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Muslim Teachers in Pakistan Allegedly Abuse Christian Students
Derogatory remarks, beatings, pressure to convert to Islam drive two girls to drop out.
SARGODHA, Pakistan, May 19 (CDN) — Muslim teachers at a girls school here have derided Christian students for their faith, beat them, pressured them to convert to Islam and forced them to clean school bathrooms and classrooms after class hours, according to area Christians.
Muslim teachers at Government Higher Secondary School in village No. 79-NB (Northern Branch), Sargodha, in Punjab Province, have so abused Christian students that two of the dozens of Christian girls at the school have dropped out, said a 16-year-old student identified only as Sana.
"Christian students are teased and mocked by radical Muslim, female teachers from the start of the school day to the end," she said. "Due to the contemptuous behavior on religious grounds by the fanatical Muslim principal and staff, Christian students feel dejected, depressed and frustrated. I am totally broken-hearted because of the intolerance and discrimination."
Rebecca Bhatti, a 16-year-old grade 10 student, told Compass she left the government school because her main teacher, along with an Islamic Education & Arabic Language teacher identified only as Sumaira, a math teacher identified only as Gullnaz, other Muslim teachers and Ferhat Naz, the principal, would call Christian girls in to the staff room at recess and demand that they polish their shoes or wash their undergarments and other clothes.
"If any girl turned down the orders of any of the Muslim teachers, they were punished," Bhatti said as she spilled tears. "The Muslim school teachers ordered us to wash lavatories daily and clean the school compound and classrooms, even though there is staff to keep the school clean."
She said that the school also denied Christian students certificates of completion when they had finished their studies.
"This was to bar Christian students from gaining admission to other educational institutions or continue their education," she said.
The principal of Christian Primary School in the village, Zareena Emmanuel, said that Naz and Sumaira subjected Christian students to beatings. Emmanuel also said that Muslim teachers at the secondary school derided Christian students for their faith.
"I regret that it is the only government school of higher education for girls at the village and adjoining areas," Emmanuel said, "and therefore Christian girls have to experience such apathy, religious discrimination and bitterness each day of their schooling, which is supposed to be a time of learning and imagination."
Christian residents of the village said they have been longing to bring abuse at the school to light. The Rev. Zaheer Khan of Maghoo Memorial United Presbyterian Church and Emmanuel of the primary school have asked education department officials of Sargodha Region to investigate, he said.
Khan also said that Naz and Muslim teachers including Gullnaz, Sumaira and Muzammil Bibi have treated Christian students contemptuously and have frequently asked them to convert to Islam.
"The attitude of the Arabic & Islamic Education teacher, Sumaira, toward the Christian students is beyond belief," he said, "as she has forced the Christian girls to wash toilets, classrooms and clean the school ground, saying they must not be hesitant to do sanitation work because it's the work of their parents and forefathers handed down to them."
Questioned about the abuses, Naz told Compass that she would immediately take note of such incidents if they had occurred.
"Any of the teachers held responsible of forcing Christian students convert to Islam will be punished according to the departmental rules and regulations," Naz said. "A few Christian girls have abandoned their education because of their domestic problems, but even then I'll carry out a departmental inquiry against the accused teachers, and no one will be spared if found guilty."
Naz said the inquiry would focus especially on the accusations against Sumaira, Muzammil and Gullnaz.
Protesting residents gathered outside Naz's office last week said she had no real intention of investigating the alleged abuses; some said she was making weak excuses to defend her staff members. They urged an independent investigation of Sumaira, Gullnaz, Muzammil and Naz.
"This cannot be tolerated, as it's a matter of their girls' careers and education," said one protestor.
Noureen Austin, a 19-year-old Christian student in grade 12, described the school environment as discriminatory, depressed, gloomy and agitated."
"No Christian student can get a quality education there," she said. "Most of the school faculty are fanatical female Muslims who would not waste any chance to target Christian girls because of their belief in Christ."
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Signs of Witness Intimidation Mount in Orissa, India
Posted on April 6, 2010 by particularkev
Fear factor results in transfer of rape case; meantime, 6-year-old girl says politician is killer.
NEW DELHI, April 2 (CDN) — Due in part to intimidation of witnesses in Kandhamal district, a judge this week granted a change of venue for the trial of men accused of gang-raping a nun during anti-Christian attacks in Orissa in 2008.
The trial will be transferred from Baliguda, Kandhamal to Cuttack, near the Orissa state capital of Bhubaneswar. Justice Indrajit Mohanty of the Orissa High Court on Tuesday (March 30) ordered the inter-district transfer of the trial. The nun, Meena Lilita Barwa, had argued that witnesses would be intimidated into refraining from testifying if the trial were held in Kandhamal district.
She also argued that Kandhamal's intimidating atmosphere made it too dangerous for her appear in court there. Christians were hopeful that the transfer would lead the administration to review police and court processes in Kandhamal district.
Police have arrested 19 people for allegedly assaulting the nun on Aug. 25, 2008 and parading her half-naked through the streets.
Hindu Politician Identified as Killer
After a series of trials in which murder suspects in the 2008 Kandhamal district violence have gone free as Hindu extremist threats have kept witnesses from testifying, a 6-year-old girl has identified a powerful local politician as the man who killed her father.
In testimony at Fast Track Court No. 1 on March 14, Lipsa Nayak of Kandhamal identified Manoj Pradhan, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Orissa, as the man who cut and burned her father to death when Hindu extremists attacked Christians following the Aug. 23, 2008 death of a local Hindu leader.
Pradhan has been accused in nine cases of murder and in 14 cases of arson. So far he has been exonerated on the murder charges against him for "lack of witnesses." Christian leaders say that Pradhan has been intimidating witnesses because of his position as a member of Legislative Assembly. Lipsa's mother, 32-year-old Kanak Rekha Nayak, has said that Pradhan and his associates have threatened to harm her family if they identified him as the killer.
The Nayak family lived in Tiangia, Budedipada, in Raikia block of Kandhamal district. During the anti-Christian attacks that followed the death of Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, Lipsa's parents and her sister had taken refuge in the forest to escape the fury of the Hindu extremists, but the rampaging mob tracked them down.
Lipsa, then 4 years old, along with her mother and 2-year-old sister, watched in horror as the crowd allegedly beat her father, Parikhita Nayak, for two hours and then killed him by cutting him into pieces and burning him.
Prosecution and defense lawyers questioned Lipsa for more than 90 minutes, and she reportedly answered all questions without wavering. Asked by the judge if she could identify the killer of her father, she pointed to Pradhan, the MLA from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from G. Udayagiri, Kandhamal.
Her mother later told media, "They played with him for a few hours before cutting him into pieces and dousing him with kerosene."
Accused as a primary suspect in the murder along with Pradhan is Kali Pradhan. The government of Orissa has set up two Fast Track courts to try cases related to the violence that spread to more than a dozen districts of Orissa. Maoists have taken responsibility for the killing, though Hindu extremists accused Christians in an effort to spark anti-Christian violence. The attacks killed more than 100 people and burned 4,640 houses, 252 churches and 13 educational institutions.
Christian leaders have denounced the legal process in the Kandhamal violence, saying not only that witnesses have been threatened and the intimidated but that police investigations have been negligent or corrupt.
"There has been no conviction in any case of murder," said Dr. John Dayal, a member of the National Integration Council. "More than 70 people were killed, and trial is being held only for 38 or so of those deaths. Eleven murder cases have been tried with no one being indicted or sentenced for murder so far – because of terrible investigation by the police, a poor show by the prosecuting lawyers and shoddy judicial process."
