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Run With Life
Crisis Pregnancy Centres
The FOI Case
Fr. Tony Van Hee's case against abortion bubble zone law
Thank goodness Margaret Somerville stands up for the unborn.
But there was tough competition today with Judith Timson in the Globe and Mail, Chris Selley in the National Post, and Valerie Percival in the Ottawa Citizen. All complaining loudly over Mr. Harper's Maternal Health care initiative and the fact that it will not cover abortion.
But what was really odd, was that Timson thinks she speaks for me. I wonder why she would think that?
"In exactly whose name has the Harper government decided to withhold funds for access to safe abortion in their international maternal and child health initiative? Not in my name. And not in the names of countless Canadians who have relied for years on safe access to the procedure at government expense...Is that really what we want – to deal with abortion again ? Although there has been a slight drop in the number of Canadians supporting full access to abortion, polls show a majority still support it."
She even admits that fewer Canadians support abortion. Curiouser and curiouser.
But what is more troubling than the pro-abortion types' misguided notion that they somehow speak for other Canadians, is their ever increasing shrillness about "women's rights" and their corresponding complete dismissal of fetal rights.
They don't just dismiss the unborn child and its rights, they pretend that the children who are the victims of abortions don't exist at all. Like some kind of fairy tale dream world where women have "procedures" but let's not talk about what the "procedure" is doing, or how it is done. And please, please, whatever you do, don't show us any pictures of the "procedure".
Nope. Women's Rights. All for one and one for all.
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Labels: abortion, Chris Selley, Judith Timson, Margaret Somerville, pro-life, Valerie Percival
Kelly McParland said in the National Post today that a reader suggested that he must be a religious fanatic, because he didn't support abortion.
His reader said that the vast majority of people who oppose abortion are "fundamentalist religious wackos". McParland said that religion had nothing to do with it. I agree.
But this kind of "reasoning" has never failed to puzzle me. How does the belief, that the killing of a defenceless human is wrong, make a person into a "fundamentalist religious wacko"?
In any event, let's go with the reader's assumption. Let's assume for argument sake that those opposed to abortion are in fact FRWs.
For many FRWs, this is what is called a moral question or an ethical question. Morally, FRWs object to this kind of behaviour. When an act is morally objectionable, FRWs believe it is wrong.
Maybe I should use mathematical constructs to describe this logic for McParland's reader.
if a = b and b = c then a = c
If "killing defenceless human being" = "immoral"
If "immoral" = "don't do it"
Then "killing defenceless human being" = "don't do it"
See how it works? It's easy.
And the best part of morality is that, it isn't just for FRWs. Anyone can use it.
Labels: abortion
Mr. Harper must support the abortion debate
Mr. Harper is between a rock and a hard place.
On the one hand, he has stated many times that he does not support re-opening the abortion debate.
On the other, there are many disturbing signs regarding pro-life advocacy, and freedom of speech issues surrounding abortion.
First, University students are being threatened with expulsion from the University of Calgary for displaying pictures that show what abortion is.
This is not an isolated incident. Similar attacks on freedom of speech are occurring across the nation, including McGill, the University of Ottawa, University of Victoria, York University and others.
In fact, these occurrences are so disturbing, that even the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, a self proclaimed pro-choice organization, is defending the University of Victoria and their right to pro-life advocacy.
BCCLA President Robert Holmes stated in a press release in February 2010:
"Public money should not be used to suppress free speech. A university and student society that target and suppress one set of views on a matter of public debate while smugly asking for more public funds and for the continuation of a law forcing all students to fund the student society commit an affront to democracy."
Second, pro-life caucus chair, MP Rod Bruinooge, introduced a private member's bill last week, called Bill C-510 or "Roxanne's Law,". This bill seeks to protect women from coercive abortions. The Prime Minister's office has stated that the government will not support the bill.
Third, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada have come out strongly opposing Bill C-510 to the point of actually suggesting the criminalization of pro-life activities. Coordinator Joyce Arthur stated:
"The entire anti-choice movement has been trying to force women into pregnancy and motherhood for decades, by working to outlaw or restrict abortion. Perhaps we need to protect women from this coercion by criminalizing anti-choice activism!"
Fourth, I learned through Access to Freedom Information this year, that Arthur's other extreme pro-abortion group, the Pro-Choice Action Network, received a $27,400 grant to write an extremely vitriolic report, discrediting and condemning Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC.
The report attacks these CPCs by using innuendo, anonymous sources and pro-abortion biased research. I also learned that Crisis Pregnancy Centres have never received government funding.
Why would our government fund extreme pro-choice propaganda but not fund groups that help women keep their child or put it up for adoption?
Finally, and this is old news but a crucial fact nonetheless: since the 1988 Morgentaler decision we have had no protection whatsoever for the unborn; a woman in Canada can have an abortion legally up until the moment of birth, for any reason, or for no reason at all.
What these events tell us, is that without debate, we are in fact promoting abortion.
Yet polls consistently show that a majority of Canadians want at least some protection for the unborn. As recently as March 2010, a survey done for the Manning Centre for Building Democracy by Harris Decima showed that 60% of those surveyed strongly agreed that abortion is morally wrong.
Even the judges in the Morgentaler decision agreed that protection of the fetus was a valid objective and said it was up to Parliament to do this. Parliament never has.
It shouldn't matter where one stands in the debate, whether pro-choice or pro-life. In a democratic country, surely we can all agree that debate and freedom of speech are the cornerstones of our shared values. No subject should ever be taboo.
Canada has no abortion laws to protect the unborn; abortion advocates want to criminalize pro-life activities; the Universities want to shut down all pro-life debate and free speech on campuses; tax dollars pay for pro-abortion evangelism.
Mr. Harper is in a unique position as our duly elected Prime Minister and holds enormous power and authority in this country. He may not fully realize the influence he has had on the abortion debate but these signs are very troubling.
I am not calling for Mr. Harper to support or oppose abortion. I am asking him to tell the country that he supports debate on all topics including abortion.
Labels: abortion, abortion debate, Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC, Joyce Arthur, Pro-Choice Action Network, Stephen Harper
Fr. Benedict Groeschel speaks about "Catholics for Choice"
I wrote in a previous entry that "Catholics for Choice" can't be Catholics.
In lecture 4 Helping The Church: Exerting Influence Fr. Groeschel states at about 17:00 minutes:
"sometimes the people who claim to represent a division in the Catholic Church have absolutely no-one behind them at all. For instance 'Catholics for Choice' is a paper organization supported by powerful foundations in favour of abortions who are known to be anti-Catholic. CFC has no membership at all....the objectionable people there are very well known foundations that you buy commercial products from, who are supporting the enemies of the Church"
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Labels: abortion, Catholics for Choice, Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Fr. Benedict Groeschel speaks about the troubles in the Church
Fr. Benedict Groeschel (A Catholic Capuchin priest and psychologist) speaks about the current troubles in the Catholic Church. About media bias against Catholics. About Catholic Faith and Theology. There are four segments in this series. There are also numerous other audio files.
As Fr. Groeschel says, the Church will survive. The Church has already experienced the worst that could happen, back on the first Holy Thursday when the men Jesus had chosen Himself, deserted Him and one betrayed Him.
It can't get worse than that.
Labels: Catholics, Fr. Benedict Groeschel
Why Pro-lifers are Pro-choice
Why do some people insist on calling people of the pro-life persuasion--anti-choice? This is just plain silly.
In this press release from the Abortion Rights Coalition, Joyce Arthur and friends call us anti-choice. Eleven times.
But we are very pro-choice, don't you know?
The problem is, abortion advocates have this funny habit of not being able to make a complete sentence when they ask a question, as in: "Don't you support a woman's right to choose?"
To which I must logically answer, well, what is she choosing?
This question can't logically be answered because it isn't a sentence. It only has a subject and a verb but no object. I do support a woman's right to choose many things—like dying her hair purple, like choosing to be a belly dancer, like taking a trip to Tanzania. I think I might even support a woman's right to choose whether or not to inject the deadly botulism organism into her face. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, I support all her choices.
I am pro-choice.
But it seems when people talk about a woman's right to choose, they're not talking about these things. What they're talking about—and they assume that by not finishing the sentence we won't notice—what they're talking about is a "woman's right to choose to kill her unborn child".
So no, I don't support that choice. Why? Because that's the willful destruction of a defenceless human being.
Then the two-thirds-of-a-sentence advocates will say, but it's not a human being. Well then, what is it? It's not a dog or a pig or a goat. What a woman's fetus is, is a member of the species homo sapien (as are you and I) before exiting its mother's womb. Her fetus is human and it is a being. Some people have a problem with this concept. Why, I don't know. It's not that difficult.
Then they'll say, well the mother is more important than her unborn baby. Another disingenuous statement.
Am I more important than you? No. Are you more important than an old man who wanders around with dementia who can't take care of himself, can't feed himself, and pees in his pants? No.
So then they'll say, it's part of her body and she can do what she wants with her own body. Wait a minute. There's one more ground rule we must establish before we continue this conversation.
We aren't allowed to lie.
You can't say the unborn child is part of her body because it isn't. It is a separate being.
When you ask yourself these questions, and when you're honest with yourself when you answer them, the answers are really quite simple. Your heart will give you the answer. All you need to do is, listen to your conscience and vocalize what it tells you.
So let's finish the sentence, and then we can answer the question.
We aren't anti-choice. We are pro-choice.
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Labels: abortion, Abortion Rights Coalition, Crisis Pregnancy Centres, Joyce Arthur, pro-life
Does Mr. Harper have a hidden agenda?
Mr. Harper's spokesman Dimitri Soudas said:
"the government's policy is that we will not initiate or support legislation that reopens the debate on abortion."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041602.html
And this has been Mr. Harper's mantra ever since he took power.
But why can't we debate abortion? Isn't this a democratic country where free speech and debate are the cornerstone of our shared values?
From the evidence, lots of people want to debate abortion and they are debating it. That most certainly is a fact that can't be denied.
I just read Charles Lewis's piece "MP's bill takes aim at 'coerced abortions" on the National Post's "Holy Post" blog, and as of writing there were 145 comments (oops, up to 147 now) to this one single article on abortion.
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/holy-post/archive/2010/04/18/423947.aspx
And every time the topic comes up, there are oodles and oodles of articles and comments all over the blogosphere.
Mary Ellen Douglas, national organizer for Campaign Life Coalition is quoted in the LifeSiteNews article above, as saying she thinks Harper will do whatever he can to put a stop to Bruinooge's bill.
"They're not going to let it go to any kind of a vote," she said. "That's Harper. That's what he did with the unborn victims of violence bill." "He's said that all along," she added. "He won't allow this to come up, period. He's determined not to let anything pro-life come up, because he's pro-abortion."
