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Violence, Drugs Threaten Guatemala's Peace Process
Larry Luxner November 5, 2010 November 5, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Drug smugglers, armed gangs and common criminals acting with impunity threaten the stability of Central America's largest country, warned a panel of diplomats at a recent conference entitled "Guatemala at the Crossroads."
Guatemala's Ambassador to the United States, Francisco Villagran de León, said Guatemala has a reputation as a country of both natural beauty and violence. But he said most foreigners don't realize how deeply organized crime and drug trafficking has penetrated the social fabric of his nation of 13.5 million people.
"Guatemala's weak institutions have been unable to contain the violence, and the authority of the Guatemalan state is being challenged," he admitted.
Guatemala is already one of the most dangerous countries in the Western Hemisphere. In 2009, it reported 48 homicides per 100,000 people – giving it a murder rate eight times that of the United States, and four times that of Mexico, according to David T. Johnson, assistant secretary of the U.S. Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
"Drug violence is spilling over the border, as the Mexican government's tough stand on narcotraffickers pushes notorious organizations like the Zetas southward," said the U.S. official, noting that nearly 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States transits through Mexico via Central America's land, sea or air corridors.
Each year, an estimated 250 metric tons of cocaine moves through Guatemala, which is also a key transit country for pseudoephedrine, a main component of methamphetamine, as well as a minor producer of poppy and opium derivatives.
"Drug traffickers are not the only international criminal forces plaguing Guatemala. In recent years, we have also seen the proliferation of powerful youth gangs which terrorize entire neighborhoods," said Johnson. "They engage in armed robbery and murder-for-hire, as well as elaborate extortion schemes often coordinated by gang leaders inside Guatemala's prisons, exposing just how weakened the criminal justice system has become."
Intimidation and deep budget cuts have made the situation even more difficult, he said.
Guatemala is a land of natural beauty, mystic ancient civilizations and grave danger. Even the lush Petén jungle home to the Tikal ruins has also become a new haven for narco-traffickers.
"Guatemala lacks the resources to confront these challenges; it has one of the lowest tax collection rates in Latin America," Johnson said. "These factors combine to create an impunity rate of 96.5 percent for murder, with similarly high numbers for other crimes."
To be fair, said Villagran de León, Guatemala is not the only country in Latin America facing these problems.
But, he added, "Guatemala is more vulnerable because of its size, its geographic location, its weak institutions and its social problems. We are a transit point for drugs coming from South America to the North American market."
The ambassador said his country is plagued by three types of criminal organizations: large international cartels that also operate in Mexico, locally based cartels, and transnational gangs.
"All of these groups are now well-armed and well-funded, and their activities have become increasingly detrimental to the public order," he warned. "Maras, as the gangs are known, are involved in kidnapping, extortion, robbery, murder and small-scale drug-trafficking."
The largest of these gangs, the MS-13 (or the Salvatrucha), is thought to be close to the Sinaloa cartel of Mexico. The notoriously dangerous Zetas gang has also been moving into Guatemala to extend greater control over their supply network and to find sanctuary from the Mexican authorities, Johnson said.
Analysts claim the security concerns in Guatemala are threatening the achievements of the 1996 peace accords, which ended Guatemala's 36-year civil war.
"Fourteen years ago, Guatemala was positioned for a bright future as Central America's largest economy with a newly demobilized guerrilla force hungry for work, and an immense tailwind of international economic support," said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and a delegate to the 1996 peace accords. "Today, however, Guatemala's problems are massive, budgets are constrained and local governments are overwhelmed. We must find a way to return to the promise of 1996."
The violence in Guatemala is also affecting neighboring countries. Last month, five Nicaraguans – including a 7-year-old girl – were tortured and killed in Guatemala, apparently because the father of the family, a truck driver, refused to pay extortion money to unidentified elements involved in Guatemala's organized crime syndicates.
In 2008, the U.S. government launched the Mérida Initiative – a partnership with Mexico and Central America that in Guatemala has emphasized the need for institutional capacity building among law enforcement and the judicial branch.
In addition, the U.S. State Department has facilitated a training and cooperation program between U.S. law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in Guatemala.
"The most immediate result of this cooperation has been the establishment of elite units of prosecutors and police officers who have been thoroughly vetted," said Johnson. "These vetted units now form a reliable core of professionals trained to address Guatemala's numerous law enforcement challenges."
