeles Times reported.
At a public hearing last week, Mayor Skylar Peak denied ordering the meals to end, but he also apologized for "miscommunication." Peak said the city wanted to work with volunteers on a solution.
"I will stand by the fact that everyone up here is compassionate about everyone in the community," Peak said.
Religious groups fed the homeless for the past 17 years, and the City of Malibu and private donors used thousands of dollars for social workers to find them housing and services. The United Methodist Church and Standing on Stone, a Christian group, had been hosting homeless dinners twice a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays for the past three years.
Malibu has a population of 13,000 and has roughly 180 homeless residents, but no shelter or housing for them. The city is 90 percent white.
Residents complained of homeless people staying by the beach and hanging out near schools. Many say this is because the Metro's Expo Line opened in Santa Monica last year.
"A homeless person was taking a shower in the girl's locker room in middle school — that wasn't real good," Gary Peterson, a retired developer, and hotelier who quit the church's board of trustees over the meal issue told the LA Times. "Providing dinner is a nice thing to do and a good thing, but it's the location."
At one of the final diners last week, 50 people from different parts of Southern California came to eat home-cooked meals of a various array of food.
"This is very sad for us; we've been enjoying these friends for more than three years," Rev. Sandy Liddell, the Methodist church's pastor, told the LA Times.
Currently, California has the highest rate of homelessness of any state in the U.S. There are 118,142 homeless people living in the state, with over 78,000 individuals without shelter, according to a 2016 annual homeless assessment report.


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Outside In is a 2020 picture book written by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by Cindy Derby. The book won a 2021 Caldecott Honor. The book explores the ways nature affects our everyday lives.

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One way to keep an eye on Louis Vuitton prices is to check out their official website. There are two main categories of Louis Vuitton products, the ordinary and the popular. If you're interested in purchasing a popular model, you'll have to wait three to six months before you can buy it. Luckily, many people opt to purchase 1:1 replica products. If you're planning to buy a replica, make sure that the seller will give you an idea of its price.
Date codes indicate when the piece was made, which is helpful when buying a Louis Vuitton. The style name and date code is always stamped on a separate piece of paper. It's important to note that these date codes do not indicate when the item was manufactured. However, they are helpful for identifying fakes. For instance, if you're buying an original Speedy bag, you can check whether it was made in France, Spain, or the USA.
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Steve Hamer confirms when Bristol Rovers can expect to be using the club's new training ground
The club's chairman has explained what stage the plans are at with preparing for the new ground
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Bristol Rovers chairman Steve Hamer has explained what stage the planning for the club's training ground has got to.
In February Dwane Sports Group, owners of Bristol Rovers FC, completed their acquisition of a 28 acre training ground site in Almondsbury which will be known as 'The Colony'.
The club's plans include the construction of a facility on the site that would see Rovers become eligible to apply for Category 2 Academy status.
Now, nearly four months on, Hamer has reiterated that the site should be ready to use for next summer's pre-season training.
Bristol Rovers chairman Steve Hamer gives assurances over UWE Stadium plans
However, he has warned that the building may not be completed by that stage.
He said in an interview with the club: "It is at pre planning, we are in the process of that application. It does take a bit of time, we knew that.
The Lawns is the venue for the reserve match
"Not a great deal we can do more. It is in a green belt area and we don't want to be jumping the gun. We have to be exemplary in our procedures.
"Once we have the green light it will move very quickly.
Bristol Rovers fans are not the only ones to have plenty to say on Liam Sercombe's signing
"In an ideal world we set a programme of June 30 2018.
"When the players report back it may not be fully completed but I visited Sheffield Wednesday the other day and they are operational it is not full completed yet.
"It is a bit like a new-build house, you have to a live a little bit with builders on site, it may not all be ready but the pitches will be ready and then the buildings soon after. "
"It will be help everybody, the one thing this club needs going forward it getting everyone under one roof. At the moment we are in little pockets all over north Bristol."
Bristol Rovers owner Wael Al-Qadi responds to rumours he is set to sell the club
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With the creation of #MeToo in 2006, Burke started the movement to support sexual assault survivors, focusing on young Black and brown women and on disrupting the proliferation of silencing and shaming of victims. The goal was to bring vital conversations about sexual violence into the mainstream. That happened in a major way in 2017 when the hashtag was attached to a campaign to bring awareness to sexual assault in the entertainment industry, then moved to harassment, abuse and assault beyond that field. Today, she's called on to weigh in on cases spanning victims of various races and cases that involve those from all levels of affluence-all the way up to the nation's highest court. She was in the room during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September when Christine Blasey Ford gave testimony alleging sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh when the two were teenagers, and Burke participated in a rally against his confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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This is the latest in the series featuring Keller the Hit Man. Don't let his profession put you off. He's really a nice guy. It's just that he kills people for a living in return for payment. Oh, and anyone else who might get in his way when he's doing it. There's no unnecessary blood and gore. No sadism. It's just a job to be carried out as quickly and efficiently as possible. Suffering isn't on the agenda.
However, in Hit Me, Keller has in fact retired. He's acquired a wife (Julia) and a baby (Jenny) and relocated from New York to New Orleans, post Katrina, where he's found work as a builder. He even has a new name. Nicholas Edwards. But, out of the blue, he gets a call from his erstwhile agent, Dot. There is a little job in Dallas she would like him to clear up! He goes. Then there are trips to Denver to kill a monk, a cruise to the West Indies, a return New York (will someone recognise him in his old stamping ground?) and suddenly he is back in the game.
But then, in the last chapter sees him ordered to kill a 14 year old boy who is an ardent stamp collector and thereby is a snag. You see, most of Keller's time is taken up with his lifelong hobby - philately. It is a consuming interest for him which in most people's eyes makes him a nerd. But the profession needs young blood so will he do it or will this dilemma finally put an end to his lawless career, whereby he swaps the Black Arts for a Penny Black?
There is so much humour in Lawrence Block's books that you never want them to finish and this one is no exception. And if you are interested in stamp collecting yourself, you could learn a lot from this book. As for myself, I am waiting in the constant hope that he will resurrect his other favourite character, Matt Scudder.
Reviewer: Ron Ellis
Lawrence Block was born June 24, 1938. An American crime best known for two long-running New York series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994.
Ron Ellis. Writer, Broadcaster and Photographer, Ron is the author of the popular series of crime novels set on Merseyside featuring Liverpool radio D.J./Private Eye, Johnny Ace.
He also writes the D.C.I. Glass mystery series. As well as his fiction titles, Ron has written 'Southport Faces' a social history of the town seen through the eyes of 48 of its best-known residents. His 'Journal of a Coffin Dodger', the hilarious adventures of an 84 year old playboy, has been serialised on BBC Radio and poems from his collection of poetry, 'Last of the Lake Poets', have won several nationwide competitions. During the 1980's, he conducted over 192 interviews with friends and relatives of John Lennon for Albert Goldman's biography, 'The Lives of John Lennon'.
Ron writes the football reports for the Southport Champion and is also their theatre and arts reviewer as well as being a regular contributor to magazines such as Lancashire Life.


