Daniel Robertson, 33, 258 Jones Road, Jeanerette, LA was arrested on February 16, 2018 at 9:29 pm for possession of Schedule I (marijuana). A deputy responding to a call for service regarding a suspicious vehicle on LA Highway 182 in Baldwin. The deputy located the suspect vehicle on Yokley Road and conducted a traffic stop. The deputy identified the driver as Robertson. The deputy developed information that there was marijuana in the vehicle and located a bag of the substance beneath the driver's seat. Robertson was released on a summons to appear in court on May 2, 2018.
Dylan Ives, 22, 317 Park Road, Morgan City, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm for possession of Schedule I (marijuana), possession of drug paraphernalia, and on a warrant for failure to appear on the charges of possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bianca Stone, 35, 214 Mars Road #4, Bayou Vista, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm for possession of Schedule I (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Demetrius Green, 26, 214 Mars Road #4, Bayou Vista, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 2:11 pm for possession of Schedule I (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Narcotics detectives received information about possible illegal drug activity at an apartment on Mars Road in Bayou Vista. Detectives went to the residence and observed marijuana and a grinder. Detectives obtained a search warrant for the location and found marijuana and items of drug paraphernalia belonging to Ives, Stone, and Green. Green and Stone were released on summonses to appear in court on May 2, 2018. Ives was transported to the St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center for booking. No bail is set.
Christon Grady, 32, 2214 River Road, Berwick, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 3:08 pm for speeding and on a warrant for failure to appear on the charge of criminal neglect of family. Narcotics detectives patrolling Morgan City and Berwick when they observed a vehicle speeding 42 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone on the LA Highway 182 bridge. Detectives conducted a traffic stop, identified the driver as Grady, and located the active warrant for his arrest. Grady was transported to the St. Mary Parish Law Enforcement Center for booking. No bail is set.
Arian Wiggins, 20, 723 Teche Road, Bayou Vista, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 7:20 pm for possession of Schedule I (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Narcotics detectives conducting a traffic stop in Bayou Vista identified an occupant of the vehicle as Wiggins and found that she was in possession of marijuana. Wiggins was released on a summons to appear in court on May 2, 2018.
Cecile Rabalais, 26, 510 Holiday Drive, Thibodaux, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 7:45 pm for speeding, possession of Schedule I (marijuana), and possession of drug paraphernalia. A patrol deputy monitoring traffic on US Highway 90 in Berwick stopped a vehicle traveling 75 miles per hour in a posted 55 miles per hour zone. The deputy identified the driver as Rabalais and smelled the odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle. The K-9 Unit detective arrived to assist with the traffic stop investigation. The detective received consent to search the vehicle and located marijuana. Rabalais was released on a summons to appear in court on May 2, 2018.
Dexter Aucoin, 25, 505 Joey Street, Patterson, LA was arrested on February 15, 2018 at 9:45 pm for proper equipment required (display of license plate), stop sign violation, and possession of Schedule I (marijuana). Narcotics detectives patrolling Patterson observed a vehicle fail to stop at a stop sign on Red Cypress Road at La Highway 182. Detectives also observed that the view of the vehicle's license plate was obstructed. Detectives conducted a traffic stop, identified the driver as Aucoin, and smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the car. Detectives located marijuana on Aucoin's person. Aucoin was released on a summons to appear in court on May 2, 2018.


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Q: Help with understanding this proof (I think it's Hensels Lifting?) I am reading a proof that shows that if $a$ is a quadratic residue modulo $p^k$, where $p$ is a prime > $2$ and $k$ is a positive integer, then it is also a quadratic residue modulo $p^{k+1}$.
Here is the beginning of the proof where I am stuck:
Let $a$ be a quadratic residue mod $p^k$ $(k \ge 1)$
$\implies x^2 = a +bp^k$, for integers a, b
(Here is where I don't understand):
Since $2x$ is not divisble by $p$, there is a solution of linear congruence $2xy \equiv -b \pmod p$, and we have:
$(x+yp^k)^2 = x^2 + 2xyp^k+ y^2p^{2k}= a + (b+2xy)p^k+y^2p^{2k}\equiv a \pmod {p^{k+1}}$
I'm ok with understanding the last line of algebra/modulo arithmetic, but I am having trouble understanding the last line before it:

Since $2x$ is not divisble by $p$, there is a solution of linear congruence $2xy \equiv -b \pmod p$

I think it might have something to do with Hensel's lifting, but even after a bunch of reading I find that I am not really understanding it.
Could someone help me out with a simple explanation here? I'm a beginner in this area of number theory. Many, many thanks!

A: $\mathbb Z/p\mathbb Z$ is a field, the element $2x$ of this field is not zero, hence it has a multiplicative inverse.
Let me elaborate: Let $r$ be an integer that is not a multiple of $p$. We consider the remainder of $nr$ after division by $p$ for all $0\le n<p$. These are all different, because if $nr\equiv n'r\pmod p$, then $(n-n')r$ is divisible by $p$, and since $p$ is prime and does not divide $r$, $n-n'$ has to be divisible by $p$, and the only possibility for that is $n=n'$. But now if the remainders of $nr$ are all distinct numbers from $0$ to $p-1$, then actually each of these numbers has to occur exactly once. This means that for $r\not\equiv0\pmod p$ and $m$ arbitrary there is always an $n$ such that $nr\equiv m\pmod p$.
Not let $r=2x$, $m=-b$, $n=y$.

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Theresa May Wants UK To Leave Single Market
Theresa May, U.K. prime minister, center, moves between attendees ahead of the European Union (EU) leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. May wants to trigger the Brexit process by the end of March and the Lords panel said an early goal in the talks should be to agree a transitional period so as to prevent U.K.-based financial-services firms from restructuring or relocating on the basis of a worst-case scenario. Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg via Getty Images
PM speech eyes clean Brexit strategy not 'half-in, half-out' EU.
Graeme Demianyk Night News Editor and US-Based Reporter, The Huffington Post UK
Theresa May will finally confirm the UK is to quit the single market when it leaves the European Union, announcing in a much-anticipated speech that she will resist being "half-in, half-out".
The Prime Minister's Brexit plan, which she is to spell out in 12 points, will set out a vision for an "independent, self-governing, Global Britain".
Sections of the speech briefed to the media make no specific reference to the the European Single Market, the 28-bloc of countries that trade without tariffs.
Nor does it mention the customs union or the European Court of Justice, the other components that typically make up what is referred to as EU membership.
But her language is unequivocal:
"We seek a new and equal partnership – between an independent, self-governing, Global Britain and our friends and allies in the EU.
"Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out.
"We do not seek to adopt a model already enjoyed by other countries. We do not seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave.
"The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. My job is to get the right deal for Britain as we do."
And the interpretation by newspapers couldn't be clearer:
Quitting the single market means the UK can reject the free movement of people, a major pillar of the EU, and in turn have full control of immigration, which has been one of the loudest demands among Brexiteers.
May has for weeks stone-walled any questions on what her plan is beyond "Brexit means Brexit". Her last major pronouncement was that triggering Article 50, kick-starting the formal two-year negotiations to leave, would take place before the end of April.
Today, she will set out 12 "negotiating priorities" and the "four key principles driving them", which are:
Certainty and clarity
A Stronger Britain
A fairer Britain
A truly Global Britain
She will say:
"We have 12 objectives that amount to one big goal: a new, positive and constructive partnership between Britain and the European Union.
"And as we negotiate that partnership, we will be driven by some simple principles: we will provide as much certainty and clarity as we can at every stage.
"And we will take this opportunity to make Britain stronger, to make Britain fairer, and to build a more Global Britain too."
The previews of the speech in the Sunday newspapers prompted another fall in the pound on Monday, though that may have been mitigated by Donald Trump backing a fresh trade deal between the UK and the US.
In an olive branch to Europe ahead of what will be fraught negotiations with the remaining 27 members of the EU, May will say:
"Our vote to leave the European Union was no rejection of the values we share. The decision to leave the EU represents no desire to become more distant to you, our friends and neighbours.
"We will continue to be reliable partners, willing allies and close friends. We want to buy your goods, sell you ours, trade with you as freely as possible, and work with one another to make sure we are all safer, more secure and more prosperous through continued friendship."
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The Assembly Executive Review Committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly has recently begun a review focusing on Women in Politics and the Northern Ireland Assembly, and would welcome submissions from interested parties. The deadline is 3 September 2014. More information can be found here.
Joan Burton TD was elected leader of the Labour Party in Ireland on Friday 4 July 2014. She beat her rival, Alex White TD with a 78% share of the votes cast. All members of the party were entitled to vote in the election. She is the first woman to be leader of the Labour Party since its foundation in 1918. She will now become Tanaiste (deputy prime minister) in the Fine Gael-Labour coalition government, and will embark on a reshuffle of the Labour cabinet members. For more information on her election as party leader, click here.