The 123 cases tried in the Fast track courts have resulted in 97 convictions and 323 acquittals, including several cases decided on Wednesday (March 31). Seven people in two separate cases were convicted of arson and rioting cases. Nata Pradhan, Jahala Pradhan, Ashok Mallick, Bapa Pradhan, and Udayanath Pradhan from Raikhala-Gadiapada village were sentenced for two years imprisonment for destroying the house of Birendra Nayak of the same village. They were also fined 2,500 rupees (US$55). In the other case, Ratnakar Pradhan and Parsuram Pradhan from village Tatamaha, Raikia block were convicted of riot and arson.
At the same time, Fast Track Court I Judge S.K. Das acquitted 20 people persons in three separate cases for lack of evidence.
"Witnesses are being coerced, threatened, cajoled and sought to be bribed by murderers and arsonists facing trial," said Archbishop of Orissa Raphael Cheenath in a statement. Previously he had demanded that the cases of politically powerful persons such as Manoj Pradhan be transferred out of Kandhamal to ensure proper justice.
"We are deeply concerned about the high rate of acquittals in the Fast Track Courts," Cheenath said. "Victims filed 3,232 complaints in the various police stations of Kandhamal. Of these, the police registered cases in only 832 instances."
Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik filed a written admission in the Orissa Assembly in November 2009 in which he said 85 members of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), 321 persons of Hindu nationalist umbrella group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and 118 persons of Hindu extremist youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, had been arrested for their involvement in the Kandhamal riots.
While the government says that situation is normalizing in Kandhamal, Christian leader like Dr. John Dayal give a different story.
"While it is possible to visit one half of the district of Kandhamal and discover only peace, it is the other half of the district which speaks of the continuing tyranny," he said. "The bloodshed has stopped because of belated police action, but the miscarriage of justice and the lost peace continue to haunt thousands of people who have not been able to go back to their homes for fear of their lives. Thousands of children cannot go to school, especially the girls. What is worse is that many girls have been trafficked."
The district collector banned all Christian organizations from coming to the district to bring aid to victims after the 2008 violence, he added, "and it took an appeal to the Supreme Court of India by the archbishop of Bhubaneswar for much needed relief to be given to the people in the then refugee camps."
He expressed doubts about the government portrait of normalcy in Kandhamal.
"Even if the church does its best, only half of the 5,600 or so houses burned to the ground will ever be rebuilt," he said. "The district collector and other officers of the civil and police system who are guilty of gross dereliction of duty continue to be in control. Thousands of men continue to be without jobs. Is this normalcy?"
Firebrand Arrested
On March 20, a controversial leader of the VHP, Praveen Togadia, was arrested as he tried to defy orders prohibiting him from entering Kandhamal. Togadia had played a major role in whipping up passions among the Hindus of Kandhamal after the killing of Saraswati.
Togadia had led a procession with the body of Saraswati through different areas of the district for more than 100 kilometers, sparking off or intensifying violence against Christians.
The government of Orissa came under heavy fire from civil society for allowing the procession, and on the latest occasion the local administration was careful to detain Togadia under the Section 151 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which provides for authorities to make arrests to prevent potential offenses. Togadia was later released on bail.
Togadia termed the prohibition on his visit a "ban" that was "illegal and undemocratic." In response to the "ban" on Togadia, the Hindu extremist Sangh Parivar and the BJP protested with a 12-hour bandh (shut down) in Kandhamal on March 20, while the VHP held demonstrations in Bhubaneswar, Berhampur, Bolangir, Sambalpur and Cuttack. VHP also blocked National Highway 217 for one hour and burned an effigy of Chief Minister Patnaik.
"The state government didn't stop foreign missionaries from going to tribal areas of Kandhamal and other parts of Orissa," VHP leader Swadesh Pal Gupta said. "They were being provided with full support and freedom. But when a leader who is an International Secretary General of VHP tries to go to Kandhamal, the government stopped him. We are staging a nationwide protest against this."
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Cardinal: No 'celibacy issue' exists in reception of Anglicans into Church
Posted on November 2, 2009 by particularkev
In an extensive clarification released on Saturday by the Vatican press office, Fr. Federico Lombardi made clear, on behalf of the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Joseph Levada, that there is no "celibacy issue" delaying the publication of the Constitution that will establish the procedure for Anglicans to be received into the Catholic Church, reports Catholis News Agency.
In a statement released in English –breaking the common use of Italian- Fr. Lombardi explained that "there has been widespread speculation, based on supposedly knowledgeable remarks by an Italian correspondent Andrea Tornielli.
The Vatican analyst suggested that the delay in the publication of the Apostolic Constitution on Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church is due to "more than 'technical' reasons."
"According to this speculation, there is a serious substantial issue at the root of the delay, namely, disagreement about whether celibacy will be the norm for the future clergy of the Provision," Fr. Lombardi's said.
Responding to other claims that the rule of celibacy for Latin rite clergy would be open to discussion, Fr. Lombardi offered the official comments of Cardinal Levada.
"Had I been asked I would happily have clarified any doubt about my remarks at the press conference. There is no substance to such speculation. No one at the Vatican has mentioned any such issue to me."
According to Cardinal Levada, Pope Benedict's Apostolic Constitution will be ready "by the end of the first week of November" and its delay "is purely technical in the sense of ensuring consistency in canonical language and references."
The Prefect of the Congregation also explained that "the drafts prepared by the working group, and submitted for study and approval through the usual process followed by his congregation, have all included the following statement, which is currently Article VI of the Constitution:
– 1. Those who ministered as Anglican deacons, priests, or bishops, and who fulfill the requisites established by canon law and are not impeded by irregularities or other impediments may be accepted by the Ordinary as candidates for Holy Orders in the Catholic Church. In the case of married ministers, the norms established in the Encyclical Letter of Pope Paul VI Sacerdotalis coelibatus, n. 42 and in the Statement "In June" are to be observed. Unmarried ministers must submit to the norm of clerical celibacy of Code of Canon Law 277, §1.
– 2. The Ordinary, in full observance of the discipline of celibate clergy in the Latin Church, as a rule (pro regula) will admit only celibate men to the order of presbyter. He may also petition the Roman Pontiff, as derogation from can. 277, §1, for the admission of married men to the order of presbyter on a case by case basis, according to objective criteria approved by the Holy See."
Cardinal Levada further explains that "this article is to be understood as consistent with the current practice of the Church, in which married former Anglican ministers may be admitted to priestly ministry in the Catholic Church on a case by case basis."
With regard to future seminarians, the Cardinal explains that "it was considered purely speculative whether there might be some cases in which a dispensation from the celibacy rule might be petitioned."
"Objective criteria about any such possibilities (e.g. married seminarians already in preparation) are to be developed jointly by the Personal Ordinariate and the Episcopal Conference, and submitted for approval of the Holy See," Cardinal Levada said.
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TURKEY: MURDER DEFENDANT AGAIN ADMITS PERJURY
Prosecutors suspect he's protecting 'masterminds' of slaying of three Christians in Malatya.
ISTANBUL, August 25 (Compass Direct News) – Turkish murder suspect Emre Gunaydin admitted in court last week that he had again committed perjury in the trial over the savage murders of three Christians in southeast Turkey.
Gunaydin, 21, faced off in Malatya's Third Criminal Court on Friday (Aug. 21) with Varol Bulent Aral, whom he had named as one of the instigators of the attack at Zirve Publishing Co.'s Malatya office in a previous disposition before state prosecutors. Gunaydin, the alleged ringleader of the murderers, told the court that he had lied in a previous disposition before state prosecutors by implicating Aral.
