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Criminal practice – prosecution's duty of disclosure
Edwards v The Queen [2021] HCA 28
Dr Michelle Sharpe
In the High Court decision of Edwards v The Queen [2021] HCA 28 (6 October 2021), the High Court was required to determine whether the prosecutor's duty to provide full and proper disclosure, under s142 of Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW), extended to serving the defendant with a copy of data downloaded from the defendant's phone.
The defendant (Edwards) was convicted of six counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a person aged above 10 and under 14 years of age contrary to s66C(2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).
Edwards argued that his trial miscarried by reason of the prosecutor's failure to provide his lawyers, ahead of the trial, with a hard drive containing a copy of data downloaded from his mobile phone by police (Download). Although the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) had informed Edwards' lawyer of the existence of the Download prior to trial, it did not serve a copy of the Download on Edwards or otherwise provide any information from the Download.
Edwards' lawyer became cognisant of the Download after the ODPP served a statement from a particular witness, Ms Birchill, on the Friday before the commencement of the trial. Edwards' lawyer enquired how the ODPP came to know of the existence of Ms Birchill and was informed that Ms Birchill's details had been obtained from the Download. Edwards did not seek an adjournment of the trial or an exclusion of Ms Birchill's evidence.
On appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal, Edwards argued that if the ODPP had disclosed that Ms Birchill's details had been extracted from the Download, then he would have been alerted to the fact that the Download could be mined for potentially useful information for his defence.
The Court of Criminal Appeal (Leeming JA, Johnson and Harrison JJ) unanimously dismissed Edwards' appeal. The Court of Criminal Appeal concluded that it was not part of a prosecutor's duty to disclose how the ODPP identified witnesses. Nor was it part of a prosecutor's duty to tell Edwards that he might find the Download useful for his defence.
The High Court also unanimously dismissed Edwards' appeal. Kiefel CJ, Keane and Gleeson JJ noted at [24] that it was settled law that a failure by the prosecution to disclose all relevant evidence to the accused may result in the quashing of a guilty verdict.
But, their Honours also observed at [25] that Edwards was unable to show how the failure to serve a copy of the Download on him undermined his entitlement to a fair trial. Further, their Honours noted at [30] that Edwards could have sought an adjournment of the trial to enable him to make inquiries, but didn't.
And, at [31], their Honours noted that it was open to Edwards to instruct his lawyers to obtain a copy of the Download. The existence of the Download had been identified by the ODPP well in advance of the service of Ms Birchill's witness statement.
In a separate judgment, Edelman and Steward JJ considered that the Download should have been served on Edwards but did not consider that it resulted in a miscarriage of justice. Edelman and Steward JJ, like Kiefel CJ et al, observed that Edwards had failed to establish that there was any information in the Download which would have assisted his defence.
Dr Michelle Sharpe is a Victorian barrister practicing in general commercial, real property, disciplinary and regulatory law, 03 9225 8722, email msharpe@vicbar.com.au. The full version of these judgments can be found at austlii.edu.au.
Family law – apprehension of bias
Charisteas v Charisteas [2021] HCA 29
Criminal law – recklessness
Director of Public Prosecutions Reference No.1 of 2019 [2021] HCA 26
Defamation – publication
Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Voller [2021] HCA 25
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Tactical decisions during a trial require great care, as this High Court case illustrates.
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If a natural disaster or unforeseen even ruins your place of business, inventory or other infrastructure, property and casualty insurance will help you rebuild. However, they don't pay for the lost revenue during the time you're closed. That's the role of business interruption insurance. In addition, if you are in a business where your services are critical or temporary closure could mean curtains for your company, an extra cost rider to your policy can cover you for the additional costs you may need to undertake to get your business back up and running quickly, such as temporary rental space, rush orders of inventory and contracted out customer service.
Tech Republica; When Should Consultants Buy Professional Liability Insurance?
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Burning Cole
by Philip Weiss
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/10334/burning-cole
Neoconservatism is an elite calling. It thrives in think tanks, not union halls; its proponents want most of all to influence the powerful. No wonder Ivy League labels have always been important to neocons. This fixation on intellectual prestige explains the recent neocon uprising over the possibility that Juan Cole, scholar and blogger, would become a Yale professor. It was one thing for Cole to hold forth from the University of Michigan, where he has been a professor for twenty years. But Yale would provide "honor" and "imprimatur," says Scott Johnson, a right-wing blogger. "That's a huge thing, to have them bless all his rantings on that blog."
On June 2 Johnson broke the story (on powerlineblog.com) that Yale's Senior Appointments Committee had the day before rejected Cole after three other Yale committees had signed off on him. By then a process that usually takes place behind closed doors had become thoroughly politicized by the right. "I'm saddened and distressed by the news," John Merriman, a Yale history professor, said of the rejection. "I love this place. But I haven't seen something like this happen at Yale before. In this case, academic integrity clearly has been trumped by politics."
The controversy erupted this spring after two campus periodicals reported that Cole was under consideration by Yale for a joint appointment in sociology and history. In an article in the Yale Herald, Campus Watch, a pro-Israel group that monitors scholars' statements about the Middle East, was quoted as saying that Cole lacked a "penetrating mind," and suggesting that Yale was "in danger of sacrificing academic credibility in exchange for the attention" Cole would generate. Alex Joffe, then the director of Campus Watch, told me Cole "has a conspiratorial bent...he tends to see the Mossad and the Likud under his bed." For its part, the Yale Daily News twice featured attacks on Cole by former Bush Administration aide Michael Rubin, a Yale PhD associated with Campus Watch and the American Enterprise Institute. In an op-ed Rubin wrote, "Early in his career, Cole did serious academic work on the 19th century Middle East.... He has since abandoned scholarship in favor of blog commentary."
Academics dispute this. They say that Yale was drawn to Cole by top-rank scholarly achievement. He is president of the Middle East Studies Association, speaks Arabic and Persian, and has published several books on Egyptian and Shiite history. "We were impressed with Cole's scholarly work, and a wide set of letters showed that he is also highly regarded by other scholars in the field," says political science professor Frances Rosenbluth, a member of the Yale search committee that chose Cole. Zachary Lockman, an NYU Middle Eastern studies professor, says, "It's fair to say he is probably among the leading historians of the modern Middle East in this country." Joshua Landis, a professor at University of Oklahoma, describes Cole as "top notch."
"He was the wunderkind of Middle East Studies in the 1980s and 1990s," Landis says. "He can be strident on his blog, which is one reason it is the premier Middle East blog.... [But] Juan Cole has done something that no other Middle East academic has done since Bernard Lewis, who is 90 years old: He has become a household word. He has educated a nation. For the last thirty years every academic search for a professor of Middle East history at an Ivy League university has elicited the same complaint: 'There are no longer any Bernard Lewises. Where do you find someone really big with expertise on many subjects who is at home in both the ivory tower and inside the Beltway?' Today, Juan Cole is that academic."
Of course, Cole is on the left, while Lewis is a neoconservative. And it is hard to separate Cole's scholarly reputation from his Internet fame. Cole started his blog, Informed Comment, a few months after September 11. He quickly became the leading left blogger on terrorism and the Middle East, delivering every day, often by translating from Arabic newspapers. He could discuss the pros and cons of, say, an invasion of Iraq with complete authority. Here, for instance, are some of his writings in the lead-up to war: "The Persian Gulf is the site of two-thirds of the proven petroleum reserves in the world. Yet the countries along its littoral have no means of providing security to themselves.... The two exceptions here are Iran and Iraq.... Iraq did so badly in the Iran-Iraq war, however, that it left itself without credibility as security provider in the region. It also was left deeply in debt." A US invasion "will inevitably be seen in the Arab world as a neo-colonial war.... The final defeat of the Baath Party will be seen as a defeat of its ideals, which include secularism, improved rights for women and high modernism. Arabs in despair of these projects are likely to turn to radical Islam as an alternative outlet for their frustrations."
At times, his voice rose.
"The idea that terrorists willing to commit suicide will be afraid of the US after it invades Iraq is just a misreading of human nature," he wrote in 2003. "If the US really wanted to stop terrorism, it would invade the West Bank and Gaza and liberate the Palestinians to have their own state and self-respect."