'The Girl-The Woman: Beyond Global and Generational Borders' research project , part of the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, will be hosting a research symposium on the 22-23 May 2014 on the theme of Generational Borders. This symposium will follow directly on from our first event in January - which focused on girlhood - to explore the construction of female identity through the idea of generational borders. This will be understood in its broadest terms to include the contextual determinants of the transition from girlhood to womanhood, the voice and experience of girls living in transition and the relationship between different generations of girls/women, specifically how girls and women experience and understand the same context. This will illuminate what it is to be a girl and a woman in particular social, cultural and political contexts. These contexts include rural life and farming, sexual and reproductive health, and living in a conflict society. Our keynote address will be by Paula McFetridge, the Artistic Director for Kabosh Theatre Company NI. Drawing on an extensive theatre archive, Paula will take us through powerful representations of girls' and women's experiences enacted in different Kabosh's productions. The keynote address will close the symposium by presenting generational borders in the context of theatre: from the battle against the stigma of women and girls living in sheltered accommodation and the female experiences of social exclusion, to the remarkable lives of women leaders from around the world. The keynote will be accompanied by live performances from the plays.Please click on the links for the full programme including speaker biographies and registration details, the Keynote Address flyer, and for more information on 'The Girl-The Woman' research project, including people involved and future events.
In advance of the approaching local elections in Northern Ireland, click here to view CAWP's preliminary analysis in relation to Gender and the Northern Ireland Local Elections, 2014. For more detail on the gender of candidates at NI 2014 Local Elections - Data by Council, click here.
A briefing paper by the Northern Ireland Assembly entitled: 'Candidates for the 2014 Elections in Northern Ireland by Gender' can be accessed here. All of the analysis shows that the larger parties are - on this occasion - actively selecting more women to stand than previously. All bar the UUP have around 30% female candidates - the generally accepted minimum standard. That women comprise only 25% of candidates overall is due to the male orientation of smaller parties and independents.
On International Women's Day, CAWP wants to see more women included in democratic politics. Read our soundbites at the 'Alternative Ms Ulster' event in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, on 8 March. This was a great event, organised by Clare Bailey, former CAWP student and now researcher for Stephen Agnew MLA, Greeen Party NI. Click here for CAWP statements.
'The Girl-The Woman: Beyond Global and Generational Borders' research project , part of the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, will be hosting a research symposium on the 15th - 16th January 2014 on the theme of Global Girlhood. The keynote address will be by Dr Dr Sinéad Morrissey, the first Belfast Poet Laureate and entitled: 'The girl-the woman': a reading of selected poetry'. Please click on the links for the full programme including speaker biographies, an information flyer on the keynote address and for more information on 'The Girl-The Woman' research project, including people involved and future events.
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has mentioned the importance of last year's 'How to Elect More Women in Northern Ireland' conference on their website. For more information click here and to view a copy of their publication, 'Gender Equality in Elected Office: A Six-Step Plan' please click here.
Professor Yvonne Galligan and doctoral candidate Fiona Buckley participated in the Irish Convention on the Irish Constitution on February 16-17. This is a 100-person deliberative forum advising the Irish government on constitutional change. The focus of this Convention meeting was Article 41.2 on women in the home, and more generally women's participation in public and political life. Professor Galligan was called before the Convention as an expert witness. Ms Buckley addressed the Convention in her capacity as 50:50 Campaign spokesperson. After extensive deliberation on these matters, the Convention voted to radically alter the 'woman in home' article (88%). It favoured changing the language of the Constitution to be gender inclusive (89%) and there was almost unanimous support for the State doing more to encourage women's public/political participation (97%). All results and associated material available can be found here.
A TEDxBelfastWomen event will take place 1 December 2012 on the theme of 'the Space Between'. The Space Between, explores how women are less likely to approach subjects from a black-or-white perspective as they see the gray area in between. For more information please follow this link.
Bronagh Rice has carried out some research with young people in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to gauge their perceptions of, and explanations for the under-representation of women in politics in Ireland. She has then analysed what these views and explanations mean for the future of women's political participation. Her paper can be accessed here.
Women's representation in Irish politics is finally set to grow, thanks to the passing of legislation on candidate gender quotas. At present, women hold only 15% of the seats in the Dáil, the lower house of parliament. This legislation ensures that at the next election in 2016 - the anniversary year of the Easter Rising - women will be assured of a greater presence in the Dáil. Speaking on the passage of this historic law, Director of the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics, Professor Yvonne Galligan said: 'This is a great day for the women of Ireland, and for Irish democracy. Women can now become lawmakers, with men, in greater numbers. While it does not guarantee a gender-equal Dáil, this law is a step in the right direction. I congratulate the Minister, TDs and Senators for enacting this long-overdue provision. And congratulations to the many women, and some men, who campaigned for this measure knowing that it was the only effective way of breaking the pattern of resistance to selecting women candidates. The members of 50:50 Group, the National Women's Council of Ireland, and many others deserve great credit for their political and public championing of this issue.'
The Dáil debate can be viewed here.
Information on Longford Women's Link can be found here.
On Thursday July 19, the long-awaited legislation on candidate gender quotas for general elections will reach the final stages in the Irish parliament (Dáil). The provisions are included in a wider Bill addressing reform of party funding. The Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 provides for a 30% gender quota for party candidates at the next election, rising to 40% seven years thereafter. Non-compliant parties will risk financial penalties.
The Women in Public Service Project (WPSP), co-founded by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the U.S. State Department and five leading women's colleges - Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Wellesley - announced today that it is joining forces with the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. Two weeks ago, Secretary Clinton opened the WPSP inaugural Institute at Wellesley College, saying: "Around the world, we are hoping to help correct the gender imbalances in public service, not just by working at the top, shattering those glass ceilings, but also at the grassroots level by training and supporting women who have the talent, who have the will, but sometimes not the opportunity to become effective leaders in their nations." Recently, CAWP Director Professor Yvonne Galligan and Research Fellow Dr. Victoria Montgomery met with Professor Paula Rayman to discuss CAWP's participation in the Women in Public Service Project. CAWP is delighted to be part of this vital international initiative. Further updates to follow. For further information about the Women in Public Service Project and its programs, please click here.
The School of History and Anthropology are hosting a conference on the Life and Writings of Helen Waddell (1889-1965) on 11-12 May 2012. Helen Waddell was amongst the first flood of women graduate from Queen's University and is one of Queen's most well-known alumni. The programme including registration details can be found here.
Scottish Local Elections looks like 'more of the same' for women, according to politics experts Fiona MacKay and Meryl Kenny. In a study of women's participation in the 2012 local elections, they show that women comprise only one in four candidates. They also show that 56 local wards (1 in 7) are all-male contests. Further discussion can be found here.
In time for International Women's Day, we welcome the publication of a new report on gender and democratic decisionmaking, available online here. Deliberative Processes and Gender Democracy: case studies from Europe is a publication of the long-running RECON project funded under the FP7 programme. Edited by Professor Yvonne Galligan, the report shows the inbuilt weaknesses in democratic decision-making from a gender equality point of view. Investigations of decision-making are carried out for the European Union (Clavero and Galligan), Austria (Gresch and Sauer), Greece (Papageorgiou), Hungary (Vajda), Lithuania (Matonyte and Bucaite-Vilke), Poland (Zielinska) and Spain (Clavero). These chapters are accompanied by an overview discussing the comparative conceptual and methodological analysis (Galligan) and a chapter on the theoretical lessons to be drawn from the studies (Holst). The collection reveals that the achievement of gender equality in the EU is contingent on the institutional framework, the disposition of key participants, and the genuine inclusion of women in law-making.
The Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) have produced a good publication which may be of interest entitled: Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: a global review of good practice by Sonia Palmieri. This report can be accessed here.
On February 2, 2012 the Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011, containing provision for candidate gender balancing at general elections, was introduced in Seanad Eireann by the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD. It proposes to remove one-half of state funding for the lifetime of a Dail from parties that do not select a minimum 30% female candidates at the next general election. Professor Yvonne Galligan, Director of CAWP was in the Seanad public gallery to witness the introduction of the Bill. She said: "This Bill, for which CAWP has campaigned, finally sees the light of day. It will ensure that women will no longer be severely under-represented in Irish parliamentary politics. It is heartening to see cross-party consensus on this issue. This is an historic day for democratic politics in Ireland." The text of the debate is available here
The remainder of the debate on the second stage of the Electoral (Amendment) Political Funding Bill 2012 was taken in the Seanad on Tuesday 9th February. The discussion focused mainly on the candidate gender special measures. The debate is reported here.
The Committee stage will take place on Tuesday 14th February.
On December 16, the draft legislation on political party funding and candidate gender quotas was published by the Irish government. The Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill, 2011 provides for a 30% gender quota for party candidates at the next election, rising to 40% seven years later. Non-compliant parties will risk financial penalities.
