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The balls been thrown by Helga or a mix zomb can kill ya inside the energy field.
also, strange thing is that 2 can be in but 1 only dies ...strange huh?
2. Zombs push you out of energy field.
Then players get killed outside after pushed out.
Maybe make/force them go around the field?
I will mail you some pictures.
1. They only kill you when somepart o your body is outside or the ball is inside.
2. Not really possible to make them walk around. You jsut shouldnt move when a zombie walks through it.
With bit of bad luck one grenade comes trough it.
And the explosion can also get through.
It just like a house with a open window .
Again, Helga level, all alone in field.
Boom & Guess what happens.....?
It protects you as long as no part of you is outside..
Funny, didn't notice the holes until mentioned. Then last night when using bubble, I saw the hole and while looking at it someone shot a burning zombie and the explosion killed me through the hole.


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Retained swab after varicocele ligation
Mr D, a 45-year-old boat builder, was referred to a urology consultant, Mr E, with a history of left-sided scrotal pain. Dr E diagnosed a varicocele, which was subsequently confirmed on ultrasound.
Mr D was counselled regarding surgical ligation of the varicocele and gave his consent to a repair, which Mr E performed. Immediate postoperative progress was recorded as satisfactory.
Six weeks later Mr D visited Dr E complaining of wound pain and discharge. Mr E assessed him and diagnosed a superficial wound infection. He prescribed antibiotics and regular dressing. Mr D sought a further opinion from a consultant general surgeon, Mr T, who performed an x-ray of the inguinal region and found a retained surgical swab from the recently performed procedure.
Mr E consulted the operation record and found that the surgery was duly entered into the log but he was shocked to see that there was no entry in the swab record. Mr T removed the swab from the incision and several months later performed an inguinal hernia repair, since the infection had caused damage to the inguinal canal.
Mr E accepted that his actions were indefensible. However, he felt that the liability should be shared by the hospital.
The hospital agreed to pay 50% of the damages. These were mostly to cover the complication of the hernia repair and the psychological stress. They also covered pain, suffering, nursing care, the impact on Mr D's domestic, social and leisure pursuits and his inability to perform tasks around the home.
The claim was settled for £80,000 (US$150,000), divided equally between Dr E and the hospital.
There is a difference between responsibility and liability. In the operating theatre, and in healthcare generally, it is good practice to work as a team, and take responsibility as a team. This is a key message of corporate governance. However, like the much-used analogy of the captain of the ship, the surgeon is still liable when mistakes are made. However minor the procedure, there should always be a check on swabs and instruments. As the old maxim has it, there is no minor surgery, only minor surgeons.
The Risk and Quality Management System published by the Association for Perioperative Practice with involvement from MPS, provides a tool to assess risks and improve patient care in the peri-operative environment. On the subject of retained swabs, the audit includes the following criteria:
The surgeon is audibly informed of the results of the first swab, instrument and needle check (prior to closure of the first layer or cavity).
The surgeon is audibly informed of the results of the final swab, instrument and needle checks.
The swab, instrument and needle check is recorded in accordance with local policy, which reflects national recommendations.
See www.afpp.org.uk for more details.
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By Bob Lucky
A Posthumous Lesson From My Mother
new moon...
all the things I can't see
clear to me now
I was raised on margarine, not because my mother thought it was healthier than butter but because it was cheaper. That was mid-20th century, when advertisers worked overtime
to convince us margarine tasted so good we would think it was butter. We should've figured something was up. Later I discovered butter and about twenty pounds.
Marriage was a smooth slide into the olive oil years. It wasn't cheap, especially if you fell into the rabbit hole of cold-pressed virgins,
old twisted vines and stone mills. Now that death isn't much
different than waiting for a lost Uber driver, I'm back into butter, but I like closure so I've bought a tub of margarine to keep in the fridge as a reminder
we often do the wrong thing for a good reason.
every crack in the sidewalk
a challenge
is a regular contributor to haiku, haibun, and tanka journals. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Flash, Rattle, Modern Haiku, KYSO Flash, MacQueen's Quinterly, SurVision, Haibun Today, The Haibun Journal, and Contemporary Haibun Online (the latter for which he served as content editor from July 2014 thru January 2020).
His chapbook of haibun, tanka prose, and prose poems, Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), was an honorable mention in the Touchstone Book Awards. His chapbook Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018) was a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize in 2018. He is also the author most recently of a collection of prose poems, haibun, and senryu, My Thology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019); and an e-chapbook, What I Say to You (proletaria.org, 2020).


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New non-invasive therapies based on stimulating the brain's inherent neuroplasticity are emerging, with the more promising developments based on modulating activity in the limbic system. The amygdala and limbic system play a central role in both the creation of chronic pain and the modulation of pain inhibition.
The BAUD is a novel method for promoting deep, targeted relaxation, which research shows can help promote natural brain plasticity. Using a specific type of sounds and beats, the BAUD will help your patient release the stress that activates and drives many negative habit patterns and reactions. As a result, it becomes easier for them to reshape reactive patterns of thought, feeling and action, and to quiet those negative symptoms.
Claus is a 70 year-old Swedish man who suffered an attack of Guillain Barré Syndrome at age 55. Completely paralyzed for days, he eventually recovered most motor function, but was left with paralysis and severe nerve pain in the lower limbs (SUD 7-9 daily). He utilized oxycontin daily, morphine several times per week, and was hospitalized several times a year for monitoring of high-dose morphine to bring pain levels down. This was his life for 15 years. BAUD results: after adding the BAUD to his normal therapy sessions, Claus was able to go off his pain medications. He reports his pain level is down to 0-2 SUD daily. After 2 years, he remains nearly pain-free and still requires no pain medication.


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Fragrances and colognes are divided into specific categories, such as fruit fragrance, floral scents, woody scents, floral, oriental, green spray, ocean and more. The customer can choose from this long list. The sprays are sorted in cost, depending on their ingredients and the market value.
The sharp and delicate scent has affected almost all countries and there would hardly be a country where the perfume and Cologne spray not be used. If people keep changing life style, so the taste and the ingredients of the perfume and cologne also change.
