Kathmandu Valley is the capital of Nepal, a sacred civilization that is more than 6,000 years. Today, it is turning into a highly mechanized city with the sense of culture and helpfulness concerning the surrounding political or cultural events. This group is being formed as a common platform to share the views of the residents regarding the political, social, cultural and economic activities of Kathmandu Valley. We will share our ideas, comments and even criticisms about the system and the citizens of this city without political and any other prejudice. These treks are a walk around the hills surrounding the Kathmandu Valley. You will experience Tamang, Chettri and Brahmin cultures, primarily people that live around the valley rim.


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Section 144 lifted in tribal districts, ECP told
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10Jul 2019 by paieadmin
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was informed on Tuesday that Section 144 imposed in parts of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) had been lifted.
During a meeting of the ECP on the upcoming Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly elections in tribal districts, Chief Election Commissioner retired Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza said complaints had been received from tribal districts about imposition of Section 144, hindering election campaigns of the candidates for the elections scheduled for July 20.
At this, a representative of the KP government said that Section 144 had been lifted on the directives of the ECP.
The meeting was attended, among others, by the KP's additional chief secretary, home secretary, provincial election commissioner, representatives of security agencies and all district returning officers.
The meeting was informed that the ECP had completed all arrangements for the upcoming provincial assembly elections. It was told that army personnel would be deployed in and outside sensitive polling stations and outside all other stations.
The CEC directed that no development funds be released till the completion of the electoral exercise. He asked the district returning officers to strictly enforce the code of conduct for political parties and candidates and discharge their duties with impartiality.
The KP government assured that besides the sensitive polling stations, all efforts were being made to install security cameras at the maximum number of polling stations.
ECP Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad told the meeting the commission was making all-out efforts to ensure that maximum number of electorates exercise their right to franchise.
He said efforts were being made to make it sure that women voters cast their votes in an independent environment. He said that with a view to making the security for women voters more efficient, female security staff would be deployed at women and combined polling stations.
Meanwhile, a last-ditch effort to evolve a consensus on the vacant positions of members of the ECP from Sindh and Balochistan failed with a voting ending on tie — 6-6. The voting took place during a meeting of the parliamentary committee on appointment of ECP members. The 12-member panel has equal representation from the government and the opposition.
Talking to reporters after what could be the last meeting of the parliamentary committee, Human Rights Minister Dr Shirin Mazari said a consensus could not be reached with the opposition and now minutes of the meetings would be conveyed to the prime minister and the law ministry would give its opinion on how to move about.
The Constitution is silent on the way forward in case of such a stalemate in a parliamentary committee.
The ECP members from Sindh and Balochistan — Abdul Ghaffar Soomro and retired Justice Shakeel Baloch — retired in January and under the law new members were to be appointed within 45 days.
Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2019