Professor Yvonne Galligan, Director of CAWP, welcoming the bill said: 'This measure will finally break the glass ceiling of political representation for women in Ireland. It is the one area in which women have made hardly any progress over the last decade, compared to their advance in all other professions and careers. The bill will require parties to give the voters a gender choice at election times. With this bill, Ireland is following a global trend, as half the countries in the world use some form of gender quota for elections to their parliament.
The 30% provision is very attainable. QUB doctoral candidate, Fiona Buckley, has calculated that at the 2011 election just one more female party candidate in 38 of the 43 constituencies would have delivered the 30% quota.
This measure will add to the efforts currently underway to encourage women into political life. The work of Women into Public Life, Women for Election, Longford Women's Link Manifesto Group, among others, are supporting women across Ireland to become involved in political decision-making. The 50:50 campaign is lobbying for equal representation of women with men by 2020.
When this bill is passed, Ireland will be well on its way to joining the top 20 countires in the world for gender equality in political life.'
Centre for Women and Democracy report on the impact of the UK government's legislative programme on women's representation, and other news relevant to women and politics in the UK is available here.
As we await the results of the elections in Northern Ireland, it is interesting to note that in upcoming polls in Tunisia, there will be equal numbers of male and female candidates. More information here. Also, in Armenia the Prime Minister has ordered the government to look at a draft law to promote greater representation of women in central and local government and the National Assembly.
A recent Fabian report has forecast the complete demise of Liberal Democrat women in the House after the next election. The women MPs have mostly been able only to get selected for very marginal seats. As the Fabian report puts it, Party Leader Clegg's majority in Sheffield is about the same as all the LibDem women MPs' majorities combined. More information on this report can be found here.
Invitation to Hustings Event:
'Voting for Gender Equality in the Northern Ireland Elections' Wednesday 6th April at 7pm in The Space, Queen's University Students' Union.
This event which will be chaired by CAWP Director, Prof. Yvonne Galligan is your opportunity to ask candidates in the upcoming Assembly election how their parties intend to tackle existing inequalities. More information available here.
The final result in Ireland's 2011 general election saw 25 women being elected to the Dail, 2 more than at the 2007 election. Commenting on this outcome, Professor Yvonne Galligan, Director of CAWP congratulated the successful women candidates on winning seats in a hard-fought campaign. She went on to say "the absence of any woman among the 20 Fianna Fail TDs returned to parliament is something that party must urgently address. Indeed, the low representation of women in the Dail must be tackled as part of the wider push for political reform." View a summary of how women fared in the election here.
Data from the Central Statistics Office in the Republic of Ireland shows that women are under-represented in decision-making structures at both national and regional levels. In 2010, only 14% of TDs in Dail Eirrann were women, while they accounted for just over a third of members of State Boards, less than a fifth of members of locla authorities and just over a thrid of the membership of Vocational Education Committees. Women and Men in Ireland, 2010 is available on the CSO website
Reviewing the document Towards Recovery Programme for National Government 2011-2016, CAWP Director, Professor Yvonne Galligan welcomes the provisions supporting gender balanced representation. There is much still to be done, though, to deliver on the commitments of the Fine Gael-Labour government. CAWP supports the initiatives of the 50:50 Group, the National Women's Council of Ireland, Claiming our Future and the Political Reform Group in working to make these promises a reality. Read a more detailed summary and analysis here.
We now turn to the elections in Northern Ireland. The DUP is running 44 candidates in the NI Assembly Election due on 5 May 2011. Seven are women: Paula Bradley (North Belfast), Ruth Patterson (South Belfast), Michelle McIlveen (Strangford), Arlene Foster (Fermanagh & South Tyrone), Brenda Hale(Lagan Valley). Pan Lewis (South Antrim) and Evelyne Robinson (North Antrim). Women make up 16% of the DUP candidates.
The Irish general election is in full swing and the list of candidates is confirmed. Women do not fare well, despite gender imbalance being a major talking point in the campaign. Overall, women comprise only 15% of the 566 candidates. Although a record number of independent candidates - 235 in all - are putting their names before the voters, only 25 of them are women. The five main parties do not show an overall increase in women candidates - 18.4% as compared with 18.7% in 2007. One could correctly interpret this as no advance at all. The best record was back in 1997 when women made up 19.8% of candidates. A table on candidacies by party and gender is available here. Mary Minihan has an excellent overview article on the subject in the Irish Times
Professor Yvonne Galligan, CAWP Director, opened the Sligo Institute of Technology conference on Reimagining Irish Political Culture on Friday 11 February 2011, stating, "Diversity is the key to reimagining Irish political culture. The inclusion of women and their views is one element in this process of change. Today's political crisis can be the seedbed of a genuinely inclusive and accountable democracy." Group Photo here.
On the 5th January 2011, the Polish parliament passed a gender quota bill aimed at increasing women's participation in politics. This means that at least 35% of the party lists for the lower house of parliament must be women. The legislation does not apply to the upper house of parliament. Currently women make up 20% of the lower house and 8% of the upper house. The next elections are scheduled for Autumn 2011.
A new year has brought the news that the three finalists for the Politician of the Year award in Northern Ireland are all women:
Dawn Purvis for her integrity, work on PAC, position she took on UVF, stance on double-jobbing
Naomi Long for East Belfast result and local commitment
Margaret Ritchie for symbolic act of wearing a poppy and not doing a pact with Sinn Féin. Also strong on child sexual abuse
CAWP would like to support all three women and hope that this encourages more women into politics in Northern Ireland. The awards will take place on 10 February 2011. More information can be found here.
On 1st October, CAWP Director, Professor Yvonne Galligan was a guest speaker at a seminar considering the current situation of women in public life in both the North and South of Ireland and how their under-representation can be addressed. The seminar organised by Women into Public Life also had Ms. Eileen Sung (Head of Gender & Sexual Orientation Equality at OFMDFM) and Ms. Pauline Moreau (Director of the Gender Equality Division, Department of Community, Equality & Gaeltacht Affair) as speakers.
A new recently launched organisation, The Irish Feminist Network, is a network of women and men promoting gender equality across all aspects of Irish society. The launch which was attended by around 100 people included speakers such Senator Ivana Bacik, Anthea McTiernan and Susan McKay. To read a copy of journalist Anthea McTiernan's speech on Women in the Media, please click here. For more information please see the IFN website, or IFN can also be accessed on Face Book and Twitter.
The EU strategy for gender equality, 2010-15, was published on September 21st. The strategy spells out a series of actions based around five priorities: the economy and labour market; equal pay; equality in senior positions; tackling gender violence; and promoting equality beyond the EU. Speaking on the launch of the Strategy for Equality between Women and Men 2010-2015, Professor Yvonne Galligan said 'CAWP welcomes this new plan, and we are particularly pleased with the attention to the need for more women in economic and political decisionmaking.'
Access the strategy document here
Women's Studies in University College Cork (UCC) in conjunction with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Gender Politics Specialist Group present a one-day conference: Moving in from the Margins: Women's political representation in Ireland. Saturday, 18th September 2010, University College Cork. More information and registration form available.
This conference was organised by QUB Doctoral candidate, Fiona Buckley, along with Dr. Sandra McAvoy (Women's Studies, University College Cork) and was a huge success. Attended by over 100 participants, the conference in UCC was opened by Mary Whyte TD, Minister for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. A range of speakers, including current or former Senators and TDs, spoke of ways to increase women's presence in Irish politics. CAWP director, Professor Yvonne Galligan, addressing the meeting, said "Voters should expect to have a number of women candidates to choose from in their constituency, just as they can choose from the array of male candidates on the ballot. The only way to expand voter choice is for the parties to introduce gender quotas for candidates." Fiona Buckley's doctoral research is on women in the political executive in Britain and Ireland. She also convenes the Gender and Politics study group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. More information and speaker biographies available here. Photo 1; Photo 2; Photo 3; Photo 4.
The Second European Conference on Politics and Gender (Budapest, 13-15 January 2011) has issued a call for papers, deadline June 18, 2010. More information can be found here.
David Milliband, the front runner for the Labour leadership met with the women's PLP in the Commons on the 24th May, and set out his determination to increase the number of women MPs if he wins the leadership. For more information please follow this link.
The Women and Politics Group of the Political Studies Association have launched their Women and Politics blog. The blog is currently discussing women's representation after the UK general election.
Follow this link to view a very interesting clip featured on the Channel 4 News after the UK elections asking why so few women are in government/politics in Britain. The clip features interviews with Lesley Abdela of the Electoral Reform Society, Baroness Williams and Michelle Donelan MP. It also gives some cross country comparisons of women's representation.
