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U.S. Bishops: "unconscionable" tax bill raises taxes on the poor to pay for cuts for the wealthy
Michael J. O'Loughlin November 09, 2017
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, joined by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, holds a proposed "postcard tax filing form" as they unveil the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, the first major revamp of the tax system in three decades, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Catholic bishops say the G.O.P.-backed tax reform plan is "unconscionable" and "unacceptable," pointing to "fundamental structural flaws" that they say "will raise income taxes on the working poor while simultaneously providing a large tax cut to the wealthy."
In a letter sent to members of the House of Representatives, three U.S. bishops who head committees on domestic justice, international justice and Catholic education examined the tax proposal, which cleared a key procedural hurdle on Nov. 9, saying that the proposal did not meet moral criteria "centered on care for the poor and concern for families."
The bishops charged that the G.O.P. tax proposal "appears to be the first federal income tax modification in American history that will raise income taxes on the working poor while simultaneously providing a large tax cut to the wealthy.
"It must be changed for the sake of families—the bedrock of our country—and for those struggling on the peripheries of society who have a claim on our national conscience," reads the letter, signed by Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla., Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces, N.M., and Bishop George V. Murry, S.J., of Youngstown, Ohio.
The letter cites many areas of concern, including estimates that show tax rates going up for the poor while the wealthiest Americans would see big tax cuts.
"No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits to wealthy citizens."
"No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits to wealthy citizens," the bishops wrote.
They note that the Catholic Church supports a "progressive tax code" that places a higher burden on the wealthy than the poor, and they said that this plan fails in that regard.
"In the years that the working poor suffer a tax increase under this bill, millionaires and billionaires will see significant tax decreases," they wrote. "This must be fixed."
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to pass tax reform before the end of the year, following failures to deliver on many of the president's campaign promises, including a pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
But bishops say the deadline does not allow enough time for debate.
"Because tax policy is far-reaching, Congress must provide ample time for Americans to discuss the complexities of these reforms and fully understand their effects," they wrote. "The current timetable does not provide adequate time for that discussion."
The bishops did praise some elements of the bill, including an expansion of the child tax credit and a provision they say could expand "access to schools of choice." But overall, the bishops said the process had been too rushed and that the bill needed to be reworked.
The bishops also fear that the resulting deficit from the tax proposal will be used as justification for future cuts in social welfare programs.
"The bill raises taxes on the vulnerable and creates a strong incentive to cut the social safety net"
"Rather than exploring even modest reductions to these dramatic cuts for the wealthiest, the bill raises taxes on the vulnerable and creates a strong incentive to cut the social safety net," they wrote.
In a section about how the bill would impact families, they wrote that the bill "places new and unreasonable burdens on families, especially those who welcome life or experience serious hardships."
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Paul Ryan defends eliminating the adoption tax credit in G.O.P. tax bill
Zac Davis
They highlighted the removal of a tax credit for adoption as one area of concern, though an amendment to the original bill inserted it back into the bill that could be voted on as early as next week. (A separate plan under consideration in the Senate also retains the adoption tax credit, the Associated Press reported.)
Other items they say could harm families include the elimination of a tax credit for medical debt and child care and stricter rules around parents' social security numbers, a provision they say could harm immigrants.
The letter also takes aim at a provision of the bill that critics say could result in lower donations to charities and churches. Under the G.O.P. plan, the standard deduction would double, offering less incentive for individuals to donate to charity to lessen their tax burden.
"The tax code should encourage voluntary association, mutual aid, and a culture of giving, helping rather than hurting groups that will be asked to do more for the poor in the days ahead," the bishops wrote.
Veritas Splendor
This article is complete polemic with no basis in fact! It makes many "conclusions", but does not give one specific detail in support . America, you should be ashamed of publishing such garbage. Yellow journalism is beneath you!
Dionys Murphy
Says the person who goes on a polemic rant not based in fact yet comes to conclusions without giving specific details in support. I guess projection isn't just something they do at the movie theatre.
Ellen B
It's appalling that you would sign yourself "The Splendor of Truth" while posting such a statement. The facts abound outside of this magazine. The only beneficiaries of a tax cut are the top 1% & Corporations. It's been tried in Kansas & has resulted in a massive debt. There is no "fairness" within the current proposal.
What's appalling is that you cannot name any credible, objective, verifiable sources supporting your claims. Have you even read the proposals?
Emmett Burke
Seems pretty clear to me what America is saying. The article identifies the element of the bill and indicates the impact. The facts of the matter is that the proposed tax reform is even more of a give away. The Republicans are doing what the did on health care, namely, pushing things through without any Democratic comment. They simply want to please their wealthy donors and sell it those poor folk that they coned into voting for them.
Stuart Meisenzahl
YIKES....sounds to me from this article that the Bishops really think "it is their contribution Ox that is being gored"
If the Bishops believe that this plan has been designed to help the wealthy, then I think they have failed to read the sections where the wealthy 1) lose the deduction for state and local taxes , 2) suffer the limits on large mortgage/big house interest deduction, 3) lose the basic $24,000 earnings deduction, and 4) find that the current top rate of 39% is kept.
Contrary to the Bishops' position, the economic analysis complaint has been that there is no benefit in any the changes for the top 10% of taxpayers who account for 70% of total federal income taxes.
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center disagrees: "the TPC focuses on the probable distribution of the tax cuts in the GOP plan. In 2018, taxpayers on the bottom 95% of the income ladder would get cuts between 0.5% and 1.2% of their income. Those in the top 1% would get a cut worth 8.5% of their income." The reality is that the tax proposal is a tax-cutting boon for the wealthy that does so at the expense of the poor and explodes the deficit (ironically by the same group of whiners that moaned for years about the deficit). The top 10% benefit from a cut in the top marginal tax rate to 35% from $39.6% as well as incredibly large cuts in individual businesses (ask Trump how much this will benefit him and his cronies). It's criminal. Like so many people in the current administration. It's a shame that taking advantage of the poor in a rapacious manner isn't also treasonous.
Tax Policy Analysis was done almost three weeks before the House or Senate Bill were "revealed".....Actual House Bill keeps top rate a 39.6% for tax payers earning over $1,000,000: Senate Bill top rate is 38.5%. Check the actual Bills as proposed yesterday !
Please see your quote from TPC which specifically says it is focusing on ...." the PROBABLE distribution of tax cuts in the GOP Plan". It used the words "probable distribution " because there was no plan at the time of its analysis! It was a sher speculative guess. A boat load of Democrats who claimed that earners under $86,000 would get a tax increase under the proposals were given 4 Pinnochios by the Washington Post ....a paper otherwise firmly opposed to any tax change.
I fully agree that the Republicans have ignored their usual deficit mantra but note that the Democrats who have never seen a deficit that didn't love have suddenly become economic deficit conservatives!!
Under either the House or Senate Bill's Mr Trump and his wealthy cronies will be paying as much and probably more in taxes given the rate of 38.5% or 39.6% and the cumulative loss of deductions under either Bill
Michael Barberi
Stuart,
It seems that those who listen to the media and democrats are echoing their mantra that the House and Senate Bills will increase taxes on the poor and middle class and give a tax cut to the wealthy. As your rightly pointed out, this is partisan exaggeration and highly misleading. No one has put pencil to paper and given examples to support their conclusions, including the Bishops.
Until I see more details that are comprehensive and accurate, I remain cautiously optimistic. We all need a large stimulus tax cut plan to get this economy moving again and create better paying job opportunities. Most college graduates that are young (e.g., 40 and younger) do not have the opportunities that many of us had from 1980-2000. I know the world has changed since then, but while I have an MBA in Finance I have not seen anything yet that intellectually persuades me to believe all the B.S. about what this tax bill will do.
The Bishops, and this article, are a good example of a lot of assertions but no solutions, accurate analysis or details.
Thanks Stuart for pointing out what we do know for now. Both tax bills are not perfect and there will be more haggling and amendments to come. My advise is simple: Let's see what the real benefits and disadvantages are before jumping to conclusions.
John Walton
Bad math, and bad research. So much for C-Student journalists. The top marginal rate remains 39.6%
Perhaps the utility of 4-function calculators has been lost in the syllabus at seminary. As presently constructed the tax plan in the House of Representatives will RAISE the taxes paid by the 20% who pay 90% of Federal Personal income taxes.
Randal Agostini
Interesting logic: I should have my taxes raised so that I seek relief in giving my money away. If I had more of my earnings in my pocket, would I not then have greater ability to give more away?
Before I can get my mind around the "unconscionable" aspects of this bill I think I should know how wide are the bishops phylacteries?
"If I had more of my earnings in my pocket, would I not then have greater ability to give more away?" No. "Common sense" without basis in fact or process is the greatest challenge the GOP faces. Because "common sense" doesn't reflect reality. It's the wealthy who will have "more of my earnings in my pocket," and they only give money when it benefits them on taxes, which is the provision that is being removed. The upper middle through lower classes, who give quite a bit, will not be able to give as much because there's no tax provision for relief of taxes in relation to donations. I know two-three step processes are difficult for GOP supporters to understand, but once you write it down and compare numbers, again not a GOP strong point, it becomes apparent.
