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The District Insider
Volume 10, Issue 5 | December 2022
The District Insider Volume 10, Issue 5 | December 2022
Bry, Schmisek Receive Employee of the Quarter Awards Bry, Schmisek Receive Employee of the Quarter Awards
Sarah Bry and Cassandra Schmisek have been selected as the classified and certified employees of the 1st quarter at Grand Forks Public Schools.
Bry (certified) and Schmisek (classified) each received a plaque from the Grand Forks School Board. In gratitude for their impact on the school system and students, they also received a $200 monetary award from the Grand Forks Foundation for Education.
Created in 2019, the purpose of the award program is to recognize excellence as accomplished by certified and classified employees. To be considered for the award, the employee must be a valuable asset to the school community by completing their job duties to the highest standard and displaying a commitment to students/parents/guardians, as well as the school/program/school system.
Bry is an instructional coach (IDC) at Lewis and Clark Elementary School. In his nomination, Principal Loren Hoheisel said, "Sarah somehow always knows just what others need for support without being overbearing. Being an IDC, Sarah strives to see things through the lens of teachers, students, and families to best understand where support is needed and how to assist. She takes initiative to help with academic and instructional needs, social-emotional needs, technology needs, school needs, district needs, family needs, and any and all other needs that surface.
In a separate nomination, colleague Jamie Toutenhoofd said, "Sarah goes above and beyond in her role. She is a mentor, a facilitator, a confidante, and a role model. She helps complete curriculum-based assessments, provides small group instruction, mentors new and veteran teachers, and is very skilled at each of these things. She wears many, many hats at Lewis and Clark, and does each job very well."
Schmisek is a special education paraprofessional at Grand Forks Central High School. In her nomination, colleague Summer Quamme, said, "There are many examples of Cassie's commitment to her students, but I will share one of my favorites. She works with a young man who is non-verbal. However, he does use some sign language to communicate. Cassie immediately started teaching herself signs so that she could try to communicate with the student. She even made a Grand Forks Central T-shirt with the letter signs under each word so that the student could possibly understand her shirt."
Colleague Marie DeMarce Garner shared in her nomination, "Cassie has stepped up in every way we have asked since she was hired. She has been an invaluable asset to our department and all of our students, both special education students and any other student in a classroom she has supported. She has a wonderful ability to connect with students and build relationships with them. Cassie works incredibly well with any staff member she is paired with. She has been diligent about providing regular updates and information, often immediately."
Twining School Receives Technology and Engineering Award Twining School Receives Technology and Engineering Award
Nathan Twining Elementary and Middle School has been selected to receive the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association's (ITEEA) 2023 Elementary Program Excellence Award for North Dakota!
The Program Excellence Award program is designed to recognize superior K-12 technology and engineering education programs worldwide. The award-winning programs serve as a standard for comparison and models for developing other programs.
In October 2022, Nathan Twining Elementary and Middle School received a $500,000 grant from the United States Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA). The grant provided the school with the college and career-ready resources necessary to successfully expand Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programming, as well as provided opportunities for staff to receive professional development in STEM.
"The DoDEA grant has been a game changer at Twining. We are teaching our students to use the knowledge and skills they are learning about science, technology, engineering, and math and apply that knowledge to solve real-world problems," said Elizabeth Berger, instructional design coach at the school. "We are teaching them how to collaborate with others and practice critical thinking all while doing hands-on learning. We are preparing them for the future, regardless of what they decide to do as adults."
ITEEA will recognize the school at its annual conference, to be held in Minneapolis from April 12-15, 2023.
Foundation for Education Awards $12,777 for Local School Projects Foundation for Education Awards $12,777 for Local School Projects
The Grand Forks Foundation for Education, Inc. is awarding $12,777 through 13 grants this fall to help fund a variety of enrichment projects in Grand Forks Public Schools.
The Mini-Grants have been funded through the Foundation for Education since 1992. Awards are usually for classroom-level or grade-level projects. All areas of curriculum and all grade levels are eligible for Mini-Grants.
$533 – Heather Chatham, Ben Franklin Elementary, "Equity in Sensory Learning in Early Childhood Special Education" project, to purchase sensory materials for the classroom.
$893 – Heidi Neubert, Phoenix Elementary, "Literacy Exploration for Early Learners" project, to purchase a variety of early literacy tools like magnetic letters, alphabet puzzles, and more.
$403 – LeeAnn Miller, Lake Agassiz Elementary, "1st Grade Brain Bins" project. Funds will be used to purchase open-ended materials (Magna-Tiles®, blocks, Lego®, etc.) for students to explore, create, build, and learn at the beginning of each school day.
$551 – Martie Wesley, Winship Elementary, "Building Background and Raising Voices" project, to purchase picture books for the school that builds background knowledge and vocabulary, from government and citizenship to Earth science and economics.
$559 – Lynneah Boyer, Lake Agassiz Elementary, "Lake Agassiz Recorders" project, to purchase a classroom set of recorders to be used by 4th grade music students. The instruments will be cleaned and reused year after year.
$1,260 – Christine Dewey, Winship Elementary, "Community Connection: Be the Light" project. This award will fund several community service and engagement projects at every grade level. Examples include a Valley Senior Living music performance by kindergarten/1st graders, Northland Rescue Mission backpack program stuffing with 4th and 5th graders.
$652 – Hannah Vonasek, Valley Middle, "Barren Grounds Read Aloud Kits" grant. These funds will be used to purchase copies of the book, Barren Ground, for 7th grade English students. This book is about two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, who are brought together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
$715 – Tiffany Olson, Schroeder Middle, "Learning Modalities in Math Class" grant to purchase a classroom iPad®, Apple TV®, and accessories to be used as an interactive tool to present materials and model the mathematical process from around the classroom.
$581 – Nancy Greenwood, Grand Forks Central, "Warped Art" grant. These funds will be used to purchase various supplies (looms, yarn, tools, etc.) to teach the technique of weaving, surface design, and hand-sewn textiles in art classes.
$650 – Kelly Entzel, Community, "Promoting Student Connections with Literature and Quality Time" project. These funds will be used to purchase materials to create a free library where students can pick up a book to take home.
$865 – Maren Dewar, Grand Forks Central, "Student Playwriting and Directing Workshop" project, to purchase various playwriting and directing materials. Not all students are actors, this will provide an opportunity for them to be involved in writing, directing, and technical aspects.
$1,715 – Erika Feole, Grand Forks Central and Red River, "Literacy Leads to Language Acquisition 3.0" project. These funds will be used to purchase additional Spanish, German, and French books for students to use for independent reading in their foreign language classes, improving their reading comprehension.
$1,700 – Missy Miedema (Grand Forks Central) and $1,700 – Trisha Smith, (Red River), "Stealing Back Our Teen's Stolen Focus" grant. These funds will be used to purchase six classroom sets of the book Stolen Focus to be read by all 9th grade ELA students. The students will then conduct research on brain health and development, and share their findings with other students, their parents, and the community in a "Brain Fair" during parent-teacher conferences in February.
Grand Forks Public Schools Receives Choice-Ready Grants Grand Forks Public Schools Receives Choice-Ready Grants
Grand Forks Public Schools has received $52,612 in grants for choice-ready programs within the school system.
The grants were awarded by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction to strengthen the choice-ready framework and enable more students to graduate choice ready.
Grand Forks Central and Red River high schools each received a $20,000 grant for the development of a choice-ready dashboard that is user-friendly for all stakeholders. A version of this dashboard currently exists and is being utilized within Fargo Public Schools. Several larger districts within the state are combining their choice-ready grants to expand the dashboard as a statewide resource.
"The proposed choice-ready dashboard will be designed to meet the needs of our high schools to manage data related to the choice-ready indicators, as well as provide the ability to engage students and parents in monitoring their progress towards completion," said Eric Ripley, executive director of career and technical education and technology at Grand Forks Public Schools.
The Grand Forks Area Career and Technical Education Center received $12,612 for supporting bus transportation costs for career exploration activities, industry credential costs for students, coordination of work-based learning experiences, and development of student and parent/guardian choice-ready educational items, including posters, brochures, and promotional videos.
Now Accepting Nominations: GFPS Teacher of the Year Now Accepting Nominations: GFPS Teacher of the Year
The purpose of the GFPS Teacher of the Year program is to celebrate the work of a classroom teacher who teaches students in kindergarten through 12th grade. To be considered for the award, the nominee must:
Be an expert in their field who guides students of all backgrounds and abilities in their quest for excellence;
Collaborate with colleagues, students, and families to create a school culture of respect and success;
Demonstrate leadership, innovation, and lifelong learning skills in and outside of the classroom; and
Present themselves in an engaging and articulate way.
Nominations may be completed by any parent/guardian, teacher, student, administrator, or community member. The nomination period opened on November 28, 2022, and will close at end of the day on December 15, 2022. Selection committee members will first individually review the applications and then reach a consensus on the GFPS Teacher of the Year.
The award recipient will receive a plaque from the Grand Forks School Board, a cash award from the Grand Forks Foundation for Education, and will be recognized at an upcoming Grand Forks School Board meeting. Their name and information will also be forwarded to the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction for consideration as the 2023-2024 North Dakota Teacher of the Year.
Link to Nomination Form
McMillan Receives Recovery Invented Award McMillan Receives Recovery Invented Award
Cindy McMillan, substance abuse counselor at Grand Forks Public Schools, received the Zezula Award during the sixth annual Recovery Reinvented conference, held November 3 at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks.
Recovery Reinvented is a daylong event focused on reinventing recovery by eliminating the stigma of addiction.
The Zezula award recognizes an individual who uses their skills and knowledge to help others through servant leadership, sharing compassion and empathy, and empowering others to be the best version of themselves
McMillan received the award for her leadership as a middle school and high school substance abuse counselor, working tirelessly on behalf of students and their families, meeting them for alcohol and drug evaluations, and one-on-one counseling.