Tara Keenan-Thomson launched her new book, 'Irish Women and Street Politics, 1956-1973' in The Naughton Gallery in Queen's yesterday (4th May 2010). Her book explores women's political activisim in Ireland from 1956-73 and includes interviews with Mary Kenny and other prominent activists who challenged the gender contract in the two jurisdictions. it is published by Irish Academic Press Ltd.
The Northern Ireland Women's European Platform invites you to listen and discuss on the issue of the Beijing Platform For Action. For more information, dates and locations for May 2010, please click on this flyer.
Director of CAWP, Professor Yvonne Galligan, addresses the Australian Houses of Parliament on "Thinking about Gender and Democracy" on Friday 23 April. Photo of Professor Galligan and Dr. Rosemary Laing, Clerk of the Senate. Photo of Professor Galligan with Dr Laing and Mr Cleaver Elliott, Deputy Clerk of the Senate.
A debate on women's representation will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 April in the Irish Senate. When the debate is online, CAWP will provide a link. For more information, please see the Oireachtas website.
This debate resumed on 19 May 2010 and the transcript can be found here.
Wikigender is a project initiated by the OECD Development Centre to facilitate the exchange and improve the knowledge on gender equality-related issues around the world. It can be accessed here.
On Monday 15th March 2010, Professor Yvonne Galligan addressed the Trinity College Dublin Historical Society, debating the motion "This House Believes that the Modern Irish Woman has No Need of the Women's Movement". The debate, in the beautiful Exam Hall, was chaired by Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland. The "Hist" is the oldest undergraduate debating society in the world, founded by Edmund Burke in 1770. Yvonne proposed the motion, and Susan McKay, chairperson of the National Women's Council of Ireland, was among those opposing the motion. Photo (Yvonne Galligan). Photo (Mary Robinson).
Fiona Buckley, whose doctoral research is on women and political leadership, discussed sexism in Irish politics in the Sunday Tribune (14 March 2010). You can read her article here. Fiona's research is supervised by Professor Yvonne Galligan and Dr. Alistair Clark
CAWP would like to wish you all a very Happy International Women's Day!
To mark International Women's Day the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is presenting a week-long factblog examining the social and economic status of women.
Professor Yvonne Galligan will address the annual conference of the Civil Service Women Managers Network on the subject of enhancing women's role in public decision-making. The event takes place in Dublin Castle on Friday 12th February.
Congratulations to Margaret Ritchie on her election as the new leader of the SDLP!
CAWP would like to congratulate Arlene Foster, winner of the women parliamentarian of the year 2008, on her appointment as First Minister (interim). Her appointment means that she becomes the first female head of government in the UK devolved parliamentary assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and she also becomes the first female head of government among the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.
CAWP has run another successful Next Generation Leadership Programme. The programme scored an excellent 100% satisfaction rating by the participants. Our next course will run 18-22 January 2010 and we are now accepting applications! Please click on our Next Generation page for more information, photos and an application form.
Prof. Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero of CAWP, have published an article in the Public Service Review: European Union - Issue 17. Entitled 'Minding the Gap', the article examines how gender demoncracy is being supported in Europe. The article can be accessed here.
A research seminar in Contemporary Irish History entitled, 'Because You're Worth It: Thekla Beere and the Value of Women in Irish Public Life' by Dr Anna Bryson will take place at 4pm on Wednesday 29 April 2009 in the IIIS Seminar Room, C6002, Level 6, Arts Building, Trinity College.
CAWP are thrilled to announce that our Director Yvonne Galligan is now Professor Yvonne Galligan!!
Following a presentation by visiting Professor Kathleen Knight (Columbia University, New York) on 14 October 2008, entitled 'Gender Jujitsu: The Media Dilemma over US Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin', both Kathleen and CAWP Director, Prof. Yvonne Galligan were interviewed on the popular current affairs programme, Hearts & Minds about women in politics. A podcast of this is available here. It is also available in mov and flv format. CAWP would like to thank the BBC and the programme producers of Hearts & Minds for permitting us to link this section to our website.
Johanna Sigurdardotti has been appointed the interim Prime Minister of Iceland. She is the first female PM of Iceland the first openly lesbian head of government in the world.
Morocco is currently working on a Charter for electoral conduct. In discussions the parties have confirmed their commitment to better women's representation and have agreed to the creation of all-women's shortlists.
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Do to incredible stress I have focused on the NY Giants. I am wearing a kids blue NY Giants hat because Paragon was sold out and won't be stocked up until Saturday. My inner beauty switch is off and I prefer this "self portrait" because it is so East Village. NY Giants, win the Super Bowl!!!!!!!!!!!


A network and archive of information have been confirmed with the Eindhoven University of Technology, where robots can easily part along with study from one another around the responsibilities they perform. After four years of study about this project by scientists from the Eindhoven, Philips, TU München, Stuttgart, Zaragoza, and also ETH Zurich University, the final result has come out.
Now, the robots are developed to perform for only one particular task. But, the developer wants that the robots perform any assign tasks and therefore they always work for it to change all the programmed actions.
The device enables research to use its cloud engine, which means it doesn't need to necessarily contain the expected strength or perhaps hold the information themselves. The information saved in RoboEarth consists of maps for routing, subject identification designs, software elements, and process guidelines.
2 robots together mapped a pair of the hospital locations, making use of operating instructions input into any RoboEarth cloud. A 3rd robot was initially revealed for being asked for the drink by a patient, and mentioning to RoboEarth to determine the way to accomplish any task. And the remaining robot devoid of previous expertise in the room designed by the initial two robots organized on the cloud.


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Juggy Sandhu receives iconic international award for Best nightlife singer
July 6: International iconic awards 2022 were hosted in Mumbai on 30 June 2022. Popular nightlife singer Juggy Sandhu received the award for the Best nightlife singer of the year 2022. Juggy has taken over the entire nightlife industry with his soulful voice and energetic vibe. This has made him the go-to artist for club shows, and wedding shows in India.
He has a record of sold-out shows. He started his career at Three wise men's karaoke nights, where people loved his voice, and he then decided to take up singing as a full-time career.
He has come a long way and has made a mark for himself in the nightlife industry. Besides being a singer, Juggy Sandhu is also known for his humanitarian work during the lockdown. He has helped the needy with food, masks and other essential items.
Congratulations, Mr Juggy Sandhu, for being awarded Best nightlife singer of the year.
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I wasn't sure what to expect from singer/songwriter Ali Isabella.
I met her at her hotel in Los Angeles the day before she was to perform for a showcase I hosted at the ASCAP expo last month for the Women's International Music Network. I can honestly say I was delighted with everything about her — her smile, her giggle, her infectious music, her strong songwriting, and her energy. Like a breath of fresh air.
At the tender age of 17, Isabella has checked more off her bucket list than some do in a lifetime. She's opened up for Reba McEntire at Wembley Arena and was the youngest performer to ever appear on that famed stage.
She's headlined pre-Grammy parties that honored Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder. Her debut single, "New York City Country Girl," reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales Chart and was No. 1 for four weeks on the Billboard Country Hot Single Sales charts.
Now Isabella is poised to release her next album, which will include co-writing credits with top writers like Chas Sandford, Susan Ruth, Marty Dodson, Ryan Tyndell and Matt Bednarsky.
Her music has matured into a lovely blend of country-tinged pop songs that showcase her sweet voice and knack for writing those niggling hooks that play over and over in your head. I for one anticipate her star will continue to rise. And I'm usually right about these things!
GUITAR WORLD: Tell me about your background. Why did you start playing guitar and writing songs?
I got into music because of my dad. My grandma lives in Queens, New York, and we lived in Westchester. When we came home from her house, it seemed like a pretty long drive for a little kid. My father would play Frank Sinatra in the car, and those are some of the first songs I learned. I remember my favorite song of his, and it still is today, "My Kind of Town Chicago Is." I know all the words to it.
You have some country tinges to your music. How did you get into that?
I do like country music. I don't consider myself a full-on country artist. I definitely have country influences, but the reason I love country music is because a lot of the songwriting is story-telling, and that's what I love to do with my songs. That's why country music is so relatable. I really love the story-telling aspect.
I hear you have some new songs you're going to be releasing.
On my last trip in Nashville, which was a couple of weeks ago, I had this new song, "Stay." I wrote that with Chas Sanford, and it's got a bossa nova kind of feel to it. It's really cool. It's really different, but it's really fun. I'm also doing this other song, "Remind My Heart," which I wrote with Marty Dodson and Ryan Tyndell. Ryan Tyndell, actually, he co-wrote "Springsteen" for Eric Church, so it was really cool. It was awesome.
And you'll be touring this summer?
Yes! I'm doing Cirque Musica. It has an orchestra and there's also like trapeze artists. It's really cool. It's kind of like Cirque du Soleil. But I'm going to be headlining that for them. I'm going to be singing some songs Debbie Gibson wrote. Then I'm also going to some summer camps and performing there for kids, so that should be a lot of fun.