So what do we know?
We know that Mr. Harper's refuses to re-open the abortion debate.
We know that many Canadians want to debate abortion.
We know that Canada has no abortion laws.
So does Mr. Harper have a hidden agenda after all? And could that ubiquitous hidden agenda be in fact, that Mr. Harper actually is pro-abortion?
Labels: abortion, pro-life, Stephen Harper
Thank you Mr. John McKay
After the maternal health initiative motion was voted down in the House, I wrote a thank you note to the Liberal MPs that either voted against the motion or were not in the House for the vote. I told them I applauded their courage, and thanked them for standing up for their beliefs. I told them that it gave me great hope for democracy and for the unborn.
The Honourable John McKay P.C., M.P. Scarborough-Guildwood, sent me a reply. Here it is.
Dear Ms. Maloney:
Thank you for your letter on the recent motion regarding maternal health and family planning. I realize that the position I took may seem controversial to some, but for me this was a moral issue, and I stand by the decision I made.
Maternal and child health is an issue that is very important to me. I have travelled extensively with various NGO's to the developing world and seen firsthand the difficult conditions that women and children face. Therefore I support the focus on improving child and maternal health and I understand the grave need for family planning programs.
In regards to the services included with family planning, I would refer to the World Health Organization definition which defines family planning as a means to "allow individuals and couples to anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of involuntary infertility." They further describe the benefits of such treatment as "A woman's ability to space and limit her pregnancies has a direct impact on her health and well-being as well as on the outcome of each pregnancy."
These types of programs will allow women who wish to spread out their pregnancies to do so safely and responsibly and without harming themselves or their children. I have no qualms with supporting such an initiative. I do however have serious issues with the idea of having our international aid go towards funding abortions. Regardless of one's beliefs, I believe that we must all work together to find common ground, and dramatically reduce levels of abortion worldwide. The issue that drives abortion is that women see no reasonable alternative. For those who are committed to a pro-life position, they must also commit to providing alternatives whereby the perceived need for abortion is reduced to an absolute minimum. If women are provided with comprehensive family planning services, as well as resources and support after the child has been born, I believe that we will see a real reduction in the number of abortions internationally. This can be seen as a positive step towards improving international maternal health.
To conclude, I remain committed to the basic human value of the sanctity of life, and for that reason I voted against the recent motion. I do however still support the intent of this motion of improving the lives of women in developing countries and providing them with safe and effective family planning options. I hope that regardless of whether one defines themselves as pro-life or pro-choice we can come together to provide effective solutions for women faced with these issues, and put aside our differences in order to make a real impact on international health.
Once again thank you for your letter on this important issue; I appreciate you sharing your views with me.
The Honourable John McKay P.C., M.P.
Scarborough-Guildwood
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Labels: abortion, maternal and child health initiative, pro-life
"pregnancy support groups" vs "crisis pregnancy centres"
In this Winnipeg Free Press article, Abortion pressure target of bill, Adam Wazny writes about Rod Bruinooge's 'Roxanne's Law,' that would make it a criminal offence for anyone to coerce a woman to terminate her pregnancy.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/abortion-pressure-target-of-bill-90919469.html
Wazny got comments from Joyce Arthur and he states:
"Arthur maintains the bill steps on the toes of a successful system that's already in place and undermines the good work pregnancy support groups do. Counsellors at clinics are on the front-lines educating people on the rights of the woman, outlining the choices they have and how the decision to see the pregnancy to term is theirs and theirs alone."
I am confused where Arthur says she supports "pregnancy support groups". Is this the same as "crisis pregnancy centres"? I doubt it, because as I have written previously, Arthur isn't very fond of crisis pregnancy centres. She calls CPCs, "fake clinics", "anti-choice Christian ministries", and warns women to "beware" CPCs because they "deceive" women.
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/Exposing-CPCs-in-BC.pdf
On Arthur's application form for SWC funding, she wrote that one of the goals of the report was to:
"Promote and/or establish, feminist-based options for women, i.e., pro-choice options counseling and post-abortion counseling services and by doing so: enable women to access appropriate health and social services, enhance the effectiveness of feminist based organizations and agencies in regards to women's reproductive health and rights..."
Yes, I'm quite sure that Arthur hasn't had a change of heart about CPCs.
So I'm left wondering. What does Arthur mean by "pregnancy support groups". Could she be referring to those counsellors, who work at those clinics, which make abortion their business--you know abortion clinics?
If so, I'm really not sure a woman looking for "pregnancy support" would be wise to get counseling at an abortion clinic. I think she might come out not pregnant anymore.
Posted by Patricia Maloney at 12:14 PM 3 comments: Links to this post
Labels: abortion, Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC, Joyce Arthur, Pro-Choice Action Network, pro-life, Roxanne's Law, Status of Women Canada
A good day to whack a duck
Kelly McParland says that to support a woman's right to choose:
"you have to believe that a fetus is not human in the moral sense." http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/04/13/kelly-mcparland-putting-abortion-advocates-in-a-box.aspx
Joyce Arthur responds to this in a letter to the National Post.
"This is incorrect. The pro-choice view is woman-focused, and we take no view on the fetus (or should not). The status and moral value of the fetus is moot because it's a matter of subjective personal opinion, and the only opinion that counts is the pregnant woman's... But most pro-choice people do not want to ban the practice because that means removing personal autonomy in favour of society's values. Being pro-choice means supporting women's choices even when we don't agree with them -- the hallmark of a truly free and democratic society."
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=2908070
(First of all, notice that Arthur says "we". She is apparently speaking for all pro-choicers. I wonder if in fact she actually does speak for all pro-choicers. They might want to speak up for themselves if they don't agree with her, because what she is saying is pretty scary but that's just my opinion.)
So let's dissect her statements.
Arthur says she takes "no view" of the fetus. She is view-less of the fetus. It is nothing to her. Similar to an eraser I guess, as in "I have no view of this eraser".
I wonder if Arthur has a moral view of say, a duck, as in "I have no moral view of this duck so I think I'll whack it"?
Then she says:
"The status and moral value of the fetus is moot because it's a matter of subjective personal opinion".
If moral value is a subjective personal opinion, that means if I say that murder is okay, because I say it's okay, then it's okay, right?
Or, if I say that it is okay for me to steal from you and therefore when I tell the judge it's all right for me to steal your car, he'll say "No problem, since morality is subjective, and you think it's okay, hey I'm good with that. You're free to go".
Next she says:
"But most pro-choice people do not want to ban the practice because that means removing personal autonomy in favour of society's values."
Now she's contradicting herself. All of a sudden society has values. How can society have values (i.e. all society shares a value) if values are personally subjective? You really can't have it both ways Joyce.
And the clincher:
"Being pro-choice means supporting women's choices even when we don't agree with them -- the hallmark of a truly free and democratic society."
So to back to the murder example, if a woman's choice is to say, kill her husband, then I must support the woman's choice to murder her husband, which then results in a "truly free and democratic society". Got it.
There you have it folks, moral relativism at its finest.
Labels: abortion, Joyce Arthur, Moral relativism, pro-life
Will it be this way, or will it be that way?
Two Canadian medical experts want new guidelines that would bar doctors from telling parents the sex of their fetus until late in a pregnancy to curb the practice of sex selection:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2790685
Of course, sex selection is a huge global problem as identified in a recent cover story in The Economist:
"In China the imbalance between the sexes was 108 boys to 100 girls for the generation born in the late 1980s; for the generation of the early 2000s, it was 124 to 100. In some Chinese provinces the ratio is an unprecedented 130 to 100. The destruction is worst in China but has spread far beyond. Other East Asian countries, including Taiwan and Singapore, former communist states in the western Balkans and the Caucasus, and even sections of America's population (Chinese- and Japanese-Americans, for example): all these have distorted sex ratios. Gendercide exists on almost every continent. It affects rich and poor; educated and illiterate; Hindu, Muslim, Confucian and Christian alike."
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15606229
Note that this story is prefaced with the fact that the Economist is pro-choice, yet they call this tragedy Gendercide.
Kelly McParland argues in the National Post that:
"if the right to choose is absolute, what's the big deal about sex selection...if a fetus isn't human, its sex becomes irrelevant. You can't have it both ways."
http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2010/04/13/kelly-mcparland-putting-abortion-advocates-in-a-box.aspx
Touche. Now that we've gone down the slippery 24/7 abortion slope, for those who think unborn babies aren't human, why should we even care if 100 million babies are destroyed through sex selection?
Then we have Joyce Arthur who claims that it is 'paternalistic' to withhold information such as gender from the pregnant woman:
"To restrict people's freedoms, withholding information in that way, I think is unethical and unnecessary and is not going to prevent anything," Ms. Arthur said. "It's a little bit paternalistic and authoritarian."
That's rich -- this from someone who screams at informing women of the true risks of abortion, and the well-developed stage of the fetus.
Arthur doesn't want the doctor to withhold the sex of the baby from the mother. But please, do refrain from telling the same mother about the excruciating pain for the baby in a second trimester abortion, or how the mother will increase her risk of breast cancer, or...etc. etc. etc.
Yup, you can't have it both ways.
Labels: abortion, gendercide, Joyce Arthur, pro-life
It's time to arrest Dawkins and Hitchens for crimes against humanity
Richard Dawkins and Christoper Hitchens would like to arrest Pope Benedict XVI for international crimes against humanity, specifically, "child sexual slavery".
In typically Dawkinsesque fashion, Dawkins began his most recent attack on Catholics with some pretty slanderous statements against Pope Benedict that were presumably warm up exercises for his and Hitchens' current campaign to attack religion.
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/5341
I have a better idea.
Let's arrest Dawkins and Hitchens. For international crimes against humanity. For the religious persecution of over 1 billion Catholics in the world.
The International Criminal Court's definition of crimes against humanity--which Dawkins et all hope to use against Pope Benedict--includes religious persecution.
http://www.un.org/icc/crimes.htm#humanity
"The definition of crimes against humanity contained in the Nürnberg Charter included the requirement that the prohibited acts be committed in connection with crimes against peace or war crimes. A decision has yet to be made as to whether the definition of crimes against humanity contained in the Statute will also include such acts when committed in peacetime. In this regard, the Yugoslavia Tribunal stated, 'it is by now a settled rule of customary international law that crimes against humanity do not require a connection to international armed conflict...Persecution against a group on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural or religious (and possibly gender) grounds".
It's time to turn the tables on these radical atheist extremists.
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Labels: Chritopher Hitchens, crimes against humanity, Pope Benedict, Richard Dawkins
These "Catholics" can't be Catholics
