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    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    response.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
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javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class student.StudentSurveyFormSubmit
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    org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:368)
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:877)
    org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:671)
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A: If you use web.xml to define servlet then remove @WebServlet annotation, as now you have 2 different mappings.

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Our trip to Barbados was awesome!
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Maia (Middle-earth)
For other uses, see Maia (disambiguation).
The Maiar (singular: Maia) are among a class of beings from J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy legendarium. Supernatural and angelic, they are "lesser Ainur" who entered "Eä" in the beginning of time. The name Maiar is in the Quenya tongue (one of several constructed languages) that comes from the Elvish root maya- "excellent, admirable".[1] Maiar sometimes refers to all the Ainur who entered Eä, the "Creation", but more often to the lesser powers among them: "Maia is the name of the Kin of the Valar, but especially of those of lesser power than the 9 great rulers" wrote Tolkien.[1]
In the Valaquenta, Tolkien wrote that the Maiar are "spirits whose being also began before the world, of the same order as the Valar but of less degree". In the Valaquenta, it is also written that many Maiar associated themselves with a Vala; for example, Ossë and Uinen, who ruled the Seas, acted under Ulmo, while Curumo, who came to be known in Middle-earth as Saruman, was with Aulë. Sauron also was with Aulë before being corrupted by Melkor.[2]
Being of divine origin and possessing great power, the Maiar can wander the world unseen or shape themselves in fashion of Elves or other creatures; these "veils", called fanar in Quenya, could be destroyed, but their true-being could not. Rarely did the Maiar adopt their visible forms to elves and man, and for that reason, very few of the Maiar have names in their tongues, and the elves do not know how many of the Maiar exist.[3]
The Maia Eönwë is the herald of Manwë. He led the hosts of the West in the War of Wrath in which Morgoth was finally overthrown and Thangorodrim destroyed.[4]
Melkor (known in Sindarin as Morgoth), the evil Vala, corrupted many Maiar into his service. These included Sauron, the main antagonist of The Lord of the Rings, and the Balrogs, his demons of flame and shadow.[5] These are called in Quenya Úmaiar.
Melian was a Maia who went to Middle-earth before the First Age, where she fell in love with the Elven-king Elu Thingol, King Greymantle, and with him ruled the kingdom of Doriath. When war with Morgoth came to Doriath, she used her powers to guard and defend it with a protection called the Girdle of Melian (List Melian in Sindarin). She had a child with Thingol, a daughter named Lúthien, said to be the fairest and most beautiful of all the Children of Ilúvatar.
In about T.A. 1100, the Valar sent several Maiar to Middle-earth to help contest the evil of Sauron. They had great skills of hand and mind but were cloaked in the guise of men, seemingly old but of great vigour.[6] Their mission was to guide elves and men by gaining trust and spreading knowledge, not by ruling them with fear and force. They were known as the Istari, or Wizards, and included Gandalf the Grey (Olórin or Mithrandir; later Gandalf the White), Saruman the White (Curumo or Curunír; he later called himself Saruman of Many Colours), Radagast the Brown (Aiwendil), and two Blue Wizards (Alatar and Pallando) who are mentioned in passing but do not appear in Tolkien's narratives.
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^ a b J. R. R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages", Parma Eldalamberon 17, p. 174.
^ The Silmarillion, "Valaquenta"
^ The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter 24, p. 252.
^ The Silmarillion, "Valaquenta", pp. 30-32.
^ Unfinished Tales, "The Istari", pp. 388 ff.
"Maiar". Tolkien Gateway.
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About Friends of PEB
Friends of PEB Inc. was formed in 2008. Our mission is to support and promote the educational purposes of the Presbyterian Education Board of Pakistan and to fund its development in the USA. We do this by:
sustaining a 501(c) 3 organization in the U.S. with administrative services for promotion and donations;
supporting development activities of PEB representatives in the U.S.
cultivating Presbyterian participation through churches, presbyteries, and synods;
cultivating other financial support by way of grants, bequests, corporate resources, and individual donations.
The board of directors meets monthly by conference call and a 3-day retreat is held annually. Download the Friends of PEB brochure (PDF) for more information or to share with your colleagues and friends.
Our current staff:
Margy Trimble, Executive Director: Margy assumed the role of Executive Director in July 2015. She and her family lived in Pakistan for 5 years as mission co-workers of PCUSA. Margy brings a wealth of real-life experience to her role.
To contact Margy:
margy.trimble@friendsofpeb.org
Veda Javaid Gill, Mission Representative: Veda inspires all she meets as she travels across the U.S. to share of the great need for quality education in Pakistan, and invites friends to join the cause. Veda is the Executive Director of the PEB school system in Pakistan. To contact Veda:
info@friendsofpeb.org
Pam Rivera, Development Coordinator: Pam began her position in July 2019. With 16 years of experience in development at a university, and strong social media and photography skills, Pam is helping Friends of PEB take the next steps to grow as an organization. To contact Pam:
pam.rivera@friendsofpeb.org
Our current board members:
Tim Roach, President: Tim is a retired Presbyterian minister who moved from the east coast to Corvallis OR in 2012. He has been a supporter of PEB's schools and ministries since 2010 when Veeda visited the congregation he was serving and, like that congregation, he was deeply moved by the PEB story.
Stuart Baskin, Vice President: Stuart serves as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Tyler, Texas. He has had a long-term interest in global missions and visited the PEB schools in Pakistan in 2014 and 2018.
Ellen Davis, Secretary: Ellen is an Organizational Development Consultant with over 35 years experience. She has worked with companies and organizations in both the US and Europe focusing on start-ups to organizational change and renewal. Ellen is a graduate of Columbia College, SC where she is a past Chair of their Board of Trustees. Ellen currently resides in both Charleston, SC and Singer Island, FL.
Molly Hundley, Treasurer: Retired former VP and CFO of Multi Service Technology Corp (MSTS). Molly has vast experience in finance and is a member of Second Presbyterian Church of Kansas City, MO where she was an Elder from 2010-2012 and Finance Committee Chair in 2012.
Debbie Hough: Retired Director of Christian Education at Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey, PA. Debbie first encountered Veda and the work of FOPEB at the 2009 Mission Connection Conference in Cincinnati, OH. Since then, Debbie and the Monday Evening Women's Group she attends have hosted Veda several times and have dedicated themselves to the Sargodha School Project and working with SHE.
Tamara Calhoun: A graduate of St. Cloud State University with a Masters degree in Middle School Education. Tami worked as a music teacher for over 30 years. She has given of herself through mission work within the US (Oklahoma and Virginia) and abroad (Brazil, Costa Rica, and Pakistan). Tami travels regularly to Pakistan to lead seminars for the PEB teachers on teaching music in the classroom. She is a member of First Presbyterian Church of St. Cloud, MN.
Jessica Rustin: Chief Legal Officer for Advance America, a leading nationwide provider of consumer financial solutions. As a member of the executive leadership, she leads a team of attorneys and compliance staff responsible for managing Advance America's legal, regulatory compliance, and internal audit needs. Prior to Advance America, Jessica worked at a regional law firm and various government-related positions. Jessica earned both her B.A. (2003) and J.D. (2006) from the University of South Carolina and is admitted to the South Carolina bar. She lives in Greenville, SC and sits on the Board of the Children's Museum of the Upstate.


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Q: Prove the following recurrence relation for the Hadamard matrix I am to show that the following gives a Hadamard matrix with dimension $2^k$ for $k = 0,1,2,3,\dots$, if
$H_0 = \begin{bmatrix} 1 \end{bmatrix}$, then $$H_{k+1} = \begin{bmatrix}H_k & H_k \\ H_k & -H_k \end{bmatrix}.$$
I am having trouble on where to start and how to prove this. Could I please have some help?