"I named Varol Bulent Aral to reduce the sentence," Gunaydin said under questioning.
His admission came after Aral testified at length, painting an elaborate scenario of himself as a key player in the "Ergenekon" conspiracy – said to include top level political and security officials, among others – suspected of orchestrating the 2007 Malatya attack with Gunaydin and four other defendants.
"Varol Bulent Aral has no connection with these events," Gunaydin insisted. "He is explaining things that he has imagined. There was not any threat against me, nor any instigator."
Gunaydin initially failed to appear at Friday's hearing where Aral was expected to testify, sending a note to the court that he was feeling unwell. But the judge abruptly announced a short court recess and ordered Gunaydin brought immediately from prison to the courtroom.
At a hearing three months ago, Gunaydin retracted similar allegations he had made against Huseyin Yelki, a former volunteer at the Christian publishing house where Turkish Christians Necati Aydin and Ugur Yuksel and German Christian Tilmann Geske were bound hand and foot, tortured and then slain with knives.
Jailed for three months on the basis of Gunaydin's allegations, Yelki was finally brought to testify at the May 22 hearing.
"Huseyin Yelki is not guilty. He's in prison for nothing," Gunaydin told the court after Yelki testified. When questioned why he previously had implicated Yelki, Gunaydin said, "I did it to lessen my punishment. That's why I said he was a missionary."
Despite glaring discrepancies in his testimony, Yelki was released for lack of evidence. Aral was also ordered released for insufficient evidence, although he remains jailed in the Adiyaman Prison on unrelated criminal charges.
Plaintiff lawyers have expressed skepticism about Gunaydin's two retractions, questioning whether he has been pressured to change his testimony in order to shield the actual instigators of the plot. They also remain unconvinced that Aral and Yelki were not collaborators in the attack.
Prosecution Failures
"An investigation does not just consist of claims, it must consist of proofs," plaintiff lawyer Ali Koc told journalists on the courthouse steps after last week's hearing. "One of the underlying missing elements of the Zirve Publishing trial in Malatya stems from the failure to pursue the investigation with sufficient objectivity, depth and careful attention."
The only reason Aral and Yelki were charged in the case, the attorney noted, was because one of the defendants claimed they were accomplices. Koc stressed it was "the duty of the state and the judiciary to uncover those responsible for this event – the instigators, and the climate in which they emerged."
He also declared that Aral should be investigated for his relations with intelligence officials, which he hoped would expose new evidence.
"If the Malatya case is not joined with the Ergenekon trial, then we're probably looking at a verdict against the killers within the next three to five court hearings," plaintiff lawyer Erdal Dogan said. "But I have hope – I hope for merging it with the Ergenekon case, in order to uncover the perpetrators behind the scenes."
After two failed summons, Burcu Polat also appeared to testify at the Aug. 21 hearing. Now 18, Polat was Gunaydin's girlfriend at the time of the murders. She stated that she had used two different cell phones in the weeks previous to the murders. Both telephones were registered in the name of her father, Ruhi Polat, a provincial council member of the Nationalist Movement Party previously called to testify at the trial.
The court summoned intelligence officer Murat Gokturk from the Malatya gendarmerie headquarters to appear at the next hearing, set for Oct. 16. Yelki had contacted Gokturk frequently by telephone in the weeks preceding the murders.
Detailed Informant Letter
Two months ago, an informant in the military intelligence division of the Malatya gendarmerie headquarters sent an extremely detailed report to state prosecutors regarding what Turkish media have dubbed the "Malatya massacre."
The two-page letter fingered former Col. Mehmet Ulger, gendarmerie commander of Malatya province at the time of the murders, as a key instigator within the murder plot.
With precise, documented details, the report outlined Ulger's targeting of the Malatya Christians and their activities during the weeks surrounding the attack, including a secret briefing for selected officials, unregistered meetings and the tapping of gendarmerie personnel named for specific assignments at various stages.
At the actual day and hour of the killings, the report said, Ulger received a telephone call from his commander while he was in a furniture shop in the city center. Ulger immediately promised to go to the scene, taking two sergeant majors and an official car, and arriving just as the police teams pulled up.
"The event had just happened, and the police teams had not yet gone to the scene, and Mehmet Ulger's superiors informed him about it," the report noted.
The letter goes on to describe frequent visits Inonu University professor Ruhi Abat made to Ulger's office, where the colonel had specifically ordered his subordinates to never record Abat's visits in the official record book.
Although Ulger and Abat testified on April 13 that they had sponsored a seminar regarding missionary activities for gendarmerie personnel, the informant declared it could be easily proved that such a seminar had never been held.
The informant claimed that 40,000 Turkish lira (US$30,800 at the time) was paid out during 2007 by Malatya's gendarmerie intelligence staff "solely to direct close surveillance on missionary activities." Instead of using the funds to help "break apart illegal organizations or recover a lot of drugs," he said, a large portion of the money was handed over to Abat, he said.
The informant's letter was sent simultaneously to Malatya Prosecutor Seref Gurkan and State Prosecutor Zekeriya Oz, who heads the Ergenekon investigation in Istanbul.
The anonymous informant claimed he had much more information that he could not pass along safely without revealing his own identity.
"Because I regret that I was involved myself in some of this, I am sending this letter to both prosecutors," he wrote. "I hope that I am being helpful in solving this dark event." He enclosed a CD of Ulger's 2007 briefing as well as a list of the people whose telephones were being tapped.
It is not known how seriously the latest informant's letter is being taken by the Malatya prosecutors.
"But we are seeing the continuation of a long chain of information coming out," plaintiff lawyer Orhan Kemal Cengiz commented. "We have at least achieved something in the eyes of the Turkish public, because everyone is now convinced that it was not just these five young men who planned this; there were much larger and more serious forces behind the scenes."
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CHINA: DETAINED UYGHUR CHRISTIAN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Posted on April 18, 2009 by particularkev
Family fears for his safety; planned Easter celebration near earthquake area quashed.
DUBLIN, April 17 (Compass Direct News) – Family members of detained Uyghur Christian Alimjan Yimit are increasingly concerned for his safety following reports that police and a prison doctor escorted him in handcuffs to a hospital in Kashgar two weeks ago.
Alimjan (Alimujiang Yimiti in Chinese) called out to onlookers, "I'm sick. Tell my lawyer to come quickly to see me," according to a China Aid Association (CAA) report.
Sources told Compass that Alimjan had been beaten in prison, although it was not clear who beat him or why.
The transfer from the Kashi Municipal Detention Center in Kashgar, Xinjiang province, came just one week after Alimjan's lawyer met with him to discuss a court trial anticipated in May. According to CAA, this was only the second time authorities have allowed anyone to visit Alimjan since his arrest in January 2008.
Court authorities last May returned Alimjan's case to state prosecutors, citing lack of evidence for charges of "leaking state secrets" and "inciting secession." Family, friends and work colleagues have insisted that Alimjan is a loyal citizen with no access to state secrets, and that his arrest was due largely to his Christian faith and association with foreign Christians.
Compass sources confirmed this week that Alimjan's family members are emotionally distraught over his continued detention and over lack of communication from prison authorities.
If convicted, Alimjan could face execution; Chinese authorities executed two alleged Uyghur separatists as recently as last Thursday (April 9).
Authorities first detained Alimjan on Jan. 12, 2008 on charges of endangering state security before formally re-arresting him on Feb. 20, 2008 for allegedly "inciting secession" and leaking state secrets to foreign organizations.
