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WHAT DOES PHILADELPHIA NEED FROM COMCAST?
More and more individuals, communities, and organizations are signing on every day to hold Comcast accountable to Philadelphia. Signing on to the CAP! Comcast campaign does not mean you necessarily endorse all the demands below. But CAP! Comcast organizers and allies see the vision below as a starting place for the City and our communities as we work to get a fair franchise in Philadelphia. Freeze our cable, broadband, and phone rates. According to data collected by the New America Foundation, in Los Angeles, the cheapest monthly television, phone and Internet service costs about $80. In Paris, a similar bundle sells for $32, and in Seoul, it goes for $15. On Comcast's website, the price advertised for a similar bundle is also about $80. In exchange for renewing a franchise, the City should demand that Comcast freeze its cable, broadband, and phone rates, while increasing speed, service, and access to all Philadelphians, for at least five years while the City and community members can evaluate fair rates and services for our city. Support Local Access Channels. The local access channels and programming, which Comcast is obligated to fund as part of its franchise agreement, were a big piece of what communities won last franchise. These are vital community resources that Comcast has fought and underfunded. PhillyCAM, the City's public access TV station, operates a community access media center that unites people to make and share media for creative expression, democratic values, and civic participation. Comcast should not discriminate against local Access Channels with respect to the functionality and signal quality of those channels as compared to those of the local broadcast digital format channels carried on the cable system. This includes transmission of local access channels in HD and making public access content available On Demand. Expand Affordable Internet Access. Almost 1/3 of Philly residents are offline, primarily the poorest. And the Internet Essentials program hasn't met the needs of most Philadelphians, being a limited program that's difficult to sign up for, reaching not enough people who are offline. Comcast should create a publically-overseen fund to provide more free and affordable internet access for poor communities and underfunded schools. That could support students to learn and workers to seek jobs. Pay Your Fair Share. Comcast's top executive salaries alone could pay off the school district's three hundred million dollar budget deficit in a few years. The company took in over $64 billion in 2013, and while students suffer, Comcast was just awarded forty million in city and state tax payer dollars to build a second record-setting skyscraper in Center City, Philadelphia. Instead of draining our resources, Comcast should use more of its profits to support services for the people of Philadelphia in need, including paying for the $400+ million deficit in the Philadelphia public school budget. Respect worker' rights. Comcast paid over $100,000 in lobbying fees to oppose a City Council bill that would have expanded access to paid sick days to hundreds of thousands of us and our neighbors. The ratio for CEO pay to average employee pay at Comcast is 370:1, and few Comcast workers have the benefits and protections afforded by membership in a union. Comcast should state its support for its workers', and all workers', rights to form unions, and support efforts to build dignity for workers at its own organization by not combating its workers or its subcontractors' workers efforts to form unions at their workplaces. Don't pass on the fee to us. Comcast cable subscribers pay the franchise fee in tiny installments every month as a part of their cable bill. If Comcast agrees to pay its fair share, any extra/supplemental funds should come from their record profits, not from charging already struggling consumers more, or taking resources from important Philly services like public access TV. Increase competition. If Comcast can't meet our demands, the City should actively solicit other cable providers to partner with to serve our communities. The City is able to solicit other franchises at any time. If Comcast is not willing to engage in a productive dialogue about what Philly needs from its most profitable tenant, we should invite Google Fiber and other competitors to bid to compete with Comcast, or actively promote and pursue community-owned-and-operated telecommunications providers in our city.
Why fight for a fair franchise?
Comcast has outsized power in a Philadelphia still suffering under economic crisis.
The company earned over $64 billion in revenues in 2013, while they lobbied to stop hundreds of thousands of Philadelphians from getting access to paid sick days.
Comcast joined Governor Corbett and the Chamber of Commerce on a push to shutter and privatize Philly's public schools.
The ratio of CEO pay to average employee pay at Comcast is 370:1.
And they pay little in a city and state that needs much — a nationwide corporate-income tax rate of only 3.4% in a state where our average rate is 9.99%.
As a part of their last franchise, our City secured vital resources for public access TV and some resources for the City's general fund. With this negotiation, we have the chance to ask: what is the responsibility of a massively profitable corporation in a city losing schools, jobs, and homes? This is the first step in a long negotiation process between our City and this hugely important corporate player. Let's make sure the City knows we're united for the communications services we all need, and for the resources our communities deserve.


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DoT clears Bharti Infratel-Indus merger: Sources
Loss-making Vodafone Idea has been banking on this tower merger deal closure to raise roughly Rs 4,500 crore from the sale of its stake in the combined entity, which could be used to pay a portion of its AGR dues, estimated at nearly Rs 57,000 crore by the DoT.
Kalyan Parbat
February 21, 2020, 22:42 IST
KOLKATA: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is learnt to have cleared Bharti Infatel's mega merger deal with Indus, sources said, paving the way for creating one of the world's largest telecom tower companies with over 1,63,000 towers, and also offering a much needed avenue for beleaguered Vodafone Idea to raise funds to clear a portion of its massive AGR dues to the government.
The companies are believed to have received the critical foreign direct investment (FDI) nod for the merger deal from DoT on Friday evening, a person with direct knowledge told ET. The deal was stuck for several months as DoT is learnt to have held in abeyance the FDI approval due to a Rs 22,000 crore withholding tax dispute between UK's Vodafone Group and India.
Indus Towers is a three-way joint venture between Bharti Infratel, UK-based Vodafone Group Plc and Vodafone Idea, with the first two holding 42% each. Vodafone Idea owns 11.15% while the remaining 4.85% is with private equity firm, Providence. Airtel has a majority stake in Bharti Infratel.
Assuming Vodafone Idea exits, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Group are expected to hold 37.2% and 29.4%, respectively, in the merged towers entity as per terms of the deal announced in April 2018.
The Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers merger deal was signed on April 23 last year and was to have been concluded by October 24. Subsequently, the companies extended the deal initially by two months to December 24, 2019, and another two months to February 24, in absence of DoT approval.
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Local beef sells for how much?!
posted by Sentinel-Times November 18, 2015 News
Glen Alvie's Kevin and Sharon Oates have managed to impress one of Australia's most respected beef critics with meat from a Wagyu steer raised on their farm. G124615
BEEF sourced from a Glen Alvie property is selling interstate for a record $220 per kilogram.
What's even more remarkable is that it comes from a Fullblood Japanese Wagyu steer that was grass fed over four years.
Normally, Wagyu beef with marbling scores of 9 or 9+ is reserved for animals feeding on specialised Japanese grain-based rations in a feedlot.
This animal, however, simply fed on high quality pasture in "a little slice of heaven" in the heart of Glen Alvie.
Cabassi and Co, a high-end retail butchery in Brisbane, has been selling boneless sirloin and boneless rib fillet from the carcass at the record price.
Business owner Peter Cabassi has bred, fed and eaten Wagyu beef for decades, and he recently told Beef Central, the best news source for the Aussie beef industry, that he had never seen or tasted grass fed beef like this.