There's a well-known story in Numbers 13-14 where God tells Moses to send out leaders to spy out the Promised Land. They are asked to bring back information about the land: Are the people weak or strong, few or many? Is the land fertile or wasteland? The spies return to camp bringing lavish fruit which they had harvested. While Joshua and Caleb exhort Israel to take the land God has promised them, the other ten leaders spread a bad report that the land devours those living in it. They convince Israel not to go. Israel grumbles against Moses and threatens to appoint a leader to take them back to Egypt.
Their defiance evokes God's wrath. Moses pleads for their forgiveness, which God grants, but He also declares that no one in Israel over the age of 20 will enter the Promised Land. After hearing the judgment from Moses, the people come to Moses, confessing their sin and ready to take the land. But, it was too late; God has already told them they would not be going. They decide to go anyway, again ignoring what God has said, and they got defeated in battle. And, with the exception of Joshua and Caleb, no one over 20 entered the Promised Land.
We, like Israel, complain and murmur. When God asks us to do something, we start with our excuses. "I am too busy". "I don't have time." "I don't know enough." "I could never do that." "It's too scary." So, we, too, miss out on opportunities that God has for us. God has given us His Word and placed His Holy Spirit in us to lead us into His will. We need to learn to recognize His voice because the person God or opportunity God has for us may not be there next time when we get around to being ready.
Had Israel only listened to God, they and their families would have entered the Promised Land, the land flowing with milk and honey. Had Israel only listened to God, they would have known that it was too late to fight the Amelekites and saved their warriors from slaughter. Had you or I only listened...we would have _______.
Decide today that you are not going to refuse the One who speaks. Prepare your heart to receive His Word. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you into God's will today. Trust God for the resources to accomplish His will.


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The end of cash bail? Backers and opponents ponder the consequences as bill awaits Pritzker's signature.
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Woman killed at Evanston IHOP was shot in the face, her death ruled a homicide — the 4th attributed to gunman killed in police shootout
Family suing over fatal shooting by off-duty cop at CHA building
By Meredith Rodriguez
Tribune reporter |
Three separate 911 emergency calls involving the fatal shooting of an unarmed man, 28 year-old Marlon Horton by an off-duty Chicago police officer working alongside a CHA security guard on September 7th, 2013.
The family of a man who was fatally shot by an off-duty Chicago police officer last fall said Wednesday it would continue to press a federal civil rights lawsuit to hold the officer accountable for the shooting.
The lawsuit was filed by the family of 28-year-old Marlon Horton, who was shot and killed last Sept. 7 at a Chicago Housing Authority building in the 1800 block of West Monroe Street. Horton was shot after an altercation with the off-duty officer, identified in the lawsuit as Kenneth Walker, and another person, Shaquila Moore. Both were working as security guards at the building, according to the lawsuit, which was initially filed last year.
Part of the incident was captured on videotape, though not the actual shooting. The shooting, according to the lawsuit, occurred after Horton was asked to leave the building. After he walked to the parking lot, he urinated on a car, then got into an argument with Walker and Moore. Walker, according to the lawsuit, shot Horton in the chest. Horton was unarmed, according to the lawsuit.
Jeffrey Granich, an attorney for the family, said at a news conference Wednesday that surveillance video and transcripts of 911 calls by the guards after the shooting raise questions about the initial account of the shooting, including who initiated the fight and whether Horton lunged at Walker before he was shot. Horton had almost double the legal limit of alcohol and traces of the drug ecstasy in his system, Granich said.
The lawsuit names Walker and Moore, along with the City of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department, the CHA, the security company that employed the two guards, Maverick Security, Inc., and the firm that manages the building where the shooting occurred, H.J. Russell & Company.
The lawsuit includes claims of excessive force, failure to intervene, conspiracy, wrongful death and battery.
"It was tough to watch," Jarrod Horton, a brother, said of the surveillance video. "The reaction is just a lack of compassion. I think regardless of the circumstances, they didn't have to kill him."
14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central
Chicago police: Death of man while trying to move filing cabinet ruled accidental


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