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Commentary: Don't Assume Good Intentions from Campus P.C. Pushers
April 13, 2019 April 12, 2019 Battleground State News Staff
by Mark Bauerlein
No matter how much the general public abhors political correctness is higher education, the monitors of the Left continue to find methods of surveillance. Two Villanova professors described the latest development last week in the Wall Street Journal.
It's a revision to the course evaluation form that professors distribute to students at the end of the semester. Typical questions address workload, assignments, classroom management, grading, and the availability of the professor. But we now have an extra query. I've heard it floated before, but this is the first concrete implementation of which I am aware. As political scientist Colleen Sheehan and humanities professor James Matthew Wilson describe it:
students are now being asked heavily politicized questions such as whether the instructor has demonstrated "cultural awareness" or created an "environment free of bias based on individual differences or social identities.
You know what this means. Has the professor implied anything suggesting praise for Western civilization, a biblical conception of marriage and sexuality, American exceptionalism, or economic nationalism? Report him! Did he assign Huckleberry Finn (it has the n-word) or The Scarlet Letter (a woman has a child out of wedlock and is shamed and punished)? Write him up!
Watch your step, professor. Outside of class, students hear a nonstop mantra of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion, along with catechisms against -isms and -phobias. It has primed them to sniff out discrimination in its subtlest forms whenever it is aimed at historically disadvantaged identities. Now, with the sensitivity questions added to the evaluation form, the classroom is another setting of scrutiny, with the professor in the dock.
Course evaluations matter. They can affect tenure, promotion, and salary. A gay student has an acute ear for heteronormativity. A woman who has been sexually assaulted may react strongly to a novel with misogynistic personae even if the professor promotes a critical attitude toward them. Professors at Villanova now must take hypersensitive kids into account when they build a syllabus and craft presentations. They don't want trouble; they dread a note from the dean. Why take risks? Just drop Huck Finn and pick A Connecticut Yankee. Skip The Scarlet Letter and go with "The Minister's Black Veil."
This is how soft totalitarianism works. Sheehan and Wilson have bravely raised their voices in protest. They are admirable educators, and their objections put to shame colleagues who stay silent.
But they make a mistake in their op-ed. At one point they say, "However well-intentioned, the new assessment of faculty 'sensitivity' and 'bias' will harm Villanova's mission to provide a liberal education."
This is too charitable. After witnessing dozens of cases of leftist students, professors, and administrators enforcing political correctness with relentless zeal, let us stop granting them the courtesy of assuming they possess good intentions. As we have seen the professors grow more left-wing, not less, since the academic culture wars broke out 30 years ago. Let's recognize that when they talked about diversity, they didn't mean it.
In this case, in empowering students to police the professors, let's be clear that the real intention of the diversiphiles and bias monitors is, precisely, to "harm Villanova's mission to provide a liberal education." Political correctness and liberal education are mutually contradictory. When one goes up, the other goes down.
Here we see diversity and tolerance once more serving the ends of one political outlook. They sound neutral and fair-minded, but they have advanced the causes of progressivism nearly every time. Marx explained long ago that bourgeois society thrived by throwing an apolitical cloak over wholly political tools. The campus Left knows exactly what it is doing.
Mark Bauerlein is a senior editor at First Things and professor of English at Emory University, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. in English at UCLA in 1989. For two years (2003-2005) he served as director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. His essays have appeared in PMLA, Partisan Review, Wilson Quarterly, Commentary, and New Criterion, and his commentaries and reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, The Guardian, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other national periodicals.
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Palm Beach High School graduate Arthur L. Bernstein, who is now 39, always knew he wanted to make movies.
His feature-length film, "Walt Before Mickey," is based on Timothy S. Susanin's 2010 book, "Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928." It is now in theatres.
Bernstein spoke to the early morning classes at Boynton Beach High School's Theatre Academy students.
"My passion is to make movies," he told the bleachers full of students in the black box theatre.