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Help needed for World Heritage List Nominations
Ohio is poised to take its place on a new world stage. With your help, several Ohio landmarks could be ranked alongside Stonehenge in England, the Acropolis in Athens and the Grand Canyon. Ohio citizens and organizations now have the opportunity to write letters of support to the National Park Service to help ensure the four nominations of archaeological and historic properties are included on the World Heritage List, an honor given to natural and cultural sites with significance to all people of the world.
The four Ohio nominations, the most for any state, represent 14 historic and prehistoric sites, include five that are managed by the Ohio Historical Society. The National Park Service is now recommending three Ohio nominations: THE HOPEWELL CEREMONIAL EARTHWORKS, a multi-site nomination consisting of Hopewell Culture National Historical Park's five ancient earthworks in Ross County, including the Ohio Historical Society's Seip Mound, Newark Earthworks in Licking County and Fort Ancient in Warren County. SERPENT MOUND in Adams County, a state memorial administered by the Ohio Historical Society. DAYTON AVIATION SITES, another multi-site nomination comprising Huffman Prairie Flying Field at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Wright Cycle Company, the Wright and Wright Printing office, the Wright Flier III at Carillon Historical Park, and the Wright Home and Hawthorn Hill. The Fourth nomination, Underground Railroad sites in Ripley, was recommended for future consideration.
We need to urge that this nomination be added to the recommended list as well as keeping the other nominations on the list. Don't wait! Comments must be received by November 30, 2007. Find out how you can help at www.ohiohistory.org or by visiting www.ohiohistory.org/sn/103107.html.
Todd Kleismit, Director of Government Relations Ohio Historical Society
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Home/canada/an engineer behind the virus IouTube glitter bomb video admits that some of them were fake
an engineer behind the virus IouTube glitter bomb video admits that some of them were fake
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The complicated image of Mark Robber explains his plan, and a glittering bomb in action.
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Mark Robert, a former NASA engineer who made a bomb bomb that exploded after being stolen, acknowledged that the elements of his viral video were fake.
The two so-called "thieves" filmed stolen boxes were actually in a joke.
Robert said that a friend of his friends came in, who offered to put the package on his shoulders.
IouTube rewrote the video and apologized to the viewers.
It's one of the video's of the year, but the elements of that unconscious were fake.
It is the acceptance of Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who made a bomb for a bomb that exploded after being stolen from the front.
The iouTube sensation has more than 40 million views, but three days after its release, Robert said that the elements of the song did not see what he looked like.
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Most videos focus on Robert's creation of the package, but the payment ends, when secretly filmed in action in the hands of wanton thieves.
In a statement posted on Twitter, Robert said that not all victims of packing the packages are real thieves.
A friend of friends offered to put the package on his shoulders, and in turn, Robert paid them for a successful recovery of the device. It turned out that Robert's acquaintance entered some friends to steal a box, and two of these fake participants made the final cut of the video.
"It seems (and since then I've confirmed) in these two cases," thieves "were in fact the acquaintance of the person who is helping me," said Robert. He cut off the video.
"I'm really sorry about this," he added. "I am responsible for the content that goes to my channel and I should have done more here. I can guarantee that the reactions were true when the package was seized from my house." And he said that, I believe that my credibility is kind of a shot. "
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Review: Beats In Space #956 on WNYU
Two DJs, two mixes, and one trip onto the interstellar dance floor.
Beats in Space is the ongoing radio show hosted and curated by Tim Sweeney on WNYU 89.1 FM in New York City. The show began in the fall of 1999 and every Tuesday night from 10:30 pm to 1:00 am, Sweeney hosts an ever-rotating cast of DJs from around the globe.
In episode #956 of the show — first aired September 18 — Sweeney hosted London-based Josey Rebelle and Berlin-based PLO Man. The show is fairly popular in the underground dance music world: The Beats In Space playlist on Spotify has over 2,000 followers, a significant feat in an underground community.
The show is split up into two sections, with Sweeney conducting a brief interview with each of the DJs at the end of their respective mixes. Rebelle described her recent set at Sustain Release, an annual underground electronic music gathering held in upstate New York. She was fresh off the decks from a full weekend of techno and was already back in the booth to mix even more. It's not to admire her true dedication to the craft.
Rebelle opened her mix with "The Emperor," a stripped-down 1986 track by Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. The mix grew with each multilayered drum track, while bongos and wind chimes shimmered over snappy drum kicks. After about 16 minutes of fantastically weird drum tracks, the mix briefly took a turn towards deep house and by the 20-minute mark, Rebelle had established an even mix between analog-leaning experimental techno and acid house.
The last 25 minutes or so of her mix took a jazzier turn, while still maintaining the classic analog drums that are synonymous with acid house, best exemplified by "Algorithms With Emotions" by Abstract Eye. Muted horns blared in HANNA's "Parallel," as the mix closed with a return to deep house, albeit with a more garage twist.
After Rebelle's amazing mix, PLO Man started his mix off with nine minutes of dreamy, atmospheric ambient music. Bongo drums entered into the mix, along with quarter-toned horns drifting over the minimal drum track. The mix continued to stay subdued and slowly eased into a harder, analog sound.
Suddenly — at around the 22-minute mark — PLO Man departed from the earth and launched listeners into deep space with a style of techno made from sounds reminiscent of space travel. It was like walking into an extraterrestrial nightclub with a Helix track , as well as other experimentations on the club sound.
The bongos made a return, adding a Latin flare to the interstellar dance floor. By the 40-minute mark, the mix had evolved into a deep space disco with Gerd's 2010 track "For 12 Minutes She Danced With An Alien (Joris Voorn Mix)" melting into Robert Aaron's 1996 house track "Sax In The Ozone." Towards the end of his mix, PLO Man went off into a completely unexpected direction, veering into some very laid back dub — similar to the stylings of the artist Breakage.
Overall, both DJs created varied and diverse mixes. Both mixes exposed listeners to some older hidden gems as well as some fresh new tracks.
Rarely does Beats in Space disappoint, and this particular episode lived up to the ever-growing shadow of the show's reputation.
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Floating Space, a contemporary performance company based in Colombo, Sri Lanka was initiated in 2007 by Jake Oorloff and Ruhanie Perera as an independent inter-disciplinary artistic, teaching and research context to explore possibilities and question perceived limits in performance.
Over the last ten years our intentions for our practice has evolved, and has been revisited by the company as we sought news ways of articulating our insights on contemporary performance-making. We are informed by a framework that we explore, envision and imagine our work through:
creating and producing original theatre and performance work by/with local creative arts practitioners with a focus on inter-disciplinary work;
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working in partnership with a range of organisations and individuals to advocate the use of theatre outside its more traditional purposes, especially with regard to participatory performance techniques and issue-based work;
engaging in a creative art practice at a broader level of education and training, research and an applied theatre practice.
evolving a space for discussion and dialogue through diverse modes of cultural production so that audiences of the creative arts in Sri Lanka are approached as an integral part of the growth and development of an arts community.
Created against a backdrop of conflict and increased militarisation in 2007, more crucially the breakdown of the ceasefire agreement in the country's war trajectory, our first production titled in a shadow – an evening of performance poetry had to negotiate the Public Performance Board (the State Censorship mechanism), which led to the choice of the work being presented in a church – a space that was safe from the mechanism of censorship in the country. The choice was both artistic and practical. The reconceiving of space outside of traditional theatre settings became a continuing consideration and censorship (especially in the layered forms of silence and silencing that we were experiencing) a reoccurring theme in our work.
Our philosophy is thus rooted in the artistic choices that had shaped this first work: the consideration of space and context, the form of performance poetry that enabled a clarifying of working with text, sound and movement, and the inclusion of performance art expressions that would redefine our sense of performance inherited through the practice of theatre. We framed our philosophy as being inspired by unlearning, the unconventional and shared experiences in performance; in terms of our artistic vision and practice, our focus became to create and produce performance, with the objective of exploring the possibilities of theatre in terms of form, style, space, approach and purpose.
For Floating Space, the idea of 'space' has been an interesting point of departure for creative work, especially in the consideration of where work is created/performed, and since 2007, the company's work has been performed in churches, private residences, warehouses and libraries. Floating Space has approached the performance making process outside of its more traditional understandings, and space has also become a meaningful consideration in terms of concept, as well as site. Over the years, the company has explored alternative and intimate spaces in the theatre setting, site and the site-specific, as we engaged with conceiving space and pushing its perceived limits in the work we were making.
Over the last ten years, Floating Space created a range of new theatrical and inter-disciplinary work beginning with the production 'in a shadow – an evening of performance and poetry' in November 2007. Since then the company has produced 'A Bedtime Story' (Colombo, 2008), 'The War Reporter' (Colombo, 2010) – in collaboration with the German Cultural Institute, and 'The Gaza Mono-Logues' (Colombo, 2010/2011) – an international performance collaboration with Ashtar Theatre, Palestine, also performed on invitation by the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust, as the 67th birth anniversary commemoration performance of Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam. The production 'My Other History' was created by Jake Oorloff as the recipient of the Sunethra Bandaranaike Trust Grant for New Theatre-Making Projects in 2011. It has thus far been performed at the event "Unmaking Time" in Colombo 2011, and Galle (the Galle Literary Festival), Kandy and Jaffna in 2012. In collaboration with the British Council, Floating Space created a site-specific performance titled 'OverWrite' that revolved around banned books, bodies and memories in the institution's library space in 2014. The company's most recent production 'Forgetting November' dealing with memory and processes of memorialization was performed in September 2015 as part of the event "Watch This Space: Framing the Past, Untying the Future" supported by Groundviews and the Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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The company has been supported by the Sunethra Bandaranaike Trust, Groundviews, the Centre for Policy Alternatives, the British Council, Colombo, the German Cultural Centre in Colombo. It has also been awarded grants by the Arts Council, England under the Artist's International Development Fund (in collaboration with Sally E. Dean Performing Arts Inc.) and in 2012, the Youth Empowerment Grant under the American Centre and the US Embassy in Colombo (in collaboration with Peacebuilding and Development Institute, Sri Lanka).