Israel's treatment of Palestinians has always been important in Cole's reading of the Middle East. Naturally, Israel is central to neocons, too. Michael Rubin accused Cole of missing the good news from Iraq and of being anti-Semitic. That charge was soon taken up in the Wall Street Journal and in the New York Sun. "Why would Yale ever want to hire a professor best known for disparaging the participation of prominent American Jews in government?" wrote two Sun authors. One of them, according to Scott Johnson, was a student of Alan Dershowitz's at Harvard. The other is Johnson's daughter, Eliana, then a Yale senior. After that article, Johnson, a Minneapolis lawyer and Dartmouth grad, wrote up the case on his blog, which describes itself as a friend of Israel, and attacked Cole as a "moonbat."
Alex Joffe denies that a network went after Cole. "There wasn't any organized opposition. It was a question of people becoming aware of it somehow and each getting in his two cents." Asked about pot-stirrers, Johnson says, "I think if you look anywhere but Yale, you'd be making a mistake."
Well, if this isn't a network, neither are the professionals who exchange cards at New York parties. Joel Mowbray, a Washington Times columnist who has assailed the consideration of Cole, sent a letter to a dozen Yale donors, many of them Jewish, warning of Cole's possible appointment. According to the Jewish Week, "Several faculty members said they had heard that at least four major Jewish donors...have contacted officials at the university urging that Cole's appointment be denied." Still, Johnson's point is well taken. It must have been Yale insiders who got the news out to Cole's enemies, as Cole's appointment passed one after another of several institutional hurdles. The vote in the history department was said to be 13 to 7 with three abstentions (which count as no). This signaled unusual opposition to an appointment recommended by an interdisciplinary search committee. Yale's history department includes prominent supporters of the Bush international agenda like John Gaddis and Donald Kagan.
After Cole's defeat, Rubin suggested that Yale now had an opportunity to hire a real talent, someone at the level of, say, Aaron Friedberg, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton. Who is Friedberg? A former national security aide to Vice President Cheney through the first two years of the war that the-network-that-is-not-a-network wanted to get us into. Having a role in the greatest foreign-policy disaster of our generation is evidently a worthy credential in academia. Douglas Feith, after all, is about to join the Georgetown faculty.
As Scott Johnson notes, the left didn't care about Cole's appointment as much as the right. (Maybe because the left values his blog, which an Ivy League job might have cut in on.) In retrospect, though, it is appalling to consider what was done to Cole's reputation over this blue-chip appointment.
Cole chose not to discuss the process publicly while it was happening. "I think that a hiring process in academia is a professional matter," he told me. But he also said that Yale sought him out, and that the vilification process was orchestrated. "There were clearly phone calls amongst the persons doing it." The Yale Herald quoted two Michigan students one of whom had visited him at his office in Ann Arbor and questioned his openness to Jews. "I am frankly suspicious," Cole says. "How did [the Herald] track down these students?"
Lockman, Cole's fellow Middle Eastern scholar at NYU (speaking for himself only), finds the process fearful. "Since September 11 there has been a concerted effort by a small but well-funded group of people outside academia to monitor very carefully what all of us are saying, ready to jump on any sign of deviation from what they see as acceptable opinion. It's an attack on academic freedom, and it's not very healthy for our society."
Cole declined to talk about his feelings on losing the job. Still, the pain came through in his comments. Modern Middle Eastern studies has always been politicized, he says. He jumped into the blogosphere for a simple reason, to counter the common assertion that the Israeli occupation had nothing at all to do with the 9/11 attacks. "I'm from a military family. I had two cousins working in the Pentagon that was attacked. So this was personal to me. My country had been attacked. The mistreatment of the Palestinians and the high-handed policies of the Israeli right were deeply implicated in the attacks. I was angry.
"I knew when I began to speak out that I wasn't going to be hired. I knew my academic career was over. I knew that I can be in this place, be a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Michigan for the rest of my life. But I would never be a dean. I would never be a provost. I would never be in the Ivy League. I'm not surprised. I'm not upset. Actually, the bizarre thing is that Juan Cole was considered by Yale in the first place."
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Mr Peanuts and Friends
The Secret Life of Squirrels: A Love Story
Love is in the air with another irresistible photographic story of wild squirrels in homemade miniature settings — stopping at the bookstore, shopping for groceries, playing on the playground, and more — delighting readers and animal lovers of all ages.
A brand new companion to The Secret Life of Squirrels and Merry Christmas, Squirrels, sure to surprise and enchant readers young and old! Mr. Peanuts spends his days climbing trees and gathering nuts–but he wishes he had another squirrel to share his time with. When he meets a special squirrel friend, he soon finds himself falling in love! They visit the bookstore, go to the park, and have a romantic candlelit dinner. Will Mr. Peanuts get his happily ever after?
The Secret Life of Squirrels: Back to School
Get ready for the first day of school in this fourth book in the popular series featuring photographs of wild squirrels!
Mr. Peanuts' teacher friend Rosie needs help preparing for the first day of school! The two squirrels go shopping for school supplies, set up the library and music corners, bring all the sports equipment out to the blacktop, and decorate the classroom. Mr. Peanuts even practices driving the school bus! But it's not easy to be a teacher getting ready for a whole classroom of new faces. Will Mr. Peanuts and Rosie be able to pull together the room before the end of summer?
Nancy Rose brings this back-to-school story to life with her adorable photographs of real wild squirrels in handcrafted, homemade miniature settings.
The Secret Life of Squirrels
You may think you know what squirrels do all day. . . but Mr.Peanuts is no ordinary squirrel.
Instead of climbing trees, he plays the piano. Instead of scurrying through the woods, he cooks on his grill.
These charming, candid photographs of wild squirrels in handcrafted, homemade miniature settings will delight readers and animal lovers of all ages!
Merry Christmas, Squirrels!
Most squirrels spend their winter days hiding acorns in the snow. Not Mr. Peanuts. He loves Christmas and he's very excited when Cousin Squirrel invites him to spend Christmas at his place. After a busy day building snowmen, sledding, snowshoeing, and roasting chestnuts, Mr. Peanuts and Cousin Squirrel settle in to wait for Santa … Christmas is so much better when you have a friend to spend it with.
Time For Dinner!
I wish barbecue weather would arrive and stay!
What a wonderful day for the pool!
Tea Time!
Would you like to come for tea with Mr. Peanuts?
Everyone Loves Ice Cream!
What`s your favourite flavor? Do you want peanuts on that?
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Photographer Nancy Rose lives in Hubley, Nova Scotia, Canada and is a retired high school Guidance Counsellor and proud grandmother. She is rarely without a camera and sees subjects everywhere.
A passion for nature and wildlife, and a lifetime spent as a crafter merged when she discovered the curiosity of the little American Red squirrels who raided the bird feeders in her backyard. Nancy creates squirrel size props using cardboard, clay, and assorted craft supplies. She arranges them in miniature settings and she has created numerous scenarios on her backyard deck where the inquisitive squirrels find themselves in some rather human like poses as they search for peanuts hidden in the props.
Her favourite squirrel, Mr. Peanuts, was the first to eat from her hand and now many of his friends stop by and check out the little dioramas Nancy sets up on her picnic table on her back deck.
Nancy's squirrel pictures have been featured on numerous websites, such as Amusing Planet, Buzzfeed, Petapixel ,and the Daily Mail in the UK. She has been interviewed on Skype by a German TV show and was the Tuesday feature for Washington Post's "Third Annual Squirrel Week" series. She has also been interviewed locally by Halifax Herald, CBC, CTV, and Global TV at her home, and occasionally her squirrels were happy to make an appearance.
Nancy's first book, The Secret Life of Squirrels, came out in 2014, followed by Merry Christmas Squirrels (2015), The Secret Life of Squirrels: A Love Story (2016), and The Secret Life of Squirrels: Back to School! (2018).
Nancy is represented by Jackie Kaiser at Westwood Creative Artists in Toronto.
Mr Peanuts and Nancy in the news
Author-photographer Nancy Rose on her latest squirrel escapades
Modelling for a Nancy Rose photo shoot is not for everyone. At all times the model must wear their fur coat and they need to be able to fit into small spaces like shoe boxes and pumpkins. Also, they need to be willing to work for peanuts. Fortunately for Rose none of this seems to bother them.