In Yesteryear people hardly use perfume, but with the rise in fashion for men and women depend on them more and more. Now situation is such that some people feel uncomfortable in their lives without odors.


As time flows slowly by, Life's tide does rise and fall, Singing a baby's cry, Sighing a dead man's call.
The lines above form the first stanza of a poem I wrote many long years ago. I no longer write poetry. But I still read and collect it. And this month, in honor of National Poetry Month, I will take you on a virtual tour of my Poetry Collection. I will present images of book covers and title pages of English and American poetry, and even a poem or two.
Many of the books in my Poetry Collection stand side by side on a single shelf stretching across and above the closet in my library room proper.
In the far right corner of this shelf, out of view of the camera, stand several poetry books that Alexander Smith writes about in his Dreamthorp essay, "A Shelf in My Book Case." I have all the other books he mentions in the essay as well.
Smaller poetry books display their spines on the top shelf of an antique secretary bookcase in our living room, with the smallest ones stored in a slotted shelf inside the bookcase, hidden between the Americana Collection of Hershel V. Jones and Audubon's Birds of America.
Still more poetry books are parts of other collections. My Hawaiian poetry books share shelf space in the wall unit in the family room with the other books of my wife's Hawaiiana and Danish Collections.
Even our dog enjoys Hawaiian poetry.
My wife and I would love to call Hawaii "our island home." But I need to win the lottery first. We were stationed there from 1977 to 1982 when I was in the Air Force, and have been back at least ten times.
My volumes of The Works of the English Poets, With Prefaces Biographical and Critical by Samuel Johnson "top off" my Samuel Johnson Collection. My volumes contain the poems of Cowley, Milton, Rochester, Roscommon, Yalden, Otway, the Duke of Dorset, Halifax, Stepney, Walsh, Blackmore, Prior, Broome, Pitt, Somerville, Akenside, Moore, Cawthorn, Churchill, Lloyd, Cunningham, Goldsmith, Whitehead, Green, Armstrong, and Johnson.
Johnson's Poets aren't the only poetry books I have from the late 1700s and early 1800s. I have one volume of Bell's Poets.
And I have one volume of Cooke's Poets.
And I have more than a handful of volumes of Sharpe's Poets – 26 volumes to be exact.
These volumes, some of which I will rebind dos-à-dos, contain the poems of Addison, Tickell, Hamilton, Churchill, Cunningham, Cotton, Akenside, Gay, Swift, Prior, Butler, Savage, Dryden, Moore, Mallet, Langhorne, Green, Jago, Hammond, Lyttleton, Dyer, Thompson, Somerville, Shenstone, Young, Hughes, Congreve, Fenton, Blackmore, Pope, Glover, Goldsmith, Beattie, Johnson, Warton, and Jones.
Nice engravings in the Sharpe edition! These are not frontispieces; they are located near the end of the section of each poet.
Here's an 1811 edition of John Gay's works published by Suttaby, Evance & Fox.
I was in the process of rebinding it when I noticed the filler material in the boards consisting of title pages of two books printed after 1811, meaning this book was rebound in 1819 or later.
Here's a four-volume set of more British poets.
This set contains the poems of Milton, Cowper, Goldsmith, Thomson, Falconer, Akenside, Collins, Grey, Somervile, White, Burns,, Beattie, Gay, Shenstone, Butler, Byron, Pope, Mason, Watts, Hayley, Prior, More, Dryden, Smith, Bloomfield, Canning, Gifford, Lord Lyttleton, Hammond and Richardson. I love the frontispieces.
Have you ever heard of The Penny Poets series from the 1890s? I have four volumes featuring two English poets, and two American poets.
I have ten volumes of The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry (1920s and 30s).
Austin Dobson (1840-1921) is one of the English poets whose works I collect. I have both English and American editions of some of his works.
Now this oversized poetry book by Dobson had to find a place on top of one of the two bookcases in my library closet.
By far, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the American poet who takes up the most shelf space in my library.
I have one complete set of the 45 parts of Longfellows poems and prose works issued from 1879 to 1883. And I have 43 parts of a second set. Subscribers had the opportunity to have the 45 parts bound into three volumes, but the former owner of my set, a Mrs. Barrett, chose to keep them as issued.
On my bookbinding pile for years has been a three-volume set of Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Longfellow and published in 1889. Next to it is an 1859 London edition of Longfellow's poetical works, followed by an 1896 Boston printing of Evangeline.
The book that was the hardest ever to find was a book my sister-in-law remembered reading to her children when they were young. It was about angel children and the chores they perform each day of the week. But she couldn't remember the title. It took me six years to identify it.
Frances Wosmek wrote and illustrated Sky High and it was first published in 1949. Frances, ninety-six years young, still writes poetry and has her own website: franceswosmek.com If you're familiar with her work, say hello to her.
I have numerous poetry books of individual authors some of which I will display either covers or title pages, mostly in collages.
Mark Samuels Lasner will be glad to see that I have Oscar Wilde's Poems in my library.
Formerly owned by Henry E. Huntington's daughter Marian Huntington.
If you want to read more poems from the 1500s, you'll find some in Edward Arber's English Garner.
Here's a little trivia. The poet below, Edward Lowe, was the inventor of Kitty Litter.
Since I call myself moibibliomaniac, I couldn't pass up a poetry book with "Moi" in the title, could I?
The most beautiful book in my Poetry Collection is John Henry Nash's The Psalms of the Singer David. And yes, I do regard it as poetry.
John Henry Nash gave this copy to the bibliophile Barton Currie in 1931.
And here ends the virtual tour of my Poetry Collection. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want more, you can view the listings of all my poetry books on Library Thing.
Great tour-- thanks for putting it up!
Thank you Jerry....this is most beautiful and inspiring for all us Poets and Bibliophiles.
Some very nice things there. Liked the Lalla Rookh and the Hawaiian books.
Not only books.. everything about 'Books' pleases me. Thank you very much for the great day!


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Leave the kiddos at home and enjoy some adult conversation with a Dining Night just for Parents, Grandparents, Friends and Family of Glebe at Cheestique! Mention Glebe, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the PTA!