After court authorities returned Alimjan's case to state prosecutors and after their further investigation, his case was returned to court officials for consideration in mid-October.
Compass sources claim Kashgar authorities are wary of the case due to its sensitivity. Officials initially interrogated Alimjan during his employment for two foreign-owned companies and forbade him to discuss the questioning with anyone. In September 2007 they closed the business he then worked for and accused him of using it as a cover for "preaching Christianity" among the Uyghurs. Alimjan was arrested several months later on political charges.
A second Uyghur Christian, Osman Imin (Wusiman Yaming in Chinese), sentenced to two years in labor camp for "leaking state secrets" and "illegal proselytizing," is due for release this October. Authorities had originally called for a 10-15 year prison sentence for Osman but significantly reduced the term following international media attention.
Authorities permit Osman's wife and children to visit him once a month.
Human Rights Proposal
On Monday (April 13), as family members waited to hear news of Alimjan's condition, China's State Council released a new document outlining proposed human rights improvements. The document focused heavily on protecting the rights of prisoners and included a pledge to abolish torture and other forms of abuse within two years.
The "National Human Rights Action Plan" was one of several measures proposed by a Chinese government delegation at a United Nations review of China's human rights record held on Feb. 9.
The plan includes a ban on confessions extracted through torture and a new requirement for physical examinations before and after interrogations. It also affirms the right of prisoners to hire and meet with lawyers and to report abuses in writing to the appropriate authorities.
China's state-run English newspaper, the China Daily, reported on March 24 that bullying and torture were a significant problem in the nation's detention centers, and that at least five inmates had died under suspicious circumstances since Feb. 8, according to CAA.
'Break-through' for Christianity in China a Mirage
By Xu Mei
BEIJING, April 17 (Compass Direct News) – Prior to the event it was publicized abroad as the next great break-through for house church Christianity in China.
A giant, open celebration was to be held on Easter Sunday (April 12) in the western city of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. Finally, it seemed, the government would acknowledge the sacrificial work of house church Christians who came to Sichuan from throughout the country to help with rescue and reconstruction for those suffering from last May's earthquake. It would be an open admission that Christianity – even of the house church variety – was a positive element in Chinese society.
Verbal permission had been obtained for 2,500 house church Christians throughout China to meet for the special celebration entitled, "Build Up the Church and Bless Society." Some 50 government officials had been invited to the event, to be held at Chengdu's new exhibition center. Christians from Singapore and the United States flew in for it.
But the day before Easter, police abruptly informed the center that the event was cancelled. Organizers hastily changed the venue to a smaller, old exhibition center where only about 1,000 people could be accommodated. Plans for a more low-key event were stitched together, to start at 5 p.m. on Easter Sunday.
But even this was too much. An hour before the event, police barred the door. The foreigners left. None of the promised government officials turned up. A few hundred bemused Chinese house church Christians seized the opportunity to hold an impromptu worship service in a nearby parking lot.
Police intervened there, too, and arrested some local house church leaders. They were released later that evening.
The debacle comes after another much-publicized "break-through," a supposedly government-sponsored seminar in Beijing last Nov. 21-22 in which officials were said to have met with house church leaders (see http://www.compassdirect.org, "Officials Reach Out to House Churches; Raids, Arrests Continue," Dec. 9, 2008). The chief organizer later denied there was any government involvement, much less a break-through.
Rather, a minor Non-Governmental Organization had assembled academics, including some Christians, to meet with house church leaders to discuss church-state relations and make proposals they hoped might be passed on to the government at some future stage.
Observers speculate that in both the symposium and the Easter celebration, Christians overseas and perhaps some younger Chinese Christians – who have less experience than their elders with the machinations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – had overestimated the benevolence of government authorities. Faced with the enormity of an economic crisis, sources said, the government seems to be in no mood to take major steps to liberalize oppressive religious policies, let alone legalize house churches.
That the Beijing seminar was actually held, and that the Chengdu celebration could be organized only to be stopped at the last minute, could be viewed as hopeful signs of how the Chinese government has lumbered forward, at glacial pace, towards a more open policy towards Christians over the last decade or so. But powerful reactionary forces within the CCP view with dismay the extraordinary growth of the church, sources say.
Many officials still view Christianity – and especially house churches – as an ideological and political threat. Limits on the public expression of Christian worship and evangelism are clearly laid down in a welter of national, provincial and local documents issued by CCP and government over the past 25 years. Sources say minor infractions may be winked at, but major changes in a more liberal direction are not to be expected.
Officials are struggling to control a country that threatens to become increasingly uncontrollable. Depending on how long the economic recession grips China, sources say, it seems likely that for the next two years at least, the government will err on the side of caution.
Report from Compass News Direct
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FOREMOST UK GAY ACTIVIST ADMITS THERE IS NO GAY GENE
One of the untouchable dogmas of the homosexualist movement is the assertion of the existence of a "gay gene", or a genetic marker that causes same-sex attraction. The assertion of a genetic factor in homosexual preference has never been demonstrated by scientists and now at least one prominent campaigner in the British homosexualist movement has admitted this fact, reports Hilary White, LifeSiteNews.com.
Peter Tatchell, an Australian-born British homosexual activist who founded the "direct action" group OutRage! that specialises in media stunts such as disrupting Christian religious services, wrote on Spiked Online that he agrees with the scientific consensus that there is no such thing as a "gay gene."
Contrary to the findings of some researchers who have tried to posit a purely genetic origin for same-sex attractions, Tatchell wrote, "Genes and hormones may predispose a person to one sexuality rather than another. But that's all. Predisposition and determination are two different things."
Homosexual activists have adopted the "gay gene" theory to bolster their assertion that any objection on moral grounds to homosexual activity is akin to objecting to left-handedness or skin colour. It has supported the accusation that Christians and others who object to the homosexual movement are racists and bigots.
Tatchell even went as far as to acknowledge the existence of some who have changed their "sexual orientation." "If heterosexuality and homosexuality are, indeed, genetically predetermined… how do we explain bisexuality or people who, suddenly in mid-life, switch from heterosexuality to homosexuality (or vice versa)? We can't."
Sexuality, he wrote, is "far more ambiguous, blurred and overlapping than any theory of genetic causality can allow."
"Examples of sexual flexibility… don't square with genetic theories of rigid erotic predestination."
Bill Muehlenberg, a Christian writer and philosophy lecturer, called Tatchell's admission a rare and "refreshing" and "very revealing case of homosexual honesty." Muehlenberg said that he has been "howled down" by homosexual lobbyists for years for saying the same things about putative homosexual determinism. Whoever is saying it, he wrote, the conclusion must be the debunking of the myth that homosexuals are "born that way" and cannot help, or change, their inclinations.
The "gay gene" theory has been used by gay activists "to deny choice, to make it appear that homosexuals cannot help it, and to argue that any criticism of the gay lifestyle is as silly as criticism of being left-handed or red-haired."
"And this has been a deliberate strategy by homosexual activists. They have done a very good job to convince a gullible public that homosexuals are born that way and cannot change."
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Q: Different binning for histplot as JoinGrid (x,y) marginal plot I have a pandas dataframe like this:

