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"The sky is the limit," that's Adam Smith's verdict after launching Jark (Tottenham) Ltd with backing and support from The Recruit Venture Group.
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Erin Bow: poet, novelist, chewer of pencils.
Stand on the Sky
The Scorpion Rules
The Swan Riders
Plain Kate
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Hi! My name is Erin Bow -- physicist turned poet turned author of novels that will make you cry on the bus.
In the beginning, I was a city girl from farm country—born in Des Moines and raised in Omaha—where I was fond of tromping through woodlots and reading books by flashlight. In high school I captained the debate team, founded the math club, and didn't date much.
In university, I studied particle physics, and worked briefly at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. Physics was awesome, but graduate school kind of sucked, and at some point I remembered that I wanted to write books. (I say "physicist" because there's no other shorthand, but actually I'm a scientist the way the kid who dropped out of med school is a doctor.)
Books: I have ten of them — six novels (one still forthcoming), and three volumes of poetry (one still forthcoming) and a memoir (the poetry under my maiden name, Erin Noteboom). The novels are a pair of stand-alone high fantasies, Plain Kate and Sorrow's Knot, and the science fiction duology The Scorpion Rules and The Swan Riders.
My latest is the middle-grade adventure Stand on the Sky, which just won the Governor General's Award for young people's literature.
My poetry has won the CBC Canadian Literary Award and several other awards. My novels have a fistful of honors, including the GG, the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year award, and the award sometimes called "Canada's Newbery," the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. No one read the memoir.
Right now I'm holding out hopes for novella #6, and drafting novels #7 and #8. Eight is going to be funny if I have to kill someone. I'm working on poetry book three, which is about science and scientists.
Did you notice I got to Canada in there somewhere? Yeah, that was true love. I'm married to a Canadian boy, James Bow, who also writes young adult novels. I have both American and Canadian citizenships, and I live in Kitchener, Ontario, where I work out of my garden shed.
James and I have two tweenaged daughters, both of whom want to be scientists.

