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Report of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Meeting of Experts on National Minorities
Adopted in Geneva on 19 July 1991.
The representatives of Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, the Holy See, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands-European Community, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Yugoslavia met in Geneva from 1 to 19 July 1991 in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter of Paris for a New Europe.
An opening address to the Meeting was delivered by H.E. René Felber, Federal Councilor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, on behalf of the host country. Opening statements were made by H.E. Catharina Dales, Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands on behalf of the Netherlands-European Community, and by Heads of Delegation of the participating States. Contributions to the Meeting were made by Ms. Catherine Lalumière, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, and Mr. Jan Martenson, Head of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights in Geneva. The Secretary of State of the host country, Mr. Klaus Jacobi, delivered a closing address to the Meeting.
In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Charter of Paris, the representatives of the participating States had a thorough discussion on the issues of national minorities and of the rights of persons belonging to them that reflected the diversity of situations and of the legal, historical, political and economic backgrounds. They had an exchange of views on practical experience with national minorities, in particular on national legislation, democratic institutions, international instruments and other possible forms of co-operation. Views were expressed on the implementation of the relevant CSCE commitments, and the representatives of the participating States also considered the scope for the improvement of relevant standards. They also considered new measures aimed at improving the implementation of the aforementioned commitments.
A number of proposals were submitted for consideration by the Meeting and, following their deliberations, the representatives of the participating States adopted this Report.
The text of the Report of the Geneva Meeting of Experts on National Minorities will be published in each participating State, which will disseminate it and make it known as widely as possible.
The representatives of the participating States note that the Council will take into account the summing up of the Meeting, in accordance with the Charter of Paris for a New Europe.
Recognizing that their [sic] observance and full exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including those of persons belonging to national minorities, are the foundation of the New Europe,
Reaffirming their deep conviction that friendly relations among their peoples, as well as peace, justice, stability and democracy, require that the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of national minorities be protected, and conditions for the promotion of that identity be created,
Convinced that, in States with national minorities, democracy requires that all persons, including those belonging to national minorities, enjoy full and effective equality of rights and fundamental freedoms and benefit from the rule of law and democratic institutions,
Aware of the diversity of situations and constitutional systems in their countries, and therefore recognizing that various approaches to the implementation of CSCE commitments regarding national minorities are appropriate,
Mindful of the importance of exerting efforts to address national minorities issues, particularly in areas where democratic institutions are being consolidated and questions relating to national minorities are of special concern,
Aware that national minorities form an integral part of the society of the States in which they live and that they are a factor of enrichment of each respective State and society,
Confirming the need to respect and implement fully and fairly their undertakings in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms as set forth in the international instruments by which they may be bound,
Reaffirming their strong determination to respect and apply, to their full extent, all their commitments relating to national minorities and persons belonging to them in the Helsinki Final Act, the Madrid Concluding Document and the Vienna Concluding Document, the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, the Document of the Cracow Symposium on the Cultural Heritage as well as the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, the participating States present below the summary of their conclusions.
The representatives of the participating States took as the fundamental basis of their work the commitments undertaken by them with respect to national minorities as contained in the relevant adopted CSCE documents, in particular those in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe and the Document of the Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE, which they fully reaffirmed.
The participating States stress the continued importance of a thorough review of implementation of their CSCE commitments relating to persons belonging to national minorities.
They emphasize that human rights and fundamental freedoms are the basis for the protection and promotion of rights of persons belonging to national minorities. They further recognize that questions relating to national minorities can only be satisfactorily resolved in a democratic political framework based on the rule of law, with a functioning independent judiciary. This framework guarantees full respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, equal rights and status for all citizens, including persons belonging to national minorities, the free expression of all their legitimate interests and aspirations, political pluralism, social tolerance and the implementation of legal rules that place effective restraints on the abuse of governmental power.
Issues concerning national minorities, as well as compliance with international obligations and commitments concerning the rights of persons belonging to them, are matters of legitimate international concern and consequently do not constitute exclusively an internal affair of the respective State.
They note that not all ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious differences necessarily lead to the creation of national minorities.
Respecting the right of persons belonging to national minorities to effective participation in public affairs, the participating States consider that when issues relating to the situation of national minorities are discussed within their countries, they themselves should have the effective opportunity to be involved, in accordance with the decision-making procedures of each State. They further consider that appropriate democratic participation of persons belonging to national minorities or their representatives in decision-making or consultative bodies constitutes an important element of effective participation in public affairs.
They consider that special efforts must be made to resolve specific problems in a constructive manner and through dialogue by means of negotiations and consultations with a view to improving the situation of persons belonging to national minorities. They recognize that the promotion of dialogue between States, and between States and persons belonging to national minorities, will be most successful when there is a free flow of information and ideas between all parties. They encourage unilateral, bilateral and multilateral efforts by governments to explore avenues for enhancing the effectiveness of their implementation of CSCE commitments relating to national minorities.
The participating States further consider that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms must be accorded on a non-discriminatory basis throughout society. In areas inhabited mainly by persons belonging to a national minority, the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons belonging to that minority, of persons belonging to the majority population of the respective State, and of persons belonging to other national minorities residing in these areas will be equally protected.
They reconfirm that persons belonging to national minorities have the right freely to express, preserve and develop their ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious identity and to maintain and develop their culture in all its aspects, free of any attempts at assimilation against their will.
They will permit the competent authorities to inform the Office for Free Elections of all scheduled public elections on their territories, including those held below national level. The participating States will consider favourably, to the extent permitted by law, the presence of observers at elections held below the national level, including in areas inhabited by national minorities, and will endeavour to facilitate their access.
The participating States will create conditions for persons belonging to national minorities to have equal opportunity to be effectively involved in the public life, economic activities, and building of their societies.
In accordance with paragraph 31 of the Copenhagen Document, the participating States will take the necessary measures to prevent discrimination against individuals, particularly in respect of employment, housing and education, on the grounds of belonging or not belonging to a national minority. In that context, they will make provision, if they have not yet done so, for effective recourse to redress for individuals who have experienced discriminatory treatment on the grounds of their belonging or not belonging to a national minority, including by making available to individual victims of discrimination a broad array of administrative and judicial remedies.
The participating States are convinced that the preservation of the values and of the cultural heritage of national minorities requires the involvement of persons belonging to such minorities and that tolerance and respect for different cultures are of paramount importance in this regard. Accordingly, they confirm the importance of refraining from hindering the production of cultural materials concerning national minorities, including by persons belonging to them.
The participating States affirm that persons belonging to a national minority will enjoy the same rights and have the same duties of citizenship as the rest of the population.
The participating States reconfirm the importance of adopting, where necessary, special measures for the purpose of ensuring to persons belonging to national minorities full equality with the other citizens in the exercise and enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. They further recall the need to take the necessary measures to protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of national minorities on their territory and create conditions for the promotion of that identity; any such measures will be in conformity with the principles of equality and non-discrimination with respect to the other citizens of the participating State concerned.
They recognize that such measures, which take into account, inter alia, historical and territorial circumstances of national minorities, are particularly important in areas where democratic institutions are being consolidated and national minorities issues are of special concern.
Aware of the diversity and varying constitutional systems among them, which make no single approach necessarily generally applicable, the participating States note with interest that positive results have been obtained by some of them in an appropriate democratic manner by, inter alia:
--advisory and decision-making bodies in which minorities are represented, in particular with regard to education, culture and religion;
--elected bodies and assemblies of national minority affairs;
--local and autonomous administration, as well as autonomy on a territorial basis, including the existence of consultative, legislative and executive bodies chosen through free and periodic elections;
--self-administration by a national minority of aspects concerning its identity in situations where autonomy on a territorial basis does not apply;
--decentralized or local forms of government;
--bilateral and multilateral agreements and other arrangements regarding national minorities;
--for persons belonging to national minorities, provision of adequate types and levels of education in their mother tongue with due regard to the number, geographical settlement patterns and cultural traditions of national minorities;
--funding the teaching of minority languages to the general public, as well as the inclusion of minority languages in teacher-training institutions, in particular in regions inhabited by persons belonging to national minorities;
--in cases where instruction in a particular subject is not provided in their territory in the minority language at all levels, taking the necessary measures to find means of recognizing diplomas issued abroad for a course of study completed in that language;
--creation of government research agencies to review legislation and disseminate information related to equal rights and non-discrimination;
--provision of financial and technical assistance to persons belonging to national minorities who so wish to exercise their right to establish and maintain their own educational, cultural and religious institutions, organizations and associations;
--governmental assistance for addressing local difficulties relating to discriminatory practices (e.g. a citizens relations service);
--encouragement of grassroots community relations efforts between minority communities, between majority and minority communities, and between neighbouring communities sharing borders, aimed at helping to prevent local tensions from arising and address conflicts peacefully should they arise; and
--encouragement of the establishment of permanent mixed commissions, either inter-State or regional, to facilitate continuing dialogue between the border regions concerned.
The participating States are of the view that these or other approaches, individually or in combination, could be helpful in improving the situation of national minorities on their territories.
The participating States respect the right of persons belonging to national minorities to exercise and enjoy their rights alone or in community with others, to establish and maintain organizations and associations within their country, and to participate in international non-governmental organizations.
The participating States reaffirm, and will not hinder the exercise of, the right of persons belonging to national minorities to establish and maintain their own educational, cultural and religious institutions, organizations and associations.
In this regard, they recognize the major and vital role that individuals, non-governmental organizations, and religious and other groups play in fostering cross-cultural understanding and improving relations at all levels of society, as well as across international frontiers.
They believe that the first-hand observations and experience of such organizations, groups, and individuals can be of great value in promoting the implementation of CSCE commitments relating to persons belonging to national minorities. They therefore will encourage and not hinder the work of such organizations, groups and individuals and welcome their contributions in this area.
The participating States, concerned by the proliferation of acts of racial, ethnic and religious hatred, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and discrimination, stress their determination to condemn, on a continuing basis, such acts against anyone.
In this context, they reaffirm their recognition of the particular problems of Roma (gypsies). They are ready to undertake effective measures in order to achieve full equality of opportunity between persons belonging to Roma ordinarily resident in their State and the rest of the resident population. They will also encourage research and studies regarding Roma and the particular problems they face.
They will take effective measures to promote tolerance, understanding, equality of opportunity and good relations between individuals of different origins within their country.
Further, the participating States will take effective measures, including the adoption, in conformity with their constitutional law and their international obligations, if they have not already done so, of laws that would prohibit acts that constitute incitement to violence based on national, racial, ethnic or religious discrimination, hostility or hatred, including anti-Semitism, and policies to enforce such laws.
Moreover, in order to heighten public awareness of prejudice and hatred, to improve enforcement of laws against hate-related crime and otherwise to further efforts to address hatred and prejudice in society, they will make efforts to collect, publish on a regular basis, and make available to the public, data about crimes on their respective territories that are based on prejudice as to race, ethnic identity or religion, including the guidelines used for the collection of such data. These data should not contain any personal information.
They will consult and exchange views and information at the international level, including at future meetings of the CSCE, on crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice and hate.
Convinced that the protection of the rights of persons belonging to national minorities necessitates free flow of information and exchange of ideas, the participating States emphasize the importance of communication between persons belonging to national minorities without interference by public authorities and regardless of frontiers. The exercise of such rights may be subject only to such restrictions as are prescribed by law and are consistent with international standards. They reaffirm that no one belonging to a national minority, simply by virtue of belonging to such a minority, will be subject to penal or administrative sanctions for having had contacts within or outside his/her own country.
In access to the media, they will not discriminate against anyone based on ethnic, cultural, linguistic or religious grounds. They will make information available that will assist the electronic mass media in taking into account, in their programmes, the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of national minorities.
They reaffirm that establishment and maintenance of unimpeded contacts among persons belonging to a national minority, as well as contacts across frontiers by persons belonging to a national minority with persons with whom they share a common ethnic or national origin, cultural heritage or religious belief, contributes to mutual understanding and promotes good-neighbourly relations.
They therefore encourage transfrontier co-operation arrangements on a national, regional and local level, inter alia, on local border crossings, the preservation of and visits to cultural and historical monuments and sites, tourism, the improvement of traffic, the economy, youth exchange, the protection of the environment and the establishment of regional commissions.
They will also encourage the creation of informal working arrangements (e.g. workshops, committees both within and between the participating States) where national minorities live, to discuss issues of, exchange experience on, and present proposals on, issues related to national minorities.
With a view to improving their information about the actual situation of national minorities, the participating States will, on a voluntary basis distribute, through the CSCE Secretariat, information to other participating States about the situation of national minorities in their respective territories, as well as statements of national policy in that respect.
The participating States will deposit with the CSCE Secretariat copies of the contributions made in the Plenary of the CSCE Meeting of Experts on National Minorities which they wish to be available to the public.
The participating States welcome the positive contribution made by the representatives of the United Nations and the Council of Europe to the proceedings of the Geneva Meeting of Experts on National Minorities. They note that the work and activities of these organizations will be of continuing relevance to the CSCE's consideration of national minorities issues.
The participating States note that appropriate CSCE mechanisms may be of relevance in addressing questions relating to national minorities. Further, they recommend that the third Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of the CSCE consider expanding the Human Dimension Mechanism. They will promote the involvement of individuals in the protection of their rights, including the rights of persons belonging to national minorities.
Finally, the representatives of the participating States request the Executive Secretary of the Meeting to transmit this Report to the third Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension of CSCE.
The representatives of the participating States express their profound gratitude to the people and Government of Switzerland for the exellent organization of the Geneva Meeting and the warm hospitality extended to the delegations that participated in the Meeting.