"Grassfed Wagyu typically produced marbling in the mid-ranges around 4 to 6, but never, in my experience, at the extreme 9+ end of the spectrum like this," Peter told reporter Jon Condon.
"The carcase may in fact be unique. I've certainly never seen anything like it from a grass fed animal."
Peter said he was left "stunned" by the first sample he tasted.
"A couple of very good years in the paddock, supplemented with just a little grain, has produced an extraordinary product," he continued.
"It represents what we have thought for a while now – that there are a few pathways to achieving a stunning end product with Wagyu. This method relies on growing the marbling for longer under less intensive nutritional support."
Beef farmers Sharon and Kevin Oates were chuffed with news of the staggering price per kilogram, and they're now hoping to repeat it.
"There's already one steer here I think is just as promising," Sharon said.
"Once you get a marbling score of 9 you want to try to get a paddock full of animals like that!"
The carcase of the now-famous steer weighed 489kg and was sold for over $7000.
"And I still kept some eye fillet out of it," Sharon smiled.
Sharon and Kevin own and manage Oasis Collection Centre – a cattle embryo transfer facility situated on 18 acres along Grantville-Glen Alvie Road.
They are looking forward to giving Peter Cabassi a guided tour of the property later this week when he visits the area.
What's so good about Wagyu?
Above: Spectacular marbling earned the beef a score of 9, which is unheard of in grass fed cattle.
• Regarded as the world's best-tasting tender beef, Wagyu is a Japanese breed. 'Wa' means Japanese style and 'gyu' means cattle.
• Wagyu were originally used as draft animals due to their astounding physical endurance
• Wagyu is a horned breed and cattle are either black or red in colour
• The unique taste and tenderness of highly marbled Wagyu beef makes for an unrivalled eating experience
• The beef has softer fats, higher ratio of unsaturated fats and, above all, flavour.
• Gourmet chefs and fine restaurants across the world have created a high demand for Wagyu


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We're not complaining about it. We enjoy her pics as much as she loves taking them! This one shows her jumping into a harbor in Chicago.
We're also wondering if this is the same bikini in a pic her then boyfriend Austin Nichols had posted to his Instagram account and then deleted. But we got a copy of it before that.
Bennet and Nichols have since split ways, and she's now dating Logan Paul, a YouTuber she met while working on a project with him.
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The U.S. and Mexico need to resolve a dispute over allowing Mexican trucks access to U.S. roads, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in Mexico City, Bloomberg reported.
Kirk added that the Obama administration will begin working with Congress to resolve the matter, Bloomberg said.
Mexican trucks are allowed to operate within about 25 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Transportation under the Bush administration started a pilot program in 2007 to allow some Mexican carriers to operate on all U.S. roads.
The Obama administration suspended the program in March 2009, and a group of Mexican carriers threatened to sue the U.S. for $6 billion for violating the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement.


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S.F. Archbishop Slams Gender Ideology in the Wake of Jenner Celebrity
Patrick Semansky / Associated Press
Never one to retreat from controversy, San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has weighed in on the trans-Jenner debate, arguing that men don't suddenly become women just through a surgical operation, hormone therapy, cross-dressing or being addressed with new names.
"The clear biological fact is that a human being is born either male or female," Cordileone said Wednesday during a conference in New York organized by Catholic conservatives.
The redoubtable archbishop has already drawn the ire of freethinking local Catholics in his Archdiocese of San Francisco by insisting that teachers in Catholic schools teach Catholic doctrine and morality, rather than their own version of it.
He has also demanded that those in charge of the formation of children in the Church's name avoid behavior that would scandalize the kids. A teacher could face punishment or dismissal for "escorting a woman into an abortion clinic, handing out contraception to students, or for being a member of a white supremacist group," he said.
In his address Wednesday, Cordileone reminded his audience of Pope Francis' harsh criticism of those who promote "gender ideology."
Not mincing words, Francis has called modern gender ideology "demonic," and has compared gender theory with "the educational policies of Hitler." The Pope also said that gender theory "does not recognize the order of creation," a point that Cordileone picked up on in his words.
"Yet now we have the idea gaining acceptance that biological sex and one's personal gender identity can be at variance with each other, with more and more gender identities being invented," said Cordileone.
The Pope himself received backlash for criticizing "an academic perspective that sees gender identities as a spectrum rather than as binaries." Basing himself on Biblical theology, the Pope believes that God creates people as "male and female," rather than an ever expanding gamut of contrived pseudo-sexual genders.
Cordileone remarked that a friend of his recently pointed out to him that a major university advertised housing "for a grand total of 14 different gender identities."
"Those initials keep getting longer and longer," he said, referring to the trend of appending a series of letters to the familiar LGBT acronym, including abbreviations for queer, intersex, intergender, pansexual or asexual.
"I wonder," said Pope Francis last April, "whether the so-called theory of gender is not an expression of frustration and resignation, which tries to erase sexual differences because it doesn't know how to handle them."
Removing sexual differences, Francis declared, "is the problem, not the solution." Acting as if these differences didn't matter means "taking a step backwards," he said.
"God has entrusted the earth to the covenant between man and woman," Francis said. Its failure "dries up the world of affection and darkens the sky of hope."
Jenner is receiving accolades for his/her decision to take on a female persona, and has been called a "hero" for his "courageous" choice.
Others have been more circumspect in their reactions to his decision.
One repentant transsexual, Walt Heyer, expressed his fear that the Jenner story might not have a happy ending.
"As a former transgender myself," he wrote, "I found it painful to see Jenner looking so fragile, exhibiting an uncertain nervousness throughout the interview. I see Jenner and my heart sinks with sadness; my stomach aches in pain."
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Fugitive Ex-Cop Allegedly Called Victim's Dad To Taunt Him About His Daughter's Death
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An ex-cop accused of shooting three police officers, one of whom died, and killing the daughter of a former LAPD captain reportedly took his revenge one step further when he called to brag about it. Christopher Dorner has been on the run since Thursday when he reportedly shot three officers, one of whom died.
He's also accused of killing Monica Quan because he was angry with her father Randall Quan for the role the former Los Angeles Police Department captain played in Dorner's 2009 firing from the department.
And now, citing court documents, ABC News is reporting a man identifying himself as Dorner called Randall Quan about 11 hours after Monica Quan died and told him he "should have done a better job of protecting his daughter."
In an online manifesto, Dorner also said of Monica Quan's death, "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours."
Randall Quan represented Dorner in his termination hearings, a process Quan once called "very, very ugly."
The search for Dorner has yet to produce any results. However there have been many false alarms, including one fake sighting that caused authorities to lock down a downtown Los Angeles jail.
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When World War I broke out in Europe in the autumn of 1914, a young diplomat was sent to Jerusalem to take charge of the Spanish consulate in the city. Antonio de la Cierva y Lewita, better known as Conde de Ballobar, recorded the events he witnessed and described his experiences and opinions in a unique document that has become an invaluable resource for historians. Ballobar's diary provides an unparalleled insight into late Ottoman Jerusalem - and the upheavals of wartime life in the city - and includes a detailed account of the battle amongst the local churches over control of the city's holy places. Also touching upon the spread of Zionism and the establishment of British rule, Ballobar writes as a privileged observer of an exceptionally complex historical period.
