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American Parks and Landscapes
Windsor Castle Park, Smithfield, Virginia
The Park Story
Windsor Castle Park became a reality as the result of the vision of Joseph W. Luter lll, founder and former CEO of Smithfield Foods. The nature of his business required a considerable amount of travel across the country and he had seen way too many cities and towns consumed by development and urban sprawl. For several years, he lived in New York City and came to appreciate Central Park --considered one of the urban wonders of the world -- a green oasis in the great concrete, high-rise landscape. The park is such a natural part of the Manhattan environment that many people may not realize it is entirely man-made.
It was the opportunities, lost forever, of far too many communities to set aside land for recreational use that led Mr. Luter to consider purchasing property in his beloved hometown for park development. In March 2009, he donated the staggering sum of $5,000,000 to the Town of Smithfield to acquire 208 acres of land known as Windsor Castle Farm for just such a purpose. During the construction process he realized the true gem that was in the making and contributed an additional $2,200,000, for a grand total of $7,200,000 towards the park's development.
Construction of the park actually began on March 23, 2008, and was completed in the record time of just over one year. The park was dedicated in a ceremony on May 22, 2010 with congratulatory remarks by Governor Robert McDonnell.
Boats on the Pagan River, Smithfield, Virginia
Smithfield Station, Virginia
Smithfield, Virginia
Pier at Smithfield, Virginia
Walkway, Windsor Castle Park, Smithfield, Virginia
Manor House, Vineyard, Windsor Castle Park, Smithfield, Virginia

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The goal of the project "21&counting" is to create a performance where communication (use of words) and perception/acceptance of reality are main theme. Based on ironic pretexts - celebratory performance of 20 years on stage which is too late, dancer picking from his memories and putting dance form as best medium to talk about the words and communication, project "21&counting" wants to explore use of political correctness and euphemisms as escape routes from reality thus heralding modern problems with basic communication, acceptation of surrounding reality, misuse and abuse of words and meanings, lack of /trust in values during human encounters.
21&counting is a co-production project between Belgium, Slovakia and Austria.


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Jonathan Sacks
Jonathan Sacks is a global religious leader and philosopher, sits in the House of Lords, and is the author of 25 books and the recipient of many international prizes. He is currently Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He is also Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King's College London. He served as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth between September 1991 and September 2013. Image c. Blake Ezra
Genes and Genesis
Psychologist Steven Pinker has been described as one of the 100 most influential people in the world today. In a series of bestselling books, he has applied evolutionary theory to the study of the mind, seeing the brain as a computer and human nature as instinctive, shaped and determined by natural selection. Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is a leading exponent of Judaism, both as a scholar and a theologian. He has written extensively about Judaism's emphasis on moral responsibility and ...
George Webber Memorial Evening Is Jewish prayer an eternal constant or does its role evolve in a contemporary world? In a recent interview, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explained that "prayer was a conversation with the voice within that is also the voice beyond. In prayer books, three times a day, we remind ourselves that God lifts the fallen, heals the sick and asks us to do what He does and be His partner." The publication of the new Siddur ...
Collette Hassan Evening: Defining a Moral Compass for the 21st Century?
Jonathan Sacks and Susan Neiman outlined their visions for addressing the ethical challenges, both religious and secular, confronting us in the 21st century. In Moral Clarity : A Guide for Grown-up Idealists, Susan Neiman reclaims the secular moral values of the enlightenment as the mature route to social justice, free from the ideologies and orthodoxies that attract so many. In his latest book, Future Tense, Jonathan Sacks claims that religion and morality are inextricable – ...
The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks was the starting point for a conversation between the Chief Rabbi and mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, chaired by Daniel Glaser. They explored the sometimes fraught relationship between religion and science in different cultures but more specifically discussed belief and scepticism, open-mindedness and intolerance to the challenge of the other or the unknown. The Chief Rabbi and the atheist mathematician found the...
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
In his powerful and timely new book, Not in God's Name, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks tackles the phenomenon of religious extremism. If religion is perceived to be part of the problem, he argues, it must also form part of the solution. To understand this, you first have to recognize the concept of 'altruistic evil', of violence committed in the name of God, and only by understanding our collective past will we be able to build a better future. Chaired by ...
How to Lead a Good Life
For more than thirty years, Jonathan Sacks has played an important role in the nation's moral life. Whether delivering Radio 4's Thought for the Day, examining the origins of religious violence in the Sunday Times bestseller Not in God's Name, or lecturing at our most prestigious universities, the former Chief Rabbi has earned the admiration of Jews and non-Jews alike for his erudite and thoughtful interventions in public debate. Now he joins How To Academy to propose a...


