Look for Johnny Lee, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Daniels, Taz Di Gregorio, Charlie Hayward making a cameo appearance!
Gilley's closed on March 30, 1989 after Gilley and Sherwood (co-owners) went to court. The nightspot burned down later that year, supposedly from arson. The only buildings left standing were the recording studio, indoor rodeo building and shed.
Since then, the rodeo arena has now been demolished and the land is fenced off and is owned by the Pasadena Independent School District. I went there many times when I was younger and I miss the place. I wish it was still open and like it was.
The recording studio also burned down mysteriously and the property has grown up by brush. There is nothing left there that anybody would recognize as Gilleys anymore.
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You've gotta "Yipee ki yi yay" and saddle up if you wanna have fun, Partner! Any "Real Cowboy" knows that. The question is, are you a real cowboy? 'Cause that's all that matters in this film based on an "Esquire" magazine story written by Aaron Latham and directed by James Bridges. Only a real cowboy gets the prettiest girl in Texas and the respect of every two-stepper in Houston. Of course, you've gotta proove your "cowboyness" and let me tell you Partner, it aint as easy as it looks. Sometimes, you have to find out about life the hard way.
John Travolta plays the lead role in this honky-tonk classic. The film revolves around Bud (Travolta) and Sissy's (Debra Winger) tumultuous, rough-and-tumble country romance in Houston, Texas; where beer is better than wine and a Stetson is hipper than any Fedora.
All Bud wanted out of Houston was a job at his Uncle Bobs (Barry Corbin) oil refinery, but he ended up with a lot more. Easy women, good beer, dancing at Gilley's Night Club.... a wife. A beautiful little country bumpkin by the name of Sissy, who like most Texas girls, is lookin' for a real cowboy.
After a couple of dates in which they barely get to know one another, the two tie the knot "Country Western" style and start what initially seems to be the perfect small town marriage in a trailer all their own. However, it takes no more than a week for these two newlyweds young love to go awry.
Bud has a temper which clashes with Sissy's stubborn demeanor and the two decide to call it quits after making each other jealous with raven-haired cowgirls and rough-neck cowboys. Bud now has himself a beautiful up-town girl (Madolyn Smith) named Pam, who although is good looking is a bit shallow and falls short of the charasmatic Sissy. Sissy has lasooed herself a wild ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn) who strikes up a rivalry with Bud and plans to rob Gilleys.
Throughout the film Bud and Sissy remain seperated, but secretly long to be back together. The two try to impress and outdo one another by becoming pros on the mechanical bull which has stirred up many a fight at Gilleys Night Club.
Though they thought breaking up was for the best, everything seems to go wrong. Bud's beloved Uncle dies in an accident at the oil refinery and Sissy's new cowboy Wes has become physically and emotionally abusive. It's up to Bud and Sissy to turn things around and make a better life for one another, which they eventually do and the viewer is made very happy by the outcome of this Southern Drama.
I don't want to give too much of this film away, because personally I feel it is one of the best films made which incorporates a country western theme. Debra Winger as Sissy is spectacular, as always and John Travolta's character Bud has a stubborn, immature way of handling himself in a romantic relationship which is similar to his role as "Danny" in "Grease".
Regardless if you're from the west coast, east coast, north or south, this film is relatable to everyone who can identify with being prideful, being in a complicated relationship, or just being drunk. This film is not just an 80's classic, it's a movie classic which shows country life and the gritty, competitive way that it can be.
I had never seen this film until recently and I was really impressed. I'm not a real big country and western person, so I didn't think I would care for it, but my mom insisted I watch it and it was great. I love dramas and Debra Winger and I recommend this film for all you drama lovers out there. A must see.
Great acting, great location, cool dancing, good music. An exceptional drama.
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I first want to say I feel sadness for anyone who suffers daily. I was very active; not to mention working as a teenager while in school. I started developing health issues around the age 18. At 19 I was diagnosed with Hashimotos. Two years ago; when I was 25 they removed it. I still struggle with symptoms. I was in a car accident around 2012 where I suffered a neck spinal injury I did not truly feel the effects until just over a year ago. Aside from that I started to notice severe head aches, not your typical headaches...severe pressure and pain. Eventually I was just fatigued all the time, with no desire to go anywhere. I started getting immense amounts of pain all over my body. At the end of 2016 they diagnosed me with arthritis and fibromyalgia. I have tried gluten free diets, I tried exercising, and nothing helps. No medicine has helped either. They have tried to treat me with depression medication. I live in Florida and I never want to go outside, (which hurts mentally because being outdoors is where im happy) but, the weather is too humid. People believe I am just lazy; when I feel i try to do everything I can to get out of bed and do what I need to do daily. Sometimes the pain is just too much. I have gone as far as to decide I need to move further north. I can only hope this will somewhat help. If I could have 3 good days a week, or even just less pain that would be enough for me. I feel sometimes that I am wasting my life; I have so many aspirations and it's been hard to come to terms that I will not be able to do some of them. Some days I just feel miserable and I wish I could find something to help. So I can just enjoy things; it is difficult to accept because others; including family believe I can, "just push through". Knowing others suffer in the same way does make me feel like I am just misunderstood by most. Any advice I can get I will take! And I am sorry for anyone who suffers from any of these things...I wouldn't wish it upon anyone. I am now turning 28 and just wonder if I can somehow find a way to do something so that I can enjoy the days.


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HUMANS ARE BECOMING STUPID, STUDY SAYS
Evolution, as humans all know by now, has shaped us. It will continue on shaping people's future. Because of all the new things humans discovered in the past two millennia, it should come as a no-brainer that humans are becoming more intelligent. Otherwise, the human population would not have been over 7 billion strong.
However, it seems that the opposite is true. A study by the genetics firm decode in Reykjavik, Iceland, discovered that people's brains are changing the perception on education. To put it simply, News Australia reported that those who were born in 1910 were more likely to embrace education more than those born in 1975.
The study, which was published by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month, took note of the decline. CEO Kari Stefansson stressed that as a species, "We are defined by the power of our brains," which meant that education helps train and refine our mental capacities. However, they found it fascinating that genetic factors that linked to more time spent in education is rare in their study that consisted of a genetic database of over 100,000 Icelandic citizens.
