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Marvellous books
The world-famous Codex Amiatinus. Produced in Northern England around 700, it contains more than 1000 leaves made from goatskin and weighs almost 35kg. It will never cease to fill the beholder with an acute sense of awe.
A modern art book may still impress through size, quality, design or even weight. We may still arrest our slow walk through a bookshop to admire an examplar of extraordinary publishing. Most books, however, are not impressive anymore. They are ubiquitous and therefore unexceptional. We see them everywhere to the point of not noticing them at all.
Printing filled the world with books and keeps filling it, despite warnings that new types of disembodied publications menace to take over.
The manuscript book did not fill the world before the printing press. Handwritten books, carefully wrapped up in expensive and elaborate bindings, never became a ubiquitous sight in the West. Manuscript production reached a high point in the decades before and after Gutenberg's invention, but the cultural transformation led by the handwritten book was the long development of literacy, scholarship, science and education. A long evolution, not a sudden revolution. The handwritten book could never seek to bring change through quantity.
Since it was not ubiquitous, the manuscript book remained marvellous. When cultures which had never seen a book laid eyes on a manuscript, the reaction was pure enchantment. Like the visitor of a tech fair watching a demo of the latest robotic invention.
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Refugi Guardat de L'illa / Arteks Arquitectura + Ginjaume Arquitectura i Paissatge
April 29, 2017 Valentina Villa Architecture, Architecture Article, Architecture News, Home design ideas, Interior Design 0
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Architects: Arteks Arquitectura + Ginjaume Arquitectura i Paissatge
Location: Vall del Madriu-Perafita-Claror, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
Architect In Charge: Andreu Canut, Elisabet Faura, Lluís Ginjaume, Gerard Veciana
Area: 638.0 m2
Year Project: 2016
Photography : Pol Viladoms
Landscape: Roser Ginjaume
Architects Team: Laura Doino, Júlia Sàlvia
Sponsor : Govern d'Andorra
Structural Engineer: Xavier Beal, Beal AEC Enginyers consultors
Installations Engineer: Ivan Rossell Falcó, R3e SL
Envelope Consultant: Joan Rovira Botey, ingeniero
Wood Structure Consultant: Miguel Nevado, arquitecto
Quality Control: Pirineu Inspecció i Control
Construction Company: Pidasa Serveis
From the architect. The new Illa mountain hut is situated at 2.488 m height in the idyllic surroundings of the Andorran Pyrenees, a place of an extraordinary beauty resulting from the interaction between man and environment, which gave rise to the characteristic aspect of the existing construction built in the 30's and whose comprehensive refurbishment and enlargement would be the objective of this project.
The main difficulties we encountered when considering the project were the interaction with the protected and sensitive environment's pre-existences (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage), the extreme weather conditions that only allowed working during the summer, an enclave without road access and finally the energy self-sufficiency.
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All these extraordinary challenges were transformed through strategic decisions into the characteristic elements that would shape the project.
Formally, using the existing building as a structural base helped us to minimize the economic cost and the generation of waste in an environmentally sensitive habitat.
The wooden frame structure gives warmth to the interiors but also a modern look. It also takes advantage of the whole space heights and, with its studied roof angles, helps to discharge the big snow load accumulated during the winter and to optimize the energy gain from solar and photovoltaic panels.
A characteristic and unique fact that has endowed with an added complexity to the whole process and has determined the chose for light and prefabricated materials has been that the site can only be reach by helicopter. Most of the interior elements are wooden prefabricated in workshop and assembled on site. As a result, the building weighs about a third of a conventional construction of the same characteristics and its total execution time has been only 6 months.
Finally highlight that the building is 100% disconnected from any supply network. Because of this, one goal was to reach at least 4 days of energy self-sufficiency. To achieve it, the whole program with climatic requirements was grouped in the new building which is perfectly isolated and conditioned, leaving the rest of the program related to the services in the existing one. Precisely, the installations are an important part to achieve the mentioned self-sufficiency by the use of solar and photovoltaic panels, the autonomous system to treat the waters equipped with coconut filters that allows to return them to the environment, and finally, a controlled and efficient ventilation system that avoids the direct exchange of air with the extreme exterior cold.
The result responds to the natural habitat's evolution and also to the new uses and the rapid growth of mountain activities in the Pyrenean environment, turning the old and deteriorated building into a modern mountain hut, the 4th higher shelter in the Pyrenees. A place prepared to accommodate both hikers and guards who live together comfortable and cozy way, in a hut equipped with all the necessary services to enjoy a unique and privileged environment.
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SpiceJet unveils dedicated freight service
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New Delhi | Published: September 11, 2018 4:48:05 AM
SpiceJet, which on Monday launched its dedicated freight service, SpiceXpress, is targeting cargo capacity of 1 lakh tone every month by 2022 on the back of the growth in the domestic e-commerce market, chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said.
The airline, which has a current cargo capacity of 15,000 tone per month, will be adding four freighter aircraft under SpiceXpress.
SpiceJet, which on Monday launched its dedicated freight service, SpiceXpress, is targeting cargo capacity of 1 lakh tone every month by 2022 on the back of the growth in the domestic e-commerce market, chairman and managing director Ajay Singh said. The airline, which has a current cargo capacity of 15,000 tone per month, will be adding four freighter aircraft under SpiceXpress. SpiceJet is the first scheduled domestic operator to start exclusive freight services. So far, airlines have been carrying payloads in the belly of the aircraft.
"We see a tremendous potential in the air logistics business. We will increase our monthly capacity to 27,000 tone by the end of 2018 and nearly 40,000 tone by the end of the next year. Our target is to take this capacity to 90,000-100,000 tone in 3-4 years," Sings told reporters at the launch.
The company's entry into the cargo-handling business has been fuelled by the growth of e-commerce in the country, with sellers like Amazon and Flipkart offering same or next-day options to their customers. Cities such as Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Gurugram have emerged as storage hubs for e-commerce companies.
As per consulting firm PwC India, domestic e-commerce is set to jump three times, from $35 billion to $100 billion by 2022. Two major players – Amazon and Flipkart – ship around 6.5 lakh units daily. There are just five freighter aircraft in the country, with Blue Dart Express being the notable player.
Cargo revenues for air carriers have witnessed a surge in the last few years. SpiceJet's cargo business has grown 20-30% annually. The Gurugram-based carrier earned Rs 241 crore in FY17 from freight services. SpiceJet plans to ship apparel, consumer electronics, pharmaceutical products, live animals, among other items, inside the modified Boeing 737-700 aircraft starting next week. Its operations will initially cover Delhi, Bengaluru, Guwahati, Hong Kong, Kabul and Amritsar.
"We hope to ramp up our cargo servicing destinations from 54 to 150 destinations across India, Asia and Europe by 2022," Sings added. According to rating agency Icra, the air cargo traffic is expected to grow at 60% in the next five years. Over 33 million tone of freight was carried by airlines in FY18, up nearly 13% year-on-year.