Date
Weight
Year
Month
Day
Week
DayOfWeek

0
2017-11-13
76.1
2017
11
13
46
0

1
2017-11-14
76.2
2017
11
14
46
1

2
2017-11-15
76.6
2017
11
15
46
2

3
2017-11-16
77.1
2017
11
16
46
3

4
2017-11-17
76.7
2017
11
17
46
4

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I created a JoinGrid with:
g = sns.JointGrid(data=df,
    x="Date",
    y="Weight",
    marginal_ticks=True,
    height=6,
    ratio=2,
    space=.05)

Then a defined joint and marginal plots:
g.plot_joint(sns.scatterplot,
        hue=df["Year"],
        alpha=.4,
        legend=True)
g.plot_marginals(sns.histplot,
    multiple="stack",
    bins=20,
    hue=df["Year"])

Result is this.

Now the question is: "is it possible to specify different binning for the two histplot resulting in the x and y marginal plot?"

A: I don't think there is a built-in way to do that, by you can plot directly on the marginal axes using the plotting function of your choice, like so:
penguins = sns.load_dataset('penguins')

data = penguins
x_col = "bill_length_mm"
y_col = "bill_depth_mm"
hue_col = "species"

g = sns.JointGrid(data=data, x=x_col, y=y_col, hue=hue_col)
g.plot_joint(sns.scatterplot)

# top marginal
sns.histplot(data=data, x=x_col, hue=hue_col, bins=5, ax=g.ax_marg_x, legend=False, multiple='stack')
# right marginal
sns.histplot(data=data, y=y_col, hue=hue_col, bins=40, ax=g.ax_marg_y, legend=False, multiple='stack')

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Bisnow
Port Covington Developer Names Office Tenant, Says Rebrand Ahead
By: Adam Bednar
The massive Port Covington development in Baltimore has inked its first lease, and developer MAG Partners plans to unveil a rebrand and updated master plan later this year, CEO MaryAnne Gilmartin said Thursday morning.
The H. Chambers Co., a 123-year-old interior design business currently headquartered in the Montgomery Park development in southwest Baltimore, signed a 9K SF lease at the Port Covington building dubbed E-7, Gilmartin said.
"[It's] an amazing company that fell in love with the ingenuity, the possibilities, and the actual quality of the buildings we're in. So, I just want you to know that the leasing has begun, and they are our first signed lease," Gilmartin said.
Gilmartin announced the deal during Bisnow's Baltimore State of the Market event on Thursday at 2455 Banner St. in Port Covington. Speaking to reporters after her remarks, Gilmartin said she expects to announce more significant leases by the fourth quarter of this year.
Last month, news outlets published articles questioning the pace of leasing at the development and probed whether the lack of deals was a sign the project was struggling.
The Baltimore Banner, citing anonymous sources, reported Wednesday that CFG Bank told its employees the financial institution planned to relocate its offices from Baltimore County to Port Covington.
Gilmartin said she could not confirm or deny CFG Bank as a future tenant. No deal is done until the ink is dry on a lease, she said.
Gilmartin also said her firm, which took over as the project's master developer in May, plans to unveil a new master plan and a rebranding for the development later this year.
"We're doing a complete rebrand. A year from now we won't be calling it Port Covington. We're going to unveil a new name for the project at the end of this year," she said. "We just need traction, right? Because the buildings are there."
There are five buildings under construction on the site as part of the $550M first phase of construction. Initial plans from Weller Development, the original master developer, called for 14M SF of retail, office and residential space off Interstate 95 on 235 acres covering the city's southern peninsula.
Under Armour, whose founder, Kevin Plank, initially financed the Port Covington redevelopment, is constructing the athletic brand's new global headquarters next to Port Covington.
Developer Mark Sapperstein also closed this week on the Locke Insulators building on the peninsula, Gilmartin said. Sapperstein's firm, 28 Walker Development, has developed some of Baltimore's most successful retail projects, such as The Shops at Canton Crossing and McHenry Row.
However, another major property on the peninsula is heading toward vacancy. The Baltimore Sun isn't renewing its lease at 300 East Cromwell St. and is in the process of moving operations out of the building, according to Gilmartin.
The roughly 500K SF industrial building served for decades as the home of the newspaper's printing operations before The Sun outsourced printing of the paper earlier this year. Since 2018, the property has also served as the newspaper's main office after its former owner sold The Sun's Calvert Street offices downtown.
Baltimore Business Journal
Design firm Chambers Co. signs lease to move offices to Port Covington
By: Melody Simmons
Baltimore interior design and architectural firm Chambers Co. on Thursday signed the first office lease at Port Covington and the new owner of the large-scale development says other tenants are on the way.
Chambers will move from Montgomery Park into 9,000 square feet at the new Rye Street Market mixed-use development early next year under a 10-year lease deal, said MaryAnne Gilmartin, CEO of MAG Partners, which bought into the $5.5 billion project this spring and is the new master developer.
Chambers officials were unavailable for comment on Thursday afternoon. The company is the second-largest interior design firm in the region with nearly $95 million in 2021 billings and 14 interior designers in the Baltimore area as of August, according to BBJ research.
Gilmartin announced the lease deal during a Bisnow real estate forum as the first signed at Port Covington. The news drew a round of applause from the about 200 brokers and developers who had gathered on the fourth floor of 2455 Banner St., an office tower still in the works.
Chambers soon may have company at the emerging development in South Baltimore.
CFG Bank officials said Wednesday they were in final negotiations to sign a lease for 100,000 square feet of office space at Port Covington. Gilmartin declined to comment on that deal but did say JLL brokers hired by MAG and its partner McFarlane Partners were busy with ongoing lease negotiations this month.
The Chambers deal was signed on Thursday morning, Gilmartin said. She added that the 123-year-old firm will begin to build out its office space next month and move in by January.
"The leasing has begun," Gilmartin said. "This is the first lease."
Of the push to lasso other new office and commercial tenants for Port Covington's first group of office buildings that total 1.1 million square feet, Gilmartin told the group: "Our money is green. Bring us a pulse and we'll make a deal."
Weller Development exited the massive project in May as New York-based MAG Partners and San Francisco-based McFarlane Partners struck a deal with Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) founder Kevin Plank to take over.
Plank is the lead visionary for Port Covington and he secretly acquired more than 200 acres there nearly a decade ago for the project. He unveiled plans for the development about eight years ago with designs that have since been scaled back and recreated. Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group is also an investor.
Today, the master plan for the project states it could hold up to 14 million square feet of mixed-use development on 45 new city blocks.


