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By Bethany Helwig
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Willow River discusses low funds
City Clerk Diane Nelson cautioned the city council that funds are low in the city's checking account at Willow River's regular meeting on May 6. "Our checking account is taking a hit," she stated. "We're going to have this interim spot where we're going to be cutting it close."
The city has not received grant monies they were hoping to receive earlier, and while there is still some money coming from Homeland Security, that is nearly paid out in full. Councilor Vickie Whitehouse elaborated that there have been several delays in the city being able to apply for specific grant money due to new staffing and miscommunications at the state level. She added they are ready to apply as soon as they get the go-ahead from the state.
The council agreed that if they do not get additional funds in by June, they need to look into pulling money out of their certificates of deposit (CDs).
Fire Chief Gerard Bennett reported they had seven fire calls, 35 Emergency Medical Services (EMS), and one other. The fire department is currently seeking a grant from the Department of Natural Resources for radios and pagers and is still waiting to see if Pine County will receive a grant that they can join in on. They also received a $1,000 donation from Lloyd and Anna Antilla for radios, for which the department was very grateful. Their recruits are also doing well and their cadet will soon be old enough to take on a full-time position. Bennett also asked the council to consider letting the fire department use some of the space in the city garage for storage and that the sand shed be moved or sold to make room in front of the truck garage.
John Mikrot reported things were going well regarding water and sewer services. Hydrants were recently flushed, and he will be looking into patching a storm drain by the school once school is over. The balance test on the ponds is underway but will be delayed if it rains. Mikrot stated he's also ready to start doing patching on the roads. Councilor Sheldon Johnson requested that Mikrot analyze the roads and report if they need an overhaul in places rather than just patching.
Bruce Westerberg from Lake States Tree Service asked for permission to remove a tree on Willow Street that could be a potential hazard. He clarified that the service is free as they're contracted through Minnesota Power to keep the main power line clear. The council gave its permission.
In other business, the city agreed to lend picnic tables to the elementary school for their concert.
Clerk Nelson stated that the seniors volunteering to clean up the cemetery needed means by which to haul away the debris collected.
The council agreed to purchase a handheld meter reader (the current method of tracking is pen and paper).
Councilor Sheldon Johnson brought up street sweeping by CIP (Challenge Incarceration Program in Willow River), and the council discussed the removal of the sand and dirt collected, suggesting possibly lining something up with the county since it's their sand.
The council agreed to look into fortifying the ground around the city's Christmas tree as it is beginning to sink down and could potentially fall.
The next regular meeting is scheduled for June 3 at 7 p.m. at the city hall.
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Principles of Bible Translation
The Bible was originally written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Today it is available in whole or in part in about 2,600 languages. The vast majority of people who read the Bible do not understand the original languages and therefore must rely on a translation. What principles should guide how the Bible is translated, and how did these govern the rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures?
Some might conclude that a strict, word-for-word, interlinear-style translation would enable the reader to get closest to what was expressed in the original languages. However, that is not always the case. Consider a few of the reasons:
No two languages are exactly alike in grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure. A professor of Hebrew, S. R. Driver, wrote that languages "differ not only in grammar and roots, but also . . . in the manner in which ideas are built up into a sentence." Different languages require quite different thought patterns. "Consequently," continues Professor Driver, "the forms taken by the sentence in different languages are not the same."
No modern language exactly mirrors the vocabulary and grammar of Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, so a word-for-word translation of the Bible could be unclear or at times could even convey the wrong meaning.
The meaning of a word or an expression may vary depending on the context in which it is used.
A translator may be able to mirror the literal rendering of the original language in some passages, but this must be done very carefully.
Here are some examples of how word-for-word translation can be misunderstood:
The Scriptures use the expressions "sleep" and "fall asleep" to refer both to physical sleep and to the sleep of death. (Matthew 28:13; Acts 7:60) When these expressions are used in contexts that refer to death, Bible translators can use such wording as "fall asleep in death," which helps the modern reader avoid confusion.—1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Thessalonians 4:13; 2 Peter 3:4.
The apostle Paul used an expression found at Ephesians 4:14 that can be literally translated "in the playing of dice of men." This ancient idiom alludes to the practice of cheating others when using dice. In most languages, a literal rendering of this allusion makes little sense. Translating this expression as "the trickery of men" is a clearer way to convey the meaning.
At Romans 12:11, a Greek expression is used that literally means "to the spirit boiling." This wording does not convey the intended meaning in English, so it is rendered "aglow with the spirit" in this translation.
Literal English: "the poor in spirit"
Idea: "those conscious of their spiritual need"
During his famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus used an expression that is often translated "Blessed are the poor in spirit." (Matthew 5:3, King James Version) But in many languages, a literal rendering of this expression is obscure. In some cases, a strictly literal translation could imply that "the poor in spirit" are mentally unbalanced or lacking in vitality and determination. However, Jesus was here teaching people that their happiness depended, not on satisfying their physical needs, but on recognizing their need for God's guidance. (Luke 6:20) Thus, such renderings as "those conscious of their spiritual need" or "those who know their need for God" convey more accurately the meaning of the original expression.—Matthew 5:3; The New Testament in Modern English.
In many contexts, the Hebrew word translated "jealousy" corresponds to the common meaning of the English word, namely, to feel anger over the apparent unfaithfulness of a close associate or to envy others for their possessions. (Proverbs 6:34; Isaiah 11:13) However, the same Hebrew word also has a positive connotation. For example, it may be used of the "zeal," or protective ardor, that Jehovah shows for his servants or of his "requiring exclusive devotion." (Exodus 34:14; 2 Kings 19:31; Ezekiel 5:13; Zechariah 8:2) It may also be used of the "zeal" that his faithful servants have for God and his worship or of their 'tolerating no rivalry' toward him.—Psalm 69:9; 119:139; Numbers 25:11.
The Hebrew word yadh is usually rendered "hand," but depending on the context, this word may be rendered "authority," "generosity," "power," and many other ways
The Hebrew expression that usually refers to the human hand has a wide variety of meanings. Depending on the context, this word may be rendered "authority," "generosity," or "power." (2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Kings 10:13; Proverbs 18:21) In fact, this particular word is translated over 40 different ways in the English edition of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
In view of these factors, Bible translation involves more than simply rendering an original-language word with the same term each time it occurs. A translator must use good judgment in order to select words in the target language that best represent the ideas of the original-language text. In addition, there is a need to structure the sentences in a way that conforms to the rules of grammar of the target language, making the text easy to read.
At the same time, extremes in rewording the text must be avoided. A translator who liberally paraphrases the Bible according to how he interprets the overall idea could distort the meaning of the text. How so? The translator may erroneously insert his opinion of what the original text means or may omit important details contained in the original text. So while paraphrases of the Bible may be easy to read, their very freeness at times may prevent the reader from getting the true message of the text.
Doctrinal bias can easily color a translator's work. For example, Matthew 7:13 says: "Spacious is the road leading off into destruction." Some translators, perhaps affected by doctrinal bias, have used the term "hell" rather than what the Greek term really means, namely, "destruction."
A Bible translator must also consider that the Bible was written using the common, everyday language of average people, such as farmers, shepherds, and fishermen. (Nehemiah 8:8, 12; Acts 4:13) Therefore, a good translation of the Bible makes the message it contains understandable to sincere people, regardless of their background. Clear, common, readily understood expressions are preferred over terms that are rarely used by the average person.
Quite a number of Bible translators have taken the unjustifiable liberty of omitting God's name, Jehovah, from modern translations even though that name is found in ancient Bible manuscripts. (See Appendix A4.) Many translations replace the name with a title, such as "Lord," and some even obscure the fact that God has a name. For example, in some translations, Jesus' prayer recorded at John 17:26 reads: "I made you known to them," and at John 17:6, "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me." However, a faithful rendering of Jesus' prayer reads: "I have made your name known to them," and "I have made your name manifest to the men whom you gave me."
As stated in the foreword to the original English edition of the New World Translation: "We offer no paraphrase of the Scriptures. Our endeavor all through has been to give as literal a translation as possible, where the modern English idiom allows and where a literal rendition does not for any clumsiness hide the thought." Thus, the New World Bible Translation Committee has endeavored to strike a balance between using words and phrasing that mirror the original and, at the same time, avoiding wording that reads awkwardly or hides the intended thought. As a result, the Bible can be read with ease and the reader can have full confidence that its inspired message has been transmitted faithfully.—1 Thessalonians 2:13.
A reliable translation must:
Sanctify God's name by restoring it to its rightful place in the Scriptures.—Matthew 6:9.
Accurately convey the original message that was inspired by God.—2 Timothy 3:16.
Translate expressions literally when the wording and structure of the target language allow for such renderings of the original-language text.
Communicate the correct sense of a word or a phrase when a literal rendering would distort or obscure the meaning.
Use natural, easy-to-understand language that encourages reading.—Nehemiah 8:8, 12.
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Q: error C2678: binary '>>' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::stringstream Whenever I try and compile my game with the map I get the error...