To mark the paperback publication of Jerusalem in World War I: the Palestine Diary of a European Consul author Roberto Mazza will present the book in discussion with Salim Tamari.
Roberto Mazza earned his PhD from SOAS in 2007, and he has been recently appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick (Ireland). His other publications include Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the British (2009) and a chapter on the Nebi Musa Riots in Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State (2015, U. Freitag, N Fuccaro and C Ghrawi, Eds.).
Salim Tamari is a sociologist senior fellow at Institute for Palestine Studies and former director of the IPS-affiliated Institute of Jerusalem Studies. He is editor of Jerusalem Quarterly and Hawliyyat al Quds, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Recent publications include: Year of the Locust: Palestine and Syria during WWI (2010); Ihsan's War: The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Soldier (2008); and The Mountain Against the Sea (2008).


According to the World Bank, remittances from the diaspora to Haiti reached a record level in 2018, amounting to 2.986 billion dollars (+ 9.70% compared to 2017) or 30.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP ) of Haiti.
The ranking of the main beneficiary countries in the region is dominated by #1 Mexico ($36 billion received in 2018), #2 Guatemala ($ 9.5 billion) and #3. The Dominican Republic ($ 6.7 billion), Haiti ranks 7th.
Recall that Haiti crossed for the first time the threshold of $2 billion in transfers in 2015 (2.1 billion) and since then only experienced increases of 2.3 billion in 2016; 2.7 billion in 2017 and 2.9 billion in 2018. If in comparison, the Dominican Republic is experiencing the same growth trajectory, the 6.7 billion received in 2018 however this amount represent only 8.4% of the GDP of the Dominican Republic.
In contrast, the money transfers sent by Haiti outward according to the World Bank amounted in 2017 to $298 million (3.5% of GDP) against $ 635 million for our Dominican care (0.8% of GDP).


Ian Somerhalder Makes Fangirls Cry at Wizard World New Orleans!
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Wizard World Comic Con in New Orleans, LA. Ian Somerhalder, along with many other amazing guests showed the fans an amazing time! Check out highlights from Ian's panel, plus a fan experience and photos from the panel courtesy of Jenn Gresta.
Here's a short video from the beginning of his panel I did via live stream.
Also check out a fan's video below of Ian telling a funny story about something that happened on set.


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A Mountain Metro Transit bus heads north on South Academy Boulevard traffic in Colorado Springs Monday, December 3, 2018. (Mark Reis, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Republicans are celebrating, but the extra $106 million for transportation in Colorado's budget is far from a done deal
The budget now heads to the House, where the transportation funds will be stripped. Democrats in that chamber and Gov. Jared Polis aren't commenting about the money's future
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Republicans in the Colorado Senate celebrated this week as the $30.5 billion state budget passed out of the chamber with $106 million in cuts to government administration spending as part of a plan to divert the money toward transportation.
Since January, the GOP had been clamoring for more money — $336 million to be exact — to upgrade the state's roads and bridges. In exchange for the funds, Republicans agreed to halt their delay tactics in the chamber, which have consumed hours of lawmaking work in the past month.
"We now have something in this budget that we can now go back to the constituents … and say, 'We got something, we worked together,' " Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert, a Parker Republican, said Thursday.
But those dollars are far from certain. The House customarily will strip any Senate changes to the budget and the Democratic leadership of the legislature's Joint Budget Committee aren't committing to retaining the transportation boost when the two chambers meet to negotiate a final deal in April.
Gov. Jared Polis isn't committing to the transportation spending either. He has line-item veto power to avoid making the required diversion, which itself is constitutionally questionable.
"There never are any promises in this building," said Sen. Dominick Moreno, a Commerce City Democrat who chairs the legislature's powerful Joint Budget Committee. "… It is a win, I'm not going to take that away from Senate Republicans. They were able to get an amendment onto the long bill. But that being said, we are now out of balance. We've got to figure it out."
Moreno added: "(That money) is a lot to absorb. I think it's too early to tell. But we are going to do our best to have a conversation about the proper support for transportation in this budget."
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The $106 million represents less than 1 percent of the $12.2 billion in discretionary funding in this year's budget package, which already included $230 million in transportation funding before the amendment. But the shift is extraordinary because each dollar in the budget is intensely fought over.
Now, lobbyists at the Capitol and interest groups are watching closely to see whether their programs will face cuts to pay for the transportation spending. For instance, state workers are slated to get a 3 percent pay raise included in the 2020 fiscal year budget.
"We're going to monitor to make sure that state employees and state services have the money they need," said Hilary Glasgow, who leads the union representing state employees.
The amendment specifically directs the governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting to find the $106 million in cuts. Polis' spokeswoman declined to comment Thursday. But a question lingers about whether the governor can even make the cuts after a state court ruling decades ago rejected an attempt by former Gov. Dick Lamm to move dollars between agencies.
The budget negotiations will begin in the House next week, and the first move the Appropriations Committee will make is to remove all amendments made in the Senate, including the one for $106 million in transportation.
The chamber will vote on it's own version of the spending plan and the two versions will go back to the Joint Budget Committee to draft a final version within the limits of the state's revenue projections.
Democratic leadership in the House — House Speaker KC Becker and House Majority Leader Alec Garnett — did not commit to preserving the transportation money.
Like Moreno, Rep. Daneya Esgar, a Pueblo Democrat and the budget committee vice chairwoman, declined to say she supported the $106 million for transportation.
"We balanced the budget before we brought it to the floor," Esgar said. "Adding more money into a budget doesn't magically make the money appear. We can't commit to supporting an amendment when we have no idea what other amendments are going to be coming forward yet."
From left, starting at second from left: State Rep. Daneya Esgar, a Pueblo Democrat, and Sen. Dominick Moreno, a Commerce City Democrat. The pair lead the Joint Budget Committee. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)
The good news for transportation funding proponents: the Senate Republican amendment serves as a placeholder for the budget committee's final effort. The bad news: Democrats are in the majority, so there's no promises Republicans will get their way.
At the start of the session, Senate Republicans sought $336 million for road construction. The budget committee found an extra $30 million for transportation, on top of the $200 million included in state law.
If the $106 million goes through, then all of the $336 million Republicans wanted would have been secured. But Republicans also are aware that their chances of getting that full amount are precarious.
Sen. Owen Hill, a Colorado Springs Republican who led the push for the extra funds, said Wednesday after the amendment passed that he understands "we've got a long way to go."
"I hope it sticks in the House," added Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican.
Republican Sen. Bob Rankin, a budget writer from Carbondale, said the GOP feels the one-time infusion of funds is a good compromise with fears of an economic downturn on the horizon. He said he is "definitely going to fight" to make sure the money isn't axed in the final budget.
"It will probably need to be a separate bill," he added.