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20 November, 2005 - Wind Power on Twickenham Riverside?
The Council has announced intention of putting two 6.5 metre wind turbines on the Riverside, despite the fact that it's a sheltered area surrounded by trees.
See Picture Gallery 2 for the opening of the Jubilee Gardens and play area, and the way they look.
1 June 2005: The new landscaped space, the playground, café and toilets were officially opened by the Mayor. See below for notes on additional improvements which will be carried out in the area, in the short term.
The Council will undertake a detailed appraisal of the initial proposals in by summer 2005, and shortlist those that will go forward for more detailed consideration.
Long Term Development: work will commence on a planning brief later this year. A planning application for the site will be made in 2007 with the aim to receive planning permission in 2009. It is intended that the development will include a commercial element: housing (including affordable housing), cafés and restaurants, and possibly some retail.
The Twickenham Riverside Regeneration brochure should be delivered door to door in the borough. If you haven't received a copy, they're available at the Council Offices or by phoning 020 8891 7888, or you can download it from the website.
The new café and toilets have arrived and were craned into place on 26 April. See Picture Gallery 2 for more photos.
Imaginative design for the long term for the Riverside, including abundant public open space and sufficient enabling development to make the scheme work.
The large hornbeam at the corner of Wharf Lane and the service road, a landmark of the pool site, has been destroyed, despite the major trees on the pool site having Tree Preservation Orders.
"Even if it were possible to retain the tree and rebuild the retaining walls to the roots, there would still be a very significant risk that the tree would fall.
"Clearly, this is an unacceptable hazard in any location. A replacement tree will be agreed with the Arboriculture Manager & Planning Dept."
It appears that there no specific survey has been done of the trees on the pool site, and no report was made on this tree or any possible danger it posed - or what measures could have been taken to preserve it, or to reinforce the retaining walls.
Significantly, the retaining walls are NOT being replaced: some of the existing concrete is being used as the base for a new brick wall that was started on 15 April.
Council website: "Trees and Tree Management Policy "
Council website: "Tree Preservation Orders"
The CAMS leaflet (.pdf, 2 pages, 86kB) provides the opportunity to register interest and make comments or suggestions at this early stage in the development of the strategy for the London catchment. They are particularly interested to hear about the issues that are important to the community in relation to management of water resources in the London area.
Work is proceeding on the children's play ground at the Wharf Lane end of the pool site and the larger pieces of equipment have been installed.
NEW: Twickenham Online have a report and pictures of the café.
Dearle & Henderson have applied for planning permission for the café with a small allocation of toilets (three cubicles) within the children's play area. Planning Application 05/0251/FUL. The Council are soliciting comments, which had to be submitted by 23 February.
Eugena, the contractors who are doing the work on the poolsite, have written to local residents and businesses with a progress report. The letter is attached (.pdf, 60kB).
Jason Debney of the TLS has revealed the Strategy's plans for Twickenham Riverside, including replacing the existing chestnut trees and decayed planters with new trees in new landscaping.
Plans for Twickenham River Front (.pdf 518kb).
Demolition seems to be completed - see the picture gallery. Work is starting to mark out the children's play area at the corner of Wharf Lane and the service road.
Knocking down the pool frontage has opened up the whole area and showing how important it is that the pool site is kept as open space that everyone can enjoy. The distinctive shapes of the trees along the service road - mainly hornbeams - stand out clearly. One of the best views of the pool site is from the Eel Pie bridge.
Time permitting, the Gallery is updated to provide a record of the construction process at the old swimming pool. There are also photos of the surroundings, the narrow access roads, the pool site before work started, and the demolition.
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On the Substitution of Identicals in Counterfactual Reasoning
Alexander W. Kocurek
Noûs 54 (3):600-631 (2020)
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Kocurek, Alexander W. (2020). On the Substitution of Identicals in Counterfactual Reasoning. Noûs 54 (3):600-631.
It is widely held that counterfactuals, unlike attitude ascriptions, preserve the referential transparency of their constituents, i.e., that counterfactuals validate the substitution of identicals when their constituents do. The only putative counterexamples in the literature come from counterpossibles, i.e., counterfactuals with impossible antecedents. Advocates of counterpossibilism, i.e., the view that counterpossibles are not all vacuous, argue that counterpossibles can generate referential opacity. But in order to explain why most substitution inferences into counterfactuals seem valid, counterpossibilists also often maintain that counterfactuals with possible antecedents are transparency‐preserving. I argue that if counterpossibles can generate opacity, then so can ordinary counterfactuals with possible antecedents. Utilizing an analogy between counterfactuals and attitude ascriptions, I provide a counterpossibilist‐friendly explanation for the apparent validity of substitution inferences into counterfactuals. I conclude by suggesting that the debate over counterpossibles is closely tied to questions concerning the extent to which counterfactuals are more like attitude ascriptions and epistemic operators than previously recognized.
Archival date: 2019-02-08
Counterpossible Conditionals in Philosophy of Language
Frege's Puzzle in Philosophy of Language
Logic of Conditionals in Philosophy of Language
counterfactuals substitution of identicals counterpossibles identity propositional attitudes a priori simplification of disjunctive antecedents Williamson transparency
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Brian Slattery
Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:31pm 15 comments Favorite This
In 1967, the CIA conducted Operation Acoustic Kitty, in which it surgically wired up a cat with a microphone and antenna to spy on the Russians. The project is rumored to have cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million. Its first mission was to spy on a Soviet facility in Washington, DC. Shortly after being released, the cat was killed by a taxi and the project was declared a total loss.
This story—firmly in the so-wacky-it-can-only-be-true category—is just the kind of thing that inspires The Men Who Stare at Goats, a movie about the rise and fall of a unit investigating the military possibilities of New Age spirituality and the paranormal within the U.S. Army in the 1970s and 1980s and its effect on the current war in Iraq. In place of the "a true story" tag that opens so many movies, Goats tells you that "more of this is true than you would believe." This, like the rest of the movie, is fun and funny, but the tension between what's real and what isn't is a tightrope that Goats, unfortunately, can't quite walk without falling off.
The Men Who Stare at Goats follows the adventures of Bob Wilton, a hapless journalist (played by Ewan MacGregor) who goes to Iraq to prove something to himself and ends up in the hands of Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a former (or is he?) member of the paranormal unit, dubbed the New Earth Army. Cassady has swallowed the New Earth Army's ideology hook, line, and sinker, with surprisingly sweet results: Just underneath the scrambled brain and fatalism, Cassady is a moony idealist who quickly sees Wilton as his protégé, and begins instructing him in—and here I am quoting the movie directly—the ways of the Jedi. Meanwhile, Cassady's mission takes both of them on a trip across Iraq, where they encounter defense contractors, American entrepreneurs who declare the tax-free occupied Baghdad to be "Year Zero" for commerce, and finally, an encounter with the current military that forces Cassady and other members of the paranormal unit to come to terms with their pasts.
The Star Wars parallels are strong in Goats: Along with the Jedi stuff, we have a vision of the Empire, as well as the light and dark sides of the force. More fundamentally, the Star Wars allusions give the movie a sense of morality: As he moves from padawan to knight, Cassady increasingly becomes aware of how he, the paranormal unit, and the U.S. Army more generally, could use the powers they're developing for good, and how tempting it is for all of them to use the powers for evil. Alongside the Star Wars retelling, however, sits a Dr. Strangelove-era farce, and these two understandings of the same story—as Cassady himself says, "there's different ways of looking at it, different words for a reality"—don't quite seem to connect.
I really wanted to like this movie, and it certainly has its moments. George Clooney fans (I'm one) will not be disappointed in his funny and soulful performance here, and fellow actors MacGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey are clearly having a very good time. (Or if they're not, then they're even better actors than I thought.) Yet—as Dr. Strangelove did—Goats seeks more than entertainment; it asks you to take it seriously as commentary on the situation in Iraq and the overall mindset of the military in general. The problem is that, to me, as the movie sets them up, the Stars Wars and Dr. Strangelove strands of the plot undermine each other. One asks you to believe that people can really develop superhuman abilities through strict training and personal discipline—that, as the movie cheekily puts it, people can be all that they can be. The other mocks the ability of anything the U.S. Army does to ever come to any good. More broadly, the movie's Star Wars parallel invites us to become more politically aware and active members of society, working for peace. The Strangelovian parallel would have you believe that that's all just a bunch of hippie nonsense. At the very, very end, the scales are tipped toward Star Wars at the expense of Strangelove. Which is nice. But it feels like the easy way out. All through the movie, I kept hoping that the tension between the poles wasn't just an argument, but a dialectic, so that something at the end would supercede the argument, reform the question, push the ideas further. That, alas, never happens.
It's a little unfair, of course, to judge a movie for something it doesn't try to do. But I bring it up because I think that, with some revision, they could have pulled it off. You even see glimmers of it in Clooney's performance: He plays his role as if Cassady knows the answer, as if he knows how to resolve the tension between good and evil, between idealism and cynicism. But if he does, he's not telling us.
Brian Francis Slattery has trouble writing in a straight line on a piece of paper in a dark theater.
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Pick of the day's news – Monday 29 April 2013
ACL compiles a daily media monitoring service of stories of interest to the Christian constituency relating to children, family, drugs and alcohol, marriage, human rights, religious freedom etc. Visit the ACL's website each day to see what's of interest in the news. Please note that selection of the articles does not represent ACL endorsement of the content.