The story focuses on Walt Disney's life before the creation of Mickey Mouse, beginning at age 17 to just before the release of "Steamboat Willie," when Mickey Mouse was introduced to the world and brought international acclaim to Disney.
After graduating from the University of Miami with a bachelor's degree in theatre, film and marketing in 2000, Bernstein made his way to Los Angeles and worked at Sony Studios with another actor with South Florida ties, Adam Sandler.
Disillusioned with Los Angeles, Bernstein returned home and worked in the insurance business for 11 years before finding his way back to film.
He was attracted to Disney's rags-to-riches story of overcoming many personal obstacles in his life.
Tiana Thaddies, 15, a sophomore and artist, hopes to be a graphic designer for video games. "I am interested in Disney's earlier life when he wanted to draw, because that's something I'd like to do," she said.
Juniors Anastasia Bernas, 16, and Rosalyn Block, 16, were among the students eager to get contact information from Bernstein and follow up with him.
"I'm glad he told me to keep writing," she said.
The film took more than three years to produce. Bernstein shot the low-budget film in DeLand and Sanford in 25 days for $500,000.
School Principal Fred Barch asked Bernstein about his biggest obstacle.
What advice did he have for students who want to act or make movies?
The film stars Thomas Ian Nichols as Walt Disney, Jon Heder (best known for his role as Napoleon Dynamite) as Roy Disney and Jodie Sweetin as Charlotte Disney.
Bernstein is the movie's co-writer and producer and appears in the movie as Frank L. Newman.
His next project is "The Luckiest Man," based on the book by David A. Adler, about baseball great Lou Gehrig.


If contemporary geopolitical strife were woven into a fictional tale, it would envelop all the qualities of a psychological drama befitting of the world of fantasy. In such dramas it is not uncommon for an author to develop a narrative that if executed well enough has the power to deceive you into believing the opposite of what is about to occur.
The minute by minute news cycle that we have become accustomed to – and seek out by routine – has in my view reduced our ability to think both critically and objectively. The instantaneous need for a response on what are often complex societal and economic issues leaves little time for considered analysis.
To begin with an example, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell announced in January that the Federal Reserve would be 'patient' in regards to further rate hikes, and would set about ending its balance sheet run off 'at coming meetings'.
Mainstream and alternative channels immediately interpreted this as the Fed backtracking on their policy to continue raising interest rates and rolling off assets from the balance sheet. These outlets encouraged people to believe that the Fed had 'caved in' to concerns over a global economic slowdown and pressure from Donald Trump. It was apparently an unequivocal sign that not only had the Fed changed course and turned 'dovish', they would also in the near future be cutting interest rates and firing up the 4th round of bond buying through quantitative easing.
The problem with this perspective is that it relies more on belief than it does tangible evidence. All that has been communicated from the Fed over the past couple of weeks is rhetoric, backed up by no specific actions or precise detail. Instead, analysts have leapt to assumptions on what they think the Fed are going to do next. They have taken 'patient' to mean further hikes are indefinitely suspended.
Back in 2014 when IMF head Christine Lagarde first spoke of a 'reset' of global monetary policies, one might have reasoned that until central banks actually performed a visible u-turn on accommodative policies that Lagarde's words were not altogether trustworthy. Very few seriously believed that rates could go higher following the Great Financial Crisis.
Five years on from Lagarde's proclamation, the Fed have raised interest rates nine times (seven under Donald Trump's presidency) and run off over $400 billion in assets from their balance sheet.
Whilst the Bank of England initially cut interest rates following the EU referendum, this along with a depreciating pound worked to push up inflation which has since been met with two interest rate hikes inside eight months. The Bank of Canada have also been raising rates, whereas the European Central Bank have been on a more gradual path having just ceased their asset purchasing scheme.
Lagarde's words, and those that were subsequently communicated by national central bank officials, were supported by concrete actions. What we have today is missives from the Fed. Until they actually administer rate cuts and re-inflate their balance sheet, what they say means very little. And so far they have expressed no direct assurances that they will meet a slowing economy with monetary accommodation.