Daily Mail (UK)
That's nuts! Wild squirrels pose for charming pictures after photographer hides food around miniature props
Incredible Things
Canadian photographer Nancy Rose's backyard is full of squirrels. But instead of getting a big, mean dog annoyed about it, she puts them to work as models in a super cute photo series. In order to capture the squirrels doing stuff like checking the mail and doing laundry she sets up props and hides peanuts for them to find. As the squirrels dig around looking for nuts, she waits for the right moment to capture them on camera. The results are adorable and hilarious and prove once again that squirrels will put up with almost anything for a few peanuts.
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The Chronicle Herald
Nancy Rose of Bedford has an interesting, albeit eccentric hobby. The high school guidance counsellor arranges vignettes and takes photos of squirrels who frequent her backyard deck.
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Nancy Rose has a bunch of squirrels living in the backyard of her home in Halifax, Canada, whom she has been photographing for a couple of years. They are curious animals who would inspect anything she put out on her picnic table, looking for places where she could have hidden some peanuts. Nancy decided to make some little props for them to explore and capture the fun on camera.


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Zittau Narrow-Gauge Railway
Döllnitzbahn railway company
SSB Medien publisher
Saxon Steam Railway Route
Rail adventures
Daily in use
Time Travel Trains
Workshop tours at Zittau station
Oybin Castle and Monastery Trains
Children's Station
Rides on the locomotive
Music Trains
Zittau Stadtwächter (Town Guard) Trains
Timetables and fares
Low Season Schedule
High Season Schedule
Railway and region
route and hiking destinations
Time Travel Train No. I
Travelling just like in 1915 on the 100-year-old Saxon train
The Saxon train hauled by a Class IV K locomotive – probably the most important Saxon locomotive type – will take you back to the heyday of narrow-gauge railways: the time of the Royal Saxon State Railways. The historic train set has third- and fourth-class cars furnished with wooden chairs. The train operates at every second and fourth weekend (only Saturday and Sunday) from May to October. The train operates at 8:41 a.m. from Zittau, commuting between the health resorts of Oybin and Jonsdorf via Bertsdorf.
Days of operation 2020 of the Saxon train with cars of the Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorf Railway (ZOJE) and IV K locomotive:
09/10 May, 23/24 May
13/14 June, 27/28 June
11/12 July, 25/26 July
Additional riding days (with different travel times):
01/02 August at the 14th HISTORIK MOBIL railway festival
08/09 August, 22/23 August.
12/13 September, 26/27 September
10/11 October, 24/25 October
Time Travel Train No. II
Travelling just like in 1930 on the Reichsbahn train of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) railway Company
A ride on the Reichsbahn train will make you feel like you have stepped back into the time of your grandparents and great-grandparents in the Golden Twenties or 1930s. You can enjoy a ride to the mountains, among others, on the fine velvet seats of the lounge car, every first, third and fifth weekend from May to October (only Saturday and Sunday). The train leaves at 8:41 a.m. from Zittau, commuting between the health resorts of Oybin and Jonsdorf via Bertsdorf.
Since 2019, the Reichsbahn train has provided regular railway service on the Rittersgrün K 1264 open panoramic car in nice weather.
Days of operation 2020 of the Reichsbahn Train with lounge car and Einheitslok (Class Altbau-VII K)
09-19 April, 25/26 April
01-03 May, 16/17 May, 23/24 May, 30/31 May
01 June, 06/07 June, 20/21 June
31.07. – 02.08.2020 at the 14th HISTORIK MOBIL railway festival
15./16. August, 29./30. August
03/04 October, 17/18 October, 31 October,
Time Travel Train No. III
Travelling just like in 1960 – Zittau VT 137 322 Triebwagen (Rail Car) with original trailer car
After not having been used for over 40 years, the Zittau VT 137 322 Triebwagen built in 1937 was put back into operation by the SOEG in August 2007, thus making it possible to experience the post-war development of the Reichsbahn railway. In 2016, the rail car was supplemented with the last trailer car preserved in its original state, and it now operates every first and third Sunday between May and October. The train runs according to the diesel timetable: every Saturday, and every second and fourth Sunday from May to October. In the event of failure of a steam locomotive, the 199 018 L45H diesel locomotive will be used.
Days of operation 2020 of the historic VT 137 322 Rail Car:
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05 July, 19 July
06 September, 16 September
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Apply for funding with the PFSA Education
Excellent news for many football scouts across the UK. The PFSA Education has recently rolled out a national scheme to active football scouts within the UK. As a result football scouts who are currently engaged with a wide selection of league football clubs will receive a considerable discount, as funding is now available through the PFSA.
Who is eligible for the funding
If your club is available on the drop-down box of the application page and you're engaged as a football scout or equivalent then good news you are eligible for funding. If you can't see your football club on the drop down box then please feel free to contact the PFSA.
The PFSA Level 2 Talent Identification in Football Course is available through funding. Unfortunately, the PFSA Level 1 and 3 are not available through the funding scheme however we may be able to provide a discount if coupled with the Level 2.
What happens once my application has been submitted
Once your application has been submitted, we will contact your Head of Recruitment or Coordinator and confirm you're engaged with the club as a football scout or equivalent. Once confirmed a member of the PFSA will be in contact with information on how to enrol and make payment.
Please note that before you register your main role with the club must be as a football scout or equivalent. You will also need the contact details of your head of recruitment or academy manager in order to confirm your status.
Once your application has been submitted and your status confirmed by your Head of Recruitment or Coordinator the cost will be £200 reduced from £400. More information on the PFSA Level 2 Talent Identification in Football Course can be found within our PFSA education department.
Due to demand we only have a certain number of slots available for successful applicants.
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The AUTOSAR (AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture) development partnership appointed Michael Niklas as the new chairman and Thomas Fabian as the new deputy-chairman. Moreover, Ando Yasushi is selected as a new speaker of the AUTOSAR Project Leader Team. Their term of office is twelve months from January to December 2019.
Michael Niklas is an active member of the AUTOSAR steering committee representing Continental AG. He is responsible for Software Standardization activities at Continental and represented Continental in the AUTOSAR standard in various work groups. He follows Rick Flores, Technical Fellow of Model-Based Electrical System and Software Engineering at General Motors. In this position, Michael Niklas will oversee administration, finances, internal coordination and AUTOSAR business development for his term of office. Formerly, he was part of the AUTOSAR Project Leader Team.
Michael Niklas obtained a Master of Science in Informatics in January 2011 at the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg and has been working at Continental on a variety of software standard related topics. After his first experiences in AUTOSAR diagnostics and technical safety he continued as an architect of the Continental AUTOSAR solution and represented Continental in the AUTOSAR standardization as the main architect and project leader. His latest focus areas include a leadership role of Software Standards in the central corporate structure in Continental and is looking into existing and future standards for automotive.
Thomas Fabian is head of department inside Volkswagen's Electric/Electronic division and among other topics responsible for cross car line functions like car diagnostics, over-the-air updates and software framework development. He studied telecommunication engineering and started his career 1988 at Bosch as a software developer for engine ECUs. In 2003, he entered Volkswagen AG and served in various positions as project- and team lead for hands-free integration, HMI specification and development and functional safety.
In addition, Ando Yasushi from Toyota Motor Corporation, who is a working in the AUTOSAR Project Leader Team, is the new speaker of the PL Team. As the speaker, he will support the other executives and communicates internally as well as externally on behalf of the Project Leader Team to improve the quality and features of the AUTOSAR platforms.


Tim Ladyman is an Abilene attorney who has been practicing elder law in Texas for more than 30 years. Ladyman has extensive experience in nursing home financial planning through the use of Medicaid programs for the elderly. Ladyman grew up in Arlington, TX and attended Abilene Christian University and Pepperdine University School of Law before settling in Abilene, TX. Ladyman and his wife, Lori, have a combined six children and seven grandchildren.
Tim Ladyman is a member of the State Bar of Texas, a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Texas NAELA. He is also a qualified mediator and family law mediator. Ladyman is also a member of the Abilene Christian University Alumni Association as well as a member of the Abilene Country Club.
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Rel Ed & Faith Formation
Called, Formed, and Sent
Discipleship Day
Bishop Lucker Lecture
RCIA - Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
Offices of Religious Education & Adult Faith Formation
The Origin of the Bishop Lucker Lectures
It is fitting that the Bishop Lucker Lecture bears the name of the late Bishop Raymond A. Lucker, second bishop of the Diocese of New Ulm (1975-2000). In his nearly fifty years as a priest, including thirty as a bishop, Bishop Lucker was a pioneer and leader in the catechetical movement and a renowned lecturer of national prominence.