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Q: c only first 8 bytes passed to function I am working on a C module in micropython... if I pass a byte array to a function, only the first 8 bytes make it (according to sizeof). I have to also send in the length, then copy it to access everything in a function.
static void printSomeBytes(char *description, byte *bytes)
{
    printf("\r\n%s: ", description);
    for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(bytes); ++i )
    {
        printf("%02X", bytes[i]);
    }
}

static void printAllBytes(char *description, byte *bytes, int length)
{
    byte copy[length];
    memcpy(copy, bytes, length);

    printf("\r\n%s: ", description);
    for (int i = 0; i < sizeof(copy); ++i )
    {
        printf("%02X", copy[i]);
    }

    // this also works without making a copy
    //for (int i = 0; i < length; ++i )
    //{
    //    printf("%02X", bytes[i]);
    //}
}

byte Kifd[] = { 0x0B, 0x79, 0x52, 0x40, 0xCB, 0x70, 0x49, 0xB0, 0x1C, 0x19, 0xB3, 0x3E, 0x32, 0x80, 0x4F, 0x0B};

printSomeBytes("Kifd", kifd); // prints "Kifd: 0B795240CB7049B0"
printAllBytes("Kifd", kifd, sizeof(kifd)); // prints "Kifd: 0B795240CB7049B01C19B33E32804F0B"

What am I doing wrong / is there a better way to send a pointer to a byte array to a function?

A: You've done a poor job of explaining the issue. Are you saying that sizeof(bytes) returns 8?
bytes is a pointer, and sizeof(bytes) is returning the size of that pointer. And pointers may be 8 bytes on your system. That has nothing to do with the number of bytes at the address it points to.
In C, when you get a pointer, there is no way to know how many bytes it points to unless you provide that information as another argument or have a special terminating value in the data.