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Talking About Reading and Writing with Jhumpa Lahiri
Princeton University's New Director of Creative Writing
By Wendy Greenberg | Photography by Andrew Wilkinson
Jhumpa Lahiri takes a framed sketch from her office wall. It is a drawing of a library in her Rhode Island hometown. "This made me a writer, being around books," she says. "It was so crucial. I believe that reading was the most important thing."
In addition to being an ardent reader and celebrated author, Lahiri is a teacher, lover of languages, translator, and now college administrator. In her life and in her writing, which seem to be inseparable, she straddles different worlds.
Born in London and raised in Rhode Island by Bengali-born parents, she now divides her time between Rome, where she does most of her writing, and Princeton, where she was named director of the Princeton University Program in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts in August.
Teaching has helped Lahiri explore new worlds, and new words. "When I teach, it inspires me to re-read an author, like Kafka," she says. "I read the familiar and the unfamiliar. Reading is ongoing, infinite. I like being in environments where reading leads to conversations."
A lot of writing comes from conversations and questions, says Lahiri.
Twenty years ago she won a Pulitzer Prize, at age 32, for her first collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies. At the time, the Pulitzer did not signify a "before and after" point in her life, but perhaps — in retrospect — it did.
"Everything has a before and after. So, looking back, I can say, 'yes,'" she says. "But at the time, I was undergoing several profound changes in my life. I got engaged and was more focused on a series of adult transitions."
After the Pulitzer, she wrote several more well-received books, including The Namesake (made into a film by Mira Nair), Unaccustomed Earth (winner of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award), and The Lowland, which was named a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in fiction in 2013.
Recognition followed. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Asian American Literary Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, among other awards and honors including a National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Obama.
In 2012 she moved to Rome to fulfill a love affair with the Italian language and, eventually, its literature. This passion resulted in writing In altre parole (In Other Words) in 2015, Il vestito dei libri (The Clothing of Books) in 2016, translations of two novels by Domenico Starnone, and the novel Dove mi trovo (written in Italian) in 2018. This fall The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, which she edited, was published by Penguin Classics.
As her first success, Interpreter of Maladies, reaches the 20th anniversary of its publication, it still resonates today, especially in regards to the challenges facing immigrants in a new culture. "The stories are about basic human experiences — bewilderment, lack of connections, making connections," says Lahiri.
Although she has been described as a chronicler of the Bengali immigrant experience, Lahiri wants to be known simply as "a writer.
I work in different modes. Writing should be as free as that.
"The Bengali immigrant experience was a specific world that not many people were thinking about when I was a child. Growing up as a first generation American was my experience. Now the immigration patterns have changed and more people from different parts of the world are having that experience. There was a big wave of immigration from India in the late '60s and '70s, and my family was a part of that. Those numbers were not there in the 1950s, but by 1975 it was completely different."
Writing Encouragement
Her journey to becoming an award-winning writer reflects her experience bridging different cultures. Lahiri says she was a prolific writer as a child, but less so as a teenager. "I didn't focus on writing until after college. For many years, I wasn't comfortable with the creative side of myself and felt nervous to call myself a writer. I was encouraged in graduate school at Boston University by BU Creative Writing Chair Leslie Epstein. I took a creative writing class while I was studying English literature and was encouraged by the other students in the workshop."
She referred to Trading Stories (Notes from an Apprenticeship), a piece she wrote for The New Yorker in June 2011. It is introduced by a photo of Lahiri at age 3 with her parents Amar and Tapati in Cambridge, Mass., who are still in her life, "still anchors" but aging, she says.
In The New Yorker essay she writes about growing up in Rhode Island where her father was a librarian, but, ironically, she didn't own many books. Speaking Bengali but reading in English, Lahiri (whose birth name is Nilanjana Sudeshna) was caught between the two languages. But, when reading, "entered into a pure relationship with the story and its characters," she wrote.
As an adolescent, she preferred to practice music and perform in plays, and, as an undergraduate literature major at Barnard College in New York, thought she might become a college professor.
At Boston University — where she earned a M.A. in English, M.F.A. in creative writing, M.A. in comparative literature, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies — she "began to want to be a writer." After sitting in on a creative writing class, she was later accepted to the creative writing program. When she was 30, as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, she wrote what she considers her first mature story, "A Temporary Matter," which introduces the collection of short stories in Interpreter of Maladies.
As she noted in the 2011 New Yorker piece, her desk became her home. Now she writes mainly in Rome. When she writes, she likes uninterrupted time, and seems to get that in Rome. "My life in Princeton is hectic," she says.
Princeton Creative Writing
Her office in New South at Princeton University — bright, welcoming, and full of books and posters — is where she teaches, meets with students and faculty colleagues, and runs the department and all the details and schedules that necessitates.
"There are so many great things happening here, and part of my job is maintaining that. Creative writing should be a place of exploration, whether for one semester or the rest of one's life. It should be welcoming, first and foremost.
"There are so many ways of becoming a writer. It's not a career track per se; it can be, but it doesn't have to be. If I look back at my writing career, I realize that it unfolded on sort of a time release basis, and that there was an element of mystery to it. You don't know when life will throw you something, or you will remember something. For me it wasn't always a goal-oriented experience. It can be, but some writers develop more slowly."
She wants the writing program to be "a place of experimentation, with the freedom to turn into something else, to present your point of view or learn other points of view. It's like acting, assuming and embodying different perspectives, and getting to know yourself in the process."
The program is in its 80th year. Lahiri succeeds its former director, 2017-2019 U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, who was named chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts in July. The program has free public programming offered to the community, including the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series, the C.K. Williams Reading Series, the biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, and other readings and lectures.
"I am excited by the many authors working in languages other than English who are reading in our series this year, and we aim to bring more translated literature to campus as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series," says Lahiri. "I would also like to invite more author-translators, writers who do both. My other priority has been to organize more student involvement and engagement with our guest writers. Prior to each reading in the series, one or more of the writers have an informal tea with students to talk about their craft."
Lahiri also serves as associate faculty with the departments of Comparative Literature and French and Italian.
This fall she received an Andrew W. Mellon faculty stipend from the Princeton University Art Museum to teach a class on artist, painter, and writer Leonora Carrington. The idea was born from her discovery of Carrington's writings in 2016, combined with the fact that the Princeton University Art Museum owns a number of her artworks. Two of Carrington's works are now featured as part of the exhibit "States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing," on view through February 2, 2020. The cross-disciplinary nature of the course "epitomizes the potential" of the creative writing program, Lahiri says, describing Carrington as someone who "crossed borders" in many ways.
"I love the Museum. I love this course!" says Lahiri. "Carrington's migrations, the language shifts, the many changes she realized in her creative life are so inspiring. So far it's been quite exciting to see how the students engage with her and her vision."
Advice to Young Writers
"I hope it happens more," she says of making connections with other academic disciplines, such as comparative literature and Italian. "I like to partner with the translation world and build bridges. One of the things I am most proud of is helping to institute the Translator in Residence program overseen by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies." Now in its third year, the position is currently held by Larissa Kyzer, who translated Kristin Eiríksdóttir's book A Fist or a Heart from Icelandic to English.
Lahiri envisions more links between creative writing and other disciplines, such as a connection with playwriting. "Unusual pairings interest me. I taught a course about the author Primo Levi. I revere him deeply with every ounce of my being. He shows how one can be a chemist and a writer too. We read The Periodic Table, his hybrid coming of age book. I loved sharing that extraordinary work with my students."
Continuing to bridge cultures, these days Italy and the Italian language and short story tradition excite her. "It is both an organic interest in 'the other,' and explains where I've always been coming from — outside. I was seeking something out but wasn't sure what until I got there. I live in two worlds now, in Italy part of the time. In fact, this year part of me is always there because my son is finishing high school in Rome. I have a couple of homes, that is the nice thing about this job."
Next semester she will teach a translation workshop and a class called Imitating Italians — a course she has taught in the past, but before the new book. Reading contemporary Italian masters, the class will explore a range of techniques, styles, and themes.
As she continues to bridge cultures, she has some basic advice for beginning writers: "Go to the library. Make that a fundamental part of who you are."