In October 2000, he established in the Diocese of New Ulm the Bishop Lucker Lecture endowment fund. The initial gift to this endowment fund was made by Bishop Lucker himself. His intent was to ensure that people in the diocese would continue to be enlightened and challenged by leading teachers and practitioners of the Catholic faith.
Monetary contributions to the Bishop Lucker Lecture endowment fund, no matter how small or large, will continue to benefit the people of the Diocese of New Ulm. Please consider making a contribution on behalf of present and future generations of Catholics. Send your tax-deductible donation to the diocesan Pastoral Center, 1421 6th Street North, New Ulm, MN 56073. For further information, email www.dnu.org.
2019 Bishop Lucker Lecture
"The New Pentecost - Receiving the Fullness of the Holy Spirit"
Monday, March 11, 2019 7 pm Church of St. Catherine, Redwood Falls
Pope St. John XXIII led the Bishops of the world at the Second Vatican Council to pray to the Holy Spirit for a particular grace for the Church in our time. Together the Bishop's cried out with one voice, asking the Holy Spirit to: "Renew your wonders in our day as by a New Pentecost." Since the Council each one of our beloved popes have both identified signs of the grace of a New Pentecost emerging in the Church, and they have called upon all the faithful to join them in this same prayer for the outpouring of the grace of a New Pentecost. What exactly are we asking for in that prayer? What are the visible signs the recent popes point to as indicators of this grace at work in the Church today? And finally, how can each one of us respond personally to this moment of grace?
Peter Herbeck is the vice president and director of missions for Renewal Ministries. For more than thirty years, he has been actively involved in evangelization and Catholic renewal throughout the US, Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Peter is a co-host for the weekly television programs The Choices We Face and Crossing the Goal. He also hosts the daily radio show Fire on the Earth. He is a frequent conference speaker, has authored When the Spirit Comes in Power and When the Spirit Speaks, and has produced CDs and booklets about discipleship and life in the Spirit. Peter is involved with i.d.9:16, an outreach to Catholic young adults sponsored by Renewal Ministries. Peter and his wife Debbie have four children and reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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2018 Bishop Lucker Lecture - "The Role of Healing in Evangelization"
Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7 pm Church of St. Catherine, Redwood Falls
Many Catholics today think of miraculous healings as something relatively rare, found mainly in the lives of great saints or at shrines like Lourdes. Yet Scripture shows that healings are meant to be a normal part of the life of the Church, especially in the context of evangelization. Scripture professor Mary Healy will explain the implications for ordinary Catholics of the Church's mandate to be a "field hospital" in a world filled with people in need of healing.
Dr. Mary Healy is professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and an international speaker. Her doctorate is in biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. She is a general editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture and author of its volumes The Gospel of Mark and Hebrews. Her other books include Men and Women Are from Eden: A Study Guide to John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Healing: Bringing the Gift of God's Mercy to the World. Dr. Healy serves as chair of the Doctrinal Commission of International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services in Rome. She also serves the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian unity as a member of the Pentecostal-Catholic International Dialogue. She was appointed by Pope Francis as one of the first three women ever to serve on the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
Click here for interview with Peter Herbeck published in the Prairie Catholic January-February of 2019.
2017 Bishop Lucker Lecture - "The Rise of Sexual Expressionism in the Law"
Presenter: Helen Alvaré, Professor of Law
Professor Alvaré teaches Family Law, Law and Religion and Property Law at George Mason University School of Law. She publishes on matters concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households, and the First Amendment religion clauses. She is faculty advisor to the law school's Civil Rights Law Journal, and the Latino/a Law Student Association, a consultor for the Pontifical Council of the Laity (Vatican City), an advisor to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (Washington, D.C.), founder of WomenSpeakforThemselves.com, and an ABC news consultant. She cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations as a speaker and a delegate to various United Nations conferences concerning women and the family.
In addition to her books, and her publications in law reviews and other academic journals, Professor Alvaré publishes regularly in news outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and USA Today. She also speaks at academic and professional conferences in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia.
Prior to joining the faculty of George Mason, Professor Alvaré taught at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America; represented the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops before legislative bodies, academic audiences and the media; and was a litigation attorney for the Philadelphia law firm of Stradley, Ronon, Stevens & Young.
Professor Alvaré received her law degree from Cornell University School of Law and her master's degree in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America.
Click here to read interview with Bishop Lucker Lecture presenter, Helen Alvaré that was featured in the March issue of The Prairie Catholic.
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2016 Bishop Lucker Lecture - Blessed are Those Who are Persecuted - Today's Christian Martyrs and How We cAn Respond
Presenter: John L. Allen, Jr.
Today's news we hear very little of the persecutions and martyrdom of Christians, fellow Catholics. Yes, we hear about the beheadings of Christians in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, but there are many more places where it is dangerous for Christians, for Catholics to share the faith, to practice the faith, and to even exist.
John Allen, well known journalist on Catholicism, associate editor for the Boston Globe as well as associate editor for Crux, shares stories of courage and faith of people around the world who are persecuted and even face death because of the faith. And in this Year of Mercy, he will share how we, in the Diocese of New Ulm, can respond to these Christians, especially our fellow Catholics who put their lives on the line for the Catholic faith.
Allen is associate editor of The Boston Globe after 16 years as the prize-winning Senior Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. He also serves as the Senior Vatican Analyst for CNN. He's the author of seven best-selling books on the Vatican and Catholic affairs, and writes frequently on the Church for major national and international publications. He's also a popular speaker on Catholic affairs, both in the United States and abroad. Click here for photo highlights of the evening.
Bishop Lucker Lecture 2015 - "The Future of Religious Liberty in America"
Presenter: Fr. Raymond de Souza
Fr. Raymond de Souza was ordained a Catholic priest on July 20, 2002, for the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario. Since 2004 he has served as chaplain at Newman House, the Roman Catholic chaplaincy at Queen's University. Since 2006 he has been pastor of the Sacred Heart of Mary Parish on Wolfe Island, where he lives.
Fr. de Souza currently teaches at Queen's in the Faculty of Education and in the Economics Department. He is a longstanding weekly columnist for the "National Post," and contributes a weekly column to "The Catholic Register," Canada's largest Catholic newspaper. He is also the editor-in-chief of "Convivium," a magazine examining the role of faith in our common life.