State Sen. Bob Rankin, a Carbondale Republican, speaks at a news conference on Thursday, March 28, 2019. He is on the Joint Budget Committee. (Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun)
The transportation funding came as one of 11 amendments that were added to the budget in the Senate to pay for a wide range of programs and services. Among the highlights:
An extra $2.9 million in discretionary spending to increase the amount the state pays home-care providers
Nearly $10 million more for opioid-crisis response efforts, an allocation from marijuana tax revenue
$500,000 for suicide prevention efforts in the state's health department from discretionary dollars
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"So we go meet bros Jigga make he show us level shey?" and OC nodded and said with a devilish smile, "Guy see us see money o". That was the birth of Fastloaners International Loaning and Trading Company. We were ready to join the big league and make some mega bucks, such mammoth teenage dreams and Jigga was our getaway source, my new leader!
Jigga was OC's elder brother and he was the kingpin at the prestigious HiTech Café or in street terms, THE FARM. He had 'picked' two 'controls' very early in September and was sure to have a bumper Christmas. So OC and I didn't want to be left out as we had seen enough already. We wanted in and so, we floated our Company, found a niche and tried to fine tune our business in a slightly different direction.
It was in 2003 (I was 14/15 at the time) when I was prepared for my triumphal entry into the Cartel. I have always been described as smart but not in book terms as my head was komkom. My "smartness" was always in reference to 'street' things. I always had this new vista to things, always had the advantageous position and at 14 I was incorporating a firm to liberate the international community by offering 'trade' and 'loan' deals. At this age, I had learnt what the business world was like (literally) as I knew the importance of strategic partnerships and that was where OC was to come in. He was to be my Director of Operations and his Job Description was simple: 'bomb' random clients and get me loan seekers.
Another deal was struck with Lemmycomputer the local tech geek. He was to be my Document Controller and in charge of all my forgeries and paper stuffs. Yours truly became Davenport Clarence, B.Econs, MBA, CEO, Head of Finance, Accountant, Insurance Company Director, Typist, Phone Operator, Bank Manager, and every other person that the new firm was in need of. That meant I had several voices, several phone numbers, several emails, several addresses and several tasks and targets. To think this was done and done very well in 2003 at 14 when there was no voice make over app or the many 'tools' cartel boys have this days makes me wonder why I am still broke till date.
We met Jigga and his role was 'Mentor' and 'Guide'. He was to provide us all the soft tools we needed. His line of business was lotto and our new line did not fit into his overall business model. He was however impressed with our new innovation and was willing to help us. Our immediate needs were simple, new data plans, new laptop system, links in 'Western Union' and 'Money Gram' and so on. He had us set up a meeting at the FARM so he could introduce us to other cartel owners and 'brand' us as his 'puppies'. It was pretty simple or so I would make you all believe. OC was to arrange drinks, I was to arrange suya and the meeting was to happen in the night at 8 pm. Now the problem was that my father was a teacher! And anything beyond 6 pm was midnight in our house. You either entered the house before midnight of slept wherever you were and so, I let my Director of Operations handle the take-off meeting.
In the next two weeks D.Ops had brought in several clients and I was very busy. There was Subod Chanawatra, Bonghard Liane, Chen Chin Hueng, Siyabonga Mhlongo and everyone from every continent that needed a loan. It was amazing how much 'big' men needed loans and to what terms they were willing to agree. Calls were always brisk and business like and the 14 year old receptionist would start with "hallos good fellow how may Fastloaners be of help to you?" and the good fellow Mahi would then rant and rant about how he needed a loan at 5% rate per annum with no collateral. Ode buruku. 14 year old would place the new client on hold while he tries to get the 14 year old CEO on the phone, all the while he keeps tapping his keyboard vigorously such that the client believed that it was an office. 14 year old CEO dims voice and starts "This is Davenport Clarence of Fastloaners, I have got three minutes" and Mahi goes on and on and on about his financial distress till 14 year old CEO tells him to formally open a loan request log with the company's secretary through her email address. Spot the cue Nigerians: email address was secretarymary@secratary.com and how they all fell for it was still a wonder to me. So simple, yet so powerful and it was all my invention.
OK, before I forget, all these events continued into the time I was a student with the famous Ambrose Alli University, best university in the Land at that time by a mile (depending on the area you were looking at the best from). I was enrolled to study Microbiology. The real me would come to class, sit at the back, confuse everybody with my many jokes and still convince them that in the end, I was going to employ Dr. Sakpe as the home teacher for my kids because in my language "the guy bam yagha yagha". In all these I was supposed to graduate and make a good grade – a first class Hons. I feel so tired of my life knowing how many exams I came to 'fully prepared' only to be told the exams were held the previous day! I still marvel at how those naive people managed to convince me that school was for the broke.
Back at the FARM, I was getting close to picking my first 'control' close to the end of November of my first year. That was barely two months after my firm started. Already I was being talked of as the next big 'Popsy'. Guys twice my age were already queuing up to learn the ropes from me. I needed to make twenty of such collections so I could be weaned off Jigga and that meant '100 percent' clearance. Mathematically, that meant I would have remitted 5% of all my earnings to my 'mentor' 20 different times before I left his tutelage, and getting my first 'collection' after two months was glorious. I could be free in less than a year and at 15 I could be the leader of my own cartel. Lofty!!! The first mahi remitted $200 as Insurance fee after the many 'lender/loanee' agreements and that fetched me about N24,800 at the time. The N800 was for the Westi Baba as his HP. N1200 was for Jigga, N2400 was for office boys, N4800 was for Director of Operations and the rest was for Davenport Clarence (me of course!). Such stringent office arrangement and everybody was happy, there was structure, there was foundation and there was business.
The mode of 'treatment' for clients followed a well arranged routine and we could almost predict how many 'controls' each client would remit. So, there was room for short term and mid-term plans and in all these, I was central. Each treatment meant new documents and Lemmycomputer was always on point.
By the end of December that year we had pulled six controls. By that time, I had made…well, nothing big. My account balance was nearly zero, I had two 'timbolo' one bling bling and one Sagem My X5 phone. If you were as old as I was in that era, you would agree that Sagem My X5 was a tech phone. Infrared? Yes. Bluetooth? Yes. Polyphonic ring tone? Yes. Big screen? Yes. All this was music to the ears of the girls around me then. I did get a few girls with my phone and timbolo shoe… (What was I even thinking?)!. But AAU girls are hard to get sha, you needed Sagem, timbolo, bling bling and some money to buy GT rice…yes this was HARD by Ekpoma standards!.
At home, I had to raise my cartel game. My father was a 'legit' con man. He could bobo you into thinking he would buy you a padded Benz 190 in your next semester if your grades were first class. Till today I still think my old man is a secret agent with plenty monies stashed in the Cayman Islands. I could never outsmart him no matter how hard I tried. When you say 'I'm hungry' in our house, he looks at you like 'you eat too much'. Then if you say 'mummy no worry I don beleful' he looks at you like 'this boy don de chop for outside' so I had to be super smart. No talk of cartel things in the house, no fine clothes, hold your Nokia 3310 strong every time so that Sagem for the babes and bling bling was strictly for outdoors. At 14/15, even though you were scared of the repercussions of outing yourself, you still wanted to show you had some 'assets', you wanted your siblings to taste some of the juice and give you some respect. This ambition birthed my first ploy to 'get out'.