Under the direction of these units, and through the use of expanded investigative methods like wire-tapping, informants and intelligence-based surveillance, the Guatemalan government seized 100 percent more illegal narcotics in 2009 than in 2008.
The United States also provided provisions and logistic support for the eradication of poppy production in Guatemala, helping Guatemalan counterparts to destroy 1,345 hectares of poppy last year.
"Success in Guatemala, however, is about more than the volume of drugs seized," Johnson said. "Success depends on the creation of durable law enforcement institutions that are effective in their fight against crime and responsive to the citizens they must serve."
Villagran de León said four critical initiatives are now underway to reduce violence in Guatemala: the national accord on security, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala, a new role for the armed forces, and broader coordination at the regional level.
The ambassador said Guatemala's civilian police force now has 23,000 members, compared to the Army's 13,000 soldiers.
"This police force will grow over the next five years to 60,000," he said. "New model police precincts have been developed, jails have been remodeled, and each precinct has its own justice of the peace and a special court to try local criminal cases. This model has proven quite successful."
In August, agents from Guatemala's counter-narcotics force arrested four suspected Zetas with a cache of military-grade weapons outside the northern city of Cobán, making the area an essential next step in expanding the reach of effective law enforcement outside of the capital area.
Johnson stressed that fixing Guatemala's problems won't be easy – and could take years.
"There is no one solution to address Guatemala's deteriorating security situation; the challenge is complex and multifaceted, and so our response must be targeted and thoughtful," the counter-narcotics expert said.
Johnson said turning the tide will require collaboration with other governments and the United Nations, as well as strong regional programs from South America to Mexico. It will also require good governance by Guatemalan officials, he stressed.
"Only by coordinating efforts across all these diverse areas can we hope to achieve meaningful and lasting progress."
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Community College Sexual Assault Bill Heads to Governor's Desk
Bill Would Give Community Colleges Jurisdiction in Off-Campus Sexual Assault Cases
By Kelsey Brugger
Thu Aug 20, 2015 | 3:29pm
Hannah Beth Jackson
Not one state legislator voted against a bill sponsored by State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson that would give community college administrators the authority to discipline students for sexual assaults that occur off campus. AB 186 passed unanimously out of the senate and the assembly and now heads to Governor Jerry Brown's desk.
The bill stemmed from a roundtable meeting hosted by the Assembly Higher Education Committee at UCSB last November to discuss flaws in college administrators' handling of sexual assault cases. At that meeting, SBCC Dean Ben Partee told Jackson and Assemblymember Das Williams state law prohibits community college administrators from disciplining a student found to have violated a campus misconduct policy for incidents that occur off campus. Currently, community college administrators can punish students for off-campus misconduct during a school activity, such as a field trip. But if the conduct has nothing to do with school, administrators are hard-pressed to suspend or expel the student, according to the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.
"If community colleges can already expel students for something such as plagiarism, it's clear we also need to give them the tools to expel students for behavior as serious as sexual assault and sexual exploitation," Jackson said in a statement. "This is particularly important in a place such as Isla Vista, in my district, where we have UC students and community college students living next to each other, but being held to different standards."
UC campuses administrators have the ability to impose consequences for conduct that occurs off-campus on a case-by-case basis. The same is true for California State University campuses.
Last year, Governor Brown signed a bill sponsored by Jackson and Senator Kevin de Leon, commonly referred to as "yes means yes." That law requires schools to update their policies to specify affirmative consent between sexual partners and to educate students about consent.
https://www.independent.com/2015/08/20/community-college-sexual-assault-bill-heads-governors-desk/
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"Two Kinds of Teardrops" is a song by Del Shannon, which he released in 1963 as a single and on the album Little Town Flirt. The song spent 13 weeks on the UK's Record Retailer chart, peaking at No. 5, while spending nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 50, and reaching No. 6 in both Ireland and Hong Kong.

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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices."
― David Bohm
"Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe."
"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture? "
"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
"There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening."
"Ultimately, all moments are really one, therefore now is an eternity."
"Universe consists of frozen light."
"Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy."
"Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today."