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Large populations of crown vetch will shade out all other vegetation and there is not enough fuel in crown vetch vegetation to carry a fire. T Three varieties are available: 'Emerald', 'Penngift', and 'Chemung'. Step 7 - Admire the Look. Use crown vetch for a natural backyard or to cover slopes or rocky areas in your landscape. Plants have to like sandy soil and cope with the wind. Thick native vegetation can make detection of small plants difficult. Glyphosate, sold under the trade name Roundup, has also been successful, but not 100 percent. These herbicides can be used as spot treatment with backpack sprayers, or can be used with high volume equipment (e.g. Answer: Crown Vetch likes dry, well-drained soil. There are buildings nearby that could become destabilized if the slope collapsed. The spray on the leaves should be thorough to the point of runoff. If not completely controlling crown vetch, mowing offers a method of stopping its spread. This slope has been stabilized with crown vetch to prevent it from collapsing. Previously located populations should be treated earlier and retreated later. The amine, low volatility formation should probably be used over the high volatility ester formulation. Once it is established, it is difficult to eradicate. Vetch's heavy and fast growing vines shade out native plants, even "crawling" over small trees and shrubs; it will eventually take over large areas of ground. Spring sowing is preferred so that the plants are well established before winter. Another herbicide that shows some promise, but has not been tested sufficiently yet is Clopyralid. It is a member of the legume family which also includes peas and beans. Crown Vetch is slower to establish so it is important to control weeds during establishment. com.). Crown vetch is difficult to control and rapidly reproduces vegetatively via rhizomes that can grow up to 10 feet per year. Probably the best method would be to perform several mowings per year over several years. Where I live in Brazil, erosion is a concern. Prior prescribed burning will be helpful to remove accumulated plant litter to insure complete herbicide coverage of the foliage. Service. booms). Crown Vetch— Coronilla varia Originally planted for erosion control, crown vetch is a perennial herb, now commonly found along roads and streams, and in open fields, pastures, and waste areas. In nature, the seeds can take up to six months to germinate. It forms an attractive ground cover that may take up to 2 years to establish. Name: Tufted vetch, Vicia cracca L., Other Names: vesce jargeau, Bird vetch, jargeau, vesce multiflore, petits-oiseaux Family: Legume or Bean Family (Leguminosae) General Description: Perennial, reproducing by seed and by spreading underground root-stocks. Innovative Solutions. Crown Vetch (Coronilla varia) - An extremely fast and aggressive plant, Crown vetch produces a quick ground cover for erosion control with white to pink flowers. Management . A 1- to 1.5-percent solution of Glyphosate has been used and has killed back crown vetch with results similar to 2,4-D amine. Then plant your pre-treated seeds directly into the soil in the spring when the soil has reached 60 degrees. Because it prefers poor soil, it will grow for years with no fertilizing and no mowing. Planting crown vetch on a steep slope. Leaves. Erynnis baptisiae, Wild Indigo Dusky-wing is a prairie species formerly feeding only on Wild Indigo but now starting to spread where Crown Vetch has been planted. A fellow Master Gardener said that it was crown vetch and that it is used for erosion control. Some brown out of grasses may occur but is usually only temporary. This aggressive exotic is now widespread along roadsides, from where it may become a serious invader of Missouri's natural communities. Prescribed burning may be effective against seedlings or in slowing the spread of crown vetch, but it will not control large populations. One plant may grow to completely cover 70-100 sq. The root divisions will send up new shoots. Seedlings and re-sprouts can be difficult to locate in native vegetation. Crown divisions are almost as easy to do. Why is Crown Vetch Used For Erosion Control? Watch for it along highway rights-of-way and eradicate it before it invades a natural community. It is best used on dry embankments such as those found along roadsides. It has been widely planted along roadsides for erosion control … Search By Seed. Another herbicide that may be successful is Clopyralid under the trade name Transline. Crown Vetch can be considered non-invasive if properly maintained by mowing, tilling or the use of herbicides to cont… The plants grow best in full sun but they will tolerate a little shade. They won't grow at all in full shade. It occurs along roadsides and other rights-of-way, in open fields and on gravel bars along streams. The roots form a dense mat which holds soil in place. The vines can also cause problems by tangling in machinery. Once established, many can reproduce aggressively and become difficult to eradicate. Habitat: Crown vetch has been grown extensively in the northern two-thirds of the United States for temporary ground cover, erosion control, and as a green fertilizer crop. Crown Vetch is not a true vetch, although it resembles common and hairy vetch. feet within 4 years. Prescribed burning may be useful in removing litter for detection, but later in the season some plants may go unnoticed. Crown vetch prefers sunny, open areas, but also has a broad environmental tolerance. Clopyralid has been successful in controlling crown vetch along roadsides (Mike Stafford, pers. In Mix. If not completely controlling crown vetch, mowing offers a method of stopping its spread. It's a pretty flower and necessary for the job it does. Repeated late spring mowing has shown some success (Heim, 1990). Don't plant it along streams, lakes or irrigation ditches which are constantly moist. The plants will grow quickly and aggressively, rapidly filling in the spaces between them. 2,4-D amine applied during the growing season will kill back the above ground portions, although there has been some survival of crown vetch in treated areas. Stay in Touch with MDC news, newsletters, events, and manage your subscription. Crown vetch has compound fernlike leaves with 15–25 leaflets and clusters of white to pink or purple flowers.The sturdy roots and rhizomes (underground stems) are useful in binding the soil of steep slopes and roadside embankments. Transline is more specific than Triclopyr, it is quite effective on the plant families: Compositae, Leguminosae, and Polygonaceae, with very little effect on most grasses and most other plant families (Colby, et al., 1989). Crown Vetch has rhizomes that can grow up to ten feet long from a single plant within one year. We are at the base of sand dunes and we get 6 months of strong winds. Barely cover the seeds with soil. Small populations of single plants have been successfully controlled using Glyphosate. • Crown vetch. The dense, lush foliage actually chokes out weeds once the plants become established. Plant at 1/4″ depth Inoculant recommended. Concerns about its potential toxicity for horses makes it a poor pasture plant where hay may be made from the pasture. You can hurry that process along in one of two ways. Growing crown vetch from seed is chalenging. Its dense foliage shades out other plants preventing weeds from gaining a foothold. Specialists in Commercial Hydroseeding, Terraseeding and Erosion Control, we operate throughout the Southern Ontario region and beyond. Simply dig up a plant, then, using a sharp knife, cut the crown of the plant into sections making sure that each section has both leaves and roots and replant the sections to same depth as the original plant, with the crown of the plant even with the top of the soil. Crown vetch (Securigera varia) A listed invasive plant in WisconsinLearn how to ID this plant in this short video. Xplor helps kids find adventure in their own backyard. Crown vetch is liable to form clumps that rise above the general level of the plant layer. And fall happens to be the best time to plant perennials! Many crown vetch infestations may be a single plant or only a few plants, and it may be necessary to get uniform coverage over all the above ground stems. It is believed that incomplete herbicide coverage was the reason for survival of crown vetch in some treated areas. Crown Vetch is a longterm, cool season perennial legume primarily used to control erosion ans stabilize banks and terraces. Repeated late spring mowing has shown some success (Heim, 1990). This ineffectiveness of the herbicide could be the result of incomplete treatment, or re-establishment through seeds. Herbicides are currently the most effective means to control large infestations of crown vetch. We protect and manage the fish, forest, and wildlife of the state. What a pretty way to deal with a terrible problem. The 1-percent survival rate may be due to incomplete coverage or re-establishment by seeds. Crown vetch or axseed (Securigera varia) | Minnesota DNR Crown vetch or axseed (Securigera varia) Crown vetch (also known as axseed and purple crown-vetch) is a perennial plant in the pea family. These four characteristics make it an ideal ground cover for stabilizing slopes, roadside plantings and erosion control. 3-10 lbs per acre. Q. Whichever herbicide is used it appears that complete coverage of all crown vetch stems is necessary. Crown vetch, a perennial, spreads by rhizomes under ground as well as by seed dispersal. The flowers can be white, pink or purple and appear in the early summer. When crown vetch is blooming, its many pink blossoms make it quite noticeable and easy to locate. Whether you are using root divisions or crown division, plant them 2 feet apart. Crown vetch can be grown three ways: seed, crown division and root division. Join. In decades past, this dense, quickly spreading plant was used by highway department crews to stabilize new road cuts. Crown vetch flower. Crownvetch Seeds 8320 A permanent perennial ground cover that's ideal for steep slopes and other problem areas. control, crown-vetch. Once established, crown vetch will grow happily for years with no watering, fertilizing or mowing required. References. Asked by Anonymous on August 24, 2018. Herbicides, at the present time, appear to be the most effective means of control. Crown vetch has similar nutritive value to alfalfa. A good rule of thumb for estimating the size of the root mass is to look at the parts of the plant that is above ground. Three different herbicides (2,4-D amine, Triclopyr, and Glyphosate) have been used with varying success. It is also used as a bank stabilizer along roads and waterways. Its dense foliage shades out other plants preventing weeds from gaining a foothold. Answer: It all depends on where you buy it. The flowers of crown vetch are pinkish to white and are in crown-shaped clusters. Tufted vetch also exhibits high tolerance to many herbicides, most notably glyphosate. Due to it's aggressive and creeping type of growth, crown vetch is considered to be an invasive plant. Root division is probably the easiest to do. Securigera varia (synonym Coronilla varia), commonly known as crownvetch or purple crown vetch, is a low-growing legume vine.
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Q: Bootstrap Nesting with right alignment rows Creating a frontpage for a takeout restaurant.
The problem i am having is that the last row won't fit inside because of a double height element.
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This topic contains 7 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by spinny 1 year, 11 months ago.
This is lovely and not as heavy as bought granola..it's a cross between muesli and granola but not clumpy.
It's very light and very tasty…you have to be strong and not pick at it…if you don't have the will power don't make it!
I have this with a tablespoon of the chia jam and a portion of berries.