However, experts warned that a cargo venture could be highly risky for a scheduled commercial operator as it requires expertise. "Plans to launch freighter operations may be a strategic risk at this stage. The value in cargo is in door-to-door services, however, this requires massive investment in last-mile connectivity. The airline's earlier non-core initiative in the retail space, SpiceStyle, proved to be an avoidable strategic mistake," aviation advisory firm CAPA India said in its mid-year outlook for the sector. Revenue from cargo and ancillary activities has become a focus area for airlines due to a stiff competition in the passenger travel market.


For this Salon I thought we'd tackle a subject that offers myriad possibilities. I'm sure everyone has examples in their files or access to bridges that can be captured creatively. They can be large like the Golden Gate bridge or small like the biking bridge in the examples below. I'm looking forward to what you come up with!


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Their 200 Peachtree Atlanta Wedding was a celebration of their love, tradition and fusion of Nigerian and American cultures, and an excuse for a big party. We first met Tosin and Fisola at their engagement session on the National Mall in Washington DC. This was just after Tosin sprung a surprise proposal at Fisola's home on Christmas Day 2009. It was just the beginning of a flurry of planning that involved trans-Atlantic plane rides and nail-biting anticipation about whether 200 Peachtree Atlanta wedding venue they chose for the celebration would be completed in time. Everything fell into place and the lovely couple, surrounded by their close-knit family were married.
The bride was so beautiful in her Allure dress that the ever-stoic Tosin was moved to tears when he saw her smile as she walked down the aisle on her father's arm. The reception reflected the couple's heritage with a mix of Nigerian and American food on the tables, and a mix of Nigerian and American music on the dance floor. Here are some favorites captured by at Morningside Baptist and 200 Peachtree Atlanta by our wedding photography team.
We at Jaxon Photography were happy to have been invited into Fisola and Tosin's lives and to provide them with memorable images of the emotional moments and the fun moments of their special wedding day.
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You can listen to my interview with Brandon Beachum below at any one of these links. Positive Head Podcast is consistently one of the top rated spiritual podcasts in the nation. I'm so honored!
Welcome to the monthly installment of Deb's Paranormal Musings! I'm the psychic on the Port City Paranormal team and love working on investigations.
We think of ghosts as haunting a particular location – an old house, a battlefield, an old office building, a prison where they were tortured. We think of ghosts as haunting a particular person – a deceased mother watching over her children, a person haunting the person who killed them. We think of ghosts haunting a particular object – a favorite tea kettle, a dress, a family heirloom.
All of these are true, but ghosts do more than that. Sometimes they move from place to place or person to person. Sometimes they're curious, maybe even bored. Sometimes they're spiteful or playful, particularly when they've been disturbed by paranormal investigators. Sometimes what investigators bring home aren't ghosts, but are poltergeists, shadow people, or, unfortunately, worse.
Spend some time in meditation, centering yourself and the positive intent you will carry with you throughout the investigation. The more calm and centered you are, the less likely you are to have an entity attach to you.
Imagine yourself encased in a protective bubble of white light. (My visualization for this is fiberglass like on the bottom of a boat, but I'm a beach girl, so it works for me!) Use whatever works for you – a coat of armor, a spinning tornado, an invisibility cloak – whatever. Nothing can get past this armor unless you allow it.
This makes for an interesting discussion – perhaps you are willing to allow an entity to touch you, or whisper in your ear. If so, you need to state – out loud – these boundaries at the investigation site before you begin the investigation. You also need to be very clear about what kind of energy you're willing to allow within your own energy field. For example, I am willing to have a ghost touch or speak to me, but I'm certainly unwilling to have anything negative do so!
There are crystals that help with finding the balance between protection and allowing information in. I carry a small piece of tourmulated quartz for this purpose. The quartz amplifies positive energy, and the tourmaline inclusions protect me from negativity.
Copyright 2015 Deb Bowen. All rights reserved.
For many years, medical science discounted and discredited these experiences, theorizing that such events were the result of decreased oxygen to the brain, medication, and other explainable medical conditions.
While historically such near-death phenomena have been categorized as "paranormal," research indicates that they are much more the "norm" than previously thought!
Out-of-body experiences, often akin to "astral travel" have been researched extensively, particularly by Robert Monroe of the famous Monroe Institute in Virginia. Sometimes these are experienced as dreams in which the person is flying through the air "superman" style. Other times, one simple perceives him/herself to be in a different location than the one inhabited during waking hours, with no understanding of how one got there. Why do some people have out-of-body experiences and others don't? We don't know, but research is on-going!
Join us FRIDAY, MARCH 27 at 6:30 pm at McAllister's Deli to learn more about these topics.
During the dreary, rainy days of February (at least where I live), it's hard to be cheerful. The skies are leaden, the trees naked and dripping rain, the nights freezing. No wonder we celebrate Valentine's Day during this month – we need love to cheer us up! However, I'm not sure Valentine's Day always means much to our loved ones on across the veil. They love us every day.
But is the day special to ghosts – those who remain earthbound? I don't know, but I do know that some ghosts have a sense of time, a sense of the passage of time, while others do not. The concept of time for ghosts is different than for us.
Some ghosts haunt a place for centuries, repeating the same pattern of behavior over and over. There is an office building I know of in another state that was built on land that formerly housed a monastery. A friar walks through the grounds each evening precisely at six o'clock – presumably on his way to evening vespers. Such a haunting is called an imprint haunting. There are ghosts who died in car accidents who appear at the accident location repeatedly at the time they died. These ghosts seem to have no concept of the passage of time or of the present.
Other ghosts appear when certain circumstances trigger their presence. In an old school out west, the ghosts, who were generally ……..
Are you psychic? Are you able to influence others' thinking? Can you send images to someone far away? Does your psychic ability beat the law of averages in knowing information? If so, this great night of experiments is for you!
Port City Paranormal's next meeting is filled with interesting information and experiments! Come join us Friday, January 23, 6:30 pm at McAllister's Restaurant, 740 South College Road, Wilmington, NC.
Precognition is the skill of knowing information using extrasensory skills. We'll be using a fairly simple, standardized test. Six boxes will be placed on a table. Our task is to say what's inside them.
Remote viewing is the ability to send and/or receive information (usually visual) to/from someone in a separate location. We'll concentrate on sending the image of an object to someone in another state.
I mentioned in my November column that ghosts are often more active in the winter and at family gatherings. I want to expand on that this month.
I spent the Thanksgiving holiday on an isolated island with my family and some close friends. This island, accessible only by ferry and small plane, has been home to many generations of a few families. It is peppered with small, family graveyards, some of them literally in the back yards of peoples' homes! This is a place where the dead are very much present with the living every day!
My friends and I visited several of the more public cemeteries one night (we didn't actually enter the property, of course, but shot photos from outside the gates.) Here is a picture of an orb we caught on film. You can see it on the top right of the headstone in the right of the photo.
I think the person buried here just popped in to see what we were up to. Contrary to media hype, cemeteries are, in my opinion, the least haunted places of all. Ghosts don't want to hang around in such lonely places. They are much more interested …..