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Declassified Documents Show FBI Used 'Defensive' Briefing In 2016 To Spy On Donald Trump
July 24, 2020 | 06:52am
The new documents detail the FBI's attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself. Newly declassified internal Federal Bureau of Investigation documents prove the top U.S. law enforcement agency used a so-called defensive briefing of the Trump campaign in 2016 …
The new documents detail the FBI's attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
Newly declassified internal Federal Bureau of Investigation documents prove the top U.S. law enforcement agency used a so-called defensive briefing of the Trump campaign in 2016 to spy on and collect information about Donald Trump himself. The new documents, which are just the latest in a string of declassifications regarding the FBI operation to spy on the Trump campaign and later the Trump administration, detail the FBI's attempts to use a briefing ostensibly meant to warn the Trump campaign about foreign intelligence threats to spy on the Trump campaign itself.
FBI Summary Of August 17, 2… by The Federalist on Scribd
The documents were formally declassified by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on July 23 then provided to Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
In one of the documents declassified and released on Wednesday, FBI supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka wrote that he deliberately used the briefing to "actively listen for topics or questions" from Trump "regarding the Russian Federation." Rather than provide the Trump campaign a specific warning that certain campaign principals were being targeted by Russian intelligence, the FBI instead gave a general, non-specific warning that foreign intelligence services might eventually target the campaign.
Pientka's written summary of the briefing noted that Trump, Michael Flynn, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were the only three Trump campaign members in attendance. Christie's attendance had not previously been disclosed. The August 17, 2016 meeting came the day after the FBI opened a formal counterintelligence investigation against Flynn and just two days after FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok texted his former lover, FBI attorney Lisa Page, about an "insurance policy" he had designed to keep Trump from becoming president.
"I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy [McCabe]'s office—that there's no way he gets elected—but I'm afraid we can't take that risk," Strzok texted Page on August 15, 2016. "It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40…."
The very next day Strzok opened an investigation of Flynn then used the pretext of a defensive intelligence briefing to collect intelligence on both Flynn and Trump on August 17.
Pientka's notes on the meeting stated that it lasted for two hours, beginning at 3:55 p.m. and ending at 5:51 p.m. While Pientka spent only 13 minutes of the two-hour meeting warning Trump, Flynn, and Christie of foreign intelligence threats, he lamented in his notes that other intelligence officials didn't have enough time to get through their material.
"Due to time constraints, not all ODNI briefers presented their material," Pientka wrote. He did not say whether his use of the meeting as means of spying on and collecting information against Trump may have precluded other intelligence officials from presenting their material to the attendees.
Pientka was excoriated in a report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Inspector General (OIG) for his behavior during the FBI's spy operation against the Trump campaign. Pientka told the OIG that he designed the August 17 meeting to "gain assessment and possibly have some level of familiarity with [Flynn]."
According to the OIG report, Pientka "was selected to provide the FBI briefings, in part, because Flynn, who was a subject in the ongoing Crossfire Hurricane investigation, would be attending the Trump campaign briefing."
Pientka told the OIG that he was selected to attend on behalf of the FBI so he could "record" or "overhear" from Trump, Flynn, or Christie "any kind of admission" that they were colluding with the Russian government to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. Pientka also added that he wanted to get a baseline impression of Flynn's "overall mannerisms" in case he needed to later use that information against him.
Pientka later took part in the FBI's 2017 interview of Flynn, which became the basis of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case against Flynn. Following the discovery of exculpatory documents that had previously been suppressed by the government, the DOJ moved to dismiss all charges against Flynn. A top federal appellate court panel ordered Emmett G. Sullivan, the judge overseeing Flynn's case, to dismiss the charges against Flynn, but Sullivan has thus far refused to comply.
Pientka's account of the meeting was approved by Strzok and former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith. According to the DOJ OIG, Clinesmith fabricated evidence against Carter Page to ensure that a warrant to spy on him would be approved by the federal spy court. Rather than inform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that Carter Page had previously worked with a U.S. intelligence agency in its successful efforts to capture and prosecute Russian intelligence officers working against the United States, Clinesmith allegedly changed an e-mail from that intelligence agency to eliminate the agency's confirmation that Page had worked with them against the Russians.
According to the OIG report, Clinesmith "altered the [intelligence agency liaison's] email by inserting the words 'not a source' into it, thus making it appear that the liaison had said that Page was 'not a source' for the other agency." Clinesmith's fabrication was included in a spy warrant against Page that was later found to be illegal because it included so much false and fabricated information. Clinesmith is reportedly under federal criminal investigation and is no longer employed by the FBI.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham last year to investigate the entire anti-Trump spy operation launched by the FBI and to determine whether criminal charges are warranted. Durham has not yet indicted any individuals for their roles in illegally spying on the Trump campaign and Trump presidential administration.
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Edward "Ned" Bates is one of the most prominent and well-respected lawyers in family law, and a partner at Warner Bates. He represents and counsels clients across a full range of domestic law issues and is regularly called on by other attorneys to serve as a mediator and arbitrator.
In addition to helping clients with domestic law and family litigation matters, Ned has lectured and written extensively over the past 30 years on such issues as equitable distribution, tax aspects of divorce, prenuptial agreements and numerous other topics. In 1988 he authored Georgia Domestic Relations – Forms and Practice, which is recognized by lawyers throughout the state as the definitive domestic relations form book in Georgia. He has also served as co-chairperson of the American Bar Association's Family Law Section Committee on International Enforcement of Support.
Ned is a past president of the Georgia Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, past chairperson of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Georgia, as well as past chairperson of the Atlanta Bar Association's Family Law Section.
Among his numerous accolades, Ned has been rated in the Top 100 among Georgia Super Lawyers and has been named in Naifen and Smith's Best Lawyers in America since 1990. He was the recipient of the Professionalism Award from the State Bar of Georgia, Family Law Section, in 2009. He is also a 2014 Martindale-Hubbell Top Rated Lawyer in Family Law and has been included in Atlanta Magazine's list of Super Lawyers since 2004.
Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, Ned graduated from Washington & Lee University with a BA and received his law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law, where he served as executive editor of the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.


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My paper of the month - Vitamin D deficiency predicts for poor overall survival in white but not African American patients with multiple myeloma.
Each month one member of the EBMT Scientific Council will select and comment a recent paper in the field of stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy that was published in high ranked journals.
For this month Newsletter, John Snowden, Chair of the Autoimmune Disease Working Party, comments on the publication entitled "Vitamin D deficiency predicts for poor overall survival in white but not African American patients with multiple myeloma." published in Blood Advances.
Vitamin D deficiency predicts for poor overall survival in white but not African American patients with multiple myeloma.
Yellapragada SV, Fillmore NR, Frolov A, Zhou Y, Dev P, Yameen H, Ifeorah C, Do NV, Brophy MT, Munshi NC.
Blood Adv. 2020 Apr 28;4(8):1643-1646.
My late grandfather was a coal miner from leaving school at the age of 12. When I was a child, he used to swear by the value of daily fish oil capsules that he had taken lifelong. Although we understood that his long days working underground had deprived him of many years of sunlight, we all considered that vitamin supplements had little role in a well-nourished society, so we used to humour him politely about the value of vitamin D on general health. However, unlike most of his generation of coal miners, he did live healthily to the age of 95.
I was much more fortunate in my education, but throughout my medical career the role of Vitamin D repeatedly raised its head not only in relation to its 'classical' roles in bone metabolism, but also in association with a range of 'non-classical' roles in a wide range of disease processes including immunity, inflammation, auto-reactivity, cancer, and now even in HSCT.1,2,3
Myeloma combines all of these disease processes and HSCT. In this month's Blood Advances, Yellapragada et al4 have shown that vitamin D deficiency is associated with significantly reduced survival outcomes in patients with symptomatic myeloma. Accessing the Veteran's Affairs database they identified 1889 patients with myeloma with serum 25-OH vitamin D measurements within 62 months of diagnosis. Using a definition of vitamin D deficiency as <20ng/ml (<50nmol/L), vitamin D deficiency was a significant independent predictor of overall survival in univariate and multivariate analysis in white patients but not in African American patients, despite lower Vitamin D levels and higher rate of deficiency. There was no association between serum vitamin D levels and sex, stage, initial therapy, or HSCT, but in white myeloma patients with vitamin D deficiency there was a stark difference in survival (median, 2.71 years vs 3.87 years, P = 0.005).