"For both the rich and the poor, life is dominated by an ever growing current of problems, most of which seem to have no real and lasting solution. Clearly we have not touched the deeper causes of our troubles. It is the main point of this book that the ultimate source of all these problems is in thought itself, the very thing of which our civilization is most proud, and therefore the one thing that is "hidden" because of our failure seriously to engage with its actual working in our own individual lives and in the life of society."
"But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself be a contradiction, since whatever action can be defined in this way must evidently henceforth be unoriginal. Perhaps, then, it will be best to hint at it obliquely and by indirection, rather than to try to assert positively what it is.
One prerequisite for originality is clearly that a person shall not be inclined to impose his preconceptions on the fact as he sees it. Rather, he must be able to learn something new, even if this means that the ideas and notions that are comfortable or dear to him may be overturned.
But the ability to learn in this way is a principle common to the whole of humanity. Thus it is well known that a child learns to walk, to talk, and to know his way around the world just by trying something out and seeing what happens, then modifying what he does (or thinks) in accordance with what has actually happened. In this way, he spends his first few years in a wonderfully creative way, discovering all sorts of things that are new to him, and this leads people to look back on childhood as a kind of lost paradise. As the child grows older, however, learning takes on a narrower meaning. In school, he learns by repetition to accumulate knowledge, so as to please the teacher and pass examinations. At work, he learns in a similar way, so as to make a living, or for some other utilitarian purpose, and not mainly for the love of the action of learning itself. So his ability to see something new and original gradually dies away. And without it there is evidently no ground from which anything can grow."
"Thus, in scientific research, a great deal of our thinking is in terms of theories. The word 'theory' derives from the Greek 'theoria', which has the same root as 'theatre', in a word meaning 'to view' or 'to make a spectacle'. Thus, it might be said that a theory is primarily a form of insight, i.e. a way of looking at the world, and not a form of knowledge of how the world is."
"some might say: 'Fragmentation of cities, religions, political systems, conflict in the form of wars, general violence, fratricide, etc., are the reality. Wholeness is only an ideal, toward which we should perhaps strive.' But this is not what is being said here. Rather, what should be said is that wholeness is what is real, and that fragmentation is the response of this whole to man's action, guided by illusory perception, which is shaped by fragmentary thought."
"All effort to bring order into disorder is disorder."
"many individuals going beyond the 'normal' limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc."
"The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts."
"individual thought is mostly the result of collective thought and of interaction with other people. The language is entirely collective, and most of the thoughts in it are. Everybody does his own thing to those thoughts – he makes a contribution. But very few change them very much."
"If each one of us can give full attention to what is actually 'blocking' communication while he is also attending properly to the content of what is communicated, then we may be able to create something new between us, something of very great significance for bringing to an end the at present insoluble problems of the individual and of society."
"What prevents theoretical insights from going beyond existing limitations and changing to meet new facts is just the belief that theories give true knowledge of reality (which implies, of course, that they need never change)."
"The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion."
"Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder, and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who have to live in it."
"culture – the collectively shared meaning"
― David Bohm, On Dialogue
"You may not even have known that you had an assumption. It was only because he came up with the opposite one that you find out that you have one. You may uncover other assumptions, but we are all suspending them and looking at them all, seeing what they mean."
"The question is how our own meanings are related to those of the universe as a whole. We could say that our action toward the whole universe is a result of what it means to be us."
"[T]here is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly definable forms and shapes, some stable and some unstable, that can be abstracted from the universal flux. In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of our whole and unbroken movement."
"Clarity of perception and thought evidently requires that we be generally aware of how our experience is shaped by the insight (clear or confused) provided by the theories that are implicit or explicit in our general ways of thinking."
― David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order
"The notion that the one who thinks (the Ego) is at least in principle completely separate from and independent of the reality that he thinks about is of course firmly embedded in our entire tradition."
"On the whole, you could say that if you are defending your opinions, you are not serious. Likewise, if you are trying to avoid something unpleasant inside of yourself, that is also not being serious. A great deal of our whole life is not serious. And society teaches you that. It teaches you not to be very serious – that there are all sorts of incoherent things, and there is nothing that can be done about it, and that you will only stir yourself up uselessly by being serious. But in a dialogue you have to be serious. It is not a dialogue if you are not – not in the way I'm using the word. There is a story about Freud when he had cancer of the mouth. Somebody came up to him and wanted to talk to him about a point in psychology. The person said, "Perhaps I'd better not talk to you, because you've got this cancer which is very serious. You may not want to talk about this." Freud's answer was, "This cancer may be fatal, but it's not serious." And actually, of course, it was just a lot of cells growing. I think a great deal of what goes on in society could be described that way – that it may well be fatal, but it's not serious."