It was close to my sister's birthday and I could not resist buying her stuff and making her feel good. After all I was Davenport Clarence, the international CEO. The plan was to gradually tell my dad I had a rich pen pal. For three weeks, I would just chip pen pal into any discussion in the house. "Ehen Daddy I have this myspace friend o he is very close to me, he tells me many things about America" My father would just nod like "see this olodo" and after this had gone on for several weeks, I was ready to declare that my pen pal friend had sent me some 'small' money. I declared it one afternoon and from the looks of it, my father was happy for me. I rushed out to buy shirts, dresses, perfumes, shoes, cakes, foods, ice creams, and everything else. All the while, my father was 'happy', too 'happy' self.
At night, the devil visited my old man; he summoned us all for family meeting. Everything that we had not eaten was brought forward with a list of what we had eaten. My mother brought everything we shared for her and thought she had eaten into the parlor as evidence. I was dying many times over with each question!
Slightly dimming his eye as he glanced through his list of summons with a sardonic smile he started; "Ehen boy what do you say pen pal is…?" My mind did a backflip. Apparently I had to mentor my father in this business or face the risk of being disowned.
Dockay...well a real dockay but hey not the way you thinking of it. I love to write and cheer people up. Absolutely love friends and family life. Turning a new leaf everyday and especially obsessed with honest livelihood. Timi Tralagba is my guider extraordinaire, he brought me here!


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Pachysuchus is een geslacht van plantenetende dinosauriërs, behorend tot de groep van de Sauropodomorpha, dat tijdens het vroege Jura leefde in het gebied van het huidige China. De enige benoemde soort is Pachysuchus imperfectus.

In 1951 benoemde de Chinese paleontoloog Yang Zhongjian ("C.C. Young") een gedeeltelijke schedel gevonden bij Huangchiatien als de typesoort Pachysuchus imperfectus. De geslachtsnaam betekent "dikke krokodil", een verwijzing naar de dikte van de schedelbeenderen. De soortaanduiding betekent "onvolmaakt" in het Latijn, een verwijzing naar de schamelheid van de vondsten.

Het holotype, IVVP V 40, is opgegraven in een laag van de Onderste Lufengformatie die dateert uit het Hettangien-Sinemurien, ongeveer 197 miljoen jaar oud. Het bestaat uit een blok gesteente met daarin botfragmenten die vermoedelijk toebehoren aan de achterkant van de praemaxilla, het bovenkaaksbeen en beide neusbeenderen.

Yang meende, zoals de naar een krokodil verwijzende naam al aangaf, dat het om een lid van de Phytosauria ging, een groep dieren die vaag op krokodillen lijkt en er binnen de Crurotarsi betrekkelijk nauw aan verwant is. Dit zou opmerkelijk zijn daar die diergroep elders aan het eind van het Trias was uitgestorven. Het toetsen van Yangs hypothese was echter moeilijk daar het holotype zoek was. Begin eenentwintigste eeuw lukte het Xu Xing echter dit typespecimen terug te vinden. In 2012 concludeerde hij in een studie samen met Paul Barrett dat Yang zich vergist had en het om een basaal lid van de Sauropodomorpha ging. In de formatie zijn ook andere basale sauropodomorfen teruggevonden, zoals Lufengosaurus, maar het holotype is te slecht van kwaliteit om te bepalen of het aan deze toegewezen kan worden of niet. Pachysuchus is daarmee een nomen dubium. Aan de soort waren nog drie andere specimina toegewezen: IVVP V 87a, een onderste hersenpan, en IVVP V87b en IVVP V 56a, twee losse tanden. Enig verband met het holotype kan echter niet worden aangetoond.

Gezien de lengte van het bewaard stuk schedel dat ongeveer vijftien centimeter bedraagt, wat duidt op een schedellengte van een halve meter, was het holotype van Pachysuchus zo'n negen meter lang, wat overeenkomt met de bovengrens van het overige uit de formatie bekende basale sauropodomorfe materiaal.

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Missoula County Awarded $700,000 Grant to Address Over-Incarceration
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The Missoula County Community Justice Department recently received a second two-year $700,000 grant through the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge to support strategies to safely reduce the county detention facility population and address racial and ethnic disparities in Missoula's justice system.
The funds will help expand current initiatives launched in 2018, when Missoula County was first awarded a Safety and Justice Challenge grant. It will help the county work toward its goals of reducing rates of defendants failing to appear at required court procedures, minimizing probation and pretrial violations, shortening pretrial length of stay in jail for defendants who have not been convicted of a crime, and evaluating and reducing racial and ethnic disparities within the legal justice system.
"This grant allows Missoula County the ability to make headway in many areas including criminal justice reform, equity, public safety and the efficient use of public funds," Commissioner Josh Slotnick said. "Local governments compete for these McArthur Foundation funds, and our staff's success with the first award laid the groundwork to receive this second round of funding to help continue the good work they've implemented."
The Community Justice Department determined six grant-funded employees are needed to meet the intended goals of the program. A Safety and Justice Challenge coordinator will lead the program objectives and facilitate an implementation team with community stakeholders and agencies. Two staff members will provide pretrial defendants with support, information, referrals and resources, and a dually licensed social worker will conduct chemical dependency evaluations for probation and parole and help increase access to needed services for those with a substance use disorder.
The Missoula County Detention Facility also will gain a re-entry coordinator to provide support to individuals leaving the facility for successful, independent re-entry into the community, and the state Office of Public Defender will welcome a Native American peer support specialist to create meaningful connection and support for Indigenous defendants.
In addition to hiring staff, the county plans to expand on the current jail population dashboard by gathering additional data to help identify and analyze racial and ethnic disparities in the legal justice system from the initial point of contact to adjudication. This dashboard and the current public safety assessment tool will help measure the success of the program and capture justice system inequalities that need to be addressed.
Stakeholder and community input gathered through surveys, focus groups and meetings will help align the continued funding with community priorities. The grant runs from April 1, 2021, through June 30, 2023.
The Safety and Justice Challenge is a national initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. The MacArthur Foundation grant funding for the project brings together many of the nation's leading criminal justice organizations to provide technical assistance and counsel to participating cities and counties.
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Public, media invited to attend virtual meeting of Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
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The next meeting of the Missoula County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council will take place from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 26, via Microsoft Teams. Members of the public and media are invited to attend the meeting, which will feature discussion on efforts to reform the criminal justice system locally.
Agenda items include discussing proposals for future criminal justice reforms in Missoula County, such as increased funding for crisis intervention, implicit bias, LGBTQ+ and trauma-informed trainings, as well as a jail diversion initiative specific to Native American populations, who are disproportionately represented in the Missoula County Detention Facility. Currently, 17 % of MCDF inmates identify as Native American, compared with 4 % of county residents who identify as Native American.
District Court Judge Leslie Halligan, who serves as the current chair of the CJCC, will lead the meeting. There will be opportunity for public comment and questions from the news media at the end.