Limitations to the study included predominant male veterans population and the possibility that supplementation before vitamin D measurement may have affected findings. However, the investigators reanalyzed the data after excluding these patients, but the results and conclusions remained unchanged.
The study shows potential impact of vitamin D in myeloma and helps justify screening for vitamin D deficiency.5 Vitamin D deficiency may affect mortality in myeloma because of skeletal-related events, bone marrow microenvironment, myeloma cell growth and survival, areas where vitamin D may play a unique role in myeloma compared with other cancers.1,2,3 Although not discussed in the paper, it may be that, like in asthma, vitamin D potentiates the effect of high dose corticosteroids routinely used in myeloma, perhaps enhancing disease control. More studies of vitamin D and its deficiency in myeloma are required to explain these associations. A particular challenge is to disentangle the causes and effects of vitamin D deficiency in myeloma patients, e.g. where limited sunlight exposure or dietary intake may accompany disability and severe disease.
In the meantime, screening for vitamin D deficiency has been recommended in the long-term follow up of patients with myeloma.5 Replacement and maintenance is simple, cheap, and probably harmless in most patients. Although many myeloma patients may be kept vitamin D replete in association with general recommendations that bisphosphonate treatment is routinely accompanied with calcium and vitamin D supplementation, this is usually low dose, and may not always be implemented robustly by clinical teams, or adhered to by patients in the long term. Active monitoring of vitamin D is therefore recommended and higher doses of supplementation may be indicated.
Given its protean effects, further studies of vitamin D biology, its deficiency and supplementation in myeloma and other haematological cancers, as well as HSCT, are warranted.1,2,3
1.Ros-Soto J, Snowden JA, Salooja N, Gilleece M, Parker A, Greenfield DM, Anthias C, Alfred A, Harrington A, Peczynski C, Peggs K, Madrigal A, Basak GW, Schoemans H; Transplant Complications Working Party of the EBMT. Current Practice in Vitamin D Management in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Survey by the Transplant Complications Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2019 Oct;25(10):2079-2085.
2. Ros-Soto J, Anthias C, Madrigal A, Snowden JA. Vitamin D: is it important in haematopoietic stem cell transplantation? A review. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2019 Jun;54(6):810-820.
3. Ros-Soto J, Anthias C, Madrigal A, Snowden JA. Insights into the role of vitamin D as a biomarker in stem cell transplantation. Front. Immunol. 2020 (in press) doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00966
4. Yellapragada SV, Fillmore NR, Frolov A, Zhou Y, Dev P, Yameen H, Ifeorah C, Do NV, Brophy MT, Munshi NC. Vitamin D deficiency predicts for poor overall survival in white but not African American patients with multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2020 Apr 28;4(8):1643-1646.
5. Snowden JA, Greenfield DM, Bird JM, Boland E, Bowcock S, Fisher A, Low E, Morris M, Yong K, Pratt G; UK Myeloma Forum (UKMF) and the British Society for Haematology (BSH). Guidelines for screening and management of late and long-term consequences of myeloma and its treatment. Br J Haematol. 2017 Mar;176(6):888-907.
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UNIFIED MAKES 135,000 DIGIPAKS FOR SLAYER'S LATEST ALBUM "REPENTLESS"
LOS ANGELES CA (September 15,2015)
Unified Manufacturing makes a total of 135,000 Digipak albums for Slayer's 11th studio album titled Repentless. Each digipak comes in a 14-panel wallet design and contains the CD and a DVD/Bluray of SLAYER Live At Wacken 2014 and the Making of Repentless ( Documentary). Each Digipak comes in the following options: CD+DVD combo, CD+Bluray combo , or CD-only. The album artwork has become viral thanks to the Photoshoppers who made hilarious versions.
ABOUT REPENTLESS:
Repentless is the 11th studio album by the two-time Grammy winner American thrash metal band Slayer. It is the first Slayer album following the death of Jeff Hanneman in 2013, and the band's first album to be released on Nuclear Blast. It was released on September 11, 2015.


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Please have an Agent contact me about MLS#: 2246819 204 Hales Wood Road, Chapel Hill.


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Gregory Gourdet Won a 'Top Chef' Challenge Cooking Outstanding Haitian Food. Now He's Turning It Into a Restaurant.
From reality TV to reality.
Photo: courtesy Nicole Weingart/Bravo
The expectations, honestly, could not have been lower. Last fall, I arrived at the Row development in Downtown Los Angeles with an invite to dine during the upcoming season of Top Chef's "Restaurant Wars" challenge. As a longtime watcher of the show, it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up, even if I was expecting a bit of a train wreck. How good could the food be on a reality TV show? I'd come and have fun watching the sausage be made, while eating subpar sausage in the process. I had no idea what the theme of the restaurant was or who the chefs that were cooking would be, yet when the food started coming out at the makeshift restaurant, I couldn't believe how delicious it was.
I was eating at Kann, the concept created by Gregory Gourdet, a former Top Chef finalist and director of culinary operations for pan-Asian restaurant Departure in Portland, Ore. Gourdet is known for creating bold dishes that draw inspiration from Korea, Japan, Thailand, China and more, but Kann was different than what the public has grown accustomed to from him.
His previous stint on Top Chef had left him wanting to explore his Haitian heritage more, pushing him to dive deeper into the food he grew up eating yet never cooking professionally. Now he was back competing and winning by cooking this cuisine that's largely underserved in America. But he has even bigger plans than winning a reality TV cooking challenge. Soon, "Restaurant Wars" diners won't be the only people to eat Gourdet's Haitian fare. He's building his first solo spot around the food people saw him successfully cook on TV.
Gourdet is a first-generation America, born to Haitian parents in New York City. He lived there for a year as a kid and even summered in the country thereafter, but eventually he and Haiti drifted apart. After his season competing on Top Chef Boston rekindled an interest in his parents' homeland, he hosted a Haitian pop-up dinner in 2015. To his chagrin, it didn't quite work. From the ingredients he sourced to his own execution, he could tell he had to immerse himself further to bring the experience to life.
"On the show I realized I was a global chef—I'm inspired by global flavors," Gourdet tells Robb Report. "I need to travel the world. I need to not just eat at restaurants but go work with the cooks there, work with my aunt's cook, go into the hills and ask women how they make the food they sell."
Griot and Fritay. Two of the most iconic and well known Haitian dishes. Twice cooked pork- many cultures have versions of this dish. Griot starts with a marinade of sour orange juice, scotch bonnet, garlic, shallots and heavy seasoning before getting simmered till tender, then fried til outside crisp. Fried plantains and lots of hot, crunchy pikliz to accompany. We drove to the mountain foothills of Kenscoff for this. @haitianchef has been getting this dish from this vendor for decades. . . . #haiti #griot #fritay #pikliz #kenscoff #roots #culture #heritage #haitianfood #lakay #ggisglobal ✊🏾🇭🇹✨
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And so 22 years after he'd last set foot on the island, Gourdet returned to Haiti in 2018. He spent a week with family, hanging out in the kitchen as his aunt's cook prepared three meals a day. His education extended outside the home, into the restaurants of Port-au-Prince and to the small farms and roadside vendors nestled in the mountains. On one excursion he found a woman who had been making griot—a Haitian spiced pork—in the same spot for 20 years.