Under the current proposal your taxes WILL be raised unless you are in the top 1% or a corporation.
That is completely incorrect. Under the house plan, the top marginal rate remains 39.6% but the elimination of deduction for state and local income and property taxes, elimination of the deduction of mortgage interest means that for the top 1% taxes will rise. When you examine the entire plan, taxes are likely to rise for the 20% of individuals who pay 90% of federal income taxes. Please to do your calculations more carefully.
Jorge Luis Luaces Rabaza
Regarding the poor vs the rich, given the obscene wealth of Democrat and Republican leaders currently serving in the US Congress and retired from public office (Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, George H. W. Bush Sr, etc ), clearly neither political party smells like a rose. If anything they are a culture of cult, to paraphase Donna Brazile.
Americans got what they wanted much like the Old Testament Jews creating a golden calf while rejecting YWHW. We are now seeing how gullible, partisan and hypocritical both sides of the aisle are. Nothing ever changes in the human experience.
Flat tax rate would be the only equitable way to go. Give to Caesar what is Caesar's. The rest of us...all of us....should be caring for the poor instead of lobbing this responsibility to the political hacks running our nation.
The Tax Policy Center admitted they made mistakes in their initial analysis of the proposed Tax Bill. As of Nov 10, their new analysis concluded the following verbiage listed on their website:
"In 2027, 59 percent of taxpayers would see an average tax cut of about $2,300, while at least 25 percent of taxpayers would face an average tax increase of nearly $2,100 (table 4). The percentage of tax units with a tax increase is similar across most income groups but well below average for the bottom quintile (14 percent) and significantly above average for taxpayers between the 90th and 95th income percentiles (47 percent). Many higher-income taxpayers with a tax increase are affected by the loss of itemized deductions. Because the legislation substantially increases the standard deduction and repeals many itemized deductions—including the deduction for state and local income and sales taxes—the number of taxpayers who elect to itemize compared with current law would fall 75 percent in 2018 (to 12.5 million tax units) and 65 percent in 2027 (to 20 million tax units)."
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/publication/147726/2001579_preliminary_distributional_analysis_of_the_tax_cuts_and_jobs_act_0.pdf
"Flat tax rate would be the only equitable way to go." Thank goodness the Church disagrees with this assessment because it recognizes that those that make the most wealth have the most negative impact in the world. Wealth is built upon the backs of others, primarily the poor, and those who earn the greatest wealth do so on the backs of the oppressed and the poor and should by necessity, in a world that recognizes such a Truth, be giving back to the world they pillage in the name of money.
The "tax cuts" result in more money paid by everyone except the top 1% & corporations while simultaneously driving up the national debt. Morality aside, it makes no sense from an overall financial perspective.
Please read the proposed Bills ....the average top 1%ers do not get a tax cut: they get nothing, nada, zero. Those between about$450,000 and $1,000,000 do get a benefit but those over $1,000,000 do not. The average top 1%er earns above $1,000,000.
Chuck Kotlarz
How about a 90% top tax rate on income over $10 million? That should not bother the average million dollar a year 1%er.
The Boston Globe notes S&P 500 corporations in 2014 spent all but 2 percent of their profits on buybacks and dividends. Proposed cuts to the corporate income tax code total more than $800 billion over the next 10 years. That's $800 billion more profit for stock buybacks and dividends and $800 billion more federal debt paid for by soaking the kids and grand kids.
The corporate "tax cut" indirectly hands over a fat pay raise to the 400 wealthiest U.S. households who receive nearly 75 percent of their income from stock dividends and capital gains from selling stocks.
The individual tax cuts, which total more than $800 billion over the next 10 years, are also paid for by soaking the kids and grand kids. For Trump and his family, the tax cut leaves them a billion dollars richer.
Your favorite "go to" economic liberal Warren Buffet has taken exactly the opposite view of Stock Buy Backs ....see his 2016 Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.
The Boston Globe article you cite was by Professor Lazonick of Lowell Mass and the basis for that is his monograph "Profits without Prosperity " in which his argument is that SEC rules on buy backs allow market manipulation to the benefit of the executives controlling the buy back. He does not argue that the buy backs only benefit the top 400 wealthiest.
Indeed he could not make such an argument because there is no fact base for determining precisely what stocks those wealthiest 400 Americans own , or what stocks they own that have been subject to buy backs. Perhaps you have such facts at your disposal?
Tax cuts are GOP "go to". Explain why the Reagan and Bush tax cuts trashed the national debt, the tax base, the ninth worst economic instability since 1856 and thirty plus years of failed trickle down wages.
You keep changing the content of your own arguments...
Now as to your last above: You state that Regan Bush cut taxes and increased the National Debt. But please note again that Barack Obama increased taxes AND doubled the National Debt!!
There is no demonstrable direct causation between tax rates and National Debt WITHOUT LOOKING AT SPENDING,!
Tax rates did not "trash the National Debt" ..........spending in excess of receipts trashed the National Debt.....and that includes SS Taxes and Medicare Taxes falling short of those needed to fund those "off balance sheet liabilities"!
National debt as a percentage of GDP exploded thirteen points under Bush after falling nine percentage points under Clinton.
With the Great Recession not yet ended, debt exploded another sixteen percentage points in the year after Bush left office. Recall Bush inherited a budget surplus forecast to last as far as the eye could see.
The deficit, which reached a staggering $1.55 trillion in the 2009 fiscal year, then declined yearly, falling fifty percent by 2013, the year of Obama's tax increase.
You provide more totally misleading statistics:
First and foremost taxes and spending are primarily products of Congress not a President. It is far more accurate to track deficits by the party control of Congress
The Clinton PROJECTED surplus was a product of a Republican Congress and Democratic President controlling spending....remember Bill Clinton's famous "The era of big government is over " speech. The projection of a surplus was tied directly to continued spending controls, not tax policy. Further there never was an actual surplus.....there was a projection of a future surplus over the following 10 years, and it assumed limited increases in spending during that period.
Bush's deficits are not primarily products of tax policy but rather of spending on two wars brought on by 9/11......wars approved by a bipartisan congressional vote. That spending increase negated the assumptions underlying the previously projected surplus.
Obama and the Democratic Congress ran up a$10Trillion total increase in the National Debt despite a tax increase.......the cause was spending!
$1 Trillion of the 2009 -2010 deficit is directly attributable to the failed Obama Stimulus and subsequent $ Trillions were added by Obamacare. .....Again spending beyond receipts. Indeed the Obamcare taxes provided receipts to offset deficits for three years before Obamcare's actual costs fully kicked in!
You keep avoiding the question of how we are going to pay down the National Debt in the face of rising interest rates without growth in the economy beyond 2% per year. Further, it has been demonstrated by the past four years that wages will not increase with a 2% annual growth rate. No economist thinks you can tax your way out of these problem.
You can grow your way out of the problem or you can cut the built in Federal Program spending increases and curtail adding programs. Since the Social Justice Warriors will never agree to spending cuts, the only option left is growth!
Increases in taxes are antithetical to growth, an effect compounded by the gross inefficiencies of government spending.
Exactly how much do you believe your suggestions for massive increases in taxes on the top 1%ers would yield? [As already noted , if you outright seized all of the 1%ers wealth the National Debt would still be at Pre Obama era levels of $10 Trillion.] What would such levels of taxation do to chill the 1%ers reinvestment in new businesses and maintaining marginal businesses?
If it's a given that we are not going to cut spending, just exactly what change in policies do believe would cause growth greater than 2% per annum?
Trump has started with "deregulation" which is just another way of reducing business costs. This has already caused some increase in growth. The question to be answered is whether a proposed corporate tax cut will stimulate even greater growth.
For my part, I would continue deregulation; cut corporate taxes; leave all individual tax rates the same; and freeze all additions to the cost of Federal programs (no increases).
Stuart, the share of income for the bottom 95% has been falling since 1980. Why would anyone invest in a dying market segment?
What would I do to increase growth? Apply a 90% tax rate on income over $10 million, restore a 77% tax on estates over $10 million and apply a 25% capital gains tax.
I heard of a high school student that goes to college for a class. He does not take the class, he teaches it. My gut feel is millennials are a great generation waiting to happen. One talented kid can't do it by himself. A living wage would help jump start the millennial generation.
I suggest you run your recipe for " growth" (as stated by you above) by any economist and see what his reaction is. All you have suggested is the Obama recipe times 2.
You don't mention the Corporate tax rate, so I assume you would leave it at 35%. Nor do you mention any budget controls.
It's this general approach which brought us the current lousy 2% growth rate....Now being defined as the new normal! Combine that with your suggested $15 minimum wage and your lack of any proposal to restrain federal spending and you have created a fairly fast fuse economic time bomb.
Under your proposal It strikes me that there will be no estates over $10M .....that money,like the current corporate stash of $2+ Trillion, will go abroad or be locked up in foundations like the Buffet and Gates Foundations. A 77% tax on income above $10 million will probably lead to a lot of ex patriots as France experienced when it tried that approach. Not to mention entrepreneurs starting their businesses in more favorable tax rate countries.
It's easy to see who will benefit most by those who are pushing Washington to get it passed ---
The wealthy:
""The most excited group out there are big CEOs, about our tax plan," Gary Cohn, the leading White House economic adviser and former chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday."