The Death Penalty Today: Defend It, Mend It or End It?
Since the Supreme Court lifted its moratorium on the death penalty 30 years ago, 38 states and the federal government have reinstated capital punishment.
In recent years, there has been a nationwide debate over the proper application, morality and constitutionality of the death penalty. Some argue that there are systemic flaws in its application and that those on death row are disproportionately poor, mentally ill or African-American. Abolitionists claim that if the death penalty can not be applied justly in all cases, it should not exist at all. Some embrace a moral stance that "respects life" in all its stages and circumstances.
Those in the pro-death penalty camp claim that abolitionists ignore the individual circumstances of each case and that some crimes are so heinous that the only appropriate punishment is death. Furthermore, they argue that the existence of the death penalty deters violent crime.
The Pew Forum, together with the Federalist Society and the Constitution Project, held an event examining the application, morality and constitutionality of the death penalty in the United States, focusing on issues such as habeas corpus review, clemency, the Eighth Amendment and adequate defendant representation.
William Otis, Counselor to the Head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Kenneth Starr, Dean, Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, Calif.
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala.
Virginia Sloan, President, The Constitution Project , Washington, D.C.
VIRGINIA SLOAN: Good afternoon. I'm Virginia Sloan and I'm president of the Constitution Project. This is the fourth in a continuing series sponsored by the Constitution Project, the Federalist Society and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, and I'd like to welcome you on behalf of all three organizations.
First to speak will be Sam Millsap, the former Bexar County district attorney in Texas who prosecuted Ruben Cantu. Mr. Cantu was executed in 1992; recent events indicate that he was very likely innocent.
Our second speaker is Kenneth Starr, dean of the Pepperdine Law School and a former judge and solicitor general of the United States. Dean Starr has represented two clients of death row.
Third will be Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama and a law professor at NYU and one of the country's leading capital defense lawyers.
And fourth will be William Otis, a longtime public servant who has served in the White House and as an assistant U.S. attorney. Mr. Otis is speaking today in his individual capacity.
SAMUEL MILLSAP: Let me begin by saying that I'm Samuel Millsap and I am a recovering supporter of capital punishment. I would like to be able to say to you, as I often do when I speak, that it's an honor to be with you. As I talk about this issue in the specific context of the Cantu case, I think you'll understand that I'm not honored by being here and that it's understandable that I would prefer to be back in San Antonio having a root canal. But I do consider it a privilege and in fact a responsibility for me to address this issue and do so, I hope, in a responsible way.
I came to Washington with an approach to this topic that was going to be somewhat clinical, and that changed last night. I was lucky enough to see a wonderful exchange that was hosted by the Constitution Project on consensus-building and then to go from there to the Holocaust Remembrance Project dinner. The combination of those two events back to back was for me absolutely profound. I was reminded that we need to talk to each other and not hurl allegations, that we need to listen to each other and that we need to try to solve problems together.
I was further reminded that lawyers have obligations that other folks simply don't have. I believe that prosecutors have obligations that other lawyers don't have. I believe that prosecutors who do good things and who produce good results deserve credit for that, but I likewise believe that when bad things happen in connection with the prosecution of criminal cases any criminal case, but particularly a capital murder case it's incumbent upon the prosecutor to assume responsibility for the results. It's incumbent on the prosecutor to be positive and look forward and ask the question, how do we make sure that this never happens again?
And that's what I want to talk about today briefly. There are four basic principles that underpin everything that I have to say. The first and the most basic is this notion that we have in the criminal justice system that criminal defendants are presumed innocent until they're proven guilty.
The second principle that I think is crucial and that underpins everything that we do in criminal justice is the notion that the system is designed and has functioned for more than 200 years with one overriding goal, and that is to make sure that the innocent are protected. And in fact what our system should do, and I think fails to do today, is to actually guarantee the protection of the innocent.
Principle number three is an idea that I heard over and over again in law school and I have to confess that I haven't heard it very much recently that it's better that 100 guilty men go free than that one innocent man be convicted. And I think it's important that we remember that.
My final point is to remind everybody, particularly prosecutors, what the statutory duty of a prosecutor in Texas and I think in most jurisdictions is: it's the duty of the prosecutor not simply to convict, but to do everything in his or her power to see to it that justice is done. And that means not just during the investigation and the trial; it also means after the trial is over, whether or not there's been a conviction.
Do we have press people from Texas? I'm going to have some things to say at the end of my remarks that are directed to the state of Texas and I hope you'll listen very carefully. I've been a lifelong supporter of the death penalty. I've been a full-throated supporter of the death penalty and was until the year 2000 when I began to have reservations as a result of three or four things that happened in a very short period of time.
I left office in 1987 and went back to a comfortable private practice and closed the door on that part of my life, but I've come to the conclusion — and it's based not on the Cantu case specifically but rather on other things that I've seen happen in the criminal justice system — that the system as it relates to capital murder is simply broken. It's my view in fact that because it's driven by human beings and decisions that are made by human beings, it can't be fixed, and that as a result what has to happen is that the option to put people to death has to end.
I would say to Justice Scalia, who said in his concurring opinion in Kansas v. Marsh that he knew of no innocent man who had been executed, that he needs to look only to the state of Texas, to my state. Cameron Willingham was certainly innocent. In fact, in the Cameron Willingham case, there wasn't even a crime. Carlos De Luna, the most recent, was probably innocent. And the person I prosecuted in 1985, Ruben Cantu, was probably innocent. And it didn't matter as far as I'm concerned in my position today whether Ruben Cantu was in fact innocent or not: the system simply doesn't work. What we see over and over again are situations where witnesses who have no reason to lie recant testimony and for good reasons.
I'm running out of time and I'll have an opportunity to develop this more fully in response to your questions, but one of the things that I want to say today to the people of Texas is that it's time for this hand-wringing about the Cantu case to end. It's time for the people of Texas to be positive about how we move forward. It's time for us to think about how we make sure that there will never be another Cameron Willingham.
And I think — and this was really hammered home last night at the Holocaust Remembrance Project dinner — it's important and incumbent upon the prosecutors who drive this system to assume responsibility. And so today I want to assume personal responsibility for the execution of Ruben Cantu.
I want to say a word as well to the members of the jury in the Cantu case, at least those who have made statements. There's enormous confusion, as you can well imagine. There are people who believe that they're responsible for the fact that he was sentenced to die. They wonder whether in fact he was innocent, and the thing that I would say to the members of the jury in the Cantu case is the following: you did your job very well; you did only what we as prosecutors asked you to do. You made the only decision that you could've made based on the evidence that was available to you. You are not responsible for the execution of Ruben Cantu. I am responsible for the execution of Ruben Cantu as the prosecutor who made all of the decisions that resulted in the presentation of that case to the grand jury, all of the decisions as to how that case would be prosecuted, and all of the decisions as to how that case would be argued and what we would ask the jury to do.
KENNETH STARR: In his inimitable way, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in speaking about clemency, described it as "anything other than" — Holmes' words — "a private act of grace from an individual happening to possess power. It is rather part of our constitutional scheme." To be sure, the role of clemency was terribly important in a system not long past in which death sentences were mandatory, but it is important still today, especially in an era when the trend line is in favor of achieving values of finality in the system and in particular to that extent limiting the role of federal courts. Very briefly, my own experience in recent years — in the Robin Lovitt case in Virginia, working with Rob Lee of the Virginia Capital Punishment Project, and in the still-unfolding Michael Morales case in California — suggest to me that governors and their advisors are tending to neglect this historic role of clemency and pardon in the system.
I am very grateful that former Governor Mark Warner of Virginia granted clemency to Robin. I am very delighted that he did it in light of what we felt was a grievous misconduct in the destruction of DNA evidence, which we also believe was used questionably at the trial. That's a pathology in the system. We have, however, not been encouraged thus far by the process in California, where Michael Morales should not be on death row. He did commit a terrible offense; he deserves severe punishment and he acknowledges the justice of his punishment, but not on death row.
His partition for clemency has been supported by the sentencing judge, Charles McGrath, and you have a copy of that letter available to you. It is an extraordinary letter to the governor urging clemency because the only reason that Michael is on death row is because of what we now know to be a perjured testimony at the sentencing phase by a jailhouse informant.
The last governor of California to grant clemency was Ronald Wilson Reagan. There have been no clemency grants since Governor Reagan left office. My friends, that was a long time ago.
Michael Morales' case is illustrative of what I think is a terrible trend, abject deference to the judicial system with its inevitable flaws and a frank unwillingness on the part of virtually every governor in the country, and those who advise them, to fulfill their assigned role in our constitutional structure. This isn't just a Supreme Court admonition; it is taking note of a constitutional structural point.
It's appropriate at a Federalist Society gathering to take note of Madison and Hamilton's lifting up — Hamilton more so than Madison, but both did — the need for energy in the executive. And even Mr. Jefferson, the staunch adherent of the anti-federalist republican tradition, agreed by his actions in office that the executive should move with energy. And even in our bloodiest war, which pit brother against brother, Mr. Lincoln took time to review personally the files of those seeking clemency. It was part of his greatness. Perhaps we would do well to ask our governors to reread the last paragraph of Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
BRYAN STEVENSON: For the last 20 years I've actually been representing people on death row, and I've spent too many hours next to people who are about to be electrocuted, watching the hair shaved off their body before they're put in the electric chair or squirming on lethal injection tables and seeing the tears and the anguish. And I believe that the death penalty ought to be abolished because it is corruptive. It corrupts all of us. It is corrupting our courts. It is corrupting prosecutors. It is corrupting police. It is corrupting defense attorneys. It is corrupting jurors. It is corrupting our society. I think that because I see so much evidence of it, so much pain and trauma. And it's not just that we're unwilling to talk about it. We don't have the will in this country to recognize what we have to do for people who are disfavored.
The death penalty is supported in America because we have a lot of people who preach fear and anger, and they want us fearful and angry about crime, and they want us fearful and angry about so many things. And on that high we can tolerate a lot of error. Well, I think we have to stop there. We ultimately have to be a society that recognizes that we will be judged not by how we treat privileged people, not by how we treat powerful people, but by how we treat condemned people, how we treat the poor, how we treat the disadvantaged. That's how we measure our civility. And when you look at what's going on in the death penalty arena, we are doing horribly.
We have a society that we all recognize is driven by wealth. Lawyers in this room know that the legal system is incredibly wealth-sensitive. Our system treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Innocence is not the most useful thing you can take into court; it's wealth. If you've got wealth, you get a different outcome.
It's amazing to me: we've had over 1,000 executions in this country. If most of those folks had been represented by anyone on this panel, likely they would not have been executed, and that ought to say something to us not about the offenses involved in those crimes, but about the nature of our criminal. And the corruption isn't just seen in the way we deal with the poor; it's also seen in the way we deal with race in this society. I grew up in a community where the people I lived with were marginalized. It was a segregated area and we couldn't go to the public schools, and I saw how being disfavored changed your status in America. And I want very much for this country to get past that legacy, but instead what we do in the death penalty arena is we feed this history of racial apartheid.
And so in my mind this issue should not be just a question of whether people deserve to die, but whether we deserve to kill. We have tolerated so much error, so much injustice, so much unfairness; we have a system that is driven by poverty, that is undermined by race.
And with that history and with that awareness and with that consciousness, I think it's time for the death penalty to end. It's time that we put this behind us so we can begin to deal with these vexing problems of poverty and race and dysfunction and injustice.
WILLIAM OTIS: The burden of proof in this debate about the death penalty is on the abolitionist side, and it is not merely to show that there are questionable or sympathetic or problematic cases, as there are in every aspect of litigation. What they must show is that every execution is wrong. Abolition means abolition, the end of it — period.
There are two central problems, I think, with a strict abolitionist argument. One is that it is a one-size-fits-all, don't-pester-me-with-the-facts sort of position. It simply does not matter, under that position, what the killer did, how utterly incontestable the evidence is of his guilt, how gruesome or cold blooded or calculated it was, how many people he killed, or how many people he killed in the past. None of that matters. A position like that significantly oversteps the justifications typically offered on behalf of the abolitionist position: bad lawyering, possible racism in any given case, that the police are hiding or manufacturing evidence. All of those things can be gone over and are gone over in great detail and over a long period of review in case-by-case analysis under the most exacting standards that the law knows. But that is a far cry from justifying complete abolition in every case no matter what.
I would be hard pressed to tell you that there is anything in the law that could not benefit from reformation, but I think what we need to watch out for is abolition being impersonated by a call for reformation. And in particular I want to mention the call for a death penalty moratorium, which in my opinion is abolition in disguise. Death penalty opponents know that they cannot sell outright abolition because the public is against it. The public has seen enough of Timothy McVeigh and John Wayne Gacy and some of these other gruesome killers and is simply unwilling to put aside for all time and in any circumstances its right to allow the jury to decide on a death penalty. So we hear the call for a moratorium.
And the last thought I want to leave you with in my opening statement is this: we have had a moratorium before in this country. It lasted for ten years, from 1967 to 1977. In the preceding ten years when we had executions — 289 of them — there were 95,000 murders in this country. Immediately after that, during the 10-year moratorium from 1967 to 1977, we of course had zero executions and 180,000 murders — almost double the number. The truth of the matter is that the death penalty has a significant deterrent effect as these numbers prove beyond serious argument. Therefore it is the death penalty and not abolition of the death penalty that in the end will save innocent life.