Can you tell me a little bit about your guitar?
I have a Taylor 814-CE, and it's really nice. It's acoustic-electric, and I really love it.
Yeah, I play the piano. I really wanna master both of them. I also picked up mandolin. It's just really fun. And you can take it anywhere, it's so small. I kind of know ukulele, but not that well.
You're not a ukulele master?
Well, you probably learned how to read music from playing the French horn.
Yeah, I think doing band in middle school and elementary school really helped me.
That's why there needs to be music in school, right?
Yeah, definitely. And actually, at my school where I am, they didn't have music before, but a couple of friends and I were suggesting it, and now they do have band and orchestra.
What advice would you give other aspiring musicians if they wanna move ahead with music?
I think it helps a lot if you write your own songs, 'cause I think by doing that, people are able to relate more to them because you're telling your own story. I think that's really important just to have your own music. I just think it's different if you're singing a song that someone else wrote for you.
I heard you are involved in a Foundation, can you tell me about that?
Yes! I recently became a creative activist for the Creative Vision Foundation in Malibu. This lady, Kathy Eldon, her son Dan Eldon was the youngest Reuters photographer over in Somalia. There was an international crisis over there, and unfortunately, he was stoned to death when he was 22. But the way that she dealt with this ... her son was really into inspiring people and spreading a positive message, so she created this foundation Creative Vision Foundation. Its goal is to inspire other people to make change to the world through media and art. I recently wrote a theme song for them for their movie. You can find out more about them at creativevisions.org.
It's called "All of my Life." It's about making change in the world and inspiring other people to be inspired. I think that's really important, because especially with all these tragedies, to send positive messages out there.
Find out more about this talented singer/songwriter at aliisabella.com.


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State Transportation Agency Apologizes For Roadkill Dumped On Private Property In Northfield
By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 24, 2012 8:40PM
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The Illinois Department of Transportation issued a formal apology and is in the process of reprimanding highway cleanup workers who were caught dumping roadkill on private property in Northfield.
The carcasses of five deer and at least on dead dog were discovered Nov. 19 behind vacant commercial property. Northfield officials set up an infrared camera to monitor the site. The camera was removed after a few days of fruitless surveillance when three more deer carcasses were dumped in the same spot Dec. 29. Northfield Police decided to pay special attention to the property and finally caught IDOT worker Charlie Otto dumping a dead dog there Feb. 2.
Otto was released without charges on the condition he properly dispose of the dog, but Northfield police informed IDOT, who started their own investigation. IDOT crews finally removed all the carcasses from the spot on Friday, months after they were discovered.
IDOT's investigation concluded the dumpings—a violation of state law—were likely all done by highway cleanup crews. IDOT spokesman Guy Tridgell said the agency was "shocked and appalled" at the discovery, but wouldn't say how manyworkers would be punished or the types of punishment to be meted. Typically, IDOT buries roadkill on state property, in compliance with an Illinois law requiring carcasses to be incinerated or buried under at least six inches of soil. Chris Anchor, a wildlife biologist with the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, told the Sun-Times he thinks the problem is more widespread and said he's come across numerous instances where state and local workers have illegally disposed of roadkill.
"It's just people being lazy and disposing of them improperly," Anchor said.
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Council offers tenants up to £38,000 to buy privately
Harrow Council is offering council tenants payments of up to £38,000 to buy their own home.
Harrow Council in north-west London is offering council tenants payments of up to £38,000 to buy their own home on the private market.
Under its Grants to Move scheme it will also pay up to £6,000 for people to move into a private rented home and help pay removal costs.
The council has housing stock of 5,000 homes and 4,000 people on the waiting list, said a spokesman.
A London geography professor called it "state-led gentrification".
The Conservative authority said its grants for people to move into bought or privately rented accommodation were designed for people already considering moving.
Grants start at £20,000 for people buying homes who are in a one-bedroom council home and go to £38,000 for those leaving a four-bedroom home.
For people moving to private rented accommodation, grants start at £1,500 to those leaving a one-bedroom home and go up to £6,000 if a four-bedroom home is being vacated.
A payment of up to £4,500 for people willing to move to a smaller council or housing association property has been available for a few years.
'Dearth of properties'
Barry Macleod-Cullinane, Harrow Council Cabinet Member for Adults and Housing, said: "Housing families in temporary accommodation costs Harrow Council around £3m a year.
Doing nothing is not an option.
We will treat each application on a case-by-case basis and there will be checks and balances in place to prevent fraud."
The council said grants could not be used to buy council property and part of the grant would be reclaimed if people moved out of their newly purchased homes within five years.
Since the offer became available at the end of September, a family of four has opted to buy a property in the Midlands and two women living alone in two-bedroom flats were paid £3,000 each to move into private rentals.
Bob Blackman, Conservative MP for Harrow East said Harrow had a "dearth" of properties available and it was a good idea to attempt to encourage those who wish to move on to do so.
But Professor Loretta Lees from King's College London's geography department said: "This feeds into state-led gentrification and social cleansing in London.
"Rather than building more social housing and social rented homes they just shift populations out and use this as moral propaganda that they are doing something about the massive wait lists for social housing, when they are not."
In April the authority said it was considering offering up to £20,000 to those wishing to leave council property to move abroad because it has one of the smallest stocks of social housing in the capital.
Source: BBC News London


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A Dutch sleuth known as the Indiana Jones of the art world has tracked down a Pablo Picasso painting worth millions – 20 years after it was stolen from a yacht in France.
Arthur Brand recovered the 1938 work Buste de Femme, a portrait of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar, two weeks ago – and his search took several years.
The artwork had been stolen from a wealthy Saudi sheikh's yacht in 1999.
"You know it's a Picasso because there is some magic coming off it," Mr Brand added.
According to Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, the find has been confirmed by a former art investigator from Scotland Yard, who is now acting on behalf of the insurance company, and an expert from the US who flew over to the Netherlands to verify the portrait's authenticity.
Last week, Mr Brand had tweeted to say he was working on "one of the biggest cases of my career".
After confirming the find, he told De Volkskrant he believed the painting had been circulating in Dutch "underworld circles" since 2002.
Mr Brand added: "Once people realise it's a stolen thing, they want to get rid of it.


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Participants: Mary (Michael), Danny (Erich), Val (Caliel), and one new participant, Len (Pointse).
Vic's note: Danny 12 years old. He attended his first session in October of '98, and then requested this session for his birthday. Happy Birthday, Danny!
ELIAS: (To Len) Welcome to new essence this morning!
(To Danny) And how have you been faring with your investigations?
VAL: How are you doing, Dan?
VAL: Oops! Sorry, Elias! One second!
ELIAS: It is unnecessary for your apologizing.
Vic's note: I think what happened is, Len tripped over the wires to the recording equipment, both his own and Mary's.
VAL: Look at that! You know, I think it tells us something! Wait. (Brief pause) Electricity! What a silly thing, huh?
VAL: Well, one of these days we'll just have no need of it 'cause it's just in the air, I guess, in the atmosphere. (Elias chuckles) Alright. Well, we'll see if that works or not.
VAL: Inquiries. Well, (sighing) you gave me a lot of interesting information based on essence name and on essence family, and I've done some reading on the essence family that I come from, and I feel like I haven't quite (sighing) fully blossomed into what I think I'm supposed to do — which coming from the Sumari family, as you told me and I always knew somehow, having read Jane and all that — and I'm still in the process of finding the path to the expression in the public eye, and I don't know if that's what I'm supposed to do. It seems that I am, but yet I'm very comfortable in my little (sighing) quiet world, and go out every now and then, but there's a part of me that wants the big time too. And so, I don't know. Do you have any insight for me, Elias?
ELIAS: (Chuckling) It is quite amusing, the interaction with individuals within physical focus, as you lean very often in the direction of what you are "supposed" to be doing. I express to you that there is no element of your experience that you are "supposed" to be accomplishing or that you "must" be doing or that you "should" be accomplishing! These are all aspects of your own belief systems, which push you in directions that many times create conflict and an uncomfortableness for you, for you hold very strong expectations of self that move you in the direction of pushing your own energy.
In this, many individuals view these expectations of self as their motivating force. You need not hold expectations of yourself any more than you need hold expectations of other individuals, and this shall not deplete your motivation or your desires.
I am quite advocating to you to be allowing yourself natural time, not cultural time, and to be incorporating an acceptance of what you choose and what you want, not what you view you need, for needs are an illusion.
ELIAS: Ah! Listen to your own very words and recognize how very much judgment you are placing upon your behavior, your actions, and your creations!
This evening I shall be offering a with many individuals, and our subject matter shall be HOW you create your reality.
Now; many individuals, and yourself also, place great judgment upon what you view to be scattered — not holding your attention in one area — for your society expresses to you that you must be grounded, you must be centered, you must be focused in one direction. Choose a direction, and — in your very words — EXCEL in this one direction! Do not be moving yourself from here to here to here in the manner of a rabbit, hopping from one spot to another, but choose a path!