Pickuplimes…is a lovely website and on u tube..more for vegans and veggie but I am a meat eater..she is a dietitian and has lovely healthy recipes…I have tried two and they are both lovely.
Preheat the oven to 250F (120C) and place a baking sheet onto a sheet pan.
In a large bowl, combine the oats, nuts, seeds, coconut and brown sugar.
In a medium bowl combine the maple syrup, oil and salt.
Combine the two mixtures together and mix, then pour onto the baking sheet.
Cook for 1 hour and 15 minutes, stirring every 15-20 minutes to achieve an even golden colour.
That's it! Let it cool and harden, and then transfer to air-tight jars. If you want to add any dried fruits, this is when you should do it (do not cook the dried fruit).
Make sure the nuts and seeds you use are raw. If they are already roasted, it's best to toss them in after the oats have baked, to avoid overcooking the nuts/seeds.
Get creative: add any nuts or seeds of your choice, or dried fruit such as dried cranberries or raisins, and even spices such as cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice. Make it differently each time for a new combination of flavours.
Want to shorten the cooking time? Turn up the heat a bit, but be sure to keep an eye on it and stir more frequently to avoid burning. The mixture is ready when it's lightly golden – don't worry if it's not hard. It will harden as it cools. Enjoy!
Sounds like a really tasty sugary treat but if you wanted it to be more healthy Id leave out the oats, brown sugar, maple syrup, vegetable oil and dried fruit and don't top it off with the chia jam.
As for the chia jam it's berry fruit and seeds…nothing wrong with that….I am not bothered with the honey as I like things tart..
Your way of thinking is very strict, if you are happy with that fine but a lot of people alter their life styles to suit themselves…you can't knock everybody and you are not right all the time..
I must have done things right over the last 18 months as I am now maintaining….
I like a lot of your thinking but not everything ..
My apology symba. I keep forgetting there is a continuum between completely unhealthy and completely healthy. You are correct, everyone needs to find their version of healthy so that it works for them. Sorry.
This time we differ.. its finding the balance of having some treats with a stricter lifestyle.
That sounds absolutely delicious. I think you're right though, it's a good test of willpower!
Spinny it's worth a try.. a small snack box for school or office..
Add in extra and different things if wanted..
Chia jam is lovely and low in cals..
Another great addition would be to add a bit of spirulina to the mix, just to max out the nutrition!


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Kobe Bryant Quotes Inspiration For Our Lives
While we slept peacefully on 25th January 2020, none of us thought that on 26th morning we'll be getting such awful news. On 26th Jan 2020 the world lost a phenomenal basketball legend, Kobe Bryant.
Kobe Bryant along with other passengers was flying to Thousand Oaks for a basketball game where Bryant's 13-year-old daughter – Gianna was expected to play and Bryant was to give coaching. Initial information indicated the helicopter was flying under visual flight rules from Jhon Wayne airport in Orange County. By the time the helicopter reached Burbank, the pilot requested to fly under visual flight rules.
During the pilot's conversation with air traffic control, they advised the pilot there was a delay due to traffic. The helicopter circled for 12 minutes until air traffic control approved the special visual flight rules. The crash created a crater at 1,085 feet above sea level. Then we all know what happened after that. The world lost 9 people along with Kobe and his daughter who was supposed to be at Oak playing their basketball match.
So this was Kobe's unexpected tragic end from life.
Now, Who was Kobe?
Kobe Bryant, full name, Kobe Bean Bryant, was an American professional basketball player, who helped lead the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Los Angeles Lakers to five championships (2000–02 & 2009–10).
Kobe Bryant Birthday: Kobe was born on August 23, 1978, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Kobe Bryant Family: Kobe was born to Joe Bryant and Pamela Cox Bryant.
What Did We Learn from Kobe Bryant's Accident?
Crazy isn't it? Nobody (in the flight & rest of the world) thought that the world would lose such precious gems in a severe air crash.
A day before a young daughter and her father were excited about basketball match and within hours the match became a dark history.
"Life is just like a coin. One side of the coin is all about happy moments, good memories and another side of the coin have all the unexpected moments. Nobody knows what side of a coin will show up the next day."
So be sure to cherish each and every moment of life and live as happily as you can. Because you don't know what tomorrow will bring for you.
Just imagine the time when that helicopter was falling uncontrollably from the sky and reaching to the ground. Everyone on the helicopter knew they might not be able to survive. Kobe was lucky to have his daughter beside him.
Everyday people die and who are not lucky enough to see their families during the last moments. Coming back to Kobe, her daughter was and will be with him forever!
Do you know what is so special about words? Even if the person is not physically with us, their words always linger in our minds.
Here are some amazing words said by Kobe Bryant from time to time that will definitely be with us till eternity.
"I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have a fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it."
Quotes by Kobe Bryant For Lifetime Inspiration
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do." — Kobe Bryant
"If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail." — Kobe Bryant
"The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you're here and you are for real." — Kobe Bryant
"Everything negative, pressure, challenges are all an opportunity for me to rise." — Kobe Bryant
"Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. It doesn't make any sense to do it." — Kobe Bryant
"Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No Excuses." — Kobe Bryant
"Once you know what failure feels like, determination chases success." — Kobe Bryant
"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win." — Kobe Bryant
"It's the one thing you can control, you are responsible for how people remember you – or don't. So, don't take it lightly." — Kobe Bryant
"If you want to win don't compete. Because once you decide they are worthy of competing with they have already won." — Kobe Bryant
"My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40." — Kobe Bryant
"Pain doesn't tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue you will change." — Kobe Bryant
"I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose." — Kobe Bryant
"Use your success, wealth, and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose." — Kobe Bryant
"We all have self-doubt, you don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." — Kobe Bryant
"Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences." — Kobe Bryant
"I step on the court, that's me. I don't play around. I'm not there to be your best friend. I'm there to destroy you." — Kobe Bryant
"If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear." — Kobe Bryant
Less Known Facts About Kobe Bryant:
In 2019 Kobe released 1st volume of children's fantasy book series, "The Wizenards" published through his multimedia content company Granity Studios including his autobiography: The Mamba Mentality: How I Play in 2018.
Kobe was working with Paulo Coelho on a new children's book aimed at inspiring underprivileged children to overcome adversity through sports. Soon after Coelho heard of the tragic accident, he deleted the draft they were working on saying it didn't make any sense to continue without him.
Kobe was fluent in Italian and Spanish language.
His parents named him after Kobe, Japan's popular beef which they saw on a restaurant menu. a
Kobe's nickname is Bean – nicknamed after his dad's nickname Jellybean which he earned during his time as a basketball player with Philadelphia 76ers.
"I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan; I only want to be Kobe Bryant." — Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant was more than a professional basketball player. He was an efficient writer as well.
The poem "Dear Basketball" was written by Bryant, and two years later it served as the basis for a short film of the same name which he also narrated. The work has earned an Academy Award for the best animated short movie. Bryant published The Mamba Mentality: How I Play, in which he explained his approach to basketball; the title reflected a nickname which he gave himself during his days of playing, "The Black Mamba."
Amazing isn't it? A basketball player who was also a writer, 2 languages proficient, and what not!
We all spend 2 minutes in silence for our tributes to our loved ones. But this time let's pay tribute by doing something different. Let's promise to ourselves that we will always carry Kobe's legacy and his words and be a better person.
So let's share the inspirational Kobe Bryant Quotes Images with our family, friends, and loved ones to make their lives full of inspiration.
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Like a bank, your credit union services should include everything from opening checking and savings balances to taking unsecured loans, investing your money, obtaining a credit card, or having access to a great ATM. The differences are often in the costs of the services. They shall be less. This is in part because most credit unions are set up to be run with a volunteer board in which consists of members of the particular credit union. This is important because, although the credit union runs by professionals, the financial institution is run for the members by the members. This can be one of the things that make credit unions therefore different from banks.
A person who wants to use the credit union services of the standard bank that they have joined must understand that the money they put to the bank becomes available to those other members who want to take a loan. This is how they generate the interest a member tends to make on their savings account. Credit unions tend to be encouraging new members which includes commercial accounts to maintain themselves growing. You will end up pleased to know that the credit unions offer many benefits for many who bank there including life insurance on lending options, easy to get unsecured loans with quick flip arounds on decisions occasions and easy access to credit charge cards with varying restrictions. Credit unions offer everything that the local banks do, they just do it better!
