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\section{Introduction}
Let
\begin{equation} \label{1.1} Au=f, \end{equation}
where $A:H\to H$ is a linear closed operator, densely defined in a Hilbert
space $H$.
Problem \eqref{1.1} is called ill-posed if $A$ is not a homeomorphism
of $H$ onto $H$, that is, either equation \eqref{1.1} does not have a
solution,
or the solution is non-unique, or the solution does not depend on $f$
continuously. Let us assume that \eqref{1.1} has a solution, possibly
non-unique. Let $N(A)$ be the null space of $A$, and $y$ be the unique
normal solution to \eqref{1.1}, i.e., $y\perp N(A)$.
Given noisy data $f_\delta$, $\|f_\delta-f\|\leq \delta$,
one wants to construct a stable approximation $u_{\delta}:=R_\delta f_\delta$ of
the solution
$y$, $\|u_\delta-y\|\to 0$ as $\delta \to 0$.

Traditionally (see, e.g., \cite{M}) one calls a family of
operators $R_h$ a regularizer for problem \eqref{1.1} (with not
necessarily linear operator $A$) if

\noindent a) $R_hA(u)\to u$ as $ h\to 0$ for any $u\in D(A)$,\\
\noindent b) $R_hf_\delta$ is defined for any $f_\delta\in H$
and there exists $h=h(\delta)\to 0$ as $\delta\to 0$ such that
\begin{equation} \label{ast} \|R_{h(\delta)} f_\delta-y\| \to 0
\tag{{$\ast$}} \hbox { as } \delta\to 0. \end{equation}

In this definition $y$ is fixed and \eqref{ast} must hold for any
$f_\delta\in B(f,\delta):=\left\{ f_\delta:\|f_\delta-f\|\leq \delta
\right\}$.

In practice one does not know the solution $y$ and the exact data $f$.
The only available information is a family $f_\delta$ and some {\it a
priori information about $f$ or about the solution $y$}.
This a priori information often
consists of the knowledge that $y\in {\mathcal K}$,
where ${\mathcal K}$ is a compactum in $H$.
Thus
$$y\in S_\delta
  :=\left\{ v:\|A(v)-f_\delta\|\leq\delta,\ v\in {\mathcal K}\right\}.$$
We assume that the operator $A$ is known exactly, and we always
assume that $f_\delta\in B(f,\delta)$, where $f=A(y)$.

{\bf Definition:} {\it We call a family of operators $R(\delta)$ a
regularizer if}
\begin{equation} \label{1.2}
 \sup_{v\in S_\delta} \|R(\delta) f_\delta-v\|
 \leq \eta(\delta)\to 0 \hbox{\quad as\quad } \delta \to 0. \end{equation}
There is a {\it crucial difference} between our new Definition
\eqref{1.2}
and the standard definition \eqref{ast}:

{\it In \eqref{ast} $u$ is fixed,
while in \eqref{1.2} $v$ is an arbitrary element of $S_\delta$ and the
supremum of the norm in \eqref{1.2} over all such $v$
must tend to zero as $\delta\to 0$.}

The new definition is more realistic and better fits computational
needs
because not only the solution $y$ to \eqref{1.1} satisfies the inequality
$\|Ay-f_\delta\|\leq \delta$,
but any $v\in S_\delta$ satisfies this inequality
$\|Av-f_\delta\|\leq \delta$, $v\in {\mathcal K}$.
The data $f_\delta$ may correspond
to any $f=Av$, where  $v\in S_\delta$, and not only to $f=Ay$, where $y$
is a solution of equation (1.1).
Therefore it is more natural  to use definition \eqref{1.2} than \eqref{ast}.

Our goal is to illustrate the practical difference between these two
definitions, and to construct regularizer in the sense
\eqref{1.2} for problem \eqref{1.1} with an arbitrary, not necessarily
bounded, linear operator $A$, which is closed and densely defined in
$H$. This is done in Section 2. In Section 1 this
is done for a class of equations \eqref{1.1} with
nonlinear operators $A:X\to Y$, where $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces.
In this case we assume that

\noindent A1) $A:X\to Y$ {\it is a closed, nonlinear, injective map},
$f\in {\mathcal R}(A)$, $ {\mathcal R}(A)$ {it is the range of} $A$,

and

\noindent A2) $\phi: D(\phi)\to [0,\infty)$, $\phi(u)>0$ {\it if} $u\not= 0$,
 $D(\phi)\subseteq D(A)$,
{\it the sets} ${\mathcal K}={\mathcal K}_c:=\{v:\phi(v)\leq c\}$
{\it are compact in} $X$ {\it for every} $c=const>0$, {\it and if}
$v_n\to v$, {\it then}
$\phi(v)\leq \liminf_{n\to\infty} \phi(v_n)$.

The last inequality holds if $\phi$ is {\it lower semicontinuous}.
In Hilbert spaces and  in reflexive Banach spaces norms are
lower semicontinuous.

Let us give some examples of equations for which assumptions A1) and A2)
are satisfied.

\noindent{\bf Example 1.}
$A$ is a linear injective compact operator, $f\in{\mathcal R}(A)$,
$\phi(v)$ is a norm on $X_1\subset X$, where $X_1$ is densely
imbedded in $X$, the embedding $i:X_1\to X$ is compact, and
$\phi(v)$ is lower semicontinuous.

\noindent{\bf Example 2.}
$A$ is a nonlinear injective continuous operator $f\in{\mathcal R}(A)$,
$A^{-1}$ is not continuous, $\phi$ is as in Example 1.

\noindent{\bf Example 3.}
$A$ is linear, injective, densely defined, closed operator,
$f\in{\mathcal R}(A)$, $A^{-1}$ is unbounded, $\phi$ is as in Example 1,
$X_1\subseteq D(A)$.

Let us demonstrate by Example A that {\it a regularizer in
the sense \eqref{ast} may be not a regularizer in the sense \eqref{1.2}}.

In Example B a theoretical construction of a regularizer in the sense
\eqref{1.2} is given for some equations \eqref{1.1} with nonlinear
operators.

In Section 2 a novel theoretical construction of a regularizer in the
sense \eqref{1.2} is given for a very wide class of equations \eqref{1.1}
with linear operators $A$.

{\bf Example A}: {\it Stable numerical differentiation.}

In this Example the results from \cite{R32} - \cite{R428} are used.
This Example is borrowed from \cite{R444}.

Consider stable numerical differentiation of noisy data.
The problem is:
\begin{equation} \label{1.3}
Au:=\int^x_0 u(s)\,ds=f(x), \quad f(0)=0, \quad 0\leq x\leq 1.
\end{equation}
The data are: $f_\delta$ and a constant $M_a$, which defines a
compact ${\mathcal K}$, where
$\|f_\delta-f\|\leq \delta$,
the norm is $L^\infty(0,1)$ norm, and ${\mathcal K}$ consists of the
$L^\infty$ functions which satisfy the inequality
$\|u\|_a\leq M_a$, $a\geq 0$.
The norm
$$\|u\|_a := \sup_{\substack {x,y\in[0,1] \\ x\neq y}}
  \ \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|}{|x-y|^a}
 + \sup_{0\leq x\leq 1} |u(x)|\quad \hbox{\ if\ }  0\leq a\leq 1,
$$
$$\|u\|_a:=\sup_{0\leq x\leq 1} (|u(x)| + |u'(x)|)
 +\sup_{\substack {x,y\in[0,1] \\ x\neq y}}
  \ \frac{|u'(x)-u'(y)|}{|x-y|^{a-1}},
 \quad 1<a\leq 2.
$$
If $a>1$, then we define
\begin{equation} \label{1.4}
R(\delta)f_\delta:=
\begin{cases}
\frac{f_\delta(x+h(\delta))-f_\delta(x-h(\delta))}{2h(\delta)},
   & h(\delta)\leq x\leq 1-h(\delta),\\
\frac{f_\delta(x+h(\delta))-f_\delta(x)}{h(\delta)},
   & 0\leq x< h(\delta), \\
\frac{f_\delta(x)-f_\delta(x-h(\delta))}{h(\delta)},
   & 1-h(\delta)<x\leq 1,
\end{cases} \end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\label{1.5} h(\delta)=c_a\delta^{\frac{1}{a}},
\end{equation}
and $c_a$ is a constant given explicitly (cf \cite{R133}).

We prove that
\eqref{1.4} is a regularizer for \eqref{1.3} in the sense \eqref{1.2},
and ${\mathcal K}:=\{v:\|v\|_a \leq M_a,\ a>1\}$.
In this example we do not use lower semicontinuity of the norm $\phi(v)$
and do not define $\phi$.

Let $S_{\delta,a}:=\{ v:\|Av-f_\delta\| \leq \delta, \ \|v\|_a \leq M_a
\}$.
To prove that \eqref{1.4}-\eqref{1.5} is a regularizer in the sense
\eqref{1.2} we use the estimate
\begin{equation} \label{1.6}
\begin{aligned}
\sup_{\substack {v\in S_{\delta,a}}}  &  \|R(\delta) f_\delta-v\|
\leq \sup_{\substack {v\in S_{\delta,a}}}
  \{ \|R(\delta)(f_\delta-Av)\| +\| R(\delta)Av-v\| \}
\leq \frac{\delta}{h(\delta)} +M_a h^{a-1}(\delta) \leq
 \\&
\leq c_a \delta^{1-\frac{1}{a}} :=\eta(\delta)\to 0
  \hbox{\ as\ } \delta \to 0.
\end{aligned}\end{equation}
Thus we have proved that \eqref{1.4}-\eqref{1.5} is a regularizer
in the sense \eqref{1.2}.

If $a=1$, and $M_1<\infty$, then one can prove the following result:

 {\bf Claim:}   {\it There is no
regularizer for problem \eqref{1.3} in the sense \eqref{1.2}
even if the regularizer is sought in the set of all operators,
including nonlinear ones}.

More precisely, it is proved in \cite{R190},
p.345, (see also \cite{R499}, pp 197-235, where the stable numerical
differentiation problem is discussed in detail) that
$$\inf_{R(\delta)} \ \sup_{v\in S_{\delta,1}}
 \ \|R(\delta) f_\delta - v\| \geq c>0,$$
where $c>0$ is a constant independent of $\delta$
and the infimum is taken {\it over all operators
$R(\delta)$ acting from $L^{\infty}(0,1)$
into  $L^{\infty}(0,1)$, including nonlinear ones}.

On the other hand, if $a=1$ and $M_1<\infty$, then
a regularizer in the sense \eqref{ast} does exist,
but the rate of convergence in (*) may be as slow
as one wishes, if
$u(x)$ is chosen suitably (see \cite{R133}, \cite{R499}).