"1>Map.cpp(57): error C2678: binary '>>' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::stringstream' (or there is no acceptable conversion)"

...but it compiles when I initialize collidable like it is below...
bool collidable[100000];

Can anyone please help me and also if you spot anything else that's wrong with my code can you please point it out as well anyway thanks in advance
MAP.h
#pragma once

class Map{
public:
    std::vector<GLfloat> tileX, tileY, boxX, boxY, srcX, srcY;
    std::vector<bool> collidable;
    std::vector<int> collidableObjects;

    GLfloat imageW, imageH, tileW, tileH;
    int numberOfCollidableObjects, numberOfTiles;

    void Load(const char* filename);
    bool Collision(Object obj1);
    void Display();
private:
    GLuint image;
    string filenametemp;
    const char* mapImageFilename;
};

Map.cpp
#include "GEN.h"

void Map::Load(const char* filename){
    stringstream temp;
    string temp1;

    ifstream file;
    file.open(filename);

    getline(file, filenametemp);
    mapImageFilename = filenametemp.c_str();

    getline(file, temp1);
    temp.str(temp1);
    temp >> imageW;
    temp.clear();

    getline(file, temp1);
    temp.str(temp1);
    temp >> imageH;
    temp.clear();

    getline(file, temp1);
    temp.str(temp1);
    temp >> tileW;
    temp.clear();

    getline(file, temp1);
    temp.str(temp1);
    temp >> tileH;
    temp.clear();

    numberOfTiles = 0;
    while(!file.eof()){
        getline(file, temp1);
        temp.str(temp1);
        temp >> tileX[numberOfTiles];
        temp.clear();

        getline(file, temp1);
        temp.str(temp1);
        temp >> tileY[numberOfTiles];
        temp.clear();

        getline(file, temp1);
        temp.str(temp1);
        temp >> srcX[numberOfTiles];
        temp.clear();

        getline(file, temp1);
        temp.str(temp1);
        temp >> srcY[numberOfTiles];
        temp.clear();

        getline(file, temp1);
        temp.str(temp1);
        temp >> collidable[numberOfTiles];
        temp.clear();

        if(collidable[numberOfTiles] == 1){
            getline(file, temp1);
            temp.str(temp1);
            temp >> boxX[numberOfTiles];
            temp.clear();

            getline(file, temp1);
            temp.str(temp1);
            temp >> boxY[numberOfTiles];
            temp.clear();

            collidableObjects[numberOfCollidableObjects] = numberOfTiles;
            numberOfCollidableObjects ++;
        }

        numberOfTiles ++;
    }

    file.close();

    image = SOIL_load_OGL_texture(mapImageFilename, SOIL_LOAD_AUTO, SOIL_CREATE_NEW_ID, SOIL_FLAG_MIPMAPS | SOIL_FLAG_NTSC_SAFE_RGB | SOIL_FLAG_COMPRESS_TO_DXT);
}

void Map::Display(){
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, image);
    glBegin(GL_QUADS);
    for(int n = 0;n < numberOfTiles; n++){
        glTexCoord2f((srcX[n]/imageW), (srcY[n]/imageH));glVertex2f(tileX[n]-tileW/2, tileY[n]+tileH/2);
        glTexCoord2f((tileW/imageW)+(srcX[n]/imageW), (srcY[n]/imageH));glVertex2f(tileX[n]+tileW/2, tileY[n]+tileH/2);
        glTexCoord2f((tileW/imageW)+(srcX[n]/imageW), (srcY[n]/imageH)+(tileH/imageH));glVertex2f(tileX[n]+tileW/2, tileY[n]-tileH/2);
        glTexCoord2f((srcX[n]/imageW), (srcY[n]/imageH)+(tileH/imageH));glVertex2f(tileX[n]-tileW/2, tileY[n]-tileH/2);
    }
    glEnd();
}

A: The problem is that vector<bool> is special and is (most probably) not a simple array of individual bool elements. So the reference that you expect to get by using the index operator is not a 'reference to bool' but a different class (see this) object.
You can choose some alternative to vector<bool> or use a temporary bool object to read from the stream and then assign it to the vector element.
bool temp_bool;
stream >> temp_bool;
collidable[numberOfTiles] = temp_bool;

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Automobile Tariffs Would Offset Half the TCJA Gains for Low-income Households
Erica York
The Trump administration is reportedly considering new tariffs of as much as 25 percent on automobile imports, potentially including cars, trucks, and automotive parts. On May 23, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross began a national security investigation under Section 232 of U.S. trade law into the import of automobiles and automotive tariffs. We estimate that increasing tariffs on automobile imports would reduce the gain in after-tax income for households in 2018 derived from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act while making the tax code less progressive.
In 2017, the United States imported nearly $293 billion worth of vehicles for consumption, while paying about $3.4 billion in duties on those imports. If we assume that import levels will remain the same and that the proposed tariff would apply to all goods in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule under the vehicle chapter (Chapter 87), in addition to the tariffs that are already levied, the new tariff would amount to a $73 billion tax increase. It is likely that some vehicles or parts in Chapter 87 could be excluded from the tariff, while parts that may be listed in other chapters could be included, so the exact amount of the tax increase could be different.
Using the assumptions mentioned above, we estimate that the new tariffs on automobiles would reduce after-tax incomes for all taxpayers by 0.47 percent in 2018 while making the distribution of the tax burden less progressive. These tariffs would fall harder on those taxpayers in the bottom 80 percent, reducing their after-tax income by 0.49 percent, and by 0.45 percent for the top 20 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers would see the smallest reduction in after-tax income, at 0.39 percent.
Source: Tax Foundation Taxes and Growth Model, June 2018, and Tax Foundation calculations
Table 1. Distributional Impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and Proposed Automobile Tariffs
Percentage Change in After-Tax Income, 2018
Income Group
TCJA
Change in Impact
0% to 20% 1.00% -0.49% 0.51% -49%
20% to 40% 1.70% -0.49% 1.21% -29%
80% to 100% 3.90% -0.45% 3.45% -12%
99% to 100% 7.00% -0.39% 6.61% -6%
TOTAL 2.90% -0.47% 2.43% -16%
Table 1 compares the 2018 distributional impact of the automobile tariffs to the 2018 distributional impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and shows that these tariffs would reduce the increase in after-tax income anticipated by households, especially lower- and middle-income households.
We estimate, for example, that households in the 20 to 40 percent income group would see a 1.7 percent increase in after-tax income in 2018 because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. However, automobile tariffs would have an offsetting effect, reducing after-tax income by 0.49 percent for these households. This means that automobile tariffs would decrease the expected increase in after-tax income for households in this group by 29 percent.
The tariffs would fall hardest on households in the 0 to 20 percent income group, reducing their expected increase in after-tax income by 49 percent—if the average increase in income for this group were $100, they would receive just $51 if the tariffs took effect as assumed. For comparison, the tariffs would reduce the estimated increase in after-tax income for households in the top 1 percent by about 6 percent.
Economists generally agree that free trade increases the level of economic output and income, and conversely, that trade barriers like tariffs reduce economic output and income. While it may be quite some time until the conclusion of the automobile import investigation, we should expect the effects of any resulting tariffs would be to reduce economic output and incomes. If imposed, these automobile tariffs would fall more on middle- and lower-income taxpayers, reducing the increase in income these households would see because of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, and making the distribution of the tax burden less progressive.
Modeling Notes
The Tax Foundation models the impact of tariffs with the Taxes and Growth model. In the Tax Foundation's model, tariffs are treated as a targeted excise tax on the tradeable sector, which ultimately fall on U.S. labor or capital and result in lower output. To model the distributional impact, we pass the tax backwards as reductions in factor income, which reduces the returns to both labor and capital income. In modeling tariffs, we do not account for the potential reaction of foreign countries, nor the additional losses in welfare from having taxes with uneven impacts across sectors. To calculate the amount of the tax increase, we applied a 25 percent tariff rate to all goods covered by Chapter 87 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule using 2017 import levels.
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The Next Refugee Crisis
By Joshua Hampson
As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to worsen, the United Nations warns of another massive crisis in the Middle East. The battle against ISIS is moving towards the city of Mosul, which is ISIS's stronghold in Iraq. While retaking the hugely populated city will not be easy, the potential mass exodus of millions of people creates complex problems for Iraq, the U.S., and the region at large.
Mosul is Iraq's second largest city, with over 1 million people inside and under ISIS control. Nearly 84,000 people have already fled the area as the Iraqi government and militia advance on the city, with much more expected. With the full assault on the city expected in November, the United Nations is warning that caring for those fleeing the city will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. This new flow of refugees comes on top of the millions of refugees that have already displaced. To properly manage the wave of people that could flee Mosul, and to weed out extremists in the mix, it is critical to relocate as many vetted refugees as quickly as possible.
The logical step for processing refugees from Mosul—including processes to determine if any are ISIS terrorists—is to place them in the camps already handling this process. However, refugee camps in the region are already full beyond capacity. While the United Nations is looking to build more camps, getting funding and finding suitable land is proving difficult.
With the battle over Mosul expected to generate up to 1.3 million new refugees, already strained refugee services in the region will also be unable to cope. The inability to find safety and shelter in Iraq may force refugees to flee to other countries. For the surrounding countries who are already managing millions of refugees, this massive new displacement may be difficult to cope with. The numbers alone will make it hard for Middle Eastern countries to provide care for and to vet these refugees in real time. Refugees may then try to flee onwards to Europe.
We can take action before the battle for Mosul begins, however. If refugees can be resettled outside of the camps and strained neighboring countries, there is a higher chance that displacement from Mosul will be manageable.
While the United States cannot take all of the refugees needed to manage this crisis, every little bit helps. The United States has a very strong vetting process, but has struggled to reach its resettlement goals. Part of the problem is public perception, both about the costs of refugee resettlement and the vetting process.
Concerning security, the American refugee vetting process is long, intensive, and involves multiple agencies. Once here, there are policies that would help the United States increase the number of refugees it takes without increasing the burden on the taxpayer. Canada, as well as other Western countries, have had success with privately-funded refugee resettlement. The United States should follow this example.
Certainly, the international community at large must contribute significantly to avert a humanitarian crisis, but the United States can lead the effort by stepping up its individual support. Resettlement numbers in the United States are severely lacking. While Europe has taken in over 1 million refugees since the start of 2015, and the countries around Syria and Iraq—Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt—have taken millions more, the United States has taken a little over 5,000 this fiscal year. Given that the he United States has a good record of assimilating refugees, and unlike Europe and Middle Eastern countries can screen refugees before they arrive, is all the more reason to increase settlement numbers.
The coming humanitarian crisis will be difficult to manage, regardless of how many refugees the United States takes. However, every refugee added to already bursting camps strains those camps' ability to help them, bends services and infrastructure towards the breaking point, and risks extremists slipping past security. Every refugee resettled elsewhere eases those problems, and gives slightly more hope that Iraq and Syria may eventually recover. We know this crisis is coming. Other countries will need to help as well, but the United States must do its part.
Let's help the refugees we can today, because there will be more in the not-so-distant future.
Originally published on Huffington Post
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Alan Wake, a bestselling writer, comes to behind the wheel of a crashed car. It's night. He is in a primordial forest outside the small town of Bright Falls, Washington. Wake has hit his head. He is missing a week. His photographer wife, Alice, is missing. The couple came to...
Alan Wake, a bestselling writer, comes to behind the wheel of a crashed car. It's night. He is in a primordial forest outside the small town of Bright Falls, Washington. Wake has hit his head. He is missing a week. His photographer wife, Alice, is missing.
The couple came to the idyllic Bright Falls to heal, a departure from the pressure cooker of their celebrity life in New York City. Wake hasn't been able to write in a long time. Their relationship has seen better days. Now Wake finds pages of a novel he seems to have written, even though he can't remember writing it. The story is called "Departure". It's a horror story. He is the main character in it. In the story, Bright Falls is taken over by a Dark Presence. The story is coming true. Locals, possessed by supernatural darkness, stalk Wake in the forest.
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Adelson i Salvini (wł. Adelson e Salvini) – młodzieńcza opera semiseria Vincenza Belliniego z librettem Andrei Leone Tottoli.