While this could have dire implications once proven, this study has actually been already proven, albeit by circumstantial evidence. Previous studies showed that smarter people -- especially those that seek higher education -- tend to have fewer children. This means that the smarter populations in Iceland have actually been contributing less to the collective national gene pool. Still, it seems that the time spent in school itself is not the only thing to blame for the fall of fertility. It has been written in the genes, as those predisposed towards education also already tend to have a predisposition towards rearing children later on in their lives.
Science Alert added that there are more people who are getting access to education. So even if less educated people have more offspring, non-genetic factors could also play a part, like more schools and a vast resource of knowledge could eclipse the said "dumbing down" effect.
"If we continue to improve the availability and quality of educational opportunities, we will presumably continue to improve the educational level of society as a whole," Stefansson said in a statement. "Time will tell whether the decline of the genetic propensity for education will have a notable impact on human society."
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San Francisco Becomes First City To Ban The Sale Of Plastic Bottles
Nowadays, the plastic pollution is one of the biggest environmental burdens.
Statistics say that annually, we throw away enough plastic to circle the globe 4 times. Also, it has been shown that 50% of the plastic is thrown after the first use.
Newest studies suggest that the consumption of water and food in plastic bottles and packages is extremely detrimental to health, as plastic contains various harmful chemicals that leech in the water or food, and are thus entered in the human body.
One of the most harmful compounds in plastic is bisphenol A or BPA. The exposure to this toxin during pregnancy has been found to lead to low birth weight in newborn children.
This chemical has been initially used in the process of manufacturing of everyday plastics like helmets, food containers, goggles, paper receipts, and the coating of metal tins and cans for food. Due to all this, apparently, all people contain it at some level in the blood.
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This is an Albino Rhinoclemmys pulcherrima, also known as the painted wood turtle.
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Albino Wood Turtles are one of the rarest turtle morphs in the world.
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This Circus In Germany Uses Holograms Instead Of Animals To Stop The Mistreatment
It seems that the zoos of the world are changing the concepts on which they are based. In many parts of the world, zoos have been left behind where wild animals are always locked in cages or abused, removing exceptions such as this one where they cut off a lioness's claws so that the children could play with it .
In the case of circuses the thing can be worse, but some of these circuses are walking a path in the opposite direction, sometimes even in a radical way and, for this, they are resorting to the latest available technologies. This here allows its visitors to enjoy the sight of animals in full action but without any of them being damaged.
The circus is located in Germany, it is called Circus Roncalli, and it is the first in the world that has replaced animals with realistic holograms. The animations made by computer are projected to real size and shown in a spectacular way. Animals such as elephants, wild horses, monkeys and even fish run, swim and do acrobatics on stage.
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(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. Health and Safety Executive is investigating the causes of a crack in a key North Sea oil pipeline that disrupted production at more than 80 fields for weeks.
While an HSE spokesman couldn't comment further on the matter, such investigations aren't automatically triggered. Incidents must be severe or unusual enough to meet the regulator's criteria for a probe, said Martin Wayland, a member of the watchdog's gas and pipeline team.
The shutdown of the Forties Pipeline System roiled oil markets from the U.S. to Asia. The link is critical because it transports the single largest constituent part of Dated Brent crude, a benchmark that underpins more than half the world's physical oil prices. The fault on the 40-year-old network underscored the risks inherent in Europe's aging energy infrastructure.
HSE inspectors examined repair work by the pipeline's operator, Ineos AG, and determined it was done "safely and to appropriate standards" before the conduit returned to service on Dec. 30, the spokesman said. The regulator's investigation is ongoing and it's unclear when it could finish.
Ineos acquired the Forties pipeline from BP Plc for $250 million about six weeks before announcing the discovery of the crack in December. Ineos director Tom Crotty said in an interview with Bloomberg television the damaged area of the pipe abutted a rock, which may have caused a problem. He also pointed to the age of the link as another risk factor.
The HSE's Wayland, who couldn't talk specifically about the Forties investigation, said the watchdog's primary role is judging the behavior of operators.
Companies have internal policies summarized in a "major hazard prevention document" that the HSE regularly reviews to ensure compliance with U.K. law and best practices, Wayland said. They also make sure operators are correctly carrying out safety procedures outlined in the policy. Those documents are typically not public.
Though pipelines in the U.K. are many years old, they are generally well-maintained and regularly inspected, Wayland said.
If the HSE determines there is a violation it can take remedial measures ranging from verbal instructions to referring companies to prosecutors. There are no public enforcement actions directly related to the Forties pipeline in HSE's public database from prior inspections.
To contact the reporter on this story: Kelly Gilblom in London at kgilblom@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: James Herron at jherron9@bloomberg.net Rakteem Katakey.


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Frostpunk release date announced with a trailer and price tag in tow
By:Adnan Kljajic - Nem
Published: 17:15, 09 March 2018
Updated: 09:12, 16 March 2018
Frostpunk's release date has been revealed to be 24 April 2018. The reveal came along with a new trailer for the game branded ''Serenity'', as 11 bit studios are in their finishing stages of preparing the game for the open market.
11 bit studios have revealed the ''Serenity'' trailer that is shown above, named in high contrast to the game's grim tone and direction. Frostpunk is essentially a society survival game where you will be put in charge of the last city on Earth. Depending on how good your management and decision making are, your city might thrive or go down in turmoil. If the latter happens, it will rub off on you, as seen in the trailer.
Frostpunk has been garnering attention over the last few months and its release is highly anticipated. 11 bit studios originally planned to release the game during the first quarter of 2018 but had to push it back to 24 April because they ''needed this time for the final polishing required to deliver a game that, we believe, is the best 11 bit title so far''.
11 bit studios Frostpunk - Heat will be a central feature in the game. This town took it literally.
Frostpunk's digital version will be available on Steam, GOG and Humble store at launch for £22 or 29,99$. Retail version is named ''Victorian Edition'' and it will include a hard copy of the game packed with a game art book. The book, named ''New London - The Art of Frostpunk'' is a hardcover showcase of the artwork and concept images from Frostpunk. This edition will cost £25 or 34,99$ USD.
Grzegorz Miechowski, the managing director of 11 bit studios continued his statement, saying that production value is always the most important thing for them. This War of Mine was their previous unique game about making hard and morally ambiguous choices and they are looking to raise the stakes with Frostpunk.
11 bit studios Frostpunk - An example of hard choices between morality and pragmatism.
Come 24 April 2018, you players will have big shoes to fill in a battle against harsh environment, trying to ensure humanity's survival. Let's hope we don't get steam-cooked by an angry mob.