""My donors are basically saying, 'Get it done or don't ever call me again,'" Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), himself a millionaire, said on Tuesday.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters on Thursday that a failure to pass tax reform would fracture the Republican Party and lead to more far-right wing primary challengers. "The financial contributions will stop," he added."
You quote Cohen out of context.....CEO's are in favor/excited because they see economic growth stemming from the Corporate Tax cut.
Your other two quotes were similarly out of context: Both Collins and Lindsey were citing promises made as part of their re-election to get something done and fulfill campaign promises or they would lose their supporters.
Perhaps you could enlighten us as to whom you define as wealthy?
bill bladykas
Bishops are way off base. Firstly no bill has been passed and there is no tax increase suggested on the 47% that don't pay federal income taxes to start with.
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Pass connectionstring Parameter to DatabaseConnection_SetConnectionStringForSession.
Is it the right format to pass?
If the database you are connecting is Oracle and the stack is .NET then yes. Otherwise you have to pass a valid connection string for the Stack (.NET or Java) and DBMS.
Thanks João Amorim, Due to some security reasons we are not able to get the credentials,is there any way to switch database using data source?
Can you tell me if you are changing the connection string to the platform database or an external database?
Either way, as long as the the DBMS is same (Oracle) and the tables exists in the other database, you should be able to switch by changing the "Data Source" parameter in the connection string.
I am changing the connection string to an external database.
you mean i can pass only the datasource name in connectionstring parameter.
even if i am passing the wrong connectionname and connectionstring, not able to get any error, its just ignoring the api action.
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2:-This action will never through the exception even if you are providing the wrong parameters.
Regarding #1, I thought you said before you trying to change a connection to an external database.
Regarding #2, the action doesn't throw an exception because it only sets the value of the connection string. The error will only occur when you try to access the database (via aggregate/entity action).
I mean i was trying to change the platform database connection to an external database connection.
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Kristen Stewart to strip down for Breaking Dawn?
Scream! No sooner had filming got under way for Twilight Breaking Dawn, than a secret on-set source dished the dirt on the steamy script, revealing it has Kristen Stewart 'practically naked' for many of the scenes.
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Excited fans the world over have long wondered how directors would address Bella and Edward's honeymoon scenes, and it seems bosses will not be holding back when it comes to the final book's racier aspects.
'The script actually has Kristen practically naked in it, a lot,' one insider told E! Entertainment.
But before you get too excited, bosses won't be showing that much skin.
'Rating is key,' the insider added, suggesting director Bill Condon might shoot the naked scenes, and then cut them down to a seriously suggestive, uber-hot edit.
The sneaky insider also revealed all on Bella's long-awaited wedding dress, but far from subtle and elegant, tells of how the frock is actually a bit of a monstrosity.
'It's hideous,' the insider said.
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But there's a streak of melancholy coming through all of his current positivity. When Kevin Lyman announced in November that the 2018 summer campaign of the Vans Warped Tour would be the final year for the travelling roadshow, Biersack bummed out. While he certainly acknowledges the influence Warped had on his career, it was the formative years of discovering the tour as a fan that made him consider the scope of what Warped meant to him.
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SlicePay, a digital lending platform which caters to college students and young professionals, has raised an undisclosed amount in an extended Series A round of funding led by Chinese firm FinUp Finance Technology Group.
The company said in a statement that existing investors Blume Ventures, Japan's Das Capital, and Russia's Simile Ventures had also participated in the round.
A person close to the development who did not wish to be named pegged the deal at $14.9 million (around Rs 105 crore at current exchange rates).
SlicePay said it will use the fresh capital to expand its presence nationally to tier-1 and tier 2-cities.
For this purpose, the company has partnered with major e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Snapdeal and Paytm.
SlicePay Card, a Mastercard-powred card that customers use for online purchases, and Micro Cash Loans are the firm's flagship products. SlicePay currently operates in a number of tier-1 cities including Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, and plans to expand its services to tier-2 cities this year.
The fintech venture provides a credit line of up to Rs 60,000 to students through its proprietary risk mechanism. The final loan disbursal is done by the partner non-banking financial company (NBFC).
"The significant increase in the number of youngsters using digital channels to solve their day-to-day needs opens up a big opportunity for innovative companies such as SlicePay to lead the wave of the digital finance space in India," said Zhang Hui, co-founder and chairman of FinUp Finance Technology Group.
SlicePay was founded in November 2015 by Bajaj, an Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur graduate, and Deepak Malhotra, a BITS Pilani alumnus.
Bajaj previously worked with Flipkart while Malhotra was associated with eBay.
Garagepreneurs Internet Pvt. Ltd, which runs SlicePay, had raised $2 million (about Rs 13 crore) in a Series A round of funding from Das Capital and Simile Venture Partners in October last year.
Previously, it had secured $500,000 from Blume Ventures and startup incubator Tracxn Labs in early 2016.
In February 2017, SlicePay had acquired Trustio, a New Delhi-based peer-to-peer lending company, in an equity deal.
The fintech segment has emerged as a preferred destination for investors over the past couple of years, given its high scope for disruption and the government's push to go digital.
In 2017, funding in India's fintech sector quadrupled to $1.84 billion from $447 million in 2016, according to data from VCCEdge, the research arm of News Corp VCCircle.
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Douglas Coombes (01/01/1935), an English composer and conductor (born in Bristol). He is a popular lecturer and course director and directs around 30 courses annually for teachers as well as directing choral workshops, home and abroad. He is a widely respected Member Adjudicator of the British and International Federation of Festivals working frequently in this country and overseas; he has just been appointed Chairman of the Adjudicators' Council of the Federation. In 2000 he was one of the adjudicators in the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competition. He is President of the South Hampstead Girls Schools Choirs and is a member of various organisations - Association of British Choral Directors, British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, Mechanical Copyright and Phonographic Society, Musicians' Union, Society of Authors and Performing Rights Society. He is also one of the Patrons of the British Kodaly Academy.
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Period: Modernism
Composed in: 1997
Musical form: mass
Text/libretto: Latin mass
Duration: ca.75'
This full-length choral work (duration approximately 1hr 15min) for SATB soloists, SATB choir & orchestra, is the result of a commission from 'The Mastersingers of Philadelphia' (USA), who, enamoured of Douglas Coombes' work, having performed his Mass, asked him to write a new work for them. They gave the world premiere in December 1997, the British premiere having taken place in July 1999. All of the movements of the Mass are included with the addition of 'Libera Me' and a final 'In Paradisum' which brings this monumental work to a peaceful and serene conclusion. Douglas Coombes exploits the full dramatic and emotional content of the Latin words; driving, rhythmic passages contrast with melodies of exquisite beauty and invention.
Source: http://www.lindsaymusic.co.uk/choral/
This work (tonality: E minor; E major; C sharp minor) was written for The Mastersingers of Philadelphia (director, Robert J. Reilley) premiere: 14/12/1997. This requiem contains:
- Introit
- Kyrie
- Dies irae
- Tuba mirum
- Rex tremendae
- Recordare
- Ingemisco
- Confutatis
- Lacrymosa
- Pie Jesu
- Domine Jesu Christe
- Hostias
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
- Lux aeterna
- Libera me
- In paradisum
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Why did the United States add Israel to CENTCOM ?
CENTCOM commander General Kenneth F. McKenzie and Lieutenant General Fahd bin Turki bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, commander of the Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen (Fayez Nureldine - AFP)
Nasim Ahmed
Politics Today / February 11, 2021
Having aligned their security interest with Israel, Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state.
A major reorganisation of US military operation in the Middle East was announced last month in a momentous decision reflecting the seismic geo-political shifts underway in the region. The move, the last of many gifts granted by Washington to Tel-Aviv under former President Donald Trump, saw Israel's inclusion inside Central Command (CENTCOM). The decision means that for the first time in history the Zionist state will co-ordinate military operations alongside its Arab neighbours inside what is considered the most important US command unit in the world.
CENTCOM – an Arab NATO if you like – is one of 11 unified combatant command units within the United States Department of Defence that have been installed to combat threats. For critics however, the role of such command units is the preservation of US hegemony around the world. Spanning every region of the globe, together they coordinate American led military operations. Member states within a specific command unit carry out a range of operations including combined military exercises, offer security assistance and share information.
Israel until now was part of US military's European command, EUCOM. The rationale for this strategic gerrymander was over concerns that with Arab states not recognising the state of Israel, they would be reluctant to co-operate fully if Central Command officers were in regular contact sharing sensitive information with counterparts in the occupation state. The recent normalisation of relations between Israel and a number of Arab regimes however has calmed these concerns and opened a path to major geo-political shifts.
Announcing the new military arrangement, the US Department of Defence said: "in a sign of the changing political environment in the Middle East, the United States military will move Israel from the U.S. European Command's area of responsibility to that of the U.S. Central Command."
It mentioned that the "easing of tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbours subsequent to the Abraham Accords has provided a strategic opportunity for the United States to align key partners against shared threats in the Middle East."