Osoby
 Nelly, sierota, ukochana Adelsona – sopran
 Pani Rivers (Madama Rivers), guwernantka w domu Adelsona – mezzosopran
 Fanny, wychowanica Adelsona – alt
 Salvini, nauczyciel rysunku – tenor
 Lord Adelson – baryton
 Bonifacy (Bonifacio), służący Salviniego – bas
 Struley, oficer, stryj Nelly – baryton
 Geronio, zaufany Struleya – bas

Historia utworu
Bellini skomponował Adelsona i Salviniego w czasie studiów w neapolitańskim Konserwatorium św. Sebastiana. Pierwsza wersja utworu została wystawiona w teatrze szkolnym, w obsadzie męskiej. Opera składała się z trzech aktów i miała mówione dialogi. Dwa lata później Bellini przerobił utwór na dwuaktowy i skomponował recytatywy. W tej wersji Adelsona i Salviniego wystawiono dopiero w 1992 roku. Fragmenty muzyki z Adelsona i Salviniego wykorzystał Bellini w późniejszej operze Capuleti i Montecchi.

Nagrania

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Opery Vincenza Belliniego

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Jacob Lusk is poised to be one of the music industry's next great talents. Jacob's humble beginnings took him from the choir loft of his hometown church, to winning over the hearts of over thirty million television viewers weekly. His Rendition of "God Bless the Child" was considered by the judges to be "the best ever" on American Idol. Subsequent performances of the Motown classic "You're All I Need to Get By" and "A House is Not a Home" drew critical acclaim that garnered comparisons to musical icons Aretha Franklin and Luther Vandross. Try watching this video on www.youtube.com
Prior to being the fifth place finisher on American Idol Season Ten, Jacob was featured in numerous plays across the country and worked with late west coast Hip Hop pioneer Nate Dogg, who collaborated with Dr. Dre, Tupac and Snoop Dogg throughout his illustrious career. Jacob often credits Nate for launching his musical journey. Within the last year, Jacob has performed with Empress of Soul, Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, India Arie, and gospel star Kirk Franklin, and has recorded with super-producers Tricky Stewart, Rodney Jerkins, Ray Chew, Harvey Mason Jr. and the legendary Don Was.
Recently Jacob dusted off his theater chops to appear in various productions alongside: Marla Gibbs, Lucie Arnaz, Jackée Harry, Loretta Devine, Darius McCrary, Lou Christie, and Mary Wilson just to name a few. He was also afforded the opportunity to perform alongside industry Veteran, Joe Morton, one of his theatrical inspirations, in the show "Turn Me Loose". A talented singer, songwriter, and actor, Jacob Lusk has proven to be a triple threat in the entertainment industry and this "New Sound Of Compton" is now prepared to take his uniquely distinguished sound to the world with new music launching in 2018.
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Continued Harassment by Israeli Army and Demolitions in Occupied West Bank
May 3 2014 / 9:26 pm
IMEMC – Further Israeli violations against Palestinians and their property continue in the West Bank, this week, with home invasion and harassment in the village of Awarta and the demolition of several structures in Khirbet al-Taweel.
At 4:30 am, on Wednesday the 30th of April, a group of Israeli soldiers broke into a family home in the village of Awarta, near the illegal settlement of Itamar, according to a recent report by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). 11 soldiers woke the family, under the pretext of conductiong a "security search", upon which a member of the family asked to see the order and was shown a piece of paper written in Hebrew.
Once inside the house, the ISM reports, the soldiers forced the family into the living room, where they confiscated their mobile phones.
According to family member Muhammad Sharab, they were hdetained in their home for 12 hours. No one in the house was allowed to exit for work or school; there are six children in the family, all under the age of 14.
During those 12 hours, the soldiers slept in the house's bedrooms and used the shower.
Muhammed described his exchange with the soldiers: "What you would do if I would come in your house in Tel Aviv and do the same as you?"
"I'm just following orders," was his reply.
The soldiers finally left the home and the village.
Other reports surfacing in the village reveal soldiers raided another house, that same night.
The house is apparently located in the same area where, just under two weeks ago, Israeli soldiers entered houses and fired several tear gas grenades.
20 Palestinians, including children, were taken to the hospital for tear gas inhalation.
The village of Awarta has increasingly been targeted by the Israeli military, possibly due to close proximity of the illegal Itamar settlement.
In the last two weeks, a new settlement road connecting with the main village road has been built, and resident report that many local olives tree were destroyed during the construction.
In a related violation, on Tuesday the 29th of April, at 2:00 AM, the Israeli army invaded the small Bedouin village of Khirbet al-Taweel to demolish several structures, claining that they were built without permits.
In total, three houses, several animal shelters and the village's mosque were destroyed.
Khirbet al-Taweel has an approximate population of 180 inhabitants, according to the ISM. 30 of them have now been left homeless because of the demolitions, 17 of which are children; the youngest only one-year old.
In the raid, three families were forced out of their homes at gunpoint, with no time to collect their belongings and able to take with them only the most necessary items before witnessing the destruction of their homes.
The Israeli army took two hours to carry out the demolitions, until 04:00AM, destroying three houses in addition to the village mosque, built in 2008.
The families also suffered the loss of their water tanks, due to the demolitions. In order to get drinking water, they now have to walk 30 minutes uphill to get to the nearest town (Aqraba), and then back, ISM stated.
During the day, Red Crescent provided the families with some tents. However, according to one of the women who were evicted, the army informed them that they were not allowed to stay in the area and had to leave immediately.
The woman replied: "We have nowhere to go. This is our land, our homes. Where should we go?"
During the past five years, the village has been the target of several demolitions. According to local villagers, this is simply a strategy from Israeli authorities to force an exodus fromlocal populations, thus expanding illegal Israeli farming settlements, located on the other side of the mountain from Khirbet al-Taweel.
More than 500,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in direct contravention of international law and with the full complicity of Western governments, in the form of billions in foreign aid and weapons, each year.
Despite the Israeli government's relentless appeal to officials and taxpayers, in regard to "security concerns", the Palestinian Authority has no official army, navy or air force to speak of.
The infamous Hamas rocket attacks, which Western mainstream media outlets are so quick to respond to, do very little damage, in fact, as the default projectiles are not even equipped with guidance systems and are tipped with only a relatively tiny warhead, if any at all.
Though outbreaks of serious violence do erupt from the Palestinian side, they are usually in response to Israeli violations and incitements against the Palestinian people and their property, with the majority of Palestinian child detainees being held on charges of throwing stones.
(Each year, around 500-700 Palestinian children, some as young as 12, are arrested, detained and prosecuted in the Israeli military detention system.)
Posted by Philip Giraldi on May 3 2014 . Filed under News from the Middle East . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 . Both comments and pings are currently closed.