From this visit and a subsequent trip to a food festival, a fuller picture of Haitian cuisine emerged for him. "It's a lot of Caribbean and African ingredients—a lot of root vegetables, lots of seafood, plantains, yucca, yarrow root, rice, beans, spicy chilies, coconut milk and all these tropical fruits," he says. Gourdet started making his versions of classic dishes like the griot; stewed chicken; rice with bean sauce; fried plantains; marinade called epis that's made from black pepper, garlic, onions, parsley, thyme, habanero and cloves; and the ubiquitous spicy condiment pikliz. "It's cabbage that's cold-pickled with scotch bonnet chilies, onions and shallots," Gourdet says. "It's spicy and crunchy and you have it on everything."
By the time Top Chef and "Restaurant Wars" rolled around again, he knew in the back of his mind he wanted to pursue a Haitian restaurant, now that he would have a national platform to discuss the cuisine. "I'd done the food numerous times—at pop-ups in Portland and the James Beard House—that I was ready for the show. I was so excited."
Braised chicken thighs served during "Restaurant Wars" Photo: Jeremy Repanich
He first wowed the judges by pitching the concept and preparing an oxtail dish and a whole red snapper. Then, for elimination challenge, he cooked many of the dishes described above, such as the chicken, griot, plantains and bowls of pikliz. Dining on the family-style menu that day, I was struck by how focused the concept and the food already was. Kann was a restaurant I'd want to tell my friends to dine at, too. Judge Tom Colicchio agreed: "It just feels like a restaurant, and in a lot of 'Restaurant Wars,' it doesn't."
Colicchio also honed in on something Gourdet wanted to accomplish. "He didn't try to chef it up," the judge said.
"Haitian cuisine is so underserved in America, outside of Miami or New York," Gourdet says. "I really just want to make traditional Haitian food. I don't want to fuss it up. I don't want to modernize it." That vision won the day on "Restaurant Wars," and in the wake of the episode airing, he has heard from people in the Haitian community about how he approached the food. "Haitian social media is excited," he says. "People are grateful I presented truly iconic dishes."
Gourdet wants to harness that excitement into creating his own wood-fired Haitian restaurant in Portland. Covid-19 has thrown a wrench into the timing of the opening. Before the crisis hit, he was looking for a space in the city and aiming for a January 2021 opening. Now, the chef's plans to travel to Haiti for more research have been delayed, and the restaurant, for which he's still working on a name, will be pushed back later in 2021. Even with the industry in such flux today, he's keeping focused on making sure this concept happens.
"I'm still learning a lot about Haitian food," Gourdet says. "I cook so many different things, and I feel the most comfortable cooking Haitian food. It brings me the most joy."


symbolism and blankness as the bitterest of kin.
curses nor blessings, but are just simple questions.
Love these poems, Larry — I'm especially drawn to "Meaning." I find myself in a perpetual lean and fall, a pocketful of questions. Really nice writing — thanks!


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Dynamics of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation describing networks of diffusively coupled limit-cycle oscillators near the Hopf bifurcation is reviewed. It is shown that the Benjamin-Feir instability destabilizes the uniformly synchronized state and leads to non-uniform pattern dynamics on general networks. Nonlinear dynamics on several network topologies, i.e., local, nonlocal, global, and random networks, are briefly illustrated by numerical simulations.


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Old Scotland - Religious and Social
By Kenneth MacDonald, Town Clerk of Inverness (1890)
THE laws and customs of a people change with increasing experience, with the changing wants of new generations, with the altered conditions which the closing of old and the opening of new departments of commerce and industry bring about, with the progressive or retrogressive motion of the people in general intelligence, with surrounding political and social conditions, and with those frequently unaccountable changes in the manner in which public opinion views certain things which the law at a particular period may regard as offences against .good order. Many things, therefore, which are now matters of everyday legal experience, may, and probably will, appear little short of unaccountable to the student of social and legal history of a century or two hence. In like manner, many things which were matters of everyday experience to our ancestors two or three hundred years ago, are no longer among us, except as recollections of a past time, and their sole interest consists in the light they throw on the history of our country, and the conditions of life in a former age.
Long before the Reformation, Scotland had the reputation of being a religious country; at all events, of paying considerable regard to external appearances in religious matters ; but it was not until after the Reformation that regulations were made, or rather were seriously enforced, for compelling attendance at divine worship. The Supreme Courts of the Church first took the matter up, and the Kirk Sessions were enjoined to see that every parishioner was present at each diet of worship and to accuse those who absented themselves. The Church likewise insisted that every adult should at least once a year partake of the Communion—a resolution which was afterwards ratified by Parliament. In 1600, Parliament enacted that certain penalties should be inflicted on those who neglected to attend public worship, but long before this time fines were imposed for this offence. In Aberdeen, in 1562, for an elder or deacon to be absent from the preaching inferred a penalty of "Twa shillings," and for every honest person of the town sixpence ; and in Perth in 1582 it was ordained that the elders should take it in turn to pass through every quarter of the town every Sunday in time of preaching, before noon, and note them that are found in taverns, factory booths, or the gaits, and accuse them to the Assembly, that every one of them that is absent from the Kirk may be poinded for 20s. By an Act of the Aberdeen Town Council passed in 1598 a severe tariff of fines was ordained for various ranks of people on their staying away from Sunday and week-day service in the churches, and every husband was to be answerable for his wife, and every master for his servant. It was also ordained that the wives of burgesses, and the most honest and substantial craftsmen of the burgh, should sit in the midst of the body of the kirk, and not in the side aisles nor behind pillars, in order that they might see and hear the preaching, and the women were ordained to repair to kirk, everyone having a cloak, as the most comely and decent outer garment, and not with plaids, and that every one of them should likewise have a stool, as many as might commodiously have the same. In 1551-2, Parliament enacted that persons making perturbation in kirk the time of divine service should be fined—Earls, £10; bailies, £5 ; vassals, £2; and others, 20s; poor folks, 15 days' imprisonment on bread and water, or, for the third offence, banishment for a year and a day. The Act ordained the Dean of Guild, Kirkmaster, or rulers to "gar leische" (leash ?) " bairns that perturb the kirk in manner foresaid." But although this strict observance of the Sunday during sermon time was enforced, the day appears to have been somewhat different from what it now is. It was held to commence at sunset on Saturday, and to terminate on Sunday at sunset, or at six o'clock. In 1594, the Presbytery of Glasgow forbade a piper to play his pipes on Sunday frae the sunrising to the sun-going-to; while in 1574, in Edinburgh, a fast, in consequence of impending pestilence, was ordered to commence on Saturday at eight o'clock in the evening, and to continue until Sunday at six. In April, 1600, it was, in obedience to an ordinance of the General Assembly, arranged at Aberdeen, and similar arrangements would have been made in other places, that each Thursday masters of households, their wives, bairns, and servants, should appear at their own parish kirk to be instructed in the grounds of religion and heads of the Catechism, and to give proof on trial of their knowledge on the same heads. In reference to this, Mr Chambers says in his "Domestic Annals"— I After this arrangement had been made, the religious observances of the citizen occupied a considerable share of his time. He was bound under penalties to be twice in church on Sunday, to make Monday a pastime day for eschewing of the profanation of the Sabbath day, to give Tuesday forenoon to a service in the parish church, to do the same on Thursday forenoon, and on that day also to attend a catechetical meeting with his family. Three forenoons each week remained for his business and ordinary affairs. Notwithstanding this liberal amount of external observance, the General Assembly appointed, in 1601, a general humiliation for the sins of the land and contempt of the Gospel, to be kept the last two Sabbaths of June and -all the week intervening and finally, in the time of Charles the Second of pious memory, Parliament went the length of prohibiting fairs on Saturday or Monday, in case the sanctity of the Sabbath might be violated. During the whole of the period within which these Sabbatarian regulations were enforced, the Scottish Parliament and the Church Courts seem to have worked very Harmoniously together, and the Civil Courts appear to have enforced the regulations, even of the inferior of the Church judicatories, as strenuously and strictly as they would an Act of Parliament. In the second series of Mr Dunbar Dunbar's "Social Life in Former days," a curious instance is given of the Parliament intervening to enforce the sentence of a Church Court. On ioth May, 1660, the Moderator of the Presbytery of Elgin wrote Sir Ludovick Gordoune of Gordonstone, informing him that the Synod had referred it to the Presbytery to take special notice of his contempt of public worship, and he requested him to attend at the next Presbytery meeting, so that he might, if possible, vindicate himself. Sir Ludovick paid no attention to this letter, and a second one was written, requesting him to attend another meeting of Presbytery. Sir Ludovick did not attend, but sent a protest, upon which the Presbytery issued a warrant to the officer of the Synod, authorising him to summons Sir Ludovick to appear before the Synod of Moray, at Inverness, to answer for subscribing "a scandalous and sinful protestation against the 'Assembly' of Moray." Sir Ludovick failed to appear before the Synod, and his conduct was brought under the notice of Parliament, with the result that a fine of L3600 Scots, or £300 sterling, was-imposed upon him, and he paid it too.