Set up in 1983 by the administration of Ronald Reagan, CENTCOM was added to Washington's ever-increasing command units around the world, with responsibility for co-ordinating all US military CENTCOM in the Middle East as well as Central Asia and parts of South Asia.
Since its inception, CENTCOM spearheaded every major US military intervention overseas including the two Gulf wars and in recent years the war on terror. The Command unit coordinates operations stretching from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen in the West to Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan in the East. The easternmost reaches of this combatant area butt up against India, China, and Russia.
The advent of CENTCOM's early version however is traced back to former US President Jimmy Carter's State of the Union address in January 1980, which subsequently came to be referred to as the "Carter Doctrine." Responding to the Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 President Carter proclaimed: "any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force". The Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force marked the first formal commitment to the Carter Doctrine followed by CENTCOM's succession three years later.
Pro-Israel groups that for years called on the Pentagon to include Israel within CENTCOM have welcomed the move. The Washington Institute for Near East for instance, which works to align US foreign policy with Tel-Aviv, said that Israel's inclusion in EUCOM was a "mismatch with the existing organizational boundaries."
The pro-Israel group argued that the new arrangement would help CENTCOM respond to "common threats in a comprehensive manner". Another influential pro-Israel lobby group, The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) also welcomed the decision. "Moving Israel to @CENTCOM marks an important recognition by the Pentagon that Israel is truly a part of the Middle East" tweeted AIPAC. "As the U.S., Israel and our Arab allies confront a dangerous Iran, this move will strengthen the growing cooperation among our regional partners."
Up till now Israel's ongoing occupation of Palestine and its many human rights abuses hindered its formal inclusion within CENTCOM. This shift marks the culmination of the ongoing process of normalisation between the Zionist state and its Arab neighbours. Military normalisation has now been added to the political, diplomatic and economic normalisation with the biggest strategic gain for Israel. Moving Israel into Central Command's area of responsibility will facilitate military cooperation in the confrontation with the Zionist states' biggest foe, Iran.
On its website, deterring the Islamic Republic is listed by CENTCOM as its number one priority followed by supporting a political resolution in Afghanistan; "maintaining Defeat-ISIS Campaign in Syria and Iraq;" "Countering the UAS Threat" and "Weaponization of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Refugees."
Given CENTCOM's list of priorities, Israel's inclusion in the command unit was the obvious next step following last year's normalisation with the UAE and several other Arab states, especially as such cooperation existed unofficially. Tel Aviv is said to have coordinated attacks on Iranian targets with CENTCOM, especially in the final year of the Trump administration when there was an escalation of hostilities with Tehran. Israeli intel, for instance helped the US assassinate the head of the Quds Force, Gen. Qassem Soleimani last year in Baghdad airport.
Israel was also accused by Tehran of killing Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. The head of Iran's Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), was targeted by an explosion and machine gun in December. In all likelihood such operations would have involved some form of co-operation with CENTCOM.
While it's too early to say if Israel's in-corporation into the command unit will increase the likelihood of hostile military operation, the shift as Benny Gantz, the Israeli defense minister said "will further boost cooperation between the IDF and the US Armed Forces in confronting regional challenges, along with other friends with whom we share interests."
It signals a stronger desire to create a united front against Iran and, with the support of the Sunni block of countries, a willingness to take a tougher position against the Islamic Republic and its allies in the region.
As for the question of Palestine, with the Arab states now integrated with Israel militarily, there will be no incentive for Tel-Aviv to abide by international norms and grant Palestinians their right to statehood. For decades Arab leaders have insisted that the price of full normalisation with Israel and its integration into the Middle East was its withdrawal from the occupied territories and the creation of a Palestinian state.
There is of course the potential that this could end in tears for the Arab countries. What would happen if their relation with Israel were to deteriorate or fail completely? This by no means is an unlikely scenario in the shifting sands of Middle Eastern politics.
Though the Palestinian issue may not be high on the agenda of the regions many unelected leaders and absolute monarch, Israel's ongoing occupation and human rights abuse has the potential to deeply sour relations under a new geopolitical reality. It's worth remembering that the most influential Gulf Arab state, Saudi Arabia, has yet to normalize relations with the Zionist state.
One thing is certain. Having aligned their security interest with Israel, Arab states will now find it extremely difficult to disentangle themselves from the many hostile and belligerent operations of the Zionist state, thus exposing themselves to blowbacks from US and Israeli military adventurism.
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Capturing fish biodiversity with molecules and movies
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by martina | Sep 26, 2018 |
The assessment of fish and elasmobranch (sharks and rays) communities plays an important role in monitoring the health of the ocean. Non-invasive, non-destructive methods that can detect fishes are preferable, particularly when dealing with endangered species or when working in protected areas. Baited remote underwater video surveillance (BRUVs) is used all over the globe in management and conservation programs that target fish and elasmobranchs. The stereo-video method employed with BRUVs allows for not only the identity of fish species but can also be used to assess abundance and biomass, which are essential for effective fisheries management. However, there are caveats with using BRUVs, as with all methods, and small cryptic species, night predators, and fishes not attracted to the bait bag may not be captured on video. Alternatively, there has been a recent surge of interest in the capability of using environmental DNA (eDNA) to characterise biodiversity. The technique works on the basis that all living things leave traces of their DNA in the environment; for example, in blood, hair, scales, and poo. Remarkably, recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies now allow us to assess these 'genetic breadcrumbs', and by targeting specific areas of an organism's genome, determine the species that are present.
Our study compared these two methods (BRUVs and eDNA) in their capacity to characterise fish communities. We sampled seawater for eDNA and deployed BRUVs at the same locations across reef and seagrass habitats. What our study concludes is that no single approach is better – you get a more holistic picture of the fish diversity present when you combine data from the two approaches. Furthermore, we show that both methods are sensitive enough to resolve fish communities that are specific to either seagrass or reef habitats – an interesting find considering that we initially thought that DNA in the ocean would be one homogenous soup. Rather, what we suggest occurs in the ocean is that the DNA degrades very quickly and becomes diluted as you move further away from the source, which collectively provides the structure that we observed in fish eDNA. Combined, the ability to both capture molecules and movies provides a powerful tool that can now be used to more effectively monitor and conserve the biodiversity in our oceans.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.13183
Dr Michael Stat is a lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
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Delving Deep into the Well of Mythology
by Sarika Goyal
the author's quest to know the ultimate in Manil Suri's The Death of Vishnu and Gita Mehta's Karma Cola.
Myth forms the central structure in many works. It travels down the ages through the collective unconsciousness of people and survives the test of time. It changes its shape with the progress of civilization. Maturing from savage to the civilized, modern and technocratic people, it reshapes, restructures and remoulds in the psyches but remains somewhat hidden in the deeper recesses of the mind only to resurface with new force, renewed vigour through the creative process of a mind.
The central concern of this paper is to validate that authors often delve deep into this well of mythology in their quest to find out the ultimate truth of life-- existence of God being the most prominent of all. They challenge their own faith, question it in various mental sorties and reaffirm it astonishingly. The authors selected here are Manil Suri and Gita Mehta whose works are deeply rooted in Hindu mythology.
Mary Magoulick gives a broader panorama of how myth has been incorporated variously by scholars of Structuralism, Feminism, Functionalism, Religion and other disciplines. Beginning with the classical delineation that myths are tales believed as true, usually sacred set in the distant past or other worlds with extra human, inhuman or heroic characters, she takes up belief of Grimm Brothers that "Divinities form the core of all mythology" followed by that of Gregory Schrempp that myths are prevalent in our culture and offer symbolic resources that suit the overall intellectual purpose of the author. Added to it is the view of Levi Strauss that mythical thought works from the awareness of oppositions towards their progressive mediation. But the most comprehensive definition is that myths are symbolic tales of the distant past that concern cosmogony and cosmology, may be connected to belief systems and may serve to direct social action and values.
In his seminal work, 'the Archetypes of Literature', Northrop Frye, broadly classified the myth of rituals into four phases namely—the dawn, spring and birth phase; the zenith, summer and marriage or triumph phase; the sunset, autumn and death phase and the darkness, winter and dissolution phase as per the solar cycle of the day, the seasonal cycle of the year and the organic cycle of human life though he considers the quest myth as the central myth of literature. It is the quest myth which is clearly visible in the works opted here. In his 'Anatomy of Criticism' he divides the whole literature into four mythoi or generic plots.
The Death of Vishnu works on the central myth of lord Vishnu – one of the three revered deities of Hinduism, the other two being Brahma and Shiva. The author presents a lowly man Vishnu, a parasite on the dwellers of a Bombay apartment, as the very incarnation of the supreme lord. At moments, he lapses into the reminiscences of his mother who used to say, "Remember, you are Vishnu". He has an illicit relation with a public woman – Padmini who again has been named after Lord Vishnu's better half – the goddess Lakshmi. In between the author works out the character of Jalal who seeks epiphanies. Jalal, inspired by Surdas, is trying to subdue all his desires to get a glimpse of the divine, equates the protagonist with the great deity, feels enlightened on seeing the image of the deity with many limbs and mouths.