"In the dialogue people should talk directly to one another, one to one, across the circle. Then the time would come, if we got to know each other a bit and could trust each other, when you could speak very directly to the whole group, or to anybody in it."
"it is widely felt that if there is to be any general world view it should be taken as the 'received' and 'final' notion concerning the nature of reality. But my attitude has, from the beginning, been that our notions concerning cosmology and the general nature of reality are in a continuous process of development, and that one may have to start with ideas that are merely some sort of improvement over what has thus far been available, and to go on from there to ideas that are better."
Quotes from David Bohm
The ability to perceive or think differently
is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception.
Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. David Bohm
A corporation is organized as a system -
it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any meaning separately;
they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on. David Bohm
A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. David Bohm
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. David Bohm
But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. David Bohm
But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. David Bohm
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts. David Bohm
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. David Bohm
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. David Bohm
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. David Bohm
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. David Bohm
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. David Bohm
Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. David Bohm This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. David Bohm
This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society. David Bohm
Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began. David Bohm
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. David Bohm
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. David Bohm
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we have only paid attention to the content, not to the process. David Bohm What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. David Bohm
Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%. David Bohm
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale. David Bohm
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. David Bohm
One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness. David Bohm Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. David Bohm
In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. David Bohm
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Julie Andrews Cabaret Julie Madly Deeply at Trafalgar Studios
West End actress and Fascinating Aida star Sarah-Louise Young is performing Julie Madly Deeply, at the Trafalgar Studios 2 Theatre from 25th November to 4th January 2014.
This cheeky yet affectionate cabaret takes a look at the fame of singer Julie Andrews with songs from musicals including Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady intertwined with stories and anecdotes about Andrews' own life, from her beginnings as a child star to the recent challenges of losing her singing voice.
Written by Sarah-Louise Young, the show is directed by Russell Lucas, musical direction by Michael Roulston, and produced by James Seabright by arrangement with One Eyed Man Productions.
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April 3, 2006 | by Nick Kelly	| in Opinion |
Those of you who've been keeping up with international news will know about the considerably large student protests going on in France at the moment. On the 8th of March the French government rushed through a law allowing employers to dismiss workers under the age of 26, without reason, for the first two years of their employment. There have been hundreds of thousands of French students taking to the streets in protest.
Already, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is looking for a way to back down on the law, and is talking to union leaders to find a compromise solution. So far talks with Union and student leaders had been unsuccessful. Students in France are saying that the changes will create a generation of "throwaway workers". Parallels are being drawn between the current student protests and the student and worker movement protests in 1968 which came very close to overthrowing the French government. The current round of protests is being largely led by students, the biggest crisis the Villepin government has faced in its time in office.
Back in New Zealand there are similar rumblings. A couple of weeks back, a private members bill was introduced by National MP Wayne Mapp giving employers a 90 day probation period for new employees. Like the French law this proposed bill would give employers in NZ the right to dismiss workers without justification. This draconian bill made it through its first reading in parliament with support from National, Act, United Future, New Zealand First and 3 out of 4 of the Maori Party MPs (Hone Harawira opposed it).
Meanwhile there are some encouraging things happening for NZ workers. For the last few months workers union Unite and various other groups and individuals have run a campaign called 'Supersize My Pay'. This campaign demands that the minimum wage be increase to $12 an hour and calls for the abolition of youth rates. Currently the minimum wage for under 18s is less than for workers over 18, and for workers under 16 there is no legal minimum wage. This campaign ties in with Unite Union's major push to organise fast food workers, most of whom are young workers on minimum wage. Last week this campaign had a significant victory when Restaurant Brands (the owner of Starbucks, KFC, Pizza Hutt, and numerous 0800 call centres) made an offer to significantly increase their workers wages. One of the most significant victories was a concession by Restaurant Brands that paying youth workers less, solely because of their age wasn't justified. The current offer will increase the pay of workers under 18 to 90 percent of the adult rate, which for many young workers will be an increase of roughly 34 percent.