We're still reeling with "Hows the Josh" and here comes big news from the makers of URI; the entire team is all set to reunite for yet another project titled Ashwatthama.
Actor Vicky Kaushal, filmmaker Aditya Dhar and RSVP movies are collaborating to bring the story of Ashwatthama on the big screen.
Filmmaker Aditya has been working on this script since a long time, even before Uri released, and when he narrated to Ronnie and Vicky, they immediately jumped on board. The film will be mounted on a big scale and will be shot later this year.
Actor Vicky Kaushal became the flavor of 2018 with Love Per Square Foot, Raazi, Manmarziyaan and Sanju. He proved that he is a force to reckon with the first big hit of 2019 URI: The Surgical Strike.
The movie is a period-war film, which is targeting a mid-2020 release. The film will be directed by Aditya Dhar and produced by Ronnie Screwvala.
In the film, Vicky will play Ashwatthama, who was the son of Drona. The film will explore his life and of course his role in the war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas in Mahabharat's Kurukshetra, as reported.
On the work front, Vicky Kaushal's upcoming films are an untitled horror film, Karan Johar's Takht and Shoojit Sircar's Udham Singh biopic.


Music lessons at Bellingen Primary School are now cooler and more energy efficient, thanks to a new pergola built using timber donated by Forestry Corporation of NSW, Boral Timber and Thora Sawmill.
The new pergola provides a shaded, open-air expansion to the school's music room and is driving down air conditioning costs.
Bellingen Public School's Principal, Dylan Harry said he was delighted with the timber pergola, both for its aesthetic appeal and functionality.
"The structure provides a walkway to the music room and beyond to the school's vegetable patch. Its main function will be to cool the music room by providing shade to the northern windows. Passionfruit vines are intended to ramble over the pergola as an extension to the edible patch," Mr Ross said.
Elizabeth Scott, music teacher and project manager said the room is notably cooler and the need for air conditioning has been lessened already.
"The builder Pascal Fortin has created an artwork with his fine workmanship and the timbers have been cleverly placed to provide musical staff lines that students can decorate with notes and music symbols in the future.
Forestry Corporation of NSW's Strategic Projects and Programs Leader Justin Black said the pergola was the first new facility completed under the Community Timber Partnerships, which was formed by Forestry Corporation of NSW, Boral Timber and Planet Ark to salvage around 1,000 cubic metres of flooring and decking products impacted by the Murwillumbah floods in 2017.
"We're excited to have played a part in creating an asset that students and teachers at Bellingen Public School will use and enjoy for many years to come," Mr Black said.
"As well as the flooring and decking timber supplied by Boral, the school also needed posts to complete their pergola so we approached the local Thora Sawmill who were all too happy to supply them to get this new facility off the ground.
"As well as reducing energy costs for the school by making the music room naturally cooler, the timber itself is actually helping tackle climate change by storing carbon in the wood for the life of the structure. Timber is the only major building material that is renewable and stores carbon.
"Our forest management practices ensure that trees are continually replanted and regrown, continuing the cycle of regeneration of this ultimate renewable resource, and as anyone who has timber floors, decks or fencing can attest, you feel better when timber is around you.
"When we heard about such a large volume of timber being written off, in some cases for damage as minor as water staining in some instances, we were determined to salvage it for local community projects.