Look also to the Sumari. They are not finishers!
VAL: Oh, is that right? (Laughing) Oh, that's funny!
ELIAS: They are the pop-ins, so to speak.
ELIAS: ... but are not quite accomplished at completion.
VAL: That's it! That's the struggle!
VAL: Okay! Then maybe I'll ... alright, I'll be true to my family!
ELIAS: ... and this is not your intent.
VAL: Uh-huh, uh-huh ... help me out!
ELIAS: Your intent is to be experiencing the fullness of physical focus, and what you may offer yourself within it.
The intent in the individuals of this family is to be stirring, introducing new ideas and experiences to themselves and to other individuals, to be encouraging of creativity in all areas of physical focus; not to be concerning themselves with beginnings or endings, but to be concerning themselves with the presentment of different experiences, that they may be reinforcing the aesthetics of this physical dimension.
They pull to the surface, so to speak — in their own and other individuals' experiences — the beauty of creating within this physical focus.
Therefore, do not concern yourself that you do not hold enough physical time. There is quite plenty of your physical linear time to be experiencing the snippets of all of the different directions that you choose to be moving into. You need not be concerning yourself and creating conflict with yourself in the direction of completion.
VAL: Okay. That relieves me a lot.
ELIAS: Allow yourself the permission to be yourself and to experience in the manner that YOU experience, not in the manner that is dictated to you.
VAL: You gave me a lot of insight. Thank you.
ELIAS: P-O-I-N-T-S-E. Essence family, Sumari; alignment, Vold.
This offers you an interesting combination of intents and abilities within this physical focus.
In this combination of essence families, you hold great creativity, and you also hold the ability quite naturally — if allowing yourself to be expressing this ability — in the area of tapping your own inner senses, which may be quite valuable to you within your interaction with other individuals. You hold a very natural ability to be exercising your empathic sense, which also offers you much information in your interactions.
Many individuals that are aligning with this essence family of Vold lean in the direction of being quite expressive emotionally, but not always. They hold the ability to access easily the empathic sense.
Many times individuals within physical focus allow this empathic sense to be expressed objectively within themselves, therefore affecting emotional qualities of themselves, but this sense also offers you much information in understanding other individuals and their experiences.
ELIAS: You also hold a very strong ability in exercising the telepathic sense, which — if you are so choosing — you may quite easily polish this inner sense and allow yourself to be exercising that particular inner sense more often, which in conjunction with your empathic sense may also be quite beneficial within your interaction of other individuals.
These inner senses also lend to your ability to tap into quite natural actions as to physically viewing other individuals' energy fields which surround their physical forms, and also connecting with each of their energy centers within their physical bodies. This may also lend to your understanding and your interactions with other individuals, in offering you a greater understanding of them.
In this, you may find that individuals may hold an amazement at times at how easily you may be accessing information in their concern.
LEN: That happens all the time!
VAL: Yes, that's very true!
ELIAS: This is the enactment of your inner senses, and your allowance of yourself to be using these inner senses often.
LEN: I need them. That's how I do my work!
ELIAS: Ah, but you ALL may be exercising these inner senses, and they shall be quite beneficial to you all within your interactions!
In this situation, I may also express to you that you may find that you may allow yourself to move much more easily into the acceptance of other individuals and of belief systems, for you allow yourself the openness to experience empathically other individuals' experiences. This lends to more of an ease for yourself in moving into this shift in consciousness without trauma.
I have expressed many times, the reason that I interact with you within physical focus and offer information is to be lessening the amount of trauma that shall be experienced within this shift in consciousness, for there shall be trauma! Individuals already are increasingly experiencing trauma. This is the beginnings of the addressing to their own belief systems and the effects that these belief systems create within their individual realities.
Now; I express to you that many individuals do not hold an objective awareness in the sense that they may hold the ability objectively to identify that they are addressing to belief systems, but they present themselves with actions and events and behaviors and interactions with other individuals that display their belief systems and their HOLD to their belief systems, and they begin to experience great trauma.
Also, individuals now, as you approach your coming century, begin to open more and more to their own natural abilities that they have not allowed themselves previously to be objectively aware of. Therefore, you may encounter many individuals that are beginning to express that they are experiencing madness, for they are experiencing unusual and different elements within their reality.
Those experiences that I have offered as examples previously — in what you term in linear time to be past sessions, that individuals found quite amusing and [were] chuckling at — now become realities, and they are not quite so amusing!
Vic's note: I can vouch for this one! I've had this experience a few times and it IS quite confusing, even WITH an explanation!
ELIAS: And you express to yourself much eye-rubbing and head-shaking and expressing to yourselves, "This is my imagination and I am hallucinating." No, you are not hallucinating! You are allowing bleed-throughs, and individuals throughout your globe begin now to be experiencing many bleed-throughs, and your reality begins to change.
I have expressed many times, your reality within the completion of this shift in consciousness shall be quite different, and within this present now, elements of this shift in consciousness are objectively unfamiliar to you. Therefore, this is creating of trauma, for individuals do not willingly move into unfamiliar experiences.
VAL: Oh yes! Elias, is it helpful to each of us as individuals to know what other experiences we've had or are having simultaneously in other dimensions, or in other words, what we would call past lives? Is that helpful?
ELIAS: Yes, I am quite advocating of this investigation, as you are aware, for many elements of your other focuses are and shall be increasingly bleeding through into THIS reality, this particular focus. This is a natural byproduct of this shift in consciousness. It may be quite beneficial to your understanding if you are allowing yourselves to be connecting with other focuses of essence that you hold within this dimension and within other dimensions.
Many individuals move in the direction of allowing bleed-throughs of other-dimensional focuses, which appear VERY unfamiliar, for other realities do not hold any of the same qualities as this reality. You may allow yourselves to translate other realities into a familiar element of this reality. This be the reason that individuals experience what they term to be contact with extraterrestrials.
ELIAS: These extraterrestrials do not in their reality appear as you translate their appearance, but you create an appearance that you may relate to within this reality, that is not so very unfamiliar to what you create within this reality. Even those extraterrestrials that bear no resemblance to your physical forms do bear resemblance to elements within your reality. They are not entirely removed from your reality. These are translations, but with this you may also experience different affectingnesses of your outer senses that are directly influenced by these other-dimensional focuses: ear-ringing, what you may term to be distortions in your vision, strange physical sensations that appear only momentarily.
LEN: Do you mean a feeling of deja vu?
ELIAS: These would be experiences of the recognition of other focuses, at times. At other times, they are experiences that you allow yourselves momentarily, in the understanding of simultaneous time; that time as you create it within this dimension moves in linear fashion, but that is an expression of this dimension, and its movement is a creation unique to this dimension.
Outside of this dimension, so to speak, there is no expression of linear time in the fashion that you create it. Within consciousness, all time, in a manner of speaking, is simultaneous. Therefore, even within the objective reality of this dimension, you do allow yourself moments of experiencing simultaneous time. Therefore, you term this to be your deja vu.
VAL: Elias, I have a question, getting back to being very self-focused at the moment. My husband is Sumari. I am too. Why is it that he can finish things and I don't? (Laughing) I mean, if we're not finishers, how is it that he's such a great finisher (Elias chuckles) and accomplishes so much? I mean accomplishing in the sense of other people recognizing his accomplishments, what he does.
ELIAS: Each individual creates their reality in their own expression of which they are comfortable with.
Now; let me express to you: the difference is, this individual holds more, so to speak, of an acceptance of self, (to Len) which allows a flow more easily in your own creations.
(To Val) As you allow yourself more of an acceptance of self and your own expressions — and a trust in self, which is ultimately important — all of your creations effortlessly fall into place, so to speak, and in this, it matters not that you are completing or not completing, for you are trusting your own creations. This, so to speak, is your key.
VAL: We all have the problem!
LEN: Yes! Well, I want to ask you a different side of the question. Why is it that accomplishment is so critical to myself, and why is it that it will never be enough — that the amount of accomplishment could never really ever be enough?
ELIAS: This also parallels with yourself (indicating Val). In this, you may view a great similarity in your expressions. You merely choose differences in HOW you are expressing your own creations.
(To Len) You view that you may not be accomplishing enough.
(To Val) You view that you may not be focused enough to be accomplishing at all!
LEN: I already have that.
ELIAS: ... and the accomplishments within physical focus.
Accomplishment physically is a very large aspect of belief systems which you move yourselves within, and in this area there IS an element of lack of trust and acceptance of self, for were you moving more in the direction of acceptance and trust of self, you would not be creating this push to be accomplishing. You would be accepting that each creation that you choose is perfect in its own expression and is enough, that you need not be continuously pushing and pushing.