A: sizeof(bytes) returns you the number of bytes that a pointer to byte will need to be stored in memory. It doesn't return you the number of bytes that the array pointed to by bytes contains.
For that you need to pass that size to the function:
static void printSomeBytes(char *description, byte *bytes, size_t size)
{
    printf("\r\n%s: ", description);
    for (size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i )
    {
        printf("%02X", bytes[i]);
    }

    puts("");

}

edit
I also added puts("") there so that the bytes are printed right away. Note
that printf is buffered and it won't show the output on the screen unless you flush it
(fflush(stdout);) by hand or add a '\n' newline at the end of printf.
puts(string) is equivalent to printf("%s\n", string); but without the
overhead of having to parse the format argument.
end edit
And then call it:
byte Kifd[] = { 0x0B, 0x79, 0x52, 0x40, 0xCB, 0x70, 0x49, 0xB0, 0x1C, 0x19, 0xB3, 0x3E, 0x32, 0x80, 0x4F, 0x0B};

printSomeBytes("Kifd", Kifd, sizeof Kifd / sizeof *Kifd);

Also the correct way of getting the number of elements of an array is:
sizeof array / sizeof *array

I encourage you to use that formula even when you know that the type is 8bit
long. It makes the code more portable.

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Q: Linear Transformation for Ker(T) and Range(T) Consider the linear transformation $T: P_3 \to P_3$ given by

$ T(p(t)) = p(t) + p(2-t) $

Find a basis for the $Ker(T)$ and $Range(T)$.
So a standard basis for the $P_3$ is  {$1,t,t^2,t^3$}
So $ T(p(t)) = T(at^3+bt^2+ct+d) = at^3+bt^2+ct+d+(2-t)^3(a)+(2-t)^2(b)+(2-t)(c)+d$
The $Ker(T)$ = {$T(p)= 0/ p \in  P_3$}
I don't know where to go from here. Can someone help me?

A: Evaluate $T$ at the basis elements . Then we can see that the outcome is:
$T(1) = 1 + 1 = 2$
$T(t) = t + (2-t) = 2$
$T(t^2) = t^2 + (2-t)^2 = 2t^2 - 4t + 4$
$T(t^3) = 6t^2 - 12t+8$
So, you have to find $a,b,c,d$ such that : $a(6t^2 + 12t+8) + b(2t^2 - 4t+4) + 2c+2d = 0$. Then, $at^3+bt^2+ct+d \in \ker(T)$.
To find the kernel, first split into components (comparing coefficients of $t$, which all have to be zero since the RHS is zero):
$$
6a+2b = 0 ; 12a-4b = 0; 8a+4b+2c+2d = 0
$$
Then we see that $3a = -3a$, so $a=b=0$, and $c+d = 0$.
So the only polynomials satisfying this property are of the form $c(t-1)$, where $c$ is a real number, and a basis is given by $t-1$ in that case.
For the range, note that if we introduce a free variable $e = 2c+2d$, then the range is made of $a(6t^2 + 12t+8) + b(2t^2 - 4t+4) + e(1)$, where $a,b,e$ vary freely. You can check that $\{1, 2t^2-4t+4,6t^2+12t+8\}$ are linearly independent, and it's clear they span the range, so they form a basis  for the range.


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All this happened last Sunday. My folks and me had flown to Delhi to be with the Bf's family. Discussions about finalizing things between us were in the process. Ma and pa wanted a April-May 2011 wedding while his ma wanted a wedding in October-November 2011. Each set of parents had their points. But as fate would have it, the Bf intervened and made it very clear that weddings in January and February 2011 seem the most ideal. I cannot agree any lesser! So okay we might be sounding like a lovelorn couple torn apart by distance [I love the dash of drama...] but it is true the distance between the political capital and the financial capital are too much. We don't mind flying to each other whenever we would like but parents of course have reservations about it. So it was decided in our favor.
No, the dates are not out yet and the fiancé is already panicking. Why? Because good banquet halls don't come by easily and we have less time on our hands. Anyways, thats another ranting post for the future.
So coming back to the last weekend; Saturday he showed us around his city and all that. We were at Hauz Khas Ruins [our last stop for the day] when dad decided he would stay back and rest his aching feet. So ma, Manu, him and me, went towards the ruins. Soon, dad called and asked us to hurry up.
Why? Because a bunch of stupid meddling boys had decided to disturb a huge honey comb and of course the bees don't take things lightly...do they? Nah! So they were on a rampage and stinging everyone who came in their way. And poor dad was one of them. Anyways we did not know this yet and hurried towards the entrance. Now we were on our way out and suddenly I see two fat [cherubic chubby] uncles sweating it out and nursing the stings. We were soon dashing towards the gate. Poor Him was the one the bees targeted next. Three of them were after him. And the man ran for his life. Hilarious [mean but it was funny as hell!]!
In between ma cracked a joke saying that the bees might have more of a female population and hence they were after the men. Little did she know...she had spoken too soon!
Soon enough dad caught up with us and all the laughing stopped. The bees had stung him just below the lower lip! Opps...we all quietly got into the car.
Cut to Sunday...we were shopping at the mall. A small rokka ceremony was decided upon where a few members of his family would come and bless us. I was advised by would-be-ma-in-law to buy something that I liked!
She called at lunch time to tell me that I was to dress up and come. Okay I enjoyed that bit but had no clue of what waiting for me at home. Each and everyone from uncle and aunty's side had come. It was a huge family gathering when everyone made it after a gap of 4 years! Woah and I was their center of attention. The new bhabhi...shoot me someone!
Introductions, giggles, observing looks and grins followed. One particular thing shook me completely was when his nephew was introduced to me. "Yeh lo nayi mami!" And I did not what to say.
To end it, one does end up making a lot of money on such occasions...hehehe!
So happy to know you the engagement has happened. I feel its just now that I read your blog about you telling your parents about 'HIM'. Well, time flies.
yayy!! congratulations and celebrations!!! jan 2011...OMG dats soo near!!
Aha, congrats! Last time I visited, you were in cribbing mode about (some other?) boyfriend! More than a year I guess!
Congratulations honey. I wish you all the best and a brilliant life ahead.
I am sort off getting used to the new tags of Bhabhi and Mami... :) Thanks a lot ya!
Yup the new bhabhi is rich and yes...its too close!
((hugs)) Nikita!! Congratulations to both of you!
Hey... Great News this... Hearty Congratulations..
And all the very best for the life ahead !!!


March 11, 2015 April 10, 2015 / Susan F.V.
He sounds like an amazing guy. I'm sorry for your loss.
*****HUGS!!!***** I am so sorry for your loss! I wish I could pass on to you the thing that got me through my own father's loss almost 18 years ago. A coworker had given me a little halloween keychain fob that screamed when you pressed its button; I reckon you could seriously use that right now!
Hello Jamie, David's family and friends. Dorothy and I met David and Jamie while we and they were building our dreams (Kwakatu and our DavidEllis). We four shared many adventures, laughs and frustrations together at the boatyard in China, in Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing. We buddy-boated on the maiden voyages of our new homes from Hong Kong down to Subic, Philippines. The following year, we ran down though the Philippine Islands with David and Kwakatu until he left us to begin his Pacific crossing. We continued our adventure in SE Asia, while Kwakatu moved her venue to the Western Hemisphere. Two years ago, I followed David's route across the mid-Pacific, moving a friends boat from Hong Kong to the US. And, I thought of David and Kwakatu every step of the way.
This past summer, we saw Kwakatu (with a new name) in Alaska. I'm afraid we made the new owners very uncomfortable when we visited aboard their boat, but could talk of nothing except David & Jamie this and that….
I'm so grateful to have had David Fritsch in my life. I wish you all good memories of David.