Recently Radical Youth in Auckland led a secondary school student protest against youth rates. Roughly a thousand students came out to protest against youth rates. This was probably one of the reasons for the Restaurant Brands offer. The next goal of the campaign is to get the government to raise the minimum wage to $12 and to scrap youth rates, so young workers have the same minimum wage as adult workers. Some progress has been made on this front. A private members bill from Green MP Sue Bradford calling for these changes made it through its first reading. However this bill only goes part of the way, as it only increases the minimum wage for workers aged between 16 and 18. The bill as it currently stands does nothing for workers under 16, who have no minimum wage.
What protests in France and by Radical Youth in Auckland have proved is that the best way to win is through mass movements. Overwhelming organised opposition to the new French industrial law is making it near impossible for the French state to implement it. Likewise, the growing pressure in New Zealand to abolish youth rates and increase the minimum wage is starting to help win better conditions for young workers here. The NZUSA Student Income and Expenditure Survey in 2004 showed that 90% of students work whilst studying. A great number of the students who work are on minimum wage jobs and for first-years under the age of 18 the youth minimum wage is still a grim reality.
This week's Student Representative Council meeting is discussing the issue of youth rates. A motion will be put to the student meeting calling on VUWSA to support the 'Supersize My Pay' campaign. VUWSA already has policy in place supporting the abolition of youth rates and increasing wages. NZUSA currently support the 'Supersize My Pay' campaign as do a number of its member associations around the country. The SRC is at 12:30 in the Quad this Wednesday (April 5th).
Also this Friday a member of the Ombudsmen's office is visiting Victoria University. If you would like to talk to the Ombudsmen's office about issues relating to the University, or related issues, they are keen for you to come and see them. The representative of the Office of the Ombudsmen will be in the VUWSA meeting room at Kelburn campus on Friday April the 7th from 11am to 12noon.
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Kingdom City, Callaway, Missouri
Mrs. Juanita Prawl, 76, died Tuesday April 22 at Callaway Memorial Hospital. She was born at Guthrie, Sept. 11, 1903, the daughter of Ida Evelyn Gibbs and William Holly Wilkerson.
She attended New Bloomfield High School. she later moved to St. Louis and was a graduate of Brown Business College, St. Louis. She was married to Timus Gradinaroff, a cashier in the Granite City National Bank, Granite City, Ill. who preceded her in death. She married Earl Prawl on Oct. 2, 1948. He preceeded her in death August 26, 1973.
Mrs. Prawl was also preceded in death by one brother, Gibbs Wilkerson and four sisters, Mrs. Roy (Pauline) Moore, Mrs. Sheley (Brooksie) Reynolds, Mrs. Ott Bigler, and Mrs. Harry (Lucille) Trammell.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. David Clay of Kansas City, Kan. and Mrs. Irvin C. (Kathryn) Holt of New Bloomfield and several neices and nephews.
Mrs. Prawl was secretary to the Director of Sales for Skelly Oil of St. Louis for over twenty years. On retirement, she and her husband built a home on the Carrington blacktop. She later moved to Golden Village, New Bloomfield.
She was a member of Dry Fork Baptist Church and was a member of the W.M.U. of the church. She was also a member of the Retired Employees Association of Skelly Oil Company of St. Louis.
Visitation will be held until noon today at the Browning-Debo Funeral Home, when Mrs. Prawl will be taken to the Dry Fork Baptist Church to lie in state until 2:30 p.m. the time of services. The Rev. Jerry Anderson will conduct services. Burial will be in the church cemetery.


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Banker to the Poor
Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Yunus, Muhammad
The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world.
Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world.
The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.
Publisher: New York, NY : PublicAffairs, c2003.
Edition: Rev. and updated pbk. ed.
Characteristics: ix, 273 p. :,ill. ;,21 cm.
Additional Contributors: Jolis, Alan
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Seminar: 'Occupations and Professions in British and Irish History', 5 March 2014
A key purpose of the British and Irish Research Group is to encourage and support members in the advancement of their research projects. This seminar will showcase the work of three members of the History department and provide a forum for discussion. The formal papers will be followed by a general planning session for the Group's activities in 2014-15. Everyone is welcome to attend; feel free to come for only part, or all, of the event. For further information see the British and Irish History Research Group's website.