The media and public can join the meeting via Teams using the information below:
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Conference ID: 596 772 250#
MCAT also plans to stream the meeting live on its website and Facebook page.
The CJCC is a multi-agency collaboration that uses a data-driven approach to reforming the local criminal justice system, which includes reducing the jail population, addressing ethnic and racial disparities, and more effectively responding to mental health issues. It was established and is primarily funded through a grant from the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge, a nationwide effort to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. Three county staff members in the CJCC Department directly support the council's work.
"In light of renewed calls for criminal justice reform from the national to local levels, we want to make sure the public knows what the CJCC in Missoula County is doing and how they can get involved," said Kristen Jordan, CJCC manager. "Our team is doing great work, though we know there's still much to do to ensure an equitable justice system for all in Missoula County."
Current CJCC initiatives include:
Applying for a $125,000 grant through the state Department of Health and Human Services to fund a mobile crisis team that would respond to a call for someone in mental health crisis instead of law enforcement or other first responders. This team would include two mental health professionals to assess and assist the person in crisis and a peer-support specialist and/or case manager to ensure the person receives follow-up treatment and mental health services. Using a mobile crisis team would reduce jail bookings and emergency room visits, decrease arrests and prosecutions, and allow for more appropriate use of law enforcement and first responder time. If awarded, the county and City of Missoula will provide matching funding, which, coupled with grant funds received earlier this year, would total $380,000 to get a mobile crisis team up and running. Research shows that every dollar spent on mobile crisis saves $5 to $7 elsewhere in the criminal justice system.
An effort to analyze the result of releasing pre-trial inmates accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes from Missoula County Detention Facility amid COVID-19 concerns. MCDF reduced their population by approximately 50% by releasing inmates who met these criteria in March and have not rebooked the majority of them as they await trial. CJCC staff are collecting data to determine the rate at which they were re-arrested and/or missed court dates. While releasing inmates accused of low-level, nonviolent crimes was already taking place at a slower, more methodical pace before the pandemic, the data gathered from releasing a large number of inmates at once will prove invaluable to the CJCC as it develops and implements more programs to address the root causes of crime, including poverty, addiction and mental health issues.
Implementation of Calibrate, a prosecution-led pre-trial diversion program housed in the County Attorney's Office. This voluntary program offers some criminal defendants an opportunity to have their criminal charges dismissed if they successfully complete a treatment plan specific to their needs. Treatment plans may include financial counseling, inpatient treatment for addictions and restitution.
Increased use of the Public Safety Assessment, a risk assessment tool that uses nine factors to predict whether an individual will commit a new crime or fail to return to a scheduled court hearing if released before trial.
Development of the Jail Data Dashboard, which is available online. It depicts several key data points that are essential in understanding the jail population and helps to identify, analyze, solve and manage systems issues in the criminal justice process, such as reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the justice system.
To learn more about the CJCC, view the Jail Data Dashboard, and review meeting minutes and agendas, head to missoula.co/cjcc.
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Missoula County elected officials: We must work together to ensure justice for all
June 9, 2020 June 9, 2020 missoulacountyLeave a comment
Protesters gather at the Missoula County Courthouse in May.
On May 25, 2020, our nation witnessed the horror of George Floyd dying with a police officer's knee pressed into his neck. Mothers everywhere, from Minneapolis to Maine to Missoula, winced hearing a dying man call to his own.
This act is but a snapshot of hundreds of years of oppression. Much of the United States was built on stolen land with stolen labor, and these centuries old crimes still echo today, across generations. As your Missoula County elected officials, we share a vision of a just future, yet do not pretend to know the exact path forward. Though some of us have faced discrimination, we have all benefited from structural racism. Much of our knowledge of racial injustice comes from shared stories rather than personal experiences. Nonetheless, we are committed to amplifying and including the voices of those who do understand.
We embrace the right to peacefully protest, encourage our citizens to exercise their right to peacefully assemble and speak their minds, without violence. Across the country people from every walk of life are saying — loud and clear — ENOUGH. We hear you and agree with you.
We are willing to listen and to take further action. Some of the steps we've made to examine and address inequality in our local criminal justice system include rolling out our comprehensive jail diversion plan, launching our prosecution-led diversion program and reforming our pre-trial system. We've invited the National Native Children's Trauma Center to inform criminal justice employees of the devastating impacts of historical trauma of Native people and teach us the practice of cultural humility. As a county government, we're proud of our relationship with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. We are committed to understanding why American Indians are disproportionately represented in detention and what additional steps we can take to address historical injustices.
We have people working exclusively on equity issues in our public health department and at the Partnership Health Center clinic. And we understand all our work must be considered through an equity lens. Even so, inequality persists and we must address it now.
There is a lot of work to be done and, as your elected officials, we shoulder the burden of change. This work must be perpetual, so we are making a sustained commitment. We expect that you will hold us to account and appreciate your involvement. Please join us in this effort.
Over the course of the past two weeks, in the midst of violence and devastation, we also saw unlikely alliances and witnessed acts of unprecedented solidarity and kindness: the organizer of a conservative rally invited a Black Lives Matter activist to the stage; law enforcement professionals denounced the actions of racist officers; a sheriff and his deputies responding to a call for security, instead joined the march with protesters; a stalwart row of blue uniforms in Texas took a knee in honor of those who've been slain and those who marched.
Robert Kennedy said each time a person "stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
Let's keep working together — starting with ripple — so that the tragic events of last month mark the end of the long night of injustice for people of color in our community and signal a new day, one that honors the legacy of George Floyd, and all who came before him, by implementing — not just promising — justice for all.
Alex Beal, Missoula County Justice of the Peace
Dave Strohmaier, Missoula County Commissioner
David Wall, Missoula County Auditor
Erin Lipkind, Missoula County Superintendent of Schools
Josh Slotnick, Missoula County Commissioner
Juanita Vero, Missoula County Commissioner
Kirsten Pabst, Missoula County Attorney
Landee Holloway, Missoula County Justice of the Peace
Shirley Faust, Missoula County Clerk of Court
TJ McDermott, Missoula County Sheriff
Tyler Gernant, Missoula County Clerk and Treasurer
*A version of this post was also submitted to several area news organizations
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Commissioner Rowley heads to D.C. to take on criminal justice reform
March 1, 2019 March 1, 2019 missoulacountyLeave a comment
Current Missoula County Commission Chair Nicole "Cola" Rowley is headed to Washington, D.C., to continue her important work on law and justice issues, this time on a national stage.
Commissioner Rowley
Earlier this year, the National Association of Counties named Cola to its Justice and Public Safety Policy Steering Committee, and she boarded a plane Friday morning to make her way to NACo's annual Legislative Conference in the nation's capital. At the conference, she'll join county representatives from across the country to help inform NACo policy and advocacy in the realm of law enforcement, courts, corrections, homeland security, community crime prevention, juvenile justice and delinquency prevention, emergency management, fire prevention and control, and civil disturbances. She'll also participate in a panel discussion on "Connecting Federal and County Systems of Care," which will highlight county efforts to improve child, adult and family outcomes through local health and human services integration models and the collaboration needed among local, state and federal entities to make that happen.