The two men who filed a lawsuit after being charged for landing a float plane on a lake near the Ryder Cup in 2016 have reached a settlement with the City of Chaska and police chief Scott Knight.
Charges were later dismissed against Dean Scott Johnson and James R. Render, the pilot and passenger in the plane.
In their lawsuit, they claimed they were not aware of any restrictions on the lake, and that their rights were violated. They claimed the incident caused them embarrassment and emotional distress and were seeking $225,000.
Court documents show a settlement was reached Tuesday, though terms of the settlement were not released.
"Mr. Johnson and Mr. Render agreed to settle their case because it was never about the money," their attorney Dan Rasmus said via email. "They brought the civil rights lawsuit to establish they were fully compliant with all aviation rules and regulations when they landed the float plane on Lake Hazeltine during the 2016 Ryder Cup. They believe the settlement vindicates their actions."
A lawyer representing the city of Chaska issued a statement once the settlement was finalized.
"The City of Chaska and the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust reached a settlement with Plaintiffs Dean Johnson and James Render. Although Plaintiffs were seeking $225,000 plus costs and attorneys' fees, they agreed to accept $15,000 for full and final settlement of all their claims," attorney Jason Hiveley said in a statement. "There was no admission of liability and the City maintains its handling of this incident was lawful and proper. Given the costs the City would have incurred completing discovery and moving for a dismissal of this case, resolving this matter for $15,000 was a good risk management decision that brought finality to this case and was in the best interests of all parties involved."