Division 2 - Episode 3 to launch with a new specialization
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is getting a new specialization - the Firewall. Year 1 Pass holders will get to unlock the new specialization automatically, with some additional cosmetics waiting for them at the end of the Special Field Research.
Destiny 2 Season of the Worthy might bring Trials of Osiris back
Destiny 2 has had a great start with Shadowkeep but fans found the content to be a bit stale by the time Season of the Undying wrapped up and Season of Dawn started. They might be pleasantly surprised in March when Trials of Osiris might come back.
Bioshock: The Collection, The Sims 4 coming to PS Plus in February
With just a few days left of January, Sony posted the list of free PlayStation Plus games coming in February 2020, and they definitely got a few zingers here. So, it's Bioshock: The Collection, The Sims 4 and Firewall Zero Hour.
Frostnite is coming to an end with the Final Frost
Frostnite's final challenge will be the Final Frost - a mix of the previous challenges. The players who complete the challenge will be rewarded with the Vacuum Tube Bow. Snuggle Specialist Sarah is coming with her own set of perks.
Dirt Rally 2.0 turning back the clock with Colin McRae: Flat Out Pack
Hey let's face it - if you're old enough, you're probably still calling it Colin McRae Rally, right? Or is that just us? Anyway, Codemasters have some great news for Dirt Rally 2.0 players, with the Colin McRae: Flat Out Pack coming soon.
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed because of current gen consoles, new source claims
According to a Polish insider Borys Niespielak, the main reason for Cyberpunk 2077 delay lies in current-gen consoles, which are reportedly not powerful enough to run the game properly.
NBA 2K players want to see Kobe Bryant on the cover of NBA 2K21
Fans of NBA 2K have been commemorating the late LA Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant, in NBA 2K20 ever since the day of his tragic accident. As 2K Sports release a new NBA game ever year, the community wants to see the "Mamba" featured as the cover athlete of NBA 2K21.
Korean MMO Lost Ark will not release in EU and NA in 2020
Popular Korean MMO Lost Ark will not be coming to Europe and North America in 2020 as the developer Smilegate don't have any plans for western expansion in the near future.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - How to fix disc read error?
Disc read error is a small but annoying issue that can sometimes show up you out of the blue, preventing you from playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Luckily, the fix is pretty easy.
League of Legends Preseason 2020 champion tier list guide
With the new League of Legends preseason underway, the game's tier system has naturally been changed, as you would expect. So which champions work best in top, mid, and bot lane? And what about the elusive jungler? Here's our guide.
Names of remaining Jump Force DLC characters listed in new V Jump
The latest issue of V Jump magazine contains the name of the remaining seven DLC characters for Jump Force. Provided by Ryokutya2089, the list serves as yet another proof of the previous leak that listed the entire DLC roster of the game.
Capcom announce Monster Hunter Riders for iOS and Android
Capcom have officially announced a brand new Monster Hunter game. Named Riders, it is coming to mobile phones, both Android and iOS this winter in Japan as a free-to-play title.
Cyberpunk 2077 full map looks impressive in fan-made mockup
One Cyberpunk 2077 fan decided to take every map leak and put them together in an impressive Night City map mockup, which gives us a clearer picture at the full size of the world.
PS5 logo memes are absolute gold, here are some of the best ones
Sony have officially revealed the logo for their next-gen console PlayStation 5. The logo is looking exactly like the previous ones so the memes are in full swing all over the internet.
The Division 2 Snitch locations, the precursor for Cassie Mendoza
Tom Clancy's The Division 2 features a vendor that is somewhat similar to Xur in Destiny 2, with gear and weapons not available anywhere else. To locate her, you will first need to find Snitch, who spawns randomly at preset locations.
11 bit studios bring Survivor mode to Frostpunk via latest update
Frostpunk's road map is going according to plan as 11 bits studios have released the 1.1.0 update that includes the new Survivor mode for those hardcore or masochistic enough. The update also brings a pile of fixes and balance changes.
11 bit Studios post Frostpunk roadmap filled with free DLC
Post apocalyptic politics simulator Frostpunk now has a roadmap for 2018. 11 bit Studios have announced five bigger updates that will happen during the year as well as minor ones - bug fixes, stability tweaks and other maintenance chores.
Frostpunk devs add Endless mode with two difficulty options
Frostpunk fans have been asking for an endless mode ever since the game was released and it seems like it took 11 bit studios a bit long, but then again, maybe they didn't plan on the game bursting in popularity like it did. It is now here.
The Fall of Winterhome free DLC for Frostpunk now available
Frostpunk has been a shining example of good developer support ever since 11 bit studios launched the game. They have released a road map months ago, detailing the plans for 2018 and they included a story driven DLC, The Fall of Winterhome.
Frostpunk gets a surprise update for Christmas with new content
Frostpunk stands at 87 per cent positive reviews on Steam and one of the reasons is the great post-launch support 11 bit studios provided. In that spirit, they have launched a surprise update named A Christmas Carol, along with a new quest.
Frostpunk release date for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 revealed
Frostpunk, the acclaimed and brutal survival strategy by 11 bit studios has been announced for consoles a while ago but the actual release date has finally been revealed. It is 11 October 2019, which is a little away from original plans.
This War of Mine - The Last Broadcast episode two is out now
This War of Mine has received the episode two of The Last Broadcast DLC, bringing more content for those who want to play through the atmospheric scenes of the game that tells of the day-to-day hardships of civilians in a war-torn country.
Frostpunk - The Last Autumn prequel DLC is coming soon
Frostpunk's second story expansion is set to drop in late January 2020. The prequel will focus on the days before the winter started ravaging the game's landscapes. The available DLCs can be bought separately or as part of the Season Pass.
Icy city-builder Frostpunk is coming to consoles this summer
Frostpunk, the icy city-building simulation from 11-bit Studios is coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year. The Console Edition will be a tuned adaptation of the PC version and will contain all the previous, free updates.
Frostpunk expansion The Last Autumn gets a trailer and launch date
Frostpunk, the chilly strategy warmed our hearts today as 11 Bit Studios released a lovely trailer for the upcoming expansion The Last Autumn, setting up the story of what is narratively a long-awaited moment - the origin story of the catastrophe that led to the in-game events.