Couple abort girl because they wanted a boy
Natasha Bita - News Limited
A Melbourne doctor has blown the whistle on parents who demanded an abortion - because they didn't want a girl. And obstetricians have proposed keeping the sex of unborn babies secret until it is too late to terminate, to prevent gender-based abortions. In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Herald Sun, Dr Mark Hobart revealed a Melbourne couple had asked him to refer them to an abortion clinic after discovering at 19 weeks they were having a girl, when they wanted a boy.
Couples expecting girls 'demand abortions' because they want boys, say obstetricians
Couples expecting baby girls have demanded abortions because they wanted a boy instead, doctors have revealed. Obstetricians have proposed parents be banned from knowing the sex of unborn babies until it is too late to terminate, to prevent gender-based abortions. One of Australia's biggest abortion clinics has revealed that parents have requested abortions on gender grounds - although it is "extremely rare" and always refused. But News Limited has discovered a couple in Melbourne aborted their baby after discovering at 19 weeks they were having a girl - when they wanted a boy.
$12 abortions possible within weeks as drug subsidy recommended
Dan Harrison, Amy Corderoy - SMH
The abortion drug RU486 could be available within weeks for as little as $12 after the federal government's expert advisory body recommended that it be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, made up of medical experts and health economists, recommended listing mifepristone and misoprostol - the two drugs known together as RU486 - for termination of a pregnancy of up to 49 days' gestation.
Obama to Largest Abortion Provider: 'God Bless You'
Daniel Halper - Weekly Standard
"As long as we've got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we've got to fight to protect a woman's right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you've also got a president who's going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way," said Obama. "Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you."
Girl, 12 'hangs herself' at home after being tormented online over her hair and choice of clothes
Amanda Williams - Daily Telegraph
A 12-year-old schoolgirl is believed to have hanged herself after being tormented by online cyber bullies about her hair and clothes. Katie Webb was found at her home in Evesham, Worcestershire, on Wednesday lunchtime and rushed to hospital by air ambulance. But despite the efforts of paramedics she was pronounced dead upon her arrival at Birmingham Children's Hospital.
Anti-drug program held for photo op
A vital alcohol education program for school children is being delayed because the state government wants to announce it at a "politically advantageous time". Drug and Alcohol Research and Training Australia director Paul Dillon said the "It couldn't happen to me" was ready to begin in NSW schools after a successful trial last year.
Doctors tired of alcohol damage
Melissa Davey - SMH
Surgeons across Australia are urging a change to the nation's drinking culture, saying they are tired of patching up people hurt as a result of drunken violence. They say alcohol is increasingly a factor in the cases of shattered jaws and severed tendons they confront, describing much of their work as focusing on ''preventable tragedies''. Whether those people being wheeled into operating theatres are victims of their own drinking or other people's, the vice-president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Michael Grigg, says surgeons were referring to the situation as an epidemic.
Qld deal on schools unlikely: Langbroek
Queensland Education Minister John-Paul Langbroek says Prime Minister Julia Gillard is the roadblock to ensuring his state signs on to the federal government's funding reforms for schools. The conservative Queensland government has been one of the most vocal states in saying it is unlikely to sign on to Ms Gillard's signature education reform.
Burke bans floating freezer for super trawler
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has imposed a two-year ban on Seafish Tasmania to stop it from using its super trawler as a floating freezer. The company submitted a proposal to use the Abel Tasman to buy, process and freeze fish after it was banned from trawling for two years
Bob Irwin launches reef ad campaign
Petrina Berry - news.com
The father of the late crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has angered the Queensland government after claiming the Great Barrier Reef is being used as a dumping ground. Bob Irwin launched a multi-million dollar advertising campaign on Sunday to build awareness of threats to the reef. The UN's environmental arm warned earlier this year that the world's largest coral reef could be listed as a World Heritage Site in Danger if Australia didn't protect it from a gas and mining boom and related port developments.
Responsible gambling and the spectacle of the 'problem gambler'
Charles Livingstone - The Conversation
Institutions that make big money out of gambling – such as governments, casinos, clubs and pubs – are fond of telling us how much they care about problem gambling. Clubs Australia (the peak body for the institutions where most of Australia's poker machines are located) sees itself as part of the solution – although it also sees the problem as "a small minority" of poker machine gamblers.
'I backed More Joyous': Waterhouse meets lawyer over Singleton comments
Chris Roots - The Sydney Morning Herald
Controversial bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has met with his lawyer to discuss a defamation action against John Singleton after his remarks about the fitness of More Joyous before and after the All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Waterhouse said he was disappointed after Singleton alleged he had advised friends of Singleton that More Joyous "had no chance" in the race, and at the complete breakdown of the relationship between his mother Gai and Singleton, a friendship that had spanned over 30 years.
Calls for parliamentary inquiry over 'Waterhouse leaks'
There are calls for a parliamentary inquiry into allegations horse trainer Gai Waterhouse leaked sensitive information to her bookmaker son Tom about champion racehorse More Joyous. Racing personality John Singleton voiced the allegations after his star galloper More Joyous beat just one runner home in the Group One All Aged Stakes on Saturday.
Push for referendum on same-sex marriages
Heath Aston - SMH
Australians could vote in a referendum on gay marriage in September under a radical proposal being pushed by independent MP Tony Windsor and supported by the Greens and other crossbenchers. Mr Windsor will call on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take the issue of same-sex marriage "out of the hands of politicians" and let the public decide on election day - September 14. Fairfax Media has learnt that the government is set to announce that a referendum on recognising local government in the constitution will be held with the election, at a cost of $80 million.
Gay marriage is really about moral authority
C. Boyden Gray - Washington Times
One of the unremarked ironies of the Prop 8 case before the Supreme Court is same-sex couples' demand for the blessing of state-recognized "marriage" — a label which owes much of its moral authority to its religious roots. Put another way, would there be as much of a controversy over the availability of the "marriage" title if it had no religious and moral connotations?
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Egyptian police refuse to protect Coptic Christians during gun and machete attack on mourners at cathedral
Leon Watson - Daily Mail
A shocking video has emerged that appears to show Egyptian police standing idly by as an anti-Christian mob launch a frenzied attack on a cathedral filled with mourners. Two worshippers were left dead and 84 injured, including 11 police officers, as men shooting guns, wielding machetes and hurling stones laid siege to the walled Coptic cathedral compound in Cairo earlier this month. Footage of the prolonged mass attack shows uniformed officers looking on and appearing to help one gunman take aim at people streaming out of a service held for five men killed in an earlier clash with Muslims.
Amnesty to Boko Haram: North seeks rebuilding of 400 churches
National Mirror
The Christian Elders Forum of Northern States, CEFNS, yesterday called on the Federal Government to rebuild the over 400 churches destroyed by Boko Haram insurgency in the region. The communiqué reads in part: "Over 400 churches have been destroyed or closed down. Christians are now being individually targeted and eliminated. Thousands of Christian businesses ruined, over 1,500 Christians, innocent lives wiped out. Why is government not talking about pardon to Boko Haram but amnesty?
Indonesian militant serving 19 years escapes
A militant serving a 19-year prison sentence for beheading three Christian schoolgirls has escaped while visiting his sick wife and is still at large, Indonesian police said Friday. National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said Basri, 36, fled from his house in the Central Sulawesi town of Poso last week when a guard who escorted him from jail to the home left him unguarded for several hours.
Nigeria's Christians suffering repeated attacks
ASSIST News Service
Morning Star News is reporting that an attack in Nigeria that killed 18 Christians has capped two years of Islamic aggression. It says that Muslim Fulani herdsmen are suspected in another deadly assault in the area. The news agency's Nigeria correspondent wrote that Hosea Mashaf was resting in his village of Chirang Mangor, Nigeria, when area Christian youths told him that armed, Muslim Fulani herdsmen were attacking the Christian village of Mile Bakwai.
Nightmare week of crime leaves police fed up
Emma Partridge, Eamonn Duff - SMH
Police are ''fed up'' with gun saturation in Sydney after one of the worst weeks of crime in NSW history. A sleep-deprived acting Assistant Commissioner Arthur Katsogiannis said it was one of the worst weeks police had experienced, with five deaths and seven public-place shootings in which eight people were wounded.
Anti-rainbow warrior requests people 'stop this nonsense'
Gay and lesbian equality supporters can ''get naked and walk backward up Hunter Street if they want to'', according to Newcastle lord mayor Jeff McCloy. Just don't chalk pretty rainbows on council property.
The secret thoughts of an unlikely convert
Carolyn Moynihan - Mercator Net
An English professor's journey from queer theory to Christian faith. In 1997 Rosaria M. Champagne was a lesbian feminist English professor at Syracuse University in New York, specialising in gay and lesbian studies, living with her girlfriend and sporting a butch haircut. Today, Rosaria Champagne Butterfield is a home-schooling mother of four adopted children in Purcellville, West Virginia, married to a pastor of the reformed Presbyterian Church. What happened to bring about this transformation?
Is religion a public or a private right?
Susan Hanssen - Mercator Net
Our public debate about religious liberty is missing a clear definition of religion, leading to confusion, frustration, shrill voices, and short tempers. Twentieth-century religious liberty jurisprudence developed on the far side of a great historic chasm that separates us from the traditional definition of religion. Between Americans in 2012 and the American founders in 1776 stand William James and the beginnings of the "science of comparative religions." If we are to grasp the founders' idea of a natural right to religious liberty, we must perform a labor of historical imagination and recover the longstanding definition of religion that has been lost to us.