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Features » Acclaimed Tibetan singer now calls Kingston home
Acclaimed Tibetan singer now calls Kingston home
Internationally acclaimed singer Yungchen Lhamo spins a Buddhist prayer wheel at her Kingston home. A native of Tibet, she fled as a teen from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She has since lived in India and Australia – and now resides in Ulster County. Times Herald-Record/Dominick Fiorille
By Jeremiah Horrigan | Times Herald-Record
KINGSTON, US, 25 March 2013
Yungchen Lhamo has led — and continues to lead — an extraordinary life.
But seated in her Kingston home, she worries about telling her story. Her life is easily misunderstood. People make wrong assumptions about her.
She's not a hero, she says. And the people who have done so much to torture and kill her people are not her enemies.
Here's just the beginning of her story:
Lhamo grew up in a labour camp in her native Tibet, one of many millions to suffer oppression under China's Cultural Revolution. She saw two of her brothers die of starvation in the camp.
At 19, Lhamo fled the labour camp in the company of a monk and two Sherpa guides, her infant son her arms.
She remembers hearing gunfire in the night, facing rushing mountain waters by day and swarms of biting insects.
She didn't stop fleeing through the trackless wastes and forests and snows of the Himalayas for two months, until she reached the Indian border and eventually, Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile.
It was a journey of 1,000 miles.
It was also, she says with characteristic humility, "not easy."
Though she remains an exile from her homeland, though the Chinese government continues to wage cultural war against her people, Lhamo, who is a devout Buddhist, refuses to hate the people who have done so much to destroy the culture and people she loves.
"I don't want people to hate the Chinese. It's not useful. We need to be loving and caring toward all living beings."
There's enough hatred in the world, she said. She's not about to add to it, nor even, in telling her story, to provide ammunition for those who may be stirred to anger on her behalf.
She wants to stir people in a different way, through a different means, the one that's brought her most recently to live in Kingston.
Lhamo is a singer. A very acclaimed singer.
Encouraged by the Dalai Lama
Her name was given her by a Buddhist monk. It means "Goddess of Song."
Anyone who witnessed a brief performance of hers during last month's V-Day celebration in uptown Kingston will recognise the accuracy of her name.
Or you could ask music critics. The New Yorker's has called her singing "brilliant." Newsweek called her "angel-voiced." The New York Times admired her "pristine, gliding vocal lines."
If you're still not convinced, you could ask Natalie Merchant. Peter Gabriel. Annie Lennox. Billy Corgan. Bono. They're a few of the musicians with whom she's performed and recorded.
Lhamo began her musical career by singing at Tibetan refugee camps in India.
Later, she met the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who encouraged her to use her gift to increase the world's awareness of the problems facing Tibet.
Lhamo took the Dalai Lama's advice to heart. She settled in Australia in 1993.
Two years later, her debut recording of Tibetan devotional music won the country's equivalent of a Grammy Award for world music. Gabriel signed her to his Real World music label.
Lhamo has since become a fixture in the world music scene, touring internationally — 70 countries and counting — singing her original and traditional songs in concert and at benefits and festivals with the likes of Merchant, Bono, Corgan and Lennox.
Merchant, who lives in Rhinebeck and whom Lhoma describes as "more than my sister — she's everything" convinced her to settle in Kingston. Lhamo said she likes the city's quiet.
She's not sure how long she'll stay. She has a wish. She intends to become a US citizen, in part because it may increase her chances of being allowed back into Tibet to visit her father.
Lhamo can't say how long she'll stay in Kingston. She doesn't know about the future.
She knows one thing for the moment: "I am here."
That, she says, is enough to know.
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Asia's Bike-Sharing Companies Face an Uphill Battle in Europe
By Aliya Ram, David Keohane & Yuan Yang
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Because the home of the bicycle is now a challenge that bike-sharing must overcome.
The notice called it "mass destruction." After a spate of thefts and vandalism decimated its fleet of bicycles, Hong Kong–based startup GoBee said last week it would pull out of French cities just days after quitting Italy. But the company's business update read like an indictment of Europeans: "In four months, 60 percent of our fleet was destroyed, stolen or privatized, making the whole European project no longer sustainable."
Europe is known as a center of cycling — home to the Tour de France and the historic birthplace of the bicycle. According to the European Commission, 8 percent of its population use bikes more than other forms of transport every day, and Asia's largest bike-sharing startups, including Mobike, Ofo, oBike and GoBee, have all trained their sights on its cities in search of growth outside their crowded home markets.
Vandalism is one of the main issues operators have.
Niccolò Panozzo, European Cyclists' Federation
Flush with venture capital funding — Ofo has raised at least $1 billion — the companies have rolled out in cities including London, Paris, Brussels, Manchester, Munich, Zurich and Madrid. But the launches have been plagued with problems: from logistics and regulation to vandalism, theft — and mass destruction. "Vandalism is one of the main issues operators have," says Niccolò Panozzo, development officer at the European Cyclists' Federation. "While all bike-share systems face theft and vandalism, the ease of access to their bikes made it even worse for free-floating services."
"There is for sure a cultural component," he adds. "It is something widespread, yes, but in Europe we have seen a lot of this."
Hong Kong–based GoBee was one of the first Asian companies to try to crack the French market. Its distinctive green bikes, which could be parked anywhere after use, became a common sight on pavements in Paris.
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However, within a few months of launching, more than 1,000 bikes had been stolen, almost 3,400 damaged across the country and nearly 300 complaints filed with the police. Many of the bikes were simply parked at people's homes — or "privatized," in the company's words.
Although some suggested the fate of GoBee underlined a problem with civil society in France — and in particular with its marginalized youth in the suburbs — the company has also exited Italy and Belgium this year. "We were ready for some initial vandalism," the company said after leaving Italy. "But unfortunately, during the past weeks, the vandalism and attacks toward our fleet have reached limits we can no longer overcome."
The history of bike vandalism is as long as the history of shared bikes. More than 50 years ago, Amsterdam's Witte Fietsen — or White Bikes service — closed in a matter of days after people either stole the free, unlocked bikes or threw them into canals and rivers. In the decades since, cities and companies have launched restricted versions of this model, where riders leave shared bikes in specific places using docking stations.
Mobike's biggest vandals are in Manchester, where bikes have often ended up in bins and in the canal, according to two employees with knowledge of the situation. Docked biking schemes have faced problems too. Santander, which sponsors London's public bike hire service, was forced temporarily to close a number of docking stations in Milton Keynes after more than half its bikes were damaged or stolen.
Bike-sharing companies employ armies of workers to monitor their bikes, which Panozzo estimates can account for up to 30 percent of costs. These stewards carry bikes to places of high demand, make minor repairs and report incidents of vandalism. "In every single city we have an operations team, we have employees and logistics suppliers to move around the bikes," says Chris Martin, head of international expansion at Mobike. Joseph Seal-Driver, general manager for the U.K. and Ireland at Ofo, says the company has "an active team of marshals who are employed by Ofo on the London living wage."
The bike-sharing startups have discovered certain cities are easier to negotiate than others. According to Martin, Milan and Florence have been particularly successful for Mobike, although he declined to outline financial details. And despite the challenges in Manchester, the company has not withdrawn from the city but instead chosen to restrict bikes to the city center. "The economics and needs of cities are so varied right now," Martin says.
GoBee's exit from France will raise concerns for others attempting to launch in Paris. Last month Mobike started a trial in the city, hot on the heels of Ofo in December. The city's own bike-sharing system, Velib, has suffered after a rollout of new bikes and docking stations was delayed under a new operator.
China's bike-riding sector, which spawned the industry's global leaders Mobike and Ofo, also struggles with vandalism. Wukong Bicycle became one of China's first bike-sharing startups to fold after it announced 90 percent, or almost 1,100, of its bicycles had been stolen. Those bikes had been out on the streets of Chongqing, a city in western China, for only half a year. Images of "bike graveyards" where local governments deposit unwanted bikes haunt the Chinese startups. The companies have turned to technological solutions to limit bad behavior. All of Mobike's fleet, and most of Ofo's fleet, is GPS-enabled and communicates with the company's servers. If bikes are left unlocked or parked in the wrong places, the companies will dock points from that user.
Ofo, which is backed by Alibaba, whose payments affiliate Ant Financial provides credit scoring through its Sesame Credit big data platform, has also turned to more comprehensive credit-scoring measures. It requires its worst-scoring offenders to pay a steeper deposit. But according to Panozzo, all these efforts come at a cost.
"The commercial sustainability of these systems is not so easy to figure out," he says.
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GSA Inks 288,255-SF NoMA Lease
WASHINGTON, DC-The lease is a temporary one, but still welcome to the submarket.
By Erika Morphy | November 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM
WASHINGTON, DC-GSA has turned to a developer and building with whom it is familiar to temporarily house 1,200 federal workers while its headquarters is renovated. The agency has inked a 288,255-square-foot lease at One Constitution Sq. with Stonebridge Carras, while renovations at 1800 F St. are underway.
It is one of the largest leases in the DC market this year, Stephen R. Leeds, GSA Senior Sustainability Officer, noted in a prepared statement. Design work for the temporary headquarters will begin later this month with the actual move expected in Spring 2011. GSA did not return a call to GlobeSt.com in time for publication.
The federal government needed no introduction to the building; the Department of Justice will be the anchor in phase one–or Two Constitution Sq.–of the huge 1.6-million-squarefoot mixed-use project underway in NoMa. Also included in phase one is 79,200 square feet of retail space, anchored by a 50,000-square-foot Harris Teeter grocery store and accompanied by recently inked 20,000 square feet of restaurants and other stores for DOJ workers; 440 apartments; a 204-room Hilton Garden Inn; and a second office building with 340,000 square feet.
One of the reasons DOJ reportedly picked Constitution Square was because it was aiming for Gold LEED certification, despite the requirement that building housing federal workers need only be Silver LEED. In fact, GSA is moving its employees to Constitution Square in order to accommodate a green makeover at its headquarters.
The renovated facility will be designed to achieve LEED Gold certification. Enhancements include new building systems, water conservation and nearly 800 photovoltaic panels to generate on-site renewable energy. GSA was appropriated more than $5.5 billion under the Recovery Act to convert federal buildings into green buildings.
Middle Market Digest: This Week in the South and Mountain Regions
Lisa Brown | August 10, 2018
Here's a look at the trends, announcements and deals you may have missed in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma and Arkansas.