Parliament did not confine itself, however, to the enforcement of the observance of the mere outward appearance of religion. In 1649, it was enacted that any person, not being distracted in his wits, who should rail upon or curse God or any of the persons of the blessed Trinity, should be punished with death, as also any person denying God or the Trinity, and obstinately persisting therein ; and another Act of the same year, proceeding on the narrative that Parliament, considering that divers of the subjects of this realm trade in their civil affairs with heathens, whose abominations they may possibly learn and thereby be defiled and defile others, ordained that whosoever should worship a false god should be "put to death without pardon."
Although Parliament seems to have been so zealous in making laws to compel observance of at least the forms of religion, and the appearance of respect for things sacred, the common people do not seem to have regarded sacred days and sacred places with the respect which is now considered due to them. At the close of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century, the practice of holding fairs on Sunday appears to have been common, and the church, in addition to being a house of prayer, was the place where merchants congregated. In the year 1503, Parliament enacted that there should be no markets or fairs held upon holydays, nor yet within kirks or kirkyards, and in 1564, on the narrative that it had been disregarded, the statute was republished. Five years later the subject was again taken up by the Privy Council, and after reciting that the Act of 1503 had been diverse times ordained to be put to execution, and sundry proclamations made to that effect, the Council's ordinance stated that nevertheless the abuse and contempt of God and good order continues in such sort that albeit God of His mercy had granted the light and knowledge of His Word in this last age, yet the malice and obstinacy of the people continues in their wonted disorder and wilfully violates the Sabbath day, using the same profanely in market-making and other worldly affairs, as also profaning and abusing the kirks and kirkyards, where the people of God ought to convene to hear the Word of God and receive the Sacraments. It is worthy of notice that twice within five years the supreme power of the State had to practically re-enact a law passed sixty years before on the declared ground that it had been disregarded openly and apparently with impunity.
Profanity too received the attention of Parliament. An Act passed in 1551 states that notwithstanding the oft and frequent preachings in detestation of the grievous and abominable aithis and blasphemations, the practice still continued. From 1st February to 1st May, the punishments were—On a Prelate of the Kirk, an Earl, or Lord, twelve pence; and on a Baron or beneficed man, fourpence ; and so on. Between 1st May and 1st August the punishment was to be doubled ; between 1st August and 1st November tripled ; and from 1st November to 1st February, quadrupled. Subsequent offences were punished much more severely, the fourth offence being punished by banishment or imprisonment for a year and a day. What the effect of the statute was does not appear, but it is hoped that the severe punishment attached to a fourth offence prevented at least the Prelates of the Kirk swearing overmuch.
It was probably because it was an offence against religion that the crime of witchcraft was so severely dealt with in Scotland, but there was doubtless an element of fear present also.
The first enactment relative to witchcraft or sorcery in Scotland was so ambiguous that there is room for suspicion that its framers did not altogether believe in the crime they denounced, and that the punishment was intended for the impiety and blasphemy of pretending to supernatural power, but whether this be so or not the Church Courts after the Reformation took the matter up in terrible earnest. Dr Rogers says that the new persecution arose throughout Europe simultaneously with the invention of printing and the publication of the Scriptures in the vernacular tongue, but in Scotland it was not until after the Reformation that the command, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" became one of the best observed of Scriptural injunctions. In the time of James the Sixth every Court in the kingdom, from the Privy Council down to the Kirk-Sessions and Baron Bailie Courts, was engaged in the prosecution and condemnation of witches ; and from the King, who wrote a book on the subject, down to the meanest peasant, every Scotchman seems to have engaged either in practising sorcery or detecting it. The most trifling events gave rise to the charge and were held relevant to infer guilt, such as that a woman's cow gave less milk, or her corn yielded less meal than her neighbour's, a person was taken ill or got well soon after speaking to or being touched by the accused, or after passing her or her house or coming into the neighbourhood, a person throve more than her neigh- bours, or she kept well in an unhealthy season, or was not found when she was sought for. In the latter case it behoved her to be with her master the devil. If evidence in sufficient quantity was not forthcoming certain tests were applied, such as throwing into the water with hands and feet bound, when, if she floated, she was a witch and was burned, while if she was innocent she sank and was probably drowned. Or torture was resorted to to extort a confession. One of the favourite modes of applying torture was by thrusting pins into the body, and to such an extent was this practised that it became a trade by which men were described and earned a livelihood. Fountainhall reports a complaint in 1678 of Catherine Liddel against Rutherford a Baron Bailie who had imprisoned her as a witch, and against David Cowan, who under his authority had tortured her with long pins thrust into several parts of her body. Cowan defended himself on the "lawfulness of his trade and the truth of his art," in which he had been instructed by "Kincade, a famed pricker." In a memorandum by Thomas, Earl of Haddington, in his Minutes of Privy Council proceedings, he relates under date December 1st 1608, " that the Earl of Mar declared to the Council that some women were taken as witches in Broughton, and being put to an assize and convicted, albeit they persevered constant in their denial to the end, yet they were burnt quick (that is, without having been previously strangled) after such a cruel manner that some of them died in despair, renouncing (their baptism) and blaspheming, and others half burnt broke out of the fire and were cast in quick in it again until they were burned dead," an instance of barbarity which illustrates with terrible clearness the inhumanity of the time.
It was usual to try a large number of these unfortunates before Royal Commissioners. Hume mentions that no fewer than fourteen commissions were granted by the Lords of Council for the trial of witches in different parts of the country, in one sederunt of 7th November, 166T.
It was probably before one or more of these Commissions that the confessions of Isabel Gowdie and Janet Breadhead, which are pronounced by Pitcairn to be by far the most unique and wonderful in the records of this, or perhaps any other country, were taken. Isabel Gowdie emitted four confessions, all at Aldearn in April and May, 1662. In each of them she described her baptism by the devil. She met the devil in the night time in the Kirk of Aldearn, and after renouncing her baptism, she put one of her hands to the crown of her head, and the other to the sole of her-foot, and then renounced all betwixt her two hands to the devil. He was in the reader's desk, and a black book in his hand. "Margaret Brodie in Aldearn held me up," she said, "to the devil to be baptised by him, and he marked me on the shoulder, and sucked up my blood at that mark, and spouted it into his hand, and sprinkling it on my head, said, ' I baptise thee Janet in my own name.'" This story is repeated with little variation in several of the confessions, but absurd though it is, it is sober sense compared with much of what was taken down at these four solemn sederunts, at each of which Mr Harie Forbes, minister of Auldearn, seems to have been the leading spirit, and at some of which William Dallas, Sheriff Depute of Nairn, assisted.