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Evangelical Churches involved in torture and murder of thousands of children denounced as witches
Katharine Houreldk
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:02 UTC
© (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows children accused of witchcraft waiting for food at the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network in Eket, Nigeria. The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered.
Eket, Nigeria - The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him - Mount Zion Lighthouse.
A month later, he died.
Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.
Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
"It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity," said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.
For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed. Poverty, conflict and poor education lay the foundation for accusations, which are then triggered by the death of a relative, the loss of a job or the denunciation of a pastor on the make, said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children's Fund.
"When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats," he said. "It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change ... and children are defenseless."
The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria's 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.
Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United Nations Children's Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa.
Church signs sprout around every twist of the road snaking through the jungle between Uyo, the capital of the southern Akwa Ibom state where Nwanaokwo lay, and Eket, home to many more rejected "witch children." Churches outnumber schools, clinics and banks put together. Many promise to solve parishioner's material worries as well as spiritual ones - eight out of ten Nigerians struggle by on less than $2 a day.
"Poverty must catch fire," insists the Born 2 Rule Crusade on one of Uyo's main streets.
"Where little shots become big shots in a short time," promises the Winner's Chapel down the road.
"Pray your way to riches," advises Embassy of Christ a few blocks away.
It's hard for churches to carve out a congregation with so much competition. So some pastors establish their credentials by accusing children of witchcraft.
Nwanaokwo said he knew the pastor who accused him only as Pastor King. Mount Zion Lighthouse in Nigeria at first confirmed that a Pastor King worked for them, then denied that they knew any such person.
Bishop A.D. Ayakndue, the head of the church in Nigeria, said pastors were encouraged to pray about witchcraft, but not to abuse children.
"We pray over that problem (of witchcraft) very powerfully," he said. "But we can never hurt a child."
The Nigerian church is a branch of a Californian church by the same name. But the California church says it lost touch with its Nigerian offshoots several years ago.
"I had no idea," said church elder Carrie King by phone from Tracy, Calif. "I knew people believed in witchcraft over there but we believe in the power of prayer, not physically harming people."
The Mount Zion Lighthouse - also named by three other families as the accuser of their children - is part of the powerful Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. The Fellowship's president, Ayo Oritsejafor, said the Fellowship was the fastest-growing religious group in Nigeria, with more than 30 million members.
"We have grown so much in the past few years we cannot keep an eye on everybody," he explained.
But Foxcroft, the head of Stepping Stones, said if the organization was able to collect membership fees, it could also police its members better. He had already written to the organization twice to alert it to the abuse, he said. He suggested the fellowship ask members to sign forms denouncing abuse or hold meetings to educate pastors about the new child rights law in the state of Akwa Ibom, which makes it illegal to denounce children as witches. Similar laws and education were needed in other states, he said.
Sam Itauma of the Children's Rights and Rehabilitation Network said it is the most vulnerable children - the orphaned, sick, disabled or poor - who are most often denounced. In Nwanaokwo's case, his poor father and dead mother made him an easy target.
"Even churches who didn't use to 'find' child witches are being forced into it by the competition," said Itauma. "They are seen as spiritually powerful because they can detect witchcraft and the parents may even pay them money for an exorcism."
That's what Margaret Eyekang did when her 8-year-old daughter Abigail was accused by a "prophet" from the Apostolic Church, because the girl liked to sleep outside on hot nights - interpreted as meaning she might be flying off to join a coven. A series of exorcisms cost Eyekang eight months' wages, or US$270. The payments bankrupted her.
Neighbors also attacked her daughter.
"They beat her with sticks and asked me why I was bringing them a witch child," she said. A relative offered Eyekang floor space but Abigail was not welcome and had to sleep in the streets.
Members of two other families said pastors from the Apostolic Church had accused their children of witchcraft, but asked not to be named for fear of retaliation.
The Nigeria Apostolic Church refused repeated requests made by phone, e-mail and in person for comment.
At first glance, there's nothing unusual about the laughing, grubby kids playing hopscotch or reading from a tattered Dick and Jane book by the graffiti-scrawled cinderblock house. But this is where children like Abigail end up after being labeled witches by churches and abandoned or tortured by their families.
There's a scar above Jane's shy smile: her mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and repeated exorcisms costing a total of $60 didn't cure her of witchcraft. Mary, 15, is just beginning to think about boys and how they will look at the scar tissue on her face caused when her mother doused her in caustic soda. Twelve-year-old Rachel dreamed of being a banker but instead was chained up by her pastor, starved and beaten with sticks repeatedly; her uncle paid him $60 for the exorcism.
Israel's cousin tried to bury him alive, Nwaekwa's father drove a nail through her head, and sweet-tempered Jerry - all knees, elbows and toothy grin - was beaten by his pastor, starved, made to eat cement and then set on fire by his father as his pastor's wife cheered it on.
The children at the home run by Itauma's organization have been mutilated as casually as the praying mantises they play with. Home officials asked for the children's last names not to be used to protect them from retaliation.
The home was founded in 2003 with seven children; it now has 120 to 200 at any given time as children are reconciled with their families and new victims arrive.
Helen Ukpabio is one of the few evangelists publicly linked to the denunciation of child witches. She heads the enormous Liberty Gospel church in Calabar, where Nwanaokwo used to live. Ukpabio makes and distributes popular books and DVDs on witchcraft; in one film, a group of child witches pull out a man's eyeballs. In another book, she advises that 60 percent of the inability to bear children is caused by witchcraft.
In an interview with the AP, Ukpabio is accompanied by her lawyer, church officials and personal film crew.
"Witchcraft is real," Ukpabio insisted, before denouncing the physical abuse of children. Ukpabio says she performs non-abusive exorcisms for free and was not aware of or responsible for any misinterpretation of her materials.
"I don't know about that," she declared.
However, she then acknowledged that she had seen a pastor from the Apostolic Church break a girl's jaw during an exorcism. Ukpabio said she prayed over her that night and cast out the demon. She did not respond to questions on whether she took the girl to hospital or complained about the injury to church authorities.
After activists publicly identified Liberty Gospel as denouncing "child witches," armed police arrived at Itauma's home accompanied by a church lawyer. Three children were injured in the fracas. Itauma asked that other churches identified by children not be named to protect their victims.
"We cannot afford to make enemies of all the churches around here," he said. "But we know the vast majority of them are involved in the abuse even if their headquarters aren't aware."
Just mentioning the name of a church is enough to frighten a group of bubbly children at the home.
"Please stop the pastors who hurt us," said Jerry quietly, touching the scars on his face. "I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch."
This Aug. 18, 2009 photo shows Nwanaokwo Edet, 9, whose father forced him to drink acid days after the family's pastor denounced the child as a witch, lying in a hospital bed in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. He died from his injuries one month later. Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the Associated Press, and 13 churches were named in the case files.
Associated Press researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
shellycheval · 2009-10-18T00:06:15Z
What monsterous insanity
exists in the world that can cause so many people to harm children like this? Just when you are sure you've become informed of the worst: war, torture, murder, slave trade, mutilation, exploitation, there is this. Tonight I feel despair--any end to the world seems better than this ongoing and ever increasing madness. Though I am grateful for being informed, sometimes it is just so painful.
shellycheval
Third_Density_Learner · 2009-10-19T05:36:21Z
I hear you
I hear you loud and clear, and understand exactly where you are coming from. Over the years I have read similarly indescribable evil incidents (though not as bad as this) and just wish the world would hurry up and get obliterated to stop all this suffering. As mere 3D humans, it's hard to read about this kind of thing and comprehend it, so we think that they only answer is world annihilation. And in some ways maybe it is.
System · 2009-10-18T09:57:46Z
What the article doesn't mention is that money is at the heart of these witchcraft accusations. These pastors exploit an uneducated, deeply superstitious populace by engaging in exorcisms in return for money or goods. These "exorcisms" don't come cheap either. If a poor family can't pay up, the pastor sometimes demand their house and all their possessions.
It's almost a sick, conscienceless offspin/variation/deviation of these 419 scams Nigeria is so well known for, with horrific consequences for the children – just collateral damage for making big bucks.
"For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed."
Oh! …. okay… all is not lost then! The parents are as sick and without conscience as the pastors.
Joey Tavares · 2009-10-18T10:40:25Z
Please...
This entire concept of Christianity is based around the worship of a human man being tortured to death on a beam of wood.
This torture is viewed as 'love'.
So go freakin' figure, folks.
Jerry · 2009-10-19T11:48:23Z
This is so sick and twisted
It's barely conceivable. What a nightmare.