{\bf Example B:} {\it Construction of a regularizer in the sense
\eqref{1.2} for some nonlinear equations.}

Assuming A1) and A2), let us
construct a regularizer
for \eqref{1.1} in the sense \eqref{1.2}. We use the ideas from
\cite{R444} and \cite{R428}.

Define $F_\delta(v):=\|Av-f_\delta\| + \delta\phi(v)$ and
consider the minimization problem of finding the infimum $m(\delta)$ of
the functional $ F_\delta(v)$ on a set $ S_\delta$:
\begin{equation} \label{1.7}
m(\delta):=\inf_{v\in S_\delta} F_\delta(v),
 \qquad S_\delta:=\{v:\|Av-f_\delta\| \leq \delta,
 \ \phi(v)\leq c\}.
\end{equation}
Here
$${\mathcal K}={\mathcal K}_c:=\{ v:\phi(v)\leq c\}.$$
The constant $c>0$ can be chosen arbitrary large and fixed at
the beginning of the argument, and then one can choose a smaller
constant $c_1$, specified below.
Since $F_\delta(u)=\delta + \delta\phi(u):=c_1\delta$,
$c_1:=1+\phi(u)$, where $u$ solves \eqref{1.1}, one concludes that
\begin{equation} \label{1.8}
 m(\delta)\leq c_1\delta.
\end{equation}
Let $v_j$ be a minimizing sequence and
$F_\delta(v_j)\leq 2m(\delta)$.
Then $\phi(v_j)\leq 2 c_1$. By assumption A2),
as $j\to\infty$, one has:
\begin{equation}  \label{1.9}
 v_j\to v_\delta,
 \qquad \phi(v_\delta) \leq 2c_1.
\end{equation}
Take $\delta=\delta_m\to 0$ and denote
$v_{\delta_m}:=w_m$.
Then \eqref{1.9} and Assumption A2) imply the existence
of a subsequence, denoted again $w_m$, such that:
\begin{equation} \label{1.10}
 w_m\to w,\qquad A(w_m)\to A(w), \qquad \|A(w)-g\|=0.
\end{equation}
Thus $A(w)=g$ and, since $A$ is injective by Assumption A1),
it follows that $w=u$, where
$u$ is the
unique solution to \eqref{1.1}.

Define now $R(\delta)f_\delta$ by the formula
$R(\delta)f_\delta:=v_\delta$, where $v_\delta$ is defined in
\eqref{1.9}.

\begin{theorem}
$R(\delta)$ is a regularizer for problem \eqref{1.1} in the
sense \eqref{1.2}.
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}
Assume the contrary:
\begin{equation}\label{1.11}
  \sup_{v\in S_\delta} \|R(\delta)f_\delta - v\|
  = \sup_{v\in S_\delta} \|v_\delta-v\| \geq \gamma >0,
\end{equation}
where $\gamma>0$ is a constant independent of $\delta$.
Since $\phi(v_\delta)\leq 2c_1$ by \eqref{1.9}, and
$\phi(v)\leq c$, one can choose convergent in $X$ sequences
$w_m:=v_{\delta_m}\to \tilde w$, $\delta_m\to 0$, and $v_m\to\tilde
v$,
such that $\|w_m-v_m\|\geq \frac{\gamma}{2}$,
$\| \tilde w -\tilde v\|\geq\frac{\gamma}{2}$,
and $A(\tilde w)=g$, $A(\tilde v)=g$.
By the injectivity of $A$ it follows that $\tilde w=\tilde
v=u$. This contradicts
the inequality $\|\tilde w-\tilde v\|\geq\frac{\gamma}{2}>0$.
This contradiction proves the theorem.

The conclusions $A(\tilde w)=g$ and $A(\tilde v)=g$, that we have used
above, follow
from the inequalities $\|A(v_\delta)-f_\delta\|\leq \delta$
and $\|A(v)-f_\delta\| \leq \delta$
after passing to the limit $\delta\to 0$, using assumption A2).
\end{proof}

\section { Construction of a regularizer in the sense
\eqref{1.2} for linear equations}

If $A$ is a linear  closed densely defined in $H$ operator,
then $T=A^*A$ is a densely defined selfadjoint operator. Let $T_a:=T+aI$,
where  $a=const>0$. The operator $T_a^{-1}A^*$ is densely defined and
closable. Its closure is a bounded operator, defined
on all of $H$, and $||T_a^{-1}A^*||\leq \frac 1
{2\sqrt{a}}.$  See \cite{R500}-\cite{R522} for details and other results.
Let $E_s$ be the resolution of the identity of the selfadjoint operator
$T$, $d\rho:=d(E_sy,y)$, and
${\mathcal K}:=\{u: \int_0^\infty s^{-2p}d\rho\leq k_p^2\}$, where
$p\in (0,1)$ and $k_p>0$ are constants.

Our basic result is:

{\bf Theorem 2.1.} {\it The operator $R_\delta=T_{a(\delta)}^{-1}A^*$
is a regularizer for problem \eqref{1.1} in the sense \eqref{1.2}
if $\lim_{\delta\to 0} \frac {\delta}{a(\delta)^{1/2}}=0$ and $\lim_{\delta\to
0}a(\delta)=0$. Moreover, if $a(\delta)=b_p\delta^{\frac 2{2p+1}},$ then
\begin{equation}\label{2.1}
  \sup_{y\in {\mathcal K}, ||Ay-f_\delta||\leq \delta} \|R(\delta)f_\delta - y\|
  \leq C_p\delta^{\frac {2p}{2p+1}},
\end{equation}
where
$$C_p=\frac 1{2\sqrt{b_p}}+c_pk_pb_p^p, \qquad c_p=p^p(1-p)^{1-p},
\qquad b_p:=(4pc_pk_p)^{-\frac {2}{2p+1}}.$$
The above choice of $a(\delta)$ is optimal
in the sense that the right-hand side of \eqref{2.2} (see below) is
minimal for this choice of  $a(\delta)$.
}

{\it Proof.}

Let
$$\epsilon:=\sup_{y\in {\mathcal K}, ||Ay-f_\delta||\leq
\delta}||T_a^{-1}A^*f_\delta-y||:=\sup ||T_a^{-1}A^*f_\delta-y||.$$
 Then, with $Ay=f$, one has
$$\epsilon\leq \sup ||T_a^{-1}A^*(f_\delta-f)||+\sup
||T_a^{-1}A^*Ay-y||:=J_1+J_2,
$$
where
$$J_1\leq \frac {\delta}{2\sqrt{a}},$$
and
$$J_2^2\leq \sup \{a^2||T_a^{-1}y||^2\}\leq \sup \int_0^\infty \frac
{a^2}{(s+a)^2} d(E_sy,y).$$

Thus,
$$J_2^2\leq \big(\max_{s\geq 0}\frac
{as^p}{a+s}\big)^2k_p^2=c_p^2k_p^2a^{2p},$$
because  $\max_{s\geq 0}\frac{as^p}{a+s}$ is attained at
$s=\frac{pa}{1-p}$ and is equal to $c_pa^p$, where
$$c_p:=p^p(1-p)^{1-p},\qquad k_p^2:=\sup_{y\in {\mathcal K}}\int_0^\infty
s^{-2p}d(E_sy,y).
$$
Consequently,
$$J_2\leq c_pk_pa^{p},$$
and
\begin{equation}\label{2.2}
\epsilon\leq \frac {\delta}{2\sqrt{a}}+c_pk_pa^{p}.
\end{equation}
Minimizing the right-hand side of \eqref{2.2} with respect to $a> 0$,
one obtains inequality \eqref{2.1}.

The minimizer of the right-hand side of \eqref{2.2} is
$$a=a(\delta)=b_p\delta^{\frac {2}{2p+1}}, \qquad
b_p:=(4pc_pk_p)^{-\frac {2}{2p+1}},$$
and the minimum of the right-hand side of \eqref{2.2} is
$C_p\delta^{\frac {2p}{2p+1}}$, where
\begin{equation}\label{2.3}
C_p:=\frac 1{2\sqrt{b_p}}+c_pk_pb_p^p.
\end{equation}
Theorem 2.1 is proved. \hfill $\Box$

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Stanisława Pietruszczak-Wąchała (born 8 May 1953) is a Polish speed skater. She competed in the women's 500 metres at the 1976 Winter Olympics.

References

1953 births
Living people
Polish female speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters of Poland
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CLAC's not just at Site C. It and affiliated contractors have about 70 per cent of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, including rebuilding the Westridge Terminal in Burnaby and several pipeline "spreads" along the line, says Ryan Bruce, CLAC's B.C. manager of government relations. And the Kitimat liquefied natural gas plant and associated pipeline are up next.
"We'll be working on two or three spreads of Coastal GasLink," Bruce told me. "We've been working at the LNG Canada site on site prep. Those contracts haven't all been awarded yet, but we will certainly be a player on a good portion of the LNG projects, once they get underway."
LNG Canada, as Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau never tire of reminding us, is the largest private-sector investment in Canadian history, with a $40 billion price tag. The building trades, noted for strict "craft lines," higher costs and "no raid" deals with each other, are not happy. In Horgan's B.C., they've already got a lock on the Pattullo Bridge replacement, Trans-Canada Highway widening and Broadway subway in Vancouver, and they want the big private stuff too.
Bains sent an expert panel of business and labour around the province last year to consult on a new Labour Relations Code. The experts recommended a three-year period between "raids" to sign up workers of another union. Horgan and Bains accepted the stability this offers, except for big construction. There, unions can raid every July and August when building activity is at its peak.
There was already a raid on Site C in 2017. Labourers, Teamsters and Operating Engineers organizers descended on Fort St. John airport to meet CLAC workers, in some cases following them into the massive work camp to lobby them to sign a new card. It failed, but the new legislation welcomes them back.
It turns construction sites into a summer "battle zone," said Paul de Jong, president of the Edmonton-based Progressive Contractors Association of Canada, which works with CLAC, other multi-skill unions and provinces with sensible raid rules.
This column recently discussed the union-only raise for community care workers. This is essentially a mega-raid on 17,000 non-union employees of contract agencies that care for developmentally disabled people. And the NDP's union monopoly plan is just getting started.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press Media. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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Lease expands Center City campus | The Triangle
Lease expands Center City campus
By Victoria.Schick
Drexel continued to expand eastbound by securing 186,000 square feet of Center City property earlier in January in the Three Parkway office building located at 1601 Cherry St. The College of Nursing and Health Professions will use this space to accommodate recent and anticipated growth.
In addition to renting space in the Friends Center across the street, CNHP shares the Bellet Building, located at 15th and Race streets, with the School of Public Health.
"We have maxed out the Bellet Building," Gloria Donnelly, dean of CNHP, said. "We are even renting extra space across the street."
Andrew DeMaio, a sophomore nursing major, wrote in an email, "Some classrooms at 15th and Race streets were mostly outdated and, for example, lacked outlets for student laptops. And there was only one lounge area to eat or study, and at peak times there were not many places to sit."
CNHP, Drexel's second largest college, consists of 170 faculty, 95 staff members and 4,300 students. Significant growth is expected given the area's present and future demand for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Due to Drexel's growing doctoral programs, two floors of Three Parkway will be dedicated to practice and research space for faculty.
"It will be interesting to see if they bring some of the mock hospital rooms over to the new parkway building. It would be nice to have more practice facilities to learn skills such as [working with intravenous] or other nursing skills we are required to practice," DeMaio wrote.
In addition, office space will occupy two floors, while a fifth floor will be devoted to student lounges and classrooms. Space will also be developed for physical therapy programs and a Pediatrics and Musculoskeletal Research Center lab.
"I've had multiple classes in the New Parkway Building [sic], and it is fantastic. Most rooms are set up with either long tables or circular tables, all outfitted with outlets for student technology. There are also multiple lounges on each floor, which many students and I have used," DeMaio wrote.
CNHP will move floor by floor in phases beginning in spring 2013. and the move is projected to be completed by fall 2014. The College of Medicine will then occupy the Bellet Building.
Three Parkway, also known as the Pennwalt Building, spans 561,351 square feet in 20 stories. The former headquarters of the Pennwalt Chemical Corp. now house companies such as ExcelleRx and Reliance Insurance. Drexel will inhabit 119,000 square feet over five stories of the Class A Office Building, which is 96 percent of the building. The 10-year lease, facilitated through Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, was the largest expansion by any single tenant in downtown Philadelphia last year.
Downtown Philadelphia offers students of CNHP and the College of Medicine convenient accessibility to Drexel's affiliated medical center, Hahnemann University Hospital. In addition, the move will place CNHP closer to its partner, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. According to Donnelly, additional partnerships in the area are being considered, including one with the Friends School faculty. Center City also offers access to all Philadelphia public transportation systems and major highways.