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm
Venue: Open University Milton Keynes Campus, Faculty of Arts, Meeting Rooms 1 and 2, Wilson A Ground floor
Exhibition Launch: The Georgians Revealed
The British Library has launched a major exhibition The Georgians Revealed: Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain. Amanda Goodrich acted as an advisor and wrote the introduction to the accompanying book.
Seminar: Criminal Justice History, 12 July 2013
We are holding the next seminar in our criminal justice history series on Friday July 12th, at the Open University's campus, Walton Hall, in Milton Keynes. The speakers are all researchers who have conducted, or are in the process of conducting, ground-breaking research into the criminal justice systems of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
10.30: Open, Tea, coffee, biscuits.
11.00: Bob Love (University of Leicester) 'Somerset before the police – policing the county 1830 – 1856'
12.00: Elaine Saunders (Open University) 'Policing a rural county: eighteenth-century systems of policing in Hertfordshire'
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Dr. Francis Boorman (University of London) 'The spatiality of policing, crime and disorder in Chancery Lane, c.1760-1815'.
15.00: Dr. Dave Churchill (University of Leicester) 'The police and the public in Leeds, 1850-1900: the contexts and content of popular animosity'
16.00: Close
If you would like to attend, please could you register by contacting Yvonne Bartley (y.s.bartley@open.ac.uk)? There is a charge of £10 for lunch and refreshments for non-OU attendees. If you've got any special dietary requirements, please let us know.
Muck and Brass: Money and Finance in Victorian Britain, 10 November 2012
Sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Economic History Society and the Social History Society, this one day colloquium will be held at the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Full details of the programme and a registration form are available from the British and Irish History research group website. The deadline for registration is 29 October 2012.
Workshop: 'Patients' control or practitioners' authority? Revisiting the early modern medical encounter', 4 July 2012, The Open University in London.
The History of Medicine research group will hold its third workshop on 4 July 2012 at The Open University in London. Attendance is free, but places are limited, so please email Yvonne Bartley to reserve a place by 20 June. Further details and the workshop programme are available online.
Workshop: 'Patients' control or practitioners' authority? Revisiting the early modern medical encounter', 4 July 2012
Symposium: 'Commemorating the Past, Creating the Future: Kenya's heritage crossroads'
This symposium was held at the British Library in London on 9 September 2011, and involved scholars from Kenya, the UK, Sweden and the US, including Dr Rodney Harrison (History Dept., OU). Hosted by Lotte Hughes (PI, OU), with Profs. Annie Coombes (Co-I, Birkbeck College, University of London) and Karega-Munene (United States International University, Nairobi, Kenya), this closed event featured presentations on a wide range of heritage and history-related subjects, including: memorialization as a human right; exhibiting photographic histories in Western Kenya; an examination of memorials to Barack Obama at K'Ogello; Akamba carving; memorialising Mau Mau; managing heritage as a resource for building nationhood and social cohesiveness; community conservation of sacred forests; an examination of displays on material culture and Kenyan identity at National Museums of Kenya; the challenges of commemorating former president Daniel arap Moi; and efforts to commemorate Giriama heroine Mekatilili wa Menza.
Seminar: 'Oral History & Criminal Justice Museums, Libraries & Archives' Friday 28th October 2011
The Crime And Punishment Collections Network and the International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing, and Justice are holding a seminar on "Oral History & Criminal Justice Museums, Libraries & Archives" on Friday 28th October 2011, Library Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, The Open University Library, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. Follow this link for more information.
Public Record Office and OU Ireland 'exploring local history' lecture series
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in conjunction with the Open University Ireland is hosting a lecture series for members of the community to delve into the history of family, poverty, religion and local Northern Ireland. Starting on 29 September 2011 the series will be delivered by Dr Janice Holmes, Dr Olwen Purdue and Dr Barry Sheen from the Open University Ireland and will examine the major themes of local history and the sources available to local historians. PRONI staff will present examples of these sources from the archives. Follow this link for further information.
Seminar: New Research in 20th Century European History
On 21 July 2011, the War, Conflict and Politics Research Group hosted a Seminar Day on Twentieth Century European History, with a focus on War, Peace, Modernity: details of the programme are available online. You can also download the programme and abstracts as a PDF file.
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I lunched with an old friend of many years. She looked broody, not her typical self. So I asked her what was troubling her, and the floodgates opened.