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On Halloween night we sat a place at the dinner table in honor of our departed loved ones and welcomed them to visit us. It's an old Celtic tradition to host a "Dumb Supper" on this night – where no one speaks at the table and the dead are welcomed. We weren't silent (that would have been difficult for friends who really like to talk to each other!), but we did spend some time talking about our relatives (and four-legged family members) who had gone on to the Summerlands. It's a lovely tradition, I think.
And who doesn't love a chilling ghost story around an October campfire? Or getting spine tingles walking past a graveyard? Or, these days, worrying about being eaten by zombies? However, when Halloween spookiness fades and all the candy is gone, those stories fall beneath an avalanche of Thanksgiving and Christmas preparations.
Not so for those of us who speak with the dead regularly. We know that ghosts exist every day (yes, in the daylight – you just can't see them as well), not just at Halloween.
In fact, the winter holidays are prime times for ghosts to show themselves. Some ghosts are attracted to the chaos of family gatherings, and what's more chaotic than Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas morning? Some ghosts are attracted to the smells they remember from those holidays – deeply-scented fir trees, pumpkin pie, roasted turkey. There's a well-known ghost in Wilmington whose presence in the building is announced by the fragrance of sweet potato pie and pipe tobacco – favorites of his when ….
I'm not superstitious. Really, I'm not.
I have lived with several Zen Buddhist Masters, all of them cats (says Eckert Tolle), and a couple of them black. Just because I had a black cat named Janis Joplin who died on Janis' birthday doesn't mean anything, right? I don't make X marks when a black cat crosses my path. I mean, they're just going somewhere, right?
I walk under ladders. I don't cross my fingers and "hope to die" (how weird is that old saying!). I don't think a four-leaf clover is any more lucky than a three-leaf one. I step on cracks on the sidewalk, and never broke my mom's back. I don't have paraskavedekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday, the 13th.
On and on the superstitions go! But where did superstitions come from?
Some of them came from the Burning Times, when the Inquisitors tried to frighten the common folk away from the wise women of the village. Here's something to think about: when the wise women (or witches, they were called) were killed during the Burning Times, their cats also were killed. Guess what happened? The plague swept Europe, killing millions, because there were no cats to kill the rats that carried the plague-carrying fleas that bit the people.
The fear of Friday the 13th has its roots during the time of the Crusades, when the Pope rounded up all the Knights Templar on Friday, October 13, 1307, torturing and putting many of them to death because the Knights had become in many ways more powerful than the Church and all the European kings. They had become extremely wealthy and were the forerunners of modern bankers.
For goodness sake, hold your breath when you pass a cemetery. Otherwise, you might breathe in the soul of a recently-buried person. Really? And if you bury a woman in black, she'll come back to haunt you (so would I!).
My guess is that those who have crossed over to the Other Side laugh at our superstitions. Those who have died and remain earth-bound probably like us being a little nervous, believing ……..
A while back a friend sent me a photo she'd taken on a lovely spring day of a beautiful little country church on a rural road. She took the photo from a slowly moving car. When she developed the film, she was surprised to see a man standing next to one of the church windows. She had no memory of seeing the man when she shot the picture.
On closer inspection, she saw details that stopped her heart. She could see through him – right to the clapboard siding of the church. She also could clearly see he was wearing a uniform and a cap with the letters CSA written above the visor – Confederate States of America.
When she gave me the photo, my friend Joel and I did everything we could think of to it – we turned it sideways and upside down. We put it on the computer and enlarged it until it was so pixilated as to be unrecognizable. We saw what she saw, and more. While the figure clearly was standing next to the building, he was surrounded by tombstones. Like many country churches, this one had a cemetery in the churchyard.
So Joel and I conducted research. We learned all we could about the church's history and the inhabitants of the cemetery. Then we took a drive.
I understood immediately why my friend took the picture. Serene doesn't begin to describe this lovely little church. Joel and I wandered around the building and through the graveyard. We tried to duplicate the photo with one of us standing in the location where the ghost had stood, but the angle wasn't quite right. So we walked down an embankment and shot from the approximate position at the edge of the road from which my friend shot the photo.
Then we saw what she saw. There was indeed a CSA soldier standing, not next to the church, but closer to ….
In July the famed Rhine Research Center for paranormal and parapsychology research, formerly a part of Duke University, Durham, NC, hosted a panel discussion among three paranormal investigation teams. I was honored to be included in the discussion.
A participant in the audience asked me if I felt an obligation to help ghosts cross over when PCP does an investigation. Below is my answer.
While the primary focus of a paranormal investigation is obtaining evidence that can be scientifically verified, we on the team feel a responsibility to at least inform the ghosts we think are present that they have alternatives to being "stuck" in the location forever. Usually, at the end of an investigation, we explain – out loud – that there is hope, and light and a bright world beyond the place/person/object to which the ghost seemed attached in our world.
In an investigation of a house purportedly haunted by an elderly woman, we learned that she believed she was still living in the 1950s and was there because she needed to wait for her husband and children (all now deceased) to "come home." We explained that they were now on the other side, it was more than 50 years later, and that she could go toward a light that would reunite her with her loved ones.
This information appeared to confuse and anger her (all the recorders shut down, the K2 meters went wild). After a while, the energy in the room calmed, and I could feel her presence leave us. The equipment resumed normal operation! I believe she did, indeed, cross over at that moment.
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We continue our discussion this month about communication with our loved ones across the veil – but this time our beloved pets!
You know the story about the "Rainbow Bridge," right? Pets cross over this beautiful bridge to the Other Side, and wait happily for us to meet them there when we die. I love this image, and believe it to be true. I believe animals reincarnate just like humans, but I think our pets wait to do so until they've had a chance to be reunited with us for a while across the veil.
They also come back to visit us. Almost everyone I know has experienced the sensation of beloved deceased pets jumping on the bed in the middle of the night, or wrapping themselves around our ankles as we stand at the kitchen sink. Yes, indeed they do!
So are these visitations from the ghosts of our pet? NO! They are from the Spirit of our pet. As I wrote in a previous column, ghosts are people – and pets – who have not crossed to the Other Side and haunt places and people. Spirits are people – and pets – who HAVE crossed to the Other Side and come back across to visit us.
There are terrible stories of demonic animals – thank you Stephen King's "Cujo"! and the horrible creatures at Skinwalker Ranch in Utah, just to name two. These beings are not the same as our beloved pets. I personally have – thankfully – never encountered such a being!
Our pets that we loved and cared for so tenderly transition easily to the Other Side. They are free of illness, disease, and pain. They romp and play and smile. I think they watch over us and can't wait to see us!
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We continue our discussion this month about communication with our loved ones across the veil. This writing is in preparation for my talk at the Port City Paranormal Meeting, Friday, June 27, 6:30 pm McAllister's Deli – FREE!! If you want to learn how to communicate with your loved ones, and learn lots more about the paranormal world, please join us!
Betty's dearly beloved father died in March. She has begged him to visit her or to give her some sign that he can communicate with her to no avail. She called me, asking if I could connect with him.