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Giovanni Caboto (oko 1450. – oko 1499.), poznat i kao John Cabot, je bio talijanski moreplovac i istraživač koji se obično smatra prvim Europljaninom koji je otkrio kopno Sjeverne Amerike, 1497.

Cabot je rođen 1451. (točan datum i mjesto nisu sigurni). U mladosti se preselio u Veneciju i postao njen građanin.

Poput ostalih talijanskih istraživača tog toba, kao što su Kristofor Kolumbo (Cristoforo Colombo), Cabot je učinio drugu zemlju bazom svojih operacija. Za Cabota to je bila Engleska.

Cabot je zapamćen u Bristolu po utvrdi Cabot Tower, izrađenoj 1897. (na 400-tu godišnjicu otkrića), po replici broda Matthew i kipu istraživača u luci.

Cabot, John
Istraživači Sjeverne Amerike


car's engine using a remote device.
Court of driving while intoxicated.
the ruling to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
vehicle was the critical issue.
said. Police said Rogers' foot appeared to be on the brake pedal.
and started the engine of his vehicle by pressing a remote-start button.
ignition but rather on the floorboard.
vehicle without putting the keys in the ignition.
taillights and accessories such as the radio and heater.
Layton Roaf. Judges Sam Bird and Wendell L. Griffen dissented.
The Morning News' Ron Wood contributed to this report.


Photography. Nun Ivanka, R.N. in the devastated Zadar hinterland, 1993.
I remember my experience in the Homeland War clear as day. It was the spring of 1991, and the war was just starting. As a medical nurse in the Crisis Health Center, my task was delivering medical equipment and medicines in preparation for the possible attack.
"They are definitely going to attack us today or tomorrow, you can feel it in the air," said one of the staff members from the Vrlika Health Unit while I was passing through the ramp in Civljani on the way to Kijevo. The village of Kijevo was encircled by the Yugoslav Federal Army and Serbian paramilitaries. Yet, the people were staying in their homes as if holding on to a fistful of black soil from the land they owned for generations. It was difficult to leave one`s life behind. My driver said: "They can hold you back and not allow you to go back, but you must resist. You are the head nurse so you have the authority!" I was frightened, but his words gave me courage. They controlled the entrance to the village with a tank. And I felt like this reversed world around me, this new strangeness of the area I traveled to so frequently in the past, was everything but pleasant.
There was an eerie calm as we were driving through the cornfields where the Cetina river flowed slowly and with pride, vast fields where just bloomed poppies swayed, but you did not hear the song of the birds, there were no children on the meadows, no mothers preparing for work. Only here and there a chicken would appear in front of a house or a frightened cat running across the road. Everything that was familiar to me had changed. I felt an unrelenting fear and a restlessness that forbade me from breathing. I thought that the opposing forces were watching our every step, yet we did not see anyone. Only the unpleasant feeling, as if I was being held at gunpoint, accompanied me; feeling of one wrong step that would be my undoing. At the Health Unit, the medical team and a few village women were anxiously awaiting our arrival. As they had welcomed me, I thought we all shared the same feeling of having made it through. But tomorrow's fate was still uncertain.
We were rushing to bring in the boxes, counting the supplies, and making a list of the missing items. A very old woman had gently approached me and whispered: "Yeast, nurse, we need yeast. We have medicines; it is the hunger that we are afraid of." We have flour and salt, but there will be a lack of yeast. There are more sick people and children in the village; we are going to be hungry, hungry for bread. I was only allowed to transfer medical supplies and the food and milk for the children, nothing else.
On the way back through Civljani, we were held at a checkpoint at the ramp. As the military personnel checked our documents, we did not know if they were going to let us through or keep us there. Although we had smelled alcohol on their breath, we did not ask anything. It was of utmost importance to pass through, to return, and make the same trip tomorrow. When we came to the Community Health Centre, I found my coworker and had told her quietly, "We do not have a lot of time, please just work and do not say anything." Calmly and patiently, we were taking the powdered milk out of its packaging and were replacing it with instant yeast wrapped in cotton wool that would prevent it from rusting during transport. Immobilization splints were splayed out on the floor and constantly in our way making us jump over them. Suddenly, I looked towards them and my colleague; we both nodded our heads and began to wrap the splints with layers of cotton wool along with the bound yeast. We had combined everything with bandages and prepared it for transport. Nobody was going to get hungry.
I awoke startled. It was dark outside and silent as a grave. Shrunken in the armchair of the study, I was wearing a white coat with a red cross on the sleeve. If I had not stitched it back in place, it would have fallen off. I had gotten up and meandered my way through the seemingly endless piles of neatly wrapped splints. Next to one of the boxes, I saw my colleague on the other armchair sleeping in her uniform, conquered by fatigue. As soon as the sun was up, we had drunk our coffee and set off for Kijevo.
The drive to the ramp in Civljani took us longer than yesterday. Even the unpleasantness was greater, as village yards were empty and a dense fog was everywhere. We were approaching the ramp, and the same soldier was there, staring at us with his unblinking eyes from the tank. While I was watching him, I felt the car stop, so I returned my gaze to the road and froze with terror. There was a dozen of fully armed soldiers standing there. They were noisy and cheered while passing along some bottle. The lump in my throat grew, my hands were cold, and my mouth was dry, but I walked confidently. I had strengthened my resolve with encouraging thoughts: this day is for bread, for the hungry children and the elderly; for the old woman who is waiting for us; for freedom and the joy of life; for the tears of my people; and for defiance towards my enemy.
He had pulled the warrant from my hands, and an older soldier took it and waved the document around his head while muttering something to himself.
"Open the trunk! What do you have in those boxes? Move faster!" Then he had darted his harsh inquiry toward the driver: "Why are you staying quiet? What kind of a man are you letting her do all the talking? Is she your boss?" The driver had started walking toward one side of the car and me toward the other. The seemingly endless scrutiny had continued while I answered as best as I could.
I had watched him moving the packed splints from one hand to another. My knees were shaking, making it hard to stand on my own, so I quickly grabbed hold of the car not to fall. I looked at the driver and suddenly realized at that moment that he was unaware of the smuggled yeast packed with the splints. I had feared that the soldier would open the packed splints and would discover all of the contents, so I had kept my voice level and calm and said: "This is for the wounded with bone fractures to stabilize the bone during transport to the hospital." Abruptly, the tirade of questioning had ended, and we were told to leave. Before we had got back in the car, the soldier said: "I have one just like you at home, you nurses are all the same, and you do what you want to do. Now, get out of here! I then heard him mumble as he threw one of the packed splints into the back seat of our car.
I did not believe that we did it; we had passed the checkpoint! I felt like rejoicing, but I had to keep quiet about my secret triumph. Feeling proud, I had looked back at the packed splints and to my horror, two bags of yeast were on the seat. My mind raced as I had anticipated a negative reaction from the driver. Quickly, I used the scarf around my neck to cover the packs along with the ripped splint package from which they fell. Once I had confirmed that the yeast was covered, the car had already come to a stop. We had arrived at the center of Kijevo.
I felt that I had accomplished something great by providing for the people displaced by the war. As soon as I had opened the car door, the warm and welcoming eyes of the old woman, one of the many who had needed yeast, met mine. Without hesitation, she had hugged me as if she was awaiting my arrival and not that of the yeast.
I had whispered in her ear: "We got through with the yeast." She had understood and her tears of joy that washed away my uncertainty and fear. With a renewed optimism, I knew that all of our lives would return to normal someday.
Ivana Bokan is a professional associate at the School of Health Split. She got her Bachelor degree at University of Split, Croatia and Master Degree in Nursing Sciences at the University of Split, Department of Health Studies. She is a member of Croatian Association of nurses and technicians in gastroenterology and endoscopy. She is striving to improve patient care education in Croatia, and enjoys long walks and hiking.