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The year was 2016. The groundbreaking, totally unique and confusing albeit engrossing show, Wynonna Earp premiered on Syfy. And since then, once the show became available for streaming on Netflix, it really took off, gaining a dedicated fan base and making much more of a splash than anyone expected. In honor of the third season's premiere (this Friday, July 20), this week's Woman Crush Wednesday is Wynonna herself, played by one of the fiercest girls in the game: Melanie Scrofano.
WHO'S THAT GAL: Melanie Scrofano
WHY WE'RE CRUSHING: If you haven't yet immersed yourself in the crazy, messed up, thrilling, and sexy world of Wynonna Earp, let me familiarize you. The show follows the title character as she returns to her hometown and tries to end the curse brought upon her family years ago. She must kill the reincarnated outlaws once killed by her great-grandfather, the legendary sheriff Wyatt Earp.
Wynonna fights a lot of supernatural beings, shoots a lot of guns, drinks a lot of whiskey, and wears a lot of leather. Most importantly however, Melanie Scrofano and the creators of the show have crafted a badass female protagonist who is unlike any other woman in television. They have rejected the archetypes of what a heroine should and should not be. Before filming the second season (spoilers), Melanie got pregnant. Instead of hiding her belly with props or postponing production, the writers were able to weave this development into Wynonna's story, and Melanie has become a symbol of renegade motherhood. She even did all her own stunts! While pregnant!
It is this off-the-walls mix of thriller, sci-fi, cop drama, and lesbian love story that has created a fan base unlike anything else. Fans of the show, who call themselves "Earpers" have conventions and a whole community dedicated to supporting this truly one of a kind show. And, as I think most Earpers would agree, Melanie is the backbone of the production. Her sass and spirit guide the show's tone and we are so here for it.
WHERE YOU'VE SEEN HER BEFORE: Melanie had some roles on television and in movies before, but Wynonna Earp is where she really made her name. Like literally every actress in Canada, Melanie appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation back in 2013. Besides that, Melanie also had roles in the movies RoboCop and Saw VI.
WHERE YOU'LL SEE HER AGAIN: With her following, Hollywood would have to be blind not to cast her in something big soon. Additionally, we anticipate that Wynonna Earp will continue long past the upcoming third season, so we all have a lot to look forward to.
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Q: How to compile standalone scala Just starting to learn scala.. I can't seem to figure out how to compile something into a standalone application. I think I almost have a working .jar file, but keep getting a Main-Class error even though it's in the manifest,

A: Scala programs require at a minimum the scala-library.jar file that accompanied the Scala Development Kit whose compiler you used to compile the sources. This is in addition to any 3rd-party Java (or Scala) libraries you might use. So from the perspective of building a stand-alone application (i.e., one that can be launched with a java -jar ... command) you must treat the scala-library.jar like a 3rd-party library.


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Requires all homes offered for sale, or rent, in Colorado on or after July 1, 2009, that have a fuel-burning heater or appliance, a fireplace, or an attached garage to have an operational carbon monoxide (CO) alarm installed within 15 feet of the entrance to each room used for sleeping purposes.


I´m fairly new to s1 so maybe I don´t get this right.
I´ve set up my "default" in the Songs folder as described and when opening s1 it loads up. So far so good.
I´m a ProTools and Live user where working on a "default" keeps the newly created audio files in a chache until you finally save it to a new Song or discard it.
As well the "default" can´t be overwritten by accidentally hitting save. Which in S1 is the case.
Am I missing something or is this just the way S1 works?
I have a song using Melodyne that won't open anymore. What can I do?
How can i record voice and then edit it with autotune?
Studio One 2 every month asked me to verify the registration and resets to all default settyings.


Chris and Sonja - The Sweet Seattle Life: Slips, Anyone?
I was cruising through Martha Stewart the other day and discovered these sweet little slippers.
Aha! I said to myself, finally, a sewing project that is at my skill level.
I can trace a design onto felt.
and cut out a pattern, no problem.
I can even pin things together pretty well.
They look kind of funny pinned together, but that's ok.
See? Even a row of nice straight pins.
It's the sewing part I worry about. A shame, too, since I have such a beautiful sewing machine. I should really learn how to use it properly.
We had a few many false starts..
But eventually I turned out a few good pairs. Just don't examine them too closely.
And don't try to put them on Bailey. I already tried that. He's not a fan.
Find the template for sizing your slippers here.