Ready or not: Expansion, eclipses and throwing your limitations into the volcano of your desires.
My father tells the story of how he learned to swim in this way.
Long ago in Karlsruhe, Germany, he was a 6-year old tagging along with his big brother on a date. They had ridden their bikes to the Rheine River and my uncle was big-talking to his sweetheart about his swimming prowess. (Neither my father nor my uncle knew how to swim at this point, though my father really wanted to learn). My Dad called him out on it, to which my embarrassed uncle responded with brute big brother energy. He ripped the tire off of his bike, wound it around my father a couple of times, blew the air back into it with his hand pump and chucked him into the river.
He floated, of course. Bobbing alongside my uncle and his nonplussed girlfriend. And, pretty soon, his arms and legs caught on.
Last week's full lunar eclipse had the same effect on me. I feel like I was walking along and someone hurled me into frigid waters.
Maybe you felt it too. Think back to last week. Did any world-changing epiphanies douse your reality? Did you feel the rug come out from under you? Are you rethinking EVERYTHING you're doing in a current venture? Are your rethinking EVERYTHING…period?
Yes, yes. That may well be the effect of the eclipse. You're in excellent company. And now that the dust has settled (for now), you may be grappling with what next. Like, what to actually DO about it.
I have seen what is next for me in my business. And it is huge, and bright. And try as I might, I cannot unsee it.
But it's here. Because although I feel like I got chucked into the Rheine unexpectedly, I've been yearning for this expansion, dreaming of it, praying for it, conjuring it.
So this past week I've been feeding it a steady diet of my limitations. For every "I can't" and "I don't know how" that has shown up (and there have been plenty), I've been hurling them into the gaping mouth of the volcano of my desires. (The ensuing lava flares and fire fountain I envision are Bugs Bunny calibre.) In with the limitations go old habits, beliefs and stories. It's not always this easy. Except when it is.
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Plaintiff-Appellant Janice Brown Dorn ("Janice") appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant-Appellee Electricians Pension Trust Fund ("the Plan"), dismissing her claim, ostensibly pursuant to a Qualified Domestic Relations Order ("QDRO"), for continued payment of pension benefits following the death of her ex-husband, JackLee Dorn ("Jack"). Jack was a former participant and, at death, a retiree and pensioner under the Plan, which is governed by ERISA1 . We affirm the district court's judgment dismissing Janice's claim.
After ERISA had been on the books for approximately ten years, during which period the need for substantial modification had become apparent, Congress enacted REA. Two innovations wrought by REA that are particularly pertinent to this case are (1) changes in mandated retirement plan benefits in the form of a revised version of the "Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity" ("QJ&SA")3 and (2) creation of a new procedure ---- unique and exclusive to ERISA ---- for obtaining otherwise prohibited assignments or alienations of pension plan benefits in the event of, inter alia, divorce: the "Qualified Domestic Relations Order" ("QDRO").4 Familiarity with the applicable terms of art is important and helpful in understanding the instant appeal. After surveying the key terms, we shall examine briefly the nature of the benefits that most ERISA retirement plans like the Plan are required to provide as automatic survivor benefits with respect to the retiring participant ---- for our purposes today, Jack's QJ&SA----and some of the alternative elections available. We shall then consider in greater depth the exception to ERISA's spendthrift proscription of alienation that REA brought to the table by creation of the QDRO, a mechanism for recognizing, inter alia, the interest of the non-participant spouse in benefits under such plans. Finally, we shall analyze Janice's QDRO in light of the foregoing to determine whether it was correctly interpreted by the Plan's plan administrator and the district court.
Stated more simply, (1) the QJ&SA's annuity payments cease at the death of the participant spouse, regardless of whether his death occurs before or after the death of the non-participant spouse; and (2) if, but only if, the non-participant spouse survives the participant spouse does the survivor's annuity kick in.
* Annuity Starting Date "means the first day of the first period for which an amount is received as an annuity "6 (whether by reason of retirement or disability).
* Alternate Payee "means any spouse [or] former spouse...who is recognized by a domestic relations order as having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefits payable under a plan with respect to" the participant.11 Note that " [a] person who is an alternate payee under a [QDRO] shall be considered for purposes of any provision of [ERISA] a beneficiary under the plan;"12 only the employee who is a member of the plan is a "participant."
To implement the importation of the QDRO procedure for accommodating situations such as divorce, community property partition, and the like, REA expressly exempted from ERISA's otherwise preemptive proscription of alienation of plan benefits, a narrowly limited set of permissible assignments to a similarly limited set of transferees, denominated "alternate payee," such as a surviving spouse, of specified plan benefits that are payable with respect to the participant.15 The QDRO is the REA-created mechanism employed to facilitate this REA-recognized, tightly circumscribed set of non-preempted assignments of benefits.
To be a QDRO, a domestic relations order must designate, inter alia, the spouse or former spouse as an alternate payee. A domestic relations order can only be "qualified" (and thus can only become a QDRO), however, if it creates or recognizes the existence of an alternate payee's right, or assigns to an alternate payee the right, to receive all or a portion of the benefits payable with respect to a participant under one of the expressly designated types of ERISA retirement plans, and meets the other requirements of the statute.
Jack and Janice married in 1968. Neither prior to nor during their marriage did Jack and Janice elect out of Louisiana's legal regime ---- the community of acquets and gains ---- for matrimonial property in that State; rather, they remained under the community regime at all pertinent times.17 Throughout the time that Jack and Janice were married to each other, he was a participant in the Plan, an ERISA employee pension benefit plan for union workers.
Jack and Janice divorced on April 25, 1991. At that time, Jack was still a participant in the Plan: His annuity starting date had not arrived; indeed, he did not become eligible for pension benefits under the Plan until March 1, 1993 and did not receive his first check until August of that year. On the day in 1991 when they divorced, Jack and Janice executed an agreement settling their community property. It stipulated that Jack assigned to Janice "her" interest in his benefits under the Plan. This settlement agreement likely met REA's definition of a "domestic relations order" but it clearly failed to specify details sufficient to be deemed a QDRO; and neither party contends that it was or should have been.
Later that year, on September 27, 1991, Jack married Geraldine T. Duck ("Geraldine"). Jack and Geraldine were still married to each other (and had been for more than a year) when he retired for plan purposes and when his annuity starting date arrived. And, they were still married to each other on May 31, 1997 when he died.
On January 22, 1993, however, after Jack had married Geraldine but while he was still working and still a participant in the Plan, Janice obtained a domestic relations order from a state court in Louisiana. That order is labeled "Qualified Domestic Relations Order for Electricians' Pension Plan IBEW 995." It purports to divide and assign benefits accumulated under the Plan during the existence of Jack and Janice's community, identifying the benefits as marital property, designating Janice as "Alternate Payee," referring to Jack as "Participant," and otherwise making all recitations required for the domestic relations order to be recognized by a plan administrator as a QDRO.
This assignment of benefits does not require the Plan toprovide any type or form of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the Plan. This assignment does not require the Plan to provide increased benefits determined on the basis of actuarial value. This assignment does not require the Plan to provide benefits to the Alternate Payee under another order previously determined to be a Qualified Domestic Relations Order.
the alternate payee shall have, with respect to the alternate payee's interest in the Plan, the exclusive right to receive such funds specified above and in the event of alternate payee's death, her estate shall receive those funds to which the alternate payee is entitled, in the event of survivor beneficiaries not named by alternate payee.
Division of Benefits: Sims v. Sims, 248 So. 2d 919 (La. 1978) All funds accumulated under this Plan were accumulated during the existence of the community of acquets and gains. The community of acquets and gains existing between the parties hereto ceased as of February 27, 1991.
Jack became eligible for retirement on March 1, 1993, less than two months after Janice had obtained that domestic relations order. The annuity starting date came and went, and pursuant to Janice's QDRO, the Plan began paying $302 per month to her. The remaining $321 balance of Jack's monthly pension benefit of $623 was paid to him, beginning August 1, 1993.18 The total of these payments equaled the total amount of Jack's monthly participant's annuity under the Plan, i.e., his lifetime pension of $623 per month.
Effective at Jack's death on May 31, 1997, the Plan discontinued making monthly payments to Jack and to Janice that clearly were being paid to them from the participant's portion of Jack's QJ&SA. Also effective at Jack's death, the Plan began paying Geraldine the "survivor's pension" of $312 per month, being 50% of the participant's pension under Jack's QJ&SA.
Shortly after Jack's death, the Plan wrote to Janice advising of the cessation of payments to her as a result of (1) the termination of the participant's annuity at Jack's death and (2) the absence in the QDRO of a designation of Janice as Jack's Qualified Spouse for purposes of the survivor's pension. In July, 1997, through her attorney, Janice appealed to the Plan in writing to reinstate payment of the benefits that it had been paying to her before Jack's death; and, in September she appeared with her attorney before the Plan's Board of Trustees ---- its plan administrator ---- to re-urge her appeal. The Board of Trustees advised Janice by a September 24 letter to her attorney that her appeal had been denied. Janice filed the instant lawsuit a month later.
In her complaint, Janice asserted that the Plan's refusal to continue benefit payments to her (1) violated ERISA; (2) was unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment; and (3) constituted conversion of her property. In June, 1998 the Plan filed a motion for summary judgment on all counts, maintaining that Janice was not entitled to payments of benefits following Jack's death because (1) the participant's annuity, out of which she had been receiving a $302 portion, terminated at participant's death, and (2) neither the Plan nor the 1993 QDRO provided for the payment of any other benefit to Janice after Jack's death, the only benefit remaining being the annuity of the surviving spouse, who was not Janice, but Geraldine, Jack's "Qualified Spouse." The Plan also asserted that Janice's Fifth Amendment claim was baseless and that her state law claim of conversion was preempted by ERISA.
In September, 1998, the district court granted the Plan's motion for summary judgment, rejecting all of Janice's claims and dismissing her suit. This appeal followed.
From the record on appeal and Janice's appellate brief, it is clear to us that she is seeking a continuation, for her lifetime, of the monthly $302 payment out of Jack's participant annuity only, from which she had received it during his lifetime by virtue of her QDRO; and that, because in the QDRO she is not designated as the surviving spouse (or "qualified spouse"), she is not asserting a claim to any part of Jack's QJ&SA that constitutes the survivor annuity (the "survivor's pension"), which Geraldine began to receive at Jack's death. As the district court in its ruling on motion for summary judgment touched on both possibilities, however, we shall as well.
First, there is no dispute about the propriety of the plan administrator's having treated the state court's domestic relations order in this case as a QDRO: Not only does the order touch all of the bases from the standpoint of required contents under § 1056(d) by recognizing Janice as an alternate payee, expressing that it relates to marital property rights, and specifying the factual information required under subsection (3) (C); at least facially it also does not violate subsection (3) (D)'s prohibition of requiring the Plan to provide (1) any type or form of benefit or option not otherwise provided under the Plan or, (2) on the basis of actuarial value, any increased benefits. Neither does the order require payment of benefits to an alternate payee other than Janice (there were no prior QDROs). Moreover, the instant QDRO was applied for and obtained before Jack's (1) annuity starting date, (2) retirement, or (3) death.
Janice's domestic relations order specifies that she "shall receive payment from [the pension plan] of Participant, Jack Lee Dorn...." The only benefit that Jack had under the Plan was a QJ&SA which comprised (1) his lifetime annuity (which was not, as in some commercial products, payable for as long as either spouse lived), and (2) the "survivor's pension," i.e., the surviving spouse annuity, equal to 50% of the Participant's lifetime pension. As already noted, the surviving spouse annuity is not addressed anywhere in the subject domestic relations order, and Janice has not expressly demanded any part of it.
The pension benefit component [of Jack's QJ&SA] in which [Janice] did receive payments, terminated upon the death of the participant. The survivor's annuity is the only benefit currently payable under the [Plan]. It vested in [Jack's] current wife on the date he became eligible for benefits.
Dorn also argues that the district court's interpretation of ERISA is a taking of her vested property without due process of law prohibited by the Fifth Amendment. There is no set formula for identifying a "taking" forbidden by the Fifth Amendment; rather, courts use an "ad hoc, factual inquir [y] into the circumstances of [the] case."26 Dorn has not met her burden to show that she had any private property which has been the subject of a taking.
Pub. L. No. 98-397, 99 Stat. 1426, (codified at 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.).
See generally 29 U.S.C. § 1055. (We recognize that "in the trade" these annuities are generally referred to as QJSAs, but we have included the ampersand to aid our readership in distinguishing the QJSA from the QDRO). REA also dealt with the Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity, another type of ERISA benefit, which is not at issue here.
See generally 29 U.S.C. § 1056(d).
date of [Participant's] death," unless a QDRO provides otherwise. As Janice and Jack were divorced well before his pension payments started, this alternate definition is inapposite. As shall become apparent when we review the operable facts of this appeal and the provisions of Janice's QDRO, she meets none of the Plan's definitions of Qualified Spouse: She was not married to Jack on the date of his death, and she had not been married to Jack for the year preceding the commencement of his pension payments or for the year preceding his death. Most significantly, her QDRO does not recognize her as Jack's "Qualified Spouse" for purposes of the "survivor's pension" under the Plan.
29 U.S.C. § 1055(h) (3).
29 U.S.C. § 1056(d) (3) (B) (ii).
29 U.S.C. § 1056(d) (3) (B) (i) (I) (emphasis added). Subparagraph (C) provides that a domestic relations order be a QDRO only if it "clearly specifies," inter alia, the name and address of the participant and the alternate payee, the amount or percentage to be paid to the alternate payee, the plan or plans to which the order applies, etc.; and subparagraph (D) provides that a domestic relations order can be a QDRO only if it "(i) does not require a plan to provide any type or form of benefit, or any option, not otherwise provided under the plan, (ii) does not require the plan to provide increased benefits (determined on the basis of actuarial value), and (iii) does not require the payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee under another order previously determined to be" a QDRO.
29 U.S.C. § 1056(d) (3) (G) (i) (II) ("the plan administrator shall determine whether such [domestic relations] order is a qualified domestic relations order" (emphasis added)).
29 U.S.C. § 1056(d) (3) (K) (emphasis added). Use of the phrase "with respect to" makes clear that alienability under a QDRO is not limited to those benefits that are "payable to" a participant, i.e., only the participant's life annuity, but may also make other plan benefits, such as the surviving spouse's annuity available to an alternate payee.
29 U.S.C. § 1056(d) (3) (J) (emphasis added).
[S. Rep. No. 98-575 (1984), reprinted in 1984 U.S.C.C.A.N. 2547.
Although not applicable here, the participant can waive the QJ&SA in favor of an alternate benefit permitted by the plan, but only with spousal consent and only during the applicable election period, being a reasonable time before the annuity starting date, not to exceed ninety (90) days. 29 U.S.C. § 1055(c) (1) (A) (i), (2) (A) (i), (7) (A).
See, e.g., Critchell v. Critchell, No. 98-FM-1304, (D.C. Cir. Feb. 10, 2000).
non-participiant spouse might be entitled to obtain a QDRO for a portion of the former participant spouse's lifetime annuity, assuming the applicable domestic relations laws of the cognizant state would support such a claim.
See La. Civ. Code Ann. arts. 2326-28.
Given the Plan's disbursements to Janice, we infer that the Plan Administrator determined that the domestic relations order of January 22, 1993 was "qualified" and thus a QDRO. Neither party contends otherwise.
Matassarin v. Lynch, 174 F.3d 549, 563 (5th Cir. 1999) (internal citation and quotation omitted). See Samaroo v. Robichaud, 193 F.3d 185, 189 (3rd Cir. 1999).
See Samaroo, 193 F.3d at 187, n.2 (" [T]he original decree was silent on the issue of a survivor's rights. Congress has required QDROs to be quite specific in order to convey ERISA benefits. The statute requires a QDRO to state specifically the extent of the alternate payee's interest in the plan").
The question whether a domestic relations order that purports to designate a former spouse of the participant as the "surviving spouse" alternate payee under a pension plan can still "qualify" for purposes of becoming a QDRO is not before us, for Janice's QDRO contains no such provision. The availability of such a specification is well settled by the Internal Revenue Code, provided the participant and the former spouse had, at some time in the past, been married to each other for a period of at least one year. See supra n.4. In such circumstances, the designation of the former spouse as the alternate payee of the surviving spouse annuity trumps any claims thereto by another person who subsequently becomes the de facto surviving spouse of the participant. See, e.g., Treas. Reg. § 1.401(a)-20 Q&A 25(b) (3).
See § 414(p) (5), I.R.C.
Janice's QDRO specifies that "in the event of the Alternate Payee's death, her estate shall receive those funds to which the Alternate Payee is entitled, in the event a survivor beneficiary is not named by Alternate Payee." As that provision deals with payments beyond her lifetime, the QDRO obviously contemplated the payment of her $302 until Jack's death in the event he should outlive her, but not after his death.
Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guar. Corp., 475 U.S. 211, 224 (1986).
See, Dowden v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Tex., Inc., 126 F.3d 641, 643 (5th Cir. 1997); see also Pilot Life Ins. Co. v. Dedeaux, 481 U.S. 41, 47-48 (1987) (common law cause of action alleging improper decision on claim for benefits undoubtedly meets criteria for ERISA preemption).
Boggs v. Boggs, 520 U.S. 833, 844 (1997).