The event included more than 700 in-person attendees as well as over 900 online viewers who spanned the state and nation. There were several keynote speakers, including Dr. Bruce Perry, trauma expert and author of "What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing."
Shown above (left-to-right): Governor Doug Burgum, McMillan, First Lady Kathryn Burgum (photo courtesy Loren Hoheisel).
Food Drive Success Food Drive Success
Job well done to the National Honor Society at Red River High School! They recently completed a food drive with the Salvation Army, collecting a total of 887 food items. Shown above delivering the donations are 2022-2023 Executive Board members Matti Moe, Hannah Holte, and Jada Jenson (photo and information courtesy Emily Parrill).
Think Pink! Think Pink!
"This October, we were given the humbling opportunity to tour the Altru Cancer Center to gain a deeper understanding of a patient's difficult journey as they embark on their battle against cancer. Altru's kind staff shared their state-of-the-art facility while making real connections with our athletes about how impactful their donation truly is during a patient's cancer battle. We are so grateful to all that supported this amazing collaboration between our high schools that amounted to an incredible $10,357.25 donation to Altru's Filling the Gap Program" (photo and information courtesy Heather Chatham, head coach of the Red River volleyball team).
Examples of Excellence Examples of Excellence
Congratulations to the nine seniors named district nominees for the U.S. Presidential Scholars in Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program: Kaylee Anderson (Grand Forks Central), Logan Arason (Red River), Jonah Dafoe (Red River), Noura Elhamadany (Red River), Matthew Evans (Red River), Brett Feller (Red River), Alina Golovko (Grand Forks Central), Kaylee Kirkeby (Grand Forks Central), and Clarkson Sande (Red River). The state department will review all applications before selecting up to five state applicants to advance to the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
Congratulations to the following football players on being named to the North Dakota High School Coaches Association 11A Football All-State Roster: Logan Arason (Red River, First Team Offense), Hudson Flom (Red River, Second Team), Jayden Haake (Grand Forks Central, Second Team), Dylan LaMont (Grand Forks Central, First Team Offense), Lawson Lotysz (Red River, First Team Offense), Quinn Nelson (Red River, Second Team), Pearce Parks (Red River, Second Team), Jack Simmers (Grand Forks Central, First Team Offense).
Congratulations to Hannah Litzinger, Red River High School, on being named to the 2022 Class A Volleyball All-State Team, as selected by the North Dakota High School Coaches Association.
Purposity Purposity
In our mission to support students, we are always looking to join forces with partners and organizations that help expand our impact. We are excited to re-introduce our partner, Purposity! This platform allows us to share specific needs, get those needs met, and focus on the long-term goals of those we serve.
You can lend a hand to a local student with just a few clicks. When you are notified about a need from Grand Forks Public Schools, you'll be able to read the individual's story and decide if you'll help right from your phone. To be a part of Purposity, download the Purposity app or visit https://www.purposity.com/organization/GrandForksPublicSchools.
For more information, please visit https://www.gfschools.org/Page/8712.
Now Hiring! Now Hiring!
Job Openings at Grand Forks Public Schools
Upcoming Events Upcoming Events
December 12: Grand Forks School Board meeting (Mark Sanford Education Center, 6 p.m.)
December 14: Early Release (Twining/middle/high schools: 1 p.m., elementary schools: 1:30 p.m.)
December 20: Grand Forks Air Force Base School Board meeting (Nathan Twining Elementary and Middle School, 12 p.m.)
December 22-January 2: No School (Holiday Break)
December 23, 26, and January 2: District Office Closed
January 3, 2023: School Resumes K-12
Text of photo above: GFC Winter Play. Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe DiPetro. December 1-3 at 7 p.m., GFC Blackbox Theatre.
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Text of photo above: Red River Winter Play. Finding Corey Taylor. December 8-10 at 7 p.m., December 11 at 2 p.m., RRHS Performance Hall.
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Virgin Trains offers first vegan-friendly train menu in UK
Virgin Trains has been praised by campaigners after becoming the UK's first train operator to offer a full vegan menu for all its customers on all services.
Passengers can now choose from a range of vegan-friendly options at nearly all times of day following a revamp of its onboard Shop and First Class menus*.
The move, which has been welcomed by the Vegan Society, comes in response to the growing number of people who have chosen to go vegan or simply reduce the amount of meat and dairy in their diet.
As well as ensuring a vegan option is consistently available, Virgin Trains has also clearly labelled its First and Standard class menus to help identify vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options. And the onboard Shop in Standard and First Class kitchens are now routinely stocked with soya as an alternative to cows' milk.
Virgin Trains is also working to increase the amount of locally-sourced food served onboard its trains and to include more fresh ingredients in its meals.
Julie Harper, Virgin Trains' Food & Beverage Proposition Manager, said she was proud to offer vegan customers peace of mind when boarding the train. "The clear message we've had from vegan customers is they need consistency so they have peace of mind when they board the train. We've worked really hard to ensure that our menus in First and Standard deliver that consistency throughout the day and include some really delicious, appetising options that we hope will tempt vegans and non-vegans alike."
Louise Davies, Head of Campaigns, Policy and Research at The Vegan Society, said: "We've been campaigning for decent vegan options on trains over the last few months and it's great to see Virgin respond with a menu that anyone can enjoy. Market trends are showing a rapid growth in plant-based eating. We hope that others will follow Virgin's lead and take notice of the power of the vegan pound."
Options for vegans in the Virgin Trains Shop currently includes a vegan breakfast pot complete with mushrooms, hash browns, spinach and baked beans, or vegan chilli in the evening. Its First Class menus now include items such as a potato hash breakfast, Mediterranean pasta salad and spicy Bombay potato.
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Working from home: experts are sharing their much-needed tips on Twitter
Posted by Hollie Richardson for Life
Taking breaks, cat-proofing your laptop, and keeping work hours: remote workers share their top tips on working from home.
It's looking more and more likely that people across the UK will need to start working from home to help stop the spread of coronavirus. But while getting to work in your pyjamas from the comfort of your favourite chair might sound like a dream scenario to a lot people, it can be a bit of a shock to the system if you're not used to it. Particularly if you work in a busy office environment surrounded by colleagues, working from home can feel isolating and make it harder to motivate yourself.
If you have unanswered questions about the coronavirus or want to know the facts behind the headlines, you can find everything you need to know about symptoms, spread and the recommended safety precautions here.We've also shared some tips on coping with the anxiety around coronavirus.
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If you're not used to working from home, or are worried about how it will impact your work, experts have come together on Twitter to share their useful tips on how to work best from home. From showering to snacking and blocking out noisy flatmates, here's what they talked about…
Scientist and author Emily Lakdawall started the conversation by tweeting: "Friends, there are going to be a lot of people newly working from home starting this week, and it will be a difficult transition for some. *IF AND ONLY IF you are experienced at working from home*, please reply with tips for working effectively and avoiding distractions!"
Fellow scientist Sophia Gad-Nasr replied: "I work from home most of the time anyway. My advice:
• stay away from the TV
• if your bed triggers nap mode, work in the living room. If not possible, fill room with LIGHT (natural, or desk lamp)
• keep your phone on another desk and put on silent for the hours you plan to work."
She added: "More tips (especially if you live with someone else):
• wear headphones and listen to music to block out external noise
• if music doesn't work for you, get earplugs! They're extremely useful
• schedule work time! Set up times with your roommate for using the living room for work."
Freelance editor Rebecca Eisenberg added: "Set work hours and have a distinct work space. When you're done working for the day, leave the space, and leave your computer there. Do not check email on your phone after hours, or if you do, do not respond until the morning unless it's urgent.
"Make sure your friends/family/roommates understand that just because you're home doesn't mean you can talk or hang out during work hours. Talk to them BEFORE this becomes an issue.
"Managers: It can help to set up a slack channel for people to 'clock in' and 'clock out' — not to keep tabs, but to mimic the flow of a normal office day and so that people don't feel obligated to respond after they've 'signed of' or before they've 'signed on.'"
Geologist and science writer Mika McKinnon advised: "Set and stick to work hours. You can split hours morning/night with afternoon "off" or timeshift, but still have set hours or you'll constantly get derailed.
"It's easy to get distracted by flexibility to take a social call, duck out for an errand, or procrastinate with chores.
"Pick a healthy reset and refocus task to get back on track.
"It can be a stretch break, walking around the block, sweeping the floors, having a mini dance party, showering, whatever as long as it's short and defined. Otherwise you'll idle by snacking and browsing social media.
"TAKE BREAKS! Just time them so they don't eat your whole workday.
"It's easy to feel like you're 'cheating' by taking a break when you're outside formal structures, but if you try to sit 8hrs straight your brain will melt. Take the same duration of breaks you would in the office."
Radha Venkat had a top tip for anyone with cats, writing: "Make a cat-proof barrier around your keyboard."
(Anyone who owns a cat will know that this is no joke.)
And BBC journalist Felicity Hannah made an important point about biscuits, adding: "Home worker for a decade. My most important tip is to NEVER have biscuits in the house. Without my colleagues there to see me I just eat them all."
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Of course, there are pros and cons to working from home, just like there are for working in the office. The most important thing is to keep a happy mind and body – so do what you need to do to make that happen.
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AYCE. Or, All You Can Eat, for those not yet acclimated to the now-oft-used acronym. (You late-comers and non-Korean BBQ-grubbers, you.) But we're not talking Old Country Buffet on this blog, nor the club tunes-pumping Manna, here. We're talking gourmet all you can eat, now.
Take Roy Choi, for instance. The All You Can Eat Fried Chicken Picnic starts tomorrow on Saturday, July 14th and will go every weekend from 12-3 PM.
If you prefer the Korean beer of choice to wash down your poultry, add $10 for endless Hite.
If you're more of a shellfish and Zydeco band lover, head to The Foundry on Melrose for Crawfish Boil Sundays.
Also offered are Hurricanes for $10 each and Jack Juleps (Jack Daniels with mint & sugar cubes) for $8. Each week, a different Po' Boy will be featured (this week: catfish) for $9.
All this, hosted by Chef Eric Greenspan, is of course one of the best ways to spend a summer Sunday on Melrose.
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Benoît Leroy (born 28 July 1982) is a retired French football midfielder.