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I know writers who shudder at the idea of auctioning off a character name.
For those of you who just said "huh?"—most mystery conventions include auctions to support a nonprofit cause, usually either a literacy organization or a library. And one of the biggest moneymakers at these auctions is character names—an author promises to name a character in an upcoming book or story after the winner of the auction, or whoever the winner chooses.
I like auctioning character names, because it means at least a few names about which I don't have to do massive thinking and research. I seem to have developed an ability to come up with what sound like perfectly good names until someone tells me about the real life people who bear them. A word from a member of my writing group saved me from saddling a perfectly nice absent-minded professor with a name made well known by a politically extreme radio commentator. Another member of the group steered me away from giving a character a name of someone around whom accusations of sexual inappropriateness are now swirling, though not in circles in which I'd have heard of them. Bring on the auctioned names!
Mind you, the authors who auction off character naming opportunities make no promises about what they'll do with your name. I have one friend who won an auction and ended up with her name attached to the new love interest for the main character of an award-winning, long-running series. But I know a lot more people who ended up with bit parts, or even as murder victims.
I usually consult the folks who win my auctions to see if they're reasonably happy with what I plan to do with their names. I think most writers do—although I know one very nice lady who heard nothing from the author after the auction and was not at all pleased to find her name attached to a drug-addicted hooker found murdered in a squalid alley. She complained to the convention at which the auction took place—Malice Domestic, as it happens—but there was nothing the convention could do. Though since I was on the Malice board at that time, I offered to make her a character in one of my books. She seemed pleased, and I hope that eased the sting a little.
Sometimes you get a name that's a little hard to work with. At one auction, the winner asked if I could work in the name of both of her parents, Henry and Phyllis Blanke. I had no objection to the two-fer, but I was a little worried about the name Blanke—this book included Meg's grandfather, Dr. J. Montgomery Blake, and I didn't want to rename him. How could I have Blake and a pair of Blankes in the same book? And then inspiration struck and—well, not giving any spoilers here, but I figured out a way to make the similarity of the names useful.
And from time to time I hear from people who knew the Blankes and remembered them fondly, which is rather nice. I also hear from people who fondly remember Dr. Rufus Womble, the ex-rector of Trinity Episcopalian Church in my fictional town of Caerphilly. Dr. Womble wasn't an auction win—my friend Joni Langevoort, who is very active in Holy Comforter, a local Episcopal church, had been so wonderful at helping me get all the details about Trinity right that I emailed her on impulse one night to ask if she'd like to choose the name of the kindly former rector. And then I cringed, because it occurred to me to worry—what if she offered a name that just didn't work? But Dr. Womble, the priest who baptized her, fit perfectly into my cast of characters, so once I got her to clear it with his family, Dr. Womble's namesake became a resident of Caerphilly--and after being mentioned offstage in one book has now played a significant role in Toucan Keep a Secret.
Because yes, sometimes characters named after people become continuing characters. Meg's cousin Rose Noire, for example—her real name is Rosemary Keenan, since the real Rosemary's father won an auction one year at Mayhem in the Midlands. I try to mention her real name every couple of books, just to keep it alive. And Mo Heedles, who became the police chief of Riverton, the town in which Meg's grandmother lives, has now appeared in two books—The Good, the Bad, and the Emus, and Gone Gull—and will probably make another appearance in the book I'm now working on, since it takes place, once again, in Riverton.
At a recent auction, I agreed to name two characters if the both the high bidder and the next highest would each ante up. Lo and behind, I had two Janets—Janet Caverly, whose son-in-law, writer Ryan Aldred wanted to give her a Christmas present, and Janet Costello, one of the Bouchercon Toronto organizers. I toyed with coming up with a confusion involving the dueling Janets, but it proved easier to have one in each of the next few books. So Janet Caverly appeared in Lark! The Herald Angels Sing—to say just how would be spoiler—and Janet Costello will make her debut as one of a group of writers who are having a writing retreat on board the cruise ship Meg and her family are traveling on in Terns of Endearment.
And no roundup of names would be complete without a tip of the hat to Caroline Willner. I first incorporated her name in We'll Always Have Parrots, mainly to prove to a friend of hers that yes, we really knew each other. She only appeared offstage, as the owner of the wildlife sanctuary that had brought a tiger to the convention Meg was attending. But when I was planning my first Christmas mystery, Six Geese A-Slaying, I realized that I wanted to make Christmas parade Meg was organizing multicultural. Someone should bring an elephant--surely Caroline Willner would have at least one in her wildlife sanctuary. So I asked my friend Dina, Caroline's daughter, if her mother would be okay with appearing in the book. Little did I know that Caroline had just received a terminal diagnosis. She died six weeks later, long before the book was out--but Dina thinks it made her happy to know she'd be appearing it it. And strange to say, the minute Caroline's namesake appeared on stage, she was so entertaining that she became a continuing character.
One of these days, I'll make a complete list of people who've appeared in my books, and post it on my website. But in the meantime--see what you've been missing, not going to those convention auctions?
Crazy Woman Log
Stardate 2019 June 18
We've journeyed to a new and exciting place. The environs is different than what we've come to treasure but have just as surely begun to outgrow. This second exploratory trip is our final before the five-year mission begins.
I am not on a mission to Mars but rather on a trip to The Girl's college for the first of two orientations - Setting Sail and then Welcome Week. Ironically, we are not welcome at Welcome Week and by we, I mean, mama and daddy. Pretty shabby treatment for people footing the bill but I've been informed that I must cut the cord sometime. Apparently, that will be mid-August.
This two-day visit will result in a lot of information being thrown at us but we'll be doing it on a campus cleared of all students except the first group of incoming 2019 Fall Freshman (the second group Sets Sail next Monday and Tuesday). Or as I like to refer to them Mamas' Babies Who Are Leaving Us and Ruining Our Lives. Just kidding. I mean, I'm sure at least one mother is happy to see the backend of her kid for a good little while.
And I do need to apologize for just flat our forgetting my blog post on May 21st. It's been a crazy spring. Correction - it's been a crazy year.
2019, man. There've been some ups and downs. I've been nominated for some debut novel awards for WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU. That's really nice. I didn't expect anything at all so losing two of them didn't really hurt. My friends won them so I have happy vibes all around.
My publisher has decided to get out of the mystery business so that's not been too great. Especially with a book released in January. Book three was supposed to be out January 2020. Now who knows. I did get the rights back to it last week so there is hope that Willa's foray into politics (you read that right) just might see the light of day sooner rather than later.
I've also been working on spinning up a new series about a French-American woman who discovers some family secrets in the most startling way - a visit from Interpol. There's also a dark thriller I have simmering on the word-making stove as I try to answer the 'What If?' of what happens when a woman decides she'll no longer be a victim and turns the tables.
Yikes! Right? That's a lot.
Add that to 18th birthdays, falling in love at first sight (The Girl not me), prom (again, The Girl and Her Sweet Boy), graduation, and preparing my only child for a life on her own two and half hours away from home and I'm up to my eyeballs in alligators.
And here I sit in my hotel room blogging, trying to remember all the things I need to do, and remembering that no matter how busy things are, this too shall pass. And much faster than I'd prefer.
So, you'll excuse me, I have my Girl to cuddle for just a little bit longer.
Cooking Up an Idea
by Leslie Budewitz, Femmes Fatales special guest.
The brain is a strange thing.
(I can hear Mr. Right, in another part of the house, saying, with a roll of his eyes, "Some brains are stranger than others." Hmm. Takes one to know one, honey.)
Seriously, I've been thinking about the strange and wonderful process by which a cluster of images and experiences that have nothing in common except happening to or around me become an idea, that then becomes part of a story.
In Chai Another Day, my fourth Spice Shop mystery (Seventh St. Books, June 11), Pepper stops by her friend Seetha's studio for a massage. Tragedy interrupts, and Pepper never does get that massage. Instead, she ends up making a pot of chai in a lovely little brown tea pot she recognizes as a vintage treasure, using a spice and tea blend Seetha's mother sends her every month from Boston. Naturally, because she runs a spice shop, Pepper asks if Seetha's mother will share the recipe for the masala, or spice blend. Never in a million years, Seetha tells her; it's a family secret even she doesn't know.
But once Pepper gets a taste of a spice blend she likes, she's on a mission. When Seetha isn't looking, she pockets the packet, and she and her assistant shop manager set out to recreate it. In the process, they uncover the real secret of the secret, and have to decide how much to reveal.
Where did all that come from? See if you can follow this trail with me.
Mr. Right is an acupuncturist, and a few years ago, a patient brought him some of her homemade granola. We liked it, so he asked for the recipe. She refused. Turns out she had commercial ambitions; granola is so mainstream these days that I can't imagine a recipe from a woman who is not famous nor a professional cook having any commercial value, and to my knowledge, she hasn't done anything with it, but hey, if people didn't have strange ideas, where would fiction be? Being creative cooks up for a challenge, we made our own. And we like it better—so there. (I'd share the recipe right now, if I had pictures to illustrate it; suffice to say the secret ingredient is chopped dried apricots.)
Another ingredient in the story mix: Two or three years ago, my mother and I stopped for lunch in a café in Helena, Montana, where she lived. I ordered hot tea. When I opened the little envelope holding the bag, my mother said "English Breakfast—that's what my mother drank." Then she told me how a small package of tea, wrapped in brown paper, arrived in the mail every month. This was in the 1930s, on a farm in rural Minnesota. My grandmother, who died when I was just over a year old, was a farm wife with 13 kids and little cash, so that monthly package of tea was a real treasure and treat for her. And I'd never known.
So when my mother passed away last summer, at not quite 93, I packed up the little brown tea pot that she'd packed up after her mother died and brought it to my house. Set it in a spot where I could see it and smile.
Then, not long after, Pepper picked up a vintage tea pot I didn't know Seetha owned to make a cup of tea I didn't know either of them was going to need. And somehow, because brains are strange, my brain poured those two small stories—the woman who wouldn't share a recipe and a packet of tea that arrived every month—into that little brown tea pot, where they brewed themselves into a subplot.
Now, the secret of Mrs. Seetha's Mother's chai is a side trip, one of the subplots involving Pepper's friends and her shop, rather than the heart of the mystery in Chai Another Day. But I love it, because it helps reveal elements of the mother-daughter relationship—Seetha's with her own mother, far away on the opposite coast, and Pepper's with her mother, Lena. Both Seetha and Lena are the daughters of immigrants, of different generations and from different shores, which relates to another subplot. Their experiences open Pepper's eyes, and tie into an ongoing thread, the crucial role immigrants play in the restaurant biz and in the vibrant world of Pike Place Market.
And all because of a bowl of granola, and a cup of tea.
About Leslie:
Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series. CHAI ANOTHER DAY, her fourth Spice Shop Mystery, set in Seattle's Pike Place Market, will be published on June 11. DEATH AL DENTE, first in the Food Lovers' Village Mysteries, set in Jewel Bay, Montana, won the 2013 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. She also won the 2011 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction. "All God's Sparrows," her first historical fiction, won the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Short Story. A past president of Sisters in Crime and a current board member of Mystery Writers of America, she lives and cooks in NW Montana.
Find her online at www.LeslieBudewitz.com and on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/LeslieBudewitzAuthor
About CHAI ANOTHER DAY, coming June 11 (Seventh St. Books):
Seattle Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece probes murder while juggling a troubled employee, her mother's house hunt, and a fisherman who's set his hook for her.
As owner of the Spice Shop in Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece is always on the go. Between conjuring up new spice blends and serving iced spice tea to customers looking to beat the summer heat, she finally takes a break for a massage. But the Zen moment is shattered when she overhears an argument in her friend Aimee's vintage home decor shop that ends in murder.
Wracked by guilt over her failure to intervene, Pepper investigates, only to discover a web of deadly connections that could ensnare a friend - and Pepper herself.
More about CHAI ANOTHER DAY, including an excerpt here: http://www.lesliebudewitz.com/spice-shop-mystery-series/
by Kris Neri with the Femmes Fatales
We're coming up on the one-year anniversary on our move to Silver City, New Mexico.
It's been quite a year. Psychologists regard moves as one of the highest life stressors we can experience. I'd agree with that, although I'd say moving to a new town, where you know nobody, is harder still. And moving into a total fixer-upper pushes you beyond stress into the area of fearing you'll go bald because you want to pull your hair out a thousand times a day.
But, of course, I exaggerate. I still have my hair, though my scalp is a little sore.
I'm happy to report that we now know loads of people, having made lots of friends among the friendly people we've met here. Also, happily, the inside of our house is complete, as is the outside, to the extent of a new roof and paint-job. The landscaping still needs work, but with a sore scalp in mind, I've decided I'm comfortable with that taking longer.
We have a fair amount to do outside. We have a half-acre here. I know some people would consider that a minuscule property, including some of our neighbors who have multiple acres, but it's actually the largest lot we've ever had.
There weren't any flowers here when we bought it, and that's some of what has to be addressed. But there are lots of trees.
I'm not terribly tree-conversant, although I know some on sight. I'm actually more knowledgeable about cacti and succulents, and then flowers, over trees.
We do have some great junipers in our yard, and I'm quite familiar with them. Since we lived in Arizona for many years, and now have the same variety in New Mexico, they're old friends.
Junipers give off such a feeling of sturdiness, and I love them for it. They're so slow-growing that the big ones have been around for many hundreds of years. Native Americans often show their respect to junipers by calling them "grandfathers."
On the downside, they release massive quantities of pollen several times a year. During bad juniper pollen spells, ERs everywhere fill up with people totally hobbled by sinus and allergy problems. Thankfully, they don't bother me that much, so we're still friends.
Given how large some of ours are, they could easily be 800-1000 years old. I like knowing that I get to spend a tiny part of their lives with them.
Gin lovers consider junipers a blessing, since their berries are used to produce gin. Since I think gin smells like bad cologne, you couldn't pay me to drink it.
We also have a giant cottonwood. You see lots of cottonwoods in the Southwest, too. My favorite part of life with them comes when they release their cottonish-flowers. With a good breeze, it looks like a cotton blizzard.
There's one tree on our property that we have yet to identify, though I suspect it's
some kind of mimosa, given its leaves. We're not particularly good at identifying them, even with Google's help.
We came here last May, while our houses in both states were still in escrow, to measure some parts of this house. At that time, that tree didn't have a single bud on it, though they'd sprouted everywhere else.
I asked the former owner whether it was dead. He said it wasn't, insisting it was a late bloomer. Naturally, being a cynical character, I didn't believe him. I thought for sure it was dead, and figured we'd be stuck with the cost of removing it. To my surprise, he didn't lie. It did prove to be quite a late bloomer, and it kept its leaves late as well, through November.
I'm glad we didn't have to pay to remove it, of course, but mostly, I'm glad it's still where it was. It will be a perfect anchor to the desert garden we want to create when we summon a little more energy.
We recently had another fear that we'd have to remove another tree, but that was just a matter of not having sufficient tree knowledge. A giant white oak's leaves suddenly turned yellow this spring. Did that mean it was dying? I did notice that the leaves of other white oaks had also turned, but maybe, I feared, they were all dying.
We worried too soon. Within weeks, it dropped those leaves, grew lovely flowers, which quickly transformed into new leaves. The message with trees might be, "Wait a bit."
There are others, too. Maples, and one I simply thought of a the tree meant to hold the birdseed and hummingbird feeders.
Maybe with so many, I do need some tree education. Or maybe it's enough that I simply enjoy sharing a space with them.
What's your favorite part of your home?
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Welcome to the family, Doc
"You don't choose pets. They choose you." My mom was fond of telling me this when I was a kid, and just like a million other things she told me, she was right. And somehow it stuck.
From the sheltie I had as a child who had been abused by a man prior to finding us (we always said he was meant to be our dog, because it was just me and mom in our house) to my sweet tiny pom who was the runt of her litter but ran to me the fastest when we went to look at puppies, every dog I've ever had has chosen me.
And so it was on Saturday, with a bit of "meant to be" thrown in. Meet Doc Walker, y'all, who's snuggled up to me as I type this when Friday, I would've told you I still wasn't sure I wanted a dog.
When we lost our Pomeranian in November of 2016, it just about did me in. She was my first "baby," the dog I got for company when darling got a job that required him to travel more than he was home for the first few years of our marriage. Two and a half years after we buried her, I can't sit here and write about her without tears blurring my screen.
The littles started begging for a puppy almost immediately. "No," I said. "I can't do it again, the part at the end is too hard." Sure, there are considerations about our crazy level of busy and finding a dog who's a good fit for our family, but really, I didn't want to lose another animal I adored.
I guess there's something to the whole age and wisdom thing, or maybe it's just the passage of time, or both, because as my oldest again ramped up her arguments in favor of a puppy in the past two months, I've found myself thinking that if I were to avoid everything I feared would end badly or knew might cause me heartache, my life would be pretty boring. And I miss having a dog—I am decidedly a dog person, and this is the longest I've gone without one since the second grade.
So we started looking at different dog breeds. We called breeders across Virginia to ask about temperaments and bloodlines and health issues. I grew more frustrated every day that common practice 20 years after last time we got a new dog is to choose a pet by its photo on the internet.
"How can you tell if that puppy will even like you?" I asked. "That's the silliest thing I've ever heard. I don't want to pick out a dog without meeting it!"
When we called and asked to go meet puppies, we got the phone version of side-eye, and a few reluctant "okay…I guess"es—I didn't get the impression people were hiding anything, just that we were weird for asking.
But the real problem came when I researched myself into a corner: thanks to Google, by Saturday morning I was convinced there wasn't a "good" breed to be had.
"The more I read, the more afraid I am to get a puppy," I told darling. "Every breed has a long list of cons, it seems, and I'm tired of thinking about this. If I had read about poms on the internet before we got ours, we wouldn't have gotten her because it says you should never ever have them in homes with children, and that they're troublemakers." (She was wonderful and patient and gentle with all three of our curious babies, and the only trouble she ever made was chewing the corners off our baseboards when she was teething).
But back then, I didn't research it—that decision went like this: Darling said, "I'm going to be gone Monday through Thursday for at least a year," so I said, "then I want a dog," and I opened the newspaper to the classifieds and found a listing for Pomeranian puppies because my aunt had a pom I loved when I was a child. My baby raced to me and I picked her up and she was part of our family for 16 years.
"We don't need an expensive purebred puppy," I said. "I just wish we could find the dog we're supposed to have."
I opened my Facebook app and the first thing in my feed was an ad for adoptions at PetSmart, starting in 20 minutes.
"Let's go see if we can find a puppy who needs a home," I said.
We walked up to a playpen full of black Beagadors (this is apparently the mashup name for a Beagle/Lab mix) who had been surrendered to the rescue agency at five weeks old.
I stuck my hand into the playpen.
Doc walked straight over and licked my fingers. Oldest little picked him up and he hid his little face in her neck. "Mommmmmyyyyy!" She grinned so wide I thought her face might split in two.
I put my head on her shoulder near the puppy. "Hey tiny one. Would you like to come home with us?" I whispered.
He turned his head and licked my nose.
So we have a puppy.
He's fitting in nicely—playful and smart, it took about three seconds for him to get the hang of "fetch," and he's a good little writing buddy, spending his sleepy time snuggled next to me on the couch while I work on revising the new Faith McClellan novel.
It turns out that sometimes, you can over-research. But fate—and dogs—usually won't steer you wrong.
What about you, femmes and friends? How do your pets choose you?