Another mode of extorting confessions of witchcraft was by preventing the accused from sleeping or even lying on the handful of straw with which her cell was furnished. This engine of oppression was, perhaps, more effectual in extorting confessions than the actual torture. Iron collars were so constructed that by means of a hoop which passed over the head a piece of iron having four points or prongs was forcibly thrust into the mouth, two of the prongs being directed to the tongue and palate, the others pointing outwards to each cheek. This infernal machine was secured by a padlock. At the back of the collar was fixed a ring by which to attach the witch to a staple in the wall of her cell. Thus secured, and night and day waked^and watched by some skilful person appointed by her inquisitors, the unfortunate creature after a few days of such discipline would be rendered fit for confessing anything. At intervals fresh examinations took place, until her " contumacy" was subdued.
Next to being a religious people, the Scotch always appear to have been—at least those of them who took part in the making of laws—a thrifty and industrious people. In 1551 an Act was passed which tourists in the Highlands at the present day would probably not object to see re-enacted. Provosts and Bailies were directed to cause innkeepers to take a reasonable price for a man's dinner and supper, that they may hold their own and the Queen's lieges be not sa grevit and hurt through the great prices taken far aboon all custom and use as has been in this realm afore their days.
In 1457, Parliament, seeing that the realm was greatly impoverished through sumptuous clothing, both of men and women, especially within burghs, enacted that no man within burgh that lives by merchandise, unless he should be a person constitute in dignity as alderman, bailie, or other good wealthy man of the Council of the town and ' their wives, wear clothes of silk nor costly scarlets, "and that they and their wives and daughters be ordered to wear on their heads short kerchiefs with little hoods as are used in Flanders, England, and other countries, and as to gowns, no woman was to wear tails of unsuiting length, nor furred under, but on holidays, and no labourer or husbandman was to wear on the work-day but grey and white, and their wives to wear kerchiefs of their own making, and no woman was to come to kirk nor market with her face muffled or covered that she may not be kenned, under the pain of escheat of the curtch."
In 1567, it was enacted that it should be lawful to no woman to wear aboon her estate, except.....and the fear of being mistaken for a member of the excepted class was probably so strong a deterrent that the Act was more markedly successful than most acts of a similar kind. At all events, on the margin of Thomson's Edition of the Acts, there is a note to the effect that " this Act is verray ;gude," evidently the work of a thankful husband who found his wife's dress bills materially reduced by the operation of the statute.
Extravagance in eating does not appear to have been a Scottish weakness. In England, however, a statute of Edward I., which ordained that no man should be served at dinner or supper with more than two courses, except on certain great holidays, when he might have thrae, stood unrepealed until 19 and 20 Victoriae.
Idlers and vagrants were severely dealt with by repeated statutes. In 1425, each Sheriff was ordained to inquire diligently if any idle men that have nought of their own to live upon be residing within the land, and if he found any to arrest them. They were then sent to good and siccar burghs, and allowed forty days to get them masters, and if at the end of forty days they were still idle, the Sheriff was to arrest them again and send them to the King's prison. In 1449, it was ordained, for the away putting of sorners and masterful beggars, that Sheriffs, Barons, and Bailies should inquire at every Court they held,, and if any such be found, that their goods be escheat to the King, and their persons put in prison "until the King has said his will to them." The same officers were also to inquire " if there be any that makes them fools that are not bards or such like other runners about, and if any such be-found that they be put in the King's ward or in his irons for their trespasses as long as they have any goods of their own to live upon, and if they have nought to live upon, that their ears be nailed to the tron or to another tree, and cut off, and banished the country ; and if they be found again that they be hanged." In 1457, it was ordained that in all justice ayres the King's Justice gar tak inquisition of sorners, bards, and masterful beggars, or feigned fools, and either banish them the country or send them to the King's prison. That these statutes did not remain a dead letter on the statute-book seems proved by the fact, noted by Chambers, that in August, 1579, two poets were hanged ; but, as if the' statute which permitted a poet to be hanged, simply because he was a poet, was not severe enough, the Estates of Parliament, in October of the same year, passed an Act against strong and idle beggars or sic as make themselves fools or are bards. In the same Act, the innate thriftiness of the Scottish people comes out in the legislation for the relief of the genuine poor. They were enjoined to repair to their native parishes, and there live in alms-houses ; but there were no alms-houses for them to live in. In England the law against vagabonds was equally severe. A strolling beggar above fourteen years of age was for the first offence burned through the ear with a hot iron the compass of an inch, and for a second offence suffered death.
A curious survival of the ancient law of wrecks existed until comparatively recent times on the more inaccessible parts of the sea-coast of both England and Scotland.
According to a statute of Alexander the Second all wreck belonged to the King, with this limitation, that no vessel could be held a wreck if any living thing were found aboard. A living dog was sufficient to satisfy this condition. In 1429 the right of the Crown was abolished with respect to the vessels "of those countries which do not use the law of broken ships in their own land," and the same favour was ordered to be shown them here " as they keep to the ships of this land broken with them." The old law does not seem to have been further modified by statute, but it has been effectually abrogated by the advance of civilisation.
The exacting of black-mail has also disappeared, that is, the black-mail which the law used to know. If all stories are true, black-mail is pretty frequently exacted still, but for different reasons and by a different class of people from those who exacted it before. On the ground that it was an encouragement to rapine and a great obstruction to the course of justice, even the paying of black-mail was made a capital offence in 1567, but no record exists apparently of even the taker, much less the giver, of black-mail being executed for that offence alone. As late as 1741, a regular bond of black-mail was entered into between John Graham, elder and younger of Glengyle, and several landholders in the counties of Perth, Dumbarton, and Stirling, whereby Glengyle, in consideration of an annual payment of £4 for every £ 100 of valued rent of the lands subscribed for, engaged to restore the cattle stolen from the holders subscribing, within six months after intimation of the theft (if made to him with due dispatch) or to pay the value to the owners. This assurance was, however, expressly covenanted not to extend to the case of mere pickeries, and what is a theft and not a mere pickery is stated thus :—" Declaring that one horse or black cattle stolen within or without doors, or any number of sheep aboon six, shall be construed to be a theft and not a pickery."
Personal dignity and the respect due to persons in high office were not forgotten. It is recorded that on one occasion James the Sixth had an Englishman hanged for the offence of exhibiting the king's picture on a gibbet, and inferior dignitaries were not less jealous of the respect due to them. On 13th December, 1564, the records of the Privy Council bear that complaint was made by James Low, one of the bailies of Glasgow, upon William Highgate, common clerk thereof, for the speaking of diverse spiteful words to the said James, " manifestly contempnand and vilipendand him, being Bailie and Magistrate to whom he owed honor and reverence during the time of his office and Mr M'George narrates that in 1612 William Watson was fined L10 scots for speaking disrespectfully to a bailie, with his bonnet on his head. William could not pay the fine, and was put in durance vile. While there, he attempted to set fire to the prison, protesting at the same time that "he would neither acknowledge provost or bailie, king nor casart." This time the offender was ordained to be warded in an unfreeman's ward until the morn, being market day, and then to. walk bareheaded to the cross, and after being put in the irons Tour hours, "he is humbly on his knees to ask God mercy and the bailie pardon for his hie and proud contempt."
The temperance legislation of the early part of the 17th century might be worth trying even to-day. In 1617 Parliament enacted, for the restraint of the detestable vice of drunkenness daily increasing to the high dishonour of God and great harm of the whole realm, that all persons lawfully convicted of drunkenness or of haunting taverns and ale houses after ten o'clock at night or any time of the day except in time of travel or for ordinary refreshment, should for the first fault pay ^3 or be put in the jougs for six hours. For a third offence the punishment was imprisonment until they found caution for their good behaviour in time coming.