Career
Leroy previously played for Championnat de France Amateurs side Racing Besançon and Ligue 2 side Niort, where he made his full professional debut in August 2006 in a 2–1 victory in which he scored the second goal.

References

External links

Benoît Leroy foot-national.com Profile

1982 births
Living people
People from Châteauroux
Racing Besançon players
Chamois Niortais F.C. players
French footballers
Association football midfielders
AJ Auxerre players
AS Cannes players
Association football forwards
Sportspeople from Indre
Footballers from Centre-Val de Loire

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Normalizing the Unconscionable
Published by Laurie Morrow at February 28, 2019
On February 21st, Vermont's House of Representatives passed HR 57, an abortion rights bill with implications even more far-reaching than that signed by New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo just days before. In the forty-six years since Roe v. Wade, Vermont has never enacted any legal restrictions whatsoever on abortion, and, in the words of Vermont House Judiciary Committee member Maxine Grad who supported this bill, it "does not change current law or practice in Vermont."
So why, one wonders, is Vermont's legislature working so hard to pass a law they claim changes nothing? Abortion advocates wish to extend so far the right to an abortion and the kind of abortions permitted so that restricting them in the future will become impossible. Even more ominously, for what future legislation might this law serve as groundwork?
An answer to these questions may be found in a disturbing chapter of Vermont's past, in the state's active participation in the eugenics movement.
The modern eugenics movement arose in England in the late nineteenth century through the efforts of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), a half-cousin of Charles Darwin's with a passion for creating systems of measurement. On reading Darwin's observations on animal breeding in The Origin of Species (1859), Galton became convinced that Darwin's theory of natural selection could and should be applied to human reproduction to produce people "hereditarily endowed with noble qualities."
A full-frontal attack on the principles of human dignity and human solidarity, both conceived in the crucible of Church tradition, began which continues today.
Galton coined the word "eugenics" to refer to this effort, and it was he who first used the terms "nature" and "nurture" to distinguish traits arising from heredity from those attributable to environment.
Galton and those who followed in the eugenics movement located the source of human misery in heredity. The eugenics movement garnered increasing public support as a means of addressing mental illness, crime, and poverty by encouraging people with desirable characteristics to have more children and limiting those with undesirable characteristics from reproducing by passing marriage laws prohibiting their marrying, institutionalizing them, or sterilizing them.
Unfortunately, genetics ignored the fact that "noble" qualities are subjectively defined. To the eugenicist, "noble" often correlated with "wealthy," yet eugenicists paid no attention to the fact that not all wealthy people acquire or retain their wealth through good means, and a hardworking, honest man who accumulates wealth can have a wastrel son.
In Vermont, the eugenics movement was pushed again by the wealthy and socially prominent Henry F. Perkins, a professor of zoology who taught genetics at the University of Vermont. The study of genetics was, at the time, in its infancy, and while other scholars debated whether nature or nurture was the stronger influence over human character, for Perkins, a dilettante and a superficial thinker, such debate was needless. He was early convinced that social ills could be solved by eliminating inferior genes from the reproductive pool—meaning genes not reflecting his own Anglo-Saxon, Protestant heritage.
The gene pools most needing extinction were the mentally ill, criminals, and French-Canadian Catholics, the last for having more children than Vermont's predominantly Protestant culture deemed advisable. Through the Vermont Eugenics Project launched in 1925 and continuing until 1936, Perkins identified individuals and families whose poverty, limited education, or religious faith rendered them candidates for institutionalization or sterilization.
Hundreds of Vermonters were sterilized in the name of stabilizing Vermont's Anglo-Saxon, Protestant culture. As with eugenicists in other states, the visibility of Perkins' activities declined in the 1930s as Nazi sterilization programs made eugenics unpalatable to most Americans. Nevertheless, sterilization on genetic grounds continued in Vermont well into the 1960s.
Perkins didn't set out to be a monster, nor did most people in the eugenics movement, yet their beliefs produced monstrous results.
Similarly, the pro-choice movement has couched their beliefs in beneficent terms, but the barbarity of what they accept as good has become impossible to hide. The US Senate, for example, has just—without a moment of shame—rejected the "born alive" bill, which says that a baby that survives an abortion cannot be denied medical care solely on the grounds the mother does not want it.
Those dedicated to the defense of human rights—especially the rights of the disabled—are horrified by the refusal to provide equal treatment to a living baby outside the womb. The next logical step in the devaluation of human life is to permit the killing of infants who were initially wanted by the mother but who, days or weeks after birth, the mother no longer wants because the child has a disability.
Does this sound far-fetched? For almost two decades, bioethicist Peter Singer has argued that parents should have the option to kill a baby born with a disability up to 28 days after its birth. (It is worth remembering that in Nazi Germany, the eugenics movement started not with political prisoners, homosexuals, or the Jews, but with sterilizing and then killing the disabled.)
Singer is no fringe crank, though he sounds like one, but a professor at Princeton University, where he holds the Ira W. DeCamp Chair of Bioethics in Princeton's Center for the Study of Human Values. Singer is the author of one of the most widely used ethics textbooks on American college campuses, and his thinking has influenced thousands.
Social movements have consequences—often terrible consequences that were unforeseen. Step by step, a culture can descend into barbarism unawares. It is up to us to learn from and to avoid the patterns of thought and action that normalize the unconscionable.
Laurie Morrow
Laurie Morrow, Ph.D., Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy, lives with her husband and son in Montpelier, Vermont
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The more time you spend in Nature and connect; begin to feel how a bird or a flower feels and open up your senses and intuition, the less likely you are to need a first aid kit. If that sounds preposterous, you really do need to get out more! When we observe things, especially living things, and muse, "How do you feel?" We rejuvenate our brains, firing up unused pathways and making new connections. Merging imagination, feeling and vision dissolves the imaginary veil between us and everything else and we become totally immersed in the sea of reality. In this space we have sufficient awareness and intuition to avoid the slippery rock as we cross the river and if we run into a swarm of mosquitoes our immune system will be so strong that we barely notice their bites.
Initially, this way of being takes concentration and practice, but after a while it begins to feel normal to feel like you are discovering the world for the first time. Do you remember how that felt as a child? How the plants, the birds, butterflies and animals talked with you? This is how we engage and participate with all life in the world.
However, sometimes, when you are in a rush or there are just too many things going on, you lose concentration and this is when we become more vulnerable to accidents and illness. It's also when we tend to fall back on pharmaceuticals and the medical system, which are not good for us in the medium-term, even though they might appear to alleviate symptoms. (We try and keep chemicals out of our bodies and environment as much as possible.) That's why we put together the Gaian First Aid Kit.
The Gaian First Aid Kit is what we use here on the finca. It's made from natural ingredients and things we have thoroughly tried and tested over the past year. It might not cover every minor emergency, but it will help you through many of them. We also use these remedies for our dogs.
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Q: CCNet Security Exception I have just implemented CCNet security and I am able to login via the WebDashboard.
The problem is, when I try to force a build I get the following exception.
Exception Message
Request processing has failed on the remote server: Permission to execute 'ViewProject' has been denied.
Exception Full Details
ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Remote.CommunicationsException: Request processing has failed on the remote server:
Permission to execute 'ViewProject' has been denied.
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Remote.CruiseServerClient.ValidateResponse(Response response)
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.Remote.CruiseServerClient.ListBuildParameters(String projectName)
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.WebDashboard.ServerConnection.ServerAggregatingCruiseManagerWrapper.ListBuildParameters(IProjectSpecifier projectSpecifier, String sessionToken)
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.WebDashboard.Dashboard.ProjectParametersAction.Execute(ICruiseRequest cruiseRequest)
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.WebDashboard.MVC.Cruise.CruiseActionProxyAction.Execute(IRequest request)
   at ThoughtWorks.CruiseControl.WebDashboard.MVC.Cruise.ExceptionCatchingActionProxy.Execute(IRequest request)