I am what you taste in water, I am what you see in air. I am the breath in every flower, I am the life in every creature. . . . Look at me and see in my body the whole universe (Suri, 156).
The question arises why does an author mingle the sacred with the profane. Why does he depict ordeal of a man like Jalal struggling to know the ultimate after renunciating the whole world? Why does he create the character of a widower, Taneja, who deeply shaken after the death of his wife, ventures into the world of Babas and Sanyasis ( religious people in India, who lead their followers to the exalted path of salvation) and still finds no ointment for his wounds, no spiritual healing power anywhere? May be the answer lies in the quest myth.
'The importance of the god or hero in the myth lies in the fact that such characters, who are conceived in the human likeness and yet have more power over nature, gradually build up the vision of an omnipotent personal community beyond an indifferent nature. It is this community which the hero regularly enters in his apotheosis. The world of this apotheosis thus begins to pull away from the rotary cycle of the quest in which all triumph is temporary'. The tendency of both ritual and epiphany to become encyclopedic is realized in the definitive body of myth which constitutes the sacred scriptures of religion (Frye, Archetypes, 430).
The author in The Death of Vishnu, certainly, is not talking of ethics, not simply delineating characters taken from ordinary life, but voicing his own inner turmoil that he faced at some stage of life, tired of the material advancements. The void he feels in his heart looks for a remedy in his oeuvre and so Manil Suri, the professor of Mathematics at a renowned University in America conceived of writing a trilogy of which the two books that have been published are The Death of Vishnu and the Age of Shiva.
The writers, well aware of the critical theories, act as their own critics in their works. Daiches claims that the critic (I substitute it with the writer) 'considers questions of popular taste, the function of reviews and periodicals . . . the effect of religious, moral and political ideas on literary judgment, the relation between writers and publishers and the significance of such phenomena as the "best sellers" and the kind and degree of responsiveness to artistic activities that can be found among different sections of the community (376).
Suri delineates the myth of Lord Vishnu's ten incarnations including that as Kalgi which is yet to take place. The writer mingles the divine with ordinary by allowing his protagonist Vishnu to consider himself the Almighty Lord Vishnu. Even he imagines Lord Vishnu saying to him in a vision.
'It is your scared duty', I urge him. 'Your dharma, as foretold in Agni Purana. To cleanse the barbarians from this land. The earth is parched, it has been insulted enough' (Suri, 242).
The author enunciates his general philosophy through the character of Jalal in one of his self-discourses. Jalal prides in having discussed philosophy and fate of the world with intellectuals, has strong notions of the ideas of other faiths – foreign and contradictory, believes in renunciation like Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism (tried to subsist without food and bed) and knows obscure rituals yet fails to influence his Muslim wife Arifa. He could not understand why religion provokes such obstinacy and hysteria in people that they torture themselves.
Eventually it was she who won – a victory that appalled him, since it represented the defeat of everything he championed – rationality and reason – to so primitive a force as faith (Suri, 143).
The novel also employs the myth of Jeev – the yogi spirit that takes birth after birth about nine hundred and ninety thousand times till it is thoroughly cleansed and is suitable for mukti (salvation). Kegley finds many of the contemporary works by non or anti- religious authors, employing undeniably religious symbols.
The other work "Karma Cola" seemingly in a post-colonial ambience appears to project that the Occident has long exploited the Orient and now it is the turn of the East to take over the West. East is drawing thousands of Westerners in their quest to find solace of spirit. The Westerners from countries as diverse as Germany, Switzerland, France, Britain, America, Canada and Australia land in the country of god, lured by Hindu mythology or the myth of India and end up as completely lost identities escaping to their motherlands or drugged or still hoping to gain from their spiritual gurus. The author proclaims that the East not only is exercising hegemony over the West but is exacting high price from the West and also treating the latter as a slave (the unquestioned slavery of Westerners shown towards their religious gurus in following his / her every command).
The protagonist of the novel is not a travelogue writer or a journalist working on the condition of foreigners in India or capturing exciting stories to sensationalize but appears to be an urban educated soul yearning for a spiritual experience that ultimately lands at one ashram or other and gets disillusioned everywhere. It again projects the quest myth (quest of the protagonist and the Westerners).
Matthew Arnold in his essays on culture talks of the cultural idea of perfection that is "increased spiritual activity, increased sweetness, increased light, increased life and increased sympathy" and considers its achievement as the ultimate concern of any culture. He says that culture doesn't win to one sect or other but makes the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere. It may appear that Western culture aspires for perfection and Eastern culture has the best thoughts (as per the myth of India) and therefore the quest leads to migrations to the East. Gita Mehta parleys of this marketing of Eastern wisdom by religious gurus like the Coca- Cola Company of America that tried every strategy to maintain hegemony of the soft drink over the world market and now the minds of the Americans and others fall in the trap of Eastern counterparts.
The prominent myth in the novel is the myth of Karma. The author quotes the real meaning of Karma as enunciated in the Bhagwad Gita whereby Lord Krishna advises Arjuna to follow his Karma. The religion interprets it as acting as a warrior against adharma. "Because you are bound to act. Only action will save you from the bondage of action" (Mehta, 100). She continues how Westerners are converting our complicated philosophical concepts into everyday slang. She quotes numerous examples throughout. "I crashed my car last night. I have bad Karma"' says the Mexican student (100).
No doubt, India is selling its myths of Karma, Tantra, Krishna (Hare Rama, Hare Krishna beat that is often fused with Jajj), Kali (the goddess of destruction) and even saffron robes and jewelry along with the technique of Yoga and Indian cities like Delhi, Poona, Calcutta, Goa, Rishikesh, Benares and Bombay are replete with the cases of novel ways of marketing these Indian myths (or better Indian wisdom and mysticism) invented by holy men.
The author also talks of enlightened minds like Aldous Huxley and W. B. Yeats who worked on Vedanta and the Upanishads respectively and found "in the east something ancestral in ourselves, something we must bring into the light" (Mehta, 67). The author cites an example from mythology how Pandavas, at a game of dice, couldn't get up and faced the choice of slavery or exile. Similarly the Westerners or spiritual tourists in India either turn slaves to their Guru or are forced to have a drugged exile. "Kipling did point out that India is the grim stepmother of the world, and the mythology of India illustrates over and over again that it is one thing to feel playful, it is quite other thing to sit down at the table" (Mehta, 191).
The mention must be made here of the Indian myth of Guru- one who can perform miracles and the novel takes up some miracles performed at various ashrams across India. The question whether these miracles come from fantasy, spiritual power or are a marketing strategy remains unsolved. As far as the Westerners' rigid obedience to these Gurus is concerned, Levinas offers an interesting observation that all Western systems of thought have operated to incorporate otherness into sameness. He calls for a face to face encounter where the other is not incorporated into the same, doesn't become an alter ego but is left with its otherness intact.
Mythology is not taken as a shaping principle or for esthetics but it has a deeper role to play in the text that can be the archetypal quest to find perfection, light and truth which is universal in character or as Nussbaum says that literature presents embodied and concrete experience, individual perception and universal rule. We need not interpret a literary work for any value judgment as has been done in the earlier ages because Aristotelian ethics were meant for a Greek community, an extremely restricted democracy and are hard to be applied to a multicultural and heterogeneous modern society. 'Modernism has disrupted old coherent rituals and myths and impoverished authors fill their voids by crude, extemporized and fragmentary myths' (Wellek and Warren, 192).
To conclude with Nussbaum, We do read for life, bringing to the literary texts we love our pressing questions and perplexities, searching for images of what we might do and be, and holding these up against the images we derive from our knowledge of other conceptions, literary, philosophical and religious. And the further pursuit of this enterprise through explicit comparison and explanation is not a diminutive of the novels at all, but rather an expression of the depth and breadth of the claims that those who love them make for them.
"About the trilogy". Manil Suri . 22 July, 2006.
"An Interview with Manil Suri." Asia Source . 21 July, 2006.
Charles W. Kegley, "Literature and Religion: When is a literary work a religious interpretation? Humanities, Religion and the Arts Tomorrow . Ed. Howard Hunter. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972.
Daiches David . Critical Approaches to Literature . London: Longmans, 1956.
Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism . New Jersey: Princeton, 1973.
_ _ _, "The Archetypes of Literature". 20th Century Literary Criticism . ed. David Lodge. London: Longmans, 1986. 422-433.
Levinas, Emmanuel. "Ethics and the Face". Rice and Waugh 422-429.
Magoulick, Mary. "What is Myth?" 18 Feb. 2012
Mehta, Gita . Karma Cola . New Delhi: Penguin, 1993.
Nussbaum, Martha. "The Starting Point: How Should One Live?" Modern Literary Theory. eds. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. New York: Hodder Arnold, 2001. 414-421.
Suri, Manil. The Death of Vishnu . London: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Wellek, Rene & Austin Warren. Theory of Literature . NY: Penguin, 1986.
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A light, crispy and flaky breadcrumb used in Japanese cooking. The texture tends to be courser than traditional western style breadcrumbs and is well suited to pan-frying and deep-frying. Although Panko can easily be found in Asian markers, it is becoming more popular and readily available in grocery stores of all stripes and sizes.