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Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
Watch Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) full movies online.
Synopsis: John Rambo is removed from prison by his former superior, Colonel Samuel Troutman, for a top-secret operation to bring back POW's still held in Vietnam. Rambo's assignment is to only take pictures of where the POWs are being held, but Rambo wants to get the POWs out of Vietnam. Teamed up with female Vietnamese freedom fighter Co Bao, Rambo embarks on a mission to rescue the POWs, who are being held by sadistic Vietnamese Captain Vinh and his Russian comrade, Lieutenant Colonel Padovsky. Rambo starts killing every enemy in sight while still focusing on his intentions to rescue the POWs. There are also corrupt American officials involved in the mission, including Marshall Murdock, one of Rambo's superiors.
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Writers: David Morrell, Kevin Jarre
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier
The Siege (1998)
The Protector (2005)
RoboCop 2 (1990)
Young Guns (1988
The Other Guys (2010)
Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Black Cauldron (1985)
Free Birds (2013)
The Machinist (2004)
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Scorched Earth (2018)
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)


Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice. The intent of the ECCI is to create public awareness of the differences among districts in their support of school choice, provide a framework for efforts to improve choice and competition, and recognize leaders among school districts in the design and implementation of choice and competition systems. The 2014 ECCI web application is also accompanied by a written report in which results are summarized and discussed.


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Pv & The HeheheeeYs are out with the new EP, Eye Say II
Eye Say II:
Pv & The HeheheeeYs are out with a brand new EP! Eye Say II is the second release in an EP collection of four. And the bands 6th release. It was recorded in Solslottet Studio and Havnelageret Studio in Norway (Bergen), during 2017. The EP´s first track, Ruin, was written by the bands good friend Alf Vold, who died of cancer in 2003. While the rest of the material is written by the Pv. The EP is also produced by PV and it was mastered by Iver Sandøy. Release date: 20.August 2018 Label: PVrec
About the band:
Pv & The HeheheeeY's is an indie/pop/rock band from Bergen, Norway. They started out as a studio project in 1998. But after their debut, Create Your Lover, they also found their way to the stage. They have done several concerts in Norway, and also in the US (2000-2003). In the US with the legendary Grammy Award winning blues-guitarist Paul Nelson (Johnny Winter Band). From 2004 - 2018 PV Staff has been touring mostly alone, doing an average of 320 gigs a year. The drummer, Iver Sandøy, is at the moment also a member of the famous world touring metal band Enslaved. But PV & The HeheheeeY's are still occasionally doing concerts together, although they are now considered a studio band.
www.facebook.com/pages/PV-The-HeHeHeeeYs/92382258360?ref=aymt_homep
pvstaff@gmail.com


You'd better get used to it, Los Angeles is remaking itself from a one trick pony town where car is king into a multimodal city for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users. The latest improvement is Sunset Triangle Plaza, the city's first pedestrian plaza created by a new collaboration called Streets for People (S4P) that hopes to churn out dozens new pedestrian-oriented spaces a year across the city. The green-on-green polka dot plaza officially opened this month to crowds of gleeful pedestrians in the hip enclave of Silver Lake, northwest of Downtown LA.
The year-long pilot project was designed by Rios Clementi Hale Studios, who said the design is open to interpretation. "The dots play off of D.O.T., the abbreviation for Department of Transportation, which is integral to the Streets for People program," said firm principal Frank Clementi in a statement.
The 11,000 square foot plaza at Sunset Boulevard and Griffith Park connects the neighborhood to a small triangular pocket park previously stranded in a sea of streets and plays host to a twice-weekly farmers market. Moveable bistro tables and chairs, also in green, fill the plaza and large pots filled with drought resistant plants serve as bollards at its perimeter.