Eberhard Busch, Barth (trans. Richard Burnett and Martha Burnett; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008). viii+95pp. ISBN 9780687492466.
Those who help us read and understand the great theologians of the church are themselves a great gift to the church. In this volume, an eminent doyen of contemporary Barth scholarship, Eberhard Busch, with striking clarity and warmth, and with unequalled familiarity (at least in print) with his subject, introduces neophytes and those long-familiar with Karl Barth to the Reformed theologian's life, location and work.
Busch, who is Professor Emeritus for systematic theology at Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, provides readers with a map which, if followed carefully, will assist them to more accurately locate Barth's contribution within a wider landscape of theological conversation and, more particularly, to navigate their way into Barth's magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik, highlighting key markers apart from which Barth's readers easily wander off course, and steering readers clear of the slippery climbs of the secondary literature. Busch is an outstanding guide.
The book begins with an entrée into Barth's early period as an assistant pastor in Geneva from 1909 to 1911 (a period in which he was fundamentally shaped by the theological liberalism associated with Schleiermacher), his ministry at Safenwil, and his move by 1916 into the strange new world of the bible wherein he discovered the Godness of God, the grace of revelation which 'hits us' like an 'arrow from the other side of the shore' (p. 5). In Chapter Two, 'The Rise of the Confessing Church', Busch traces the way that Barth pressed his theological knowledge into the service of the church, championing the reality that the one binding Word of God is Jesus Christ. Here, Busch introduces readers to the Barmen Declaration, noting that 'wherever the church looses herself from any bond which is to God's Word and at the same time to worldly power, wherever she listens solely to God's Word, she will not cease to speak out politically, but she will do so from a different position' (p. 12). In Chapter Three, Busch lays out the ecclesial, political and historical context in which Barth penned his thirteen-volume Church Dogmatics, attending to the part that reason, natural theology, freedom and church played in Barth's thought, and sketching Barth's involvement, after the Second World War, in ecumenical efforts, in post-Vatican II discussions as well as discussions with American theologians from 1962 onwards.
Having so set the scene, the remainder of the book, pages 23–83, are given to summarising Barth's Dogmatics. Beginning with an explanation of Barth's understanding of the graced nature of theology, of the fact that divine speech 'is not and can never be a presupposition that falls into our hands' (p. 26), Busch attends to Barth on religion, faith, knowledge, the trinity, divine freedom, the relationship between Israel and Church in the one covenant of grace – the reconciliation which is 'so essential that the covenant would risk falling "in the void" … were it not fulfilled' (p. 43) in Jesus Christ – God's calling and bringing of creation into correspondence with his covenant, God's triumph in the creation of faithful servants in their own free decision (what Barth in CD II/2 calls the 'autonomy of the creature'), the relationship between Gospel and Law, prayer, the sin which is nothing, real and misunderstood, the relationship between sanctification and justification, theodicy, and Christian community in relation to Christ, the world and the vocation 'to be God's witness within her own times' (p. 76). Busch concludes by outlining how Barth understands Christ's resurrection and its relationship to 'historical facts' (p. 80), to history itself as past, present and future are bound together in Christ, and to Christian hope. Each chapter concludes with a set of questions for further reflection.
A junior cousin to Busch's earlier book The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology (Eerdmans, 2004), significantly briefer than Bromiley's Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth, and more lightweight than Hunsinger's How to Read Karl Barth, Busch's Barth is a genuine introduction which impressively fulfils the brief of the 'Abingdon Pillars of Theology' series (of which it is a part) – of assisting college and seminary students to 'grasp the basic and necessary facts, influence, and significance of major theologians'.