Sandra Voegele doesn't know what possessed the power line crew to make the trek down her long snow-filled driveway that January day in 2015, but she and husband Toni are thankful they did.
A tree had brought the power line down across their driveway. Leading power line technician Steve Doucette knocked on the door to tell the couple the crew would be getting to work but he felt something was off with Sandra so he went back a few minutes later to check on her.
By then, Sandra and Toni were passed out on the floor due to carbon monoxide from a generator in the basement. Steve and his crew opened the windows and doors, called the paramedics and stayed with the couple as lead power line technician Scott Eisener ploughed their driveway for the ambulance.
"It's serendipity and we're extremely grateful. They were just amazing and they even got the power back on! Everybody should have a carbon monoxide detector, that's for sure," Sandra said.
On November 15, the four employees received a well-deserved award at the Canadian Electricity Association's (CEA) Occupational Health and Safety Awards in Toronto.
Powerline Technicians Steven Doucette, Scott Eisener and Ben Robicheau, along with Regional Planner Robert Kelsey, were recognized for their instrumental role in saving the lives of the Voegeles with a CEA Lifesaving Award. It is given annually to any employee of a CEA member utility who was involved in a lifesaving attempt or acted to prevent further harm to someone who was injured or in need of immediate help.
"I'm proud of the team for receiving this national recognition," said Bill Reid, Safety Manager at NS Power. "The safety of our employees and our customers is the foundation of how we work."
Photo above courtesy of the Canadian Electricity Association.
The group was recognized through an Award for Merit in Performance (AMP), an internal employee recognition program at NS Power, in 2015. Area operations manager Dave Sweeney recalls the nomination he submitted for the four employees. See video below.


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You have a maximum of two attempts to pass the exam before you are required to repeat our ELNC 9115 Life Safety Systems Electronics course.
This exam paired with ELNC 9115 Life Safety Systems Electronics are equivalent to the Course 4 - Life Safety Systems Electronics (LSSE) course offered by the Canadian Fire Alarm Association (CFAA), which meets one of the requirements of the Fire Alarm Technician Training Program. Learn more about this equivalency by checking out our Canadian Fire Alarm Association Course Equivalencies.
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You must have completed our ELNC 9115 Life Safety Systems Electronics course. You must present proof and photo identification at the exam.


The main areas of research in animal health and veterinary public health are determined by the need for research as defined in the Swiss Animal Health Strategy 2010+ and the Animal project within the Strategy for Antibiotic Resistance (StAR). The focus here is on animal diseases and zoonoses that are being fought internationally and on economically relevant diseases of infectious origin. In addition, newly emerging and recurrent animal diseases are increasingly coming to the fore as a result of climate change, greater migration and increasing global travel and commerce.
The FSVO and the cantons together monitor the occurrence of animal diseases and zoonoses. Every year livestock are sampled and examined for the presence of several diseases. The intention is to ensure that food is safe, to promote human and animal health and to create optimum conditions for international trade.


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The 2008 EHF European Women's Handball Championship was held in the Republic of Macedonia from 2–14 December, it was won by Norway after beating Spain 34–21 in the final match.

Venues
Two Macedonian cities have been selected as hosts for the 2008 Championship:

Qualification
In total, 16 national teams qualified for the final tournament:

Host Country
  (3) :1998,2000,2006

Qualified from the 2006 European Championship
  (7) :1994,1996,1998,2000,2002,2004,2006 (Defending Champions)
  (7) :1994,1996,1998,2000,2002,2004,2006
  (4) :2000,2002,2004,2006
  (7) :1994,1996,1998,2000,2002,2004,2006
  (7) :1994,1996,1998,2000,2002,2004,2006

Qualified from play-offs

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Squads

Each nation had to submit an initial squad of 28 players, 12 of them became reserves when the final squad of 16 players was announced on 1 December 2008.

Seeding
The draw for the preliminary round groups took place on 20 July 2008, in Ohrid.