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Miss Saigon Lands in Cleveland
by Delaney Canfield January 31, 2019 March 7, 2021
Playhouse Square's KeyBank Broadway Series is back with a bang, welcoming the timeless story of Miss Saigon. Featuring the music of Claude-Michel Schönberg, (the mind that brought us Les Miserables) with lyrics from Alain Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr, the show debuted in London in 1989 before opening on Broadway in 1991, eventually becoming one of New York City's longest-running plays.
The play was originally inspired from a single photograph Schönberg accidentally saw in a magazine that closely depicted much of the core of this play.
Set in 1975, Miss Saigon tells the story of a young Vietnamese woman named Kim (Emily Bautista), living in Saigon during the heat of the Vietnam War. In a bar run by a notorious character known only as 'The Engineer' (Red Concepción), Kim meets an American G.I named Chris (Anthony Festa). This meeting, perhaps mundane on the surface, changes both characters' lives forever. The story follows Kim and Chris through their fast-paced romance, capturing every twist, every turn; every bump in the road along the way.
Director Laurence Connor has put together a stunning spectacle for both first-time viewers or theater patrons falling in love with the show all over again.
The production sincludes a sensational cast of 42 members and a soaring score including hits like "Last Night of the World," "The Movie in My Mind," and "The Heat is On in Saigon."
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We have been in the market since 1999 and have been Singapore's pioneer and inventor of most of the dessert and beverages you see everywhere today.
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We are a small family business based in Singapore.
All of our products listed here are all made and manufactured in our factory at Bedok North, Singapore.
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Or you may find our products on Redmart as well!
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The Financial Aid Office pledges to display the utmost professionalism and uphold the highest ethical standards in the administration of financial aid. We achieve this by adhering to the code of conduct under the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended ("HEA"), Title IV, Part G., Section 487(a)(25), which requires Williamson College (WC) to administer, enforce, and prominently publish the code of conduct on its website. At a minimum, WC will annually inform its officers, employees, and agents with responsibilities associated with educational loans, of the provisions of the code of conduct.
WC shall not enter into any revenue-sharing arrangement with any lender or other vendor working with any of its offices that are responsible for carrying out financial aid functions. WC shall not accept any fee or other material benefit in exchange for recommending a lender to its students.
Officers or employees with financial aid responsibilities shall not solicit or accept any gift having other than nominal value from a lender, guarantor, or servicer of education loans.
An officer or employee with financial aid responsibilities shall not accept, from any lender or lender affiliate, any fee, payment, or other financial benefit as compensation for any type of consulting arrangement or other contract to provide services to a lender or on behalf of a lender relating to education loans.
WC shall not automatically assign a particular lender to any borrower, unless required to do so by law, and shall not refuse to certify or delay certification of any loan based on the borrower's selection of a particular lender or guarantee agency.
WC shall not request or accept from a lender an offer of funds to be used for private education loans in exchange for WC's providing the lender with a specified number or volume of federal loans or in exchange for placement on a preferred lender list.
WC shall not request or accept from any lender any assistance with call center staffing or financial aid office staffing unless any such assistance has been legislatively defined as acceptable. Lenders, for example, may provide professional development training to financial aid administrators, educational advising materials to borrowers, or assistance in state or federally-declared natural disasters.
Any WC employee with financial aid responsibilities shall be prohibited from receiving anything of value from a lender or guarantor in return for service on its advisory board. Reimbursement for or payment of reasonable expenses incurred in connection with such service, however, is permitted.
In addition to the items above, as a member of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), Williamson College also follows the standards established in NASFAA's Statement of Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct for Institutional Financial Aid Professionals.


1. a person who shirks or neglects his or her duty.
1. absent from school without permission.
2. neglectful of duty or responsibility; idle.
3. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a truant.
Truant comes to English from the Old French word of the same spelling meaning "beggar" or "rogue." The noun form of truant entered English in the late 1200s, though it was not until the 1500s that English speakers started using this term as an adjective.
Someone who claims not to be a hipster, mocks others for being hipsters, but is in fact themselves a hipster. This usually applies to all hipsters as it a very rare hipster indeed that will admit to being a hipster.
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May 07, 2015 News & Opinion » Currents Feature
Escape Goat
TUSD Culturally Relevant Studies teacher singled out
By María Inés Taracena @m_ines_taracena
Cholla High School teacher Corey Jones was escorted out of his classroom a few minutes before representatives with the Arizona Department of Education showed up to observe his U.S. history from a Mexican-American perspective class on Friday, Feb. 6.
By noon that day, Jones was asked to give up his school keys and identification, and told he wasn't allowed in any Tucson Unified School District property or have any contact with staff or students.
That morning event was about one month after former state schools superintendent John Huppenthal singled out Jones' course in a Jan. 2 notice of noncompliance, as one of a handful in the district found to possibly be in violation of the state's anti-Mexican-American studies law.
During the weeks leading to that, Jones says the district had been enforcing significant changes to the culturally relevant curriculum (unknown to those outside the TUSD-ADE tunnel). Censorship weighed heavy and the "we will stand by our teachers" sentiment took a 180-degree turn.
According to Jones, students in his culturally relevant class were discontent with how things unraveled. The day ADE reps were supposed to sit in the classroom, they had planned a walkout to protest what they saw as unjust.
The plan reached the ears of school and district administrators, who immediately pointed fingers at Jones as the "mastermind" and decided to pull him out (a decision supported by Lorenzo Lopez, director of TUSD's culturally relevant pedagogy, according to Jones). "(They said) the students lacked the capacity or the will to organize on their own," he says. Students repeatedly said Jones hadn't influenced their plans.
Still, the district launched an investigation into his alleged involvement. It was later found he had nothing to do with it. (Jones wasn't allowed to speak to the media during that time. When the Tucson Weekly reached out to Cholla in early March for a follow-up to Jan. 15's "The Never-Ending Scrutiny," we were told he was unavailable.)
"I was proud of my students. The perception of youth, particularly youth of color was one of criminal apathy toward their education, and their actions served as evidence that ran counter to that," Jones says. "We are talking about $14 million and that is what is important. The district put that responsibility on the site administrators ... I was told by one site admin that they had professional aspirations beyond their current positions and they would not have the loss of $14 million attached to their name."
On March 3, in a joint press conference in Phoenix, TUSD Superintendent H.T. Sanchez and Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas announced the state had pardoned TUSD from losing 10 percent of monthly state aid. She said she was happy with the district's "progress," but that ADE would continue monitoring culturally relevant classes until the end of the school year.