A group of "Catholics" have sent Stephen Harper a letter to try and get him to include abortion in our maternal health initiative:
Http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/topics/politics/documents/LetterPrimeMinisterHarper.pdf
Right off the bat, "Catholics" do not support abortion, so saying "we as Catholics...urge you to reconsider this position and remedy it at the earliest possible opportunity" is an illogical sentence, so it must be thrown out.
Then the group quotes some US undefined study saying 97% of Catholics use contraception, but no reference to who did the study or when. So we can throw that out too.
Their letter then states:
"Bishops around the world have reaffirmed the right of Catholics to follow their consciences on the birth control decision. In the wake of the Vatican's 1968 declaration on the impermissibility of contraceptive use, Canadian bishops released a statement saying that Catholics who tried 'sincerely but without success' to follow the teaching 'may be safely assured that whoever honestly chooses the course which seems right to him does so in good conscience.'"
This comes from a Winnipeg Statement issued in 1968 by Canadian Bishops. But in 2008, a pastoral letter by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops called Liberating Potential was issued, and was in conformity with Humanae Vitae:
http://www.cccb.ca/site/images/stories/pdf/humanae_vitae_en.pdf
It invited all to "to discover or rediscover" its message and then stated:
"Abortion, sterilization and contraception are in opposition to the Creator's intention at the heart of sexual intercourse, preventing, if God so desires, the creation of a unique soul for the unique body that the spouses help to form."
This pastoral letter supersedes the Winnipeg Statement, so again, we can ignore the part that says that Canadian Bishops support contraception.
But then the letter writers make the inevitable pro-choice magical leap from contraception--which was just a red herring that these "Catholics" hoped we wouldn't notice---to the heart of what this letter is really all about, abortion:
"Maternal mortality can be alleviated through wider access to comprehensive reproductive health care services. It is a basic human right and a matter of social justice to provide women and men access to family planning and abortion services and information to prevent unplanned and high-risk pregnancies. "
So we've come full circle. Since Catholics don't support abortion (as I pointed out at the outset), we--and Mr. Harper--can confidently throw out the whole letter without even breaking into a sweat.
Labels: abortion, Catholics, maternal and child health initiative
Status of Women Canada pays extreme group to discredit CPCs
In January 2009, the uber-feminist Pro-Choice Action Network, (Pro-Can) wrote a very nasty and very biased report called "Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC": http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/Exposing-CPCs-in-BC.pdf
In January 2010, I argued that we should applaud and support these CPCs, not ridicule and deride them: http://www.lifenews.com/int1440.html
Even though there are tons of reasons why Canadians should support Crisis Pregnancy Centres, I have learned an even more scandalous piece of information about Pro-Can and their sorry report.
By way of Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP) requests to Status of Women Canada (SWC), I found out that this extreme radical group received funding from SWC to the tune of $27,400 to write this abortion manifesto. I also learned that SWC has never given any funding to CPCs.
And there's more.
First, on Pro-Can's Application for funding, under "Goals and Objectives" appears this gem:
``[the goal of this project is to] ..publicly expose the anti-woman and anti-feminist agenda of CPCs...and by doing so, work to mitigate discriminatory attitudes towards women...work to promote institutional change by ensuring that health organizations such as hospitals, clinics, and doctors' offices do not inappropriately refer women to CPC's, and instead have feminist-based alternatives to which they can refer women."
CPCs are clearly not anti-women or anti-feminist. And please don't tell me that Canadians expect our doctors to refer pregnant women to abortion clinics ``instead`` of CPCs. How outrageous is that?
Second, funding was supposedly provided because there was a "public education" component to the grant. A report that demeans and attacks crisis pregnancy centres, based on biased research can hardly be considered "public education".
Third, Pro-Can never publicly acknowledged the funding they received. Yet, on their Application form, under the heading "Declaration and Undertaking" the applicant clearly makes the following declaration:
"I am authorized by the organization to sign this application. I am taking responsibility to ensure that the organization agrees to the following declaration and undertaking...The organization agrees to publicly acknowledge any financial or other assistance provided by SWC".
Fourth, in SWC's Recommendation for Approval under "If Applicable, how does this initiative link to government wide priorities and international commitments" is the following very disturbing statements:
"As stated by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. V. Morgentaler (1988), under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, women have the right to therapeutic abortions but when crisis pregnancy centres disseminate misinformation to pregnant women, they in effect circumscribe women's full Charter rights. Through this initiative, the government of Canada is fulfilling its court ascribed duty to ensure women have full reproductive choice by informing the public of the diversity of perspectives on abortion."
As everyone knows, the Morgenatler ruling only struck down the existing abortion law; it never granted a "full Charter right" to abortion. So funding to Pro-Can was recommended based on a false premise.
If CPCs save lives, and abortion destroys lives; why did our government fund these radical feminists, but not crisis pregnancy centres?
That, my friend, is the $27,400 question.
Labels: abortion, Crisis Pregnancy Centres, Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres in BC, Joyce Arthur, Morgenatler, Pro-Choice Action Network, Status of Women Canada
The truth about crisis pregnancy centres is quite different than what the pro-abortions (like Joyce Arthur) will tell you. Find out the truth about CPCs for yourself.
Unborn Victims of Crime
Here is Ken Epp's rebuttal to Joyce Arthur's inaccurate and incorrect take on Bill C-484, Unborn Victims of Crime bill. It's best to read the two documents at the above link in order to get an accurate analysis of what the bill was trying achieve.
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Principal Spine Research Fellow, Paediatric Spine Research Group 2002 - 2017 (Passed away March 6, 2018)
B.Eng, PhD
Clayton Adam's background was in Mechanical Engineering, and he was interested in the application of computational and experimental mechanics approaches to the study of structure and function in biological tissues. Biological materials are intricately hierarchically structured from the nano-scale to the whole organ level, and his work involved image-based modelling and experimental characterization of structural biological materials from the macro (whole organ) scale to the micro (extracellular matrix and cellular) scale. He extensively employed nonlinear computational mechanics-based approaches to study disorders and treatment of musculoskeletal tissues, however he also had a strong interest in experimental imaging and sensing modalities for the generation of patient-specific model geometry, and in the close integration of experiments with models. Accordingly the research group he led usually performed their own biomechanical experiments which were closely integrated with the computational modelling work being performed.
Clayton's central research theme in his last decade was studying the human spine, with a focus on paediatric spinal deformities such as scoliosis. Mechanics plays a key role in the progression of spinal deformities, as well as in the response of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs of the spine to surgically placed implants. Spine biomechanics is therefore a topic of significant interest in a field where post-operative complication rates are currently around 20%. In the early 2000s Clayton initiated the development of a patient-specific computational model of the thoracolumbar spine and ribcage which continues to be further developed by his colleagues today to investigate the biomechanical response of the scoliotic spine. He also supervised Masters and Doctoral projects on the biomechanics of 'fusionless' (motion sparing) surgical implants for scoliosis correction in the growing spine, the development of a large animal (ovine) model for spine tissue engineering using synthetic scaffolds, and sequential high resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of scoliotic anatomy and curve progression in a cohort of adolescent scoliosis patients and healthy participants at the collaborating Spine Deformity Clinic in Brisbane, Australia. The Sequential MRI study remains to be the only of its kind to document and analyse scoliosis growth and progression worldwide.
In the area of bone mechanics, Clayton performed studies of vertebral cancellous bone mechanics and microarchitecture in both elderly osteoporosis patients (to study how changes in cancellous bone microarchitecture with osteoporosis adversely affect overall vertebral fracture resistance) and adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients (to investigate whether bone tissue is under-mineralised in adolescent scoliosis patients). These studies combined the techniques of nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy, and finite element modelling to develop elasto-plastic constitutive models for modelling and simulation of trabecular bone tissue at the nanoscale in both health and disease.
Professor Clayton Adam's most recent major project prior to his passing was a multi-scale investigation of the mechanics of the intervertebral disc (IVD), funded by a prestigious Marie Curie FP7 Fellowship for experienced researchers (DiscSim 274964) and was undertaken in Paris, France at Arts et Metiers ParisTech between 2012-15. The IVD is the largest avascular structure in the human body, and in this project Clayton developed novel (serial milling and polarised light microscopy) imaging techniques to study IVD microstructure across entire discs, then used image-based computational modelling to elucidate how disc microstructure (in particular the collagen and elastin networks of the annulus fibrosus) confers spinal joint function. On completion of the EU funding for this project in 2014, project funding was extended by the Institut de Biomecanique Humaine Georges Charpak in Paris, France, and the development of the multiscale IVD models continued until his death in March 2018. The 3D polarised light imaging techniques which Clayton developed during this project have significant potential for imaging large regions of mixed soft (unmineralised) and hard (mineralised) biological tissue at a resolution of several microns, and therefore the imaging system fills a gap between micro-computed tomography (which is excellent for mineralised tissues but provides poor contrast in soft tissues) and magnetic resonance imaging (which is limited to ~100 microns voxel resolution). Furthermore, the polarised light imaging modality provides quantitative information on collagen alignment. Three dimensional maps of the tissue microarchitecture of the IVD thus obtained can be used in the development of specimen specific finite element models of the disc, and in his latest published works he used these models to evaluate the influence of the interlamellar interface on overall disc compression mechanics.
Clayton Adam led the research activities of the QUT Paediatric Spine Research Group in Brisbane, Australia between 2002 and 2017, and therefore had extensive experience in research management and in particular, liaison between researchers and clinicians to achieve clinically relevant research outputs. These skills are reflected in his extensive publication record which includes both basic biomechanics as well as applied clinical publications in the area of adolescent spine deformity and in particular, scoliosis.
Student Supervision – Ten students (Masters by Research) and ten students (PhD)
Vale Clayton James Adam, a first class colleague, friend and mentor to many, who will be forever missed by his family and all who knew him. Please consider donating to the Clayton Adam Florence Wilson Award for Spinal Research at QUT, created to honour Clayton's stellar contribution to scientific innovation in spine research, scoliosis and bone microdamage, as well as his impact on the academic community in general. Our vision is to ensure Clayton's work continues, by growing the fund to a level where it can support excellent students through higher degree scholarships and travel bursaries.
Make a single or regular tax-deductible donation towards this award fund – donate to 'Clayton Adam Florence Wilson Award'
With your support we can reduce suffering and create a better future for children, adolescents and adults with spine disorders and at the same time create a fitting tribute for an outstanding Australian, Clayton James Adam (20.5.72 – 6.3.18).