"Missoula County has been a leader in the state when it comes to criminal justice reform, and it's rewarding to know the hard work of so many people will now spur discussion and strategy at a higher level," Cola says. "I'm excited for this opportunity to continue to expand my knowledge on innovative, evidence-based best practices and be involved in justice systems policy nationally."
Door to a housing unit at the Missoula County Detention Facility
The list of qualifications that earned Cola this role is impressive. She's engaged in criminal justice analysis and improvement since she took office in 2015, collaborating with county departments, partner jurisdictions, nonprofits and other agencies to address inequalities in local systems. Her efforts include:
Partnering with Sheriff T.J. McDermott to apply for and receive a grant from the Policy Innovation Lab at the Sorensen Impact Center to study the feasibility of implementing a Pay for Success financing model to address overcrowding at the Missoula County Detention Facility.
Engaging Missoula County in the Stepping Up Initiative, a national movement to reduce incarceration of mentally ill individuals. This included successfully applying to bring a team, which included staff from the Sheriff's Office, County Attorney's Office and the Western Montana Mental Health Center, to Washington, D.C., for planning and technical assistance to address the issue. Rowley was later invited to speak at the 2016 National Stepping Up Summit.
Coordinating implementation of many recommendations in the city-county Jail Diversion Master Plan, adopted in 2016. Jail diversion efforts helped the county land two MacArthur Foundation grants in recent years: $50,000 in 2017 for the Native Outreach Project to address over-incarceration of Native Americans, and $700,000 in 2018 for the Safety and Justice Challenge, an over-arching, data-driven justice improvement effort.
Facilitating formation of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, a collaborative, cross-jurisdictional governance structure that oversees more than two dozen justice system projects, services and initiatives in Missoula.
Helping launch the Kindness, Elegance and Love Project (KELP), a novel collaborative effort at Partnership Health Center that aims to more effectively funnel parents involved in dependent-neglect cases to appropriate services and support. The project was one of four in the country selected for NACo's Cross-Systems Partnerships Leadership Lab, which helps counties improve the social, health and economic outcomes of populations involved in the justice system.
You can learn more about the county's initiatives in criminal justice reform on the Missoula County website. More details on the Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee are also online.
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When faced with adversity, we might ask Heavenly Father, "Why me?" But do we think to ask in times of bounteous blessings, "Why am I so blessed?" Jesus' comments in John 9:3 are not vague. His disciples ask why the man was born blind. It was common in that time to believe that suffering was a result of sin. Jesus goes against this line of thinking, instead giving us another way to look at the problem.
Jesus is saying to his disciples: Turn away from your obsession on causality as the crucial explanation of suffering. Do not believe that our stations in life are just random, chaotic, or meaningless. Rather, look for the purposes and plans of God in every situation in your life. There is no child and no suffering outside of God's purposes and plans. Do you view your situation as being "driven forth" by some predestined plan of God? Perhaps we do experience some of our trials that we may be "carried forth" (Ether 1:38), in other words, do you see yourself as one that is carried by the Lord through your trials, or one who is driven by the Lord into the storms of life?
The greatest peace I have found came when I stopped wondering whether God was the cause of the trials in my life and instead realized that the answer to that question didn't matter. Knowing the "why me" to our situations doesn't change the answer to the deeper question of what to do with our suffering. In either scenario the answer is the same. It is important to realize that in Jesus Christ all things are made whole.
For Jesus, this mans blindness from birth is sufficiently explained by saying that the Lord intends to display some of his power through this mans blindness, that because of this circumstance, others might come to know the only true God. In the case of the man born blind, it happens to be healing—the glory of God's power to heal. But there is nothing that says it has to be healing. When Paul cried out three times for his thorn in the flesh to be healed, the Lord told him, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:9). In other words, I will put my power on display, not by healing you, but by supporting and sustaining you. My power will be on display through you, and my works shall be your works.
In other words, healing displays the works of God in John 9, and the enabling power, or grace of Jesus Christ displays the works of God in 2 Corinthians 12. What these two events have in common is the supreme importance of the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ. The blindness is for the glory of God. The thorn in the flesh is for the glory of God. The healing is for his glory, and the non-healing sustaining power is for his glory.
We see this illustrated in Mosiah 24 as Alma and his people are being persecuted by Amulon. As recorded in verse 14, the voice of the Lord came to these good people in their affliction and indicated: "And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders, that even you cannot feel them upon your backs." Notice that the Lord did not deliver the people of Alma from their affliction, but he did strengthen them to be able to bear them. Their situation didn't change, but they did. Their capacity to carry the weight was increased because of the enabling power of Jesus Christ.
"Game soon became so scarce that we could kill nothing. We ate all the poor meat; one would get hungry eating it. Finally that was all gone, nothing now but hides were left. We made a trial of them. A lot was cooked and eaten without any seasoning and it made the whole company sick. Many were so turned against the stuff that it made them sick to think of it. . . .
All that I have read thus far is a preparation for the next line from Daniel W. Jones' journal. It illustrates how those pioneer Saints may have known something about the enabling power of the Atonement that we, in our prosperity and ease, are not as quick to understand: "We asked the Lord to bless our stomachs and adapt them to this food". My dear brothers and sisters, I know what I would have prayed for in those circumstances. I would have prayed for something else to eat. "Heavenly Father, please send me a quail or a buffalo." It never would have occurred to me to pray that my stomach would be strengthened and adapted to what we already had. What did Daniel W. Jones know? He knew about the enabling power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He did not pray that his circumstances would be changed. He prayed that he would be strengthened to deal with his circumstances.
1. Think of a circumstance in your life that has been difficult, or a particular trial you have been through. Write it down.
2. What was the result of this? In other words, what changed in you (or didn't change) as a result? Write this down.
I invited students to share. So many students shared their situations with their peers, it was truly a marvelous experience in the classroom- many hearts were touched.
Whenever these moments of our extremity come, we must not succumb to the fear that God has abandoned us. … We must continue to believe, continue to have faith, continue to pray and plead with heaven even if we feel for a time our prayers are not heard and that God has somehow gone away. He is there. Our prayers are heard, and when we weep, He and the angels of heaven weep with us… When suffering, we may in fact be nearer to God than we have ever been in our entire lives.
1. Bruce R. McConkie, The Mortal Messiah, 3:199.
2. Boyd K. Packer, John 9, Ensign, May 1991, p. 9.
3. Boyd K. Packer, "The Choice," Ensign, Nov. 1980, 21.
4. Jeffrey R. Holland, An High Priest of Good Things to Come, Ensign, November 1999.
5. Paul Johnson, Ensign, April 2011.
6. Alfred Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, p.180 emphasis added.
7. Spencer W. Kimball, Tragedy or Destiny, as quoted in Faith Precedes the Miracle, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972., pp.95-106.
8. David A. Bednar, In the Strength of the Lord, BYU devotional, October 23, 2001. See also: Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians [Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890], 81.
9. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, Sept 7, 2008, CES Fireside.