Neither party concretely answered what it was the district had done to be found in compliance. Two months prior, Douglas assured she did not have an issue with the curriculum, but with how educators taught it in the classroom.
On Jan. 6, the evening before Sanchez and Douglas met for the first time, Sanchez called for a meeting with the culturally relevant curriculum teachers at Revolutionary Grounds on Fourth Avenue.
"(Sanchez claimed that) artists like Rage Against the Machine should be valued ... and not removed," he says, remembering a quick individual conversation he had with Sanchez before the meeting began. (Jones' course was flagged by the state over a Rage song). "We were told by Sanchez to not change a thing, to keep doing what works, that he got the sense Douglas' fight was with Common Core, not banning ethnic studies."
Jones says Sanchez promised the district and site administration would fully have the teachers' backs, reinforcing they had done nothing wrong.
"He was encouraged by the fact that he and the district had such committed and passionate teachers," Jones says. "A question came to Sanchez, 'How much support are we going to get from the district? Like $14 million-worth of support?' Sanchez responded with, 'We just so happen to have $14 million in reserves,' and that, although it would be hard to sell to the (governing) board, that he was committed to (the culturally relevant curriculum)."
Jones left with an "OK, we are going to fight this" mentality, although he still had reservations. But after Sanchez's lunch meeting with Douglas on Jan. 7, tables turned. He came back as a nominee for Douglas' Latino Advisory Committee, saying he didn't feel ADE wanted to shut down the culturally relevant program, but that they wanted to address concerns in a collaborative manner. "The law is the law," Sanchez said at a press conference that day.
(In an interview with the Tucson Weekly around that time, Sanchez reinforced his alleged support for the culturally relevant classes.)
Jones and other culturally relevant teachers wondered, what the hell happened between last evening and today?
Then the classroom visits and other ADE requirements began. Jones had to hand over two-week lesson plans. Administrative meetings with Jones over the analytical tools he chose to bring into the classroom—songs by artists like Common, Immortal Technique, Dead Prez, and Rage were a no-go—became a tradition.
In the culturally relevant curriculum, the teachings of Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," Rodolfo Acuña's "Occupied America," and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" moved down the reading list priorities, replaced at the top by a textbook the district brought in without discussion called "The American Vision" (published by McGraw-Hill Education), Jones says. The assessments went from critical thinking-based to multiple-choice exams "to appear more traditional."
One instance, Jones recalls showing the PBS documentary "Precious Knowledge," which touches on the movement to fight the ban of Mexican-American studies, in one of his non-culturally relevant courses. The school administration demanded he not show the rest of the film.
"Talking about education as a civil rights issue ... what is more benign than PBS?" he says. The site administrators told Jones the documentary wasn't on the culturally relevant curriculum. "It was a non-CR class, though," Jones replied. Even if it had been, up until that point, teachers were allowed to introduce age-appropriate material that complimented the content on the curriculum—material that didn't necessarily have to be listed on the latter.
"The justification that was given for it, 'It is just for the next 90 days,' everything, every single change ... once March 4 hits, it will go back to normal, you are going to have to eat shit, you are going to have to take it," he says. "We should be pushing, now it's the time. Very possibly, the (9th Circuit Court of Appeals) is going to rule this piece of legislation as unconstitutional. The damage you are doing to the curriculum, which is already a watered down, domesticated version of the (Mexican-American studies). CR served as the vaccine to the MAS virus—I started to question, at what point do we say enough?"
On the day Jones' students planned a walkout, he told administrators he would stand side-by-side with them. At that moment, they asked for his school stuff, and didn't allow him back into the classroom to pick up his personal belongings. It was surreal. Merely a couple of months before, in November, Jones' work with the students had received a great review from the school.
A few days out of the classroom turned into weeks and weeks turned into "we will pay you to stay home the rest of the school year." At first, returning to Cholla was a minor possibility, which then flipped to getting reassigned to another school, perhaps on the east side of town. That never happened.
Several other investigations were made, including one alleging Jones audio recorded his students, which also led to nothing.
Sanchez sent a short statement to the Tucson Weekly, "Mr. Jones has submitted his resignation effective May 22, 2015, through a signed separation agreement. If Mr. Jones had not signed a separation agreement, the district would have proceeded with a non-renewal of his contract for next year. At this time, the district cannot comment on anything Mr. Jones may have stated."
As that date approaches, Jones has been exploring his options.
He's left to wonder what the district told ADE reps when they showed up with plans to sit through his second period class, and it never happened. Jones had vanished
"It was naïve for me to believe that theoretical commitment would continue through their actions, I do take responsibility for that, I have been in this profession long enough, and I have seen the hypocrisy between rhetoric and action many, many times," he says. "I have served the purpose that they wanted me to serve. They made their deal with ADE, made significant changes to the curriculum...and they want me to go away as quickly as possible."
Watch the video below to see Sanchez discuss the Mexican American Studies program at a press conference in March. He answers question from Tucson Weekly around the 6:30 mark.
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October 1, 2014 Getting to GRAPH EXPO...the Hard Part
I, like many others trying to fly to Chicago for this year's GRAPH EXPO, had my Saturday morning flight cancelled due to an intentionally set fire at a nearby FAA radar facility. Most of the out-of-towners I spoke with were exhibitors, and some did note cases where their printer prospects and existing clients opted to skip GRAPH EXPO altogether after their flights were cancelled.
August 19, 2010 Solving the Integrated Marketing Mess
What do a public relations firm in Boston, a digital Relevant Products/Services shop in Minneapolis, and an ad agency in Albuquerque have in common? A small client in St. Louis. At first glance, relying on three businesses for specialized marketing services might seem odd, but it's not.
More and more businesses are relying on multiple firms for their marketing needs in this digital age, particularly smaller companies that want a sophisticated plan but don't have the big bucks to hire a huge agency. They may have to look beyond their immediate geography to get their unique needs met...
May 1, 2010 Web Offset: Still on a Roll?
How do we gauge the state of web offset printing in relation to where it is heading, when factoring in change variables such as digital printing and shorter run lengths?
June 1, 2009 PRINTER news
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March 10, 2009 Cenveo-St. Louis Announces New Executive Team
Cenveo, Inc. (NYSE: CVO), one of the largest diversified printing companies in North America, announces the appointment of three executives to its management team at Cenveo-St. Louis.