Mr. Bayo Adeyemo was born in Lagos, Nigeria.He has over 21 years experience in key areas of business activities at executive management level. He attended Baptist Boys High School Abeokuta, Federal School of Arts and Science Victoria Island and University of Jos, Jos Plateau state and University of Lagos, Lagos in Nigeria.His doctorate thesis is on Critical Asset Management In Developing Countries. Mr Adeyemo is a recipient of several corporate honours and has led numerous trade delegations to Europe, the Americas and Asia. He has also attended extensive trainings and development courses in Nigeria and abroad in his core areas of Asset Management, Insurance, Information Technology, Construction, Advertising and Executive Management. An alumnus of the Lagos Business School and member, Institute of Directors, he has a multidisciplinary background with a Bachelor of Art in History, Masters in International Law and Diplomacy, a Bachelor of Law, and is a Barrister at Law.
Sir Mike Mbama Okiro was born in Oguta Imo State. He hails from Egbema village, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA of Rivers State. He attended University of Ibadan where he obtained his first degree in English, his Masters in Public Admin from University of Lagos and a Law degree from University of Jos. He also attended the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies from Kuru, Plateau State. He enrolled in the Nigeria Police Force and rose to the ranks of Commissioner of Police Benue and Lagos respectively, Deputy Inspector General of Police 'B' Department – Operations and 'C' Department all in the Force headquarters. He was Inspector General of Police from 2007-2009 where he made a lot of reforms in the NPF. Subsequently he served as security adviser to the National Chairman of the PDP and this was a post he held till his appointment as Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
Princess Sarah Adebisi is a committed educationist with a solid background in change management spanning over 20 years. A highly disciplined advocate of hard work and result oriented activities, her drive for perfectionism led to the establishment of people oriented and empowerment programmes while she was the Deputy Governor of Lagos State from 2007 to 2011. She is a democratic politician with principles based on loyalty passion and commitment for the development of the ordinary citizen.
Hon Ozodinobi, Anthony is an electrical/electronic engineer and a public servant.He hails from Nimo, Njikola Local Government Area , Anambra State, Nigeria.He graduated with B.Sc. Electrical/Electronic from the University of Nigeria Nsukka,he also got a PgDip in Computer Science & Engineering from Enugu State University of Science & Technology and a PgDip in Banking and Finance from University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.He has an uncompromising style of leadership with officers irrespective of their ethnic nationality or religious inclination. He believes strongly in the principle of delegation of duties with requisite authority to perform any task.Early training that is punctually the sole of every business guided him through his service life from his very first national assignment as National Youth Service Corps member.
He maintains an open friendly attitude to colleagues and works cordially with people from both Christian and Muslim faith.


Washington, DC (Feb. 9, 2015)—Today, four leading Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel requesting information about a recent decision by the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission and the Department of Defense to classify previously unclassified information relating to U.S. spending in Afghanistan. Although this decision has been partially rescinded since, it remains unclear which new categories of information will now be classified.
The letter was signed by Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, Subcommittee on National Security Chairman Ron DeSantis, and Ranking Member Stephen F. Lynch.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) previously used this information in its role of evaluating waste, fraud, and abuse in U.S. programs in Afghanistan.
The Members requested a briefing and an inventory of the specific items that will now be classified as a result of this decision.
Click here and see below for the letter.
We are writing to request information and a briefing on a recent decision (apparently partially rescinded since) by NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense to classify previously unclassified information relating to U.S. spending in Afghanistan. The information at issue has long been unclassified, and was previously made public in quarterly reports by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
The classification of this volume of data for SIGAR's quarterly report is unprecedented. The decision leaves SIGAR for the first time in six years unable to publicly report on most of the U.S.-taxpayer-funded efforts to build, train, equip, and sustain the [Afghan National Security Forces].
According to SIGAR's report, details on the number of Afghan police and soldiers, absenteeism, anti-corruption initiatives, and even literacy training would be available only as part of a classified annex to which very few congressional staff have access.
While I cannot comment upon the precise reason why certain information was considered unclassified in the past, I can advise that given the risks that continue to exist to our forces and those of Afghanistan, I have directed that sensitive operational information or related materials, that could be used by those who threaten the force, or Afghan forces, be classified at the appropriate level.
After making inquiries about this decision, Committee staff was informed that General Campbell recently told SIGAR about a partial reversal of the classification decision. On February 2, 2015, the New York Times reported that "basic data" would be declassified but certain key information would remain classified, such as readiness assessments of Afghan force capabilities. It remains unclear which categories of information that were previously unclassified will continue to be classified.
The safety and security of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan are paramount. However, inappropriately classifying information severely restricts the ability of Congress to conduct meaningful oversight and impairs the ability of the American people to know how billions of their taxpayer dollars are being spent in Afghanistan.
For these reasons, we request an inventory of the specific items that were previously unclassified, but are now classified due to the recent decision. The Committee also requests a briefing on these actions and the current status of any decision to classify previously unclassified information relating to Afghanistan. Additionally, the briefing should include the Department's plans to ensure that over classification of information does not impair the proper oversight of U.S. assistance in Afghanistan. If you have any questions, please contact Sang Yi of the Majority's staff at (202) 225-5074 or Valerie Shen of the Minority's staff at (202) 225-5051. Thank you for your consideration of this request.
 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Quarterly Report to the United States Congress, at 94 (Jan. 30, 2015).
 Memorandum from General John F. Campbell, Commander, Resolute Support Mission, to John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Jan. 18, 2015).
 Matthew Rosenberg, U.S. Declassifies Some Information on Afghan Forces, N.Y. Times, Feb. 2, 2015 available at www.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/world/asia/in-reversal-us-declassifies-data-on-afghan-army-and-police.html.


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Youth immigrant activists pressure Democrats on deportations; groups split on tactics
The Associated Press May 13, 2014
WASHINGTON – Immigrant youth activists called on leading Senate Democrats on Tuesday to demand that President Barack Obama order a halt to most deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally.
Obama, meanwhile, tried to increase pressure on House Republicans to pass immigration legislation that would let most of those 11.5 million people stay in the country.
The developments highlighted a split among Democrats and immigration advocates: Some want immediate executive action by Obama; others say the focus should stay on House Republicans while there's still a chance, however slim, to pass an immigration bill.
At the White House, Obama addressed law enforcement officers, exhorting them to lobby Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and House Republicans ahead of November midterm elections.
"We've got maybe a window of two, three months to get the ball rolling in the House of Representatives. And your voices are going to be absolutely critical to that effort," the president said.
Obama said he believed Boehner wants to get immigration done, blaming "a handful of House Republicans" for inaction 11 months after the Senate passed a far-reaching bill with billions more dollars for border security and a path to citizenship for most of the people in the country illegally.
Not long after the president spoke, several dozen youth immigrant activists gathered in a park near the Capitol wearing blue shirts with the slogan, "Obama Deports Parents!"
They took their demands to the offices of three Senate Democrats — Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and Michael Bennet. Reid is the majority leader, and Schumer and Bennet were leaders on the immigration bill. All three instead issued statements demanding the House act.
"If the House continues to drag its feet, we encourage the administration to pursue its efforts to prevent these innocent families from being ripped apart," said Adam Bozzi, a spokesman for Bennet.
Julieta Garibay, a leader of the group United We Dream, which represents immigrants brought to the country illegally as youths, said Democrats cannot continue hiding behind Republicans. "You need to stand with our families," she said.
Obama in March tasked his new Homeland Security secretary, Jeh Johnson, to review how to make deportation policy more humane. Some activists anticipated quick results. When that didn't happen, divisions began to emerge.
United We Dream emerged among the most outspoken in demanding that Obama act immediately. Obama took such a step in 2012 for some immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as youths, allowing them to apply for work permits and stay. Now advocates want that program extended to parents of those youths as well as to parents of children born in the U.S.
Others have urged the administration to wait at least until Congress' August recess. Boehner and other House Republicans have warned that executive action by Obama would increase distrust among House Republicans and ruin chances for bipartisan co-operation on immigration.
A top Schumer aide, Leon Fresco, expressed this view to White House adviser Cecilia Munoz in a recent meeting. Schumer declined to comment Tuesday but his spokesman, Matt House, said, "We recognize that our broken immigration system is causing a great deal of frustration in our community. But now is the time to pressure Republicans to act."
Disputes among advocates over tactics may be producing unintended consequences.
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., praised by advocacy groups because he called on the administration in March to "take action today" to ease deportations, stepped back from that position in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press.
"What I think should happen now is that we should be focusing our attention on the House in what I think is the last window of opportunity to get what I think can be a bipartisan and comprehensive reform," Menendez said. "And when we've exhausted that, if that ends up being the case that there is no opportunity in the House, then I will return to my calls for presidential use of his executive powers."