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Arming Container Ships With Anti-Ship Missiles
Thread: Arming Container Ships With Anti-Ship Missiles
August 22nd, 2011, 19:11 #21
MinutemanCO
Literary Wanderer
Re: Arming Container Ships With Anti-Ship Missiles
If I'm remembering correctly, the percentage of containers that are actually scanned or their contents reviewed on-ship is somewhere between 5 and 10%.
A Banana Republic, Central America
You remember exactly correctly.
So, while Peterle lives in Italy and it's a "small place" with "not much imports" I guess, the USA isn't.
There are literally 10s of THOUSANDS of those containers unloaded each day in several ports around the US.
I was looking at how many can go on a given ship, but they talk about something called "TEU" which is a 20' unit of measurement.
I know for a fact that somewhere around 10,000 containers are lost at sea PER YEAR and most of them float for some time before sinking to Davy Jones' locker... (scary for me driving a fiberglass or wooden boat in the dark, in the ocean...)
And I know that I've seen them unloading such ships on the east and west coast of the US and it takes HOURS to unload them.
So. I can only guestimate the number of containers per day but pretty sure its in the 10s of thousands PER DAY.
Libertatem Prius!
March 30th, 2019, 01:03 #23
vector7
Where it's quiet, peaceful and everyone owns guns
China Testing Long-Range Cruise Missile Fired From Concealed Ship Container
Could the next great Chinese advanced missile threat come disguised as an innocuous looking shipping transport vessel? A new report in The Washington Free Beacon suggests so, as it details China's new long-range cruise missile which can be launched directly from a shipping container device, which is meant to conceal detection of the threat right up until the moment of launch.
Alarmingly, it's already being flight tested, according to analysts cited in the report, which further finds the technology "could turn Beijing's large fleet of freighters into potential warships and commercial ports into future missile bases." If cruise missiles can be hidden in international shipping containers, China could be a major threat to western targets simply as it moves millions of tons of goods every year.
A Russian previously unveiled a similar weapon system in the international arms market called the Club K cruise missile system. Rick Fisher, a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told the Free Beacon, "Shipping container missile launchers can be smuggled through ports or via highway ports of entry and stored for years in a climate-controlled building within range of U.S. military based and taken out when needed for military operations."
"Potentially, Chinese missile launching containers could be stored near the Port of Seattle, waiting for the day they can launch an electromagnetic pulse warhead-armed missiles over the Bangor nuclear ballistic missile submarine base," he speculated.
The concealed nature of a launch-ready long-range missile also presents the nightmare scenario of ease of proliferation to rogue actors such as Iran or North Korea. "Containerized missiles give China, Russia, and its rogue state partners new options for directly or indirectly for attacking the United States and its allies," Fisher added.
However, it should be noted that a defense company in Russia appears to have been the first to develop and market shipping container weapons nearly a decade ago. Yet even at that time analysts began to worry of that Russian private sector defense technology development, "Unless sales are very tightly controlled, there is a danger that it could end up in the wrong hands."
The new missile being developed as part of the container-launch device program is said to be a variant of an advanced anti-ship missile called YJ-18C, according to US defense officials cited in the report.
Israel has also for years been developing a similar container launch system for a short range ballistic missile, called the "LORA". One career US military officer and former Pacific Fleet intelligence chief described how a container concealed Chinese cruise missile could be a game changer in terms of assessing threats near US waters and ports:
Retired Navy Capt. Jim Fanell, a former Pacific Fleet intelligence chief, said a containerized YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missile would add a significant threat to the Navy given the volume of Chinese container ships that enter U.S. ports on the west and east coast, well within range of the vast majority of the U.S. fleet.
"If this capability is confirmed, it will require a completely new screening regime for all PRC flagged commercial ships bound for U.S. ports," Fanell said.
Additionally the container-launched missiles could be targeted in foreign ports used by Chinese-flagged merchant vessels.
On that front, Washington military planners say there is much to be concerned about. One adviser and research professor at the US Army War College described China's military activities in Latin America and the Caribbean as "extensive".
A Russian company had previously simulated how its "container weapons" systems would operate.
Professor R. Evan Ellis said that during a conflict, "China's substantial commercial base, its access to ports, and its military-to-military contacts in the Caribbean might prove useful," as cited in the Free Beacon.
"All of these add up to growing Chinese influence in a region located close to the U.S. as well as its most important Atlantic coast military facilities," he added.
The report noted that Israel has also for years been developing a similar container launch system for a short range ballistic missile, called the "LORA".
Nikita Khrushchev: "We will bury you"
"Your grandchildren will live under communism."
"You Americans are so gullible.
No, you won't accept
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until you'll finally wake up and find you already have communism.
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namespace CakeImagine\Lib;