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Follow up to 20-win season starts poorly for Dodgers' Julio Urias
MLB's only 20-game winner last season, Urias couldn't get through three innings Sunday in his first start of 2022
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias (7) in the first inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
By Bill Plunkett | bplunkett@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: April 10, 2022 at 5:09 p.m. | UPDATED: April 10, 2022 at 5:09 p.m.
DENVER — It wasn't the start the Dodgers were counting on — for themselves or from Julio Urias.
Urias faced 16 batters in Sunday's 9-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies and allowed 10 of them to reach base (six hits, two walks, a hit batter and an error). Six eventually scored and Urias didn't retire a batter in the third inning before he was pulled from the game.
"I just didn't think he got settled in," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "From the velocity to the command of the secondary pitches, he just didn't seem in sync from pitch number one."
The lack of velocity was noticeable from Urias. He averaged 91.4 mph on his fastball — well below his career average of 94.1 mph and last year's average of 94 mph — and got just four swings-and-misses in 57 pitches, striking out no one.
"I feel good. It's all I can say," Urias said in Spanish when asked about the lack of life on his fastball.
"If I don't execute the pitches, I could throw 100 mph and it wouldn't matter. I feel like executing the pitches is more important and it's what I'm going to focus on."
Roberts said the lack of velocity was likely a "byproduct" of a shortened spring training. Urias pitched just eight innings over three preseason starts — including one in the Freeway Series last weekend when he gave up five runs and also showed decreased velocity on his fastball.
"Julio is not about excuses nor am I," Roberts said. "Just the sharpness — even his last outing against the Angels wasn't sharp and it carried over to today. I certainly expect him to get untracked as we continue this season. But today I just don't think there was anything he could go to or count on."
Roberts would not say there was any cause for concern in Urias' results so far this spring.
"No. It's certainly not ideal," he said. "I do think it's a byproduct of just not having that normal buildup. I'm not using that as an excuse. I think it's just a matter of fact. We're building him up and building up arm strength. I just think that's the reason. He's healthy. He feels good. That's one part of it. But even the secondary today — the changeup, the breaking ball — just wasn't there.
"His delivery was good. I think the delivery is good. It just wasn't coming out. And I think that's just time and continuing to build arm strength."
Urias wouldn't accept the abbreviated buildup of a shortened spring as an explanation for Sunday's poor outing.
"No. It's part of what we all have to get accustomed to," he said. "That's not just exclusive to me, every team is dealing with it. I just have to get used to it."
MLB's only 20-game winner last season, Urias' importance to the Dodgers is heightened this season by their thin starting rotation.
"Well — we're counting on him," Roberts acknowledged. "And he's earned that because of his past years' performance. He's certainly cognizant of what he means to our ballclub and our rotation. Today was not a good day for him, for us. But I do think that, looking out, he's a guy that I know is gonna get better.
"He takes it personally. So I know that next turn is going to be considerably better."
MINNY PLAN
The most recent time the Dodgers played in Minnesota the first scheduled game of the three-game series was postponed by snow. The next day's game started in 44-degree temperatures and a doubleheader on the next day started in 40 degrees — and ended with a 5-hour, 11-minute, 12-inning game in the nightcap.
The weather forecast is only slightly more promising for the two-game series scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at Target Field. Rain is in the forecast for both days with highs nudging into the 50s.
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Andrew Heaney is scheduled to start Tuesday's game with Clayton Kershaw lined up for Wednesday. But Roberts said the Dodgers have already discussed how to pivot if there is a postponement.
"We're starting talks and figuring out what we're going to do, as far as push guys back, just potential other ways we can manage them," he said. "Nothing set in stone yet."
If Kershaw is pushed back a day, he could end up starting the home opener on Thursday against the Cincinnati Reds.
Sunday's win for the Rockies was the 1,000th of manager Bud Black's career, making him the 66th manager in baseball history to reach that milestone. His first win came on April 3, 2007 as the Padres manager. Dave Roberts started in center field for the losing team, the San Francisco Giants, that day.
The Dodgers are off Monday.
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Analyzing and visualizing environmental data for cities globally, the dynamic Urbinsight mapping platform is designed through a community oriented process that leverages residents' inherent spatial knowledge, enabling users to view relevant and visually appealing map layers as well as input data based on quality of life surveys and parcel audits conducted by local stakeholders.
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Urbinsight organizes environmental information related to water, energy, waste/materials, food, etc., in a structure that mirrors the urban metabolism. Information is classified by Stages (e.g. Sources, Upstream Infrastructure, Demand, Downstream Infrastructure, and Sinks), and within each Stage, information can be further classified according to the various Nodes or Junctions (e.g. Sources might include Lake, River, Groundwater, Rain, Imported bottles). Further information can be classified according to the water flow network – the connections or tubes that connect the Junctions and that vary by season or time of day.
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It started with a passing conversation between the property owner and Scott Brown of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles about how cool it would be to do something really special for the 50th Easter Jeep Safari and the 75th anniversary of Jeep. Out of the blue comes a call from Scott that all the legal paperwork had been done and to ask if I am available to guide the climb in just a couple of days (Thursday, March 24, 2016) for a sunrise photo shoot on Lion's Back. Yes was the only answer. This was a big secret, as neither the property owner nor Jeep wanted to attract a crowd.
We met in the predawn hours of Thursday morning to prep the Jeeps and their drivers for the endeavor. I was to right-seat for Mark Allen, head of Jeep design, in a 75th Anniversary Edition Wrangler. Tyler Ruby, Jeep Wrangler brand manager, was to follow us in the Wrangler Red Rock Limited Edition. Jim Repp, vehicle development manager, would tail gun in the 75th Anniversary Grand Cherokee, with John Marshall (a friend and guide) as his right-seat. On cameras were Chris Collard, Jay Bernard, Brad Stanley, and a few other social media team members somewhere off in the bushes. After a quick driver briefing and a cue from the photographers that all was ready, we started our ascent in the twilight. We were all very excited, with a keen appreciation for the uniqueness of the circumstances.
Lion's Back is one of those obstacles that looks much more intimidating than it is difficult. In fact, if you have driven the gatekeeper fin on Moab's Hell's Revenge, you have survived much narrower rock than Lion's Back. If you have driven up Kenny's climb on Moab's Fins N' Things, you have driven much steeper than Lion's Back. However, Lion's Back is tall. Very tall. Very, very tall. It's about 350 feet tall.
The Grand Cherokee, piloted by Jim Repp and John Marshall, was the last Jeep down. Note the sugary crust that has formed on the rock from 12 years of no traffic. It made the drive just a bit more interesting.
All went smoothly as our Jeeps slowly crawled up the fin. I was excited to be there, but it didn't give me an adrenalin rush—yet. The view from the top was breathtaking. We reached the turnaround spot, and I glanced down off the side—now the adrenalin was flowing! The emotional and physical impact of just how high in the air we were struck me. There are parts of your body that clench up and refuse to go anywhere near the edge. I stepped out of the Jeep to help Mark turn around. The physical reality is that the two-door could easily do a three-point turn on top, but the sphincter takes over and it becomes an 11-point turn to avoid looking down into that chasm of certain death.
We took in the sunrise view, posed for photos, congratulated each other, and then took a collective deep breath and started down. It always seems steeper on the descent than it does on the ascent, but we reached the bottom uneventfully. While we were all celebrating the first drive on Lion's Back in 12 years, Tyler said something that really struck me as significant. "These are the first JKs to ever drive on this!" he remarked. And they are likely the only ones that ever will.
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You might think the dust is finally settling on campus after Commencement and Reunion, but this year we're stirring up more dust before summer starts in earnest. The corridors of Green Hall are bustling with movers, dollies, orange rent-a-crates, and people packing years of their profession into boxes for a move.
Moving is, as Director of Advising and Academic Support Services John O'Keefe puts it, "surely no one's idea of a good time." He has packed six boxes and filled six more with recycling. But packing carries some excitement with it this time around, as the move—just across Tupelo Lane and beyond the Chapel Lawn—signifies the completion of the first major project in Wellesley's campus renewal plan: Schneider Center.
This week, according to Paul McAndrew, project manager for the Schneider renovation, Student Financial Services' furniture moved on Monday, and Tuesday was SFS staff members' first day in the building. Furniture for Students' Aid Society, International Studies, and Faculty Housing and Transportation is moving on Wednesday, with those offices' first day in the building on Thursday. The Registrar and Class Deans' furniture will move on Friday, June 13, and staff members' first day in the building will be the following Monday.
McAndrew explains that over the next few weeks the contractor will be completing the "punch list"—miscellaneous tasks of patching and painting, final cleaning, etc.—as well as paving exterior walkways and landscaping.
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Ixazomib Maintenance Delays Progression in Non-Transplanted Patients With Newly Diagnosed Myeloma
Postinduction maintenance therapy with the oral proteasome inhibitor ixazomib prolonged progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (MM) who were not undergoing autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT), according to results from the placebo-controlled phase III TOURMALINE-MM4 trial. The PFS benefit was greatest in patients who achieved a complete response (CR) or very good partial response (VGPR) following induction, the authors, led by Meletios Dimopoulos, MD, noted.
According to Dr. Dimopoulos, from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, lenalidomide is currently the only approved drug for continuous treatment of patients with newly diagnosed MM who are ineligible for AHCT. "However, lenalidomide may have some long-term side effects and may be less active in subsets of patients, such as those with International Staging System (ISS) stage III disease or with abnormal cytogenetics," he said. "Thus, new agents are needed for these patients."
In the TOURMALINE-MM4 trial, researchers randomized patients with newly diagnosed MM who did not undergo an AHCT and who had achieved at least a partial response after 6 to 12 months of induction therapy to receive maintenance with either:
ixazomib 3 mg on days 1, 8, and 15 of 28-day cycles for up to 24 months (n=425)
placebo (n=281)
At baseline, the median ages for patients in the ixazomib and placebo arms were 72 and 73 years, respectively. Approximately 17% of patients in each group had high-risk cytogenetic features and the most prevalent stage in each group was ISS stage II disease (38.8% and 40.6%).
Most of the induction regimens used prior to enrollment included a proteasome inhibitor (82.6% in the ixazomib arm and 81.9% in the placebo arm), and about 16% of patients in each group received a regimen containing a proteasome inhibitor and an immunomodulatory drug.
"Ixazomib may provide a valuable maintenance option in combination with other agents."
—Meletios Dimopoulos, MD
At study entry, 62% of the overall population were in CR or VGPR.
Over a median follow-up period of 21.1 months, treatment with ixazomib was associated with a 34.1% reduction in combined risk of disease progression or death, compared with placebo (hazard ratio [HR] = 0.659; p<0.001). Ixazomib-treated patients also had significantly longer PFS: 17.4 months versus 9.4 months.
The PFS benefit was significant among patients who achieved a CR or VGPR following induction as demonstrated by a longer median PFS with ixazomib relative to placebo (25.6 vs. 12.9 months, respectively; HR=0.586; p<0.001).
The investigators also found a significant benefit with ixazomib across prespecified subgroups, including patients with ISS stage III disease, those with high-risk cytogenetic abnormalities, and patients ≥75 years of age (TABLE).
The proportions of patients who experienced grade ≥3 treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs) were 36.6% for the ixazomib arm versus 23.2% for the placebo arm. A higher percentage of patients in the ixazomib group discontinued treatment because of TEAEs (12.9% vs. 8.0%). The most frequently reported any-grade TEAEs were nausea (26.8% vs. 8.0%), vomiting (24.2% vs. 4.3%), and diarrhea (23.2% vs. 12.3%).
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"These results indicate that ixazomib is well tolerated and provides a PFS benefit in this setting, thereby representing a valuable treatment option for patients," Dr. Dimopoulos and coauthors concluded. "Furthermore, ixazomib may provide a valuable maintenance option in combination with other agents, such as immunomodulatory drugs and monoclonal antibodies."
A limitation of this study was the comparison of ixazomib with placebo rather than an active therapy control such as lenalidomide; however, no approved or standard-of-care maintenance therapy was available for non-transplantation newly diagnosed MM at the time of the TOURMALINE-MM4 trial, the authors noted.
Dr. Dimopoulos added that the benefit associated with ixazomib maintenance is modest, indicating the need for additional investigation into ixazomib as part of a combination therapy as a maintenance strategy for newly diagnosed MM.
Study authors report relationships with Millennium Pharmaceuticals, which sponsored this trial.
Dimopoulos MA, Špička I, Quach H, et al. Ixazomib as Postinduction Maintenance for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Not Undergoing Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation: The Phase III TOURMALINE-MM4 Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2020 October 6. [Epub ahead of print]