The law of evidence is not yet perfect, but as a general rule the tendency of modern legislation has been to relax the stringency of the rules which excluded certain classes of witnesses. Up to the seventeenth century women were not freely admitted as witnesses. Thus in the trial of Thomas Brownfield for housebreaking in 1661, the Justices came to a resolution that they would not in time coming admit a woman as a witness in the matter of theft, but only ex officio. In later trials in the same century women were admitted, but only on special reasons assigned in each particular case. Mackenzie states that witnesses were not admitted if they were not worth L20, but Hume doubts whether this was ever the rule. He thinks it worth noting however that in 1715 the common executioner was received as a witness.
Torture, as a method of extorting confessions, was only abolished in the seventh year of the reign of Queen Anne, and the Courts received the evidence afforded by various ordeals until late in the seventeenth century. It is very curious to observe, in an age when the generality of testimony was received in many cases with much greater caution than is observed now, the unhesitating manner in which statements extorted under torture were received and credited. In a black letter tract containing the confessions of Dr Feane and others, republished in the first volume of Pitcairn, this passage occurs—"All which, although in the beginning he denied and woujd not confess, yet having felt the pain of the boots, he confessed all the aforesaid to be most true and fartheron, the account continues, " yet for more trial of him to make him confess, he was commanded to have a most strange torment, which was done in this manner following—his nails upon all his fingers were riven and pulled off with an instrument called in Scottish a Turkas, which in English we call a pair of pincers, and under every nail there was thrust in two needles over even up to the heads, at all which torments notwithstanding, the Dr never shrunk any whit, neither would he then confess it the sooner for all the tortures inflicted upon him. Then was he with all convenient speed by commandment conveyed again to the torment of the boots, wherein he continued a long time, and did abide so many blows in them that his legs were crushed and beaten together as small as might be, and the bones and flesh so bruised that the blood and marrow spouted forth in great abundance, whereby they were ma^de unserviceable for ever. And notwithstanding all these grievous pains and cruel torments, he would not confess anything, so deeply had the devil entered into his heart that he utterly denied all that which he before avouched, and would say nothing thereunto but this, that what he had done and said before was only done and said for fear of pains which he had endured." This poor creature, the charge against whom was sorcery, was afterwards burned, notwithstanding his heroism under the terrible torture to which he was subjected.
Another curious mode of obtaining evidence, or rather a substitute for it was by the use of ordeals. Most of the ordeals which were in use in Scotland are more or less familiar to every historical student, and I shall only refer to that of touch. One of the most curious instances of the application of this ordeal which I have come across occurred in an English case, but first let me refer to a singular treatise, published in 1654, by Dr Walter Charleton, who had been physician to Charles I. In that work the author says, "The cruentation (and, according to some reports, the opening of the eyes), of the carcase of a murdered man at the presence and touch of the homicide is, in truth, the noblest of antipathies," and he goes on with great show of learning to demonstrate that, although the effect may be divine in the institution, it is merely natural in the production or immediate causes—the touch of the murderer reviving an idea of resistance which had become part of the blood of the murdered person, and so causing it to course anew through his veins. Dr Charleton was not singular in holding such views, for, in the reign of Charles the Second, similar opinions were entertained by the most eminent physicians in England. It is no matter for surprise, then, that in 1628, four persons were put on trial in England for murder, when practically the sole evidence against them was that the body of the dead person bled when touched by them. One of the witnesses was the minister of the parish, and he said "the Appellees did touch the dead body, whereupon the brow of the dead, which was before of a livid and carrion colour, began to have a dew or gentle sweat arise on it, which increased by degrees till the sweat ran down in drops on the face. The brow turned to a lively and fresh colour, and the deceased •opened one of her eyes and shut it again, and this opening the eye was done three several times. So likewise she threw out the ring or marriage finger three times, and pulled it in again, and the finger ring dropped from it on the grass." This was thirty days after the party's death, and the body had been exhumed for the purpose of being touched. Had the witness whose evidence I have quoted from been other than a clergyman, and the occasion less serious, we would be inclined to suppose that he was poking fun at the Court when he spoke of this dead body, after a month spent in the grave, solemnly winking three several times at the spectators. Yet upon this evidence three of the accused were hanged.
I have mentioned incidentally some of the punishments inflicted in byegone times, and I shall do little more now than refer to a few of them. Breaking on the wheel was never a frequent mode of punishment in Scotland, and was only resorted to in cases of marked atrocity. Witches were drowned or strangled and then burnt, but sometimes, as- we have seen, burnt alive. Exposure in the pillory was resorted to when the sentence inferred infamy or even a lesser degree of disgrace. Offences against good morals were severely punished by the inferior Church Courts. The Kirk-Session of Glasgow, after 1665, repeatedly ordered persons to be taken to the House of Correction, and to be whipped every day during the Session's will. In 1587, the same Court adjudged certain women to be imprisoned and fed fifteen days on bread and water, and to be put on a cart one day and ducked in the Clyde, and to be put in the Jugs at the Cross on Monday—the market-day. The Laird of Minto, an ex-Provost of Glasgow, was on one occasion before the Session, and on his paying L20 Scots "the Session pass the Laird, considering his age and the station he held in the town." A pillar was set apart in the Churches, and there the delinquent was obliged to stand for, sometimes, six Sundays in succession, and for a repetition of the offence the punishment was to repair from his home at six on Sunday morning, convoyed by two of the elders or deacons, and stand at the church door bare-footed, bare-legged, and bare-headed, with a white wand in his hand, till after the reading of the text, then in the same manner repair to the pillar till the sermon be ended, and then go out to the door till all be passed from the kirk.
The Civil Courts punished comparatively trifling offences by deprivation of one or both ears, or nailing one of them to a post or the town cross. A curious variation of this punishment is mentioned by Mr MacGeorge, in "Old Glasgow," as having been in use under an ordinance of the English Burgh of Lydd, in 1460. In cases of petty theft the offender was to be nailed to a post by the ear, and left there "with a knife in his hand." He might choose the time of his own liberation, but he could only effect it by cutting off his own ear.
Pressing to death, as a mode of punishment, seems to have been unknown in Scotland, but this was the statutory punishment in England for "standing mute" when arraigned for treason or felony, until the twelfth of George III.
Perjurers, Vagabonds,, and Bards were banished, branded, and sometimes hung. In the case of perjurers, boring the tongue with a hot bodkin was also sometimes resorted to.
Although it may not be strictly a punishment, an ancient English practice may be mentioned, which might with advantage be re-enforced if the present rule requiring unanimity in the jury is to be adhered to. When the jurors did not agree before the judges left the town, the judges might carry them round the circuit from town to town in a cart. One can imagine that this useful power, if once or twice enforced, would have so salutary an effect on juries that it would soon be unnecessary to use it.
Deprivation of the right hand was a punishment recognised by the statute-law of both England and Scotland, but it does not seem to have been much resorted to in either country. By a statute of Henry VIII., it was named one of the punishments for malicious striking in the King's Palace, whereby blood was drawn. By a statute of Edward VI., striking in a churchyard was punishable by loss of the ears—the object apparently being to prevent disputes between Protestants and Catholics.


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Excavation of a diversion tunnel was commenced in 1939 to divert water from the East Kiewa River to allow construction of the dam wall. This was completed in February 1940 and excavation for the dam wall commenced in the same month, with the first batch of concrete placed in September. Lewis construction Company had the contract, but the S.E.C. took over construction in March 1942 and the dam was completed in March 1944. Type of construction: reinforced concrete, slab buttress.


I am intrigued by the artists with a daily routine. Those who produce a painting a day, a short story a day, a photograph or drawing a day. There is even a jeweler who makes a necklace a day. (http://necklaceadaybykay.blogspot.com) While I am not inclined to make a necklace every day, I am quite interested in taking a photograph of ongoing work in my studio and posting it on my site for the discipline of spending time in the studio each day and keeping a daily blog. I begin with the return of the "finalist" necklace.