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ClassDojo is used in two-thirds of schools in the US.
Armed with a bachelors degree in mathematical economics and practical teaching experience in his arsenal, Welsh-born Sam Chaudhary came to Palo Alto on a tourist visa in the summer of 2011 to launch an ed tech startup.
But the pesky issue of exactly what that startup would resemble remained elusive.
So he and co-founder Liam Don started from scratch.
"Our first week in California we started reaching out to teachers," Chaudhary told Business Insider. "We were in this little room in Palo Alto, and we were sleeping and working in opposite corners of the same room."
After 90 days and an expired visa, the duo went back to the United Kingdom, but they kept asking their most important question to educators: "What's the worst part of teaching?"
Now, five years later, the teaching community has embraced their startup, ClassDojo, and rewarded it with extraordinary growth.
The app, available via the Apple Store and Google Play, functions like a social media community where parents can see student school work through the photos and videos teachers upload.
Millions of users worldwide have downloaded the platform, according to Lindsay McKinley, head of communications at ClassDojo, although she declined to give specific numbers, citing competitive advantages.
ClassDojo's premise may sound simple: The app allows teacher, parents, and students to connect within the classroom — but for many, it's transformed the teaching experience.
The platform is used in two-thirds of all schools — public, private, and charter — across the nation and in 90% of school districts. It's also used in 180 countries globally, according to McKinley.
Last summer, McKinley says more than 500,000 people download the app everyday. That's more than mobile app behemoths Yelp and Tinder, she claims.
In late 2015, the company raised $21 million in a Series B round of venture funding, according to TechCrunch. It had previously raised $8.5 million during its first institutional funding in 2013, and $1.6 million in seed funding in 2012, according to VentureBeat.
At its core, the app creates a shared classroom experience between parents, teachers, and students. Teachers upload photos, videos, and classwork to their private classroom groups which parents can view and "like." They can also privately message teachers and monitor how their children are doing in their classrooms through the behavior tracking aspect of the app. In the behavior tracking portion of the app, teachers give or take away points based on performance or conduct.
A screenshot of ClassDojo's app shows a video from a teacher's classroom.
ClassDojo fosters an atmosphere of collaboration and support, essentially removing the invisible barrier that often exists between the home and classroom. Now, parents need not wait for their once-a-quarter parent-teacher conferences but can have daily dialogues about their children.
The aspect of the platform that seems to receive the most criticism, however, is the behavioral tracking element.
Students, each identified by a cutesy "monster" avatar, receive points for points for positive behavior. Similarly, they lose points for bad behavior. And parents can see all of this activity.
"This app is nothing more than a public shaming tool for teachers and an added stress for parents," a review in the Apple store reads.
It's similar to other criticism ClassDojo has received over the past few years.
"This is just a flashy digital update of programs that have long been used to treat children like pets, bribing or threatening them into compliance," Alfie Kohn, the author of "The Myth of the Spoiled Child," told The New York Times in 2014.
At least in the Apple store, however, the positive reviews far outweigh the negatives.
"I have always wanted more communication & to be more involved when it comes to knowing how my kids are doing on a daily basis...and now with Dojo, I am!," a review in the Apple store reads.
Similarly, parents and teachers have taken to Twitter to share their appreciation for the app.
"We had a very non-Silicon Valley thesis," Chaudhary explained about creating ClassDojo. "It wasn't, 'here's the technology that's going to replace you,' it was, 'how can we use technology to enable you to do all the good things you already want to do?" he said.
That mentality, it seems, has paid off. ClassDojo hasn't spent a dime on marketing. Any growth that's happened has happened by word-of-mouth, with principals and teachers sharing it from one colleague to the next.
Still, when starting the company five years ago Chaudhary said that he never imagined it would be the successful technology it is today.
"I'm always very wary of the Silicon Valley hubris: 'We saw the future and built it,'" he said, explaining that he didn't hatch some master plan. "We're going to be the company who really listens to teacher and parents and kids."


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using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Geometry;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Projection;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Tasks;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;

namespace FieldWorker.Common
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        case ESRI.ArcGIS.Client.Field.FieldType.OID:
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      return false;
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    public static Geometry EnvelopeToPolygon(Geometry geometry)
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      topRight.Y = envelope.YMax;
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The Broadway musical Finding Neverland, directed by Diane Paulus, is coming to the Hershey Theatre from October 2-7, 2018.
The story follows J.M Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, who is playwright experiencing writer's block, until he meets four young brothers and their widowed mother. Inspired by the boys' imaginations and make-believe adventures, Barrie sets out to write a play to astound London theatregoers. Barrie shoots his shot, leaving the regular world behind for Neverland.
There will be a 7:30 P.M. showings October 2-4 (Tuesday through Thursday), an 8:00 P.M. showtime on October 5 (Friday), a 2:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. showing on October 6 (Saturday), and a 1:00 P.M. and 6:30 P.M. showing on Sunday.
For the showing of 'Finding Neverland' on October 3, the Hershey Theatre is having Family Night on Broadway, where kids under the age of 18 can get for free (when accompanied by one full paying adult). Starting at 6:30 P.M, there will be kid-friendly activities and entertainment in the lower lobby of the theatre.
Tickets can be purchased online, by phone, or at the box office at the Hershey Theatre.


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No electricity in Puri district 11 days after cyclone 'Fani'
PTI May 15, 2019 10:33 AM IST
Bhubaneswar: Entire Puri district and hundreds of villages in other districts were without electricity even 11 days after the cyclone 'Fani' devastated coastal Odisha, killing at least 64 people, officials said.
People in many parts of the coastal region hit the streets on Tuesday demanding power restoration.
Puri district bore the maximum brunt of the cyclone which made a landfall in Odisha on May 3.
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"We have restored power in most places except Puri district. Restoration of power in Puri is a big challenge," Information and Public Relations Secretary Sanjay Singh told reporters here.
Asked about power restoration in 18,168 affected villages and 52 urban local bodies, Singh said, "The state government is taking all out efforts to restore the power supply to all consumers."
He said 73 per cent of consumers in Cuttack and 70 per cent people in Khurda have already been provided electricity.
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"At least 524 teams have been engaged to give power supply to 29,01,171 consumers of severely damaged Puri district. The first phase of power restoration in Puri town will commence from Wednesday," Singh said.