We will be having our last business meeting of the year on June 6th. We will have a copy of our current budget available as we do at every business meeting. Please come learn details of our budget and where your money goes to support our school and community.
voting on the 2018-2019 budget: We will be working on the budget for next year in the coming weeks. If you have ideas for projects / committees/ purchases / events that support PTA missions please, please, please contact me. We are always open to new ideas and if we have volunteers to spearhead them we can usually figure out funding.
voting in several positions on the executive board: We are looking for someone to volunteer for Vice President External Affairs. We currently have parents who have volunteered to become Treasurer, Vice President Ways and Means and Recording Secretary, but this is an election so if you have any interest in serving on the board contact me ([email protected]) and I can give you more information. We have more information about each Executive Board position and their respective responsibilities as well as a list of many of our other volunteer positions our website (www.glebepta.org/about-us).
Please plan to join us, as there will be a lot of decision making taking place and we want to hear your opinions!!! As always, there will be babysitting for school aged children and Spanish translation.
Do you have a rising kindergartener? If so, take this opportunity to have them meet the kindergarten teachers and Ms. Borg on Monday, June 11th! They be able to explore all the classrooms, parents can ask questions and they can meet fellow students! Please share with your neighbors and friends!
Not registered yet for kindergarten? No worries! Visit https://www.apsva.us/registering-your-child/ or visit the Glebe Main Office to get a copy of the registration packet. In addition to your packet you will need your child's birth certificate, proof of residence, and child's physical to complete registration. Questions, please call the Main Office at 703-228-6280.
I know it is hard to believe we are almost done with this school year, but it is also time to prepare for the next one!
Keep your eyes open for a communication that will soon be issued outlining how you can order School Kits for your child(ren) for the next school year as well as how to donate one to students to at Glebe who are in need.
Have Box Tops? You can turn these in to the collection box in the Front Lobby!
Please consider bringing in food for our FOOD NOURISHMENT initiative. Cart is in the Front Lobby!
We will be collecting Toiletries as we expand our Food Nourishment initiative at Glebe. Please consider bringing in NEW shampoo, conditioner, hair products, toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, razors (men and women), combs & brushes, feminine products, laundry detergent, body wash, etc. to assist those in need.
Have used crayons? Our broken, used crayons are being collected and re-purposed. Just drop them off in the main office collection bin or in your child's classroom!
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PTA gives our Music Teachers $1500 each year to use to purchase new supplies for their classes!
Did you know the PTA pays for the first grade Flat Stanley project? We pay postage for the Flat Stanley's be the mailed all over the US and sometimes, the world!
Did you know the PTA supports Odyssey of the Mind? We pay for all coach training and entrance fees into the regional tournament for all teams.
And Odyssey is one of several programs that the PTA has supported - from the beginning - in the past several years. Parents who are interested in starting a program should know that the PTA can often provide help, particularly in the early years. Thank you!
Don't forget to rock your Spring Showdown tee! Order today!
Breaking T, locally owned by Glebe 1st grade dad, Alex Welsh, is offering these super soft and rad shirts at cost for us. Thanks Alex!
Ever wonder how Glebe PTA fundraises money to support our teachers, school and community?
Did you know the PTA pays for child care and Spanish translation for all PTA meetings? We also pay for all educational seminars and speakers who come to Glebe.
The PTA gives our Physical Education teachers $1500 each year so they can purchase new equipment as needed!
Check out all the twitter feeds related to Glebe Elementary School. Here are some of our favorites.
@GlebeGrade3 students playing Water Polo.
Excited to see some students tomorrow at open house!
Did you ever wonder what your teachers looked like when they were your age? Check out the staff at Glebe in their wonder years!
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Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen (Ephesians 4:29, NIV).
I had taken Steven to an amusement park for a mother-son day before he started fourth grade. It was hot, the lines were long, and I began to feel queasy from being gyrated and jerked to sudden stops from 60 miles per hour.
We were on a ride called The Log Flume, which was like riding a rollercoaster seated in a log, and being thrown into a pool of water at the end. Lovely. Feeling quite the martyr, I was just about to remind Steven how lucky he was to have a mother like me to bring him to a place like this.
But before the words escaped from my mouth, the Holy Spirit gently stopped me. Was that what I really wanted to say? Would those words make Steven feel "lucky" or would they make him feel guilty, as though he owed me something?
Instead of uttering my initial thought, I wrapped my arms around my precious young son and said, "Steven, I am so lucky to have a son like you that I can bring to a place like this!"
With those words, a dimpled smile spread across his precious face, and I was thankful for the splash of the watery roller coaster that disguised the tears streaming down my face.
If I had spoken that first sentence, Steven would not have felt lucky to have a mom like me at all. He would have felt guilty, and that he needed to pay me back for my "kindness." However, the revised version made him feel special, treasured, and loved.
Now, who was encouraged? Actually, we both were.
Perhaps you have some old tapes from your past that you tend to replay with your own children. Did your mother make comments that caused you to feel guilty or as if you were indebted to her for the care she gave you? Perhaps she still does. Many moms could be travel agents for guilt trips. Is that how you want to be remembered?
Guilt is like verbal heartburn or acid reflux of the soul. It just keeps on coming back and coming back. But we can change the verbal menu and decide not to serve up a dish of words that cause indigestion! And that's with everyone you speak to, not just kids.
I had success with my words that day at the amusement park, but not every day has been a banner day. I have used my words to tear down instead of build up. I have failed many times. The tongue is difficult to control. It can only be tamed by the power of the Holy Spirit and practice.
But here's what I do know: You and I can do all things through Christ who gives us strength, and that includes controlling the words we speak. Let's practice together!
Dear LORD, help me not to let any unwholesome word come out of my mouth today, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs. If my words are not helpful, help me keep my mouth shut. If they build others up, may I speak them freely and frequently.
In Jesus' Name,
OK, this is a tough one. If you're reading this devotion in the morning, I want you to pay attention to the words you speak today.
As you go through the day categorize your spoken words as:
Helpful or Hurtful
Uplifting or Deflating
Encouraging or Discouraging
If you are reading this devotion at the close of the day, you're not off the hook. This is your assignment for tomorrow.