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Whom DO You Know?
Unless you have resided in a fallout shelter since the 1950s, you likely know a great many more people than you think you do. It is virtually impossible for you to have successfully negotiated your way to adulthood without meeting–and leaving an impression upon–a considerable number of people along the way, including:
Friends of friends
Friends of relatives
Friends of neighbors
Fellow academic alumni/ae
College and law school professors
Current classmates (if in school)
Colleagues at work
Workplace alumni/ae
Other professional colleagues
Job interviewers (yes, even they can become part of your network)
Members of your current and former clubs and organizations (such as bar associations, community and cultural groups, churches/synagogues, PTAs, athletic teams, and volunteer groups)
Political contacts
Step One: Make a Big List
Bill Clinton may be the best networker in history. As a teenager, he began keeping file cards on people he met, addresses, phone numbers, the circumstances of their meetings, their families, etc. He had accumulated 17,000 by the time he ran for president.
I am not suggesting that you emulate him to quite this "OCD" extent. However, if you think about the different phases of your life, you are bound to come up with a great many names. Your initial "pass" should list their names and their relationship to you.
Step Two: Fine-Tune the List
This is where you cull out the best potential contacts and indicate why they fall into that category. Also, list how each of these individuals might be able to help you. A relative, for example, may be a member of an interesting organization, and could serve to introduce you to other members of the organization.
For example, one of my former company's career counseling candidates came up with the following "Step Two" list of potential contacts:
His daughter's English teacher was the wife of a former member of Congress who was now working as a presidential appointee in the federal government.
A neighbor ran an export-import company that had very strong contacts across the high-technology community as well as in the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The parent of his son's baseball teammate was a lobbyist for one of the largest publishing companies in the U.S.
A member of his parish church was a consultant in a Big Four CPA firm who numbered among his clients a variety of law firms and in-house counsel shops.
Don't limit your list only to those people who might help you directly. Speculate also on how these individuals might be able to help you indirectly. For example, one of our counseling candidates included on her list a law professor who had published articles on the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. We recommended that she contact the professor and probe not only how he could advise and assist her directly, but also whether he might be able to introduce her to officials in the U.S. Government who were working in the field of U.S.-Canada trade (and other) relations. The professor was able to arrange an informational interview between our candidate and a senior Commerce Department official who had served with the professor on an advisory panel. This contact, in turn, led her to another government official in another Federal agency dealing with international trade and investment matters, a contact that resulted in an interview.
Whom SHOULD You Know?
The easy answer to this question is: as many people as you possibly can cram into your circle. A successful "rainmaker" attorney in Denver does not go anywhere–church, PTA meetings, soccer games, swim meets, etc., without a stack of business cards which he distributes to everyone he meets. In his early career, he even joined more than one church in order to maximize his contacts. True, this was a bit extreme, but it worked.
Have a goal to meet at least two new people a week. If you can achieve that, you will build up a potential network of vast proportions.


Unions recently took part in a consultation process by World Rugby on the existing Laws of the Game and the sanctions table. The RFU contributed to the consultation and a decision has been made by the World Rugby Council that the new, simplified Laws of the Game and revised sanction tables will come into force globally as of 1 January 2018.
Download the New Law book Here!


REA Group, which operates leading property websites around the world, approached Water Cooler to help them promote their new benefits for parents.
REA Group, which operates leading property websites around the world, approached Water Cooler to help them promote their new benefits for parents. The benefits are definitely something to shout about, helping them to attract more female talent: for example, paid parental leave was extended from 12 weeks to six months for primary carers and from one week to three months for secondary carers.
How to get the word out about a policy that left many other companies in the industry behind?
Working closely with the client, Water Cooler created a full communication campaign, including blog posts, digital posters and community discussions on Slack and Jive.
But the real genius was the creative talent behind the campaign's visuals. A member of the project team had spotted the Instagram account 15 Minute Drawings in which artist Dougal MacPherson documented his family life through his own beautiful illustrations.
It just so happened that Dougal was a web developer at REA. This was an opportunity not to be missed and when approached, Dougal agreed that his illustrations could be used for the campaign.
Using the illustrations was great but the real gold for employee engagement is always meeting the people behind the story. So Water Cooler interviewed Dougal for a feature on the company intranet in which we uncovered that he had also recently illustrated a children's book, Introducing Teddy, with a positive transgender character at its heart.
The book has since been published globally by Bloosmbury (the publishers of Harry Potter), as well as being translated into nine other languages.
The campaign was a huge hit with both the Executive Leadership team and the wider employee base.
And the positive response to the campaign wasn't limited to the new benefits. The feel-good factor extended to the creative way the campaign itself had showcased and promoted the talent of one of REA's own.
There is a lot of hidden talent within organisations. So before automatically bringing in creatives from outside, try to source your talent from within your own business. The rise of social media has made it a whole lot easier and is helping clued-up internal comms professionals raise their game.


These restorative videos are all about feeling good, relaxing and releasing tension. Don't push deep into the stretches – only go as far as feels good. If you want to stay in a stretch longer, feel free to pause the video! Gather any props that will aid in the stretches and help you get comfortable. You can use straps and blocks, or towels and blankets if that's what you have at home.
The more you do these workouts, the better you'll feel. I recommend doing one every day. I've designed them for after a long day at work or in the evening before bed, but they would also be a great way to start the day. They are also the perfect cool down after a workout.


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Q: How to print a char array in C through printf? This results in segmentation fault.
What needs to be corrected?
int main(void)
{
    char a_static = {'q', 'w', 'e', 'r'};
    char b_static = {'a', 's', 'd', 'f'};

    printf("\n value of a_static: %s", a_static);
    printf("\n value of b_static: %s\n", b_static);
}

A: The code posted is incorrect: a_static and b_static should be defined as arrays.
There are two ways to correct the code:

*

*you can add null terminators to make these arrays proper C strings:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    char a_static[] = { 'q', 'w', 'e', 'r', '\0' };
    char b_static[] = { 'a', 's', 'd', 'f', '\0' };

    printf("value of a_static: %s\n", a_static);
    printf("value of b_static: %s\n", b_static);
    return 0;
}

*Alternately, printf can print the contents of an array that is not null terminated using the precision field:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    char a_static[] = { 'q', 'w', 'e', 'r' };
    char b_static[] = { 'a', 's', 'd', 'f' };

    printf("value of a_static: %.4s\n", a_static);
    printf("value of b_static: %.*s\n", (int)sizeof(b_static), b_static);
    return 0;
}

The precision given after the . specifies the maximum number of characters to output from the string. It can be given as a decimal number or as * and provided as an int argument before the char pointer.

A: This results in segmentation fault. ? because of the below statement
char a_static = {'q', 'w', 'e', 'r'};

a_static should be char array to hold multiple characters. make it like
 char a_static[] = {'q', 'w', 'e', 'r','\0'}; /* add null terminator at end of array */

Similarly for b_static
char b_static[] = {'a', 's', 'd', 'f','\0'};

A: You need to use array instead of declaring
a_static
b_static

as variables
So it look like this:
int main()
{
  char a_static[] = {'q', 'w', 'e', 'r','\0'};
  char b_static[] = {'a', 's', 'd', 'f','\0'};
  printf("a_static=%s,b_static=%s",a_static,b_static);
  return 0;
}

A: The thing is that you are using C Style Strings, and a C Style String is terminated by a zero.
For example if you'd want to print "alien" by using a char array:
char mystring[6] = { 'a' , 'l', 'i', 'e' , 'n', 0}; //see the last zero? That is what you are missing (that's why C Style String are also named null terminated strings, because they need that zero)
printf("mystring is \"%s\"",mystring);

The output should be:

mystring is "alien"

Back to your code, it should look like:
int main(void)
{
  char a_static[5] = {'q', 'w', 'e', 'r', 0};
  char b_static[5] = {'a', 's', 'd', 'f', 0};
  printf("\n value of a_static: %s", a_static);
  printf("\n value of b_static: %s\n", b_static);
  return 0;//return 0 means the program executed correctly
}

By the way, instead of arrays you can use pointers (if you don't need to modify the string):
char *string = "my string"; //note: "my string" is a string literal

Also you can initialize your char arrays with string literals too:
char mystring[6] = "alien"; //the zero is put by the compiler at the end

Also: Functions that operate on C Style Strings (e.g. printf, sscanf, strcmp,, strcpy, etc) need zero to know where the string ends
Hope that you learned something from this answer.