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The Egyptian journal Maǧallat Kullīyat al-Ādāb bi-l-Ǧāmiʿa al-Miṣrīya (Arabic: مجلة كلية الآداب بالجامعة المصرية; DMG: Maǧallat Kullīyat al-Ādāb bi-l-Ǧāmiʿa al-Miṣrīya; English: "Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Egypt") was published at Cairo University, formerly known as the University of Egypt resp. later known as Fuad I University, between 1933 and 1942. A total of ten issues was published in six editions every six months.

The special feature of this journal was the division into an Arabic and a European part and thus the publication of articles in Arabic, English and French. In terms of content, the magazine focused on historical events, numerous translations, the study of Arab scholars and their writings, philosophy, poetry and ancient languages. Additionally, the journal specialized in various topics related to Egypt, such as history, culture and social development.

After its publication discontinued between May 1937 and May 1941, a final issue was published in 1942. After the founding of the Alexandria University, formerly known as Farouk I University, as a department of the Cairo University, its sequel Maǧallat Kullīyat al-Ādāb bi-l-Ǧāmiʿat Fārūq al-Awwal/Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts of the Farouk I University has been published since May 1943.

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ARROW has been engaging with the COP since 2014, working on the interlinkages between SRHR and Climate Change. Our engagement at COP20 in 2014 was aligned with the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC), one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).
ARROW together with PSDA partners (Population Action International, Ethio Wetlands and Natural Resources Association, Ethiopia, and PHE Ethiopia Consortium) organised a side event to discuss the role of integrating rights-based reproductive health services in climate adaptation. Nalini Singh of ARROW presented the critical interlinkages between climate change and SRHR, and how climate change will affect the advancement of universal access to SRHR.
COP20 failed to move substantially forward the ultimate goal of agreeing on a plan to avert climate catastrophe, although in the final hours it agreed to an outcome in order to keep work moving towards the next year. WGC issued a statement demanding urgent commitments on climate action, gender equality and women's rights for the new UN climate agreement in Paris 2015.


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United Kingdom | Michaela May - "Lights out"
British singer Michaela May returns to Sounds European! with some more pop perfection. Her new single is "Lights out", and it is a more fresh and relaxed kind of pop. The retro feeling and the easy-listening lyrics are definitely a plus to the song!
Moldova | Carla's Dreams - "Unde"
Germany | Rob Thomas - "Pieces"
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Finland | Lauri Tähkä - "Morsian"
Ukraine | Elka - "Navsegda"
Ireland | Lisa Hannigan - "Ora"
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Māori and land ownership
Early Pākehā land settlement
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Consolidation of land settlement, 1912–1950s
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Foreign ownership of Young Nick's Head
In the 2000s there was considerable discussion and concern, especially among the Māori community, about the overseas ownership of significant or historical land. A particularly intense debate occurred in 2002 when an American wished to buy Young Nick's Head (in Māori, Te Kurī-a-Pāoa), which was significant to Pākehā because it was named by British explorer James Cook after the first member of his crew to see New Zealand, and to Māori because it was named by Pāoa, the captain of the Horouta canoe. This video clip captures the strength of local feeling.
Ngāi Tahu land holdings, 2008
South Island land protest
Jim McAloon, 'Land ownership - Foreign ownership', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/video/17945/foreign-ownership-of-young-nicks-head (accessed 20 January 2020)
He kōrero nā Jim McAloon, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008


The bane of any system that opens it up to the public (not to mention some people in member services!) is the creation of duplicate accounts for the same user. Is anyone aware of a module that handles merging these records? I only have two users (that I know of) to merge right now.