use BadFunctionCallException;
use Cake\Core\Exception\CakeException;

class ImagineUtility {

	/**
	 * Turns the operations and their params into a string that can be used in a file name to cache an image.
	 *
	 * Suffix your image with the string generated by this method to be able to batch delete a file that has versions of it cached.
	 * The intended usage of this is to store the files as my_horse.thumbnail+width-100-height+100.jpg for example.
	 *
	 * So after upload store your image meta data in a db, give the filename the id of the record and suffix it
	 * with this string and store the string also in the db. In the views, if no further control over the image access is needed,
	 * you can simply direct-link the image like $this->Html->image('/images/05/04/61/my_horse.thumbnail+width-100-height+100.jpg');
	 *
	 * @link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177506
	 * @param array $operations
	 * @param array $separators
	 * @param mixed $hash
	 * @throws \BadFunctionCallException
	 * @return string Filename compatible String representation of the operations
	 */
	public static function operationsToString($operations, $separators = [], $hash = false) {
		ksort($operations);

		$defaultSeparators = [
			'operations' => '.',
			'params' => '+',
			'value' => '-',
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		$separators = array_merge($defaultSeparators, $separators);

		$result = '';
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					$tmp[] = $key . $separators['value'] . $value;
				}
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			$result = $separators['operations'] . $operation . $separators['params'] . implode($separators['params'], $tmp);
		}

		if ($hash && $result !== '') {
			if (function_exists($hash)) {
				return $hash($result);
			}

			throw new BadFunctionCallException();
		}

		return $result;
	}

	/**
	 * This method expects an array of Model.configName => operationsArray
	 *
	 * @param array $imageSizes
	 * @param int $hashLength
	 * @return array Model.configName => hashValue
	 */
	public static function hashImageOperations($imageSizes, $hashLength = 8) {
		foreach ($imageSizes as $model => $operations) {
			foreach ($operations as $name => $operation) {
				$imageSizes[$model][$name] = substr(static::operationsToString($operation, [], 'md5'), 0, $hashLength);
			}
		}

		return $imageSizes;
	}

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	 *
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		}
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		}
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					break;
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			return $angle;
		}

		return $angle;
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Nino Castelnuovo
Castelnuovo in 1968
Francesco Castelnuovo
(1936-10-28) 28 October 1936 (age 84)[1]
Lecco, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy[1]
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (born 28 October 1936) is an Italian actor of film, stage and television.
Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the Spaghetti Westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).
3 Selected filmography
Castelnuovo was born the youngest of three boys (two older brothers; Pierantonio (- who died in 1976 at 46 years old), and Clemente), in Lecco, Lombardy into a humble family. After being a house painter, a mechanic and a workman, at a young age he moved to Milan where he started working as a sales agent, and at the same time he enrolled in the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.[1] He became a father for the first time to his son Lorenzo when he married Danila Trebbi (b.1955), an Italian actress.
Career[edit]
In 1957, Castelnuovo debuted as a mime in the RAI children's television show Zurli il mago del giovedì.[1][2]
He landed a small part in the crime mystery film Un maledetto imbroglio (The Facts of Murder, 1959), directed by Pietro Germi, and played supporting roles in films, including the dramas The Hunchback of Rome, directed by Carlo Lizzani; and Rocco and His Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti; both were released in 1960.[1]
When the American television show, Disneyland, traveled to Italy in 1962, he appeared alongside Annette Funicello in two episodes of the mini-movie, Escapade in Florence, singing, playing the guitar, and adding the Italian verses to the jovial tarantella "Dream Boy".[3]
Castelnuovo's international breakthrough role arrived with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), directed by Jacques Demy and an entirely sung-through film, in which he played opposite Catherine Deneuve. Nominated for the American Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the film gained the attention of both film critics and the public, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in February of that same year.[1]
After some box-office failures – Un mondo nuovo (1966), directed by Vittorio De Sica; and his American film debut in the Western The Reward, directed by Serge Bourguignon[1] – he gained fame as an actor in Italy, thanks to the role of Renzo in the RAI television mini-series I promessi sposi (1967).[1][2]
He also starred alongside an international cast of Peter Graves, James Daly, and Bud Spencer in The Five Man Army (1969), directed by Don Taylor, as a Mexican revolutionary; and as Armand in Camille 2000 (1969), directed by Radley Metzger.[4]
Since then, Castelnuovo has been featured primarily on television serials around Europe, where he has portrayed numerous parts.[1] He appeared as the athletically-sound spokesman for the corn-oil company Cuore (Italian for "Heart") from 1977 to 1982.[1]
Castelnuovo also appeared briefly as D'Agostino in the Academy Award-winning best-picture film The English Patient (1996). He has continued to be active on the Italian theatre stage as well. In 2002, he starred in a production of the 1931 comedy play The Front Page (Italian title, Prima Pagina), written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.[5]
He appeared as Kenny Butler in the 2016 The Legacy Run, the prequel movie of the first ever sport-investigative series Sport Crime with sport personalities Daniela Scalia, Luca Tramontin and other sport stars like NHL Marco Baron, Olympic hockey Flavien Conne, waterpolo Ivan Asic and boxing world champion Stefania Bianchini.
Selected filmography[edit]
The Virtuous Bigamist (1956) - Minor rôle (uncredited)
The Facts of Murder (1959) - L'Elettricista
The Angel Wore Red (1960) - Capt. Trinidad (uncredited)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960) - Nino Rossi
La garçonnière (1960) - Vincenzo
Everybody Go Home (1960) - Codegato
The Hunchback of Rome (1960) - Cencio
Laura nuda (1961) - Franco - il marito di Laura
A Day for Lionhearts (1961) - Danilo
Day by Day, Desperately (1961) - Gabriele Dominici
Escapade in Florence (1962) - Bruno
The Shortest Day (1963) - Corteggiatore (uncredited)
The Eye of the Needle (1963) - Nicola Badalà
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) - Guy Foucher
Una sporca faccenda (1964)
The Cavern (1964) - Mario Scognamiglio
The Double Bed (1965) - L'amant (segment 2 "Le monstre")
The Reward (1965) - Luis
Made in Italy (1965) - Dr. Gavino Piras (segment "2 'Il Lavoro', episode 2")
Un monde nouveau (1966) - Carlo
Andremo in città (1966) - Ivan, un partigiano
Massacre Time (1966) - Jason 'Junior' Scott
Les Créatures (1966) - Jean Modet
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1967) - Marculfo
Red Roses for the Fuhrer (1968) - Vincent
Salvare la faccia (1969) - Mario
Mercanti di vergini (1969)
Love and Anger (1969) - The Director (segment "L'amore")
The Five Man Army (1969) - Luis Dominguez
Camille 2000 (1969) - Armand Duval
Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969) - Piero
The Divorce (1970) - Piero
Bella di giorno moglie di notte (1971) - Giorgio
Colpo grosso... grossissimo... anzi probabile (1972) - Sandro
Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973) - A UNESCO agent
L'emmerdeur (1973) - Bellhop
Gott schützt die Liebenden (1973)
Un amour de pluie (1974) - Giovanni
Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975) - Carlo
Amore mio spogliati... che poi ti spiego! (1975) - Giuliano
That Malicious Age (1975) - Napoleone
La collegiale (1975) - Marco
Star Odyssey (1979) - Lt. Oliver 'Hollywood' Carrera
The English Patient (1996) - D'Agostino
Senza la parola fine (2003)
Il sottile fascino del peccato (2010) - Padre di Giada
The Legacy Run (2016) - Kenny Butler
^ a b c d e f g h i j Enrico Lancia; Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.
^ a b F. Cappa; Piero Gelli; Marco Mattarozzi. Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900. Dalai editore, 1998. ISBN 8880892959.
^ Joan Crosby (9 June 1969). "Disney's Florence Escapade' Concludes". Pittsburgh Press.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ Valentina Grazzini (1 February 2003). "Prima pagina! Nino Castelnuovo a tu per tu con la commedia americana". L'Unità. Archived from the original on 13 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
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The City of Renton offers several unique locations for the community to rent for special occasions. Our facilities and fields are great places for reunions, outdoor parties, meeting space, weddings, and sporting activities.
Keep in mind rental availability may not be available due to park and recreation programs, activities, and community events that are reserved by the city prior to opening up bookings to the general public.
Thank you for considering the City of Renton!