What many are blase about is how the Fed would respond in the event of heightened inflation amidst an economic contraction. The automatic reaction, as it is in the UK, is that central banks will backstop any downturn. Read into their communications, however, and no such guarantees are forthcoming.
If central banks have one aspect in common, it is their mandate for 2% inflation. To this day they continue to promote the importance of this. After the fallout of the 2008 crisis, banks allowed inflation to exceed target without tightening. With inflation running at 3% in the U.S., the Fed were ramping up more QE.
The attitude in 2019 is very different. In short, inflation targeting matters again. Based on what banks are saying, they will not be prepared to meet a sustained rise in inflation with monetary easing. Especially not when the reasoning for such inflation would be attributed to decisions undertaken on a political rather than financial level. Notice also that central banks today regularly communicate the importance of being independent from political concerns.
It is a similar situation with the Bank of England. Earlier this month they cut their growth forecasts, raised the prospect of a future recession and implied that interest rates would probably only rise once over the next couple of years.
As with the Fed, this was translated as the BOE scrapping plans to further tighten policy amidst the spectre of Brexit. Uncertainty over the process had 'backed the bank into a corner', and were the UK to exit the EU on World Trade Organisation terms, a swift response from the BOE in the shape of rate cuts and stimulus would be anticipated.
As ever, the reality of the situation is somewhat different. Rather than analysts hearing what they want to hear and fashioning it around their own particular brand of bias, it pays to listen to what central bank governors actually say. The BOE's Mark Carney has said the same thing consistently for many months. In a 'disorderly' Brexit, rates could do 'either way', but Carney has openly spoken about how inflationary pressures generated from restricted supply chains would tend monetary policy towards further tightening.
Instead of dismissing Carney's warnings, I remain of the belief that they should be taken seriously. Far from being 'hamstrung' in their attempts to normalise policy, the vulnerability of sterling in relation to Brexit is dangerous in the sense that a prolonged currency devaluation will open up an avenue for the BOE to tighten rates.
In both the UK and the U.S., inflation is now running below the central bank mandated target of 2%. Actions stemming from Brexit and Donald Trump risk a subsequent rise in inflation, which in my estimation will be met with the opposite policy response to what a majority of analysts are anticipating.
The latest development on Brexit is that campaigners for wanting to remain in the European Union are organising a final 'Put It to the People' march in a drive to secure a second referendum.
In a recent article, I warned that as alternatives to Theresa May's Brexit deal are gradually whittled away, it becomes ever more likely that it will come down to a choice between extending article 50 and backing a second vote, or allowing the UK to leave the EU with no deal. I also warned that the perception of a second referendum appearing less likely following a withdrawn amendment calling for another vote was premature.
To further accentuate the psychodrama at work here, this latest march will take place just six days before the UK is due to leave the EU on March 29th. It is being promoted as the last chance for parliament to back a referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
The stop-start nature of what has been a gradual formulation for a second vote follows the same pattern as the 'trade war' between the U.S. and China. How many times have we seen markets bounce on rumour and hearsay that talks are progressing, only for those same markets to dive hours later on news that talks have stalled or broken down? Optimism turns to pessimism and vice versa. But rarely is it built upon factual evidence.
In a typical fictional setting, the current stance of Brexit would be seen as the nail-biting finale designed to keep readers and viewers alike engrossed in the drama. Will parliament avert a no deal? Will May 'run down the clock' resulting in the UK leaving at the end of March with no agreement? Will the government collapse? Will there be a general election?
Of more interest to me is the timing of this 'Put It to the People' march. Taking place on March 23rd, it suggests that an amendment calling for a second referendum will not be tabled in parliament beforehand. Instead, it will likely not be utilised until its passage can be assured with a parliamentary majority, even if that means waiting until mere days before the UK is due to leave.
A referendum has long been heralded as a mechanism to 'take no deal off the table'. Yet prominent proponents of a 'people's vote' have been openly advocating for a 'hard' Brexit option on the ballot paper.