The entire power infrastructure in Puri district has been devastated in the cyclone which damaged 75 towers of 220 KV and 25 towers of 132 KV, official sources said, adding that the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has been entrusted to rebuild the 220 KV towers in the district.
"One 132 KV tower has been damaged on Chandaka-Puri road. It will be restored by ERS. As some of the broken towers are located in water logged areas, it required more time for restoration," Singh said.
National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) CMD Gurdeep Singh and Union Power Secretary A K Bhalla visited Bhubaneswar and Puri to assess the impact of cyclone 'Fani' on electrical installations.
The state government has requested the NTPC to take up work at four places in Puri district.
How lessons from 1999 prepared Odisha to face Fani
The NTPC has deployed 950 trained workers in cyclone-affected areas such as Puri, Khurda, Jagatsignhpur and Kendrapara district.
An 11-member inter-ministerial central team led by Vivek Bhardwaj, additional secretary in the Home Ministry, continued its damage assessment for the second consecutive day in Khurda, Puri and Cuttack districts.
"We have interacted with the people and they informed the team about losing the means of livelihood. We will see how the central government can help them," Bhardwaj said, adding that the team will wind up its tour Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Bharti Airtel said that its teams have worked on war footing to restore 90 per cent of the affected network in areas in Odisha.
"People are experiencing near normal voice and data connectivity over the Airtel network in the worst affected areas in Khurda, Jagatsinghpur, Puri and Cuttack. Both Airtel and nearly 6 lakh non-Airtel users (through ICR) are benefiting from these efforts," Airtel said in a statement.
To further bolster the relief efforts, Airtel has also offered free SMS facility in the affected areas and have set up camps in major locations where mobile users can charge their devices to get connected to the Airtel network, it added.
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(b) the details of the targets fixed and achievements made so far in this regard?
(a) The Nagar Van-Udyan Yojana has been approved by the National CAMPA Advisory Council (NCAC) from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund managed by the Ad-hoc CAMPA. The forest area of 20 ha to 100 ha within the city limits are covered and financial assistance at the rate of Rs.2 lakhs per ha upto 100 ha are provided. 80% of the fund is provided by NCAC and the remaining 20% is provided by the State Government. The fund sanctioned and released under the scheme till date is given in Annexure-A.
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Idris Muhammad was born on November 13,1939, and began playing the drums at age 8 in his native New Orleans. By the time he was 16, he was performing in jazz bands. Muhammad became known as one of the most innovative drummers in soul music of the 1960's, performing with singers Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, and The Impressions.
He played for the popular musical Hair while performing with the house band for the Prestige Label in the early 1970's. For the rest of that decade, he accompanied popular singer Roberta Flack, led his own band, and worked with Johnny Griffin and Pharaoh Sanders.
An excellent drummer who has appeared in many types of settings, Idris Muhammad became a professional when he was 16. He played primarily soul and R&B during 1962-1964 and then spent 1965-1967 as a member of Lou Donaldson's band. He was the house drummer at Prestige Records (1970-1972), appearing on many albums as a sideman. Of his later jazz associations, Muhammad played with Johnny Griffin (1978-1979), Pharoah Sanders in the 1980s, George Coleman, and the Paris Reunion Band (1986-1988). He has recorded everything from post-bop to dance music as a leader for such labels as Prestige, Kudu, Fantasy, Theresa, and Lipstick.
Muhammad's 1993 recording My Turn includes saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. and trumpetor Randy Brecker, both of whom are also featured performers in this year's 25th Annual University of Pittsburgh Jazz Seminar and Concert.
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Thousands of students took to the streets across the country on Saturday to rally for tougher gun control laws as President Trump continued to shake up his legal team amid an ongoing Russia investigation. But will there be political ramifications in the months to come? NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield joins Hari Sreenivasan to break it down.
It has been another busy weekend in the political world to help us sort it out as it is our NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Jeff Greenfield who joins us from Santa Barbara, California. Jeff when you see these kids and what they've been able to accomplish and I'm talking about the students that never get in the March for Our Lives – protests that happened yesterday all over the world – do they have what it takes to make this a longterm and sustainable agenda item for even this coming election?
I will answer that question in mid-November. There is no question that not just the size of these demonstrations but the nature of them, unlike past demonstrations, there were not divisive messages. But the question you're asking is does it have staying power? Will young people who were able to come to Washington or march in their cities six months from now will they be registering people? Will they be getting people to the polls to vote for candidates who support them? And you know if that happens then this is going to be something of really significant importance if the energy of all these people turns into political action, It will up end all the expectations about the fall because you're seen you would be seen an involvement that you know that the pollsters until a few weeks ago haven't even calculated.
All right let's turn our attention to the White House and the legal matters that are dogging President Trump. He seems to be shuffling his legal team around in some ways the people who are kind of tried and true lawyers that are that understand how Washington works aren't really on that team or aren't volunteering to be on it. And then on the other hand there are the ones who are pretty good on TV. So it's almost seem like there's sort of two there's the court and then there's the court of public opinion.
And and let's not forget that one of the quote TV lawyers Joseph diGenova just today. Turns out he can't be on that team because there are conflicts involving who he represents that are in some way or other related to these probes. What that tells me and this isn't the first time we see this as an a sheer managerial level this White House is at a level unlike anything I've ever seen. And I don't mean that as a compliment. How you could not vet a high profile lawyer in what may be a very significant case and not realize that this lawyer is conflicted. It is simply beyond me. And if this is how the White House intends to pursue its legal role with respect to Mueller that that doesn't signal good things for the White House.
All right and finally we have different kind of legal case is a case of this merger of AT&T and Time Warner. It's pretty consequential and it's been fairly buried in the avalanche of news that seems to come out of Washington.
Right. The trial just started this week and it could be incredibly consequential in terms of the whole media landscape. In brief, AT&T wants to buy Time Warner. AT&T is a pipe it brings satellite and cable to the Internet in about 25 million homes. Time Warner produces what goes through the pipe: news the entertainment, HBO, CNN if you watch the Final Four run up yesterday you watch on a Turner Network. Justice Department is saying this would be too big a company. It could threaten competition. But what Time Warner and AT&T are arguing and this is a significant part is look we may look big but we're being threatened by the real monsters – Netflix Apple Google and Facebook. And so what they're going to be arguing is what looks like a move toward dominance and it might have been 10 or 20 years ago given this media landscape, we're doing this to survive.