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It has got a scenic location, it is surrounded by green hills with snow capped peaks. The spectacular cool hills accompanied by the structures made during the colonial era creates an aura which is very different from other hill.Bulging at its seams with unprecedented expansion, Shimla retains its colonial heritage, with grand old buildings, among them are the stately Viceregal Lodge, charming iron lamp posts and Anglo-Saxon names.
The Kalka–Shimla Railway: is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge railway in North-West India travelling along a mostly mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla. It is known for breathtaking views of the hills and surrounding villages. On this route a city named Solan is passed through, which is also known as mini Shimla. During summer season a festival celebrating a goddess (Shoolini Devi), after which the city is named, is held in June.For about a week starting on September 11, 2007, an expert team from UNESCO was on a visit to the railway to review and inspect the railway for possible selection as a World Heritage Site. On July 8, 2008, the Kalka–Shimla Railway was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the World Heritage Site Mountain Railways of India.[3] The Mountain Railways of India (including Darjeeling Himalayan Railway and Nilgiri Mountain Railway) and Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai have already been declared as world heritage properties.
The Kinnaur Kailash: (locally known as Kinner Kailash) is a mountain in the Kinnaur district of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. The Kinnaur Kailash has a height of 6500 meters and is considered as sacred by both Hindu and Buddhist Kinnauris. This mountain is sometimes confused with the Mount Kailash in Tibet. The Kinnaur Kailash Range borders the district of Kinnaur in the south and is dominated by the Kinnaur Kailash (elevation- 6349m) and Jorkanden (elevation- 6473m) peaks. The pass accessible on the trek is the Charang La at an altitude of 5300m.[1] It is considered as the toughest trekk in Himachal Pradesh.
Summer Hill: is a small town on the outskirts of Shimla, the state capital of Himachal Pradesh at a height of 2,123 meters. It is situated on a hill, 5 km west to the Shimla Ridge, and is part of the seven-hill cluster. In the past, Summer Hill has offered residence to Mahatma Gandhi, who stayed here at the Georgian mansion of Rajkumari Amrit Kaur during his Shimla visits. Also thes pine and deodar laden slopes have many quaint residences, like one belonging to the family (1913-1941). Besides being a popular tourist destination, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (estb. 1965), housed in the former Viceregal Lodge, which was built in 1884-88 is also situated on the nearby Observatory Hill. Today, it also hosts the Himachal Pradesh University, which mainly offers Post Graduate Programmes in the fields of Humanities, Commerce, Science, Management, Law and Languages, and was started in 1975. Most students here walk to the Hill Station of Shimla from the campus, though Summer Hill lies on the Kalka-Shimla Railway line.
Jakhoo Temple: is an ancient temple in Shimla, dedicated to Hindu deity, Hanuman.[1]It is situated on Jakhoo Hill, 2.5 km /1.3 miles east from the Ridge, Shimla at a height of 2,455 m (8,000 feet) above sea level.[2] Shimla's highest peak offers a panoramic view of the Shivalik Ranges and the town of Sanjauli.An ancient "Lord Hanuman" temple is there and every year a big festival is held on Dushera . You can go to the temple by foot (a steep climb) from Ridge (path behind the church) or can hire a pony/horse. Taxis are available too.
The Ridge road: is a large open space, located in the heart of Shimla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh, India. It runs east to west alongside the Mall Road, and joins it at the Scandal Point on the west side. On the east side, The Ridge road leads to Lakkar Bazaar, a wooden crafts market. The Ridge houses a large water reservoir which acts as the main supply of Shimla town. The Ridge road is also the venue for Summer festival, government functions and local celebrations during New Year's Eve. Prominent landmarks on The Ridge include Christ Church, a neo-Gothic structure built in the 1850s, and a Tudorbethan-styled library building built in 1910.[1] There are at least three statues on The Ridge; that of Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, and Dr. Y.S. Parmar, the first Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh


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Coolibah Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.

It is situated about  east of Timber Creek and  south west of Katherine with the homestead situated along the Victoria River.

The  property running 80,000 head of cattle is owned by Milton Jones. Jones, who owns a helicopter business specializes in aerial mustering, bought the property in 1988 with cash. The station is best known for being the location of the reality television program Keeping up with the Joneses.

The property was acquired by Patrick Quilty, the son of Tom Quilty, in 1938. Quilty Snr. owned Glenore Station and Euroka Springs Station, both of which were passed onto his sons. Prior to his death in 1938 Patrick Quilty and his brother Tom acquired Bradshaw Station, Coolibah Station and Bedford Downs Station.

A Dragon Rapide aeroplane, of Connellan Airways, crashed at Coolibah in 1949. The head stockman, an Aboriginal man named Jack Brumby, was recommended for a gallantry award for rescuing the pilot.

In 1953 the station was regarded as the third largest in Australia at the time with an area of . The manager of the day, Hugh Byers, was committed to stand trial for the theft of 88 head of cattle from neighbouring Victoria River Downs Station.

In the same year filming of the Charles Chauvel movie, Jedda, was commenced at Coolibah.

See also
List of ranches and stations

References

Stations (Australian agriculture)
Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory

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Updating an existing policy that prohibited the sale of illegal drugs and pharmaceuticals on the social network, Facebook has moved to include guns to that list. Basically, this means that Facebook and Instagram users are no longer allowed to negotiate private sales of guns using any form of messaging through the two social networks.
This likely means that community pages that facilitate private sales of firearms, like Guns & Archery Buy, sale & Trade, will be shut down unless guns are eliminated from the page. However, gun clubs and licensed gun dealers are still welcome to maintain Facebook pages and Instagram feeds in order to continue actively promoting their organizations.
Facebook representatives are concerned that gun owners are using the two social networks to circumvent background checks when selling a weapon to another party. Prior to this new policy, Facebook had already prohibited private sellers from promoting their wares with the tagline "no background check required." In addition, Facebook prohibited any sales of guns that crossed state lines and made sure minors weren't able to access pages that advertised guns for sale.
The National Rifle Association has yet to release a statement about Facebook's shift in policy.