Format
Preliminary Round: 16 teams are divided into four groups. They play each other in a single round robin system, so each team plays three matches. A win is worth two points, while a draw is worth one point. The top three teams from each group advance to the Main Round.
Main Round: 12 teams are divided in two groups. They play against the teams they didn't play in the preliminary round, so each team plays 3 matches. All points from the preliminary round, except the points gained against the 4th place team in the preliminary group, are carried forward into the Main Round. Same round robin rules apply as in the preliminary round. Top 2 teams from each group advance to the semifinals, while the third placed team from each group advances to the 5th-6th Place Play-off.
Final Round: 6 teams play in the final weekend of the championships. 3rd place teams from the Main Round play in the 5th-6th Place Play-off. Other teams play in the semifinals. Losers of the semifinals advance to the 3rd-4th Place Play-off, and winners advance to the Final.

Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Main round

Group I

Group II

Final round

Bracket

Fifth place game

Semifinals

Third place game

Final

Ranking and Statistics

Final ranking

Source: EuroHandball.com

All-Star Team
Goalkeeper:
Left wing:
Left back:
Pivot:
Centre back:
Right back:
Right wing:
Best defence player:
Most valuable player:
Chosen by team officials and EHF experts: EHF-Euro.com

Top goalscorers

Source: EHF

Top goalkeepers
(minimum 20% of total shots received by team)

Source: EHF-Euro.com

Notes

External links
European Handball Federation
8th Women's Handball European Championship 2008 in the Republic of Macedonia
EHF Women's EURO 2008

European Women's Handball Championship
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International handball competitions hosted by North Macedonia
Women's handball in North Macedonia
December 2008 sports events in Europe
2000s in Skopje
Sports competitions in Skopje
Sport in Ohrid

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I sort of doze for perhaps two hours. The cabin crew are bringing our breakfast, landing is expected in an hour or so. It's still dark, but I can see lights below so we must have reached Ireland. There are some towns well lit up. The pilot announces we are just approaching the Isle of Man, and landing is due in half an hour.
Up comes the sun, a red glow reaches out across the horizon. It's quite cloudy now, and the ground has disappeared from sight. Half an hour passes, and the pilot speaks again. As it's the rush hour, we'll have to do a few circuits while we wait in the queue to land. Five minutes later "don't worry if you see any other aircraft, they may seem close but it's an optical illusion, they will be at least 1000 feet from us in altitude". As he says it, a United aircraft appears, which we overtake. Then the moon. We pass the moon five times, then descend into the clouds. When we get beneath the cloud we are over the Thames, I can see the bridges at Kingston and Richmond. In no time we descend rapidly, and skim over the rooftops. A very smooth landing, and the trip is over.
Well, except for about 15 minutes before the luggage arrives on the carousel. But as I emerge through the customs hall, the taxi driver is waiting for me. Well two drivers holding my company name, so I guess I was not the only employee on the flight. I didn't see anyone else...
Thats it for now, next week it's off to Cyprus (and warmth), what a start to the year.
Roger G0HZK
I have to say that I'm very disappointed with all things radio here in the States. Whilst at first I was in awe of the 'space' they have to do stuff and the fact that they have a very different band plan to ours I very quickly became disenchanted with it. Perhaps my disenchantment is not with the radio but with the operators, or lack of them.
For a country with almost 700,000 licensed operators and a city with almost 15,000 licence holders you'd think that the bands would be teaming with activity. Not so. The only time I had a more fruitless radio expedition was in Germany.
And as for experimentation, forget it. I recently learned an expression, its called '/JFDI' and its applied to all instructions when you can't be bothered with the fussing about. '/JFDI' or Just F!@#$%^ Do It is a lesson they could use here.
Take, for example, my latest escapade with the local ARES (RayNet) group. As a reward for our 'Y2K Non-Event' efforts the St Vincent's Hospital Group offered us the use of their training facilities in all of the hospitals in the 5 boroughs (NYC is made up of 5 admin districts). As it turns out there are 5 boro ARES groups and 5 hospitals so we can have one each. They also graciously allowed us exclusive roof rights to the St Viny's on Staten Island. This meant that we could have our repeater, which had been in storage for almost 9 months, operating again.
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2 men accused of gluing winning numbers onto lotto ticket
Posted: Jan 7, 2020 / 08:41 AM EST / Updated: Jan 7, 2020 / 08:41 AM EST
FLOWOOD, Miss. (AP) —Authoritiesin Mississippi say two men attempted to scam the state lottery commission by submitting a losing ticket that had the winning numbers glued onto it.
Odis Latham, 47, and Russell Sparks, 48, were arrested Monday and charged with offenses including uttering counterfeit instrument over $1,000.
The state lottery commission called Flowood police about the fake ticket earlier that morning, Sgt. Adam Nelson said. Officers were told the suspects presented an altered $100,000 ticket that appeared to have the winning numbers glued onto it.
The men, both of Columbus, were set to appear in court Tuesday. It's unclear if they have lawyers.
by Edward Moody / Jan 15, 2021
After an overwhelming response the first week, the Coastal Health District had to stop setting up vaccination appointments. However, things are getting better thanks to help for Chatham County. "We appreciate the support of the county in standing up a call center to help relieve the burden on our staff at the health department," said the district's health director Dr. Lawton Davis.
Thanks to the county's efforts, incoming calls will now go to the county's call center while the health department works on whittling down its appointment backlog.
During is presentation to the Chatham County Commission Friday, Davis told members that "St. Joesph Candler will begin rolling out the vaccine through its primary care physicians network next week." According to a St. Joseph's/Candler spokesman, vaccinations will start with a small group, age 80 and over, already established at their primary care practices. As more vaccine becomes available, they'll expand to 75 and older and then 65 and older.
Dr. Davis says while Chatham County is administering shots at the civic center there are also plans to make the vaccine available to people on the county's Hurricane Registry. "Those people who are homebound and we have to evacuate in the event of a hurricane, there's no way that they can come in and get the vaccine, so we're trying to get the vaccine to them."
Dr. Davis says the Coastal Health District is also working on setting up an online tool that people could use to request a vaccination appointment. They hope to launch it soon.
For more information on how to request your vaccination appointment, and to find out if you're eligible yet, click here.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) - A group of bipartisan lawmakers are preparing to repeal Georgia's citizen's arrest law. Governor Brian Kemp made this a top priority during his State of the State Address.
A shocking viral video released in May has several lawmakers calling to repeal the citizen's arrest law entirely. It comes after Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in February while jogging in a Glynn County neighborhood.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) - With rising coronavirus cases and more deaths, a lot of people are anxious to get the vaccine. Friday, several supermarket chains rolled out programs to provide the shots to customers, but in Chatham County, appointments were quickly taken.
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Іван Кононович Лебедєв (, село Большая Садовка Городищенського повіту Пензенської губернії, тепер Городищенського району Пензенської області, Російська Федерація — , Москва) — радянський партійний і державний діяч, 1-й заступник Голови Ради Міністрів РРФСР. Депутат Верховної Ради РРФСР 1-го скликання. Депутат Верховної Ради СРСР 2—5-го скликань. Член ЦК КПРС у 1952—1961 р.