REPORT OF A CRASH WITH INJURIES WB LAKE COOK RD AND DEER LAKE RD.
REPORT OF A CRASH WITH INJURIES ON SOUTHBOUND ROUTE 41 SOUTH OF ROUTE 60.
ROLLOVER SEMI-TRAILER DUMP TRUCK CRASH WITH INJURIES AND REPORT THAT THE DRIVER IS TRAPPED IN THE CAB.
E24 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A ROLLOVER SEMITRAILER TRUCK IN THE INTERSECTION WITH ONE OTHER VEHICLE INVOLVED.
ONE PATIENT TRANSPORTED WITH APPARENT MINOR INJURIES TO ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER AND THREE MEDICAL RELEASES.
BC12 REPORTS A 4-STORY ORDINARY COURTYARD, 75X100 WITH A FIRE ON THE FIRST FLOOR.
BC12 REPORTS THE FIRE IS IN THE BASEMENT APARTMENT, 2 LINES ON THE FIRE, PRIMARY SEARCH UNDERWAY AND AERIAL TO THE ROOF.
FIRE IS OUT, PRIMARY SERACHES ON 1, 2, AND 3 ARE CLEAR, WORKING ON OVERHAUL AT 10:58 AM.
NO INJURIES REPORTED BY 11:10 AM.
REPORT OF A GAS LEAK AT 39TH ST AND KING.
E19 ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A STRONG ODOR OF GAS AND CREWS CAN HEAR GAS COMING OUT OF RUPTURED LINE AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE AT 9:34 AM.
E19 REQUESTS A LEVEL I HAZMAT.
CRASH WITH INJURIES INVOLVING A STREETS AND SANITARY DEPARTMENT TRUCK.
STREETS AND SANITARY DEPARTMENT FLATBED TRUCK INTO A BUILDING.
BC4 REQUESTS A SECOND AMBULANCE FOR THE TRUCK DRIVER AT 7:01 AM.
A65 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT TO STROGER.
BC4 REPORTS A 1-STORY ORDINARY, 75X100 WITH A TRUCK PARTIALLY THROUGH THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING. FLATBED TRUCK WITH FRONT 2 WHEELS.
IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM THE BULDING DEPARTMENT REQUESTED AT 7:12 AM.
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A CAR ON A CORN FIELD -- OUT INVESTIGATING.
UPDATE: ONE VEHICLE CRASH WITH ONE PATIENT THAT WILL BE TRANSPORTED.
REPORT OF A LOADED SEMI-TRAILER TRUCK FIRE.
E63 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS NO FIRE SHOWING.
E63 REPORTS THEY HAVE THE REAR DOORS OPEN OF A SEMI-TRAILERDTHEN REQUESTS A CODE 3 FOR A SEMI-TRAILER TRUCK WITH CHAIRS INSIDE.
MABAS DIVISION 24 BOX ALARM ON BOX #1200 FOR A MULTI-CASUALTY INCIDENT (MULTIPLE PEPPER SPRAY). ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF PEPPER SPRAY STORED IN A BACKPACK ON SCHOOL BUS.
NO TRANSPORTS; ALL MEDICAL REFUSALS.
REPORT OF A PERSON SHOT IN THE PARKING LOT.
OFFENDER RAN WESTBOUND IN AN ALLEY FROM KEDZIE AND MAPLE.
SUSPECT DESCRIBED AS MALE/BLACK DARK-COMPLECTED WEARING BLACK JEANS.
REPORT OF 5 SHOTS FIRED.
REPORT OF MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT WITH ONE VICTIM REPORTED AS A PEDIATRIC VICTIM.
DRIVE-BY SHOOTING; OFFENDER'S VEHICLE 4-DOOR BLACK SEDAN LAST SEEN WESTBOUND ON 53RD ST.
FIVE PEOPLE SHOT. MOTHER AND GRANDMOTHER PRONOUNCED DEAD AT STROGER. MALE, 25, SHOT IN BOTH LEGS; AND MALE, 25, SHOT IN ABDOMEN.
REPORT OF A THIRD PERSON SHOT NEAR 53RD ST AND ABERDEEN.
T18 REQUESTS SECOND AMBULANCE TO RESPOND TO 53RD ST AND ABERDEEN.
FC455 REQUESTS ONE ADDITIONAL AMBULANCE IN ADDITION TO THE EMS PLAN 1 AT 7:33 PM.
CPD TRANSPORTING PEDIATRIC PATIENT NB ASHLAND AT 33RD LOOKING FOR TRAFFIC CONTROL, WEST ON ROOSEVELT, NORTH ON DAMEN.
CALLER REPORTS SHOOTER IS STANDING NEAR ONE OF THE AMBULANCES.
A75 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT TO MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL.
A8 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT TO MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL.
A46 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT TO STROGER.
A14 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT TO STROGER.
REPORT OF MULTIPLE PEOPLE SHOT.
4-AMBULANCE RESPONSE FOR FOUR PEOPLE SHOT.
A29 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT CODE RED TO COOK COUNTY STROGER.
A8 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT CODE RED TO MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL CHANGED TO COOK COUNTY STROGER.
A68 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT CODE RED TO COOK COUNTY STROGER.
A1 TRANSPORTED ONE PATIENT CODE YELLOW TO COOK COUNTY STROGER -- CHANGED TO MERCY HOSPITAL.
PIN-IN CRASH INVOLVING A BUS.
FC457 REPORTS A TOTAL OF 5 VICTIMS -- 2 REFUSALS AND THREE TRANSPORTS.
E28 FOLLOWING A66 FOR CPR AT 5:37 PM TRANSPORTING TO COOK COUNTY.
A59 TRANSPORTING A PATIENT CODE GREEN AND A PATIENT CODE YELLOW TO COOK COUNTY AT ABOUT 5:42 PM.
E93 INITIALLY RESPONDED TO 43 W 95TH ST AT 2:36 PM AND FOUND NO PATIENT -- BAD ADDRESS.
E93 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY HAVE A GOOD ADDRESS NOW AT 437 W 95TH PL AT 2:49 PM.
REPORT OF A HOMICIDE THAT OCCURRED ON PACIFIC AVE NEAR MAGNOLIA AVE IN GURNEE.
SUSPECT IS KNOWN BY NAME TO POLICE AND IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS WITH A GUN.
MALE/WHITE 5'11" 400 LBS NO CLOTHING DESCRIPTION AT 10:12 AM BUT SUSPECT MAY BE COVERED WITH BLOOD (YES 400 LBS).
THE SUSPECT WAS LAST SEEN FLEEING THE SEEN ON FOOT.
INCIDENTALLY, A SILVER PONTIAC SUNFIRE WAS DRIVING ERRATICALLY IN AREA ON SHERIDAN RD, PULLED INTO A GAS STATION AND LEFT AREA WHEN DRIVER SAW POLICE -- OCCURRED BEFORE POLICE WERE AWARE OF HOMICIDE.
A63 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS 3 VEHICLES WITH MODERATE DAMAGE AND ONE VEHICLE OFF THE ROADWAY AT 9:51 PM.
E63 CREW ON ARRIVAL REQUESTS TWO ADDITIONAL AMBULANCE AT 9:54 PM (A61 A62 ASSIGNED).
BC61 REQUESTS A TOWER LADDER TO THE LOCATION FOR EXTRICATION, BUT IMMEDIATELY CANCELS THE TOWER AS EXTRICATION IS COMPLETE BY 9:59 PM.
BC61 REPORTS ALL PATIENT CLEAR FROM SCENE BY 10:13 PM.
CRASH WITH INJURIES, AND A REPORT OF PEOPLE PINNED IN A MINIVAN.
BC11 ON ARRIVAL REPORTS 3 VEHICLES INVOLVED.
BC11 REPORTS ONE PERSON TRAPPED AT 5:15 PM.
SECOND AMBULANCE REQUESTED AT 5:16 PM.
3 PATIENTS TRANSPORTED TO HIGHLAND PARK HOSPITAL.
EXTRICATION COMPLETE AT 5:27 PM.
REPORT OF A PERSON SHOT IN A HOME INVASION.
REPORT OF A GIRL TRAPPED ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
CREWS ON ARRIVAL INITIALLY REPORT SMOKE IN THE AIR -- LOOKING FOR THE BUILDING THAT IS ON FIRE.
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A 21/2-STORY FRAME WITH SMOKE SHOWING.
BC6 REPORTS E50 CREW LEADING OUT WITH A LINE TO THE SECOND FLOOR; PRIMARY SEARCH UNDERWAY BY 10:07 PM.
BC6 REPORTS CREWS ARE LOOKING FOR ONE VICTIM, ROOF IS BEING OPENED, FIRE IS GOING TO THE ATTIC, ON EXPOSURE ON THE DELTA SIDE WITH NO COMMUNICATION, ALPHA SIDE HAS NO EXPOSURE.
BC6 REPORTS 2 LINES ON THE FIRE.
MULTIPLE GROUND LADDERS UP WITH BURNT OUT STAIRWELLS.
REHAB REQUESTED AT 10:39 PM.
TWO ADDITIONAL AMBULANCES REQUESTED ABOUT 10:42 PM -- A35 AND A57.
2-11 ALARM STRUCKOUT ON ORDERS OF 2-1-10 AT 10:54 PM.
SQD5 CREW GOING IN FOR SEARCH OF THE SECOND FLOOR.
A1 ASSIGNED TO TREAT AN ADDITIONAL PATIENT ABOUT 12:16 AM.
A1 ALREADY COMMITTED TO TREATING TWO INFANTS -- TRANSPORTED TO ST BERNARDS.
A ?? ASSIGNED TO NEW PATIENT.
A68 TRANSPORTED ONE MALE PATIENT, AGE 19, CODE YELLOW AND ONE FEMALE, AGE 17, CODE GREEN TO HOLY CROSS.
MABAS DIVISION 20 BOX ALARM ON BOX #199 FOR A HEAD-ON COLLISION.
E74 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY HAVE AN ALLEY GARAGE FIRE.
BC24 REPORTS A FIRE AT A 15X25 FOOT ALLEY GARAGE IS OUT; COMPANIES ARE OVERHAULING BY 5:15 PM.
BC24 REQUEST AN AMBULANCE FOR A CIVILIAN BURN VICTIM.
SECOND AMBULANCE REQUESTED BY 5:09 PM.
MABAS DIVISION 20 BOX ALARM ON BOX # FOR A CAR VS BUILDING CRASH.
REPORT OF A BOMB THREAT AT WRIGLEY FIELD.
DOG ATTACK WITH INJURIES. REPORT OF GAS SERVICE BEING ATTACKED BY A DOG AT CORTLAND AND CICERO.
FIELD CHIEF 454 REPORTING DOG IS ATTACKING PEOPLE.
FC454 REPORTS "THIS IS NOT A STANDBY SITUATION, WE GOT A BAD SITUATION, WE HAVE A VICIOUS ATTACK DOG!" AT 10:04 AM.
SOMEBODY IS LAYING ON THE DOG SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO SHOOT THE DOG.
REPORT OF A MAN UNRESPONSIVE ON THE ICE RINK AT HOFFMAN ESTATES PARK DISTRICT ICE ARENA.
AED DEPLOYED WITH SHOCK ADMINISTERED, CPR ADMINISTERED.
T22 ADDED TO THE CALL.
REPORT OF ONE PERSON UNCONSCIOUS IN A CRASH INVOLVING A DUMP TRUCK AND A SUBARU OUTBACK.
BC38 REQUESTS AN UPGRADE TO A GENERAL ALARM FOR ENTRAPMENT BY 9:26 AM.
BC38 REPORTS PATIENT EXTRICATED AT 9:36 AM.
THE DRIVER OF THE SUBARU OUTBACK WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE.
THE SUBARU WAS SOUTHBOUND ON CUBA RD (CONTROLLED BY A STOP SIGN) AS THE DUMP TRUCK WAS WESTBOUND ON NORTHWEST HIGHWAY.
REPORT OF MULTIPLE GUNSHOT VICTIMS -- AT LEAST 4 PEOPLE SHOT.
A8 REQUESTS AN EMS PLAN 1 AT 7:56 PM.
SECURED ON ORDERS OF B6 AT 8:05 PM.
REPORT OF A FIRE IN A CLASSROOM WITH THE FIRE OUT.
BC4 REPORTS A 3-STORY ORDINARY SCHOOL, 100X100.
REPORT OF A JUMPER FROM A HIGH-RISE -- NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE BUILDING.
REPORT FROM OBSERVERS AT JOHN HANCOCK CENTER THAT "POSSIBLE JUMPER" RETREATED INSIDE THE BUILDING WHEN FIRE COMPANIES ARRIVED.
FIREFIGHTERS ON THE ROOF REPORT THAT BOTH PIERS OF TWO PIERS ARE CLEAR.
REPORT OF A PERSON IN THE WATER MAIN BRANCH OF THE CHICAGO RIVER AT STATE ST.
BC1 REPORTS CPD MARINE 7 HAS THE VICTIM ON WEST SIDE OF THE STATE STREET BRIDGE AT WACKER DRIVE AT ABOUT 2:27 PM.
ALL COMPANIES STILL RESPONDING RETURNED.
REPORT OF A PERSON SHOT ... THEN AN UPDATE THAT 2 PEOPLE WERE SHOT AT THE SCENE.
REPORT OF A BUILDING COLLAPSE. B-SIDE WALL COLLAPSE.
BC5 REPORTS A PARTIAL WALL COLLAPSE ON A 1-STORY, FIRE-RESISTANT 30X75.
ONE PERSON TRAPPED. SQD1 AND SQD5 CREWS ARE WORKING TO GET THE PERSON OUT AT ABOUT 12:16 PM.
CFD ASKING NEWS HELICOPTERS TO KEEP THEIR DISTANCE BECAUSE OF NOISE AND VIBRATION.
TRACON AND O'HARE NOTIFIED TO STOP AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC OVER THE SCENE ON PERSHING RD.
STRUCK OUT ON ORDERS OF 219 AT ABOUT 12:54 PM.
RELEASE OF THE AIR HOLD FOR TRACON AND O'HARE AT ABOUT 1:10 PM.
REPORT OF A FIRE AT RED ROBIN.
E52 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS NOTHING SHOWING.
E52 CREW REPORTS THE FIRE IS OUT AT 8:00 AM.
THE CHEM SYSTEM COOKED OFF.
REQUEST FOR ROUTINE HEALTH DEPARTMENT INSPECTION FOR FIRE OR CHEM SYSTEM ACTIVATION IN A RESTAURANT.
MOTORCYCLE CRASH WITH INJURIES. CAR VS MOTORCYCLE CRASH WITH THE MOTORCYCLIST DOWN.
REPORT OF A MOTORCYCLE CRASH WITH A MINIVAN WITH POSSIBLE SERIOUS INJURIES AND THE VICTIM UNDER THE VEHICLE.
E53 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THE MOTORCYCLIST IS NOT UNDERNEATH THE VEHICLE.
E53 CREW HOLDS UP SQD55.
REPORT OF A HEAD-ON CRASH WITH A FIRE.
WESTBOUND PLANK RD BACKED UP.
REPORT THAT A PORTION OF THE 20,000 SQUARE FOOT GREENHOUSE IS ON FIRE.
FIRE AT A 20,000 SQUARE FOOT GREENHOUSE FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA CULTIVATION.
E1815 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS HEAVY BLACK SMOKE SHOWING FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE BUILDING.
MABAS DIVISION 23 BOX ALARM ON BOX #18-200 FOR A GREENHOUSE FIRE AT PHARMA CANN AT 3:51 PM.
1801 REPORTS ONE BURN VICTIM -- POSSIBLY MULTIPLE BURN VICTIMS.
ONE LINE ON THE FIRE; EXTINGUISHED BY ABOUT 4:00 PM.
STAGING: ROUTE 17 IN FRONT OF BUILDING.
FLIGHT FOR LIFE SET UP AT OUTSIDE VISTA LINDENHURST EMERGENCY ROOM.
REPORT OF A MOTORCYCLE CRASH WITH A CAR WITH THE MOTORCYCLIST UNCONSCIOUS.
CRASH REPORTED IN FRONT OF 4401 WEST ELM ST.
COMMAND REQUESTS A SECOND AMBULANCE AT ABOUT 1:35 PM.
PATIENT ON THE GROUND TALKING AT 1:36 PM.
FLIGHT FOR LIFE REQUESTED AT 1:37 PM WITH A LANDING ZONE IN THE STREET.
E41 ASSIGNED TO LANDING ZONE.
ELM ST SHUT DOWN AT ELM ST.
LANDING ZONE ON ELM ST MOVED TO ALTHOFF PARK AT OAK AND ORLEANS.
FLIGHT FOR LIFE GIVES A ETA 6 MINUTES AT ABOUT 1:48 PM.
A1253 TRANSPORTING TWO PATIENTS BLS.
FLIGHT FOR LIFE LANDED ABOUT 1:54 PM -- AWAITING AMBULANCE.
THIRD AMBULANCE REQUESTED 1:57 PM -- SPRING GROVE A1851 TO THE SCENE.
CHANGE OF QUARTERS: WONDER LAKE A1653, SPRING GROVE A1851 (MOVED UP TO SCENE).
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS AN INTERIOR GAS LEAK WITH AN EXTERIOR PIPE BROKEN.
VIDEO: Rollover truck crash with spilled metal scraps at off ramp from northbound Route 53 to eastbound Palatine Road.
VIDEO: Washdown by Buffalo Grove Tower Ladder 25 during MABAS Box Alarm at a townhouse on Newburn Court.
REPORT OF A CONDO/TOWNHOUSE FIRE.
UPGRADED TO A CODE 4 WORKING FIRE RESPONSE FOR MULTIPLE CALLS AT 7:34 PM.
A25 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS HEAVY FIRE SHOWING.
MABAS DIVISION 3 BOX ALARM ON BOX #2401 FOR A STRUCTURE FIRE (TOWNHOUSE FIRE) AT 7:51 PM.
E120 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A FULLY-INVOLVED GARAGE.
REPORT OF A CRASH WITH INJURIES AND ENTRAPMENT.
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS NO EXTRICATION.
AT LEAST 3 MEDICAL REFUSALS; NO TRANSPORTS.
VIDEO: 3-VEHICLE CRASH ON SOUTHBOUND ROUTE 53; 2 CROSSOVER SUVS AND SEDAN END UP IN DITCH.
TL1 AND SQD1 RETURNED AT 4:26 PM.
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY ARE WORKING AN EXTRICATION CRASH.
PATIENT EXTRICATED AT 3:58 PM.
CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS MOTORCYCLE DOWN AND MAN DOWN IN THE ROADWAY.
MABAS DIVISION 20 EMS BOX ALARM ON BOX #199 FOR A CRASH WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES.
REPORT OF SMOKE ON THE 3RD AND 4TH FLOOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOSPITAL BUILDING.
INITIAL INVESTIGATION FINDS SMOKE FROM ROOFERS DOING WELDING WORK ON THE ROOF.
REPORT OF AN INJURED PERSON ON A BARGE AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE -- POSSIBLE CRUSH INJURY.
T3 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS that AMBULANCE should arrive on lower wacker dr. SOME COMPANIES ABOVE.
2-2-1 REPORTS CREWS FROM T3 AND SQD1 ARE SECURING A PATIENT TO A STOKES BASKET, WHICH WILL BE LIFTED BY A CRANE AND TRANSFERRED TO THE BANK OF THE RIVER.
ADDITIONAL TRUCK CREW (T6) ASSIGNED TO LOWER WACKER FROM THE WEST AT 8:53 AM.
T6 HELD UP AT 8:55 AM.
2-2-1 REPORTS CONSTRUCTION RESPONSE INCIDENT SECURED AT 8:58 AM. -- PATIENT IS ON LAND.
MABAS DIVISION 10 BOX ALARM ON BOX #601 FOR A STRUCTURE FIRE (HOUSE FIRE).
FULLY-INVOLVED ATTACHED GARAGE FIRE WITH EXTENSION TO A 2-STORY HOUSE.
INITIAL RESPONSE ABOUT 4:30 AM.
STAGING: 63 ST AND JANES AVE IN PARKING LOT.
BC23 REPORTS A 3-STORY ORDINARY, 20X40, FIRE ON THE SECOND FLOOR, E72 HAS A LINE ON THE FIRE BY 2:49 PM.
BC23 REPORTS PRIMARY SEARCH UNDERWAY WITH RESIDENTS REPORTING EVERYONE IS OUT BY 2:49 PM.
BC23 REPORTS COMPANIES HAVE COMPLETED OVERHAUL, PULLING LINES OUT OF THE BUILDING, AND RED CROSS IS ON THE SCENE BY 3:14 PM.
A RESIDENTS ACCOUNTED FOR AT 3:24 PM.
BC23 REPORTS A RE-KINDLE IN A PLUMBING WALL AT 3:59 PM..
REPORT OF A 4 YEAR-OLD FEMALE HIT, AND POSSIBLY RUN OVER, BY A GOLF CART.
BC12 PUT FLIGHT ON STAND BY AT 2:42 PM.
AMBULANCE WITH PATIENT TRANSPORT TO "FLIGHT FOR LIFE" PAD FOR PATIENT TRANSFER TO HELICOPTER FOR HOSPITAL TRANSPORT.
SECOND AMBULANCE REQUESTED AT 1:31 PM.
REPORT OF A CRASH ON SOUTHBOUND ROUTE 12 BETWEEN PLUM GROVE RD AND LAKE COOK.
REPORT OF A CRASH INVOLVING TWO MOTORCYCLES. THE MOTORCYCLISTS MOVED TO 20168 RAND ROAD TO GET OFF THE ROADWAY.
FIREFIGHTERS REPORTED THEY ARE OUT WITH LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF.
REPORT OF A FULLY-INVOLVED SHUTTLE BUS FIRE.
E24 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY ARE ON THE SCENE OF A FULLY-INVOLVED BUS FIRE ON ROUTE 72 JUST EAST OF BEVERLY.
PEDESTRIAN HIT BY METRA TRAIN #66.
NORTHBOUND MAIN STREET TRAFFIC CONGESTED OR BLOCKED.
REPORT OF A FIRE IN A MIXED OCCUPANCY BUILDING.
E57 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY ARE WESTBOUND WITH A FIRE.
BC17 REPORTS A 2-STORY MIXED OCCUPANCY, 75X100 WITH FIRE ON THE SECOND FLOOR, MAIN TO THE ROOF, ONE LINE LED OUT, PRIMARY SEARCH IS UNDERWAY.
BC17 REPORTS GROUND LADDERS ON SIDE D.
STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SEAT OF THE FIRE AT 2:27 PM.
BC17 REPORTS STILL AND BOX AT 2:27 PM.
THIRD AMBULANCE REQUESTED AT 2:29 PM.
2-1-24 REPORTS CREWS ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS AT 2:44 PM.
REPORT OF AN ACCIDENT AT O'HARE COMPANIES RESPONDING TO POST 1.
EMS PLAN 1 SECURED ON ORDERS OF 2-2-3 AT 2:42 PM.
ARMED ROBBERY WITH PURSUIT TERMINATED AND STARTED UP AGAIN.
ROBBERY OCCURRED AT 112TH ST AND WESTERN.
PURSUIT 87TH AND WASHTENAW GOING SOUTHBOUND BY 11:40 AM.
ARMED SUBJECTS IN A TAN MINIVAN, INDIANA PLATES.
EB AT 87TH ST AND FRANCISCO BY 11:42 AM.
GAVE A TERMINATE AT 11:42 AM.
EB 87TH ST AND HONORE BY 11:43 AM.
ONE IN CUSTODY NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION BY 11:48 AM.
INJURED POLICE OFFICER AT 87TH ST AND SANGAMON.
BOTH OFFENDERS IN CUSTODY BY 11:50 AM.
POLICE OFFICER INJURED AND OFFENDER INJURED.
REPORT THAT A PERSON JUMPED FROM A HIGH-RISE ONTO A POOL DECK AT THE REAR OF THE BUILDING.
BC1 REPORTS THE INCIDENT INVOLVES A CRIME SCENE.
A41 REQUESTING POLICE AT 11:18 AM.
MABAS DIVISION 20 BOX ALARM ON BOX #1000 FOR A HAZMAT SPILL.
HAZE REPORTED FLOATING OVER AREA.
ILLINOIS EPA CALLED TO THE SCENE.
HAZMAT TEAMS IN OPERATION, SPILL IS CONTAINED, ADDITIONAL MONITORING UNDERWAY, ALL COMPANIES WORKING AT 11:13 AM.
STRUCK OUT AT 11:36 AM.
STAGING: PARKING LOT BY THE ENTRANCE.
REPORT OF A HOUSE FIRE AT 1850 OR 1852 N FAIRFIELD AVE.
REPORT OF SHOTS FIRED IN THE AREA OF CORTLAND AND FAIRFIELD AT 1:46 AM.
BC17 REPORTS RUBBISH IN A 1 1/2-STORY FRAME 25X50 AT 1:54 AM.
BC17 REQUESTS OFI AT 2:00 AM.
BC17 REPORTS AT 2:01 AM THAT POLICE SAY SHOTS WERE FIRED THROUGH THE WINDOW; FIRE MAY HAVE BEEN SET.
REPORT OF SMOKE IN A HIGH-RISE.
E42 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS A 50-STORY HIGH-RISE WITH NOTHING SHOWING.
CREW REPORTS SMELL OF SMOKE IN THE LOBBY.
BC1 REPORTS NOTHING ON THE PANEL AND NOTHING GOING ON HERE AT 3:15 AM.
T26 REPORTS ALL MEDICAL REFUSALS AND RETURNS A26.
REPORT OF AN ATTIC AND ROOF FIRE POSSIBLY FROM A LIGHTNING STRIKE WITH ACTIVE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA.
INTERSECTION OF CLOVER AND LARKDALE IS FLOODED.
POLICE ON THE SCENE REPORT SMOKE AND FLAMES SHOWING.
BC34 REPORTS ON SCENE WITH SQD341 CREW; ON ARRIVAL REPORTS SMOKE SHOWING.
BC34 REPORTS THEY HAVE AN ACTIVE FIRE IN THE ATTIC.
T2 ON ARRIVAL REPORTS AN OVERTURNED VEHICLE.
T2 REPORTS THE DRIVER IS OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND IS OK.
E116 CREW ON ARRIVAL REPORTS THEY HAVE A RANCH HOME WITH A FIRE.
BC6 REPORTS A 1-STORY ORDINARY CHICAGO BUNGALOW, 25X30 WITH A FIRE.
BC6 REPORTS E116 HAS ONE LINE LED OUT, WATER ON THE FIRE, AND THE ROOF'S BEEN OPENED BY 7:37 PM.
BC6 REPORTS THE FIRE IS OUT AT 7:38 PM.
REKINDLE ABOUT 9:00 PM HANDLED BY E116 CREW.