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When you do visualization in tantra, we have several levels of the visualization. First you visualize what's called this closely bonding being – that's the first thing – to bond you closely with the yidam. And then you bring forth another visualization, which looks exactly the same – that's called the deep awareness being (yes-shes sems-pa, Skt: jnanasattva), or it's usually translated as "wisdom being" – and you combine the two. I will explain that when we get to that step. I mean, also these have other meanings as well, but let's just stay with this one meaning. We'll only stay with this one usage of these terms.
Here, again, a throne of jewels. The same type of throne as we had before. And the lotus. And the mandala disc – that's just the flat disc of a sun and a moon. Here the moon is on top; in the other one, the sun was on top.
The root guru, by the way, is the one that is not necessarily our first teacher, not necessarily the main teacher, but the teacher who is the inspiration – the one who acts as a root – for us to be able to derive all our nourishment, our sustenance to go further on the path. So it's the root. A root of a plant is where you get nourishment and it's the foundation that keeps the plant supported for it to grow.
If we have more than one root guru, we would imagine all of them as fitting harmoniously together like the faces of Avalokiteshvara. For that, it's very important that our teachers all have good relationships with each other. This is why it's very difficult if there's one of these – what shall we say – spiritual political wars that go on, unfortunately, with two different factions in which the gurus become like enemies of each other. If both of them are our teachers that's very difficult, in terms of tantra practice, because they don't fit together. This is why one tries to avoid those type of situations. They don't have to be best friends, or have teacher/student relations with each other, but at least they're harmonious with each other.
Vajradhara is called the ruler of the all-pervasive (khyab-bdag). What is all-pervasive is voidness. That pervades everywhere. So, he's a ruler – he's one that has mastered the understanding of voidness, the sphere of reality that pervades everything. So he has a blue-colored body. Blue signifies, as we said, the enlightened mind, the sphere of reality, so it's blue.
With a blue-colored body, one face and two arms, holding vajra and bell, and embracing a motherly likeness of himself.
So it's a couple. The partner looks exactly the same, except for the gender. "Mother" is used – the couple is referred to as "mother" and "father." Practicing like this gives birth to enlightenment, like a mother and father gives birth to a child. The mother and father represent things, obviously, here, in terms of method and wisdom and many, many different levels.
That's the 32 major signs and the 80 exemplary features of a Buddha.
Adorned with lavish jeweled ornaments, draped with fine garments of enchanting, heavenly scarves – the mere remembrance of you dispels all my torment.
Wearing jewels symbolizes Sambhoghakaya. Tsongkhapa, one of his big deeds was to crown one of these enormous statues in Tibet with a jeweled crown, symbolizing that it was a Sambhoghakaya statue. The significance of Sambhoghakaya is that it stays to the end of samsara; it doesn't pass away. So it's considered more auspicious. Nirmanakayas pass away, like Buddha passed away. Sambhoghakayas don't do that.
The mere remembrance of you dispels all my torment. "Remembrance" – so I'm using the word "remember." This is a difficult word (dran-pa) because it also means mindful, to hold it in mind. So that means visualizing this as well. Keeping this in my mind makes me feel happy, dispels my torment, and I don't feel unhappy. And that indicates that obviously this is inspiring, uplifting.
In other words, again it incorporates the three jewels.
Your body's three spots marked with three syllables.
White OM by the forehead, red AH by the throat, blue HUM by the heart – for body, speech and mind. So that's inside the body, standing up.
So this is the visualization. Then we call in and merge the deep awareness beings (ye-shes sems-pa, Skt. jnanasattva), often translated as "wisdom beings." Now light goes out from the HUM and brings back the deep awareness beings.
So where is the HUM? That is the question. Many commentaries explain that the HUM is the HUM in the heart of Vajradhara in the visualization in front of us. And although that explanation appears, that does not fit in with general tantra practice. In general, in all practices light goes out from our heart, as the yidam, and brings back the deep awareness beings and joins it with the visualization in front of us. That's the way it is in all sadhanas. First you visualize some object in front of you, light goes out from the HUM in your heart and brings back the deep awareness beings, and they merge with that visualization. Every sadhana is like that. So Serkong Rinpoche explained that's the same visualization here. It's not that the lights go out from the HUM in the heart of Vajradhara; it goes out from our own heart. Serkong Rinpoche was my main teacher. That's the tradition that I follow. And it certainly is more consistent with all the other tantra practices and visualization practices. Actually, Kirti Tsenzhab Rinpoche explained that there are three possibilities. So either we can still have the lights go out from the HUM in Vajradhara in front of us, or they can go out from the HUM in our own heart, or they can go out from both.
So that is what is in the general understanding that's common to all four classes of tantra. Obviously there's a deeper understanding. As Serkong Rinpoche said, you can't really say that the deep awareness being is more real than the closely bonding being. That is false. Because some people think that; what I'm doing here is make-believe, and now we make it real. He said that's not really a very sophisticated understanding of the process.
The reason Serkong Rinpoche said this is you work it out with logic. He said when you achieve the path of accumulation (the path of building up) – the first of the five paths has three stages. When you reach the third of those stages, then you can receive teachings from all representations of Buddhas – from statues and paintings of Buddhas. So they all can be equally sources of teachings. So, similarly, the closely bonding being or the deep awareness being – equally, one could receive teachings. Based on that logic, you can't say that one is more real than the other. Because, at that level, you can receive teachings even from this statue behind us. Then you can't say that this statue is a more real Buddha than a Buddha in a Buddha-land – in terms of a source of teaching.
But they are just two representations of Vajradhara here, representing them on different levels. Sakya gives a very good explanation of this – the Sakya tradition – when it speaks about the view of the inseparability of samsara and nirvana. So everything has a samsaric appearance and a nirvanic appearance. And so the close bonding being would be like the samsaric appearance that we are working with here, now, in our visualization. And now we bring in the nirvanic appearance, and bring it together. And in Sakya actually you don't bring this deep awareness, this nirvanic aspect, from some Buddha-field out there. You realize that it was there all along – just a different level, there all along.
Another explanation, which is also valid for all classes of tantra, is that the closely bonding being represents Dharmakaya, which of course is always in connection with some Form Body – connection with Rupakaya – so there's an appearance. And the deep awareness beings are the various emanations of this in the various Buddha-fields and lands, teaching others. And so we draw them all back in and merge them with the closely bonding being, indicating that they are all emanations from our guru-yidam's enlightened state. So that's another way of understanding it.
This bringing in the deep awareness beings is in absolutely every tantra practice, so it's good to have some idea of what it represents. And there's many levels of what it could represent.
Then there's another level of understanding, that is specific to anuttarayoga tantra and it's made very clear in Kalachakra. So the closely bonding being represents our subtle body. And bringing in the deep awareness beings into it is bringing in what's called the deep awareness breaths (ye-shes-kyi rlung) into the central channel.
So we can understand bringing in these deep awareness beings on many, many different levels – so bringing in various emanations all together; bringing in the actual Buddhas from the Buddha-fields; bringing in different levels that a Buddha can manifest all together; and bringing in the winds into the central channel – understand any practice that we do. We understand it on many, many different levels. Okay?
That's all that it says in the text. So it comes from us; bring it in – if we do it in this manner that Serkong Rinpoche described.
By rays of light from the HUM, Guru Vajradhara from his natural abode – JAH HUM BAM HOH – becomes nondual with you.
The Tibetans pronounce it TZAH rather than JAH, which is actually the Kashmiri pronunciation of that letter in the Sanskrit alphabet. It's pronounced TZAH in Kashmiri. That's where the Tibetans get this pronunciation from because they got their alphabet in Kashmir.
So this JAH HUM BAM HOH: With JAH, they hover – the deep awareness beings – hover above the closely bonding beings. Hovers above. With HUM, they merge. With BAM, they become inseparable. And with HOH, this is made firm.
If one likes to do the mudras, there are mudras which are done with this. First of all you have your two hands with the small finger and the first finger sticking out, and your thumb on top of the two middle fingers, which are bent. That's called the threatening mudra. It's maybe too strong. That's how it's usually translated. It's the injunction mudra; it's giving orders.
So with JAH, the left hand is up, with the back of the hand facing out… Yes, the left hand is – hold it sticking up, with the back of the hand facing away from you. And the right hand is with the back facing your face. And the first finger of the right hand touches the last finger of the left hand – ZAH.
Then you turn it around for HUM. The right hand has the back sticking out, the left has the back facing toward us, and the first finger of the left hand touches the small finger of the right hand. And then BAM – ZAH HUM BAM – you have the two hands face each other, and the two first fingers touch and the two little fingers touch.
And HOH, you cross your hands with the right hand in front of the left.
All of this is the Akshobhya close bond of relying in a healthy manner on a spiritual master. Seeing the guru as a Buddha – is a Buddha in terms of Buddha-nature – as the object that will inspire us, and the object with whom we can build up a tremendous amount of positive force and deep awareness.
Your kindness heralds in an instant a dawn of great bliss. Oh jewel-like guru, Holder of the Vajras, I bow at your lotus-feet.
How do we understand this verse? Your kindness. The guru's very kind, and thinking of it brings in an instant, a dawn of great bliss. In other words, it inspires us; it makes us feel very blissful. Jewel-like guru: the Guru incorporates the Three Jewels of Refuge, the Three Gems. Holder of the Vajras. "Vajra" means diamond-strong. So this is the holder of diamond-strong (or vajra) body, speech, and mind. The guru has an enlightening body, enlightening speech, and enlightening mind. That's the holder of the three vajras.
I bow at your lotus-feet: What does lotus-feet mean? What is the symbol? A lotus is something which grows from the mud but is not stained by the mud. A lotus grows in a muddy lake, from the shore of the lake where it's very muddy. If you walked in, you'd get your feet all muddy. And so on. So the lotus grows from there, but it's not made dirty by it. So it's not dirty. It grows out of that.
So the feet walk on the ground, but it's not that the guru is dirty. So this symbol of lotus – I think this is the meaning of it. I've not heard that explained in any text. But to me, as Serkong Rinpoche always said, figure it out logically: What would the symbol be that to me makes sense as to why it's called "lotus-feet." You're not going to find explanations for every tiny little point. We're just putting together the pieces of the puzzle; that's all it is.
What is the image of the lotus? How is it used? Well, if you've had a lot of teachings then you know that piece of the puzzle – what the image of the lotus is in Sanskrit poetry. You walk like an elephant – elephants walk very nicely; move their behinds very nicely. Sanskrit uses metaphors, and so earlier in this verse where it says "on top of a water-born lotus," actually the Tibetan only says "water-born." The Sanskrit would also say "water-born." "Water-born" is a metaphor for lotus. So there's a metaphor there, but it's not just arbitrary. Actually, this is one of the fields of study. One of the traditional fields of study is metaphors, because Sanskrit uses so many. When you read the texts and it's translated into Tibetan, you've no idea what it is unless you've studied these thousands of metaphors. Well, they translate it literally, so if you don't know it then you've no idea what it is. The Tibetans translate literally "water-born." We tend to just throw that out and just translate it as "lotus," so you lose the beauty of the Sanskrit language, the poetic beauty of it. So I'm compromising here and putting both: "water-born lotus." In Tibetan and Sanskrit it would just be "water-born." I don't think it's fair to the tradition to make it cheap, to rob it of its poetic richness.
By the way, do you know what a lotus looks like? In the center of a lotus… I forget the botanical word – stamen seed-head, or whatever it is. It looks like a shower nozzle. So it's sticking up from the middle of it, and the petals come from underneath and around. So that shower nozzle thing sticks up, and then it's on that that you have the sun and the moon disc.
Also, whenever we make prostration, when we visualize making prostration, it's always important to imagine that we multiply into countless forms and all of them are prostrating.
It's here that Pabongka adds the praises: the eight-line praise to Chakrasamvara or Heruka, and then the eight-line praise to Vajrayogini. So this is offering praise to the guru-yidam, and this would be only for mother tantra. So we will not give an explanation of that since that's very complex; every word of it is full of meaning, and every syllable of every word of it is full of meaning.
These eight-line verses are often in Kalachakra because Kalachakra is considered mother tantra. But it doesn't have to be in there because then. Sometimes Kalachakra is considered nondual tantra, and these praises are specifically in terms of Chakrasamvara, Vajrayogini, and Hevajra, which are the systems with which one practices the six yogas of Naropa – you practice with one of those. So you don't do that with Kalachakra. So there is some difference.
These verses of praise, then, are optional. There's no harm in adding them, and there's no harm in leaving them out.