I'd love to hear how you did. Click over to my Facebook page and tell me the name of one person you encouraged with your words today. If you don't know the person's name, that's OK, just describe the incident (such as the gal at the checkout counter, the waiter, the bank teller).
While we're at it, let me encourage you. I'm so thankful for you, and I'm so proud of you for seeking God through our daily devotions. His face is shining upon you!
Paul said that it was impossible to control the tongue, and I agree. However, what is impossible for man is more than possible with God! He can do it! We simply need to participate with prayer and practice. If you need a little help, see my book The Power of a Woman's Words.
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What Did They Mean?
Must the laws of Alberta ― like those of Manitoba (as well as Québec, New Brunswick, and of course Parliament itself) be enacted and published in both French and English? The answer to this question, which the Supreme Court addressed in Caron v. Alberta, 2015 SCC 56, decided on Friday, turns on the meaning of a short phrase in a document soon to be 150 years old.
The Court's majority, in an opinion by Justices Cromwell and Karakatsanis, found that Parliament's promise to protect the "legal rights" of the inhabitants of the then-Rupert Land and North-Western Territory did not encompass a guarantee of legislative bilingualism. The dissenters, justices Wagner and Côté (whose opinion Justice Abella joined), begged to differ, repeatedly accusing the majority of committing an injustice. I will summarize the two opinions in this post, and venture some thoughts in a separate one.
To understand this case, a rather lengthy historical explanation is in order. In 1867, the territories that have since become Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, as well the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, the Nunavut, and parts of Québec and Ontario, belonged to and were administered by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Section 146 of the Constitution Act, 1867, provided for the "admission" into Canada by the Imperial government, on address of the Canadian Parliament, "on such Terms and Conditions in each Case as are in the Addresses expressed and as the Queen thinks fit to approve, subject to the Provisions of this Act." Parliament approved the first such address in 1867, and another one in 1869. The 1867 address stated that Canada would uphold "the legal rights of any corporation, company, or individual" in the North-West ― the phrase on which the issue before the Supreme Court turned.
However, the Canadian annexation plans provoked a rebellion in the Red River Settlement, the main population centre in the North-West, in what would eventually become Manitoba. The rebels formulated a number of conditions on which they would accept Canadian sovereignty. Among them were demands for legislative as well as judicial bilingualism. They also demanded the creation, out of the territories, of a single province of Assiniboia, and made financial demands.
The Canadian authorities responded, first, by issuing a Royal Proclamation promising among other things that "all your civil and religious rights and privileges will be respected" upon entry into Canada. Under pressure from the Imperial government, they negotiated with delegates from the North-West and eventually accepted that part of the new territories would enter Canada as a new province, Manitoba. The rest would become a federally administered Territory, whose creation was provided for by an Order of the Imperial government, to which the 1867 and 1869 addresses of the Canadian Parliament were annexed. That Order is part of the Constitution of Canada described in and entrenched by section 52 of the Constitution Act, 1982.
In the first years after 1870, the new North-Western Territory was governed as though it were part of Manitoba. The laws enacted (in both French and English) by that province's legislature applied. Then, in 1875, Parliament enacted a statute setting up a separate territorial government. A requirement of legislative bilingualism was included in that law in 1877, as a result of an amendment moved by a Senator from Manitoba. Legislation enacted in 1891 made clear that the Territory's legislature could decide which language to use. In 1905, the province of Alberta (as well as Saskatchewan) was created out of a part of the Territory, and eventually it legislated to enact future laws in English only.
If Canada's undertaking to protect the "legal rights" of the North-West's inhabitants included language rights, such as legislative bilingualism, then this chain of enactments was invalid. Canada could not allow the North-Western Territory, or its successors the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, to renounce legislative bilingualism, and the provinces had no authority to do so. This was the appellants' main argument.
For the Supreme Court's majority, the phrase "legal rights" does not encompass legislative bilingualism. While the constitution generally "should be interpreted in a large and liberal manner," [35] and linguistic guarantees are particularly important, "[t]hese important principles … do not undermine the primacy of the written text of the Constitution." [36] Moreover, it is not enough to
simply resort to the historical evidence of the desires and demands of those negotiating the entry of the territories, and presume that those demands were fully granted. It is obvious that they were not. The Court must generously interpret constitutional linguistic rights, not create them. [38]
Having set out these interpretive principles, the majority explains why in its view they lead to the conclusion that "legal rights" do not include legislative bilingualism. First, "[l]anguage rights were dealt with explicitly in s. 133 of the Constitution Act, 1867 and in the Manitoba Act, 1870 in very similar and very clear terms. The total absence of similar wording in the contemporaneous 1870 Order counts heavily against the appellants' contention." [40] Second, "political leaders in the territories themselves expressly provided for language rights when they were meant to be protected and those rights were differentiated from other, more general, rights." [52] Third, "[t]he parliamentary debates related to the adoption of the 1867 Address show that language rights were not subsumed under the term 'legal rights' or 'droits acquis' / 'droits légaux' [which were used in various French versions of the Address]." [53] Rather, "legal rights" referred to property and economic rights. Fourth,
[t]he end result of the negotiations regarding legislative bilingualism was the enactment of the Manitoba Act, 1870. Conversely, it was never the objective of the 1870 Order to dictate that French and English must be used by the legislative body governing the newly established North-Western Territory. [58]
While the delegates from the North-West "sought to entrench bilingual rights, just as … they sought for the territories to enter Canada as a province," [60] they only succeeded with respect to what became Manitoba ― which, however, is where most of the North-West's people lived. Fifth, the 1867 Address cannot be taken to reflect an agreement between Canada and the people of the North-West that would not be reached until 1870.
The majority further argues that the events after 1870 confirm that the relevant actors did not understand legislative bilingualism in the North-Western Territory to be a matter of constitutional obligation. Although the amendment establishing bilingualism in the Territory's government was not contentious, nothing shows that it was perceived as fulfilling a constitutional duty. If anything, the government at the time thought that the matter was best left to the Territory's legislature ― as was eventually done.