But this is also reinforced by your mass belief systems within your societies, and you are not immune to the affectingness of these mass belief systems and expressions.
This be the reason that I have offered the information as to the allowance, the penetration and the buffer.
Now; this has been offered as an exercise, in a manner of speaking, in dealing with other individuals, but it may also be incorporated in the line of addressing to mass belief systems and the expectations of mass belief systems and their effect that you allow within yourself.
You may allow the mass expression, but as it thrusts toward you in energy, if you are trusting self and accepting of self, you shall not be holding to your own energy, and in this, naturally allow your energy field to deflect the energy of the mass expressions.
In this, you create a natural buffer and you do not allow the penetration, and if you are not allowing the penetration, you are not allowing the affectingness, and in this you may reconstruct that very energy to be more beneficial to your own experience and to be helpful to yourselves, and this also shall be reinforcing of your own trust and acceptance of self.
Each time that you are moving in the direction of acknowledging to yourselves in an objective manner your own trust and your own acceptance, regardless of how you measure — for you are very good at measuring large expressions and small expressions — but regardless of the measure of the expression, you shall reinforce your own natural trust of self. In like manner, each time you are discounting of self and pushing for more accomplishments, you are reinforcing your own duplicity and lack of trust.
It is merely a matter of which dog you choose to feed and which shall become the larger of the two, (laughter) and I shall express to you that the dog of trusting and accepting is much more efficient at creating your reality!
LEN: It's a much better pet!
ELIAS: Quite, and offers little or no conflict!
VAL: (To Len) Do you have questions on any specifics? Danny, do you have questions? I'm trying to formulate something here.
LEN: I don't know whether I can really use you as an oracle of prophecy about very concrete things?
LEN: The crystal ball, yes! We have several crystal balls, and I've tried them all!
Will I remain in my present physical environment, doing my job in its present physical environment, or must I move on to a new office?
ELIAS: Ah, once again! "Must I? Should I?" Ah! Tsk, tsk, tsk. And I shall inquire of you, what is your want?
LEN: Oh, I want my own office!
ELIAS: I express to you to be creating your wants and not to be allowing the duplicity of obstacles, for you are quite efficient at creating many, many obstacles for yourselves and expressing discouragement, and subsequently expressing to yourselves that you cannot be accomplishing, for you have placed too many obstacles before you. Very incorrect!
LEN: I agree with you.
LEN: Yeah, that's absolutely true.
ELIAS: You may create ANY object, behavior, event, occurrence that you desire.
Now; I shall express to you that at times you may be wanting of certain elements which may not necessarily be in alignment with your intent and may not necessarily be beneficial to you, and may also not necessarily lend energy in this shift in consciousness. Therefore, you shall not necessarily create those wants.
Many individuals WANT to be acquiring winnings within your lottery, (laughter) but this may not necessarily be beneficial to them within their individual focus and it may not necessarily be in alignment with their individual intent.
Now; let me express to you also that individuals many times DO create physical, viewable possessions and movements that appear frivolous, but within their individual intents, they are great expressions of accomplishment in the area of trusting self!
And lo and behold, they are creating of this, and they are expressing to you, "I created this!" For they have trusted themselves and not held doubt, and in not doubting and questioning the direction that they are creating, they are accomplishing!
VAL: That's right. That's very true. How do we determine our true intent? How do we become very aligned with the intent, and without all of the bombardment of mass beliefs but with our own true intent, our own true purpose for being here?
ELIAS: Many individuals look to this word of intent and become boggled and experience an overwhelming confusion and express, "This is so very difficult to identify!" I express to you, it is quite easy to be identifying your intent. Look to your entire focus and the directions that you consistently move within in all of your expressions, and this shall offer you the information of your intent.
An example: An individual may be creating of many, many hurtful experiences within their focus, repeatedly placing themselves in situations that appear within your belief systems to be quite negative and quite hurtful.
ELIAS: ... which may be the healing aspect, and they express, "How shall I be healing if I am creating hurtfulness within myself?" But you are also creating experience, that you may allow yourself to move in a direction of connecting and exercising your own empathic sense, which shall be helpful to other individuals and shall be healing.
LEN: Well, that's what Teresa did with some people. She took people who would dump their troubles on her, and she really understood 'cause she was doing the same thing to herself, but she could really help them because ... that's what she did.
ELIAS: The individual may not choose to be discontinuing their own distress, so to speak, but even within their experience, they may be offering healing elements to other individuals and expressing quite efficiently within their intent.
ELIAS: In this, you may look to yourself and your experiences without the judgments of your scatteredness, and you may view how you hold the ability to be introducing this aesthetic quality to all that surround you.
VAL: I'm aware of that.
ELIAS: Quite! It is not an element that is hidden from you. It is merely a question of your own acknowledgment of your own abilities and creations. It is fully within your view, what your intents are. You do not hide these from yourselves!
(Humorously) There is no subconscious! Quite amusing term as the lesser consciousness, which is not reality! All is available to you. It is merely your choice to be acknowledging and to be accessing all that you hold.
VAL: Then Elias, if I were consciously to choose to go in the direction of accomplishing success in getting an agent that will work for me — doing wonderful auditions, being hired, being asked to sing with companies or at places and festivals and that sort of thing — I can choose that?
VAL: And I can create that?
ELIAS: Do you believe that you may create this? No!
LEN: But you already have in your life.
VAL: I have, I have! Not consciously, though.
ELIAS: Do you express to yourself that you may express to yourself, "I shall create this and it shall be?" No.
ELIAS: And if you are reinforcing of yourself and expressing to yourself, "I shall create this," and allow the probabilities to fall into place, you SHALL create this. It is merely a question of trusting yourself and your own ability, and I am quite aware that this appears to be expressed quite simply, and that within your physical creations, you create this quite difficultly!
VAL: Well, does it ... I mean, when it all started to happen when I was much younger, I didn't consciously set out to create anything! It seemed to just happen.
ELIAS: Ah, but this is the beauty of how you create your reality!
VAL: How do I get back to that? That's the question!
ELIAS: This is the expression of trusting self.
LEN: But you didn't trust yourself because you didn't know how to sing.
LEN: But now you know how to sing!
VAL: But now I know how to do it! How do I get it back, Elias?
ELIAS: Now you move in the direction of allowing yourself to trust yourself, for you have uncreated your creation by not trusting yourself.
I express to you each, you hold much more fear of successfulness than you hold of failure!
LEN: Oh, I hold a great fear of failure!
VAL: Well, I certainly experienced that, and I guess I still must.
ELIAS: ... not merely of other individuals, but of yourself!
LEN: Well, the self is the worst expecter and demander there is!
LEN: Greater than anybody else!
ELIAS: Quite! And this, as I have expressed to you, is your key. As you allow yourself to use your key and unlock your self and be trusting of self ... and acknowledge to yourselves that there is no thing within your physical focus that you may not accomplish! I may not emphasize this strongly enough, for it is your reality!
There is no element that you may not accomplish or create. You merely need be trusting of yourself and you shall create and it shall be effortless, and you shall know that you are creating within trust, as you shall be experiencing effortlessness in what appears to be elements flowing to you.
ELIAS: But this is not outside of you! It is not creations that flow to you from outside. It is what you draw to yourself, for you have created this in your own trust.
Therefore, reverse the thought process!
VAL: Right. It's not a matter of manipulating that way, but just ... yeah, I understand it on some level.
ELIAS: It is creating, trusting, drawing to yourself, and receiving.
DANNY: What Mom said before, is this just basically all about trusting your instinct?
ELIAS: What you term to be your instinct is your impulses, your intuition, that voice of you which is within you, and this is the voice that I am encouraging of you to be trusting, yes ... KNOWING that you may trust this voice regardless of how it may appear and regardless of whether other individuals view you to be a fool, for you know within yourself what you may trust, and in your expression of this, you shall be creating all that you desire.
VAL: Elias, how do you hear ... how do you listen to or distinguish that voice versus the voice of the world?
VAL: Yeah, the other dogs!
LEN: How do you know the bark of the right dog?
ELIAS: By identifying belief systems. The one dog may camouflage itself and may bark softer and may appear to be your voice of your intuition, and may in actuality not be.
The smaller voice shall always be that voice of your intuition and your essence. Therefore, if the large dog is barking quite softly, the smaller dog of your intuition shall be even softer.
VAL: How do you hear it then?
ELIAS: You may, by sweeping away the clutter of the belief system. Each time that you are evaluating which voice you are hearing, so to speak, examine this voice and the belief systems that are motivating.
Also examine what this voice is expressing to you. Is it expressing trust to you? Is it reinforcing your acceptance of yourself or does it hold judgment, good OR bad?
"I shall be good if I am accomplishing this." This is a judgment! Your judgments are not merely negative. They may appear positive also, but they are a judgment.