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This issue of the magazine features interviews from a diverse range of entrepreneurs with different backgrounds in their industry. They share with us their insight, advice, inspiration, and goals for the upcoming year.
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Our approach to consultation and engagement
Past consultations (before March 2020)
Cressy Place
We are consulting on plans to build 44 homes and community facilities ahead of a planning application next year.
The new homes being developed on the site will be well-designed, built to modern space standards, be energy efficient and make a positive contribution to the local environment.
The site is located along Cressy Place and the junction of Redman's Road, Hannibal Road and Jamaica Street. Cressy Place is a street that meets Stepney Green close to the Northern junction with Mile End Road, in the St Dunstan's ward of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
The proposal seeks to reinstate the building line along Cressy Place by introducing a mixed use scheme. The scheme will be part residential, part community facility with a number of landscaped areas. Part affordable, part market for sale there are 44 residential units proposed with a mix of one, two, three and four bed units. Existing community offices located on the Cressy Place / Redman's Road junction will be incorporated within the proposed scheme. Part of the provision will be located on the Cressy Place / Redman's Road junction and part along Cressy Place, further animating the street.
The main body of the building is four storeys with a fifth storey cut back to reduce scale along Cressy Place. Reflecting the rhythm of Cressy House (opposite), the vertical circulation elements creates a visual connection between the street and the habitation of the building, also reducing the massing of the proposal. To further reduce massing the building has been lowered half a floor along Cressy Place.
What the development could look like
The proposal aims to improve the quality and usability of the existing courtyard in the centre of the site, in addition to the public realm at the junction of Cressy Place and Redmans Road.
The existing landscaping within the current courtyard consists of mature trees and grassed areas. It is proposed that the existing healthy mature trees be maintained and to introduce landscape elements around them. Community engagement will inform the proposal with preferred functions, incorporating; play areas, seating areas, mixes of vegetation and paving to provide a multiple of community functions.
Located at the junction of Cressy Place and Redmans Road the proposed public realm will create a destination point with the existing and proposed buildings interacting with the public space. The plaza would be a mix of hard and soft landscaping with street furniture incorporated. The introduction of trees along Cressy Place will further soften the setting.
Share your views on the proposals using our survey until Sunday 24 January 2021.
We will run two online engagement events via the platform Zoom on:
Thursday 7 January 2021, at 2pm – 4pm and 5pm – 7pm.
Please email imelda.burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk indicating which event you want to attend, to receive the invitation, the ID code and password to log on to the event.
Cressy Place feedback survey
Share your views on the proposals using our survey before Sunday 24 January 2021.
Consultation closes
Imelda Burke
Housing Regeneration Officer
Email imelda.burke@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Cressy Place is currently at this stage
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package eu.appbucket.rothar.monitor.monitor;