Before concluding, the majority notes that if the appellants were to succeed, legislative bilingualism would be "constitutionally entrenched not only for Alberta, but also for all of the former HBC lands, which now form part of Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut and present-day Northwest Territories." [102] Moreover, "[t]he logical extension of this reasoning would also lead inevitably to the conclusion that a variety of other demands made by the settlers have been constitutionalized by the words 'legal rights,'" [102] including the to entrench the then-prevailing practice of appointing bilingual judges.
The dissent took a different approach to the issue before the Court. In its view, "[t]he answer to the question whether Alberta is constitutionally required to enact … all its laws in French as well as in English is written across the history of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory" ― and not merely in the phrase "legal rights" in the 1867 Address. Ascertaining the meaning of that step is only the last step of its analysis.
Much of the dissenting opinion consists of an extensive review of the historical evidence. Its authors insist that "the content of the promises conveyed in the 1867 Address cannot be interpreted without reference to the context in which they were made." [139] This review serves to stress, time and again, the importance of legislative bilingualism to the people of the North-West.
This population, the dissent notes, was composed of both French- and English-speakers; their legislature and their courts used both languages, as did the administrators appointed by the HBC; departures from these practices were met with discontent and resistance. Bilingualism extended throughout the North-West ― it was not limited to what became the province of Manitoba, and as the delegates who negotiated the annexation with the Canadian government represented the people of all the North-West, not only of the Red River Settlement, it would have been been inconceivable for them to limit their demands for legislative bilingualism to that province. Indeed, the Canadian government did not oppose these demands, nor was it in a position to do so, being pressed to conclude an agreement by the Imperial authorities.
For the dissent, the events after 1870 support the existence of a constitutional promise of legislative bilingualism to the people of the North-West. Little changed there in the aftermath of the annexation to Canada, since the bilingual administration of Manitoba exercised power. And once the territorial government was established, it was bilingual in practice, even before bilingualism was required by federal law.
This historical review takes up more than 100 paragraphs in the dissenting opinion. The "Application of the Principles of Constitutional Interpretation to the 1867 Address," which follows it, fewer than 30. The principles in question "are that the Constitution must be interpreted contextually, that its provisions must be given a broad and purposive reading, and that its nature — as an expression of the will of the people governed by it — is relevant." [216]
Applying these principles, the dissent concludes that the "historic" "compromise between the Canadian government and the territories' inhabitants" [222] included a promise of legislative bilingualism. Referring to the French version of the 1867 Address, which spoke of the "droits acquis" ― the vested rights ― of the people of the North-West, the dissent states that "legislative bilingualism was one of these vested rights." [226] It was also implicitly referred to by the Royal Proclamation, with its promise to uphold "civil and religious rights" ― which thus "recognized the cultural needs of the Métis" [229] of the North-West. That the protection of linguistic rights was not explicit as in other constitutional provisions is not determinative. To hold otherwise would be unjust and incompatible "with the broad and generous approach to constitutional interpretation that this Court has repeatedly taken," [231] and with the "large and expansive meaning" which the authors of the 1867 Address "attributed … to the[] rights" it contained. [234] Finally, the dissent asserts that, like Confederation itself,
[t]he annexation of the territories … resulted from negotiations between a dominant English-speaking party and a party with a strong interest in protecting the French language. Like the French-speaking minority in the negotiations that resulted in Confederation, the inhabitants sought to have the protection of their linguistic rights entrenched in the Constitution, and this was granted to them. [239]
To give effect to "the will of the people" who enacted it, the interpretation of the Constitution must take their demands into account.
So much for the opinions. I will try to have some thoughts on them shortly.
Author Leonid SirotaPosted on November 22, 2015 Categories Constitutional law, HistoryTags Alberta, bilingualism, Canada, constitutional interpretation, language rights, originalism
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Hana Yori Dango Final (novel)
Hana Yori Dango Final
Kanae Shimokawa
Shueisha
June 28, 2008[1]
Hana Yori Dango Final (花より男子ファイナル (はなよりだんごファイナル) , Hana Yori Dango Fainaru) is the novelization of the film of the same name. It is based on the screenplay by Mikio Satake and Yoko Kamio, author of the original manga. The novel was written by Kanae Shimokawa and published by Shueisha in June 2008.
The novel is separated into ten chapters and features an interview with the film's stars Jun Matsumoto and Mao Inoue.
1 Premise
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Tsukasa Domyoji announces his upcoming nuptials with Tsukushi Makino to the entire world. The pair are later presented with a tiara by Tsukasa's mother Kaede. When the tiara is stolen, the two travel around the world to retrieve it. They receive help from Rui Hanazawa, Sojiro Nishikado, and Akira Mimasaka along the way.
Chieko Makino
Haruo Makino
Kazu Kaburagi
Ken Uchida
Mysterious gentleman
Nishida
Sachiyo Sengoku
Susumu Makino
Kanae Shimokawa (下川 香苗 (しもかわ かなえ) , Shimokawa Kanae, born 1964 in Gifu, Japan) is a Japanese author Shimokawa won the Rookie Award in 1984 for Shueisha's Cobalt magazine and subsequently published her debut work, Yuyake Shoku no Love Letter (1986) with the company. Aside from novels, she has become well known for turning manga and films into light novels for Cobalt. Among the works adapted by Shimokawa are Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai, Gokinjo Monogatari, Kimi ni Todoke, My Love Story!!, and Yoko Kamio's Cat Street.
The novel includes a fold-out chart of the series' characters. It is similar to the one included in the film's photo book.
↑ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4086011794/ (Japanese)
Hana Yori Dango series
Hana Yori Dango episodes (2005)
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Hana Yori Dango Returns episodes (2007)
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I just love the way this book is presented, it is just beautiful. Daisy's Maze has a scrapbook quality which adds to its wonder and creativeness. Michaela Sangl uses touches of collage material in her illustrations which compliments Kyle Mewburns story perfectly. The story is written within the pictures in some places and this makes it even more fun to read for the young readers. The animal characters are adorable and have a childlike quality.
Daisy is a very creative mouse, and she is blessed to have very good friends. Daisy's Maze is a story of the lengths good friends go to, to make each other happy. It is also a good story about having open communication to avoid misunderstandings. You see Daisy goes to incredible lengths to create a fun maze for her friends to enjoy before the get to her tall tower for tea each Tuesday. Her friends love coming to tea at Daisy's, but they are usually so exhausted from the maze and the tower they fall asleep. Daisy mistakes this for boredom and so creates an even bigger maze and tower.