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26 November 2013 | Brief Counsel
The Financial Reporting Act 2013 will slash the cost of preparing general purpose financial statements for most small to medium-sized companies.
Other changes will impose stronger requirements on certain overseas 'multinationals' and extend reporting obligations of some financial market participants.
The new Act, which is expected to come into effect on 1 April 2014, replaces one of the clumsiest pieces of legislation in the corporate statute book.
This Brief Counsel highlights the more important features of the new regime. For fuller detail, see this summary table.
Predecessor Act a dog
The Financial Reporting Act 1993 was originally intended to apply only to public issuers but all companies were added at a very late stage before enactment without sufficient regard to the excessive compliance burden the Act's provisions would create for smaller, non-public issuers.
Although the Act was subsequently amended several times, the concessions were targeted to very small "exempt companies" and "non-active companies" and failed to provide any meaningful relief for small-to-medium-sized businesses.
The new Act comprehensively restates and rationalises the obligations applying to companies, overseas companies, limited partnerships, and other forms of business organisation.
Summary of key requirements
Companies generally
Some of the most significant improvements will apply to companies that are not involved in the financial markets.
Preparation of financial statements
The requirement to prepare general purpose financial statements is much more targeted, and will be limited to:
large companies1
large overseas companies and large subsidiaries of overseas companies that carry on business in New Zealand2
companies with 10 or more shareholders, unless the shareholders opt out by a 95% resolution, and
companies with fewer than 10 shareholders, where shareholders holding at least 5% of the voting shares opt in.
Audit requirements for general purpose financial statements have been limited to the same companies as above, but large companies can opt out by a 95% shareholder resolution.
A company with subsidiaries needs only to prepare group financial statements, rather than the parent having also to prepare its own separate general purpose financial statements.
The obligation to register financial statements is limited to:
large overseas companies
large companies where, in broad terms, 25% or more of the shares are overseas owned.
The five month timeframe for preparing financial statements has been carried forward, but there is no longer an additional 20 working days for financial statements to be registered.
FMC reporting entities
The requirements for entities participating in the financial markets (referred to as "FMC reporting entities"3) have been tightened. Each FMC reporting entity must prepare financial statements (or group financial statements, if it has any subsidiaries) and those financial statements must be audited and registered.
The deadline for registration has been accelerated to four months after balance date (currently five months to prepare, plus 20 working days to register).
Consistent with the main focus of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 (FMCA), the primary recourse for a failure in defective financial statements will be civil action against both the reporting entity and its directors under the general enforcement provisions set out in Part 8 of the FMCA. Pecuniary penalties can run as high as $1 million for the directors and $5 million for the entity.
Criminal liability will be limited to directors who knowingly prepare false and misleading financial statements, but will expose errant directors to criminal penalty of up to five years imprisonment and/or a fine of up to $500,000.
Accordingly, the spectacle of directors having to appear in District Court for a strict liability offence – as occurred with the Feltex directors – will no long apply to FMC reporting entities. However, it will continue to apply for those entities that are required to prepare financial statements outside the FMCA.
At a late stage of the Parliamentary process, the Government decided to cut by two thirds the "large" threshold for "overseas companies" and subsidiaries of "overseas companies" (generally, a body corporate incorporated outside New Zealand).
The Cabinet papers explain that this decision was made to respond to:
concerns "about high profile multinational companies that are paying almost no tax anywhere in the world by treaty shopping and transferring profits to low-tax jurisdictions", and
a G20 approved OECD action plan on "base erosion and profit shifting".
The concern was that, if the Bill had proceeded in the manner originally proposed, it would be too late to dial-back the relaxed obligations on overseas companies because of the implications under international treaties.
The additional compliance costs have been estimated at somewhere between $2 million (100 companies at $20,000 an audit) and $12 million (300 companies at $40,000 an audit) of the approximately 6,000 overseas companies currently subject to reporting obligations. Officials have conceded that it might have been possible to reduce some of these additional costs, but that time constraints prevented them from being able to properly consider the matter.
However, relief may still be available as there is a mechanism in the new Act for overseas companies to seek an exemption where they can establish an appropriate rationale, including where financial statements prepared under their local laws effectively satisfy the New Zealand requirements.
Although the new Act removes the requirement for many "small" companies to prepare general purpose financial statements, the Tax Administration Act 1994 is being amended to empower the IRD to specify requirements for "small" companies to prepare more limited special purpose financial statements for taxation purposes, with other business organisations to be consulted on next year.
IRD has recently released a discussion paper outlining the key requirements, in conjunction with its existing simple filing form for companies IR10. Submissions are due by 20 December.
Chapman Tripp comments
The 2013 Act is a vast improvement on the 1993 Act and, in combination with the greatly simplified regime for income tax, is expected to result in significant cost savings for small and medium sized enterprises, as long as they do not seek funding from the financial markets.
Strangely, the Government has deferred application of the new Act to the accounting period beginning on or after 1 April 2014. For example, for entities with a 31 March balance date, this will delay the benefits of the new regime to the financial reporting year ending 31 March 2015. For 30 June balance date entities, the full benefit of the reforms will not be available until 30 June 2015.
New provisions being inserted into the FMCA will extend the regime's application to persons required to obtain a licence under Part 6 of the FMCA. At present, some of these market participants do not need to publicly file their audited financial statements or, in some cases, obtain an audit at all.
Consideration on whether large trusts (which are not charities) will need to prepare or have audited financial statements has been deferred but may be addressed in the context of the Law Commission's work on trust law reform.
But large partnerships and some other forms of business organisation which were exempt will now be required to prepare financial statements. Chapman Tripp which - as a large partnership - will be affected by this change, welcomes it.
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1. A company is 'large' if it and its subsidiaries had either total assets of more than $60m at the two most recent balance dates or total revenue
exceeding $30 million.
2. An overseas company or subsidiary of an overseas company is 'large' if it and its subsidiaries had either total assets of more than $20 million
at the two most recent balance dates or total revenue exceeding $10 million.
3. Broadly, entities regulated under the FMCA, including Issuers of regulated financial products, persons holding a licence under Part 6 of the
FMCA, licensed supervisors, listed issuers, operators of licenced markets, registered banks and various other entities.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Back on the Shelf: Mrs. Poe + March Reading Update and is located at https://www.missmollymoon.com/mrs-poe-march-reading-updates/.
While the first few chapters started out a tiny bit slow, I really, really liked this book. I became a little bit of an Edgar Allan Poe fan when I was young (weird, I know), so this story about what might have happened in his relationship with Frances Osgood is an interesting escape into "history." While Mrs. Poe is not a true story, no one really knows the extent of Edgar Allan Poe & France Osgood's relationship. Quite a few interesting specifics are pulled from history and woven into the story. That always adds a little something extra to novels like this one. I hate to give away much of the what happens in the book, but the twists and turns throughout the story definitely kept me guessing. If you're a fan of entertaining historical fiction novels, I'd say give this one a try. I gave it four stars on Goodreads.
Since checking Mrs. Poe off of my reading list, I've started reading The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. Last weekend, for our Friday night "date," Stephen and I went to the bookstore to get something new to read. Surprisingly, when I started searching for this one, I found it in the History section. I thought I'd picked another historical fiction novel, but it seems that this one is completely true. This one is centered around the 1893 Chicago World's fair, the architect who built it, and the serial killer who haunted it. Doesn't that sound like a great novel? It. Really. Happened. I'm only a few chapters in, but I'm hooked. This one is going to take a little time to get through, though.
I'm also hoping to have time to read the March book selection for the "blogger book club" that I'm a part of. This month's selection is The Weekenders by Mary Kay Andrews. This is definitely the kind of book that I wouldn't normally choose to read, so we'll see how it goes!
What have you read & enjoyed (or not enjoyed) lately? I'm always looking for books to add to my reading list!