"Elliott and I have stuck out 40 years of incompatibilities. A recent vacation is a good example. He wanted a quiet hotel room. I enjoy hearing people's voices on the street, the dumpsters being filled with crashing bottles, it anchors me to a place," she said demolishing her cucumber sandwich.
"He likes hiking. My hike is riding the escalator at Nordstrom's. He's anxious if a plan doesn't go well, although he hates planning anything. I plan things out weeks in advance so it's clearly my fault," she continued with a furrowed brow.
I wanted to say something but she wasn't listening.
"He likes hot, spicy food. You've seen that. He douses everything with hot sauce. I like a steak and fries. He's a clutter bug, books and magazines everywhere, and throws nothing away. I dream of minimalist spaces, preferably in a condo with zero maintenance," she said knocking back her shot of espresso.
"I watched for timing of the scenes like I was some professional director or something," she said.
"Oh, also going for a walk is impossible. He walks too fast and I lag behind like women do from other cultures. It's so frustrating. I hate it," she said raising her voice. Everyone in the restaurant was looking at us. She didn't notice.
She finally stopped and took a breath.
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According to Infoholic Research, current IoT adoption is still at a nascent stage but there is a continuous demand for IoT technology across all organizations globally. Organization are reaping the benefits of IoT adoption and are also willing to invest heavily on the technologies. The increase in the adoption rate will in turn positively impact the IoT managed services market.
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Q: Adding a section to admin menu for global settings Bear with me a moment as I am still relatively new to WP dev.
I am currently building a custom site that loads certain blocks on pages using get_template_part(); .
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My current solution is not ideal. I am using the Advanced Custom Forms plugin and placing the required text in the default text area. However, even if this is updated it will not update all pages globally and the user will need to go into each individual page to re-publish the it with the new content.
Is it possible to code a new option onto the side menu that will store global settings for template parts?

A: The Customization API is what you're after. Lets you define site-wide settings for theme/plugin customization.

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My local team, Kärpät Oulu, for whom I have a season ticket, won the regular season in the Finnish Elite League for the third year running, easily. Of course this didn't mean squat last season when the surprise package of Ässät Pori beat us in the semi-finals. This was largely down to the fact that the team never really got into the playoff gear. Sadly, lately it has looked a lot like last season in this respect.
This worry didn't stop me from buying a playoff ticket that lets me see all the home playoff matches for 267 euros. So hope they get into that gear. There are still two matches to play in the regular season even though the last home match was yesterday which is a good time to try to improve the game. One of the matches is actually against Ässät who haven't been doing nearly as well as last season. In fact this season has been a total disaster for the loosing finalists as they are languishing second-to-last in a fourteen team series and have lost the chance to make the playoffs a long time ago. At least their victory against KalPa Kuopio yesterday meant they won't have to face the humiliation of finishing rock bottom after their dream season.
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In March, 1998 Laura and Joe Drovetto purchased an existing five bedroom four bathroom, bed and breakfast with the intentions of converting it into an all day Kindergarten School. After obtaining the necessary permits and licenses, the doors opened on September 7, 1998 and class began for the first students at SnoSprings School. The school started with a class of three Kindergarten students which eventually grew to a maximum of 12 students within four months. Mrs. Laura Drovetto, was the teacher, Mrs. Arlene Hamblin, the educational assistant and Kristen Green, the music specialist. The classroom was located in the current library media center. The remainder of the building was being used as a residence. Over a three year period, the existing facility went through a series of costly renovation projects. These modifications and improvements permitted a change of building use from residential to commercial "school". This effort permitted the use of the entire facility for educational purposes.
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Selena Gomez's Mom Didn't Go to the Hospital Just Because of Justin Bieber: 'It's Been a Stressful Time' Says Source
Selena Gomez's mother did visit the hospital, but it was not solely due to her daughter's rekindled relationship with Justin Bieber
Melody Chiu
Melody Chiu is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE. She has been with the brand since 2009, editing, writing and reporting across all entertainment verticals. She oversees PEOPLE's music and events coverage and has written cover stories on Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Melissa McCarthy, Blake Shelton and Sandra Oh. The Los Angeles native graduated from the University of Southern California and has appeared on Extra!, The Talk, Access Hollywood and Good Morning America.
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Selena Gomez's mother recently visited the hospital, but it wasn't solely due to her daughter's rekindled relationship with Justin Bieber.