Last year I had to replace my kitchen faucet. I had never done this before so I did what I do a lot when faced with a problem for the first time, I do my research online which includes a lot of YouTube videos. In most of the videos they showed the people using a special tool to help remove the old faucet. This was a tool designed to do one thing and it was supposed to make it simple to get the old faucet out and get the new one in. So when I bought my new faucet, I made sure to spend the extra money on this tool. I got home and found out that this tool, the one that I was told was made for this job, did not fit my situation. It would not work for what I wanted to do, the sink and faucet were in a setup that did not allow me to use this tool well. I ended up using a variety of tools I already had to get the faucet out.
This situation is very much like what we experience in the classroom. There is no tool that is going to work for all situations and for all learners. There is no magic tool that is going to work in every classroom. There are too many variables that you have to account for in order to be successful. We have to take into account the students themselves (our students are not all the same), as well as the content, the pedagogy of the teacher, environmental factors, seasonal factors, social factors, and on and on and on.
All of these variables can play a role in determining if that tool will work or not. We often will find ourselves having to combine various tools to accomplish what we want. We can't rely on just one tool (or one worksheet, one textbook, one method) to get all of our students to reach the same learning goal. We have to find new tools to use and figure out how we can make them work in our classroom. We need to have a "toolbox" full of tools that we can use so that we do not become reliant on just one tool that may not work for that student or that situation. We also need to be aware of how we can use tools in different ways and how we can combine tools to do what we want.
There is no silver bullet to teaching. We have to be constantly learning and growing in order to be as effective as possible. If we stop growing and just use the same tool again and again, we may find that it does not fit our situation. The worst case is if we do not even recognize that the single tool (or method) we are using does not work but yet we keep going on anyways.
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Brazil meets Mexico as 2nd games get started
Brazil's Neymar, left front, and teammate Dani Alves stretch their muscles during a training session at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Monday, June 16, 2014. Brazil plays in group A of the 2014 soccer World Cup. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
By John Pye |
PUBLISHED: June 17, 2014 at 7:41 a.m. | UPDATED: July 15, 2021 at 8:29 a.m.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Neymar and his Brazilian teammates will be back in action for their second match at the World Cup, before Russia and South Korea have even kicked off their campaigns. Brazil won the tournament's opening game last week against Croatia and on Tuesday will meet Mexico, which beat Cameroon 1-0 in its first Group A game. A win for either team would go a long way toward securing a spot in the next stage. Russia vs. South Korea is the second of two Group H matches on day six, which gets underway with Belgium against Algeria. Things to watch for Tuesday: HIGH STAKES: Brazil striker Hulk is a doubtful starter after missing training for two days due to a left leg injury, meaning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari may have to change a winning formula. Scolari planned to leave the decision until game day, saying "If he can't play we lose something because this team has been playing together for a long time with this same system." Five-time World Cup champion Brazil has won 16 of its last 17 matches, including the Confederations Cup on home soil last year, and Scolari attributes that to sticking with a formula. If Hulk is ruled out, Chelsea midfielder Ramires and 21-year-old Bernard could come into contention for a starting spot. The Brazilians got the benefit of a questionable penalty call in their 3-1 comeback win over Croatia, while Mexico had two contentious decisions go against them before Giovani Dos Santos found the back of the net against Cameroon. Coincidentally, Brazil and Mexico met at Fortaleza in the Confederations Cup last year, with Neymar scoring to help the home team to a 2-0 win. Neymar, who lived up to expectations last week with two goals in the win over Croatia, has had a change of hairstyles in between. The Mexicans have won seven of the last 15 matches against Brazil. And Mexico won the 2012 Olympic gold medal, beating Brazil in the final. Mexico "has always created difficulties for Brazil and I'm sure it won't be any different this time," said Oscar, who was on the Brazil team that lost the Olympic final. The winner of Tuesday's match would be guaranteed a spot in the next round if Cameroon and Croatia draw their match on Wednesday in Manaus. Venue: Fortaleza. Kickoff: 4 p.m. local time (3 p.m. in New York, 8 p.m. in London, 4 a.m. in Tokyo). POTENTIAL HAZARD: If playmaker Eden Hazard lives up to his billing, Belgium should advance to the knockout stage from its group. Belgium coach Marc Wilmots thinks the 23-year-old Chelsea star is destined for great things, and is building a team around him. Yet he cautions: "It's not only a tournament for Eden, but for the whole team." The team is led by central defender Vincent Kompany, who has helped Manchester City to two Premier League titles in three seasons. And if rival teams get through the defense, there's 22-year-old goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, who helped Atletico Madrid reach the Champions League final. Algeria coach Vahid Halilhodzic knows his team goes in as the underdogs, but turned some heat back on the Belgians by saying "they're not all Ferraris, you know." He thinks there might be some deficiencies in the Belgian defense that the likes of central midfielder Sofiane Feghouli and striker Islam Slimani might be able to exploit. "Favorites don't always win," said Halilhodzic, who hasn't put it past his Algerian squad to produce another major World Cup upset to follow the African country's win over West Germany in 1982. Venue: Belo Horizonte. Kickoff: 1 p.m. local time (noon in New York, 5 p.m. in London, 1 a.m. in Tokyo). LOUD AND CLEAR: Russia's captain and playmaker Roman Shirokov is missing the tournament, a major setback for a squad that already is building up for the 2018 World Cup that their country is hosting. His replacement as captain was only confirmed on the eve of Russia's opener against South Korea, with Vasily Beruzutsky overcoming a foot injury and getting the nod from coach Fabio Capello on Monday. Capello said Beruzutsky was chosen over midfielder Igor Denisov as leader because "he speaks English and communication with the referee is very important." Denis Glushakov and Viktor Faizulin are contenders to replace Shirokov in midfield. Young striker Alexander Kokorin is likely to start up front. South Korea is one of Asia's best hopes at the tournament, even after a stuttering qualifying campaign. Hong Myung-bo was captain when South Korea went on its famous run to the World Cup semifinals in 2002, and now he's hoping to get the country at least through the group stage as coach. To do that, he needs the likes of Bayer Leverkusen forward Son Heung-min and Sunderland playmaker Ki Sung-yeung to prove themselves at the highest level. Venue: Cuiaba. Kickoff: 6 p.m. local time (6 p.m. in New York, 11 p.m. in London, 7 a.m. in Tokyo).
John Pye


Planning a wedding takes countless hours of organizing, coordinating and prepping to create your perfect day. From flowers to disc jockeys to wedding dresses – there's so much time and effort that goes into every detail. Yet many people don't spend enough time choosing their officiant. Considering they are the person who orchestrates the marriage, it's an important detail to really consider carefully. They validate your nuptials, create the ceremony ambiance and help to bring your vision to life.
Here's how the right wedding officiant can really make your wedding day.
Your perfect officiant will be someone whom you connect with, who understands your needs and has ample experience in performing the type of service you are planning. Whether it is a traditional wedding in a place of worship or a contemporary wedding in a park or home, the person you choose should be able to convey your vision appropriately. If you and your partner are from different religions or are an LGBTQ couple, you will want to find an officiant who is skilled and comfortable with the service.
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Soviet leader urges US, EU to 'defrost relations' with Russia
Agencies11 Dec 2014 11:37 PM GMT
The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Tuesday urged the United States and the European Union to "defrost" relations with Moscow despite tensions over Ukraine.
The 83-year-old said in an article published in state daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta that the Ukraine crisis had led the West not only to impose sanctions on Russia but also to wind up cooperation on global issues from counter-terrorism to climate change and disease epidemics.
"We must urgently defrost relations," Gorbachev said."I suggest that the leaders of Russia and the United States think about holding a summit on a broad agenda, without preliminary conditions... The same kind of summit must be prepared between Russia and the European Union."
Russia and the United States "carry special responsibility", Gorbachev said. "When they walk away from it, the world sees terrible consequences."Both sides should climb down from their ideological positions, he said. "We shouldn't be afraid that someone will 'lose face' or someone will win a propaganda victory.