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Anna Mullens was driving eastbound in the left lane of 64th Avenue in Surrey, B.C. As she neared 132 Street her vehicle was struck on the right side by a vehicle driven by Darshan Toor when he exited the Fruiticana parking lot. Mr. Toor explained that he was invited to exit the parking lot by the driver of a van that had stopped in the curb lane.
Mr. Toor admitted liability at trial but argued that Ms. Mullens was also partly to blame for failing to keep a proper lookout and not reacting to avoid a collision when he pulled into her lane.
Mr. Justice Verhoeven examines Section 176 of the Motor Vehicle Act which governs the exit from a parking lot and the case of Etter v Trent, a decision on the servient driver disregarding a statutory duty to yield right of way with a resulting collision.
Mr. Toor was not successful in shifting any of the blame for this collision.
Read the Reasons for Judgment - Mullens v Toor
$2.5 million?
Hawk (not verified) - 2016/09/26 - 15:45
Thankfully the judge saw through this scam. A relatively minor crunch caused by an inept driver is no reason to gouge the people's insurance co-op.
Indeed, if I were the judge, I think I'd have cut her judgement in half for attempting the scam. But her lawyer probably did that antway ....


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At the start of the school year, a gun went off at Balboa High School in San Francisco. YR Media's Mila de la Torre recounts what it's like inside a school lockdown.
In 3rd period English class, there was an announcement over the intercom: "Lockdown, we are in lockdown." I looked up to see the fear in my teacher's eyes. When I heard the stress in his voice as he told us to get down, I knew this wasn't a drill.
I sat in the far corner of the room, my back pressed against the wall. My hands were shaking as I texted my parents. I told them we were in lockdown and that I loved them. That I didn't know what was happening, but I loved them. I can't count how many times I said that in those next few hours.
We were a jumbled stampede fleeing campus. Outside, crowds of parents waited for us. Several news trucks and police cars were lined up down the street. I ran to my mom and hugged her and let out a cry. I've never been so relieved.
Returning to school the next day, especially to my English class, made me anxious. I kept looking back at the corner where I sat during the lockdown. Just 24 hours ago, I had been gripping my phone, not knowing how the ordeal would end.
everything. It feels like anyone can carry a gun, anywhere. No place is safe.
With a Perspective, I'm Mila de la Torre.
Mila de la Torre is 16 and lives in San Francisco. Her perspective was produced by Youth Radio's new network of journalists and artists, now called YR Media.