Daisy's Maze is an enjoyable story, it is sugar and spice and everything nice. It is about valuing friendship and going the extra distance. It really comes across to me as a book little girls would adore.
A Bug in a Book review.


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A One Way Ticket To Tomorrow – Time Travel
Ever really screwed things up and wanted a do-over? Yeah, the gringa does that all the time. That's what makes time travel so appealing. But is it possible? Theoretically, sure it's possible, but only if you want to see the future. To start the day all over again in order to get it right the second time around means travelling faster than light and that, theoretically, is impossible. But, actually, that's good news. That means a spiteful ex can't travel back in time and take out your grandfather, thus wiping out your future existence. It also means that adventurers who travel to the future have to stay there (maybe). For a trip to tomorrow, it's actually relatively easy, according to scientific formulas (although no one's actually done it yet, I think).
You see, if a person hopped on board their spaceship and zipped away into the cosmos at even a fraction of lightspeed, for a journey of say a year or two, they would return to an Earth that had aged perhaps by decades. So, technically, the galactic pioneers traveled to the future. But Einstein offered another option to travel to the future in the blink of an eye, wormholes.
A wormhole is a time tunnel that connects different parts of the universe. By using the wormhole as a direct route across the universe, rather than taking the long route of flying through the curved mass of space, a person would emerge, within moments, in a completely different time zone, perhaps an entire era altogether, hundreds of years in the future. The furthest a person could then go back in time would be to simply use the wormhole to return to the point they started from. However, a Caltech physicist by the name of Kip Thorne believes that quantum theory suggests that once a person traveled through a wormhole it would collapse behind them. A wormhole to the future might be a one way ticket to tomorrow.
So, if you want to have a time traveling adventure, you just have to find a wormhole. Or go to China. Yep. That's what the gringa said. Go to China. Interesting reports have been in the news for a few years now about a time travel tunnel in China. Located in Guizhou Province, time travelers can break all the rules and travel back in time. You don't even need a spaceship. You can use the ancient technology of cars.
It only takes, technically, about five minutes to travel the 400 meter length of the tunnel. However, when drivers emerge on the other side of the tunnel their electronic devices indicate that they have traveled back in time about one hour. However, time is a jealous mistress. It seems to not appreciate being lost and chases down evaders like a jilted lover turned crazed stalker. Once people travel some distance from the tunnel their lost hour catches up with them.
What the heck is happening here? It's a mystery. One that is absolutely adored by science fiction fans, conspiracy theorists and alien abduction proponents. However, China is not a fan of wacky explanations. They have offered a few boring theories as to why this is happening:
A transmitter in the tunnel is resetting everyone's electronic clocks which reset once again when they receive new GPS signals from a different transmitter after emerging from the tunnel.
A localized magnetic anomaly messing about with electronic devices
The gringa doesn't really care why. It seems harmless and loads of fun. The gringa would like to go back and forth several times, perhaps hundreds of times, maybe thousands just to see what might happen. Maybe I'll lose a wrinkle or two.
Sources: www.physics.org
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Amazing Italy, From Art to Astronauts
My cosmic sister, Bea, hails from Italy and therefore has a special interest in the Italian Space Agency (ASI, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana). So, the gringa dedicates this post to Bea.
Since its inception in 1988, ASI has consistently made significant contributions to space technology development. ASI is part of the European Space Agency (ESA) and works closely with NASA as well. Italy has been, and will continue to be, a key player in the international space exploration community. Whether it is technology that gets a manned mission to Mars or technology that helps Earth observers intervene to prevent or respond to environmental disasters, the world can all extend a "brava" to Italy.
Italy has three active space centers. Ten kilometers east of Matera is ASI's "Space Geodesy Center", which opened for business in 1983. Earth observation and imaging is the primary mission of the programs at work at SGC. The "Luigi Broglio" Space Center, in operation since the 1960's, is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean near Malindi, Kenya. It has an Earth segment base and an ocean segment base which launch and control satellites. The center that manages and analyzes all collected scientific data (ASDC) can be found at ASI headquarters in Rome. Not only is data analyzed here but mission monitoring is also conducted at this center.
The primary missions Italy's has high involvement with are:
Created Multi-Purpose Logistic Modules (MPLM) Leonardo, Raffaello and Donatello for transporting scientific research necessities to the International Space Station (ISS)
Space Habitability – March 2001, Italy became the 3rd nation to launch an element integrated into the ISS, the logistics module "Leonardo"
Life Sciences – Biotechnology research to improve knowledge of: the aging process and effective countermeasures, immunology, technologies to enable the colonization of space by humans, therapeutic studies for improving the quality of life for all humanity
Bioregenerative Environmental Control Project (CAB) – to put it in plain English, gringa language, scientists learn how to recycle and repurpose just about everything into something useful such as: plant based life support system, water purification through transpiration, space greenhouses, etc.
Motor and Cardiorespiratory Control Disturbances Project (DCMC) is a program with the goal of improving the quality of life for people who suffer from neuromotor and cardiorespiratory disabilities.
Osteoporosis and Muscular Atrophy Project (OSMA) is of particular interest because of how conditions of reduced gravity cause these debilitations, that are typically linked with aging, to affect young, healthy, physically fit astronauts. The research goal is to understand how gravity controls the functions of bone and muscle.
Bed-Rest is a study that simulates the effects of zero gravity by having volunteers stay in bed for 7-120 days in a head-down position so that studies of the cardiovascular and renal systems can be conducted.
Earth observation and telecommunication with satellites: Miosat, PRISMA, ROSA, COSMO-SkyMed, PRIMI, and COPERNICUS
High Energy Astrophysics study is an Italian only programme that conducts research on the most violent space phenomena that occurs throughout the Universe. Satellites involved in this programmed: GLAST/Fermi, SIMBOL-X, SWIFT, PAMELA, INTEGRAL, AMS, AGILE
Cosmology and Fundamental Physics programme studies the evolution of the Universe. Satellites involved in the programme: BOOMERANG, GAIA, EUCLID, GALILEO GALILEI, HERSCHEL, LARES, Olimpo, Planck, Plato, Lisa Pathfinder
Lisa Pathfinder is the most recent success of Italy's space agency that has made worldwide headline news. Lisa's purpose is to detect gravitational waves in space. Italy designed the overall architecture of Lisa and is managing the project with the cooperation of Italy's National Institute of Physics as well as ESA partners.