Wright joined INSBANK in 2014 as a First Vice President and Relationship Manager responsible for managing a portfolio of commercial loans and deposits. He spent 24 years as a client manager, staffing executive and commercial area executive at three banks in the coastal region of South Carolina, including 14 years with Bank of America. Most recently, he was senior vice president of First South Bank in Hilton Head Island where he was responsible for developing commercial banking relationships with business professionals and managing the commercial and retail areas of the bank.
A Rutherford County native, Wright began his career in 1988 with Mid-South Bank and Trust (now SunTrust) in Murfreesboro. His positions there included retail, credit administration and commercial banking. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Middle Tennessee State University and is a graduate of the Tennessee Commercial Banking School at Vanderbilt. Wright is a member of Rotary International and the Southeast Business Forums and has served on numerous civic and charitable boards. He and his family reside in Nolensville and are members of St. George's Episcopal Church in Nashville.


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Q: Cannot write to /etc/hosts file from Dockerfile with RUN I am making a docker image using a pretty simple Dockerfile. Inside the Dockerfile I have this command:
RUN printf "192.92.13.243 www.hahaha.com \n" >> /etc/hosts

The command itself seems to be OK, since creation of the image does not halt at this point.
The issue is this: When running the image, the line that is supposed to have been inserted inside "/etc/hosts" is not there.
Now, I searched around and found out that before version 1.2 of docker, there was an issue with the hosts file inside the containers. In my case, I am using version 1.5, the latest as of this moment.
Am I missing something?
UPDATE 1:
There seem  to be a lot of issues for this, both open and closed, in docker's github pages.

A: After writing the update to my question I decided to take one more hard look at the "issues" opened in github. Turns out, a workaround has been implemented:
docker run ... --add-host='server:0.0.0.0' ...

Using the "--add-host..." argument when starting a container it is possible to modify the hosts file.

A: This works on docker 1.7.0
RUN echo "192.168.11.112 myhost" >> /etc/hosts && wget http://myhost

The trick is to add the hostname on the same line as you use it, otherwise the hosts file will get reset, since every RUN command starts a new intermediate container. For example, this will not work:
RUN echo "192.168.11.112 myhost" >> /etc/hosts
RUN wget http://myhost

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The all-green island of Leros with the impressive, traditional little villages, the settlements by the sea, the relics and the monuments from another time and era, offers a comfortable stay and peaceful holidays to visitors. In Leros you will definitely see several churches while at the same time you can visit the Folk and History Museum as well as the Museum of the Church of the Mother of God of the Castle. The Leros beaches with the blue waters and the golden sandy beaches or the ones with pebbles are the appropriate place for you to relax and enjoy the sun and the sea. Some of the most beautiful beaches of the island are Vourlidia, Alida, Ksirokambos and Mplefoutis. Near the beaches of Leros you will find several taverns that serve local dishes and fresh fish. The little traditional settlements in Leros and its hospitable locals will make you feel at home. In Leros, you will spend unforgettable holidays and will enjoy every minute so wait no more, book your ferry tickets now.
The Leros Port
There are regular departures from the port of Piraeus for the port of Leros and the journey, including stops at other islands, lasts about 10 hours. In fact, by booking your ferry tickets online via Greeceport.com, your journey will be more comfortable and carefree. Lakki, the port of the island, is 4 kilometers away from Platanos, the capital of the island. Lakki stands out for its impressive buildings that present a special color and character. Agia Marina, which is the second and smaller port of the island, has been united with Platanos, creating an amazing settlement by the sea.
Connection With Other Islands
Leros has a ferry connection with the following ports: Piraeus (Athens), Agathonisi, Kalymnos, Kos, Lipsi, Patmos, Rhodes, Samos, Symi, Syros.
You can now book ferry tickets online for Leros via Greeceport.com. If you plan to travel during July and August, it's best if you have booked several days or weeks earlier to avoid hitches. You should also know that round-trip/returnferry tickets come with a considerable discount.
Transportation in Leros
In Leros, there are buses that depart from the port for the capital and vice versa, as well as from the capital for other areas of the island. There are also taxis and motorbike rental agencies where you can rent a motorbike to travel.
History breath
In the southeastern edge of the Aegean Sea, next to Kalimnos, with pines, oaks, olive trees and carob trees, with famous mild climate, gorgeous samples of Italian architecture and wrecks of World War II expecting the explorers, Leros stands beautiful and surrounded by small islands and rocky islets.
Lakki, is one of the largest and safest natural ports of the Mediterranean Sea, which was redesigned by the Italians during the inter-war period, in order to accommodate the Italian military. It is of the fewest settlements in Europe that has been built from scratch. Perfect town planning, trees, parks, the building of the former Navy Hospital, theΜarket with the Τower – Clock and the circular Hall, the legendary hotel ' Leros ' with ' the cinema-theater, the old Italian Customs, are master models the of modern architecture.
Find time to visit the War Museum, housed in a rebuilt military tunnel, in Merikia, hiding in its bowels important artifacts from the period of World War II. Moreover, see Saint Marina, the coastal settlement which was joined with Platanos, the oldest district and capital of the island. The port is dominated by the fortress of Burtzi, the very old flour mill and the lighthouse. The Town Hall also stands out with its neoclassical buildings, the archaeological museum, the churches of Christ and the Cross, as well as the Church of Saint Paraskevi, which was the old cathedral of the island. The Castle, on the top of Pitiki Hill, is the most important medieval monument of the island. In the Western side of the fortress you will see the Church of Virgin Mary of the Castle, with a rich library. The Partheni, with the Church of St. George, and a little bit northern, the Church of Saint Kiura, with frescoes painted by political prisoners of the dictatorship. The Church of Virgin Kavuradena is built in the rocks, while the Castle of Blades or Paleokastro, is built on the ruins of the ancient Acropolis.
The seabed of Leros is particularly interesting for divers, because hosts, in a great ecological value marine ecosystem, a large number of wrecks of World War II and has an organized diving center. Already have been opened two areas where underwater activity is allowed and it is expected for some shipwrecks to be released too.
Alintia are competitions organized every year on August and include freestyle events, boating, diving, windsurfing, race, skiing, shooting and relay. First organized on August 1907 from people of Leros of Egypt. The end of racing, each year ends up in a glamorous feast with sparklers in the precincts of the Tower Mpelleni.
Happy Holidays in Leros!!!
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Q: Veeva CRM App: "Incorrect Packaging Structure" I´m in the middle of a content creation project for Salesforce/Veeva. I´ve created Key Messages according to the Veeva CLM Content Creation Guidelines zipped them and uploaded them using the salesforce.com backend into the sandbox.
The Key Messages get synced with the Veeva CRM App on my iPad, but there, the Key Message files are shown in the media overview with "Incorrect Packaging Structure".
I have used this directory structure
my_message_slide01/
  Index.html
  thumb.png
  assets/
    css/
    img/
    js/

resulting in my_message_slide01.zip. Error message "Incorrect Packaging Structure"
I also used these directory structures according to the Veeva CLM Content Creation Guidelines:
my_message_slide01/
  my_message_slide01-full.jpg
  my_message_slide01-thumb.jpg
  my_message_slide01.html
  assets/
    css/
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and
my_message_slide01/
  my_message_slide01-full.jpg
  my_message_slide01-thumb.jpg
  my_message_slide01.html
  css/
  img/
  js/

These also lead to the error message "Incorrect Packaging Structure"
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance
Tom

A: Problem solved. It seems, that there were initially not well-formed .zip-files that weren´t removed by updating from the salesforce.com backend. Re-building the local database in the Veeva CRM app solved the issue.