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by Andrew McCredie | October 26, 2018
Super kids Amir Moghadfam, Daniel DeLeo and Diego Ibanez strike a pose by an Audi R8 during the second annual Aidan's Cup at Pitt Meadows airport last Saturday afternoon.Andrew McCredie
It's difficult to say which were brighter Saturday afternoon at Pitt Meadows Airport: the smiles or the skies.
Perfect weather proved the perfect backdrop for the second annual Aidan's Cup, a Children's Wish Foundation of Canada event giving wish kids and their families the opportunity to rip around a temporary race track in a stunning selection of super cars.
The idea is the brainchild of friends and family of Aidan MacAulay, a North Vancouver teenager who lost his battle with cancer two years ago at age 14. Aidan and his family went to Costa Rica on a Children's Wish Foundation-sponsored trip, and so the inspiration for Aidan's Cup was to honour and remember the young man and also to provide some happy memories for kids and their families going through tough times.
"We walked away from last year thinking it would be difficult to top," said Hugh MacAulay, Aidan's uncle and the family spokesperson. "It was almost magical — the weather had been bad then it broke just in time. It turned out to be a spectacular day and everything just came together.
"But this year it's better still," he said Saturday afternoon, the whine of super cars in the background. "That includes these cloudless skies, a bigger turnout, BMO has really stepped up, as have all the sponsors and volunteers."
A trio of supercars — a Ferrari, Lambo and 'Vette — cool down in anticipation of more hot laps.
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Scenic Rush provided the R8 and the kids the inspiration.
Daniel DeLeo adds his name to the R8.
BMO was a big help in the inaugural event, and this year provided racing suits for all the kids taking part. Even some parents squeezed into the bright blue one-piece outfits for some hot laps. The financial institution helped fund the family's Costa Rica trip in 2016.
"With Aidan's passing we jumped at the chance to be the sponsor for Aidan's Cup," said Michael Bonner, SVP and Regional Head of BMO BC & Yukon. "It has been a very emotional and rewarding partnership. We will be here again next year as this event grows and honours such a great kid."
Also as with last year, Vancouver-based super car touring company Scenic Rush provided the muscle. And when their Lamborghini was taken off the road a couple of weeks ago following a mishap, Vancouver tech entrepreneur Kevin Gordon rolled out his one-of-a-kind Huracan Performante for the kids. It proved to be the longest line, though the Ferrari and Corvette were also popular choices.
Said Scenic Rush's Bryan Kohare: "These kids absolutely love cars and seeing their faces light up when they get to experience the power and performance is just so much fun for all of us. Being able to provide them with some respite, even if only for a short period of time, hopefully gives them a lasting memory and a little extra turbo power for their continued recovery."
Gordon was equally stoked, saying "(O)ne of the best days of my life, hands down."
New this year was an Audi R8 from the Scenic Rush stable, but instead of being used for hot laps, it sat in the paddock and served as a 'whiteboard' of sorts for the kids to sign and say what makes them happy. Not surprisingly, 'fast cars' and 'family' proved popular responses.
"This year's Aidan's Cup was unforgettable for all of us at Children's Wish, and most importantly, our wish families," said Hannah Smith, Interim Provincial Director, Children's Wish Foundation, B.C. & Yukon Chapter. "We could feel Aidan smiling down on us all day, and we know he would be proud to see his legacy creating so many positive memories for kids like him.
"Wishes could not come true and events like this could not be held without our generous donors, like BMO Bank of Montreal and Scenic Rush, putting their support behind Children's Wish."
Aidan's parents sat on the bleachers taking in the day's events, no doubt feeling mixed emotions.
Said Hugh MacAulay: "For us it's a hard day, but it's also a wonderful day. We're obviously thinking about Aidan, and about how much he liked making other people happy. He was such a kind and big-hearted kid.
He added the thing he and the family will remember from the day, as was the case last year,
is the smiles on the kids' faces.
"We know what their other days are about, and this is a wonderful experience just to have a break from their treatments and from their worries."
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Адам Володимирович Васьковський (, село Корчик, тепер Шепетівського району Хмельницької області) — український діяч, Шепетівський міський голова, 1-й секретар Шепетівського міського комітету КПУ Хмельницької області, секретар Хмельницького обласного комітету КПУ.

Біографія
Закінчив середню школу № 4 м. Шепетівки. До 1959 року працював робітником на Шепетівському деревообробному комбінаті.

З 1956 до 1959 року служив у лавах Збройних сил СРСР. Член КПРС.

З 1959 до 1964 року навчався на фізико-технічному факультеті Дніпропетровського державного університету, інженер-механік.

У 1964—1969 роках працював інженером-конструктором у конструкторському бюро «Південне» в Дніпропетровську.