My security config looks like this:
Server Security
<internalSecurity>
<cache type="inMemoryCache" duration="10" mode="sliding"/>

<audit>
<xmlFileAudit location="C:\CCNet\CCNet_Audit.xml"/>
</audit>
<auditReader type="xmlFileAuditReader" location="C:\CCNet\CCNet_Audit.xml"/>

<users>
<ldapUser name="*" domain="company_domain" />
</users>

<permissions>
<rolePermission name="admin" forceBuild="Allow" sendMessage="Allow" startProject="Allow" changeProject="Allow" viewSecurity="Allow" modifySecurity="Allow" viewProject="Allow" viewConfiguration="Allow" defaultRight="Inherit">
<users>
<userName name="PROD_ADMINS" /> <!--AD User Group -->
</users>
</rolePermission>
</permissions>
</internalSecurity>

Project Security
<security type="defaultProjectSecurity">
<permissions>
<rolePermission name="admin" ref="admin"/>
</permissions>
</security>

The audit logs capture my name correctly from AD, so the authentication seems to be working fine.
Not sure what is going wrong..I have tried everything mentioned in the docs but it does not work!
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards
Ujjwal

A: I guess you forgot to set the defaultRight
defaultRight="Deny"
or
defaultRight="Allow"
see here for the docs
http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org/projects/ccnet/wiki/Role_Permission
look at the full example at the wiki
http://www.cruisecontrolnet.org/projects/ccnet/wiki/Scenario_1_Small_In-house_Development_Team
 this gives more information :-)

A: OK...it finally worked!
Here's how:
The config was correct except for CCNet does not support AD groups yet!
Once I replaced <userName name="PROD_ADMINS" /> with actual user id identified by AD, it worked like a charm! :)
See the EDIT 2 comment on this blog for more details.
Regards
Ujjwal

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Sivakasi taluka is a taluk of Virudhunagar district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters of the taluk is the town of Sivakasi.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census, the taluk of Sivakasi had a population of 427,072 with 211,932 males and 215,140 females. There were 1,015 women for every 1,000 men. The taluk had a literacy rate of 72.65%. Child population in the age group below 6 years were 21,815 Males and 21,321 Females.

Villages in Sivakasi Taluk
 Alamarathupatti
 Anaikuttam
 Anaiyur
 Anuppankulam
 Boovanathapuram
 Chokkampatti
 V.Chokkalingapuram
 Erichanatham
 Injar
 Kalayarkurichi
 Kariseri
 Kattachinnampatti
 Goundampatti
 Kitchanaickenpatti
 kiliyampatti
 Kothaneri
 Krishnapperi
 Krishnapuram
 Kumilankulam
 Lakshminarayanapuram
 Mangalam
 Melamathur
 Maraneri
 Nadayaneri
 Naduvapatti
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 Nedungulam
 Niraimathi
 Pallapatti
 Periapottalpatti
 Poolavoorani
 Pudukkottai
 M.Pudupatti
 Rengapalayam
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 Sithamanaickenpatti
 Sithurajapuram
 Sukkiravarpatti
 Thatchakudi
 Thevarkulam
 Oorampatti
 A.Thulukkapatti
 Vadamalapuram
 Vadapatti
 Vadi
 Velliahpuram
 Vellore
 Vilampatti
 Viswanatham
 Vendurayapuram
 Zaminsalwarpatti
 Naranapuram
Mangundam Patti