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NEWS | Nov. 1, 2007
Cowboy Airman returns after six-month rodeo tour
By Tony Perez 37th Training Wing Public Affairs Office
LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS – Travis Sterling, a member of the 37th Security Forces Squadron, recently returned to Lackland after completing one of his dreams.
Sterling spent the last six months touring the country while participating in the team roping event at numerous rodeos.
He is the first active-duty member of the Air Force to compete in Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeos.
Sterling did so proudly by wearing the Air Force logo on his uniform.
"There is so much stuff that has happened," said Sterling. "With God's blessing it has just sky rocketed. Hopefully it keeps going."
Sterling will travel to Washington for pre-deployment training on Nov. 13 and return to Lackland on Dec. 22. Shortly after, he will be deploying to Iraq.
Sterling has been told that his squadron commander supports his rodeo aspirations when he returns to the states from deployment.
"I've had so much support. I can't complain one bit," Sterling said.
This will be the second time Sterling has deployed to Iraq.
On his last tour, he brought a steer dummy so he could practice while he was in the desert.
"I'm going to train a little bit differently this time," Sterling said. "Catching isn't a problem anymore; now it's about handling the steer. This time while I'm in the desert, I will work on my hand position. When I get back on a horse after six months all of it is going to come naturally to me."
Sterling has no problem staying motivated to work on his craft while he is deployed in Iraq.
"It's my passion and it helps me pass time in the desert," Sterling said. "There are only four things that matter in my life: God, my country, my family and roping. I don't miss a day of practice."
Sterling was accompanied on his journey by his team roping partner and father, Travis Sterling, Senior.
"My favorite part was traveling with my dad," Sterling said. "That might have been the greatest experience of my life. It's been our dream since he put a rope in my hand when I was 3 years old. I told my dad during our last rodeo, I wouldn't want to do this with anyone else but him. Whether you win or lose it's the experience that goes with it that can't be replaced."
While the experience was a dream come true for Sterling, it was not without its struggles.
"The worst part had to be missing a roping assignment and then having to think about it for the next nine hours while you travel to the next rodeo," Sterling said. "It's so hard to put a bad rodeo behind you and focus on the next one."
Sterling maintains that the keys to being a great roping team are confidence and consistency.
"As a rookie, my momentum had to come from a good roping round and knowing that I can hang with the best in the world," Sterling said.
That positive attitude helped Sterling place 6th in the rodeo in Dodge City, Okla.
Sterling has already made goals for the next time he hits the rodeo circuit.
"I've already proven to myself that I can win," Sterling said. "Next time I want to be more aggressive, and also more consistent."
Sterling also has the ultimate goal of going to the National Finals in Las Vegas, which takes place in December, and winning the team roping championship.
"It's every cowboy's dream to wear one of the gold buckles, and I have no doubt in my mind that I'm going to do it. It is not a matter of if, but when," Sterling said.
He would like to do that by the time he is 30 years old.
"I'm 23 now and I'll be out of the military when I'm 25, and I'll still be a pup. That gives me five years to achieve my goal," Sterling said.


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When I select new game, it always freezes at the cinematic where some gates I think are about to open. I have tried to change the plugins (I use SSE4) but nothing I have changed seem to matter. Is this a known issue ? As for my version of the game it asks me to select either pal or NTSU at it's menu. The freezing happens with both the european and the USA bios.
Edit: When I say it crashes I mean the sounds are repeated constantly and the images freezes at that point. It happens at two points. The first is with the one where he reveals his sword and then immediately after that If i scip that scene before it freezes.
Hmm Now it did not freeze at the sword scene but it freeze when he entered a place and the next scene started. The scene that I was talking previously where it always freezes.
You are right, mass start did work. I am not sure where exactly should I select microvu ? In advanced options ? I did select in VU reg options Extra clamp mode but it did not fix the issue.
I tried extra + preserve sign, but it didn't work either. In the end I tried the other emulator , the svn 0.7 and it worked as you said when I selected extra clamp mode + preserve signs. I use both emulators but when I am asking for help here I do if it does not work at 0.6 Generally if I have a problem with one I have with the other. Hmm maybe it had something to do with me using SSSE3 with the 0.6 emulator at the time. Anyway, it works now. Thanks.
microVU is enabled in Configure->CPU and is only available in beta 1888 and above, not 0.9.6 release.
You'll have to put EE and VU clamping to extra.
Both are required to fix problems in this game.
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Garsec Pty Ltd v His Majesty The Sultan of Brunei
by Perry Herzfeld on September 10, 2008
The New South Wales Court of Appeal recently handed down its decision in the interesting forum non conveniens case of Garsec Pty Ltd v His Majesty The Sultan of Brunei [2008] NSWCA 211.
The case arose out of an alleged contract for the sale of an old, rare and beautiful manuscript copy of the Koran by Garsec to the Sultan for USD 8 million. Garsec alleged that the Sultan had failed to perform the contract and took action in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against the Sultan for specific performance. The contract was allegedly negotiated with, among others, representatives of the Sultan's Private and Confidential Secretary. As an alternative to the claim against the Sultan, Garsec claimed against the Secretary on the footing that he had represented he had authority to negotiate the contract from the Sultan and, in the event that he did not have that authority, he was liable for breach of warranty and the tort of negligent misstatement. The Sultan and the Secretary applied to have the matter stayed on the basis that New South Wales was forum non conveniens. It was accepted on appeal that the lex causae for each of the claims was the law of Brunei.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed an appeal from the primary judge's decision staying the proceeding. In brief, the Court reached the following conclusions.
An immunity from suit conferred on the Sultan by the Constitution of Brunei was substantive not procedural, as that distinction is drawn by Australian common law rules of private international law, and would therefore be applied by the Supreme Court of New South Wales as part of the lex causae. (Australian common law adopts a very narrow definition of procedure, essentially limited to rules directed to governing the conduct of court proceedings; matters affecting the existence, extent or enforceability of rights or duties are substantive.)
It is irrelevant to the procedure/substance characterisation as to whether the immunity would be characterised as substantive or procedural under Brunei law, as the characterisation is to be done according to the law of the forum, ie the common law of Australia.
Accordingly, Garsec would not obtain any advantage as to the immunity by suing in New South Wales, rather than Brunei, and no question arose in this case as to the weight to be given to such an advantage in determining whether New South Wales is forum non conveniens.
In any event, the fact that the case would involve interpretation of a foreign country's constitution is a powerful factor in favour of a stay: an Australian court should only interpret a foreign country's constitution if this cannot be avoided.
However, there was disagreement among the judges of the Court as to whether, if the immunity had been procedural such that it would have been applied in Brunei but not in New South Wales, this would have tended against a conclusion that New South Wales was forum non conveniens. This raises the broader issue of the weight to be given to the unavailability of an alternative forum and the correctness of the view that, ordinarily, an applicant for a stay on forum non conveniens grounds must identify an available alternative forum in order to obtain a stay.
mark burby May 27, 2009, 9:07 pm
The use of 'in camera' hearings for senior members of the Brunei Royal family seems to be jeopardising justice in both Sydney and London
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2006 BMW Z4M New Car Review
by Denise McCluggage
"M" is what BMW puts on its cars to say: "More." More zip, more pizzazz, more go, more stop, more for a serious driver to sink a foot into. The Z4 M Coupe is no exception. Or maybe the "M" stands for "much" because there is such a muchness about this coupe. It is fast, agile, capable and ready to enthrall any driver who can appreciate its direct simplicity and clean competency.
The Z4 M has accepted certain donations from the remarkable M3 coupe such as basic underpinnings and road-loving suspension and the awe-inspiring 3.2 liter inline six cylinder engine. The stated horsepower is 330 and the torque an admirable 262 lbs/ft (albeit not fully realized until 4900 rpm.)
Importantly, the Z4 M has also rejected certain gifts from the M3. For instance the SMG (sequential) transmission is not even an option here. And there is no iDrive to delight or befuddle. Nor is there anything stirred in with the questionable intention of improving BMW's benchmark steering. The Z4 M's steering seems to come to us unadorned, undiluted and as responsive and communicative as BMW's once were before bright Bavarian engineers set about to improve the egg.
Their "active steering" is absent here; complicated variable steering ratios are absent. Even electric steering (like on the M-less Z4) is absent. This one is hydraulic. OK, so the fancy stuff has its place on other BMWs but in this M we have simple direct, pay attention control. With a special addition: a steering wheel as fat as a balloon tire on a kid's bike. Taking hold is like grabbing a wrist giving new meaning to "handful." I like it, but not everyone does.
The gearbox is similarly direct. It's a smooth six-speed manual that, as you roll your foot between brake and throttle for downshifts, makes you believe that you are indeed in the driver's seat.
BMW has been waxing increasingly successful while I've felt it's been slipping into a, well, if not softness at least reduced edginess. The new 3 Series gets raves and awards from my colleagues but I yearn for the way the older, smaller 3 Series so much more eagerly took to tight turns. I admired the hell out of what the BMW engineers were doing but I resented it, too. "Don't dazzle me." I begged. "Just let me drive."
The Z4 M does that.
But BMW doesn't just turn you loose with a small, short-coupled, high-powered car without some kind assistance. Invisible training wheels are thankfully present. But they are helpful assists to driving, not a move to take over the task. A viscous limited-slip differential keeps the rear wheels from tossing grip back and forth in a disconcerting manner and DSC (Dynamic Stability Control) unobtrusively brings the car back from the hairy edges of extreme oversteer or understeer. Unless of course if you want to let it all hang out like the back end were on casters. Just shut off the DSC.
Another choice you can make as you can with most M cars: select the throttle response appropriate to your intentions. "Normal" is the default setting but you can push a button and get "Sport." That will change the ratio of pedal movement to throttle opening and give you instant access to peak performance. (BMW has a variable valve timing system that is peak indeed.) In my experience I found "Normal" to suit all of the situations in which I found myself. "Sport" seemed too touchy for the normal road use (therefore, select "normal," silly.)
I like a car that elicits sudden conversation-stopping grins. "Did you feel that?" I asked my passenger after an on-rails turn direct from an under-cranked silent movie. Only at the last minute had a germane route sign emerge from behind overgrown foliage. Normally I wouldn't have last-minuted a turn like that but this was an M. And it felt so good I over-pushed into the next bends, too. Carnival ride, anyone?
The M can run smoothly with good touring manners (the seats are great) through the winding country roads, but it most likes to deliver when a lot is asked of it. Then it seems to grin, too, and the dance begins.
Writing about a BMW vehicle without mentioning Chris Bangle seems as unlikely as TV without commercials, particularly since this controversial designer, transported from Wisconsin to Bavaria, was credited with the Z4, minus the M. And the M version seemed more refined, less drum major showing off.
Bangle is one of the most verbal of designers with a ready spiel. Really a choreographer of design he all but dances his description with swooping body language to show what this line is doing and why that one goes that way. "Sculpture" he calls cars, but he sometimes falls to realize that they are sculpture that must move primarily in one direction. And they must be opened and closed for interior access. And they must be manufactured. Thus a smooth body, probably quite handsomely sculptural in clay, acquires lines running all over the place, leading the eye into dead ends or befuddling it with too much going on.
But then even some of the edgy character lines that are meant to be visible run counter to the flow of movement and seem to deny this sculpture-that-moves its very forward flow. Always impressed by Bangle's verbal gymnastics I still don't buy his rationales. So I tolerated rather than admired the odd excesses of the Z4. But the Z4 M. What has happened? I can't say for sure, but it looks happier with itself and I am happier with it. This is a matured design that even I find attractive. But appearances are best left to individual judgments.
On the back roads of, appropriately Wisconsin, on which I drove the Z4 M the car was a pleasure and an impressive piece of machinery. Whereas many carmakers to maximize their horsepower resort to turbo and super charging BMW chooses to refine and perfect to get the most from a normally aspirated engine. Maybe it's a motorcycle thing, and BMW is equally important in the two-wheel world. Anyway, this inline six is an object of awe. I was falling in love.
But then we were directed onto some highways, not quite super but four-lanes and well-traveled. Wisconsin winters are not kind to such objects and driving over it in the stiffly sprung Z4 M was simply unacceptably rough. Both my companion and I found ourselves quivery-voiced like the late Katharine Hepburn. My eyes wobbled in my head. "This is unacceptable," I said to strong agreement. I meant both the highway and the car. This roughness could not be attributed to run-flat tires (that make another BMW product, the Mini Cooper S, run jarringly on rough roads) because the M, thankfully, wears performance tires and not run-flats.
I strongly suggest any test drive you take should replicate your most common route. You can rate your own acceptability level.
And you might also try two other coupes with high performance intentions: the Nissan 350Z, not as fast but less costly, and the Porsche Cayman, lighter and more lithe (though .3 seconds slower 0-60) but much more expensive.
Still don't pass up any opportunity to experience the Z4 M. Just choose your surface well and stick to turns.
For more information visit the BMW website here.
2006 BMW Z4 M Coupe
Compact sports coupe
Z4 Roadster, Z4 Coupe
3.0-liter dual overhead cam (DOHC), 24-valve inline 255-horsepower 6-cylinder engine
6-speed manual or optional 6-speed automatic with shifter paddles
Vehicle speed sensing electronic steering
Braking:
Dynamic Stability Control (DSC), including Brake Fade Compensation, Start-off Assistant, Brake Drying, and Brake Stand-by features, with Dynamic Traction Control (DTC)
Dual-airbag Supplementary Restraint System with 2-stage "smart" airbags
Fuel mileage city/hwy:
Manual: 20/30 city/highway
Automatic: 21/29 city/highway
Destination Charge: $695