Formerly published under the title, The Wall, Jenny's Secret is a short thriller that takes the reader into the dark corners of a killers mind.
Jenny has a problem with the wall in her kitchen. It is infested with bugs, but that is the least of her concerns. Something else is alive behind the wall. Something more frightening than bugs.
I'm going to need more poison, Joe said, ignoring me completely. Stepping back, he stared at the wall. You have roaches, maggots, beetles … I don't even know —he pointed with his sprayer— what that one is right there. Jenny, you should've come to me sooner?
I didn't because I'm going to take care of it!
Jenny, the U.S Army couldn't take care of this! How long has this been going on?
This didn't just start this morning.
George's voice returned: They're gonna find out what you did!


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Photo Credit: The CEO
You've Probably Never Considered Premiering Your Film Aboard an Intercontinental Flight... (Video)
Kunle Afolayan Premieres 'The CEO' aboard Air-France flight to Paris – Photo AFP
It's probably not an idea that most of you filmmakers have considered, but maybe there's something to be learned here, or a foundation has been set for others to build upon.
Nigerian producer-director-actor, Kunle Afolayan's latest work, the drama-thriller "The CEO" is set to hit cinemas in Nigeria on July 15th, 2016, and in cinemas across continental Africa later in the year.
Before that, the filmmaker took an unconventional approach, premiering the film in-flight aboard an Air France trip from Lagos, Nigeria to Paris last night. The in-flight premiere precedes the NollywoodWeek Paris film festival (June 2-5), where the film will be spotlighted.
The special premiere began with a Red Carpet show at the Check-In Counter at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, which the local media covered.
"For our sponsors, partners, the cast and crew of 'The CEO' and those accredited to attend NollywoodWeek Paris, the fun continues with a Cocktail Party at the Boarding Gate. We will run a red carpet into the plane. Thereafter, the movie will be screened onboard the plane where other passengers will partake in the show. It is going to be a complete event show with the usual razzmatazz. Just imagine an After Party happening 35,000ft to 40,000ft above the sea level. It is sure going to be a unique experience," the filmmaker said prior to the premiere flight.
It most certainly sounds like it would indeed be a unique experience all around. It's a curious approach that I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out and what, if anything, it leads to for other filmmakers looking for alternative marketing/publicity/screening strategies.
Watch the AFP's footage of the event immediately below, and continue reading after it.
Set on a beautiful beach resort on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria, "The CEO" follows five top executives from across Africa who are dispatched on a one-week leadership retreat by a multinational telecommunications firm to determine who gets selected as the new CEO. Things go awry when, one by one, the executives are eliminated in sudden death circumstances, with the finger pointing to the last two remaining executive as prime suspects.
The film stars some of the best from the continent like Angelique Kidjo, Wale Ojo, Nico Panagio, Lala Kemi Akidoju, Fatym Layachi, Aurelie Eliam, Hilda Dokubo as well as Jimmy Jean-Louis (the Haitian-American actor).
"The Ceo" follows Afolayan's last film, the serial killer film set against Nigeria's Independence as a backdrop, "October 1" which was profiled on this blog last year.
Prior to that, Afolayan directed the romantic-comedy "Phone Swap," a film we also covered, which screened internationally, in 2012, and is available via digital platforms currently.
And the film he made before that, the horror/thriller, "Araromire" ("The Figurine"), is also now available for streaming online on streaming sites like Ndani.TV, which features primarily Nollywood cinema – or what the founders call "the best of New Nollywood as well as the classics."
Continuing his efforts to produce films in Nigeria that can compete on the international film stage, specifically at an acclaimed festival like Cannes, Afoloyan has a body of work that chronicles his growth as a filmmaker over the years – films that are eagerly anticipated in Nigeria, but now more-so than ever before, are being released and are finding audiences internationally.
The trailer for "The CEO" follows below:


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Q: Getting list of all tags How can I get list of all the tags on Stack Overflow?
The number of tags is quite large and I want to see all of them in a place/page rather than moving page by page. I need this, so I can subscribe to tags relevant for me in one go.

A: Looking at the paginated list - there are 36 tags per page... and (at present) 941 pages of tags. That makes ~33876 tags in total.
If you tried to get the entire list of these tags all in one page, the page would timeout before it even loaded.
Perhaps there's another way to accomplish what you're after?

A: Just query the Tags table on the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.


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Reuters: Two U.S. citizens deported from Russia
There have been several high profile arrests of U.S. citizens in Russia in recent months.
Photo from UNIAN
Russia said on Thursday two U.S. citizens had been deported for violations of immigration laws, following local media reports that identified them as members of the Mormon church, and that two other Americans were in custody.
Russian media named the two as Kole Brodowski and David Udo Hague and said they had been ordered to leave Russia by a court in the southern port of Novorossiysk on Thursday, Reuters said.
It described them as volunteers with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.
"I can confirm reports of the detention of U.S. citizens for breach of migration laws," foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. "Four were detained, two were deported by the decision of the court."
Read alsoRussia to continue campaign promoting religious tensions in Ukraine– media
The Mormon church was not immediately available for comment, Reuters said.
Paul Whelan, a former U.S. marine accused of spying, saw his detention extended last month for a further three months as authorities continue to investigate the case.
A prominent U.S. investor, Michael Calvey, was detained last month on allegations of stealing 2.5 billion roubles ($37.79 million). He denies the allegation.
More than 100 criminal cases have also been opened in Russia against Jehovah's Witnesses, another Christian denomination, with a Danish adherent of the faith recently jailed for six years.
KSL TV in the American state of Utah, where the Mormon church is based, quoted the father of one of the two detained men as saying they had been held on Friday on suspicion of teaching without a license.
Tags: #Russia#deportation#religion


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Q: mongoose dynamic define enum values Is there a way to dynamically define enum values?
var mongoose = require('./index'),
TempSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
 color: {type: String, enum: ['Red', 'Green', 'Blue']}
});

in the above 3 strings are defined at design time.
What I would want is to pick up colors from another schema documents and add them to this enum array.
Is it possible?