I went to go buy a car today but the interest rates were ridiculous. My mom told me that i can get no higher than an 8% interest rate if i financed the car through the credit union with the store that i work at. She did the same thing for her car and the credit union financed the car at a 6.5% interest rate which when compared to 25% is not that bad. Are there certain requirements i have to meet before i can get this benefit?
I am moving to a place where my current (sucky) bank does not have any branches. I heard that having a credit union account will help your credit score far more than a bank account will. Is this true?
I'm wanting to do checking, ATMs, online banking and am looking for a bank with friendly service, as few fees as possible, etc. Which bank or credit union is best?
For instance, I'm a Chase Bank customer.
What would I lose out on if I withdrew my monies and opened an account at my neighborhood Credit Union?
So yeah what are the differences between a bank and a credit union?
Does each have its own pros and cons?
I have a Share Savings account at Navy Federal Credit Union with a min of five dollars in it. There is a Navy Federal student loan that is serviced by Great Lakes Educaiton that shows up with my accounts at NFCU. When I called to close my savings after I closed my checking they told me they could not close my savings because I had a student loan balance with them still even though it is not in repayment yet. Is this legal? Can they legally refuse to close my savings account even though it has nothing to do with my student loan account?
Ok i wanted to know the difference between these 2. I am looking to start a checking account and my gf suggests to try a bank like wamu and my mom suggests to join a credit union.
I know this is kind of a general question…but as a general rule of thumb, what are the pros and cons of using a bank and using a credit union?
Why would I want to bank at a bank, rather than a credit union, and vice-versa? I'm asking because I need to open an account somewhere in a new area (Cali), and I need to know where to smartly put my money.
Is there a reason for this? Does the bank offer services the credit unions don't?
I have been hearing a lot of good things about credit unions. What are they exactly? Are they better then banks? Do you get good discounts?
I want to find out more information on credit unions, i would like to know what they are, and how they work.
I'm getting married next year and the both of us will only be 18. Now, because of this we don't really have credit to speak of. But for the wedding we'll have to take out a smaller loan because we won't have any help from family.
I've heard of credit unions, and how would they differ from a bank? I'm clueless, really.
I'm trying to get out of debt (about $5000 total) and credit unions were mentioned. What is a credit union? What do they do? How do you join? I'm basically just asking for any info about them and any personal experiences with them.
I waws wondering what type of bussiess does the vancity credit union does?
My company has a great credit union that i'm thinking of joining. However, i dont know exactly what a credit union is. Is it like a bank? do i move all my money from the bank i bank with now into this credit union? I have heard that credit unions offer good loans for home buyers? Any advice appreciated.
I have seen posts that claim this. I have Bank of America and I'm thinking about switching banks because of their unethical conduct.
A CU over a bank?
Opinion from both sides please. Thank you!
Is credit union similar to a bank? is there a advantage or disadvantage to a bank?
I'm hearing more and more about people leaving banks and going to credit unions. What's the difference and which one is generally better?
Can anyone please explain to me what credit unions are?
I'm not in a stage in my life where I need to know this right away, but for the future it might be nice to know.
I am looking for a credit union to apply to in the bay area (san jose, ca).
also some information about credit unions vs a bank. one with lower interest and easy to apply to. i am a college student looking for a car loan. what do i need to bring when i apply?
I'm going to be a freshman at college this year, and now I'm finally getting to choose a banking situation for myself (separate from my parents), and there's so many choices! But one of the major differences I've noticed is the choice between a Credit Union and your standard bank! What's the difference? Would one be better for me as a college student than the other? I don't need to take out college loans right now, but for regular checking and saving needs… Which is better?
My mom said credit union will finance me on cars and stuff. I am 18 and making my first bank account tomorrow. I am getting one for direct deposit for my new job. I want Wells Fargo but she thinks I should go to credit union.
can some1 plz explain to me the difference between the two.. and which is better?? and why??
I am trying to get a truck by myslef right now, I just have no credit. Not bad, just no credit. So everyone says my best bet is a credit union. Now do I need to become a member of this place? Some say its a yearly fee but theyre more giving to members than nonmembers. And if I do become a member, can I negotiate a loan that day, or do I have to wait like a week? What do i say? What do I ask is really my question. What is a credit union?
I am a Sophomore in high school and I am about to get my first job. I am wondering if I should put my money in a credit union or a bank? Also please explain Pros and Cons of both, and interest and what not etc.
I had some issues with a bank account before I was 18, didn't manage money well. So now I am unable to get an account with Wells Fargo, Bank of America, US Bank or Chase. They say it's because my Checks System scan denied me… Problem is I am in my mid 20's and I have not had a bank account since I was 19 and I never had checks before, EVER! But they insist my Checks System scan says I have a bad history. Everything they mention was my issue, so no fraudulent banking in my name.
How can I convince the bank that I have NEVER written a check in my life and the Checks System scan is wrong?
My friend told me about Local Credit Unions and how they may get me an account without checking my Checks System Scan. I am looking for answers from people who know about and use(d) local Credit Unions or have had a bank but switched to a Credit Union. What is the difference? Should I try? I have no credit that I am aware of so if they need a good score, well I have no score yet according for free credit score checkers, says it is too low or none existent.
Bank vs. Local Credit Union? Why and what are some comparatives? Do you think I will be able to get an account easier? I just received my tax return, finally after some issues with the IRS, and would like to cash it. Banks won't unless I get an account due to the amount, which I cannot. And a Check cashing place charges 22%. For a $4K+ check, that's a big chunk. I am tired of holding on to cash, I need to put what I have in a savings account and some in a checking to pay bills by debit card, a lot easier.
i currently have an account with chase bank, but would like to close that account and put my money in a credit union. I don't know how it is much different than a bank except I'll own a share of the the credit union.
What are the differences from an employee standpoint and an customer standpoint?
I'm just trying to figure out the benefits of each.Please help me out if you can.
whats a good credit union? and how do they work?
I am just wondering, like i apply for personal and auto loans through my bank "wells fargo" and they will not let me get any loan without a cosigner and my credit is not good enough to get it by myself yet. im 19 and i need extra money for school supplies and hopefully a new computer and also i want a car….nothing brand new or too expensive but just to get me to work and school, im not sure what i should do. I work at a grocery store and make average at least 200 a week. Should i try at a credit union, do they usually work with people with little credit? help please!!!
I work for a major museum,need a loan,but I don't know how they work.
I am starting a career after finishing my B.A. and M.Ed, and I am getting really overwhelmed with the process of paying back student loans and costs of college. Would a credit union be able to help me, at least for financial advice? I would like to consolidate my loans (Federal and Perkins), and possibly get a better rate on my car payments, but I'm a little fuzzy about how a credit union works in the first place.
my friend encouraged me to apply for another credit union, i did and asked for a loan THEIR INTEREST RATE WAS 6 %.
Are they like banks? Does the US have them? How do they work?
I Bank with Chase but I've been thinking of moving my business to a Credit Union; what are the differences?


What's the happiest country in the world? Not necessarily the most joyous, but the best at converting the planet's natural resources into long and happy lives for its people?
A few hints: small, Spanish-speaking, isthmian, untrammeled by war for decades—in fact, constitutionally banned from having armed forces, an agricultural producer, coffee- and banana-exporting. No idea?
Costa Rica, according to the Happy Planet Index (HPI), a new metric created by the New Economics Foundation that's the first to measure the countries of the world according to a combination of their life expectancy, "life-satisfaction" and ecological footprint.
The countries that do best on the index overall might surprise you. They also offer a lesson: It's possible to achieve long, happy lives without breaking the planetary bank.
Let's start with life expectancy. The countries with the highest life expectancies will shock no one: Western Europe, Canada, Australia, the U.S., Japan and a smattering in East Asia, plus a few surprises with Chile, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama and Cuba.
The West fares slightly worse when it comes to "life-satisfaction," a numerical, subjective assessment of how a nation's people feel about their own happiness. The U.S. comes in at 7.8, the UK at 7.4, Germany at 7.2, France at 7.1. Latin America fares better, with great swathes having a "life-satisfaction" score exceeding 7.5, including Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and much of Central America and the Caribbean. Costa Rica has the highest score: 8.5.