Helen Greaves, in her amazing book Testimony of Light, communicates with Frances, a deceased nun who was Helen's dear friend. Sister Frances explains in the most gentle language what happens when we die, and her "testimony" has been corroborated by so many other psychics over the years.
According to Sister Frances, we are able to attend our memorial service, and to begin the transition away from our loved ones still on earth. Then we take as long as we need to adjust to our new "light" bodies. During this adjustment period we examine our last life on earth, celebrating out loving, positive actions, and asking forgiveness for our negative, hurtful actions. We then begin to move through "higher" levels (called planes) toward the Great Creator (there are many names, of course, for this being of pure love). Our movement through these planes are about us learning to become one with the Creator. Time, of course, is quite different from earth-time, so how long these steps take vary greatly on the lessons each of us needs to learn.
We often need to come back to earth to complete certain lessons. We'll discuss the reincarnation process in another post soon.
Welcome to the fifth monthly installment of Deb's Paranormal Musings! I'm the psychic on the Port City Paranormal team and love working on investigations!
Jane Anderson, founder, with Doug Anderson, of Port City Paranormal, and I recently had a lengthy email exchange about psychic phenomena and spirituality. At the JUNE PCP meeting I'll answer your questions about any related topic in person. Watch for special announcements! One of Jane's questions was about reincarnation and ghosts, and that's my topic for this post.
In many world beliefs people live, die, go some place while they're "dead," and come back to Earth some time later in a different body and in different circumstances, and then repeated this cycle over and over. So what happens to this cycle if you're a ghost?
The short answer is: the cycle breaks. Ghosts exist in a limbo state. They have chosen to remain attached to a person, a place, or a situation on Earth rather than following the pattern of moving on to an afterlife in some "place" other than here. Here's what they're missing, at least in my beliefs.
Almost every world belief has the notion that a life review occurs when a person leaves his/her body and crosses to the other side. This review isn't meant to be a punishment for wrongs committed, but rather an accounting as to whether the person fulfilled the contract he/she created before this lifetime. A life review guides the person's plan for learning needed while on the other side, and paves the way for plans for the next Earthly life.
Think of our existence in each Earthly lifetime and the lives we live on the other side as that of a student. We learn compassion, patience, empathy, tolerance, joy, pain, love and so much more with each passing lifetime both here and across the veil. We are all a part of the Creator, and our decision to individuate away from Creator and experience the hardships of a physical life is not a decision we made lightly. We believed we needed to learn Earthly lessons for our soul's development. When we have succeeded in those lessons, we are reunited with Creator. If we choose to stop the learning process by staying Earthbound, we cannot progress toward reunification with the Creator.
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Welcome to the fourth monthly installment of Deb's Paranormal Musings! I'm the psychic on the Port City Paranormal team and love working on investigations!
When I teach paranormal phenomena workshops, I show many photos of orbs. Here are three examples. In one photo, a bright red orb spins in a dimly-lighted corridor of a famous hotel. This photo was taken with a 35mm digital camera. In another photo, a white orb with a "tail" flies through a brightly lighted dining room. In a third photo, taken at night with a flash, the exterior front of a house is the backdrop for hundreds of orbs. The latter two photos were taken with a disposable camera. Photos one and two display legitimate orbs. Photo three, while the most stunning, is of snowfall.
I show these photos to demonstrate how easy it is to jump to conclusions. While I'm a firm believer in psychic phenomena, I also am a skeptic. "Disprove first, believe second" is my motto. Is there dust on the lens (the most common reason for "orbs")? Are there dust motes floating in the air? Is there cigarette smoke swirling around? Is your finger covering the lens?
What are orbs and are they real? Yes, they're real. When we die, we become pure energy, without physical form. It takes tremendous effort to reform into something resembling a body, and even more effort to bring that form into a place where it can be seen by the naked eye, or even on film. The easiest form a person (or energy) can take is a ball, a circle. Usually, but not always, that circle is white. When an orb appears in another color (as in the hotel orb mentioned above), there usually is a manifestation of some kind of human-like emotion attached to the attempt to appear. I don't know why that orb was red, but I can guess in a very limited, human way. That part of the hotel was being refurbished, and I have a feeling the person whose orb I saw was not happy about the changes! The orb with the "tail" appears similar to a comet streaking through the sky. The camera caught the orb in fast motion. Since it was taken in my dining room, I assume it was a parent from the other side paying me a visit. Cool, huh?!
What Is a Spirit and How Do You Know?
Welcome to the third monthly installment of Deb's Paranormal Musings! I'm the psychic on the Port City Paranormal team and love working on investigations!
Last month I discussed ghosts and how we know we are encountering ghostly activity. The words "ghosts" and "spirits" are often used interchangeably, and shouldn't be. They are very different.
Ghosts are people who have died and who, for various reasons, do not "cross over the veil." Ghosts usually hang around a given location, never really leaving it. Spirits are people who have crossed over, and come back to visit us from the other side. Our loved ones sometimes come to tell us they love us, to say goodbye, to offer help in finding lost objects, to help settle family disputes, and make amends for transgressions while they were alive. It takes lots of energy for someone to cross over the veil in a form that we can see, and particularly in a form that is recognizable to us. Spirits on the other side do not have solid physical bodies, but rather are light forms. To manifest a human form is very hard work for them.
I live in my deceased parents' home. Friends often ask if my home is haunted. "Yes, but not in the way you think." There are no ghosts in my home, but my parents' spirits visit sometimes, particularly when they have important information for me.
Soon after my dad died, he came to see me. I was awakened by the sensation that someone stood at the foot of my bed. In the very dim light coming through the windows I could see him very clearly. He didn't look so good. He looked like I had last seen him – lying dead in a hospital bed. I heard him whisper "I love you." I responded, "I love you too Daddy. You're always welcome to come see me, but please look like I remember you next time you come." He has always honored that request in subsequent visits.
What Is a Ghost and How Do You Know?
Welcome to the second monthly installment of Deb's Paranormal Musings! I'm the psychic on the Port City Paranormal team and love working on investigations!
I'm often asked to explain what ghosts are and how we know when one is around. Ghosts are people who have died and who, for various reasons, do not "cross over the veil to the other side." Sometimes ghosts don't realize they are dead, or refuse to accept that they are. Occasionally, because of acts they committed while alive, they are afraid to cross over – they believe in damnation!
Some people choose to stay "earth-bound," connected to a person, a place, or a situation. Sometimes they love a living person so much that they don't want to leave him/her, not understanding that they can still connect with the living from across the veil. Some ghosts won't leave because they are very protective of a house or of land. My friend Joyce's ghost Helen is one such ghost. She even warns Joyce when the roof leaks! Some ghosts were so badly traumatized in their lives and/or at their death that they are bound by the horror or injustice of their life and death, and they seek retribution or justice. Insane asylums, prisons, and battlefields are such places. Sites of murders often are haunted. Interestingly, cemeteries are some of the least haunted places in the world. A newly-dead person may appear at his gravesite for a short time while he is in a state of confusion. Usually the ghost quickly goes on to whoever or wherever they intend to "haunt." Ghosts usually aren't much interested in their mortal remains!