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"Clever, subtle and charming. No detail is missed by her."
"She is a first-class junior. Very thorough and organised. Good with her leader to whom she will give the best possible solutions to any issue in the trial. I found her refreshingly independent minded and an able and nerveless advocate. She takes her role as counsel very seriously and forms excellent working relationships with solicitors and clients."
"A go-to junior for serious fraud cases."
"A skilful, credible and cogent advocate who leaves no stone unturned in her case preparation."
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Felicia is ranked in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 editions of the Legal 500 as a leading junior in both General Crime and Crime: Fraud. Described in the Legal 500 (2021) as "A go-to junior for serious fraud cases." and "a first-class junior. Very thorough and organised. Good with her leader to whom she will give the best possible solutions to any issue in the trial. I found her refreshingly independent minded and an able and nerveless advocate. She takes her role as counsel very seriously and forms excellent working relationships with solicitors and clients." Also cited in Chambers UK (2021) as "Clever, subtle and charming. No detail is missed by her." The Legal 500 (2020) described Felicia as "a skilful, credible and cogent advocate who leaves no stone unturned in her case preparation" and "Entirely unflappable in court."
Felicia is recognised as a skilled and versatile advocate whose practice encompasses serious fraud/financial crime, confiscation and restraint, as well as heavyweight crime including murder, manslaughter and serious sexual offences (often historic, multi-complainant).
She has considerable experience of handling all manner of witnesses and is approved as a trainer in the handling of vulnerable witnesses. She is also used to defending in cases in which cut-throat defences or conflicts arise.
Felicia has been appointed to a number of specialist panels and is frequently instructed on behalf of a number of specialist government departments and regulatory bodies. Often instructed pre-charge, Felicia is regularly required to provide advice on charge, disclosure management and general case strategy from an early stage. She is adept at managing and presenting paper heavy cases, often involving complex financial material.
Felicia has appeared before the Divisional and Appellate Courts in a number of key appeals in relation to abuse of process, confiscation and bribery. She has also appeared before regulatory tribunals representing individuals facing disciplinary offences and before the Companies Court on behalf of liquidators in cases where suspected fraudulent conduct and/or breaches of the Insolvency Act are alleged. Felicia also advises individual and corporate clients concerning discrete issues such as directors' disqualification and regulatory compliance.
Felicia's wide range of work has given her experience in a number of areas of:
Law ranging from the deployment of complex legal argument; abuse of process; the applicability of local and foreign domestic laws; RIPA; autrefois acquit; bad character; PII; LPP; non-disclosure; human rights.
Forensic and expert evidence including cell site analysis and call data; forensic, footwear tread pattern; DNA; blood distribution and splatter evidence; firearms evidence; CCTV continuity; Pathology, Neuro-Pathology and Psychiatric expert evidence (diminished responsibility).
Corporate and financial structures including international and multiple off-shore or jurisdictional bank accounts and entities.
Felicia prosecutes and defends individual and corporate clients at the highest level, dealing with the most serious and complex criminal cases. She is committed to achieving the best possible outcome in each and every case, providing clear advice on all aspects of case strategy from the outset.
Sexual OffencesOrganised CrimeHomicideRoad TrafficSlavery & Human TraffickingFraud, Corruption and Business Crime
As a specialist CPS rape and serious sexual offences advocate, Felicia has significant experience prosecuting and defending the most serious and sensitive sexual cases. These include multi-complainant cases often alleging historic sexual abuse and those involving very young or vulnerable witnesses.
Felicia has undertaken specialist training in the use of intermediaries and is skilled in the handling of vulnerable witnesses of all ages in court.
Op Bream (2018 – ongoing) Instructed by CPS complex crime unit initially as sole counsel to advise on allegations of institutional historic sexual abuse dating back to 1960s/1970s. Case involves allegations from multiple, vulnerable complainants. Extensive disclosure exercise due to linked police investigations conducted more recently.
R v Talbot-Bailey (2016) Prosecuted a 5-child (ages 6-14) complainant case involving allegations of child rape and child cruelty. Case involved extensive use of intermediary.
R v Stannard and Stannard (2016) Junior prosecution counsel in a 6-complainant case involving historic sexual offences and child cruelty dating back to the 50s, 60s and 70s. Case involved use of intermediary.
R v Joseph and Joseph (2015) Junior prosecution counsel in a 9-complainant case involving historic allegations of rape, unlawful sexual intercourse and child cruelty.
R v SH (2015-6) Successfully defended multiple counts of rape, sexual penetration and sexual assault.
R v FC (2014-15) Prosecuted doctor charged with sexually assaulting male patients suffering from erectile dysfunction and related complaints.
Felicia has extensive experience of cases involving alleged organised crime groups (OCG) in relation to drugs importation and supply; immigration conspiracies on a commercial scale and for the trafficking of females; international money laundering; and conspiracies to steal and to rob. In 2012, she was appointed a Specialist Serious and Organised Crime advocate.
R v UR and others (2019) Defended (sole counsel) in case concerning alleged international money-laundering OGC in which legitimate commercial debts were acquired in Pakistan and Dubai as cover for approx. £2M proceeds of crime being laundered through hundreds of designated UK bank accounts. Complex investigation and evidential matrix involving various heads of expert evidence, including international money laundering methodology, Hawala banking; cell site evidence; directed surveillance; substantial banking evidence relied upon in tandem with mobile phone/cell site evidence.
R v K and others (2019) Successfully defended male charged with being party to organised money laundering operation in which more than £2M in cash was removed from the UK.
R v P and others (2019) Defended alleged "upstream supplier" in largescale conspiracy concerning 200Kg+ commercial supply of cannabis in South Wales.
R v JI and others (2015-2016) Successfully defended as leading junior the alleged main protagonist in a complex sham marriage conspiracy concerning Slovakian females trafficked into the UK to marry non-EU males living in the Rochdale area who sought leave to remain.
R v Sanchez and others (2015-2016) (Special Casework prosecution). Defended alleged OCG member of a Manchester drugs gang which supplied Class A drugs across south east England.
R v HSM (2008-2012) (SOCA prosecution). Defence junior in trilogy of cases: conspiracy to import cocaine and heroin; associated money laundering and mortgage fraud.
R v M and others (2009-2011) (SOCA prosecution). Successfully defended complex, multi-handed money laundering conspiracies involving the theft and subsequent conversion/laundering of £15m stolen from a German bank by international OCG.
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R v MC (2019) Instructed as sole counsel, successfully defended 26 year old farmer charged with the murder/manslaughter of a co-worker involved in a confrontation with a third party. Case involved the calling of extensive expert evidence including, pathologists, neuropathologists and agricultural expert (re hazards of slurry pits and slurry waste).
R v IP and other (2018) Successfully defended (led by Kate Bex QC) allegations of murder/manslaughter in relation to a female washed up in the River Wye. Case involved extensive expert evidence, including diatoms, pathology and cell site experts. Legal argument re admissibility of covert surveillance not previously disclosed; and evidence obtained mid trial from co-defendant turned Queen's Evidence including alleged partial confession by IP.
R v AS and others (2018) Defended (led by David Etherington QC) allegation of brutal revenge gang murder within the Romanian community.
R v SO Successfully defended D charged with stabbing his father in law to death in front of his wife: expert psychiatric evidence on diminished responsibility and loss of control. (Def Jnr)
R v Aulakh and others Husband alleged to have arranged and taken part in his wife's murder. (Def Jnr)
R v Bhayani, Kutner, Eastham and others Murder of a wealthy business woman whose body was dismembered and found in the boot of a lock up in south west London. (Jnr alone)
R v Kulkonovs Cut throat murder involving significant expert forensic issues. (Def Jnr)
R v A and others Successfully defended husband alleged to have killed and set fire to his wife's body. Sole and decisive hearsay evidence excluded. (Def jnr)
R v L Successfully defended D alleged to have bludgeoned his partner to death before setting fire to her body whilst her two children slept upstairs. (Def jnr)
R v B Successfully defended youth charged with murder allegedly by stabbing the deceased twice before seeking to dispose of the knife. (Def jnr).
Felicia has acted in a number of cases concerning allegations of death by dangerous driving, frequently involving technical expert evidence and difficult tactical decisions.
R v IM & others (2019) Defended (Leading Junior) in multi-handed case involving allegations of Human Trafficking of females and transgender females, Controlling Prostitution for Gain and Supplying Class A Drugs. Case involved extensive cross-examination of vulnerable witnesses over international live link; issues of cross-contamination/collusion between complainants. Case complicated by virtue of joint investigation between British and Bulgarian authorities.
R v C (2017) Prosecuted allegations of modern day slavery (servitude and forced labour).
R v JI and others (2015-16) Successful defence as leading junior of alleged main orchestrator of a complex sham marriage conspiracy concerning Slovakian females trafficked into the UK in a mail order type system to marry non-EU males living in the Rochdale area seeking leave to remain.
Felicia has a wealth of experience both prosecuting and defending cases concerning serious fraud where a mastery of the facts and attention to detail are key. She is adept at preparing and presenting cases involving voluminous and complex financial material; complex corporate structures; multiple off-shore or jurisdictional bank accounts and entities through which alleged fraudulent funds are passed. Felicia is used to working closely with the entire case team in such cases, providing ongoing advice on all aspects of case presentation and management.
Since 2009 Felicia has been appointed to the SFO's specialist panel of advocates and more recently to the CPS specialist Fraud Panel.
Given the nature of her practice, almost all the cases in which she is instructed involve POCA related issues, including restraint, cash seizure and/or complex confiscation proceedings.
Op Mickey (2018-ongoing) Prosecution junior (led by Collingwood Thompson QC) instructed by complex crime unit in multimillion pound "crash for cash" conspiracy to defraud, fraudulent trading, money laundering and perverting the course of justice. Allegations concern hundreds of fraudulent motor insurance claims in which a complex web of companies was set up as a vehicle for fraud between 2009-2016 in order to exploit claims arising from RTAs, with each company having its own focus on accident management, recovery and storage or hire of vehicles. These companies charged insurance companies for their services in addition to fraudulent personal injury claims. The money received was ultimately diverted away from the companies and largely laundered through property owned by the defendants and/or their relatives. Subsequent attempts were allegedly made to divert funds away from restrained bank accounts into new accounts held by third parties supported by false invoices.
R v BP (2017) Currently instructed in complex VAT and tax fraud arising out of the sale of novel psychoactive substances or "legal highs" involving legal argument on the interpretation of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 and "high value dealers". (Def Jnr)
R v J and others (2013-2015) (SFO Pros. Jnr) Multi-handed conspiracy to make corrupt payments to Nigerian Tax officials on behalf of multinational company providing manpower to the gas/oil industry worldwide. Appeal on a point of law (meaning of corruptly for the purpose of s.1 Prevention of Corruption Act 1906) [2014] 1 Cr App R 21.
R v SD and others (2012-2014) (Operation Savate): Successful defence in one of the largest CIS/construction VAT frauds. (Def Jnr).
R v JM and others (2012) Successfully defended complex allegations of insider dealing/money laundering brought by the FCA: legal argument as to jurisdictional ambit of insider dealing legislation. (Jnr alone prosecuted by QC/Jnr)
R v MKN and others (2011-2012) (Operation Inertia) – Defence junior in one of the largest HMRC VAT/MTIC frauds with alleged loss to the Revenue of over £120m.