The greatest difference showed up in ecological footprints. To compare countries, the researchers measured the amount of land needed to meet all the resource requirements of a population, plus the amount of vegetated land required to absorb all of that population's CO2 emissions.
"It is simply impossible for everyone on the planet to live as Westerners do today. We would indeed need three planets to do so. We still only have one."
The HPI modelers used those numbers to map world's "happy life years" (HLY), a multiplication of the "life-satisfaction" score times the average life expectancy, against GDP per capita. GDP correlates with the "happy life years" measure, to a point; the most important gains occur within the first $17,000 of increasing GDP, after which point there's little systemic variance. Costa Rica, with the highest "life-satisfaction" score as well as the most HLY, has a GDP of $10,000.
The results become even more striking when one looks at over-all HPI scores, calculated, very roughly speaking, by dividing HLY by the global ecological footprint, and adding several constants to normalize the distribution.
In the over-all rankings, Costa Rica comes in first with a score of 76.1. Somewhat below it are the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, then Guatemala, Vietnam, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Brazil, Honduras, and Nicaragua at 60.5 (the astute student of geography has by now noticed a pattern: nearly all of these countries are in Latin America, where renewable energy sources are stunningly abundant. Costa Rica gets over 99 percent of its energy from renewable sources).
Stalwarts of what's called "development" come in far lower in the ranking, primarily because of their ecological footprints: Denmark, at 8 global hectares, has an HPI of 35.5; the U.S., at 9.4 global hectares, has an HPI of 30.7; the United Arab Emirates, at 9.5 global hectares, comes in at 28.2. Many of these countries' life expectancies hover in the same range—roughly 75-78 years—as countries that have a quarter or less of their ecological footprint: Costa Rica, Cuba, Argentina, Albania, Belize.
"The HPI shows that around the world, high levels of resource consumption do not reliably produce high levels of well-being, and that it is possible to produce high well-being without excessive consumption of the Earth's resources," the authors write.
Several issues are immediately apparent. One is that the rich countries, taken as units, are creating massive amounts of ecological debt, exceeding their ecological means earlier and earlier in the year.
This year, England entered ecological debt on April 12, the point at which it had consumed the amount of resources it should have consumed in an entire year were it ecologically self-sufficient. After that, it was sapping "the cropland, pasture, forests and fisheries of other countries" to pay for its consumption, the authors write. In 1961, England didn't hit that point until July 9.
"Income below a 'development threshold' of $7,500 per capita does not count in the calculation of capacity, and emissions corresponding to consumption below that threshold do not count in the calculation of responsibility."
That is, it would be surplus consumption beyond that limit that would trigger calculations. As is visible in the case of Costa Rica, it doesn't take much beyond $10,000 per capita for a nation to have happy citizens, and even that is a rough, awkward way of evaluating the available statistics; 20 percent of the population takes in 50 percent of the income, and is presumably responsible for a commensurate share of emissions. It may take something less than $10,000 per capita to give people a decent and (nearly) sustainable life—perhaps something close to the $7,500 trigger-point that's being bandied about.
"In other words: it is high time a transition be staged away from the present economy of capital accumulation – towards an economy which is stationary, which refuses to grow. This transition, moreover, needs to be staged at the world level, and needs to be strategized in a manner which will protect the global South."
Another phrase for what Custers is describing is a steady-state-economy. But is that type of controlled-shrinkage possible? Is it naïve, idealist, simply fantastical non-sense?
Well, the HPI tracks groups of countries by geographical region, and charts their movements on an axis measuring global-hectares and happy life years. The U.S. is a basket-case, having decreased in HLY while increasing its ecological footprint.
But Western Europe, since 1990, has increased its HLY while decreasing its ecological footprint. South Africa and Latin America have done the same since 2000. Modalities have included feed-in tariffs for energy supplies or mandated conversions, or the sustainable planning that's long characterized European development.
It's not unreasonable that it be possible in the United States, too.


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PTSD in women linked to food addiction
By Tamara Marshall, writer at Nutritionist Resource
Published on September 24th, 2014
A study conducted at the University of Minnesota has linked Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in women to a higher risk of obesity and related diseases.
Three in 100 people are estimated to develop PTSD – an anxiety disorder characterised by sleep problems, nervousness and distressing flashbacks following a terrifying event – yet there is growing concern PTSD symptoms could also include food addiction.
Researchers were specifically keen to highlight this link in their study.
"Food addiction is not currently established as a psychiatric diagnosis," they noted in the JAMA Psychiatry journal where the study is published.
"However, the concept may nonetheless be helpful for identifying the reliance on food to cope with psychological distress, one plausible pathway from PTSD to obesity."
The study involved 49,408 women who were aged 25 – 42 when it began in 1989.
In 2008 the women were given questionnaires to identify any circumstances of trauma and symptoms of PTSD.
A year later they were assessed for signs of food addiction. These included:
Continuing to eat when no longer hungry four or more times a week.
Feeling the need to eat large quantities of food to combat stress.
Worrying about reducing food intake four or more times a week.
Of the 81% of women who had experienced at least one traumatic event, 34% reported no symptoms of PTSD, while 39% showed signs of only two or three, and 17% reported around four to five.
Overall, 10% reported the most symptoms of PTSD and the study showed that this group of women had a higher prevalence of food addiction – up to 18%.
Women with no symptoms showed only 6% prevalence.
In addition, the study showed that the earlier the age at which symptoms of PTSD occurred, the stronger the association with food addiction.
Explaining the significance of the study, the researchers concluded: "We believe that the value of the food addiction construct goes beyond its identification of psychiatric illness by capturing a potentially important maladaptive coping behaviour that may provide insight into mechanisms linking trauma and PTSD to obesity."
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How Adventure Games Fare Post-Kickstarter
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I've recently covered adventure games and how they fare on Kickstarter, but what about those that finally get released? I want to take a look at these projects and how they have done since release. There have been a number of crowdfunded games that have gone live, but not all of them do well. I'll be discussing both the successes, as well as the failures, in this genre.
It's important to note that adventure games are a niche genre. Not everybody enjoys story and logic puzzles as much as others. The unfortunate truth is that adventures have dwindled in popularity over the last couple decades. Kickstarter might have given them a second chance at stardom, but they don't reach as large of an audience as they used to. Even the projects with well-known names attached to them have done poorly.
I've noticed that adventure games inspired by LucasArts titles have fared much better than those following a more Sierra On-Line approach. Broken Age hasn't been a smash hit, but it still hasn't forced Double Fine to shut its doors. Likewise, games with "higher resolution" graphics, such as Dreamfall Chapters, have done pretty well for themselves. On the flip side, pixel games and Sierra-inspired titles have gotten relatively poor reviews.
Even having a well-known name like Al Lowe or Jane Jensen doesn't mean that the game will sell well. Both Replay Games and Pinkerton Road had to shut their doors due to their respective games not making money. The same goes for indie developers like Infamous Quests, with the recent decision to stop making games for the foreseeable future. All of these examples have one major thing in common: all have used the Sierra template in their titles.
I've also noticed most adventure games are funded primarily through nostalgia. With the rare exception, most cite games like Monkey Island or Space Quest as their main inspiration. Nostalgia is all well and good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that a game will sell well. In a genre that already has a small audience, something like pixel art could make it even smaller.
And that brings me to my next point. As with pretty much any crowdfunded game, adventures tend to already "pre-sell" most of their copies during the campaign. The die-hard "superfans" would already be on board before the game even ships, and that means less sales on launch. Basically, one side effect of crowdfunding is that most copies pay for the development cost.
Out of all the adventure games that have been funded, only a handful have been released. Several are being developed right now, so the future of the genre is still pretty much up in the air. Thimbleweed Park and Obduction are highly anticipated titles, but the future for SpaceVenture and Hero-U look bleak.
I'd love to see all adventure games do well, but their track record so far has been less than stellar. It's possible that more development houses might end up shutting down if they don't do well after release. A few have just recently released, and several are slated for later this year, so only time will tell how the genre fares down the line.
Serena has been a gamer since an early age and was brought up with the classic adventure games by Sierra On-Line, LucasArts, and Infocom. She's been an active member on Kickstarter since early 2012 and has backed a large number of crowdfunded games, mostly adventures. You can also find her writing for Kickstart Ventures and evn.moe.
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