Luke's opening chapter leaves no doubt that the Child foretold in centuries past will be born an extraordinary child. Angels appear. A forerunner is prophesied. A Messiah is promised. The fetal forerunner John leaps in his mother Elizabeth's womb. Mary sings. Zechariah sings. And in chapter two, all of heaven sings while dazed shepherds keep watch over the innocent, newborn Lamb of God.
But the prophecies are not all kind and fair. When the parents bring their eight-day-old Son to the temple for circumcision, the elderly prophet Simeon seems to sing his praise and prayer for God's salvation – and for release from this life. He holds the Child and blesses Him and confirms His destiny: to cause the rising and falling of many in Israel … to be a sign spoken against … to reveal the thoughts and hearts of many. And he tells Mary that a sword will pierce her own soul, too. It is a dark revelation, relieved only moments later when the prophetess Anna begins telling everyone around that this Child would bring the redemption of Jerusalem.
God and Father, You behold past, present and future. You weave them to Your purpose. You create life, give life, restore life. Your promises never fail. So we sing to You our praise of thanksgiving for the redemption of our lives, our bodies … through the Body of Your Son. We cherish Him in this bread, which nourishes body and soul. Amen.
Merciful and Just One; Loving and Righteous God: thank You for giving Your Son, the Only of Your creation to remain as innocent as a newborn throughout the span of life. Through His blood, we fallen may rise again. Through His blood, the thoughts of our hearts are revealed. Through His blood, a sword pierces our own souls, too. Through His blood, we find redemption from sin. Through His name, we thank you for this cup: Amen.