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Q: How to rename (exposed in API) filter field name using django-filters? As the question states - I'm trying to rename the filter field name exposed in my API.
I have the following models:
class Championship(Model):
    ...

class Group(Model):
    championship = ForeignKey(Championship, ...)

class Match(Model):
    group = ForeignKey(Group, ...)

I have exposed all of these models in REST API. I've defined filter_fields for the Match model:
class MatchViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    filter_fields = ['group__championship']
    ...

This way, I can filter for specific championship's matches (tested and working):

curl /api/matches/?group__championship=1

Is is possible to use some kind of alias for the exposed filter so I can use the following:

curl /api/matches/?championship=1

where championship in this case will be an alias for group__championship?
pip freeze returns:
django-filter==0.15.2
(...)

I've also tried implementing custom FilterSet with ModelChoiceFilter and custom lookup method:
class MatchFilterSet(FilterSet):
    championship = ModelChoiceFilter(method='filter_championship')

    def filter_championship(self, queryset, name, value):
        return queryset.filter(group__championship=value)

    class Meta:
        model = Match
        fields = ['championship']

With view:
class MatchViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    filter = MatchFilterSet
    (...)

But with no luck. The filter_championship method was even never called.

A: After Naresh response I have figured out the source of error.
It was the implementation of the model's view:
class MatchViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    filter = MatchFilterSet
    (...)

For django-filter it should be filter_class rather than filter, so the correct implementation is:
class MatchViewSet(ModelViewSet):
    filter_class = MatchFilterSet
    (...)

Also, I've changed the implementation of the model's filter to be more like Naresh suggested:
class MatchFilterSet(FilterSet):
    championship = NumberFilter(field_name='group__championship')

    class Meta:
        model = Match
        fields = ['championship']

The difference between above and the Naresh's one is the luck of _id part which is not necessary.
After these changes everything works fine.

A: You need to provide model field as name in django_filters with field type. I am considering you are trying to filter by championship id.
class MatchFilterSet(FilterSet):
    championship = django_filters.NumberFilter(field_name='group__championship_id')

    class Meta:
        model = Match
        fields = ['championship']


Hackers have developed a scheme to steal sensitive information from top executives by penetrating the Wi-Fi networks of luxury hotels.
WASHINGTON -- Hackers have developed a scheme to steal sensitive information from top executives by penetrating the Wi-Fi networks of luxury hotels, security researchers said Monday.
A report by Kaspersky Lab said the "Darkhotel" espionage effort "has lurked in the shadows for at least four years while stealing sensitive data from selected corporate executives traveling abroad."
Kaspersky said about 90% of the infections appear to be located in Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia and South Korea, but that the executives targeted include those traveling from the United States and other countries.
"The infection count numbers in the thousands," the report said. "The more interesting traveling targets include top executives from the US and Asia doing business and investment in the [Asia-Pacific] region."
The hackers are able to compromise hotel Wi-Fi networks and then trick executives into downloading malicious software that can allow their information to be accessed remotely.
"These tools collect data about the system and the anti-malware software installed on it, steal all keystrokes, and hunt for cached passwords in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer; Gmail Notifier, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and Google login credentials; and other private information," the report said.
"Victims lose sensitive information -- likely the intellectual property of the business entities they represent. After the operation, the attackers carefully delete their tools from the hotel network and go back into hiding."
Kaspersky researcher Kurt Baumgartner said the attacks are highly sophisticated.
"This threat actor has operational competence, mathematical and crypto-analytical offensive capabilities, and other resources that are sufficient to abuse trusted commercial networks and target specific victim categories with strategic precision," he said.
Targets have included corporate chief executives, senior vice presidents, sales and marketing directors and top research staff at companies in the electronics, defense manufacturing, finance, automotive and pharmaceutical industries, among others. Some law enforcement, military and non-governmental officials have also been targeted.
"From our observations, the highest volume of offensive activity on hotel networks started in August 2010 and continued through 2013, and we are investigating some 2014 hotel network events," Kaspersky said.
The researchers said the risk can be mitigated by using a virtual private network that protects data.
The security team said that travelers should be cautious about software updates and should use software with protection against a broad range of threats in addition to viruses.