A: Follow the structure attached as image to upload in salseforce keymessage and key message name should be the same name CLM_Legacy_HTML.
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"How to tune a car engine"
Let's take a look at ways to tune a car engine and what exactly we mean by engine tuning.
For many a tuned car is simply one running at peak efficiency and they would achieve this by a full service and adjustment to factory specifications.
For others the aim is to get the car running and performing better than originally intended. Due to the conservative settings used by manufacturers and low cost production methods and techniques there are plenty of opportunities to improve your engine.
People are often told to tune their car but what does a tune up involve and how do you go about it? We look at the ways to tune a number of popular engine types.
Most of TorqueCars members are interested in maximizing the performance of their cars. But these methods can also be used to maximize economy by pushing the engine into it's most efficient range.
Your first step is to ensure that the engine is running as it was intended. Change the oil and filter, fit new spark plugs and perform a full service if the leads are old they will also need replacing.
These typically rely on a breaker to distribute the spark with a crude mechanical advance as the RPM rises. By timing the spark to occur a fraction earlier you can extract a more complete burn cycle and more efficiently convert the fuel and air mix into power. Too much advance is a bad thing as the engine will start to knock.
Generally speaking a trial and error approach can often be used, if you gradually turn up the advance until the engine starts knocking and then back it off a bit you will have a good setup.
Getting the right timing and spark duration will help improve power and economy as the engine is running more efficiently.
Using a strobe light connected to the spark plug pulse you can effectively freeze the engine and see the timing mark. The timing mark is located at the bottom of the cambelt on the pulley, there is typically a small groove and a little notch marked on the engine.
If you mark the groove and white notch with some white paint it will show up when the strobe light hits it. This will enable you to better adjust the engine timing.
By rotating the distributor housing you can adjust the timing by advancing it or retarding it. Adjustment should be done gradually and the engine will need to be tested under load at the full rpm range. A rolling road dynometer is the best environment for this as you can make adjustments live.
If you want to increase the fuel to match the intake air you will need to a larger jet (some wrongly refer to jets as needles!). Carb setup can be a real art and if you have twin carbs then the job gets even harder. Most carbs come with the correct jet sizes and you should only uprate them if you want to make dramatic alterations to the engine and increase the intake air charge significantly.
The key is matching the fuel to air delivery and with modern fuel injection engines this is becoming a dying art.
Fuel injected engines are much more sophisticated, both the amount of fuel and the timing of the spark is delivered and is adjusted.
The old mechanical spark distribution was far from ideal and meant that most of the time the engine was not running at peak efficiency. Spark timing needs to vary a lot more than a simple linear curve will allow. So to address this issue we now have a computer in our cars that stores a fuel and timing map across varying loads and intake conditions to provide optimum running.
Most modern engines operate on a closed loop which basically means that the parameters for the next combustion cycle are set by the previous one. The exhaust is sniffed for oxygen to determine if the car is running rich or lean and the intake fueling is adjusted to match.
Many popular engines learn over time the optimum settings and every 200 miles or so adjust the ideal map to keep the engine running efficiently. This takes into account driving style, seasonal temperature adjustments and varying grades of fuel.
On a naturally aspirated engine you can probably wring another 10% power out of the engine by tightening up the fuel delivery and timing maps. Manufacturers tend to set the engine conservatively.
How to tune a turbo engine.
The points about fuel delivery and timing the spark are just as essential in a turbo engine. All of the above point apply to turbo engines but the gains are much more noticable due to the effect of the turbo. As the turbo is pushing more air into the engine and is making more power you have a lot more to gain.
The turbo is the heart of the engine so we also need to pay attention to this. Matching the exhaust and intake compression impellers to your air needs can make dramatic alterations to the power band. You can hybridize the turbo using a stock OEM turbo casing and uprating the internals. Another option is to fit a second turbo or just replace the existing turbo with a larger unit.
It all depends what your power requirements are. See our turbo tuning articles to get more of an idea on what is involved in a tuned turbo engine.
Pre 2000 engines are typically very hard to remap so you are stuck with piggy back devices or a risky chip change. After 2000 most cars came with OBDII ports or similar and these allow a relatively easy way to upload and reflash the cars computer.
On a modern turbo engine the computer will typically control the boost and waste gate in addition to the fueling and timing so you have much more scope for power gains.
A modern turbo engine can often make a power gain of 40% quite easily on stock parts with a simple remap.
Other ways to tune an engine.
Further modifications and links to more information on them. Once you know about the characteristics of timing it is worth looking at the many other options and seeing what extra mods can be done to your cars engine.
We have mainly looked at timing so far. There are a large number of other modifications you can do to an engine to increase it's state of tune. Balancing your engine allows an engine to run at higher RPM, adding a sports camshaft will further raise the power band and alter the timing and duration of the engines induction, compression, bang and exhaust cycles. Moving the air through the engine faster is also a priority and a set of performance headers a sports exhaust, sport catalyst and some head work such as porting and polishing will further increase the power band.
If you have a turbo then you also have some additional options open to you. An intercooler will reduce the intake air temperature and allow bigger power gains. You could also uprate your turbo by fitting a larger turbo or get your existing turbo hybridized with uprated internals. Wastegate and blow off control can also be altered to increase the power produced by the engine.
Diesel engine tuning is covered in this diesel tuning article. There are also Rotary engines and various 2 stroke engine configurations, and how to tune these are covered in our modified car forum.
I am a retired ASE mechanic and emergency vehicle fleet manager who built street rods also. Using a vacuum gauge and dwell meter when adjusting a carb is by far the best way to tune older engines. At 71 I have adjusted my share of 1, 2 and 4 barrel carbs and in multiples. Two 4's can be a brain-drain! Don't forget the vacuum gauge to balance everything out. Old man…old tricks!
I forgot, for those who never used one, vacuum gauges(test equipment type) usually come with notes explaining how to hookup and read.


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Well, at the time I'm writing this note, I'm 7 episodes in and on comic 136. So, umm, I guess yay for working ahead?
*nods*If you're that far ahead, might not hurt to bump you release schedule or just hold some 'A page a day for the coming month' deal to help break up your queue some. Mind you also nice to have that huge buffer zone. So either way, you do you!
Still, all in all coming along nicely and has me curious for other adaptions to come.
You know what, sure, I'll do that. Page a day for a month!


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Home/Business/Alec Baldwin To Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter Over 'Rust' Shooting
Alec Baldwin To Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter Over 'Rust' Shooting
Marisa Dellatto Send an email 1 week ago
Alec Baldwin will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer on the set of the movie Rust who died last year when a gun in Baldwin's hand fired, an undoubtedly surprising turn for Baldwin, who claimed he didn't pull the trigger of the weapon and that he was told he most likely wouldn't be charged in the incident.
Alec Baldwin speaks for the first time regarding the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer … [+] Halyna Hutchins, and wounded director Joel Souza on the set of the film "Rust", on October 30, 2021 in Manchester, Vermont.
New Mexico First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said Baldwin, an actor and producer on the film, and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the production's armorer, will each be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Assistant director Dave Halls has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon, and will serve a suspended sentence and six months of probation.
The charges will be filed by the end of the month.
Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will be charged "in the alternative," meaning the jury will decide which definition of involuntary manslaughter they are guilty of, if they are found guilty.
They are facing either involuntary manslaughter, a fourth-degree felony that carries up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine, or involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act, which requires "proof that there was more than simple negligence involved in a death," and carries the same punishments, as well as a "firearm enhancement, or added mandatory penalty," which "makes the crime punishable by a mandatory five years in jail."
Special prosecutor Andrea Reeb said "if any one of these three people—Alec Baldwin, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed or David Halls—had done their job, Halyna Hutchins would be alive today. It's that simple."
"This decision distorts Halyna Hutchins' tragic death and represents a terrible miscarriage of justice. Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun—or anywhere on the movie set," a lawyer for Baldwin, Luke Nikas, told Deadline. "He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win." Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed, Jason Bowles and Todd J. Bullion told Forbes, "Hannah is, and has always been, very emotional and sad about this tragic accident. But she did not commit involuntary manslaughter. These charges are the result of a very flawed investigation, and an inaccurate understanding of the full facts. We intend to bring the full truth to light and believe Hannah will be exonerated of wrongdoing by a jury."
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"Our independent investigation also supports charges are warranted. It is a comfort to the family that, in New Mexico, no one is above the law," lawyer Brian J. Panish, who represents the Hutchins family, told Deadline. "We support the charges, will fully cooperate with this prosecution, and fervently hope the justice system works to protect the public and hold accountable those who break the law." Matthew Hutchins, the husband of Halyna, sued Baldwin, Halls and Gutierrez-Reed and others for wrongful death, and the suit was settled in October for an undisclosed amount.
In September, the New Mexico Board of Finance granted the DA's office over $300,000 to be used to potentially prosecute up to four people related to Hutchins' death, and the request for the funds stated "one of the possible defendants is well known movie actor Alec Baldwin." Much of the investigation has focused on Baldwin, Halls, Gutierrez-Reed and ammunition supplier Seth Kenney. DNA was collected from each of them, and interviews with staff members showed some had questioned Gutierrez-Reed's experience, Baldwin's willingness to participate in trainings and Halls' indifference to safety, per the investigation records that were released. The Santa Fe Sheriff's Department completed its investigation in October, over one year after the shooting occurred, and handed the case over to the DA.
Key Background
Hutchins was killed on set on October 21, 2021, during a rehearsal. Live bullets were not supposed to be present anywhere on set, and the guns in the movie were supposed to be filled with empty shells or dummy rounds. But when the gun in Baldwin's hand fired, Hutchins was shot in the chest and director Joel Souza was shot and injured in his shoulder. Production immediately shut down while authorities investigated. It's not clear how live ammunition made it onto the set. Baldwin has said he was told by people "within the state" it's "highly unlikely" he would be charged. Crew members have said there were gun safety issues on set, and there had been two previous accidental discharges, according to investigation records released by the Santa Fe Sheriff's department.
Production on Rust is set to resume some time this year, and Matthew Hutchins will serve as an executive producer on the project. It's not clear if the charges will impact these plans.
The 'Rust' Shooting, Over One Year Later: Everything You Need To Know (Forbes)
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