Your voice of essence, of your intuition, shall hold no judgment. It shall always move in the direction of beneficial to you and helpfulness to you WITHOUT judgment — right, wrong, good, bad.
In this, you may create the voice of the belief systems as many, many pebbles, and you may sweep them aside, and you express to yourselves, "Discontinue this chatter with these belief systems and judgments and JUSTIFICATIONS," which also are quite automatic to you!
(To Elias) How is it that two Sumari parents produce a Sumafi child?
ELIAS: Ah! This is not your accomplishment either!
Your agreement is merely to provide physical access to manifestation. All of the surrounding behavior and actions that you choose to be moving into are ALL your developed belief systems of relationship and how you shall behave as parents, but your agreement is merely to provide access to physical focus.
The entering focus, the child, is choosing of YOU!
ELIAS: You are not choosing of it. It is choosing of its lineage, of its parents, of its environment, of its home, so to speak, and of the relationship that it shall participate within. You merely offer the opening of the door to physically allow birth.
ELIAS: Subsequent to this, you inundate yourselves with belief systems of responsibility!
LEN: Well, so then if he's chosen to come into a Sumari family, or to come into two Sumarians when he's Sumafi, what issue does that mean pertains to the interaction of these two families? How do they complement or how to do they learn from each other?
ELIAS: It is not necessarily an issue, but an offering of less distortion. Each of you have drawn yourselves to each other in holding like expressions of families and intents, and the small one offers less distortion, and already offers a teaching element with you.
VAL: I'll say! That's right, Sumafis are the teachers.
ELIAS: Correct. Therefore, they are complementing of each other in these families; the one family offering the creativity and expression, and the other offering the teaching and the direction.
LEN: Tumold. That's what I thought I would end up being.
ELIAS: Ah! And in this, as you hold a profession that appears to be aligned with healing, this should automatically be assumed, that you shall be aligned with this particular family!
And other individuals that hold NO experiences in the area of healing align with the Tumold or are of the Tumold family, and are quite expressive of their healing abilities.
In this, you may be choosing of any direction for profession and be incorporating your intent, which is not necessarily healing, but offering an understanding as you allow yourself to be exercising your inner senses ... which be remembering that the Vold family, in conjunction with the Borledim family, are orchestrating this shift in consciousness.
LEN: Do you mean this shift in consciousness at this time of the millennium?
ELIAS: No — as this particular source event introduced into your physical reality.
These two families orchestrate this shift. Different families are orchestrating of different events within your history. In this, these two families are orchestrating of this shift in consciousness.
Therefore, individuals that are belonging to or aligning with this Vold family shall be accessing more of their abilities much more easily and quickly as this shift increases in intensity, for they shall be offering much helpfulness in avoiding trauma within the action of this shift, for their intent is to be accomplishing this shift in consciousness.
Therefore, you shall hold an underlying intent that always, within this particular focus, moves in the direction of helpfulness and furthering the action of this shift in consciousness.
VAL: What is the family of Ilda? That's the one — is Ilda correct? (Elias nods) — that I'm aligned with. I don't know anything more.
VAL: I guess! I don't know!
ELIAS: ... offering the exchange to all different individuals.
ELIAS: This be the reason that many individuals within this Ilda family have been merchants.
VAL: Right, because they of course were the ultimate communicators!
VAL: Fascinating! Do you have any specific questions, Danny?
DANNY: What will I be when I grow up? (Elias grins) I don't think I can be any more specific than that! Will my life be hard? Will it be like a lot of decisions to make — what should I do, should I do this, should I do that — or will it just be easy?
ELIAS: First of all, I will express to you that this be your choice. But I also shall express to you that as you hold this element of Sumafi, you shall be moving in the direction of paying much more attention to detail and allowing yourself to be moving in directions of what you term in physical focus of leaning towards perfection.
ELIAS: Now; I may express to you that you may be offering yourself much less conflict and less confusion within your focus if you are expressing to yourself that you are already perfect, and that all of the probabilities that are presented within physical focus and that you create also ARE in themselves already perfect.
Therefore, it is unnecessary for you to create conflict with yourself in the movement into what you BELIEVE to be perfection, or better and better and better. You are already the best!
LEN: I have a question. How can I promote less agitation and more stillness in my consciousness?
ELIAS: You may be creating more calm for yourself if you are allowing yourself to identify the judgment which creates the agitation.
LEN: The judgment that creates the agitation?
ELIAS: Correct. Each time that you are experiencing this lack of calm, you are allowing yourself to move into duplicity and be creating a judgment. Regardless of your expression, be it good or bad, you are creating a judgment; an element within your experience is unacceptable.
An individual has not phoned you within a certain time period. You are agitated. You have created a judgment — an expectation and a judgment — and this is creating the byproduct of irritation or agitation and the lack of calm.
If you are allowing yourself each time to be identifying what you are creating a judgment upon, you shall offer yourself more information by allowing yourself to view in actuality how often you are creating of these judgments, and this allows you, in its identification, the ability to be addressing to this and to be letting go and allowing yourself the calm.
Express to yourself, "What does it matter?" Shall your focus end presently, that your expectation has not been met? No. Shall you be tremendously harmed? No. Continue to focus your attention within the now, the moment — not in anticipation and not in reflection, but within the now — and THIS shall diffuse much of your conflict.
VAL: It seems like it always comes back to judgment ... if you're judging yourself, if you're judging somebody else. That's the root of all conflict, it seems.
ELIAS: This is the belief system of duplicity, which is affecting of every other aspect of every other belief system and enters into every area of your focus, regardless of its measure.
VAL: It's kind of a live and let live, and pass no judgment on yourself or anyone else, and maybe the world gets better?
ELIAS: Quite, and it begins with yourself.
ELIAS: Let me express how very inclusive this belief system of duplicity is in a very, very small action.
You consume your beverage of coffee, do you not?
ELIAS: And you place this beverage within a specific type of cup, for it is appropriate. This is where it belongs. It is good. You shall not place this within a glass for wine, for this is bad.
Although you do not concern yourself with the thought process, the belief system holds so much energy that it is automatic to you, and enters into every action that you create within your physical focus.
And THIS is a very large element of what you address to within this shift in consciousness. Without these elements, your reality shall be quite different!
VAL: (Sighing) I feel dizzy. Whew! So much to try to comprehend, but yet it all makes sense.
ELIAS: And you SHALL assimilate. Are you wishing of one more inquiry?
VAL: Okay, another question, another round!
LEN: I am involved now in a situation where a great harm was done to me by another individual, and that individual is going to go to jail, not because I'm trying to make it go in that direction, but because that's what happens in our reality these days when you commit federal crimes and you do that to other people. You go to jail.
LEN: Rather than go to jail, this individual may kill herself. What affect will that have on me?
ELIAS: It shall affect you in how you allow it to affect you. Be remembering, your physical reality is your physical reality. It is not an illusion. You have created all of the elements within your physical reality, as to your laws and your societies, in the manner of which you have chosen, and you also choose your experiences and your participation.
LEN: Yes, I understand that.
ELIAS: In this, the other individual also is creating of their reality and their choices, and it matters not if the individual is choosing to be disengaging. This is merely a choice.
LEN: By "be disengaging," do you mean to kill herself?
ELIAS: Correct. Individuals may be creating of that action if they are not engaging their own value fulfillment within a particular focus, and they shall discontinue within that focus, and they shall continue within a different focus. It matters not. It is all a choice of experience. It is not bad or wrong. It is also not your responsibility!
ELIAS: There is no fault. You hold enough responsibility for yourself!
LEN: Yes I do! I have many, many responsibilities, it's true!
ELIAS: You need not be personally responsible for other individuals' creation of their reality. You may not BE creating their reality regardless. They create their own choices.
LEN: They come to you, and they want you to change that choice.
ELIAS: Let me express to you that within the action of this shift, you shall become aware and understand how you are creating of your reality. Therefore, you may not necessarily eliminate your creations of dis-ease, but you shall create dis-ease knowing what you are creating intentionally for that experience.
ELIAS: Therefore, it SHALL hold a difference, for you shall intentionally create these elements.
Also, you shall not be creating of many of these actions as often, for you shall not be creating as a byproduct of holding energy and being influenced by belief systems. You shall intentionally create for an experience. There is a very big difference!
VAL: Right. Interesting! Well, thank you, Elias.
LEN: Thank you so much!
VAL: We're just thrilled you were here!
ELIAS: I offer to you each much affection and anticipate our next meeting, and I am quite encouraging of you to be continuing to investigate your other focuses, and you may report to me at our next meeting!
LEN: At least you'll have a written report to give!
ELIAS: I express to you much energy in acknowledgment and encouragement of your future creations.
ELIAS: To you each this day, I bid you a very fond au revoir!
Elias departs at 12:54 PM.
(1) In this paragraph, Elias said "effortly," not "effortlessly." I'm assuming this is a "slip of the tongue," so I've changed it.