Next month: What is a Spirit and How Do You Know?
Published: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 12:31 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 12:31 p.m.
Those paranormal-reality shows on television make ghost hunting look great, but Deb Bowen cautions it's not all fun and games.
When you leave a haunted house, Something might try to follow you home.
Bowen remembers a psychic investigation one night aboard the Battleship USS North Carolina memorial. Danny Bradshaw, longtime Battleship custodian and author of "Ghosts on the Battleship North Carolina," was about to give her a lift in his car.
What happened, Bowen said, was that some kind of entity or thought form, something with extremely negative energy, had tried to hitch a ride.
Unsuspecting ghost hunters can pick up invisible, immaterial parasites, Bowen said. That's one reason she's conducting a workshop Friday on how to protect oneself from psychic attacks for the next meeting of Port City Paranormal, the local psychic investigation unit.
Skeptics of all things paranormal may have serious reservations, but Bowen is the real thing, said Port City Paranormal's co-founder, Jane Anderson.
"My job is to go on investigations and preferably not say a word," Bowen said.
Her insights are used as back-up for the audio and video recorders, the Gauss meters and other electronic gear that provide the backbone for Port City Paranormal's investigations.
Sometimes, however, she intervenes. Once, while the group was probing an older house downtown, Bowen sensed the presence of the spirit of a woman who had been alive during the 1950s.
Bowen, a trained social worker with graduate degrees, talked gently to the spirit, saying that her friends and loved ones had moved on to the Other Side and that perhaps it was time for her to go as well. In the end, Bowen said, "A kind of breeze went through the house" and the readings went away.
Bowen respects the professionalism of her PCP colleagues.
"They're very respectful to the forces on the other side," she said. "They don't yell at them like they do on TV.
Not all psychic entities, though, are as benign or friendly as the spirit from the '50s.
These negative entities can latch on to people or places, psychics say, causing loss of memory or energy, depression or anxiety. They might even manifest themselves through poltergeist phenomena: loud, unexplained noises, or objects being moved around or knocked to the floor.
You can do a lot to defend yourself from such entities, Bowen said. Crystals can help. So can certain herbs. (Sage is particularly potent.) Visualization techniques often work: "Imagine yourself in the middle of a big disco ball,"  Bowen said, suggesting the mirrors on the ball reflect the negative energy and act as a shield.
If you're a Christian or a believer in some other faith, prayer is very strong, she said.
People can make themselves vulnerable to psychic entities, Bowen said. Many poltergeist incidents, she explained, can be traced to a teenager in the house playing with a Ouija board or tampering carelessly with occult matters. A good housecleaning will do a lot of good.
"These things thrive in dirt and chaos and filth," Bowen said.
In extreme cases, Bowen sometimes performs a cleansing or blessing.
Psychic phenomena were part of Bowen's life from an early age.
"My mom talked to folks on the Other Side all the time," she said.
Bowen now does readings periodically at Poplar Grove Plantation or on request. She does podcasts and periodic workshops and telecourses.
One favorite topic: Coping with "energy vampires." Don't picture Count Dracula or Edward Cullen – think more along the lines of Debbie Downer.
Skeptical? Heck yeah! And Yet…….


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The Pentagon's outside-the-box research group thinks pushing AI forward requires better understanding of how our own brains work.
Background: DARPA has developed human-computer interfaces that let paralyzed patients learn to move robotic limbs. But there's a problem: the brain never stops learning and experimenting with new ways to carry out tasks, and the software that translates brain signals into commands for robotic limbs can't keep up. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, a director at DARPA says AI could help.
How to do it: DARPA wants to use reinforcement learning, a process whereby machines learn by trial and error, to improve their software. Reinforcement learning has proved great at playing video games, but everyday movements like grabbing a cup are much more complicated. To create AI that can accomplish DARPA's goals, we will need more insight into how the brain accomplishes these tasks and others so effortlessly.
But: At the moment this kind of tech is a dream, not a reality. Tech companies are spending billions on AI, but for the most part interfacing with the brain isn't on their agenda. And we still don't understand much about how the brain achieves its incredible ability to keep learning and adapting. So yeah, there's a long way to go before AI-powered robotic limbs are commonplace.


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I have been thinking about mystery for a while now. Not the literary genre. Not the esoteric cults of Egypt, Greece, or Rome. Not the Christian mystery of divine grace. These are apocalyptic mysteries. They harbor an implicit promise: Hidden behind the dark veil lies a deep reservoir of truth. If one is privy to a secret initiation or receives an uncanny revelation then all will be brought to light. Mystery, here, is the ultimate solution to the profound risks of being human.
For me, mystery is not so dark and not so light. It is, rather, a perplexity on a continuum of perplexities. Mystery is one of four species of cognitive events that has the potential to command our attention and entangle our minds in an open process of wonderment. In addition to mystery, the other perplexities are the problem, the dilemma, and the paradox.
A problem is any matter that, at least theoretically, is susceptible to being resolved through the accumulation and processing of data. Every mystery that Hercule Poirot or Philip Marlowe solved is a problem in my terms. When the Discovery Channel proclaims that dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today, it is talking about a problem. For if scientists do not yet understand dark energy, it is because they do not yet know how to gather the necessary data — not because they conceive dark energy as essentially unknowable.
The second form of perplexity is the dilemma. Dilemmas occur when perplexities arise that require some form of lived response before all appropriate data can be collected. Dilemmas are time sensitive. They are resolved not through the accumulation of information but through decisive action in the face of true uncertainty. While in a state of subjective indeterminism, you must make an objective determination that may have irrevocable existential consequences.
Paradox is the third species of perplexity. Take the Christian Trinity. In normal mathematics: One equals one; three equals three. Yet, Trinitarian dogma demands that Father, Son, and Spirit be accepted as unitary, one God, while simultaneously remaining divided as three separate persons. The word "paradox" translates as "against belief." Contradiction is the heart of the paradox.
A paradox is neither a problem nor a dilemma. The perplexities implicit in the Trinitarian dogma cannot be resolved through the deliberate accumulation of further knowledge. All the research is done; the data is all there. Likewise, the paradox does not entail choice or time-sensitive action. The Trinity is a matter of one and three, not one or three. Paradox entails an internal contradiction within a functionally complete data set for which all data points possess equal value.
So, at an emotional and cognitive level, the paradox has the potential to be received as anomalous and disruptive, an epistemic break, a trauma, radically incommensurate with an individual's previous experience or normal phenomenology of belief. In this way, paradox shares salient characteristics with mystery. Still, the two are different, for paradoxes may be resolved.