Біографія
Народився у селянській родині. Закінчив церковноприходську школу у місті Балаково.

У квітні 1919 — квітні 1920 р. — наймит у заможного селянина у місті Балаково Самарської губернії. У квітні — жовтні 1920 р. — практикант Балаковської лікарні імені Пирогова. У жовтні 1920 — березні 1921 р. — завідувач секції підлітків на біржі праці у місті Балаково. У 1921 році вступив до комсомолу.

У березні 1921 — травні 1928 р. — слюсар судноремонтного заводу у місті Балаково.

У травні 1928 — вересні 1929 р. — секретар Балаковського повітового комітету ВЛКСМ Нижньо-Волзького краю.

Член ВКП(б) з серпня 1928 року.

У вересні 1929 — травні 1931 р. — завідувач відділу виконавчого комітету Балаковської районної ради Нижньо-Волзького краю.

У червні 1931 — червні 1932 р. — учень Балаковського технікуму водних шляхів сполучення (закінчив 3 курси). У червні 1932 — березні 1933 р. — студент Саратовського технологічного інституту.

У березні 1933 — лютому 1934 р. — помічник начальника політичного відділу Глазуновської машинно-тракторної станції станиці Кумилженської Кумилженського району Сталінградського краю. У лютому 1934 — лютому 1935 р. — заступник начальника політичного відділу, у лютому 1935 — березні 1937 р. — заступник директора із політичної частини Зав'язинської машинно-тракторної станції станиці Преображенської Кіквідзенського району Сталінградського краю.

У березні — серпні 1937 р. — 1-й секретар Сиротинського районного комітету ВКП(б) Сталінградської області.

У серпні 1937 — червні 1938 р. — 1-й секретар Сталінградського обласного комітету ВЛКСМ.

У червні — вересні 1938 р. — виконувач обов'язків 3-го секретаря Сталінградського обласного комітету ВКП(б).

У вересні 1938 — лютому 1940 р. — студент Академії соціалістичного землеробства у Москві, закінчив 2 курси.

У лютому — листопаді 1940 р. — відповідальний організатор Управління кадрів ЦК ВКП(б).

У листопаді 1940 — серпні 1942 р. — уповноважений Комісії партійного контролю (КПК) при ЦК ВКП(б) по Курській області. У липні 1942 — листопаді 1943 р. — уповноважений КПК при ЦК ВКП(б) по Приморському краю. У листопаді 1943 — квітні 1944 р. — уповноважений КПК при ЦК ВКП(б) по Татарській АРСР.

У квітні (26 серпня) 1944 — 24 січня 1949 р. — 2-й секретар ЦК КП(б) Латвії. У січні — лютому 1949 р. — інспектор ЦК ВКП(б).

У лютому 1949 — серпні 1952 р. — 1-й секретар Пензенського обласного комітету ВКП(б).

У 1950 році заочно закінчив Вищу партійну школу при ЦК ВКП(б).

У серпні 1952 року — інспектор ЦК ВКП(б).

У серпні 1952 — квітні 1955 р. — 1-й секретар Омського обласного комітету КПРС.

26 березня 1955 — 24 квітня 1956 р. — 1-й заступник Голови Ради Міністрів РРФСР.

У квітні 1956 — 28 січня 1960 р. — 1-й секретар Ставропольського крайового комітету КПРС.

З 1960 року — на пенсії у місті Москві. Похований на Новодівочому цвинтарі Москви.

Нагороди та звання
 три ордени Леніна (1956, 1957, 1958)
 орден Вітчизняної війни ІІ-го ст.
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Джерела
 Лебедев Иван Кононович  // Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза (1898—1991).

Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 2-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 3-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 4-го скликання
Депутати Верховної Ради СРСР 5-го скликання
Уродженці Пензенської губернії
Померли в Москві
Члени ЦК КПРС
Делегати XIX з'їзду КПРС


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Q: Insert Sub Query inside view I have created a view in which I have inserted another select statement and labelled that statement as another fields with "alias"
The view got executed successfully but when trying to fire select statement from view (select * from view) it throws an error of
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an expression

Now I'm aware the reason of this error coming. It is because of that the inner select query returns more than 1 row. I cannot go for TOP 1 as I need to have more than one row.
 ALTER VIEW [dbo].[TestView_new]
    AS

            SELECT TOP ( 100 ) PERCENT
                        dbo.DataRepository.PeriodStatus ,
                        dbo.DataRepository.TimesheetName ,
                        dbo.DataRepository.TimesheetLineClass ,
                        dbo.DataRepository.TimesheetLineClassUID ,
                        dbo.MSP_EpmResource_UserView.ResourceName ,
                                                    dbo.MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectName AS ProjectName ,
                        ( SELECT MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectName
                          FROM      dbo.MSP_EpmProject_UserView
                                    LEFT JOIN dbo.DataRepository ON dbo.MSP_EpmProject_UserView.[ProjectUID] = dbo.DataRepository.[ProjectUID]
                          WHERE     LTRIM(RTRIM(dbo.DataRepository.[ProjectUID])) IS NOT NULL
                                    OR LTRIM(RTRIM(dbo.DataRepository.[ProjectUID])) <> '') AS ProjectName2 ,

        FROM    dbo.DataRepository
                    INNER JOIN dbo.MSP_TimesheetActual ON dbo.DataRepository.TimesheetLineUID = dbo.MSP_TimesheetActual.TimesheetLineUID
                    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MSP_EpmResource_UserView ON dbo.DataRepository.ResourceUID = dbo.MSP_EpmResource_UserView.ResourceUID
                    LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.MSP_EpmProject_UserView ON dbo.DataRepository.ProjectUID = dbo.MSP_EpmProject_UserView.ProjectUID

My Question: Is there any way that the error can be resolved?

A: Trying to get more than a single result on a subquery is not possible. You seem to be trying to join MSP_EpmProject_UserView and DataRepository both on the inner query and on the second LEFT OUTER JOIN on the main query. Without the structure of these tables I'm guessing that you have several different ProjectUID for one project name and that is why is returning more than one row. DISTINCT can be usefull if that is the case. If not, then give it a try using GROUP BY clause. Once more, I can not tell more without knowing the tables structures. Hope it helps.