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A mentor recently invited me to reflect on and meditate on where I belong. This activity is beyond relevant for me at the moment. I have of recent pulled away from effectively every group except my immediate family. But even in that my family has pulled away through growing up and maturing into adulthood making it seem like we are farther apart.
About six months ago, probably earlier in reality, I started to feel like I was on an island drifting away from the continent. I wrote about this in my journal a lot. Spoke about it with some I trusted. What it looked like was me breaking off from the familiar, the known the origin and formation of me. I was in unchartered territory. Being on an island I was also self sufficient and able to hold my own. I was very clearly NOT just me swimming and flailing in the water. No this was a conscious choice of exploration to find me, to find the essence of me and where I belonged.
Why an island? From the island I can look back at the continent. It is distant enough to be objective and free of emotion. I can measure and review my experiences on the continent in this safe place. Then I look further and see who else is with me. No one at first. They do not even realise that I am on the island. this is the truth of life. When you hide many do not even see that you are hiding. In our society of 'being busy' all the time we often are so caught up in our own lives that we don't notice the non events. Someone slipping away into the background is effectively a non event. It is not one shared on social media or posted about. It is the antithesis of this public showing and disclosure.
Retreating to the island is not the same as going into a cave. I also like that analogy. In fact a dear friend of mine and I can speak of this actual analogy as code for taking time out and need to be by our selves. It is a no judgement way of saying I need a break but will be back so don't forget me but don't bother me. Often there is this experience in my life of going in the cave consciously and unconsciously. It is like the mystics of old. You are hidden, womblike, in the earth. You feel nurtured and supported. There are no distractions. Just you, the ground and the walls of the cave. You are also hidden. Hidden completely from the rest of the world. No one else can see you or even find you. Interestingly in real life when someone is lost they are often told to find or create a cave to stay safe and warm. So symbolically the cave can also be life saving in times of transition, uncertainty or not knowing. It is the place of holding.
So taking these two metaphors I feel it is also an important point to note which place am I in. Having been in the cave so many times prior in my life that this island feels very different. For one I am in plain sight. I am just surrounded by the vastness of the ocean. For me the ocean is a symbol and metaphor of possibilities - of direction, connection and so much more. I am alone but not hidden. Just at a distance. A self insulating distance.
Staying on the island is fine for a time but not sustaining. At some point I know there are aspects of life that only come from being connected with others. It is this knowing that also reminds me that my island experience is temporary not permanent. I am not self banished or retreating into hermitage.
So what do I do from this new vantage point. Much and not much. The interesting aspect of this 'floating away' journey is that it happens without me doing anything. I simply made a choice, or I should say a series of choices, and then pushed away. As I drift and let myself be taken away then I notice what I pushed away. It is only as I get farther away that I can look at everything with fresh eyes and a new take. It is only after a period of time as well that my emotions are processed, released and let go that I can come to a place of contentment and knowing.
It is in this place where I sit now. I sit content, alone but knowing I am still connected. I am enlivened by the freedom of choice, the freedom of choosing to be me. It is a new feeling only in that I am more committed that ever. Compared to my past cave retreats I now feel empowered rather than reactive. In the past I know that I retreated to the cave to heal, lick my wounds, hide from the hurt. Whether it was a failure in my business, a loss of a friendship or relationship challenge or a passing of a family member, the other times were genuinely cathartic rites of passage of life. Some were my responsibility and some were simply what happened in my life.
The other aspect of my cave versus island experience is this feeling of wonder, curiosity, excitement and deep knowing. I trust in the process. I somehow, somewhere feel deep inside of me that all is ok. This sounds so counter intuitive but in fact that is what it is - intuitive. This is the guiding part of me that is holding the space.
Another aspect is a feeling of coming into alignment. I am aligned with me more and more these days. Not because I am perfect. No. I am aligned out of a genuine self acceptance of where I am at - warts and all. So as I am on this island for all to see but by myself I can not hide from the truth. The truth is in my face. Where I am at is where I am at. I see the successes and failures as defined by traditional terms. And then I see all in my life differently. When I take away the judgement and only see 'what is' then I accept the learning and the journey not failing. There is a lot of opportunity to weep and moan over what could have been. There also is equal measure of invitation to celebrate the advancement. The choice is mine.
Some days I chose to wallow in the what could have been. Oh how fun! Yes it is like choosing on purpose to go see a movie that you know is going to be a tear jerker. I rock up to my day, box of tissues in hand and let loose. I journal or rant to myself. Why didn't I do it this way? Why did I not take action there? Oh it's all my fault! They must think I am crap or an idiot. The list goes on. In this spiral of self demeaning destructive tear down it is all a spiral to your lowest common denominator. Yes wallowing. For in this I can be indulgent. I am letting the part of me that is victim have a voice.
Yet over the years I have learned that I am NOT the victim. Whilst in the past I perceived the victim and I as one in the same now I see the victim simply as a part of my experience. If I do not acknowledge and listen to the victim in me then the victim gets louder. So now we are in relationship. Though instead of being a Victim with a capital 'V', it is just the victim aspect of me.
When I identified as the Victim I could never get out of the wallowing. I wallowed for days, weeks, months even years. I can go back in time and recall entire periods of my life where the Victim was in charge. It required naming this persona and working with it for me to shift it. That was the first step and the biggest step. How I did this will be revealed in other ways. For now let's just say it has been a lot of work, a lot of time and whole lotta self love!
So for now I am sharing a snippet of the journey. Not the whole truth but enough of a glimpse for others to maybe recognise the same in their life. Maybe it's an age thing? No. I don't think so. I feel more it is a byproduct of a lifetime journey of learning and personal growth. I am now coming into me, or actually remembering the whole of me.


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India's 'legal process for Zakir Naik's extradition nearing completion'
India's legal process for approaching Malaysia for the extradition of Islamic preacher Zakir Naik is "nearing completion" and soon an official request will be sent, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Raveesh Kumar also said that the ministry's internal process was underway in the case, news agency PTI reported.
"The formal request for assistance of a foreign government is such case requires a legal process. We are nearing the completion of this exercise. Soon an official request will be made to the Malaysian government. The internal process we have to complete is also underway," he said.
According to media reports, Naik was in Malaysia after obtaining permanent residency there five years ago. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged Naik and the Mumbai-based non-profit Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) that he founded in 1991 with indulging in unlawful activities and promoting religious hatred.
The government has imposed a five-year ban on the IRF under the country's anti-terror laws and has declared Naik an absconder.
Zakir, 52, charge-sheeted by NIA for his alleged role in "terror funding and money laundering cases", has denied the accusations and has claimed that he was being targeted by the Indian government as part of "religious persecution of minorities in India".
Opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) had previously urged the government to disregard any potential Indian extradition request, saying the allegations aim "to block his influence and efforts to spread religious awareness among the international community".