The gradual build up of concurrent geopolitical stress points is not a coincidence. On both sides of the Atlantic central banks have been positioned as being at an inflexion point. Will they or won't they cut rates? How long before they start buying up assets again to shore up the financial system?
This is not 2008. Back then central banks took sole custody of the global economy to prevent a wholesale collapse of the financial system. Now, as the rise of nationalist and populist sentiment gains ground, banks have begun to reverse their accommodative measures. This is a fact that few seemed to have picked up on.
The two most prominent issues – Brexit and Donald Trump's 'protectionism' – are adjoined in the sense that at their core is global trade. Restricting the supply of goods and services is a path towards the devaluation of currency and higher inflation.
I have presented evidence for this on numerous occasions, but globalists are actively calling for major institutional reforms of international organisations. To achieve further consolidation of powers, and in so doing take the world a step nearer to their utopia of a 'new world order', recurring crises are an essential variable. Major societal changes cannot be implemented without the onset of chaos. History bears this out. The current 'rules based global order' is not designed to survive in its present incarnation. Weaknesses are inherently built into globalist systems. As the adage goes, the old must make way for the new.
If this is true, then why would central banks want to take ownership of the fallout from Brexit and Trump by reversing monetary tightening? They have already suggested that they will not backstop economic instability that stems from the political sphere, particularly if it proves to be inflationary.
The agenda of internationalists is made clear through their own communications. Their goals remain constant, unyielding. Which is why I take the narrative of central banks backtracking as misdirection, designed to distract people from their motive of allowing the geopolitical scapegoats of nationalism and protectionism to jeopardise the 'recovery' and in the process the 'global order'.
Because, ultimately, globalism would be the beneficiary to such an outcome.
Many thanks for your interesting (and may I say, refreshingly insightful) analysis; I found it via a comment on the 'Wolf Street' website. I agree that we should never underestimate the capacity of globalists to create a little chaos to facilitate their own long-term interests. My one quibble is that I believe you underestimate the enormous popular resistance to the idea of a second referendum, which politicians will ignore at their peril. Exhibit A is the damp squib of the launch of the Independent Group, which should have been polling far better than they have been in their initial stages to have any hope of gaining traction. Theresa May in particular is terrified of a mass exodus of the Tory grassroots faithful, particularly with the launch of Farage's Brexit Party. So I believe it is more likely that there will be an extension, followed by a fudge, rather than a referendum. Brexit is a farce anyway, as May has been busy binding us even more securely to the EU through defence and security agreements that date back to the Blair era and have accelerated tremendously in the last few years….behind the backs of the public of course.
One final comment, in relation to that left by Stockolio above. It is quite untrue to say that socialism and globalism are incompatible. Whilst one must acknowledge that socialism is a flexible term, at least one brand of socialism (the Fabian socialism famously promoted by the Webbs) openly espoused a one world government as the inevitable corollary of the centralisation and rationalisation they desired. In their view, individual nations would gradually opt to submerge their national differences and bind themselves together in order to achieve social, political and economic economies of scale. It won't surprise anyone to learn that contemporary Fabians are rampant globalists and fervently pro-EU, although they favour the less alarming moniker 'internationalist'.


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Q: How can I fix my characters movement speed I'm trying to make my first game, but I have a problem with the speed control:
Whenever I hold down on the button, everything slows down. I'm using time.deltatime which I know is global but I can't find any fixes.
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A:   Time.timeScale = 0.5f;

TimeScale is the scale at which time passes. This can be used for slow motion effects.
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A: Time.timeScale will slow down every game object in your scene. If you want only one game object to slow down use reduce movespeed of that one gameobject.

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Here is a video detailing information about receiving your MacBook.
Student parking passes will be on sale each day this week during lunch in the cafeteria and will be required in order to park in all school lots by Wednesday, September 6. Students requesting a parking pass need to have paid the $75 parking fee and will need to turn in a 2017-2018 Student Parking Registration form. The fee can be paid online or in person to Mr. Snow.
Per federal regulations, no outside food vendors are allowed to sell or distribute food during school hours. Our cafeteria staff has worked extremely hard to provide our students with different food options.