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Q: How to multiply cells in one excel sheet with multiple cells in another excel sheet I have a workbook with two excel sheets: sheet1 and sheet2. In sheet1 I have a large amount of data from column B to CE.
Using VBA I am currently copying each row from Sheet1 in the range "B3:AP3" to Sheet2 duplicating each line so it will be represented twice. This is working fine!
The problem i have as that in Sheet2 I now need to make a calculation. In Sheet1 I have a number in cell CE and CF for each row. As these rows have been duplicated I need to multiply the number in cell AP3 of Sheet2 with that of CE3 in Sheet1 and that of AP4 in Sheet2 with that of CF3 in Sheet1.
The macro needs to keep on doing this with the subsequent cells. In total cell AP the first duplicated line needs to be multiplied with the number CE3 from Sheet1 and cell AP of the second duplicated line needs to be multiplied with the number CF3 from sheet1. The result should be posted in Sheet2 column AQ.
Below I have posted the code for duplicating and moving the lines but I am really struggling with the multiplications, any help is greatly appreciated!
Sub CopyRows()
Dim ws1 As Worksheet, ws2 As Worksheet
Dim i As Long, k As Long
Dim ws1LR As Long, ws2LR As Long

Set ws1 = Sheets("Bearbejdning")
Set ws2 = Sheets("Sheet8")

ws1LR = ws1.Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1
ws2LR = ws2.Range("B" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row + 1

i = 2
k = ws2LR
Do Until i = ws1LR
    With ws1
        .Range(.Cells(i, 1), .Cells(i, 43)).Copy
    End With

    With ws2
        .Cells(k, 1).PasteSpecial
        .Cells(k, 1).Offset(1, 0).PasteSpecial
    End With

    Range("k,AR" & ws2LR).Formula = "=ws1.range(.Cells(i, 73)) * ws2.range(.Cells(k, 36))"

    k = k + 2
    i = i + 1
Loop

End Sub

A: You can't pass an object into an excel formula that way.
Try this:
Range(k,"AR" & ws2LR).Formula = "=" & ws1.range(.Cells(i, 73)).address &" * " & ws2.range(.Cells(k, 36)).address

Alternatively, you could place the pre-calculated value in the cell.
Range(k,"AR" & ws2LR).Value = ws1.range(.Cells(i, 73)) * ws2.range(.Cells(k, 36))

Also, this Range call looks strange to me: Range("k,AR").
I think it should be something like Cells(k,"AR").
Variables shouldn't be inside quotes and Range doesn't accept Row/Column parameters.

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Conversations are happening nationwide around the topic of student food insecurity. The idea is not lost that students' basic needs must be met before we can expect them to persist. Rochester Community and Technical College (RCTC) is not new to this discussion. The campus currently operates two satellite food pantries which continue to expand in offerings including personal hygiene and daily use products. The food pantries were renamed in the fall of 2017 to Hive Supply which is a play on words to align with the Yellowjacket mascot. Hive Supply is more encompassing of all the products offered (in addition to food) and is also meant to break down an initial barrier of shame for students going to the locations or hearing about it on campus. Usage continues to increase as students can visit once per week and take up to 15 items.
The 2017-2018 RCTC Student Senate leadership made it their mission to "Feed the Kids" as the Student President would say. After reviewing the Wisconsin Hope Labs report indicating that 56% of Community College students are experiencing food insecurity and noticing that a number of students on the RCTC campus were struggling to obtain basic sustenance, the Student Senate made a resolution to allocate $20,000 towards food initiatives. This funding was taken from a fund balance of unused student fees collected over the years. The breakdown of allocations included: $5,000 to chartered student clubs to promote and serve food at open houses to educate students about their club, $5,000 to promote and serve food at the on-campus Learning Center, and $10,000 to provide snack bins in various areas of campus and weekly hot meals to students on campus.
Focus on these efforts will not be declining anytime soon. RCTC is working to establish a meal plan option for students to purchase through financial aid awards or personally. Despite not having on-campus residence halls, meal plans can still play a critical role in insuring students know they have hot meals to depend on each week. The incoming Student Senate leadership will continue to examine the campus needs regarding food and establish their platform in the fall. The Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management is continuing talks on how to best provide additional resources to students on and off campus and continue to address the issue of food insecurity at RCTC.