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What are the policy and social implications of Project Servator?
In the second of a series of articles on the little known policing tactic, Shaquille Scott-Davis explores the impact of Project Servator on our way of life
Project Servator was originally commissioned 5 years ago in 2017 in the City of London. For more background information see 'What is Project Servator'. Since then, it has expanded to other parts of the UK, being used by other policing services including the West Midlands Police and the British Transport Police.
In March 2022, a teenager in Coventry was arrested after 'acting suspiciously' and was found to be carrying drugs and a weapon (Coventry Live, 2022). The same month in York, another person was arrested and is now 'on his way back to prison' (The Press, 2022). It is clear that Project Servator has had an influence in the number of people being arrested in public places, which police services have cited as a positive thing (British Transport Police, 2020). However, it is crucial, when evaluating Project Servator, to not fall into a positivity bias.
The first policy implication of Project Servator is the trade-off between increased security and privacy. Project Servator methods not only incorporate the use of uniformed police officers, but also plain clothes officers, automatic number plate recognition, enhanced CCTV, and the use of drones. Whilst most of these forms of surveillance are not new, their increased use as part of Project Servator represents a greater shift towards surveillance policing. This is something that the average citizen cannot consent to. There are two implications on a personal level. On one hand, increased police and surveillance presence could make people feel more comfortable and secure when out on the streets. Equally, others may feel uncomfortable about the prospect of being constantly watched, and the prospect of seeing armed police officers may cause anxieties, particularly for communities who have historically had negative relationships with the police.
Ethical concerns mean it is even more important to objectively evaluate the effectiveness and efficacy of Project Servator. Whilst police services have claimed that they have seized drugs and weapons from individuals, more empirical research needs to be conducted to evaluate the extent to which Project Servator prevents crime. Even if there are some crime prevention benefits, it is important to consider the extent that this prevents the motivation for committing a crime. Project Servator, by definition, involves policing in specific circumstances. There should be evaluation of whether Project Servator has removed crime or merely displaced crime.
Concerns also need to be raised about who Project Servator is targeting. The main claims are that Project Servator aims to disrupt criminal and terrorist activity. However, in the past Project Servator officers have been accused of targeting protesters, such as Ocean Rebellion, (Guardian, 2022), an environmental advocacy group. Increased surveillance may limit the ability of people to protest. Alternatively, increased policing as part of Project Servator, may create the opposite outcome of making protests more violent in response to police presence.
Suggestions to mitigate some of these harms have been put forward in research by Leicester University and Cranfield University (2019). They suggest rigorous assessment and surveys as well as refresher training. They also suggest systematic evaluation of Project Servator deployments and increased research to evaluate whether deployments correlate with a drop in criminal activity in the area. In addition to these suggestions, the findings need to be made public and used to improve the use of Project Servator, but also provide critical discussion and accountability for its use. Otherwise, it could reinforce notions of discriminative policing.
In conclusion; as Project Servator diffuses throughout the UK, accountability mechanisms must be put in place to ensure transparency. Regular reviews should be conducted not only on the efficacy of Project Servator, but also public perceptions. Specific attention needs to be paid to the ways that protesters are policed, to reduce the risk of over policing. If these considerations are not taken into account, then Project Servator could have the opposite effect of making people feel safe, rather making people feel constantly watched.
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What is Project Servator?
Shaquille Scott-Davis looks into the operations of a police patrol you may have noticed around a lot in the last 5 years, but probably know very little about


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Son charged with making false statements to the CFTC for failing to disclose father's role.
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged Robert Mihailovich, Sr., and Growth Capital Management, LLC, (GCM), both of Rockwall, Texas, with fraudulent solicitation in connection with the trading of commodity futures contracts and leveraged foreign currency (forex). Mihailovich, Sr., is a felon who was on supervised release while he was soliciting for and operating GCM.
The CFTC's complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on July 27, 2010, also charges that GCM, a registered commodity trading adviser and a commodity pool operator, and Robert Mihailovich, Jr., also of Rockwall and the listed principal and registered associated person of GCM, made false statements in required regulatory filings with the CFTC by failing to disclose that his father, Mihailovich, Sr., was a controlling principal of GCM.
The CFTC's complaint alleges that, since at least June 2008, GCM and Mihailovich, Sr., fraudulently solicited and accepted more than $30 million from approximately 93 customers to invest in futures and forex through discretionary accounts traded by GCM. To induce new investors, Mihailovich, Sr., made false representations claiming to be a successful commodity futures trader and touting GCM as having a profitable trading record. According to the complaint, Mihailovich, Sr., stated that he never experienced a losing trade. However, actual trading accounts managed and controlled by Mihailovich, Sr., realized net losses.
Mihailovich, Sr., also failed to disclose to customers that he had a federal felony conviction for mail fraud, was ordered to pay approximately $197,000 in restitution, served 27 months in prison and was on a three-year supervised release.


Washington (BBR) - Nicole Kirby is the Principal and Founder of CarVer Communications, one of the fastest-growing branding and public relations boutique firms in Washington, D.C., and the Mid-Atlantic. She has over twenty years of private sector experience in branding, promotions, and public relations campaigns. She has worked for notable clients such as SBC Communications, The Baltimore Orioles, Prudential Heath Care, The National Aquarium in Baltimore, the Washington, D.C. Public School System and Dr. Jamal Bryant Ministries.
A leading brand builder and communications strategist, Nicole Kirby advises some of the most recognized figures in business, sports, and entertainment, as well as faith-based organizations. Throughout her 20-year career in public relations and events, Nicole has devised media campaigns and corporate partnerships that have yielded substantial, high-profile exposure, helping both new businesses and existing brands achieve unprecedented market success.
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Austin is quickly becoming a cultural hub for all of Texas. Most everyone knows someone that is from East Texas that lives there. So ask them for a spare bedroom and head out to the Austin Food and Wine Festival April 27th.
Going to Austin is the easy part, just get to Crockett and get it done. From East Texas to a very interesting big city in 3-4 hours is irresistible to most. But once you get there, planning what to do is a bit of a chore. There are always lots of things going on, so picking something that is for you, might be hard.
Everyone loves food, if you also love wine, this is a great event to take someone too. You will seem like you have the inside track on the culture and situations going on in Austin. Just try to stay on the feeders in downtown on 35, traffic gets kinda hectic.
Be prepared for hands-on grilling demos, wine, and lots of tastings. They like to keep it local, so not only will there be chefs from all over, there will be chefs from the Austin culinary scene, showing their skills.


Tomorrow is the seventh week in the Doctor Who Stitch along. Be sure to stop by for a special invitation!
I have a question about the layout. If the blocks end up 10x12", then I'm guessing the final dimensions (with borders approximately like in the picture in the logo) to be about 40"x58"? Will there be suggestions of how to make it more bed-sized? I've hesitated to start doing embroidery because I don't know if I should enlarge everything and just make it bigger from the get-go, make more blocks using other Dr. Who patterns, or just plan for huge borders (which somehow doesn't sound attractive to me). Any suggestions, or should I just wait until July.
The finished blocks with suggested sashing are 12" x 12". There will most certainly be suggestions on making it bed sized, which is something I'm working on myself. More to come, promise!
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One pre-season game down, with two more to go, and the ice hockey campaign is just around the corner, this weekend Wild welcomes a home and away double header games both against The Lookers of Yardley Solihull Barons.
With weeks of rigorous intense training assisted by Mark Gillingham, Richard Charles and led by head coach Scott McKenzie this will be the Wild's last chance to smooth out the wrinkles and putting their practice to the test before the season officially starts.
Tomorrow, the Wild will welcome the Barons to the silver blades rink, taking on the current Laidler league champions who hope to continue their winning streak. A tough challenge for Wild, for a chance to put an end to Barons two seasons unbeaten run and what will be an exciting and passionate ice hockey game from both teams with face off at 17:30, and doors opening at 16:30.
The following evening, the Wild will be on the road, flying south to Solihull Barons home ice at the Blue Ice Plaza for an 18:30 face off, this will be the last time the Wild will grace the ice of Barons this season with them being promoted to the Moralee league, for those who want to go the coach details have been announced on the Wild Facebook page.
Ticket prices for the home game are £6 for adults and £4 for concessions, season ticket holders will be able to attend as part as their season ticket. If you can't make the trip to the games, then don't forget the Wild's official Twitter account will keep you informed with score updates and play by play updates.
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