Mystery proper begins when we question: Is it truly necessary to resolve the unknown? Why not be willing, on occasion, to remain on this side of mystery? This intellectual gesture requires a thoroughgoing rejection of transcendentalist assumptions: a willingness to accept that the hidden cannot be revealed; the veil cannot be pulled away. Perhaps nothing is hidden and the "veil" does not veil. What if there is no transcendental power abiding, as it were, on the other side of mystery, poised to open our eyes to the full truth? What if mystery always remains . . . mysterious? What if, in short, all we might know of mystery exists on this side of mystery?
As a perplexity, mystery begins in a subjective experience of perplexity, astonishment, enchantment, or rapture; a state of cognitive or emotional jeopardy. Perhaps long-time presuppositions about the way the world works have proven false. Perhaps one has suffered unaccountable trauma. Perhaps one has experienced a moment of time out of time. But rather than treating this destabilized state as a state of risk, to be analyzed and resolved as appropriate — controlled through mechanisms appropriate to a problem, dilemma, or paradox — one responds to the state of affairs as one might to an uncaused effect — puzzled, entangled, attentive.
Many, if not most, of our lives' mysteries can be reduced to problems and clarified through naturalistic means. I am not questioning our general ability to identify and solve problems. Nor do I dispute the relative value of such intellectual practices. But the mere fact that we have the tools, methods, and skills to be critical at every turn does not mean that we must be critical at every turn. There are those times and experiences when the answer, however correct, just does not feel adequate to the question. To engage with mystery one must accept that certain cognitive events short circuit one's regular problem-solving mentality, but not view this short circuit as itself pathological . . . as a sickness of perception, reason, or faith.
It makes sense that physical, natural, and social scientists ignore what I call mystery. The sciences have diverse means for resolving the other three perplexities, but they have no way to deal with that which is nothing, except by turning it into something; reducing it to a matter of data and the critical analysis of data. They have no way to see mystery, no way to value mystery, and no way to make it an element of their professional practice.
This limitation does not hold true for the humanities. The humanities is the only sphere within the academy that has the potential to be openly receptive to that which is unknown and uncertain without the normative requirement to transform it into the known and the certain. If one is going to talk about the perplexities of mystery in the strange, uncomfortable language appropriate to those perplexities, that person is going to be a humanist. If we understand our role as humanists as being something beyond solving problems, calculating dilemmas, or clarifying paradoxes, then I offer the category of mystery as a category all our own.
Richard S. Cohen is the director of the Program for the Study of Religion and associate professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego.


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Michał Pieńkowski — "From Soot to Vinyl". Trifling curiosities and huge breakthroughs in the history of phonography
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Sound recording belongs to brilliant inventions of the 19th century. Like in any other domain, also beginnings of phonography were very difficult: it all started with experiments with recording sound waves on a soot-coated glass pane. In 1877 Thomas Alva Edison presented to the world his phonograph – the first device which could both record and play the sound back. Initially, recordings were performed acoustically, without the use of a microphone. Within the following years, more and more advanced modifications and improvements were introduced, which finally led to the appearance of still known vinyl long play discs at the turn of the 1940s. and 1950s. Interestingly, for several years the phonographic industry was closely related to the development of cinematography.
In line with the sound recording technique the aesthetic side of publications themselves developed, too: disc labels would often become small graphical masterpieces, while jackets and sleeves for discs and albums were designed by professional graphic artists. Also press ads have changed over years: from richly illustrated advertisements full of text to short and apt promotional slogans.
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Michał Pieńkowski has been interested in old songs since his pre-school times, when his grandma taught him to use a gramophone. He is curious about everything which today can be called the pre-war show business: cinema, cabaret, radio and entertainment music of the interwar period. For several years now, initially as a hobby and now as his scientific research, he has been dealing with the history of Polish phonography that has become his biggest passion. He is also interested in emigration songs about Lvov, which were the subject of his Master thesis. PhD student at Warsaw University.


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The opening scene takes us into the gym of Brookshire Christian School as the boys basketball team narrowly loses their hard-fought championship game in the last few seconds. After the game, the coach John Harrison (Alex Kendrick) consoles his son Ethan who missed the final shot of the game and his team telling them that next year they are posed to take the state championship as all their best players will be returning while their opponents' will have graduated.
In the next scene, Coach Harrison and the other teachers at the school all learn through a television news broadcast that the manufacturing plant, the largest employer in their town of Franklin, is moving to another city. Another coach says, "There goes the football team…" and explains that his best players' families all work at the plant, but he assures Coach Harrison that basketball should be okay as he will still have his best players returning.
Cut to a scene of high school boys playing basketball in the park. A young high school girl, Hannah Scott (Aryn Wright-Thompson), walks by and sees one of the boys' expensive headphones lying on the bench by where they are playing. When the boy realizes they are gone and looks around, he sees Hannah. She runs through the woods with all the teenage boys chasing her. When they reach an apartment complex, they lose sight of her and assume she ran inside. Actually, she ducked behind some rocks and tried to hide her heavy breathing from the boys to keep from being discovered. We learn she has asthma when she pulls out her inhaler. After the boys give up the chase and leave, she continues on to her grandmother's house. There, her grandmother holds out an iPod and asks Hannah where it came from, insinuating she stole it and tells her to take it back saying she already bought her one. After her grandmother leaves for work, Hannah takes the stolen headphones and puts them in a box hidden in her room, presumably filled with more stolen objects, including another set of headphones.
In her office, Principal Olivia Brooks (Priscilla Shirer) tells Coach Harrison that the school is losing several teachers and coaches, and she needs him to coach cross country as she doesn't want the school to lose another program. He protests as he doesn't like cross country or even think that it's a real sport, but he doesn't have much of a choice. When he goes to tryouts, however, only Hannah shows up to join. She has a form signed by her grandmother, indicating she was born on Valentine's Day, and she has asthma. When the coach protests to the principal, she tells him even one runner matters.
At the first practice, Hannah runs a respectable, but not impressive time. Back at the Harrison home, he complains to his wife, Amy, another teacher at the school, and tries to recruit his basketball-playing son Ethan to run cross country as well. Ethan says he will only if his dad will run with him to train, so Harrison drops that idea. A phone call from their pastor reminds Amy she promised that Coach Harrison would help the pastor with hospital visitation that night.
At the hospital, Coach Harrison accidentally enters the room of Thomas Hill (Cameron Arnett), a blind man suffering from diabetes complications and a former cross country runner. Hill says he doesn't often have visitors and invites Harrison to come back.
Things go downhill for Harrison. He continues to lose basketball players and realizes he won't have a team at all, that his son will have no opportunity to get a college scholarship, and that all the teachers are getting a 10% pay cut. His wife tries to encourage him with mixed results. After Hannah's unimpressive performance at their first meet, Harrison returns to visit Hill and ask for advice on how to coach her. Along with giving suggestions on cross country coaching, Hill challenges Harrison to consider what his true identity is. If he's not a coach or a teacher or a husband or a father, then who is he? He answers that he's a Christian, and Hill asks him if his faith is so important why didn't he list it earlier.
Hill shares how he had to lose his own eyesight before he could clearly see what was important–how he hurt so many people and was selfish. Harrison learns that Hill had a girlfriend, got her pregnant, got her on meth, abandoned his baby girl after she died. The baby was born on Valentine's Day 15 year ago and now lives with relatives. Harrison puts the pieces together and realizes his daughter is Hannah.