All right Jeff Greenfield joining us from Santa Barbara California thanks so much.


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Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda - Day 2
21 June, 2019 marked the second day of the conference "Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda: Challenges and Hopes."
The first theme of the day and the second of the conference was, "Justice, Reconciliation, and Reconstruction." Shelley Tenenbaum presented the first talk entitled, "Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda and the Jews in Europe," in which she compared the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda to the Holocaust in Germany. She highlighted the similarities and differences between the two noting that both involved the transformation of a fluid to fixed identities. Ultimately, she suggested that while all genocides are unique, the similarities between them can help inform our ability to resist and prevent their reoccurrence.
Tenenbaum was followed by Shawn Copeland whose talk was entitled, "Responsibilities of Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda." She noted that none of the existing theological paradigms are sufficient in post-genocide Rwanda and began to outline the necessary qualities of a comprehensive theology in the country today. Instead, it must be a political theology through which theologians can think for themselves and in which history is seen and recognized. Theology is to be outraged by corrosion of freedom and exploitation. Finally, she noted that participants in a political theology should vigilantly remember the dead and speak openly as witnesses of the genocide and its horrors. She concluded by stating that political theology in Rwanda must work to see in the way Jesus saw.
Next, organizer Marcel Uwineza, S.J, gave a talk titled, "Reimagining Humanity: A Theology that Makes Sense of the Wounds of History." His talk compared the dry bones seen in many memorials in Rwanda with the country's enduring scars. In his reflection on these "dry bones" he emphasized the theological imperative of memory. Uwineza then moved to a consideration of the importance of human dignity by comparing the work of Rahner and Aquinas. According to Aquinas, the human person follows directly from God as God's message is primarily concerned with the human person. Rahner reflects on similar sentiments as he suggests that theology is both anthropocentric and theocentric as the two are not mutually exclusive. Finally, Uwineza noted that just as Jesus' work began with the wounds of the sick, a new theology in Rwanda must also be born from the wounds of the suffering. The church should recognize and make sense of the history of genocide in order to move forward.
Next, Elisée Rutagambwa, S.J provided the first presentation of the second theme, "Leadership and Human Rights." His talk was entitled "Rethinking Genuine Leadership Through the Prism of the Ethics of Apology." He noted that in the wake of horror, some apologize, some partially apologize, and some refuse to apologize all together. Rutagambwa discussed the various forms of apologetic discourse and suggested that though this is the era of apology, many still refuse to recognize and repent for their sins. He suggested that in moving to address its sins and apologize for them, in a comprehensive way, the church can be a more credible source of leadership in the pursuit of the common good. J.J Carney followed with a talk entitled, "Healing, Reconstruction, and Truth: Three Models of Prophetic Leadership in Post-Genocide Africa." He discussed the work of Madame Anne-Marie Mukankuranga, Bishop Nicholas Djomo Lola, and Rosalba Ato Oywa putting them forth as examples of prophetic leadership in the Great Lakes region. Carney suggested that their ability to put truth to power, engage in social analysis, and participate in humanitarian missions provide examples for those wishing to restore and promote the ethical mission in post-conflict regions. Innocent Rugaragu, S.J discussed "The Religious and Secular Leadership we Need: 25 Years After the Genocide Against Tutsi." His talk focused on the qualities that the ideal Rwandese leaders of today should possess. Among the many important qualities he mentioned were the ability to assert positive influence, the ability to inspire, the possession of knowledge, and an understanding of what is needed by a community. A leader with these qualities is sure to promote peace, reconciliation and progress in Rwanda.
The fourth theme was "Scripture and the Body of Christ" and its first speaker was Michel Kamanzi, S.J whose research studied "The Temple of his Body'(Jn 2:21): Rediscovering Churches and Human Beings as Sacred Spaces." He discussed the fact that churches were the sites of many terrible massacres during the genocide in 1994. This served as a defilement of the house of God and prayer. Kamanzi traced the importance of churches throughout the Bible discussing the building and rebuilding of the temple in the Old Testament through the New Testament in which the body of Christ became a symbol for the church. Though the temple is a valuable host to the tabernacle, the ultimate sign of the church is the body of Christ presented, in large part, through the united community of believers. Humans are all, themselves, sacred spaces.
A talk called "A Pauline Foundation for Social Reconciliation" was then presented, via video, by Thomas Stegman, SJ. He emphasized the Pauline language of reconciliation in which God is the primary agent of. He compared the notions of vertical and horizontal reconciliation. Through horizontal reconciliation, we seek to reconcile and find unity in our own communities, which is a necessary precondition for vertical reconciliation in which we reconcile with God through his infinite mercy. The final speaker on this theme was Martin Nizigiyimana whose talk was entitled, "From Divine Trust to Human Responsibility." The core message of his talk was that divine trust and human responsibility are a theological pair; as with trust in God, we recognize that he has put his trust in human beings. Rwandese are obligated to reinvent the church in the country, replacing suffering with faith and providing a noble witness to the importance of fraternity. It is through doing so that we fulfill the human responsibility bestowed by God.
The final theme was "Remembering and Suffering" and began with Yvon Elenga, S.J's talk entitled, "The Anamnesic Hope: (Re)living the Faith 25 Years After the Genocide Against the Tutsi." He discussed the importance of memory and the transmission of stories. Elenga suggested that the best form of memory that can be exercised in Rwanda is a forward-thinking memory that ties the past to the future. We must account for suffering while considering how it informs the ways in which we may move forward. Elenga was followed by George Griener, S.J's who presented, "The Task of Theology in the Face of Horrendous and Widespread Suffering that has Plagued the human race in the Last Hundred Years." He spoke on the theology of suffering emphasizing the essential role of suffering in God's creation. This comes from the idea that human freedom is fragile and all of creation possesses a degree of finitude. Thus, that which makes existence possible also serves as the source of human suffering. This was followed by the day's final speaker, Ogonna Hilary Nwainya, whose talk was entitled, "Twenty-Five Years after the Genocide: Can Rwanda Embrace an Ethics of Recognition?" His talk focused on the importance of recognition of the "other" and the atrocities of defacement. He spoke of defacement as the most expedient method of genocide in its defamation of the dignity of the other. He referenced Peter's recognition of Jesus and his recognition of Peter, in response. In essence, he spoke of the human need for recognition as essential in the process of transformation.
After a fruitful day of scholarly discourse, we look forward to our final sessions.
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