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Collateral attack on a judgment in California
A collateral attack on a judgment in California is the topic of this blog post.
A collateral attack on a judgment in California requires the filing of a separate lawsuit which is also known as an independent action in equity. A collateral attack on a judgment is fundamentally different from a standard motion to vacate a judgment in that it involves the filing of another lawsuit to vacate the judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction. The complaint could also include other causes of action such as vacating the judgment on the grounds of extrinsic fraud or mistake if appropriate.
Advantages of a collateral attack on a judgment in California.
A collateral attack on a judgment in California has some very important advantages which include,
(1) there is NO time limit for a collateral attack on a judgment,
(2) because filing an independent action in equity involves a separate lawsuit, the party seeking to vacate the judgment is allowed the full range of discovery methods authorized in California litigation including interrogatories, requests for admission, requests for production of documents, depositions, and most importantly, the use of oral testimony as witnesses can be served with a subpoena to appear at the trial, and
(3) the fact that a California Court of Appeal ruled in a recently published decision that laches cannot be invoked as a defense in cases where there has been a complete failure of service of process upon a defendant.
And there is another important advantage in that even if a motion to vacate is made under section 473 of the Code of Civil Procedure and is denied that does not always preclude an independent action in equity to set aside the judgment, in other words the denial of the previous motion is not entitled to collateral estoppel effect although collateral estoppel may apply if the defendant had an opportunity to present oral testimony at the section 473 motion hearing and the issues were fully litigated. See Groves v. Peterson (2002) 100 Cal.App.4th 659, 668.
The California Supreme Court has stated that the reasoning behind the general rule that the denial of the previous motion is not entitled to collateral estoppel effect, which has been well settled in California for over 100 years, is the fact that, in the standard motion procedure, the moving party is limited to presenting ex parte affidavits of voluntary witnesses in most cases unless the trial court exercises discretion and permits a greater latitude. In using the motion procedure the party does not have the right to produce oral testimony or to compel witnesses to attend for deposition or cross-examination. The motion procedure, while simpler and more convenient, does not involve all the aspects of full litigation. Because the remedies of a motion in the underlying case and an independent action in equity are cumulative, parties should be entitled to resort first to the convenient and expeditious remedy without worrying about the issue of collateral estoppel if the motion is denied. Thus even if a section 473 motion has been denied, parties may still pursue an independent action that affords them all the advantages of a regular trial of the issue.
Technically speaking there is no time limit to filing an independent action in equity to vacate a judgment. However if you have recently become aware that a judgment has been entered against you should contact an experienced civil litigation attorney that can evaluate your situation and determine if a collateral attack on the judgment is appropriate.
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Nathan Mubasher earned a post-doctorate LL.M. in International Financial Transactions with emphasis on Money Laundering and Compliance at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a J.D. at American College of Law, and his B.A. at University of California, Riverside. He is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in California. He is also an active member of the American Health Lawyers Association and the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys. He has performed over 1,000 mediations and has Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) training from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
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Rule 60(b)(3) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court
A Rule 60(b)(3) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court is the topic of this blog post.
A Rule 60(b)(3) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court is filed on the grounds of fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party.
This motion is filed pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b)(3) ("Rule 60").
Rule 60 states in pertinent part that "(b) Grounds for Relief from a Final Judgment, Order, or Proceeding. On motion and just terms, the court may relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (3) fraud (whether previously called intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or misconduct by an opposing party."
Deadline to file a Rule 60(b)(3) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court.
It should be noted that that the motion must be filed no later than one year after the entry of the judgment as Rule 60 states that "(c) Timing and Effect of the Motion. (1) Timing. A motion under Rule 60(b) must be made within a reasonable time—and for reasons (1), (2), and (3) no more than a year after the entry of the judgment or order or the date of the proceeding."
Requirements for a Rule 60(b)(3) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court.
A motion to vacate a judgment on the grounds of fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party is the appropriate motion if you can meet the burden of showing by clear and convincing evidence that,
The fraud or other misconduct resulted in a verdict against you'
The conduct prevented you from fully and fairly presenting their claim or defense, and
The fraud, misrepresentation or misconduct of the adverse party was not discoverable by due diligence before or during the trial.
"Rule 60(b)(3) "is aimed at judgments which were unfairly obtained, not at those which are factually incorrect." See De Saracho v. Custom Food Machinery, Inc., 206 F.3d 874, 880 (9th Cir. 2000) (citing In re M/V Peacock, 809 F.2d 1403, 1405 (9th Cir. 1987).
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal has ruled that obtaining an arbitration award through perjury is fraud. See Dogherra v. Safeway Stores, Inc., 679 F.2d 1293, 1297 (9th Cir. 1982) (obtaining an award through perjury is fraud), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 990, 103 S.Ct. 346, 74 L.Ed.2d 386 (1982).
If you have recently become aware of fraud, misrepresentation or other misconduct by an adverse party that resulted in a verdict against you and prevented you from fairly presenting your case you should contact an experienced civil litigation attorney as soon as possible.
An experienced civil litigation attorney can evaluate your situation and determine whether filing a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule 60(b)(3) is appropriate.
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Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California
The Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California is the topic of this blog post.
The Consumers Legal Remedies Act is act is also known as the CLRA and is a very potent weapon that may be used by a California consumer against a business or service provider who is using unfair or deceptive trade practices. The CLRA provides remedies for unfair or deceptive trade practices and is very detailed.
Statutes governing Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California.
The statutes governing the Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California are found in Civil Code sections 1750 through 1784. The damages available include actual damages, an injunctive order enjoining the acts, methods or practices, restitution, punitive damages and reasonable court costs and attorney's fees. A plaintiff who is a senior citizen over the age of 65 years or disabled as defined by subdivisions (f) and (g) of Civil Code section 1761 can also be awarded additional damages of up to $5,000.00 in certain cases.
Civil Code § 1780 states in pertinent part that,
"(a) Any consumer who suffers any damage as a result of the use or employment by any person of a method, act, or practice declared to be unlawful by Section 1770 may bring an action against that person to recover or obtain any of the following:
(1) Actual damages, but in no case shall the total award of damages in a class action be less than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(2) An order enjoining the methods, acts, or practices.
(3) Restitution of property.
(4) Punitive damages.
(5) Any other relief that the court deems proper.
(e) The court shall award court costs and attorney's fees to a prevailing plaintiff in litigation filed pursuant to this section. Reasonable attorney's fees may be awarded to a prevailing defendant upon a finding by the court that the plaintiff's prosecution of the action was not in good faith."
There are more than 20 separate categories of illegal practices listed in Civil Code § 1770. These include passing off goods or services as those of another, using deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in connection with goods or services, and representing as original or new goods that have deteriorated unreasonably or are altered, reconditioned, reclaimed, used, or secondhand.
Requirements before filing a lawsuit under the Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California.
The CLRA does have some very specific requirements that must be followed. Before a lawsuit can be filed requesting damages under the CLRA the plaintiff must first give the defendant notice of the violation and allow them a specific period of time to make things right.
At least 30 days before filing a lawsuit under the CLRA, the plaintiff must give the potential defendant notice of the alleged violation and demand that he or she "correct, repair, replace or otherwise rectify" the prohibited practices. The notice must be in writing and sent by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the place where the transaction occurred, or to the potential defendant's principal place of business within California pursuant to Civil Code section 1782(a)(2).
The complaint must contain allegations that proper notice was given. If a plaintiff files a complaint requesting damages without first sending the required notice, the claim can be dismissed. This defect cannot be cured by amendment. Failure to provide notice after litigation has started will not be effective, notice must be given in order to state a claim, failure to give notice before filing any complaint will result in a Court dismissing the case with prejudice.
Messages sent by email, fax, or standard mail are not sufficient, and the notice must also be sent to the place where the transaction occurred, or to the potential defendant's principal place of business within California pursuant to pursuant to Civil Code § 1782 (a)(2).