A source close to the family confirms to PEOPLE that Mandy Teefey was voluntarily checked out by medical personnel last week, dismissing a TMZ report that she was admitted due to an argument about Gomez's boyfriend.
"It's been a stressful time for Mandy and she made the decision herself to go to the hospital and make sure everything was okay," the source says. "This wasn't just about Justin."
A Gomez source adds, "It's true her family doesn't approve of Justin, but this wasn't just over a fight about him."
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A Bieber source also tells PEOPLE that the 23-year-old singer is not trying to drive a wedge between Gomez and her family.
"Justin knows Selena's family is not happy about her dating him," the insider says. "He has known for a long time. But he is adamant that he has changed and is a better boyfriend now. He will keep trying to prove himself to her family. He is sad that her mom is not doing well. Selena is very close with her mom, so it's stressful for her. He wants Selena to be happy."
Teefey, 41, shared an emotional Instagram post on Monday remembering Scarlett, the daughter she lost to miscarriage in 2011. She shared a series of photos showing her pregnant, including one where Gomez smiles as she places her hand on her mom's belly, and a throwback photo where Teefey is holding the singer as a baby.
"Thank you to all the fans who honored our Scarlett yesterday," she captioned the images. "Dec. 17th will never be the same, but we decide to celebrate her by writing her letters on red balloons and releasing them."
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However, the day was a joyous one for another reason: 13 Reasons Why, for which Teefey and Gomez, 25, both serve as executive producers, wrapped the filming of season 2.
"Family is what matters, blood or not, #family13 made me smile and feel loved when so needed and they didn't know," she said.
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Although Bieber has been "set on proving that he is a better boyfriend," the couple, who also dated on-and-off from 2010 to 2015, won't be spending the holidays together.
"Justin's family always loved Selena, but Selena's family is still not happy about her seeing Justin," a source previously told PEOPLE. "Selena doesn't bring Justin to any family events. Selena is spending Christmas with her family. As of now, Justin is not invited."
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Bieber's mom, Pattie Mallette, had nothing but praise for her son's love interest while speaking to PEOPLE earlier this month at the Justice Speaks Holiday Benefit Luncheon in Los Angeles.
"I don't know so much about their personal relationship because he doesn't share a whole lot, but I love her," she said of Gomez. "I support anything [he does], if he loves her I love her, and I've met her and we have a special bond so I think she's precious. I can't really speak on their relationship, that's between them."
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Wenger - Giroud has a big part to play
Arsene Wenger says Olivier Giroud will be an important member of the Arsenal squad this season - no matter who else comes in.
The French striker has impressed on the Asia Tour, scoring five goals in the 65 minutes he has spent on the pitch, including a hat-trick against Vietnam on Wednesday.
"We score goals - that is the result of our good team play, of our creativity and our pace in the game"
Arsenal have been linked with big-money moves for a host of strikers this summer but Wenger insists Giroud still has a big role to play.
"[The transfer rumours are] nothing to do with the quality of Olivier Giroud," Wenger told Arsenal Player. "It's just number-wise, we are a bit short.
"Players like Chuba Akpom have done very well again. As you said, we score goals - that is the result of our good team play, of our creativity and our pace in the game. We have a lot of pacy players and that creates a lot of danger."
Young striker Akpom has also enjoyed a successful pre-season, scoring three times, and Wenger believes the 17-year-old possesses the raw qualities to succeed.
"It's difficult to say because you do not want to fix a limit when a player is a striker," he said. "If he was a centre back, I would say to let him go out on loan and play somewhere.
"When you are a striker, the mistakes you make are not costly for the team but the talent you have can be very helpful. It looks like he has the physical strength and the technical quality to compete so for him it's just down to mental belief now and these kind of games will help him."


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This study examines how CEO temporal focus – the extent to which CEOs devote their attention to the past, present, and future – shapes firms' interpretation of the grand challenge water scarcity. We propose that CEO temporal focus influences interpretations of water scarcity either as threat or as opportunity. Using a panel data set of German firms, we find support for our three hypotheses: CEOs who are high in present focus tend to interpret water scarcity as threat. However, to tackle water scarcity ,in terms of interpreting water scarcity as opportunity, they need to be future-oriented. Further, future-oriented CEOs shy away from interpreting water scarcity as a pure threat. These findings contribute to the literature on strategic implications of CEOs' subjective view of time.