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An Academic & a DJ/Artist Offer New Views on Existing Copyright Law
By Kelly Kasulis July 12, 2016
In today's digital age of click-and-drag, many believe that American copyright law is outdated and, according to David Gunkel, a professor of communications at Northern Illinois University, it's being used "to shut down creativity."
Gunkel traces the historical roots of the remix debate between the "copyright" and the "copyleft" with brainiac prose in his new book, "Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix." He says that DJs are tired of being viewed as unoriginal – as the "record player players" of society.
Dave Dresden is one of those DJs looking to change that perception. As one-half of the DJ/remix/production team Gabriel & Dresden, he's topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart more than 20 times with remixes and original productions and he wants to see a world where artists who sample can build on each other's work without being hit with cease-and-desist letters.
"I want people to sample my material and make new songs," says the Oakland, Calif.-based Dresden. "I've always been a supporter of that."
Some companies are attempting to make that endeavor easier. This past March, for example, Dubset Media Holdings proposed a solution when it launched MixBANK, a music licensing and distribution business for remixed songs. According the company, MixBANK "is designed to facilitate the marketplace between DJs, rights holders and music services." Through MixBANK's pre-negotiated licenses and unique technology, "DJs, labels, publisher and music services can create and earn together, in one comprehensive platform."
Its release came just weeks after SoundCloud, a German music streaming service, alienated its DJ and remix artist user base by striking a licensing deal with corporate giants like Universal Music Group.
Gunkel and Dresden agree that a new approach to copyright is in order, but differ slightly on their views about options like MixBANK and the idea of clearing remixed songs for distribution. They spoke with the DJ Times about their own solutions, which start by scrapping the existing copyright law.
DJ Times: First of all, is anything original?
David Gunkel: One of the assumptions [I'm challenging] is this idea of creativity being creation out of nothing. This is a really impossible standard, I think, for any human being to ever really approach. It is a concept we give to the divine in the Judeo-Christian belief. We may need to recalibrate how we understand the creative process.
Dave Dresden: I don't know. Music evolved because of technology and we're all influenced by the things that we listen to and then try to make our own interpretation of that. I mean, everything's been done, but then again everything hasn't. Five years ago, there wasn't trap music. Creation is infinite, really.
DJ Times: Is the negative connotation behind remixing too deeply embedded in our history for things to change?
Gunkel: That's a good question. The values we utilize in order to think about the creative process and form our copyright laws are old, old, ancient values. It was designed at a time where artistic creation was confronted by a new technology – at the time, it was printing. The [English] Crown needed to decide how we confront this brand new threat from technology. What we're trying to do in the current time is to recalibrate a law written for print media for [newer] digital media. You have a lot of people calling for an entire rewrite of the copyright law.
Dresden: There's a lot of people hanging onto an old belief and the old ways instead of embracing change or moving forward with the time. And things are going to keep changing. In 10 years, we might have to revisit this conversation because people might be downloading songs into their brains [laughs].
DJ Times: Is abandoning middlemen record companies the answer?
Gunkel: They already have in many ways. They've abandoned them and so have the fans. Those individuals in the middle who used to broker the relationships are no longer necessary. As a result, you have people giving away their music for free, recognizing that their fans are going to get it anyway. So it's a change in the technology, obviously, and also a change in the way we think about the business model for this kind of creative activity. Now, the way you make your money is by performing. You connect directly to fans and build a following of people who will support you – not by buying an object, but by having a service relationship.
Dresden: I mean, it's heading there, but I think we're still 10 years off from that. As social media becomes more engrained in the musician's life, absolutely. You know, I'm just blown away at how these young kids can build their fan bases using Snapchat or Periscope or Twitter and just doing all these things the right away and making people love them, so it's definitely heading in that direction.
DJ Times: So it's all about the gigs now?
Dresden: Performing – that is how we make money. It's sort of like the music is the loss leader that brings people into your world, and you're going to sell them tickets, mugs, t-shirts – all kinds of things. It's a hard life, yeah, because you're spending all this time and effort making music and the only way to reap the rewards is to get on an airplane and leave your family to go perform.
DJ Times: So what do you think of solutions like MixBANK?
Gunkel: This is where I think the current law really comes into conflict with current artistic practice. The practice of remix is to say that our culture is full of sounds, full of melodies – all kind of things we recognize as indicative of a certain period of time. A hip-hop DJ, for example, may want to draw on a riff from a Led Zeppelin song to create a new composition that is sort of a touchstone. If every time you have to do that, you pay a licensing fee, it becomes increasingly impossible to do that kind of work.
Dresden: I make the comparison to medical marijuana in that, rather than just making it legal for medical reasons, why don't you just make it legal? I don't see it as a step backwards – I think it's trying to fix a problem and maybe it will catch on and, at some point, be really easy to use.
DJ Times: What's your solution?
Gunkel: By the time you can use anything in your current culture for remix, you're going to be dead. So my proposal really is that we give the artists five years. You make a new work and you've got five years. After that, your artistic product enters the public domain. The internet has accelerated the way we consume the media and our copyright law should respond [to that].
Dresden: I think [Gunkel's proposal] makes total sense. I think, the way things move so fast now, five years is what 75 years was when they made that law – the perpetuity law. It also makes sense from a remixing standpoint because, after five years, people might want to hear the song in a new context again.
DJ Times: What about notion of making it public domain?
Dresden: By making it public domain, that means the original writer won't make any money on that if it's used. I don't necessarily agree with that. I don't think [remixing] is something that needs to be paid for. I think the rights holder should get a percentage of what's coming in on the remixed track. You're owed a certain percentage of that remixed composition's total intake of money. If that composition won a Grammy Award, you get a Grammy Award because your composition is in there.
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The five KNIGHTS buried in Atoka Cemetery are Sam KNIGHT, his wife Susan PENDLETON KNIGHT, and four of their sons John, Joseph, William (age four), and Jesse KNIGHT.
[S5] Atoka Cemetery, Coleman County, Texas Cemetery Directory, KNIGHT, Jesse - Feb 24, 1894 - Apr 18, 1966 - "Texas Pvt 47 Co 165 Depot Brig WWI".
[S63] PENDLETON, KNIGHT MARTIN: Martin/Farris/Lang/Branson/O'Rourke Family Tree @ Ancestry.com, -Jesse Knight; //trees.ancestry.com/tree/1487753/person/-1449948126.
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The origins of the Solemnity of all saints
Solemnity celebrated on the first of November
It is instituted to honour all the saints, known and unknown, and, according to Urban IV, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration of saints'feasts during the year.
In the early days the Christians were accustomed to solemnize the anniversary of a martyr's death for Christ at the place ofmartyrdom. In the fourth century, neighbouring dioceses began to interchange feasts, to transfer relics, to divide them, and to join in a common feast; as is shown by the invitation of St. Basil of Caesarea (379) to the bishops of the province ofPontus. Frequently groups of martyrs suffered on the same day, which naturally led to a joint commemoration.
In thepersecution of Diocletian the number of martyrs became so great that a separate day could not be assigned to each. But theChurch, feeling that every martyr should be venerated, appointed a common day for all. The first trace of this we find inAntioch on the Sunday after Pentecost. We also find mention of a common day in a sermon of St. Ephrem the Syrian (373), and in the 74th homily of St. John Chrysostom (407). At first only martyrs and St. John the Baptist were honoured by a special day.
Other saints were added gradually, and increased in number when a regular process of canonization was established; still, as early as 411 there is in the Chaldean Calendar a "Commemoratio Confessorum" for the Friday afterEaster. In the West Boniface IV, 13 May, 609, or 610, consecrated the Pantheon in Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all themartyrs, ordering an anniversary. Gregory III (731-741) consecrated a chapel in the Basilica of St. Peter to all the saintsand fixed the anniversary for 1 November.
A basilica of the Apostles already existed in Rome, and its dedication was annually remembered on 1 May. Gregory IV (827-844) extended the celebration on 1 November to the entire Church. Thevigil seems to have been held as early as the feast itself. The octave was added by Sixtus IV (1471-84).
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In the Land of Dr. Evermore's Forevertron, and other interesting bits…..
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On a country road, in the middle of Wisconsin, I found a veritable treasure trove of old and decrepit machines and sculptures to photograph. To try and describe it would be to fail miserably……suffice to say that if you ever have the chance, it is worth your while to check this place out! It is part scrap yard, part outsider art installation……and it is ALL fascinating.
From Wikipedia….
"Dr. Evermor's Forevertron, built in the 1980s, is the largest scrap metal sculpture in the world, standing 50 ft. (15,2 m.) high and 120 ft. (36,5 m.) wide, and weighing 300 tons.[1] It is housed in Dr. Evermor's Art Park on Highway 12, in the town of Sumpter, in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
The sculpture incorporates two Thomas Edison dynamos from the 1880s, lightning rods, high-voltage components from 1920s power plants, scrap from the nearby Badger Army Ammunition Plant, and the decontamination chamber from the Apollo 11 spacecraft.[2] Its fictional creator, Dr. Evermor, was born Tom Every[3] in Brooklyn, Wisconsin and is a former demolition expert who spent decades collecting antique machinery for the sculpture and the surrounding fiction that justifies it. According to Every, Dr. Evermor is a Victorian inventor who designed the Forevertron to launch himself, "into the heavens on a magnetic lightning force beam." The Forevertron, despite its size and weight, was designed to be relocatable to a different site—the sculpture is built in sections that are connected by bolts and pins.[2]
In addition to the Forevertron itself, the sculpture includes a tea house gazebo from which Every says: "Queen Victoria and Prince Albert may observe the launching of Dr. Evermor; it also includes a giant telescope where skeptics may observe the ascent." Dr. Evermor's art park is home to a large number of other sculptures, many of which relate to the Forevertron, such as the "Celestial Listening Ear" and the "Overlord Master Control Tower". Other large-scale sculptures include gigantic insects (the "Juicer Bug" and "Arachna Artie"), the "Epicurean" bellows-driven barbecue train, "The Dragon", and "The UFO". The most numerous sculptures are the "Bird Band and Orchestra" which includes nearly 70 birds ranging from the size of a child to twenty feet tall, all made from scrap industrial parts, geological survey markers, knives, loudspeakers, springs, and musical instruments, among other salvaged materials.
Every says he takes pride in allowing the original materials to remain unaltered as much as possible, using their original forms in new juxtapositions to create his aesthetic. While he himself is not often available for tours of the art park, the site can generally be accessed from passing through the surplus store adjacent to it, Delaney's Surplus. Mr. Every also created much of the installation art for the House on the Rock, including the world's largest carousel."