У 1969—1975 роках — директор Шепетівського заводу металовиробів.

У 1975—1981 роках — 2-й секретар Шепетівського міського комітету КПУ Хмельницької області.

У 1981—1988 роках — 1-й секретар Шепетівського міського комітету КПУ Хмельницької області.

У 1988—1990 роках — 1-й секретар Кам'янець-Подільського районного комітету КПУ Хмельницької області.

26 травня 1990 — 1991 року — секретар Хмельницького обласного комітету КПУ.

З 1991 року працював завідувачем відділу Всесвітньої лабораторії; начальником управління з питань оборонної і мобілізаційної роботи Хмельницької обласної державної адміністрації.

У квітні 1998—2002 роках — Шепетівський міський голова Хмельницької області.

Потім — на пенсії в місті Хмельницькому.

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 Хто є хто в Україні. Київ:Видавництво «К.І.С», 2001

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, file photo, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at Georgetown Law's second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE ** more >
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times - Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Hillary Clinton quashed long-running rumors that she's a closeted lesbian during an interview with Howard Stern on Wednesday.
"Well, contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men," the former secretary of state joked on Mr. Stern's Sirius/XM radio program.
The shock jock asked Mrs. Clinton to raise her right hand and swear to never having a "lesbian affair."
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"Never, never, never!" the former presidential candidate said, laughing. "Never even been tempted, thank you very much."
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This is part one of a three part documentary. Please leave your comments by replying to this post once you've watched it!
Follow me @HillsboroughDoc for news on the release of part two.
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Part two should be ready no later than 15th October 2012!
Thank you for your commitment to the truth. YNWA.
Great piece of work, look forward to the other parts. Final shot of the tunnel was incredibly poignant.
Powerful piece of work mate! Real people with real stories about a real event.
Thank you all very much, your support means more than you realise.
Great stuff Mike.. I cant imagine what it must have been like to put all this together. JFT96!
Many thanks for your dedication and tireless work in the fight for justice. Powerful documentary and it still seems like yesterday. The fight for justice will continue, but yesterday's release of the Independent Report is a big step towards achieving this.
I fully support your hard work and I thank you again for the work you have done.
Fantastic, moving, poignant. Struck all the right notes mike, it's people like yourself who do our great city so proud. Who help preserve the memories of those 96 lives. You should feel very very proud of what you have achieved here. I will do my upmost to help publicise this. On my next HFSG charity event I will make sure everyone has a link here.
Dear all above … thank you all so very much for your kind words. This is my first ever video project, and as it was uploading I got the fear that it was utter shite … I appreciate you taking the time to be positive.
Just in from my usual late shift and finally had a chance to watch it. Well done Mike. Looking forward to the next instalment.
Superb stuff Mike, Im a Norwich fan who was at Villa Park that day, watching us lose 1-0 to Everton. I remember at the time the eerie atmosphere 2nd half, Everton in front yet their fans were largely quiet and streams of them leaving early. At the time we had no mobiles or internet so had no idea what had happened till we came out of the ground. Still upsets me to this day, Norwich play Liverpool soon at Carrow Road, I hope we can sing YNWA together in memory of those 96 angels. May they rest in peace in heaven.
I'll never forget watching this on tv, it still sickens me to my stomach.
Well done all those who fought long and tirelessly for the truth to come out.
This documentry shows it was a disaster waiting to happen. Lessons have been learned, which as a football fan is much appreciated, but sadly it is too late for some.
So glad the truth is coming out at last. A scary day will never forget the shock of what I was watching RIP 96 x. Powerful and well made doc.
Emotional yet a factual description of events told by people who were there. No real finger-pointing or blame shown, indicating that up to this point in the day there were a number of contributory factors, including the usual practices of the time which we now look back as completey unsafe & a ludicrous way to control crowds. Excellent piece of work so far.
Thanks so much for making this and to all the contributors for talking about it again, it must be really hard. I was only a kid at the time and remember being so shocked and scared. I never believed the media coverage or the SY police, but I didn't realise either how many lies they had told and how much of a conspiracy and cover up and insults the police and media kept up over all these years. I look forward to the other parts of your documentary. May the families and friends now finally get some justice and peace.
Really insightful Mike, brillliantly put together and documented. So tragic and at last the truth is out. That last image is so powerful.
Brilliant piece of work, I'm throwing links to everyone I can think of.
A great piece of work Mike – all power to you for putting this together.
WOW I now live in New Zealand 55 yrs of age my dad also here 78 years. I was a serving Merseyside Police officer back then in Liverpool. I watched the match live I hope to god David Cameron has the backbone to get certain senior officals, politians and Police officers before a Crown Court. My Dad and I knew from the Sunday it was a cover up. Still havn't bought the Sun newspaper. Mike well done.
Gerard, thanks for your note. I hope that justice is done for your dad, and the other 95 people who just went to watch a football match. Hope OZ is treating you well.
Thank you all for your kind words & support, it means a lot, and helps me as I plough through the huge editing job for part two.
Hi Mike, thanks for your kind words. OZ is great!!
Thanks, Ali, I hope you're keeping well?
The fans that came in behaved very well … none of them were drunk.
Were you a Spurs fan in the Leppings Lane terraces for the FA Cup semi-final in 1981?


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FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Community Health Systems, Inc. (the "Company") (NYSE: CYH) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc. (the "Issuer"), has commenced a cash tender offer (the "Tender Offer") for up to $1,000 million of the Issuer's approximately $2,675 million aggregate principal amount outstanding 6.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes") on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Issuer's Offer to Purchase dated December 11, 2020.
The Tender Offer will expire at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on January 11, 2021 (the "Expiration Time"), unless extended or earlier terminated by the Issuer. The Issuer reserves the right to amend, extend or terminate the Tender Offer at any time subject to applicable law.
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Each holder who validly tenders, and does not validly withdraw, its 2023 Notes on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on December 24, 2020, unless extended (such date and time, as the same may be extended, the "Early Tender Deadline") will be entitled to an early tender payment, which is included in the total consideration above, of $30.00 for each $1,000 principal amount of 2023 Notes validly tendered by such holder if such 2023 Notes are accepted for purchase pursuant to the Tender Offer.
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Subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, the Issuer reserves the right, following the Early Tender Deadline, to accept for purchase prior to the Expiration Time all Notes validly tendered on or prior to the Early Tender Deadline (the "Early Settlement Election"). The Issuer will announce whether it intends to exercise the Early Settlement Election (the "Early Settlement Announcement") following the Early Tender Deadline. If the Issuer exercises the Early Settlement Election, it will pay the total consideration promptly following the Early Settlement Announcement (the "Early Settlement Date"), plus accrued and unpaid interest on the purchased 2023 Notes from the interest payment date for the 2023 Notes immediately preceding the Early Settlement Date to, but not including, the Early Settlement Date.
The Issuer's obligation to accept for purchase, and to pay for, 2023 Notes validly tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Tender Offer is subject to the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, including, among others, the condition that the Issuer has completed a debt financing on terms and conditions satisfactory to it yielding gross cash proceeds of $1,050.0 million or more (the "Financing Condition"). The complete terms and conditions of the Tender Offer are set forth in the Tender Offer documents that are being sent to holders of 2023 Notes. Holders of 2023 Notes are urged to read the Tender Offer documents carefully.
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