R v Bajwa and others (2011) Guideline confiscation case as to the interpretation of the lifestyle provisions under POCA. Successful appeal to CACD resulting in multi-million pound confiscation order being quashed: [2011] EWCA Crim 1093 (Def Jnr).
Professional Disciplinary & Regulatory
Felicia has considerable experience across a broad range of regulatory tribunals including the Police Disciplinary Tribunal, Nursing and Midwifery Council (3 month secondment), General Medical Council, Bar Standards Board, FCA Regulatory and Disciplinary Committee, Disclosure and Barring Service (Upper Tribunal, Administrative Appeals Chambers) and First Tier Tax Tribunal. She is frequently instructed to advise regulated individuals and corporate clients in respect of pending investigations and/or proceedings in which parallel regulatory and criminal proceedings may be brought (e.g. parallel disciplinary/criminal offences and, in the context of FCA investigations, potential FSMA offences, Insider Dealing, other FCA regulatory breaches and civil settlements).
NMC v AS (2014) Successfully defended Registrant charged with misconduct (allegedly assaulted elderly, vulnerable patient suffering with advanced Alzheimer's disease and forcefully administering medication to patient whilst not under her care).
DPS v DI B (2013) Successfully defended senior police officer charged with gross misconduct following IPCC led re-investigation into officer's handling of a criminal investigation of six TSG officers charged with assault and misconduct in public office following which all were acquitted in a high profile crown court trial.
Re PC RW and others (2012) Successfully defended officer charged with gross misconduct. Police disciplinary proceedings brought following ACC led investigation. Involved significant legal arguments as to abuse of process, non-disclosure and admissibility of evidence.
Health & Safety and Local Authority Enforcement
Felicia is frequently instructed for and against local authorities across the full range of criminal and regulatory breaches, e.g. health and safety offences/breaches; food safety/hygiene (including a number of high profile prosecutions e.g. Starbucks; TGI Fridays); licensing, trading standards; planning enforcement; Environmental Act offences and civil breaches; Education Act offences; injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance (including the first 'dog' IPNA (formerly ASBO)); housing and council tax benefit fraud; homeless housing fraud; resulting applications under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.
R v Dewgate Limited and others (2013) Advised RB Greenwich and successfully prosecuted Higher Education College and company providing work placement training for breaching the Control of Asbestos Regulations and offences under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
Operation Bronze (2012-13) Advised local authority case team (investigators, lawyers and senior management) pre and post charge in multiple cases concerning the fraudulent obtaining of homeless accommodation and the alleged misconduct in public office by council employees complicit in the frauds requiring a review of the internal systems and controls.
Having represented local authorities for many years, Felicia also undertakes work for the HSE in relation to all manner of Health and Safety breaches. Recent cases include:
HSE v AWAD UK and AW (2018) successfully prosecuted case (including contested Newton Hearing) involving multiple, repeated breaches of Health and Safety regulations. Instructed and advised on case from the outset.
"Clever, subtle and charming. No detail is missed by her."
Chambers UK (2021)
"A go-to junior for serious fraud cases."
Legal 500 (2021)
"a first-class junior. Very thorough and organised. Good with her leader to whom she will give the best possible solutions to any issue in the trial. I found her refreshingly independent minded and an able and nerveless advocate. She takes her role as counsel very seriously and forms excellent working relationships with solicitors and clients."
"A skilful, credible and cogent advocate who leaves no stone unturned in her case preparation."
"Entirely unflappable in court."
Kings College London Postgraduate Medical Law Short Course – Coroners & Inquests given by former Chief Coroner of England & Wales, HHJ Peter Thornton QC (2020).
LLB (Law with German)
Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL)
Health and Safety Lawyers' Association (HSLA)
Diplock Scholar, Middle Temple
Blackstone Entrance Exhibitioner, Middle Temple
Police Appeals Tribunal Chair (2016 – current)
SFO panel (A list) (upgraded 2020)
SFO panel (B list) (2009 – 2020)
CPS Grade 4 General Crime (since 2015)
CPS Organised and Serious Crime Panel (2012 – current)
CPS Specialist Fraud Panel (2012 – current)
CPS Rape and Serious Sexual Offences Panel (2012 – current)
Specialist Regulatory Advocate in Health and Safety and Environmental Law (A list) (selected to prosecute on health and safety issues for bodies including the Environment Agency, Health and Safety Executive and Care Quality Commission) (upgraded 2019).
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Takedown request. It's a phrase that usually implies copyright infringement or the pirating of another's content. Last week a new variation arose as the European Union ruled in favor of an individual's "right to be forgotten." The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg decreed that individuals should be able to request that search engines — Google being called out by name — remove links to personal information that the individuals deem no longer relevant or a violation of their privacy. Right to be forgotten, indeed.
I'm sure many on this side of the pond are envious. Evan Spiegel, Snapchat's 23-year-old CEO, is almost certainly one. The exposure of an assortment of misogynistic emails from Spiegel's fraternity days has people calling for his resignation. Behind him is a long line of others who have drunk-posted, committed crimes, broken up online, posted a bit too much of their college misadventures, and more.
Right now the Internet is in a major state of flux. Net neutrality, constant data breaches, and legal challenges are changing the rules and you need to be ready for it. Privacy issues have been moving more and more to the forefront of the news cycle: Who hasn't felt at least a twinge of concern about all the NSA data mining that has come to light over the past year or so? It's important to keep an eye on global developments and possible future implications for us stateside.
Artificial limitations on the type of personal data that can be unearthed with a Web search immediately raises red flags. Can you picture an American political campaign during which the right to be forgotten is invoked? Politicians might be able to block damaging information from search results. It's also disturbing to think of pedophiles and other criminals having past convictions removed from search results.
These days it's easy to find youthful indiscretions, financial missteps, and arrests that don't result in convictions. On the flip side, before the online era, personal data often remained just that: personal.
I'm surprised at how many technology attorneys in the U.S. are alarmed at this decision. Many seem to believe that it represents a fundamental break in the EU from American models of free speech. Meanwhile dui lawyers as Winnipeg dui resources have a battle against accidents with self driving cars to protect people, there is a driverless cars study that will clarify all your doubts.
But in fact, we in the U.S. have long had to try to balance privacy and free-speech concerns. The Fair Credit Reporting Act, for example, balances credit-reporting agencies' right to speak about our pasts with our right to ensure that the report is accurate, and also to keep certain things off the report once a certain amount of time has elapsed. The Spanish case [that led to the European Court of Justice's decision] involved a credit problem that persisted for over 10 years, which is the cut-off for a bankruptcy report to appear on a U.S. credit report. If people are using Google results in the same way as they use credit reports, then we need to expand the scope of the Fair Credit Reporting act to achieve its original function and purpose.
The other thing that I believe is naive about U.S. techno-libertarians' concerns is that they seem to assume that Google is a record of everything, and the Europeans are capriciously deleting aspects of a historical record that Google, unregulated, would deliver in whole if only it weren't for meddling governments. How do we know that's the case? No one should presume that Google, unregulated, will present some absolutely accurate and complete record of the past.
It often seems as if privacy is evaporating out from under us, especially in the past few years. Between NSA monitoring (both actual and perceived) and high-profile data breaches at iconic websites like eBay, it seems as though we have little left. From one perspective, that makes the EU ruling a good thing. Whether it is or isn't, it's part of a growing pattern. In California it's happening on several fronts. Courts there have ruled that anonymous online comments are protected speech based on arguments attacking the issue from a "right to privacy" stance.
The Golden State is also attempting to rein in the impenetrable language of website privacy policies. Admit it, you've just clicked "agree" to these and moved on. Everyone has. It's hardly surprising considering the density of the material. Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet & Society, and Lorrie Cranor, director of the Carnegie Mellon Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, calculated in 2008 that it would take an individual American an average of 244 hours to read all the privacy policies that apply to their online activity.
It would seem that California is at the forefront of these issues here in the U.S. In addition to the efforts noted above, the state also has enacted updates to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA). These updates require that online privacy notices disclose how a site responds to "Do Not Track" signals, and whether third parties may collect personal information about consumers who use the site.
How Does This Apply to My Brand?
With large-scale changes seeming more and more likely over the next year, it might be worth your while to review how your company handles data and privacy. Are you using a secure connection when collecting data? What kind of third parties (e.g., Facebook and other social platforms) have you allowed access to data? An audit of practices and procedures will give you a good idea of what you're working with in the context of the current climate and where to start making any needed changes.
Keep an eye on California and Europe. Trends there can give you an idea of what we might see on a larger scale and how it applies to what you find in your audit. Better to be prepared than caught unaware when new standards roll out, and some legal eyes I know have been watching California for the lead on these issues.
Changing laws about online privacy may be focused on social spaces and past peccadilloes at the moment, but I think its pretty certain that we will see attention expand to areas that directly impact brands over the next few years. There have already been scuffles over online reviews, so that is one subject I am particularly sure we will see again soon.
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Despite Official Harassment, UOC's Only Church in Russia Holds On
Staunton, February 15 – Moves by the Russian occupation forces in Crimea to close down or transfer to the control of the Moscow Patriarchate of Ukrainian Orthodox Churches have attracted considerable attention and even provoked suggestions that Kyiv should respond by doing something similar to Moscow-controlled Orthodox churches in Ukraine.
That makes the case of the only UOC church in existence in the Russian Federation especially intriguing and even instructive. That church, located in Noginsk, a city of 100,000 some 34 kilometers east of the Moscow ring road, has had a complicated history (24tv.ua/ru/ukrainskij_hram_v_podmoskovnom_noginske_istorija_very_i_soprotivlenija_rossijskoj_vlasti_n1112724).
In 1993, Ukraine's TV24 reports, Father Andrian was affiliated with the ROC MP. When his religious superiors wanted to push him out, he, who was born in Ukraine, and they decided to transfer their subordination to the Kyiv Patriarchate. Russian officials were not pleased, and they sent OMON officers to throw the church and its contents into the street.
But Father Andrian and a small group of followers found a place to continue to hold services in Noginsk, an arrangement that he and they assumed was sufficiently low profile to allow them to practice their religion in peace. Until 2016, it was; but then a district court ordered that their church be torn down so as "not to disturb the local population."
"Every day we have waited for the arrival" of machines which will destroy "our church," Andrian says. But so far, nothing has happened. In his view, "our church is not touched for the simple reason that in Ukraine, Russia has 12,0000 churches, cathedrals, monasteries and lavras … Therefore, they don't touch some church in Noginsk in order not to lose a lot in Ukraine."
"If it weren't for the references to Patriarch Epifanii in the services" of the Noginsk church, the Ukrainian television channel reports, "even parishioners would not know that here [in the middle of Russia] is an Orthodox Church of Ukraine."