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Scott Morrison Called 'Hypocrite and Liar' in Leaked Texts By Political Allies
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The prime minister was called a "complete psycho" and other unflattering things by allies and adversaries alike as intra-party divisions continue to roil Australian politics.
By Joshua Mcdonald for The Diplomat
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been labelled a "hypocrite and liar" a "horrible person" and a "complete psycho" in separate leaked text messages from some of his closest political allies.
Morrison was first blindsided in front of dozens of journalists on Tuesday when he was confronted at the National Press Club by a reporter who claimed to have received leaked text messages between a current senior cabinet minister and the former premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian.
Berejiklian, a senior ally of Morrison's before she stood down following corruption allegations late last year, described Morrison as "horrible" and "untrustworthy."
"She described you as a horrible, horrible person, going on to say she did not trust you, and you are more concerned with politics than people," the reporter said. "The minister is even more scathing, describing you as a fraud and a complete psycho. Does this exchange surprise you? And what does it tell us?"
Morrison responded: "I don't know who you're referring to, or the basis of what you've put to me. But I obviously don't agree with it. And I don't think that is my record."
Later that day, the reporter claimed that in another text sent during the 2019-20 bushfires, Berejiklian said: "Lives are at stake today and he is just obsessed with petty political point-scoring."
After Berejiklian resigned in response to the state corruption watchdog announcing it was launching an investigation into her, Morrison urged her to run for federal positions, describing her as "a dear friend over a long period of time."
More text messages were leaked Friday, this time describing Morrison as a "hypocrite and a liar." That message came from Barnaby Joyce, the deputy prime minister and leader of the National party, the minor partner in Morrison's coalition government.
Joyce sent the messages to a third party, asking them to forward them to Brittany Higgins, a former political staffer who went public last year alleging she was raped by her colleague in the parliament office of the then-defense industry minister.
"Tell [Brittany Higgins] I and Scott, he is Scott to me until I have to recognise his office, don't get along," Joyce said. "He is a hypocrite and a liar from my observations and that is over a long time. I have never trusted him, and I dislike how he earnestly rearranges the truth to a lie."
Joyce said he offered to resign as deputy prime minister after he learned the text message would be made public, but Morrison refused to accept his resignation.
Morrison has sought to downplay the leaked messages, especially ahead of an election in which his character, particularly whether he is trustworthy, will be scrutinized.
"Politics is a brutal business. If you can't accept and understand each other's frailties and be forgiving in those circumstances, then frankly, that says a lot more about you than it does about others," he said.
On Sunday evening, former Labor premier of New South Wales Bob Carr alleged that Defense Minister Peter Dutton was the unnamed minister who exchanged messages with Gladys Berjiklian, labeling the prime minister as "a complete psycho."
"If PM Morrison has one more week in free fall the prospect of a leadership change pre-election is real. Party rules don't count if most MPs think you will lead them to defeat," said Carr.
Carr later told Sky News that "there is only one person that stands to benefit in damaging an already damaged PM," arguing that Dutton would win a leadership spill in "an increasingly right-wing party room."
Dutton is one of the most senior politicians in Canberra and has sought leadership before. In 2018, Dutton, then home affairs minister, challenged then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for Liberal Party leadership, losing by just a handful of votes.
But while there's speculation on whether there may be a challenge to Morrison, some senior ministers have rallied around the prime minister.
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews told the ABC on Sunday that Morrison remains an asset for the party and will be key to retaining government at the next election.
"It is a different set of circumstances now, but the Scott Morrison that was there a couple of years ago, back in 2019, is the same Scott Morrison that we have now," Andrews said, adding that unity is how they will win the election.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese said the saga highlights the "dysfunction" and "disunity" of the current government, adding that it was one thing for French President Emmanuel Macron to call Morrison a liar, but quite another when the accusations came from Morrison's closet political allies.
"This isn't a government. It's a shambles which isn't looking after the interests of Australians because they are obsessed by their internal hatreds and dysfunctions," he said.
"That [text message] was after Barnaby Joyce had served in the cabinet for over half a decade alongside Scott Morrison. The idea that this was just a flippant remark is simply untenable," he said.
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UAE announces Youth Parliament
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Following states around the world, the UAE is preparing to launch its first Youth Parliament for primary and secondary school students from across the Emirates.
With plans to hold elections after the beginning of the next school year, the Youth Parliament will include committees on education, culture, media and communications, environment and sustainable development, youth and sports, scientific research, law, political affairs and international relations, health and housing.
Speaking last week, Acting MoE Undersecretary Ali Mehad Al Suwaidi advocated on behalf of the host of skills and attributes young people will have the opportunity to develop:
"The school parliament will provide a platform for exchanging views, fostering values of loyalty to the homeland, promoting community culture and values, encouraging explicit expression of points of view, sharpening skills of thinking, understanding and respect of the other's stances, enriching students' Arabic language and speech skills and nurturing the culture of dialogue among students themselves on one hand and between them and officials on the other."
Young people across the globe are already participating in their thousands in the youth parliaments of their own states. When implemented with genuine conviction and a desire to enhance youth participation within states that typically favour the voices of the older generation, they provide the space for youth to make their voices heard, often for the first time and provide a fantastic opportunity for the youth to learn through action.


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Norovirus plagues Stagecoach attendees
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Students suffering from Norovirus may have gotten it from attending Stagecoach Country Music Festival.
Recreation, parks and tourism junior Chloe Krey went to Stagecoach with a group of friends for the first time this past April. She loves country music, and said "it was the best weekend."
She came back on Monday following the festival and her friends had a cough, she said. The next day, things got worse. Her stomach began to hurt and she felt faint, she said.
"I went to class, and in the middle of class, I just started feeling so sick," Krey said. "I knew I had some sort of stomach bug. I went home and all night was getting sick."
Krey saw on Facebook that many of her friends were also sick.
According to Health and Counseling Services family nurse practitioner June Stanley, the Health Center has seen 27 cases of Norovirus as of May 8. All of these people attended the Coachella/Stagecoach venue in Indio, Calif. except for two, who got the virus through being in contact with those who went, she said.
The Health Center was able to collect a stool sample for culture, which tested negative for bacterial infection, she said. They sent the sample to the county to test for viral infection. The county told the Health Center it was the Norovirus on Friday afternoon.
Stanley speculates the virus may have started at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and was then picked up by those attending Stagecoach.
With most infections, it's usually one person — a worker or attendee — that has the virus and passes it along by touching a surface or other object people come into contact with. From there, it continues to be spread, Stanley said.
"When venues or areas are used for more than one event, they sometimes don't get cleaned to perfection," Stanley said.
An email sent by Mustang News to the festival producers for comment was not returned.
The numbers of visits to the Health Center with Norovirus have decreased recently, Stanley said. The most important thing students can do is pay attention to self-care: hand-washing, sanitizing surfaces in residence halls and homes and not touching your face. Doing this prevents the illness from "fanning out" to others, she said.
"It can become an epidemic, but it sounds like people are doing good," she said.
The incubation period for this illness is approximately 24-48 hours, and the symptoms last for approximately 48-72 hours. Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and body aches, Stanley said.
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