Conflicted about what to do, as Hannah's grandmother has told her both of her parents are dead, Harrison asks Principal Brooks about the situation. We learn Brooks was a friend of Hannah's mother and has been the one paying for Hannah's tuition. She says she can't counsel the coach to go around the grandmother, but she also is sure that if they don't, Hannah will never know her father. So Amy and John ask Hill first if he would like to see Hannah, and then they ask Hannah. In their first meeting at the hospital, Hannah can only stay a few moments before she has to leave from all the emotion stirred up. She later returns and asks him to tell her what happened. Hill tells the story and says he knows he doesn't deserve it but hopes she can someday forgive him. Hannah says, "It's hard."
Hannah and Principal Brooks talk about all Hannah's feelings about her father–about feeling unloved, a mistake, unwanted, abandoned. Principal Brooks tells Hannah that she has another father, a perfect Father who has always wanted her and loved her and cares for her. They pray together, and Hannah asks Jesus Christ to be part of her life. Principal Brooks challenges Hannah to read the first two chapters of the book of Ephesians in the Bible and to write down all the things it says about her.
She writes down things like: "I am blessed. I am chosen. I am forgiven. I am redeemed. I am loved."
Hannah dramatically declares all of these things in front of Coach Harrison, and the drama class at school then returns all the things she had been stealing. She goes to her father's hospital room and finds it empty. Grateful to find he was only moved to ICU after a possible heart attack, Hannah informs him she has two things to tell him. First, she has given her life to Christ and second, if Jesus can forgive her for all the things that she has done, then she can forgive him. Of course, he is thrilled.
When Hannah returns home, she finds her grandmother has come home early from work and is livid when Hannah tells her she was visiting her father. She feels betrayed. She tells Hannah that she was trying to protect her by keeping her away from him. Her grandmother goes to the Harrisons' home and threatens them and the school with legal action if they ever help her see him again. Then she goes to Hill's hospital room and tells him to let her go, that he only brings hurt to everyone.
All of them pray. The Harrisons pray together for wisdom on what to do. Hill prays that God wouldn't leave him useless after just getting back his daughter. Hannah's grandmother prays that God would help her to forgive all of the hurt of losing her daughter, of working so hard all these years to take care of Hannah. She says only God can do it.
At a meeting of the regional cross country coaches before the state championship, a vote is taken on whether or not to allow runners to use earbuds. At first, opposed, Harrison quickly changes his mind and lobbies the other coaches to vote in favor as well.
At the state championship, Coach Harrison gives Hannah an earbud and a player telling him to push the play button when the race starts. She does, and she hears the voice of her father coaching her through every step of the race. He tells her how much he loves her, how proud he is of her, how they are going to do this together. He coaches her to find her pace, to dig into the hills, to pass girl after girl. With the encouragement and expert coaching of her father, Hannah runs her best race ever and literally falls over the finish line, having given her everything to overtake the former state champion in the last stretch. As paramedics bring oxygen for Hannah, everyone waits for the final results, which were too close to call without review. When they determine Hannah won by leaning forward an inch more; her classmates hoist her on their shoulders and everyone cheers. Hannah's grandmother stayed to watch her race even though it meant she was late for work. After her congratulations, Hannah tells her she wants to see her dad, and her grandmother nods and tells the Harrisons to bring her home after.
At the hospital, Hannah puts the medal around her father's neck. He is thrilled that she medaled. Then Coach Harrison tells him it's not just any medal; she won the state championship. Hannah wraps her arms around him, puts her head on his chest, and says, "I had a really good coach."
Hill's casket at the cemetery is surrounded by Hannah, her grandmother, the Harrisons, Principal Brooks, and others. The pastor says Hill's story was one of redemption. Hannah tells Coach Harrison that she "had the best dad in the world for six weeks."
The last scenes are six years later. We see Hannah sharing her story with others in a group, scenes of her running cross country in college, and her opening up a box tied with a ribbon (one of a whole set that Coach Harrison apparently has in a drawer that he mails on her birthday) and inserting a flash drive into her player and running through the city while listening to a recording made by her father for her saying, "This is your 21st birthday, Hannah. This is the prayer I have prayed for you for this year…" e.


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Q: Tracking data sync to salesforce from a transactional send I have a "Triggered Send" type data extension in the Salesforce Data Extensions folder and my transactional sends are being successfully logged there (I can see those when clicking on individual Subscriber records)

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What should I add in my config to make the send visible on the Salesforce record (Contact)?

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Washington University Law Review
Vol. 96 Nbr. 4, February 2019
PRESIDENTIAL POWERS, IMMUNITIES, AND PARDONS.
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Author: Gonzales, Alberto R.
TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY A. Distinguishing Official and Unofficial Conduct B. The Timing of Prosecution for Unofficial Criminal Conduct C. Federalism Concerns: State Prosecution of a Sitting President D. Confronting the Statute of Limitations Problem E. The Constitution's Answer: Congressional Impeachment II. PRODUCTION OF EVIDENCE III. PRESIDENTIAL SELF-PARDONS CONCLUSION APPENDIX A INTRODUCTION
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is conducting an investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and the possible coordination and cooperation with the Donald Trump presidential campaign. (1) The investigation has raised numerous legal questions with serious political and legal implications. (2) Chief among them is whether a sitting President can be indicted and prosecuted for criminal wrongdoing. (3) A related question is whether and to what extent, in the event of an official investigation, a sitting President can be compelled to provide evidence--in the form of oral and written testimony, as well as documentary evidence. (4) Finally, assuming there is potential criminal liability, does a sitting President have the power to issue a self-pardon? (5) These are relatively novel questions in the law, and it is not surprising there is little guidance from the courts given the reluctance by most judges to weigh in on potentially serious political questions. (6)
This Article intends to clarify some of the more difficult legal issues in our nation's separation of powers jurisprudence. In order to afford the President the flexibility and discretion necessary to discharge presidential duties, the courts are almost certainly going to recognize total immunity from the criminal process for the President with respect to official conduct. (7) The treatment of unofficial conduct is less predictable. (8) Based on precedent and our nation's founding principles of equal justice and fairness, the courts are likely to hold that a sitting President is not above the law and thus does not enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution for unofficial acts or conduct unrelated to his or her fitness to hold office. (9) However, because of separation of powers considerations, the courts are likely to require deferral of any such prosecution until the President no longer holds office. (10) Although not as clear, constitutional considerations would likely also require deferral of any investigation or indictment, at least those requiring the direct and material participation of the President. (11) On the other hand, the President can be compelled to produce certain documentary evidence when doing so is necessary and would otherwise be unavailable in connection with a criminal investigation. (12) The argument for presidential immunity with respect to production of evidence is stronger, though likely not absolute, with respect to oral testimony. (13) Nonetheless, mindful of the President's duties, the courts are likely to afford the President great latitude in the time, place, and manner of providing oral testimony. (14) Finally, there is nothing in the Constitution that expressly prohibits or limits the President from issuing a self-pardon. (15)
PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY
Our nation was founded on the principle of the rule of law. This means that the law is applied equally to every person, and no person is above the law. (16) This is one of the foundational tenets of our system of government, a belief so basic to Americans, so ingrained in our culture, as to be beyond question or serious disagreement. (17) Justice demands that people be held accountable for their actions. (18) Indeed, one could argue that the failure to prosecute someone in the face of evidence of criminal activity--including an incumbent President--would undermine confidence in our government institutions and seriously impair the integrity of the criminal justice process. (19) For these reasons, it may appear obvious that a President who engages in wrongdoing can be subject to criminal prosecution. It is worth noting, though, that in our nation's long history of remarkable yet imperfect Presidents, none have ever been prosecuted while in office for a crime. (20)
Distinguishing Official and Unofficial Conduct
Common sense supported by the weight of history tells us that every President will have to make controversial decisions while in office. (21) Those decisions flowing either directly or indirectly from the President's duties and responsibilities under the Constitution and laws of the United States typically qualify as "official acts." (22) Some official decisions will be unpopular; still others will give rise to claims of illegality.