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Stuart Gottlieb is Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and Public Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. Gottlieb teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy, counterterrorism, and international security. He also serves as Faculty Director for SIPA's certificate program in International Relations.
Prior to joining SIPA in 2003, Gottlieb worked for five years in the United States Senate, first as senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York and subsequently as policy adviser and chief speechwriter for Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut. He has also worked on several political campaigns, including New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani's reelection campaign in 1997 and presidential campaign in 2008.
Gottlieb holds a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Columbia University.
Experimental Power: The Rise and Role of America in World Affairs (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Conflicting Perspectives on Causes, Contexts, and Responses, Second Edition (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2013).
"Change and Continuity in America's Counterterrorism Strategy under Obama," US Foreign Policy Today: American Renewal?, eds. Steven Hook and James Scott (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2012).
"Navigating the Post-Obama World," National Interest (2018).
"How the Next President Can Uproot Terrorism," National Interest (2016).
"Why ISIS is a Threat to the American Homeland," National Interest (2014).
"History's Advice to Barack Obama," National Interest (2014).
Stuart Gottlieb and Eric Lorber, "The Dark Side of Interdependence: How Global Ties Tied Our Hands in Russia," Foreign Affairs (2014).
"Staying the Course: Why President Obama's antiterror policies look so much like George W. Bush's," American Lawyer 32, no. 10 (2010).
"The Limits of Language in Fighting Terrorism," National Interest (2010).
"A Way Forward on Terror Detainees," American Lawyer (2009).
"Obama's Drone-Strike Counterterrorism Policy," Foreign Policy (2009).
"Tracking Terrorists," Foreign Policy (2008).
"Syria and the Demise of the Responsibility to Protect," National Interest (2013).
"The Lawless World of Global Terror Combatants," Washington Monthly (11 October 2018).
"The Taming of President Trump," Washington Monthly (2 May 2017).
Danielle Pletka and Stuart Gottlieb, "Don't Buy the Democrats' New Tough Talk on Iran," The Daily Beast (17 September 2015).
"Saving Democracy in Thailand," The Hill (10 July 2014).
"Blame the Obama Doctrine for Iraq," Daily Beast (29 June 2014).
"Protecting Taiwan's Free Press," Roll Call (5 October 2012).
"What if US Stops Policing the World?" CNN Opinion (18 September 2012).
"America's Global Role," New York Times, Sunday Dialogue (27 March 2012).
"Obama Softened Language, Hardened Hearts," Christian Science Monitor (14 October 2010).
"Three Keys to Fighting Terrorism," Hartford Courant (5 December 2008).
"The Democrats' Foreign Policy Shell-Game," Christian Science Monitor (7 July 2008).
"Will Iraq be the Next Rwanda?" The Washington Post (15 April 2007).
Stuart Gottlieb in The New York Times: Foreign Policy Under Trump
Stuart Gottlieb in the Washington Monthly: The Lawless World of Global Terror Combatants
Stuart Gottlieb in The National Interest: Navigating the Post-Obama World
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Since last posting I've had another race. On Sunday past I got up at a horribly early hour (5:30am) to drive to Derry to take part in the Liam Ball/ Northwest Sprint Triathlon. My "taper" for this race consisted of doing the most amount of cycling Ive ever done in one week, plus a bit of running and a wee swim. Basically.. this was a normal training week so no taper allowed! I started the week with some bike commuting. My daily commute is 30 miles, and this week I did 2 full days of bike commuting, thus clocking up 120 miles of cycling by Wednesday. I took Thursday as a rest day, had a 1 hour run on Friday, then on Saturday got in the pool for a quick check that I still knew how to swim as I hadn't done so in 2 weeks due to getting a tattoo. Thus I arrived on race day, far from refreshed and rested.. but exited nonetheless.
I was glad I had opted for this strategy, as to start off with.. the race had a hell of a transition. The pool was upstairs (yes.. UPSTAIRS) in the leisure centre, so T1 involved a run the length of the leisure centre, down the stairs, through the sports hall, and halfway across some gravel pitches. T:2 was pretty long too.. so I was already expecting to struggle to PR on this course due to this.
I got into my lane for the swim and started out second, after a few lengths I passed the guy in front of me and led the swim and was first out of the water in my lane. I think I was maybe 2nd or 3rd out of the water in my wave. I'm not really that insanely fast or anything, If I had been in the next wave, I probably would have been way down the ranking.
The bike leg was a challenge. Strong headwinds on the way out and a course that was a mile longer than the standard sprint distance. I think the total length was 13.4 miles. This was fine by me, and it was a nice bike course. However, that extra mile when you aren't expecting it is kinda tough… not in total.. but when you're expecting the turn around point to happen any second and it doesn't!
T:2 was fun… I couldn't find my shoes.. which slowed me down for a few seconds, and was equally frustrating and hilarious. The run course was, I think, a fair bit short of 5k as I did it way faster than I actually am capable of running at the moment.. but what the hell, I will take it.. a 20:11 5k sounds good!
In the last 100m, the guy who I had passed in the pool and who had been behind me for the whole bike leg, put a sprint on and passed me.. damn… I ended up finishing 4th in my wave, which I'm totally happy with, and 13th in my age group… which I am both HAPPY with and AMAZED by as its exactly the same placing as last time.
Overall, in terms of time I was a little slower than the last race, but with an extra mile in the bike leg and a lot longer transition, I consider it mentally a PR. RESULT.
2 thoughts on Race season continues….


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Nigerian, Ugandan Bishops Err in Supporting Anti-Gay Legislation
"No legitimate Christian rationale" for persecuting gays and lesbians, says group of African, U. S. Anglicans
The steering committee of the Chicago Consultation—an organization of bishops, clergy, theologians and lay Anglicans in Africa and Episcopalians in the United States—has issued the following statement about punitive anti-gay legislation that is supported by the archbishops of the Anglican churches of Nigeria and Uganda:
Christians who read and reason from the same Bible can arrive in good faith at differing conclusions about the moral legitimacy of same-sex relationships. We believe that these differences must be honored, even as we work to gain equal rights for all of God's children, both in the church and in civil society. But we are grieved and appalled by the support of Anglican Archbishops Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria and Stanley Ntagali of Uganda for harsh anti-gay legislation that has been passed in their countries.
In Nigeria, where this law is already in effect, gay men have been rounded up and tortured. In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni must decide within the next few days, whether to sign harsh anti-gay legislation that has already been approved by the country's Parliament.
In the wake of widespread expressions of support for this legislation from Christian leaders in Africa and the silence of their allies in the west, we believe that several points must be made clear:
There is no religiously rooted justification for perpetrating violence against innocent men and women who, whatever their sexual orientation or identity, are created in the image and likeness of God.
There is no legitimate Christian rationale for denying lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people the human rights bestowed upon all of God's children.
Christian leaders who argue otherwise demonstrate a shocking hardheartedness and an unwillingness to examine the meanings of Holy Scripture in depth and in totality.
Whatever their political or theological opinions, faithful Christians are called to offer sanctuary to the persecuted, not encouragement to the persecutors.
We call on the archbishops to reconsider their support for these laws, and we call on the archbishops' allies in the United States and the United Kingdom—organizations such as Anglican Mainstream, the Anglican Church in North America and the Convocation of Anglicans in North America—to dissociate themselves from the archbishops' positions or explain why they will not do so.