import android.content.Context;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class LocationReader {

	private LocationManager locationManager;
	private Location currentBestLocation;
	private static final int TWO_MINUTES = 1000 * 60 * 2;

	public void setCurrentBestLocation(Location currentBestLocation) {
		this.currentBestLocation = currentBestLocation;
	}

	public Location getCurrentBestLocation() {
		return currentBestLocation;
	}

	public LocationReader(Context context) {
		locationManager = (LocationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
	}

	private LocationListener locationListener = new LocationListener() {
	    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
	      // Called when a new location is found by the network location provider.
	      makeUseOfNewLocation(location);
	    }

	    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {}

	    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {}

	    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {}
	 };

	public void start() {
		// Getting a fast fix with the last known location
		Location lastKnownLocation = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER);
		setCurrentBestLocation(lastKnownLocation);
		// Register the listener with the Location Manager to receive location updates
		locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
		locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
	}

	public void stop() {
		locationManager.removeUpdates(locationListener);
	}

	private void makeUseOfNewLocation(Location location) {
		if(isBetterLocation(location, getCurrentBestLocation())) {
			setCurrentBestLocation(location);
		}
	}

	/** Determines whether one Location reading is better than the current Location fix
	  * @param location  The new Location that you want to evaluate
	  * @param currentBestLocation  The current Location fix, to which you want to compare the new one
	  */
	protected boolean isBetterLocation(Location location, Location currentBestLocation) {
	    if (currentBestLocation == null) {
	        // A new location is always better than no location
	        return true;
	    }

	    // Check whether the new location fix is newer or older
	    long timeDelta = location.getTime() - currentBestLocation.getTime();
	    boolean isSignificantlyNewer = timeDelta > TWO_MINUTES;
	    boolean isSignificantlyOlder = timeDelta < -TWO_MINUTES;
	    boolean isNewer = timeDelta > 0;

	    // If it's been more than two minutes since the current location, use the new location
	    // because the user has likely moved
	    if (isSignificantlyNewer) {
	        return true;
	    // If the new location is more than two minutes older, it must be worse
	    } else if (isSignificantlyOlder) {
	        return false;
	    }

	    // Check whether the new location fix is more or less accurate
	    int accuracyDelta = (int) (location.getAccuracy() - currentBestLocation.getAccuracy());
	    boolean isLessAccurate = accuracyDelta > 0;
	    boolean isMoreAccurate = accuracyDelta < 0;
	    boolean isSignificantlyLessAccurate = accuracyDelta > 200;

	    // Check if the old and new location are from the same provider
	    boolean isFromSameProvider = isSameProvider(location.getProvider(),
	            currentBestLocation.getProvider());

	    // Determine location quality using a combination of timeliness and accuracy
	    if (isMoreAccurate) {
	        return true;
	    } else if (isNewer && !isLessAccurate) {
	        return true;
	    } else if (isNewer && !isSignificantlyLessAccurate && isFromSameProvider) {
	        return true;
	    }
	    return false;
	}

	/** Checks whether two providers are the same */
	private boolean isSameProvider(String provider1, String provider2) {
	    if (provider1 == null) {
	      return provider2 == null;
	    }
	    return provider1.equals(provider2);
	}
}

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package com.wii.vmail.db;

public class DbConstants {
    /* Database table names */
    public static final String TABLE_CIRCLES               = "circles";
    public static final String TABLE_CONTACT               = "contact";
    public static final String TABLE_CIRCLE_CONTACT        = "circle_contact";
    public static final String TABLE_CONTENT               = "content";
    public static final String TABLE_SUBJECT               = "subject";
    public static final String TABLE_ATTACH                = "attach";
    public static final String TABLE_SYSTEM                = "system";

    public static final String DB_NAME_SUFFIX              = ".db";
    public static final String DB_ANONYMOUS                = "anonymous";

    public static final String SQL_WHERECAUSE_NAME         = "name=?";
    public static final String SQL_WHERECAUSE_ID           = "id=?";
    public static final String SQL_WHERECAUSE_BASEID       = "curt_base_info_id=?";
    public static final String SQL_WHERECAUSE_LIMIT        = "WHERE is_main = 1 and id < %d ORDER BY id desc LIMIT %d,%d";
    public static final String SQL_WHERECAUSE_TOP          = "WHERE is_main=%d ORDER BY %s %s LIMIT %d";
    public static final String SQL_SELECT_ALL              = "SELECT * FROM ";
    public static final String SQL_DELETE_RECOD            = "DELETE FROM ";
    public static final String SQL_SELECT_COUNT            = "SELECT count(*) FROM ";
    public static final String SQL_CREATE_TBL_IF_NOT_EXIST = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ";
    public static final String SQL_DROP_TBL_IF_EXIST       = "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ";

    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_TS               = "mail_ts";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_TS            = "contact_ts";
    public static final String FIELD_CIRCLE_TS             = "circle_ts";
    public static final String FIELD_ID                    = "id";
    public static final String FIELD_MD5_SIZE              = "md5_size";
    public static final String FIELD_COUNT                 = "count";

    public static final String FIELD_ATTACH_LIST           = "attach_list";

    public static final String FIELD_BODY                  = "body";
    public static final String FIELD_CODE                  = "code";
    public static final String FIELD_CREATE_IP             = "create_ip";
    public static final String FIELD_COMMENT               = "comment";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_UNAME         = "c_uname";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_UNAMES        = "contact_unames";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_UID           = "c_uid";
    public static final String FIELD_CREATE_TIME           = "create_time";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTENT               = "content";

    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_ID_LIST       = "contact_id_list";
    public static final String FIELD_CONTACT_UID_LIST      = "contact_uid_list";

    public static final String FIELD_DESC_EMAIL            = "email";
    public static final String FIELD_DESC_MOBILE           = "mobile";

    public static final String FIELD_FROM_UID              = "from_uid";
    public static final String FIELD_FORWARD_ID            = "forward_id";
    public static final String FIELD_FROM_UNAME            = "from_uname";

    public static final String FIELD_IS_MAIN               = "is_main";
    public static final String FIELD_RETURN_INFO           = "info";

    public static final String FIELD_LAST_ID               = "last_id";
    public static final String FIELD_LAST_UPDATE_TIME      = "last_update_time";
    public static final String FIELD_LAST_INFO             = "last_info";
    public static final String FIELD_LAST_BASE_INFO_ID     = "last_base_info_id";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_LIST             = "mail_list";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIN_INFO             = "main_info";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_INFO             = "mail_info";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIN_ID               = "main_id";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_ID               = "mail_id";
    public static final String FIELD_MODIFY_TIME           = "modify_time";
    public static final String FIELD_MODIFY_IP             = "modify_ip";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_INFO_ID          = "mail_info_id";
    public static final String FIELD_MAIL_REFER_ID         = "mail_refer_id";
    public static final String FIELD_NICK_NAME             = "nick_name";
    public static final String FIELD_NAME                  = "name";
    public static final String FIELD_FILE_NAME             = "file_name";
    public static final String FIELD_NEW_NUM               = "new_num";
    public static final String FIELD_REAL_NAME             = "real_name";
    public static final String FIELD_PINYIN                = "pinyin";
    public static final String FIELD_REPLY_ID              = "reply_id";
    public static final String FIELD_REFER_INFO            = "refer_info";
    public static final String FIELD_TYPE                  = "type";
    public static final String FIELD_IMAGE_TYPE            = "image_type";
    public static final String FIELD_LOCAL_PATH            = "local_path";
    public static final String FIELD_MIME                  = "mime";
    public static final String FIELD_SUFFIX                = "suffix";
    public static final String FIELD_CIRCLE                = "circle";
    public static final String FIELD_CIRCLES               = "circles";
    public static final String FIELD_TOTAL_NUM             = "total_num";

    public static final String FIELD_CIRCLE_LIST           = "circle_list";
    public static final String FIELD_STATUS                = "status";
    public static final String FIELD_SEX                   = "sex";
    public static final String FIELD_CITY                  = "city";
    public static final String FIELD_STAR_NUM              = "star";
    public static final String FIELD_SUBJECT_ID            = "subject_id";
    public static final String FIELD_TO_LIST               = "to_list";
    public static final String FIELD_TO_INFO               = "to_info";
    public static final String FIELD_TO_UID                = "to_uid";

    public static final String FIELD_CIRCLE_ID_LIST        = "circle_id_list";
    public static final String FIELD_Z_UID                 = "z_uid";
    public static final String FIELD_Z_UNAME               = "z_uname";
    public static final String FIELD_UNAME                 = "uname";
    public static final String FIELD_UID                   = "uid";

    public static final int    OP_SAVE_FAILED              = -1;
    public static final int    OP_SAVE_SUCCESSED           = 1;
}