Imposing criminal liability upon a sitting President who acts in good faith, often on the advice of government lawyers, could have a chilling effect on the President's decision-making. (23) It could paralyze a President from undertaking controversial measures that he or she considers necessary to serve American interests. (24) Guarding against this paralysis is arguably more important to the welfare of our nation than imposing criminal liability to conduct that rarely occurs, especially when there are other adequate means to hold a President accountable. (25) In other words, the interest in punishing official presidential actions that are taken in good faith but which some may view as violating the law nevertheless does not outweigh the significant burden that even attempted criminal prosecution would impose on the office of the President. (26)
Additionally, no President can effectively govern or make necessary personnel decisions if subordinates within the executive branch have the power to judge, second-guess, or challenge the President's authority and decision-making in an official capacity. (27) Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski disagrees, arguing that the government in practice is supervised through executive departments and agencies without direct presidential supervision. (28) While true to a degree, our constitutional structure of separation of powers places the ultimate power and responsibility of the executive branch in the hands of the President, (29) and he or she must be able to govern without fear of retaliation or insubordination by other executive branch officials, including prosecutors at the Justice Department. (30)
In the case of Nixon v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court of the United States held that a sitting President enjoys complete immunity from civil liability for actions taken while in office, reasoning that the President must be able to make decisions and take actions for our country without fear of civil liability. (31) Based on this precedent, courts will likely recognize absolute immunity from federal criminal process in connection with the President's official conduct, which extends to "all acts within the 'outer perimeter' of [the President's] official responsibility." (32)
Fitzgerald itself acknowledges a key textual issue with any argument supporting presidential immunity: the Constitution contains no express grant of immunity from liability for the President for either official or unofficial conduct. (33) The absence of an express grant of executive immunity was significant to Professor Ronald Rotunda, who in 1998, wrote to Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr that the Constitution explicitly grants limited immunity to lawmakers for certain actions. (34) "If the Framers of our Constitution had wanted to create some constitutional privilege to shield the President," he argued, "they could have drafted such a privilege." (35) With due respect to Professor Rotunda, our Supreme Court jurisprudence includes many examples where the Court has found an implied grant of constitutional authority. (36) In Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court found an implied grant of immunity with respect to official conduct. Thus, the mere absence of an express grant of immunity to the President in the Constitution does not foreclose the possibility that some form of immunity from the criminal process exists. What is yet unknown--and what this Article addresses--is the type and scope of any such immunity or protection.
Although the President may be "on duty" twenty-four hours a day, he or she does not engage in official acts twenty-four hours a day. (37) As part of daily living, some conduct is inevitably going to be personal and unrelated to the duties of the office. (38) For example, when the President plays golf with siblings, clears cedar bush on private property, or goes horseback riding with long-time friends, he or she is not acting in an official capacity. (39) Furthermore, no one can credibly argue that murdering a political rival or assaulting a media critic would constitute an official duty. (40) Likewise, if the President were to lie to federal prosecutors to protect a family member or political ally, or take other similar actions to obstruct a legitimate federal investigation, such conduct would, and should, be characterized as unofficial. (41) While effective governance may depend on the courts' recognition of absolute immunity for official government actions, the same need does not exist with respect to unofficial conduct.
In the Supreme Court case of Clinton v. Jones involving personal conduct by then Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, the Court held that a sitting President can be subjected to a civil proceeding in federal court and to civil liability for unofficial actions, such as those taken before assuming office. (42) In part, the decision in Jones depended on the fact that the conduct at issue was committed before President Clinton took office; for this reason, the Court classified the conduct as "unofficial acts." (43) It is unclear whether the Court intended to signal that all conduct prior to taking office were "unofficial acts," while all conduct in office were "official acts." (44) Did the Court leave open the possibility that certain conduct, by its...


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Law service in Sydney
February 9, 2018 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Sydney's The Great Synagogue has hosted the annual Jewish community Law Service to mark the opening of the New South Wales Law Term.
Justice Tony Payne, Chief Justice, The Hon Tom Bathurst AC, Justice Ronald Sackville, The Hon Mark Speakman SC MP and Arthur Moses SC
The service was attended by some 250 people which included some of the most distinguished names in the NSW judicial system, Members of Parliament, Rabbis and Faith Leaders and Councillors. Chief Justice, the Hon Tom Bathurst AC led the procession of judges and lawyers and delivered an address at the reception following the service. The Attorney General, the Hon Mark Speakman SC MP and Leader of the opposition, the Hon Luke Foley MP made addresses during the service and both made mention of the significant and important contributions members of the Jewish community have made to the law.
The only Jewish member of the NSW Parliament Ron Hoenig, himself a barrister, read a special prayer: "Almighty God, Judge of all the earth: Bless, we pray, the Chief Justice and Judiciary of New South Wales. Grant them wisdom, humility and integrity to render true justice. Bless all those who practice the law, may they discharge their duties with conscience, expertise and responsibility. May they uphold the dignity of the law, the stature of the profession and truth and morality in our society. Remember the souls of our departed colleagues. May their efforts to replace chaos and discord with order and peace be counted to their merit. May they rest in the shelter of Your wings for evermore. Amen."
Rabbi Ben Elton addresses the service
The service was led by Rabbi Dr Benjamin Elton and Rev Joshua Weinberger and the Choir of the Great Synagogue. Rabbi Elton's sermon addressed the relationship between religion and law in a shared society and the extent to which religious beliefs affect the way we look at secular decisions in a democracy. He said that when our freedom and rights are not being infringed upon we should not impose our religious views on society at large, and that has always been the approach of diaspora Jewry. Many in attendance remarked at the quality and insightfulness of the Rabbi's sermon and the beauty of the music presented by the Cantor and Choir and look forward to next years service at The Great.
Cantor Joshua Weinberger and Ron Hoenig
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