The notice is intended to give the manufacturer or vendor sufficient notice of alleged defects to permit appropriate corrections or replacements, and to facilitate settlements of consumer actions wherever possible before a complaint is filed.
It should be noted that a plaintiff that is requesting only injunctive relief under the CLRA does not have to serve the required notice, and a plaintiff can file a complaint that requests only injunctive relief and later amend their complaint and request damages if they include allegations that they served the required notice on the defendant.
A defendant may establish good faith by introducing evidence of their attempts to comply with a consumer's demand pursuant to Civil Code section 1782(3).
A defendant may avoid liability under the CLRA if they can prove that any alleged violation was not intentional; it resulted from a bona fide error; and they made an appropriate correction, repair, or replacement, or provided another remedy pursuant to Civil Code section 1784.
An experienced litigation attorney can evaluate your situation and determine whether sending a demand letter requesting that a business or company correct their violations of the Consumers Legal Remedies Act is appropriate.
Author nathanmubasherPosted on March 12, 2017 February 23, 2021 Categories California law, civil litigation, consumer protection laws in California, law, legalTags California law, civil litigation in California, consumer protection laws in California, Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California, law, legalLeave a comment on Consumers Legal Remedies Act in California
Motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California
A motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California is the topic of this blog post
The technical name for a Lis Pendens is a notice of pendency of action. The term Lis Pendens is more commonly used and is Latin for pending lawsuit.
The statutes governing a Lis Pendens in California are found in Code of Civil Procedure sections 405.1 through 405.39.
Code of Civil Procedure § 405.20 authorizes the recording of a Lis Pendens and Code of Civil Procedure § 405.4 states that, "Real property claim" means the cause or causes of action in a pleading which would, if meritorious, affect (a) title to, or the right to possession of, specific real property or (b) the use of an easement identified in the pleading, other than an easement obtained pursuant to statute by any regulated public utility."
Law authorizing a motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California.
A motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California is authorized by Code of Civil Procedure section 405.30 which states that,
"At any time after notice of pendency of action has been recorded, any party, or any nonparty with an interest in the real property affected thereby, may apply to the court in which the action is pending to expunge the notice. However, a person who is not a party to the action shall obtain leave to intervene from the court at or before the time the party brings the motion to expunge the notice. Evidence or declarations may be filed with the motion to expunge the notice. The court may permit evidence to be received in the form of oral testimony, and may make any orders it deems just to provide for discovery by any party affected by a motion to expunge the notice. The claimant shall have the burden of proof under Sections 405.31 and 405.32."
Burden of proof on motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California.
Once the motion to expunge has been filed the burden is on the plaintiff to show that at least one of the causes of action of their complaint states a real property claim. The Court must order the notice expunged if the complaint does not state a real property claim.
Code of Civil Procedure § 405.31 states that,
"In proceedings under this chapter, the court shall order the notice expunged if the court finds that the pleading on which the notice is based does not contain a real property claim. The court shall not order an undertaking to be given as a condition of expunging the notice where the court finds the pleading does not contain a real property claim."
"In proceedings under this chapter, the court shall order that the notice be expunged if the court finds that the claimant has not established by a preponderance of the evidence the probable validity of the real property claim. The court shall not order an undertaking to be given as a condition of expunging the notice if the court finds the claimant has not established the probable validity of the real property claim."
Grounds for filing a motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California.
The most common grounds for expunging a Lis Pendens in California are that the complaint does not state a real property claim as required by California law.
Another ground for expunging a Lis Pendens in California is on the grounds that it is void and invalid as the Plaintiff did not comply with the requirements of Code of Civil Procedure § 405.22 which states that, " Except in actions subject to Section 405.6, the claimant shall, prior to recordation of the notice, cause a copy of the notice to be mailed, by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, to all known addresses of the parties to whom the real property claim is adverse and to all owners of record of the real property affected by the real property claim as shown by the latest county assessment roll. If there is no known address for service on an adverse party or owner, then as to that party or owner a declaration under penalty of perjury to that effect may be recorded instead of the proof of service required above, and the service on that party or owner shall not be required. Immediately following recordation, a copy of the notice shall also be filed with the court in which the action is pending. Service shall also be made immediately and in the same manner upon each adverse party later joined in the action."
Code of Civil Procedure § 405.23 states that, "Any notice of pendency of action shall be void and invalid as to any adverse party or owner of record unless the requirements of Section 405.22 are met for that party or owner and a proof of service in the form and content specified in Section 1013a has been recorded with the notice of pendency of action."
The recording of a Lis Pendens against a real property clouds the title and may prevent any transfer of the real property. Therefore, the Lis Pendens procedure is abused very frequently.
The California Supreme Court has stated that, Courts have long recognized that "[b]ecause the recording of a lis pendens place[s] a cloud upon the title of real property until the pending action [is] ultimately resolved . . . , the lis pendens procedure [is] susceptible to serious abuse, providing unscrupulous plaintiffs with a powerful lever to force the settlement of groundless or malicious suits." See Malcolm v. Superior Court (1981) 29 Cal.3d 518, 523, fn. 2, 524 (emphasis in original).
Several California Courts of Appeal have stated in published decisions that the history of the legislation indicates a legislative intent to restrict rather than broaden the application of the remedy.
The California Courts of Appeal have stated in several published decisions that causes of action with equitable liens do not state a real property claim if those causes of action act only as an alternative or collateral means to collect money damages as the real purpose of the statutes is to provide notice of pending litigation and not to provide plaintiffs with more leverage for use in negotiating a settlement.
Causes of action for money only do not state a real property claim in California.
Attorney's fees and costs available on a motion to expunge a Lis Pendens in California.
The prevailing party on the motion to expunge is entitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure § 405.38 which states that,
"The court shall direct that the party prevailing on any motion under this chapter be awarded the reasonable attorney's fees and costs of making or opposing the motion unless the court finds that the other party acted with substantial justification or that other circumstances make the imposition of attorney's fees and costs unjust."
An experienced litigation attorney can evaluate your situation and determine whether filing a motion to expunge a Lis Pendens is appropriate.
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A Rule 60(b)(2) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court is filed using the grounds of newly discovered evidence. Rule 60(b)(2) refers to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Rule 60(b)(2) states in pertinent part that "(b) Grounds for Relief from a Final Judgment, Order, or Proceeding. On motion and just terms, the court may relieve a party or its legal representative from a final judgment, order, or proceeding for the following reasons: (2) newly discovered evidence that, with reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b)." And Rule 60 also states that "(c) Timing and Effect of the Motion. (1) Timing. A motion under Rule 60(b) must be made within a reasonable time—and for reasons (1), (2), and (3) no more than a year after the entry of the judgment or order or the date of the proceeding."
A district court may vacate a prior judgment where the court is presented with newly discovered evidence, an intervening change of controlling law, manifest injustice, or where the prior order was clearly erroneous. Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(1)-(6); United States v. Cuddy, 147 F.3d 1111, 1114 (9th Cir. 1998); School Dist. No. 1J, Multnomah County v. AcandS, Inc., 5 F.3d 1255, 1263 (9th Cir. 1993) see also Stewart v. Dupnik, 243 F.3d 549, 549 (9th Cir. 2000).
A Rule 60(B)(2) motion to vacate a judgment is appropriate if you can meet the burden required of the moving party as detailed in this blog post.
The party filing a Rule 60(b)(2) motion to vacate a judgment in United States District Court must meet their burden of showing that,
The newly discovered evidence was discovered after the trial;
They exercised diligence to discover the evidence;
The evidence is not just cumulative or impeaching evidence;
The evidence is material;
The evidence would most likely produce a different result if the judgment were set aside, and
The evidence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which states that, "A motion for a new trial must be filed no later than 28 days after the entry of judgment."
And several Circuit Courts of Appeal have also stated in published decisions that a Rule 60(b)(2) motion for relief from judgment is subject to the same standard as a motion under Rule 59 for a new trial on the grounds of newly discovered evidence.
If you become aware of new evidence that was material to your claim or defense and could not have been discovered earlier you need to contact an experienced civil litigation attorney as soon as possible to increase the probability that your motion will be granted as the law is settled in the Ninth Circuit and elsewhere that a district court has great discretion in deciding whether to grant a motion under Rule 60. It is subject to review only for abuse of discretion.
An experienced litigation attorney can evaluate your situation and determine whether filing a motion to vacate a judgment under Rule 60(b)(2) is appropriate.
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