IT'S ALL ABOUT THE VIEWS! This captivating premier LAKEFRONT BELLA VISTA 2,121 Sf TOWNHOME BEAUTY with Stunning Views of the 88 Acre Preserve, nestles within the Gates of Sonoma. Spectacular location that features a privacy preserve between the townhome and steps away from the Cabana Pool. The open floor plan home features 3 BR, 2.5 BA & den. The kitchen has granite counter tops, custom tile back-splash, extra wide eat-in breakfast bar island, 42" cabinets with crown molding and ceramic tile floors laid on a diagonal. Sliders lead you out to a brick paver hard roof covered 15x16 patio that gives you more living space for relaxing and dining and has a picture frame full-view screen to enjoy the peaceful view. Spindle staircase leads up-stairs to an open loft area you can make as a sitting area or a work station. Owners just completed laundry room with cabinetry and granite counter cabinet. Master bedroom offers tray ceiling, crown molding, large walk-in closet, and a screened-in Veranda overlooking the lake and preserve. The master bath has dual vanities and jetted soaking garden tub. Townhome has High Impact Hurricane rated windows with the exception of the lanai sliders, front door and Clerestory Windows at second story. Seller had custom Kevlar Shutters and 3M Window Film Protection added. The HOA fees cover all your building painting and roof repair requirements. Sonoma community amenities include Swimming Pool, Tennis Court and Tot Lot, minutes away from SRQ, UTC Mall, Downtown Sarasota and beaches.
Stucco. 8140 Villa Grande Ct, Sarasota was built in 2,007. It has a 2 for parking. The homeowners association fees are $158 each month.
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Sawa, imię świeckie Zaza Gigiberia (ur. 28 września 1966 w Senaki) – gruziński duchowny prawosławny, od 2008 metropolita Choni i Samtredii.

Życiorys
14 stycznia 1992 otrzymał święcenia diakonatu, a 4 października tegoż roku – prezbiteratu. 3 listopada 1996 otrzymał chirotonię biskupią.

Bibliografia
 Oficjalny biogram

Linki zewnętrzne
 Biogram w bazie orthodoxia.ch

Gruzińscy biskupi prawosławni
Urodzeni w 1966
Ludzie urodzeni w Senaki


The Tyulenovo hotel is located on the edge of picturesque cliffs of the village Tyulenovo and is in close vicinity to the sea waves. The village is 6 km. away from the most eastern point of Bulgaria, the Shabla cape and its wharf, 12 km from the town of Shabla, 20 km. from the town of Kavarna, 30 km from the Romanian border, 75 km from the City of Varna and 75 km from the City of Constanta.
Tyulenovo and its surroundings are famous with their cliff caves, the beautiful steep coast, the crystal clear air and sea water and its unique nature.
The village is a paradise for the fans of true recreation and is suitable for sea fishery, underwater tourism and is very close to the untouched beaches and dunes next to Shabla. Close by are also the Shabla and the Durankulak lakes. If you seek quietness and tranquility and you want to forget for the dull everyday life and the noise of the big city – this is the place.


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package messaging.outgoing;

public class OutgoingUnknownMessage extends BaseOutgoingMessage {

	public OutgoingUnknownMessage(String text) {
		this.text = text;
	}

	@Override
	public String getTypeString() {
		return "UNKNOWN";
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return text;
	}
}


DJ SUN has established himself as a resident DJ in Houston over the past 20+ years. Born in The Netherlands, moved to Surinam (South America) and growing up in Houston, Texas, has made DJ SUN ,a DJ and producer with a diverse musical ear, which expresses itself in his art. When Pay got up with her part fellow Dutchman in Houston several years ago, he spoke about the upcoming release of his debut album "One Hundred" which features musicians such as Houston Grand Opera vocalist Lisa E. Harris and Grammy award winning bassist for La Mafia, Tim Ruiz.


This item is a CAT service manual for a caterpillar 225, 225B, and/or 229 excavator (REG01156). It's in very nice condition with nice clean pages. It is full of helpful information, pictures, and diagrams with large fold-out schematics. If you collect CAT equipment/memorabilia or just have one of these machines, this is the manual for you! It was well taken care of and stored dry indoors.
If you collect equipment or Caterpillar memorabilia, or just own one of these crawler dozers, this is the manual for you! Cash is accepted when local pick-ups are offered.
All items must be paid for in full before they leave. I accept cash and checks. These must clear my bank before the item leaves. I have many other manuals for sale - please check out my other items. Be sure to add me to your favorites list. The item "Caterpillar 225, 225B, 229 Excavator Service Manual (REG01156) HARD TO FIND" is in sale since Wednesday, May 17, 2017. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Heavy Equipment, Parts & Attachments\Heavy Equipment Parts & Accessories\Heavy Equipment Manuals & Books".backe" and is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.


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Scott Gray ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Scott Gray (Autor), neuseeländischer Comicbuchautor
 Scott Gray (Rugbyspieler) (* 1978), simbabwischer Rugby-Union-Spieler
 Scott Gray (Rennfahrer), US-amerikanischer Motorradrennfahrer
 Scott Gray (Pokerspieler), irischer Pokerspieler
 Scott Gray (Filmeditor), Filmeditor


This fresh medium dry red wine is a blend of the local grape, Mavro with the best varieties grown here in Cyprus, to give an excellent example of modern wine-making.
Fruity, vibrant and long lasting flavour to complement the exquisite nose, is the main characteristic of this wine.
This fresh medium dry red wine is a blend of the local grape, Mavro with the best, local and international varieties, grown here in Cyprus, to give an excellent example of modern wine-making.


When Hermione - eccentric, seventy and returned from India to a 'safe' life in the Home Counties - encounters Slug street-painting on the pavement, she employs him as assistant gardener. Slug, who has the motto ' Never Grow Old' tattooed across his head, will soon sort out Gerald, the pin-striped head gardener, soften his ruthless marshalling of her plants and introduce a more effusive atmosphere to her estate.
But when Hugh, Hermione's huge husband, dies, Slug's skinhead cronies begin to threaten her peace, and Hermione retreats to the chaos of India, chasing the memories of her previous life. What happened to the young Indian with whom she fell passionately in love when she was nineteen, and who had insisted that she marry the more ' suitable' Hugh? Can she recreate the dream of over fifty years ago?
Writing on Skin ePub (Adobe DRM) can be read on any device that can open ePub (Adobe DRM) files.


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<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <!-- https://code.jquery.com/ui/ -->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/le-frog/jquery-ui.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="application.css">
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<body>

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Exuviance skin care is a popular anti-ageing range, clinically proven to reduce lines and wrinkles, increase firmness, smooth texture and even skin tone with a patented bionic blend of highly evolved Poly Hydroxy and Alpha Hydroxy Acids. Originally created by Drs. Eugene Van Scott and Ruey Yu, two famous researchers who own over 80 patents for the use of glycolic acid (AHA) in relation to its ability to diminish wrinkles, there are very few products with reliable and effective formulations for exfoliation. By using AHAs, Exuviance helps to reduce the thickness of the skin's outer layer, helping skin to look smoother and feel softer and reducing dryness, blemishes, sun damage, and skin discolorations. Discover this dermatologist developed skin care line that has perfected the science of skin transformation.


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global.assert = assert;