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Colombia's Congress recently approved Law 201 of 2012, popularly known as "Lleras Law 2.0," which deals with copyrights and intellectual property. Passage of this law was fast-tracked in an effort to coincide with Barack Obama's visit to Colombia for the Summit of the Americas. Lleras Law 2.0 purports to take a hard line on piracy and counterfeiting by establishing stricter sanctions. Colombia's new copyright law also attempts to better align Colombia's intellectual property laws with U.S. copyright regulations, as part of the two countries' bilateral free trade agreement ("FTA").
(i) Article 5 provides copyright protection to "[a]ny form of reproduction of the work, permanent or temporary, by any means of procedure including temporary electronic storage." Because the Lleras Law 2.0 does not define the meaning of the word "storage," temporary copies in random access memory (RAM) –commonly known as "temporary buffer copies"- are arguably subject to the copyright owner's exclusive reproduction right under this law. In contrast, U.S. law does not prohibit reproduction "in any form." U.S. Law prohibits reproduction of copyrighted works in copies or phonorecords; it does not include an extension to temporary storage in electronic form. Indeed, U.S. law requires that a copy be sufficiently permanent or stable in order to permit it to be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated for a period of more than transitory duration.
(ii) Article 6 expands copyright protection from 50 to 70 years from the year of its first publication, or a term of 70 years from its creation, if the work was not published within fifty years after its creation. As a general rule, under U.S law, works created after January 1, 1978, are protected for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. For works first published prior to 1978, the term will vary depending on several factors.
(iii) Articles 13 and 14 prohibit the transmission of TV signals over the Internet by land, cable or satellite of television signals without permission from the owner of the copyright for the signal or its contents "regardless of" any limitations and exceptions to the exclusive rights in Colombia's legislation. It also punishes any user who links to news or TV programs that are published or broadcasted on a blog or website. Arguably this Article 13 does not include general limitations and exceptions. Therefore, for instance, an Internet retransmission of portions of a terrestrial broadcast for educational purpose might be considered a non-infringing use.
(iv) Article 15 establishes some exceptions to the anti-circumvention provisions. Article 15(g) establishes a stricter approach to the process by which new exceptions to the anti-circumvention provisions will be identified. According to the new law, only the legislature has the final power to act whenever the governmental agencies find a substantial adverse effect on non-infringing uses.
(v) Article 16 carries a potential prison sentence of four to eight years for those persons that transmit TV signals over the Internet by land, cable or satellite of television signals without permission from the owner of the copyright. Because this provision does not include the word "willful," it may arguably apply on a wider range of infringers, including those who were unaware that they were breaking the law. No threshold level is identified in this provision for the imposition of the most severe criminal penalties on non-commercial infringers.
This new copyright and intellectual property regulation has been met with much opposition in Colombia, where many believe the United States is forcing Colombia and other countries to adopt stringent intellectual property laws that it hasn't adopted itself. However, the only possibility of repeal belongs to the Constitutional Court, which is the entity responsible for ensuring the integrity and hegemony of the Colombian Constitution. A Congressman for the Polo Democratico Party, Camilo Romero, has already filed a lawsuit before the Constitutional Court to repeal the law. It is very likely that the Constitutional Court will find the Lleras 2.0 law unconstitutional, among other reasons, because of its fast-track approval. Traditionally, the Constitutional Courts has required the Congress to have a "meaningful debate" before approving a bill. But we shall wait and see.