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Ventura County criminal justice system – from police to courts – adapts to coronavirus
Megan Diskin
Ventura County Star
Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect a newly-announced suspension of social visits with inmates at the two Ventura County jail facilities. It also includes an update about family visits at Ventura County juvenile hall.
Some jail visits, jury duty and most court appearances have been canceled this week as the Ventura County criminal justice system grapples with the coronavirus outbreak.
While plans may change as new information comes in from health officials, the communication between law enforcement, probation, court staff and attorneys will remain a constant, local attorneys and law enforcement said Monday. All are trying to balance the rights of the accused and crime victims with community health as the state and nation bear down to limit the spread of COVID-19.
"It's just important that governments stay open as much as they safely can and criminal justice, of course, is one of those systems that must stay open," said Chuck Hughes, Chief Deputy District Attorney.
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So far no instances of COVID-19 have been reported in the jails or from anyone who visited the courthouse.
In the jails, social distancing is being implemented as much as possible, Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said Monday.
On Wednesday, the sheriff's office suspended all social visits with inmates at the main jail in Ventura and the Todd Road jail near Santa Paula. Although a glass wall divides an inmate from their visitor, the measure is being taken to limit the visiting public from exposing each other in confined spaces, according to a news release from the agency.
Social visits were still going on Monday and Tuesday. Ayub said jail officials were scrambling to get hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes into the visiting areas due to the high demand for them.
In light of the suspension, inmates will be given free phone calls and writing materials to stay connected to their loved ones, the agency said. The precautionary measure is expected to be reevaluated every two weeks and visits will be reinstated once it is safe, sheriff's officials said.
Professional visits, such as ones with attorneys, are still permitted but there will be no contact, the agency said.
On Monday, such visits still remained in place and Ventura County Public Defender Todd Howeth expressed confidence in his office being able to continue giving "high quality representation" during this challenging time.
Social distancing in the jails also means programs like narcotics anonymous are canceled, Ayub said Monday.
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The state Division of Juvenile Justice, which oversees the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility near Camarillo, has canceled normal visiting at all facilities. A message to the division about any precautionary measures taken was not returned.
Family visits with youths housed at Ventura County juvenile hall in El Rio have also been canceled, according to the Ventura County Probation Agency, which oversees the facility. Free phone calls and video conference visiting were being implemented to make sure the juveniles could stay in touch with their parents, the probation agency said.
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The jails are expected to regularly purge the air inside the facilities, Ayub said. The jails are on a closed-circuit circulatory system which can expunge the stale air and bring in fresh air, Ayub said. Generally, cleaning efforts inside the jails has grown "tenfold," Ayub said.
The jail facility for low-level offenders in Thousand Oaks was closed, due in part to there being no medical staff on site, Ayub said. There are medical staff at the other facilities 24/7, Ayub said.
Additionally, Ayub said deputies have been encouraged to use discretion when choosing to cite and release those suspected of misdemeanors rather than jail them. He's spoken with other Ventura County law enforcement agencies and many of them have taken similar approaches, Ayub said.
Like elsewhere in the world, sworn and civilian personnel in the sheriff's office have been encouraged to stay home if they are feeling sick. Jail staff have access to masks, and deputies are always required to wear gloves in the jails, Ayub said.
"In our jails infectious disease is always a top concern of ours," Ayub said, explaining that tuberculosis, the flu and hepatitis are among the usual concerns.
There is typically a medical screening for new arrestees being booked into the jail but a new system in light of the coronavirus has been implemented, Ayub said.
There is a covered area outside the jail where screenings will take place based on a person's vital signs, including temperature, Ayub said. They will also fill out a questionnaire similar to one used by the local public health department, the sheriff said.
Coornavirus update:Ventura County patients, doctors face COVID-19 testing questions
Those showing symptoms will be required to wear a mask and be housed in isolation, Ayub said. A test to confirm the virus will also be sought, Ayub said. New inmates that don't show symptoms t will be closely monitored for 72 hours, Ayub said.
Jail staff have been advised to remain hypervigilant of anyone with symptoms, Ayub said.
There aren't many elderly people in jail, Ayub said, but there are some with underlying medical conditions. A few are pregnant, he said.
"That's a really significant concern for us," Ayub said. "We can isolate, if need be."
So far, there hasn't been any major shuffling of inmates in order to accommodate isolation needs, Ayub said. There is capacity to do that, he said.
There is latitude from the courts to order inmates released and the jail can issue compassionate release to certain inmates, Ayub said.
"We have a number of tools at our disposal," Ayub said.
Masks will be given to the more vulnerable populations in jail when being taken to Ventura County Superior Court, Ayub said.
But it's unclear how busy the court might be in the coming weeks.
Last week, the court announced it would be closed from Monday to Wednesday, and opening again Thursday and Friday for limited operations.
Hughes, in the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, said the local court needed to get the OK from the chief justice of the California Supreme Court. That came Friday, Hughes said.
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The government code allows for the courts to implement closures, with approval from the chief justice, in certain emergencies, Hughes said. In some states, that might be a hurricane, he said.
"This isn't something we've experienced but it is something we've planned for," Hughes said.
Each county agency has developed a contingency plan to continue operations, Hughes said. The court was close to shutting down during the 2017 Thomas Fire, Hughes said.
A recorded message at the court's jury services phone number advised residents called for jury duty this week not to come in. Their jury duty has been deemed served for one year.
It's unclear what cleaning efforts, if any, might be going on at the courthouse while it is closed. In a news release last week, the court said it was implementing "additional cleaning protocols" in high-use areas. Signs for hand sanitizer and stickers on bathroom mirrors about thorough hand-washing had been posted.
The court reopens Thursday for "limited operations," according to a news release issued Monday.
"A small number of courtrooms will be open to hear urgent criminal, juvenile, unlawful detainer and temporary restraining order issues only," court officials said in the release.
The limited operations were expected to continue through Friday. The Ventura and East County walk-up windows will be open at each court location for traffic and collection payments on Thursday and Friday, the news release states.
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Most courtrooms and clerk's offices will be closed, court officials said.
On Thursday and Friday, criminal cases where the accused is in jail custody will be heard. Defendants in that same circumstance who had appearances Monday through Wednesday will also have their cases heard Thursday or Friday, Hughes said.
The purpose of that appearance is mostly just to pick a new date, Hughes said.
People accused of crimes who are not in custody have had their court appearances reassigned and have been notified by the court, Hughes said.
"There won't be evidentiary hearings. There won't be (preliminary hearings) or jury trials," Hughes said of court this week.
Cases in which evidence has begun to be presented at trial are postponed. If jurors have started deliberations in a trial they are asked to return Thursday, said Senior Deputy District Attorney John Barrick.
The court said it would announce any future operations plans by Friday.
Megan Diskin is a courts and breaking news reporter with The Star. Reach her at megan.diskin@vcstar.com or 805-437-0258.