Lisa launched successfully last month and will lock into its final orbit around mid-February. This is phase one of the future construction of a space observatory that will continue studies of gravitational waves. Project completion is expected to be around the end of 2034. Italian scientists are beside themselves with pride that finally, after Einstein published his theory of general relativity over a century ago, the search for gravitational waves has, at last, begun, thanks, in huge part, to Italy.
And what else does the world have to look forward to from Italy? Of course, the gringa's favorite space subject, GETTING TO MARS! Italy boasts leadership of both phases of ESA's two phase EXOMars mission. In 2016 a probe will launch to orbit Mars and study methane and other gases as well as attempt to detect any presence of life. Later, in 2018, a rover will land on Mars and begin analysis of the soil. One more objective is to study any possible risks for future manned missions.
So, Italian suits, Italian shoes, Sophia Loren, Galileo, Michelangelo, and… astronauts, scientists, researchers, technology mavens. THAT IS AMAZING, ITALY!
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Alice & Albert
Could it really be that it's been one hundred years since Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity? The science community refers to Albert so often, I often feel as if he graced this earth just yesterday. But, indeed, November is the one hundred year anniversary of his publication of this theory.
Even though the gringa has heard many times someone say "the theory of relativity", um, what the heck does it really mean? I mean, how the heck can it be used for something useful or even for something interesting or fun? Well, this is the basis for all the time-warp fodder for great (or even lousy) literary works of science fiction, which the gringa loves, even the "lousy" ones.
The first time Albert's theory was successfully put to the test in real life was during the observation of a solar eclipse. A prediction was made, based on the theory, of how much "bended" light would be deflected when a particular star passed near the sun. The theory supposed that the sun's mass would cause the light of the star to bend. And the prediction, based on Albert's theory, was spot on.
So? Now what? Thus became the established phenomena that is known as "gravitational lensing". Astronomers now know that this appearance of bended light is not an optical illusion but something that actually happens. This allows astronomers a method to delve into galaxies that would otherwise be off limits for research even with humanity's most powerful telescopes.
One such galaxy that fits this description is commonly called the "Cheshire Cat" galaxy because it's appearance reminds one of that particular elusive character from the "Alice In Wonderland" story. What exactly causes the smiley face? Well, the theory explains that these are distant galaxies whose light is stretched and then bent by objects of great mass which are most likely made up of dark matter. Why dark matter? Well, since no large mass objects are visible but the evidence of their presence is there in the bent light, the mass must then exist in the form of invisible dark matter.
Scientists claim that there are six galaxies that make up the outer space smiley face. Each eye and the nose are individual galaxies and there are four other galaxies that create the arcs which are bent light created by gravitational lensing by some mysterious dark matter object with great mass. Scientists view the "Cheshire Cat" through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The eye galaxies are the brightest and are zipping through space on a collision course with one another at over 300,000 miles per hour. NASA uses the Chandra X-ray Observatory to determine that hot gas, millions of degrees Fahrenheit, is the evidence that these galaxies are indeed colliding. And that's not all the mayhem that the "Cheshire Cat" is out and about doing. Aside from the bumper car routine, the cat's left eye has a very hungry supermassive black hole right at its center which is gobbling up all sorts of things.
Astronomers classify this cluster of galaxies as a fossil group. A fossil group has a dominant elliptical galaxy surrounded by smaller galaxies. Fossil groups are considered to be just one stage that almost all galaxy groups go through as they evolve. Perhaps it's kind of like the teenage years for galaxies. Horrible driving and collisions and they eat everyone out of house and home.
So, once it grows up a bit, then, what's the next stage? That would be the Cyclops group, when they merge into one mega-galaxy. Yeah, the gringa thinks that sounds about right. Just like a teenager then develops into a mature senior who gets a bit fat and needs reading glasses. But it will probably take a billion years or so. Looks like we will be enjoying the smiley face for a long time to come.
If any of the gringa's dear readers happen to be passing through Huntsville, Alabama, they can check in at Marshall Space Flight Center. That's headquarters for the Chandra program that studies the "Cheshire Cat". Or, even better, if you find yourself in Cambridge, Massachusetts, see if you can take a peek at the cat yourself. That's where you'll find The Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory that controls the Chandra program's science and flight operations.
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Posted on November 30, 2015 Categories Aerospace, Astronomy, Astrophysics, cosmology, Dark Matter, Exploration, Meteorology, Science, Space Exploration, technology, UncategorizedTags asteroid, astronaut, Astronomer, Astronomy, barrio, chandra, cheshire, comet, cosmonaut, Cosmos, earth, eclipse, Einstein, galaxy, gravitational, gravity, gringa, gringo, hispanic, hubble, latin, latina, latino, lensing, mars, meteor, meteorite, moon, nasa, observatory, orbit, physics, relativity, rocket, science, scientist, solar, solar system, space, spacecraft, spaceship, Star, sun, telescope, Universe, wonderland, x-ray2 Comments on Alice & Albert
1940 Nationality Act – Hypocrisy and Double Standards
In the late 1930's the United States was once again scratching away at the parchment writing out the legal parameters of the Nationality Act of 1940. The problematic parts of the legislation are certiain conditions that, if not met, a person's citizenship "automatically expires", with no due process.
What was going on in the country that had lawmakers going to such efforts as to write new laws? With the country in the throes of the Great Depression, its economic effects rippled throughout the world. People from other countries did not have the means to emigrate. Also, because of the restrictive immigrant laws of 1924, many immigrants had been deported. As the threat of a second World War intensified throughout Europe, refugees began to challenge America's restrictive immigration policies, although rarely successful. The gringa wants to know the facts. Digging a little deeper is required.