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Le Parti baloutche Awami (, ) est un parti politique du Pakistan.

Le parti est fondé le  par des députés provinciaux de la Ligue musulmane du Pakistan (Q) et est rejoint par des membres indépendants et quelques dissidents de la Ligue musulmane du Pakistan (N) au pouvoir. Il est la conséquence de l'éclatement de la coalition qui dirigeait la province du Baloutchistan et le nouveau ministre en chef de la province Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, élu en , rejoint le parti.

Lors des élections législatives du 25 juillet 2018, le parti réalise une percée avec cinq sièges à l'Assemblée nationale et devient la première force de l'Assemblée provinciale du Baloutchistan avec 20 députés et 25 % des votes. Le parti évince le Parti national et le Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami, qui dénoncent des fraudes alors que le Parti baloutche Awami est soupçonné avoir reçu le soutien décisif de l'armée pakistanaise.

Le parti annonce ensuite s'allier avec le vainqueur de l'élection, le Mouvement du Pakistan pour la justice, afin de former une coalition au niveau fédéral et provincial. Zubaida Jalal Khan devient ministre fédérale dans le gouvernement du Premier ministre Imran Khan.

Le , le président du parti, Jam Kamal Khan, est élu ministre en chef du Baloutchistan avec 39 voix sur 65, grâce à l'appui de cinq autres partis, à savoir le Mouvement du Pakistan pour la justice, le Parti national Awami, le Parti national baloutche (A), Jamhoori Wattan et le Parti démocratique Hazara.

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 Élections législatives pakistanaises de 2018

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Citroen DS 21 Decapotable Pedal Car
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1960's Citroen DS21 Decapotable.
MG, as it was known, was the manufacturer of high quality pedal cars from the 1950's until the 1970's, covering most French cars of that era, one of the rarest and most sort after is the Citroen DS Decapotable.
The company made various variants throughout its production run, originally metal with no lights and then additions such as wing mirrors, opening bonnet and lastly in the late 1960's and 1970's the plastic version with neither lights or engine details. The cost of producing such a high quality children's toy proved prohibitive.
This particular example was purchased from the previous owner in South West France and had unfortunately been badly repainted. It's been recently sandblasted and resprayed inside and outside by a professional car body shop in an authentic Citroen DS white colour. Now in beautiful working condition, no rust and the odd minor dent to the bodywork. Hardly ever seen in the UK, this is a very rare opportunity for a DS fan.
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A first blog entry for 2019 and surely no better place to start than a stunning intimate wedding up at the gorgeous and utterly unique Cley Windmill on the North Norfolk Coast. On this cold January day, looking at the warm glow of these images made me pine for an early return of long summer days and single layers of clothes! I would imagine that Cley feels somewhat different today than it did back on 4th August for Natalie and Rebecca's wonderful celebration of marriage.
Natalie and Rebecca were a rare couple for me in that they booked without any form of consultation – just an e-mail to confirm availability and a booking. While I normally prefer for couples to meet me before booking, more as an opportunity to answer questions and build some rapport than anything else, I could tell from the tone of their emails that they just knew what they wanted could see from my images that I'd suit them and their vision for their day. Arriving at Cley on the big day and hearing the laughter coming from the adjacent rooms where Natalie and Rebecca were getting ready I could tell within a second that we'd get along just fine! Greeted by the small group friends and family gathered at Cley Windmill for a weekend of celebration it was immediately clear that this was going to be the most loving and relaxed of days and absolutely my kind of wedding day!
A relatively short day for me at around 6 hours of photography, all in one stunning location and in great weather, I'm not sure wedding days get much more straight forward or fun for a wedding photographer! After a short period of prep, Natalie and Rebecca met each other for the first time in their wedding dresses just outside their rooms ahead of their ceremony. Documenting moments such as these are why I so love my work. Seeing their reactions and emotions welling up as they first laid eyes on one another and admired each-others stunning choices of dress was very special indeed and are moments that will live me for a long time.
The sun shining, the first part of the ceremony was conducted with the stunning Cley Windmill as a backdrop; I don't think there are many more impressive places in North Norfolk for an outdoor ceremony, just stunning. After some bubbles for confetti and some drinks and canapés there were only a handful of group photographs before serious fun and games commenced in the gardens around the windmill. These are the sort of wedding days where you really just want to be a guest, so much fun being had and in such incredible surroundings.
Later, as the sun approached the horizon, I drove Natalie and Rebecca down to the beautiful Cley Beach for some portraits. Well, I say portraits, more just them being themselves and enjoying absolutely every second of their wedding day. For me, this time with couples is where possible just about capturing their relationship and personality with as little intervention as possible and just letting things flow. With so much love, happiness and personality, Natalie and Rebecca were a dream to photograph. I don't think I've laughed as much during this part of a wedding day – it was one of those stunning summer evenings when you really have to pinch yourself when you look around and take in the light, company and surroundings. Days when you never want the sun to ever actually reach the horizon.
Sadly it did have to reach the horizon and it was all too quickly time to head back to the windmill for the evening party. I was only staying for a little longer by this point but we did have time for some fun with sparklers and one final night shot with the 'Moulin Rouge' behind for a backdrop! As from the first frame of the day, this final shot tells the story of a couple completely in-love, absolutely meant to be together and wringing fun out of every second of their very special wedding day.
Thank you so much for allowing me to be a small part of such an incredibly special weekend of celebration Natalie and Rebecca – and a massive thank you also for those Krispy Kremes! I may have only spent a few hours in Cley last summer but that few hours will live long in the memory as one of my wedding highlights of 2018.
Thankyou for the lovely photos you took of our daughters wedding so glad you enjoyed the day as much as we did,it was so relaxed and casual and fun just as they wanted.a great day and weekend had by everyone .


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Josephite Beginnings
St Joachim's Catholic Primary School was established by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart in 1938.
The Sisters of St Joseph are affectionately known as the Josephites or the 'Brown Joeys' (as earlier they wore brown habits). There are about 850 Sisters living and ministering throughout Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Peru, East Timor, Scotland and Brazil.
The Josephites were founded in Penola, South Australia in 1866 by an Australian woman Mary MacKillop, and an English priest Reverend Julian E Tenison Woods.
To find out more about the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart visit their website.
Our Distinct Religious Character
On Sunday 26th July, 1936, Archbishop Duhig blessed and placed in position the foundation stone of St. Joachim's Church School, Holland Park. The school was finally established by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1938, and is now situated in the Holland Park Mt Gravatt Catholic Parish.
The school was named after St Joachim, husband of St Anne. They are the Patron Saints of Marriage and Grandparents. The tradition of the Church is that Joachim and Anne were the parents of Mary and thus, the grandparents of Jesus. St Joachim and St Anne exemplified faithful commitment and trust in God. On our Feast Day, the grandparents of our students are also celebrated as we acknowledge that the love of Christ can be experienced through the love of families, especially loving parents and grandparents.
While the Sisters of St Joseph are no longer present in our school, the spirit of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop continues to motivate us in all that we do at St Joachim's. We reflect the diversity of the Josephite charism to serve God's mission in the world through prayer and by social justice action. We respond to the needs of our society with a purpose that is underpinned by our school motto, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam – 'For the Greater Glory of God'.


Canine Officer Obi, a 14-month-old Springer Spaniel, started working last month as the University of California, Berkeley's new explosive-detecting dog.
As a puppy in Wyoming, Obi was abused before a police dog trainer rescued him and brought him to Berkeley. Now Obi lives with UCPD Officer Sal Lopez, who works with the pup all day and takes him home each night. "He was treated very bad, abused physically, emotionally and deprived of food," Lopez said.
At first Obi had trouble adjusting to his new life. "He was very skittish, he didn't want to be petted. Large crowds still overwhelm him at times," Lopez said. But as he got more human attention and praise, he started coming out of his shell.
Police use Obi to check for explosives before major events like football games or concerts.
Obi spends his weekends playing in the backyard with Lopez, his wife and their 1-year-old son.
But Obi knows it is time for work when Lopez puts on his special police collar and vest.
Lopez thinks Obi works extra hard because he was abused as a puppy.
You know how I love a happy ending and Obi has finally a happy ending. This post made me smile and go Awww.
Makes me want to find the persons who did that to him and beat the crap out if him.
I am so thankful this pup found a much better life. I hate people sometimes...surely there is a spot in that burning inferno in the after-life for jerks that hurt children and animals!
What a good dog and what a good human, too.
Happy that Obi has an important job.My Slim was abused as a pup and she still flinches sometimes when touched. But she was the easiest dog to train ever and always eager to obey. We never punished her but she still thinks it might be coming and it makes me sad. Frankie, on the other hand, was pampered youth and she is a spoiled, hard to train girl.
Yay for Obi. One for doing such a great service and two for trusting humans again.
A happy ending for a talented and clever pup. Bravo.


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With this year's event completed I suspect most teams would have already begun planning for next year's event. From what I gather it is returning to Germany, to Munster the site of the 2009/10 competitions.
Reading the various threads on TWF the logistics, planning and politics of the event rival Operation Overlord.
What I would suggest is that any New Zealanders, either here in Godzone or overseas, who wish to participate in next year's event, make their interest known to a member of the 2012 team.Given the tyranny of distance the team normally has 2-3 new players come into the fold each year.
The results show that those teams who plan well, do well. So if you are keen to be part of the ETC experience then contact Dave Grant, Mark Skilton or Mal Patel and they will be able to give you details.