By the 1930's, the religious landscape of the nation had changed. America has been historically viewed as a nation founded by, created by and governed by Christians. By the year 1930, however, the population of Jews outnumbered the ranks of the Episcopalians and Presbyterians combined. Eastern European Judaism was the predominant Jewish culture in the U.S. They assimilated into American culture but designed community programs in order to maintain their distinctly Jewish heritage. Despite their "Americanism", many schools and colleges blatantly discriminated against Jews. With public figures like Henry Ford openly criticizing the patriotism and character of America's Jewish population, it's no surprise that violence was commonly visited upon Jews during this period of U.S. history.
America was becoming infatuated with it's own national identity. Folk culture became popularized with the Library of Congress even beginning to collect American folk songs. American intellectuals churned out thoughtful manifestos such as "I'll Take My Stand", by the Southern Agrarians who desired a return to the simple way of life of agriculture. In direct contrast was Lewis Mumford's "Technics and Civilization" which was more forward focused on developing technology to advance U.S. capitalism through a new age of modernism.
Such modernist ideas were reflected in the architecture and art of the 1930's. The 1939 World's Fair in New York made it clear to the world that America wanted to leave behind the anorexic economy of the Great Depression and this would happen through the development of "the world of tomorrow". This "world of tomorrow" was pictorialized in America cinema and television shows of the era. This was the birth of the superhero, like Superman and the Lone Ranger. Hollywood also played a critical role in producing forms of entertainment that also served as propaganda to lift American spirits out of the defeatist spirit of the Great Depression. This was when the world was introduced to an American original comedy genre, slapstick and screwball. The financial disaster of the Great Depression gave way to fantasy and longings for a modern, futuristic world.
The nation's economic solution for the people's relief from the suffering of the Great Depression was the New Deal. This was not specifically a cure, but more of a stabilizing plan. This would enable people to get their feet back under them so they could focus on what Americans do best, make money. Because social and economic salvation came through the government, American perspective toward the government began to change. Americans who previously were suspicious of too much government control and power were now more inclined to believe that the intentions of Big Brother had the citizens' best interest at heart.
As people in the United States are looking forward, the Japanese are looking back. After years of chafing at the political insults America meted out to Japan through immigration policies, on December 29, 1934, Japan renounced the Washington Naval Treaty it had entered into with America in 1922.
Five years later, 1939, Germany invades Poland. After a year of appeasement fails, aggression by Nazi Germany begins the Second World War. September 5th of that same year, the United States declares its neutrality. The U.S. had complete confidence in its isolationist position because by that time we already had the A-bomb thanks to refugee Albert Einstein that America welcomed to its shores in 1933 as he fled from the Nazis. And thus begins a flood of European immigrants seeking to escape the horrors of war which inspired the nation, known as the great hope of the hopeless, to once again reveal its true capitalist colors and reform the nation's immigration and citizenship policies with the 1940 Nationality Act.
Section 201 of this act declares citizenship at birth for any child born outside the U.S. of at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen. This parent must have lived within the U.S. or any of its territories for a minimum of ten years, with at least five of those years being after the age of sixteen years. In order for the child to maintain U.S. citizenship status the child must live within the U.S. or any of its territories for five years between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one years. These, of course, being the formative years of primary education and higher education. The nation wanted assurance that during those critical years the child was in the U.S. being indoctrinated with educational propaganda in the public schools in order to shape the mind of the child into a good patriot. If these residential conditions are not met, the child's U.S. citizenship automatically expires without due process.
Section 401 contains wording that provides for the revocation of U.S. citizenship if a person votes in a political election of another country. This particular requirement created legal challenges that resulted in inconsistent action by the U.S.
In 1958, U.S. district courts ruled in Perez v. Brownell. Clement Martinez Perez was a U.S. citizen born in El Paso, Texas who traveled back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico, residing in either country for extended periods of time. At some point he voted in a Mexican election. Perez lost his U.S. citizenship based on the court's finding that Congress can revoke citizenship regardless if the action qualifying for the loss of citizenship is intentional or unintentional. The Supreme Court upheld the decision based on the Necessary and Proper Clause of Art. 1, 8, clause 18 of the Federal Constitution which states that voting in a foreign political election means a withdrawal of U.S. citizenship. The purpose of this clause is so that the U.S. can avoid international embarrassment by Americans getting involved in foreign affairs.
Nine years later the United States reverses its position. Beys Afroyim, who arrived in the U.S. in 1912, a Polish immigrant, and was naturalized in 1926, also became an Israeli citizen in 1950. He voted in six separate Israeli elections. He applied with the U.S. Consulate in Israel for an American passport. At first he was refused based on the same legal position attached to Perez in 1958. Taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court, the judge determined that Afroyim had not shown intent to lose his citizenship when he participated in Israeli elections. However, this was a direct contradiction to the published court opinion of the Perez case.
Due to the country's special relationship with the nation of Israel, Americans can hold dual citizenship here and in Israel. That is not the case with Mexico. The gringa suspects the reasoning behind the special relationship with Israel is founded in religion and guilt.
Proof of the nation's guilty conscience resonates in the words of President Truman after the war, "I urge the Congress to turn its attention to this world problem in an effort to find ways whereby we can fulfill our responsibilities to these thousands of homeless and suffering refugees of all faiths." Now, if guilt is the reason for the special relationship between Israel and America, the gringa is okay with that. After all the United States should have a guilty conscience for not opening the immigration gates for the lambs who were trying to escape the slaughter.
However, if religion is the basis for this international special relationship, the gringa says, "We gots us a problem." According to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." If religion is the basis for a special relationship between the United States and Israel, resulting in laws being applied in a prejudicial fashion between Americans of different ethnicities, I believe that is some pretty clear evidence of racism as well as a violation of the spirit of the Constitution.
The gringa thinks the District Court of 1958 and the Supreme Court of 1967 has got some splainin' to do because it seems America's "world of tomorrow" was one of racial double standards.
https://americansabroad.org/files/3013/3478/0295/18-04-2012_1318_971.pdf
http://www.prothink.org/2008/03/27/the-1940-nationality-act/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_v._Brownell
http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/immigration-timeline#1930
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/jewishexp.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3452
http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1930.html
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Refugees living in Kenya camps to get chance to compete at Rio Olympics
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