If a student plans to be absent from school or needs an early dismissal, we ask that his or her parent or guardian contacts the school by 10am. A simple phone call will suffice. See the attendance letter attached.
The high school student drop off area is located in the back stadium parking lot. Take advantage of the short line in the back, as opposed to joining the middle school drop off line in the front.
As we are unable to provide supervision after school, students are asked to leave campus prior to evening activities. Any student who wants to stay after school must be accompanied by an adult.
Students who attend classes in the GTech building will need to meet in the front bus loop once the bell rings for the block. We have a shuttle bus that will pick-up and drop-off students throughout the day. Students are not allowed to drive to GTech except with explicit permission from an administrator.
Students taking at class at J. Sergeant Reynolds will need to fill out the form attached to this email if he or she wants to drive or ride with someone else. Otherwise, we will provide transportation for students.
Our team will continue to work with our students and parents during the first few weeks of school to clarify school expectations regarding school policies and procedures. We want to ensure that we provide our students with as few distractions to the learning environment as possible. We look forward our continued partnerships with our students, parents and community members to uphold the standard of excellence at Goochland High School.
On Thursday August 24th and Friday August 25th, GHS will distribute MacBook Airs to students during their english class. Students, please make sure you turn in your Acceptable Use Form and Code of Conduct signature page to your homeroom teacher prior to Thursday. If you haven't already paid the $50 laptop insurance fee yet, you can use our online payment system. See the attachment for directions on how to use our new OSP system. Remember, GCPS is picking up the service fee!
We are excited to participate in the GCPS Solar Eclipse Activity, sponsored by the Goochland Education Foundation. Parents and students are asked to fill out an OPT-IN form by 7:00am to participate. If you are unable to fill out the google form, students can bring in a signed letter granting participation to his or her homeroom first thing in the morning. We will not accept notes after 9:00am, so please assist us with getting them in early. For students participating, their 4th Block teacher will provide them with glasses. Students who choose not to participate will be supervised in an alternative location. It's going to be an amazing experience for all!
Back to School Night: Thursday, August 17th 4-8pm!
We are excited to welcome everyone back for the 2017-18 school year! It promises to be the best year yet!


Sedevacantists come in many varieties, but generally they hold that there has been no valid pope since the death of Pope Pius XII in October 1958. "Sedeprivationists," on the other hand, maintain that all the popes of the past sixty years have been popes "materially" but not "formally": they have been appointed by God to serve as popes, but they have refused to accept the duties of their office and have thus paralyzed their functionality. This view is held by a minority even within the minority.
One can sympathize with the lamentations and dismay of Catholics who are appalled by the infidelities of churchmen after the Council, but the position they advocate is untenable.
The real root of sedevacantism is ultramontanism – the very problem under which we have been suffering since the First Vatican Council. Because none of the popes after Pius XII has lived up to the heights of doctrinal perfection and personal sanctity that ultramontanists unreasonably expect in the Vicar of Christ, they are therefore tempted to conclude that these popes must not really be popes. But what is needed, instead, is a gritty realism that recognizes how seriously popes can mess up.
Maybe another person in Church history might have said: "Christ would only choose for his Vicar a man worthy of the office." Well, along comes the Dark Ages and we have simoniacs, nepotists, murderers, fornicators, and warlords occupying the throne of Peter. Just as infallibility doesn't attach to most papal utterances, neither does impeccability attach to papal incumbents.
No, the truth is that we have a pope and will always have a pope. The Church will never fail to have a visible head, so that the visible Church may reflect the full stature of Christ, who is made up of head and members. Obviously, there are periods in between pontificates (usually quite short) as a decision is reached about who will succeed the deceased pope, but for Our Lord's promises to Peter to hold good, such a popeless period must be limited, temporary, and easily brought to an end. The longest conclave in history was the one that elected Clement IV, which met from November 1268 to September 1271. Three years, although frightfully long, is still rather short compared to the 60 years demanded by the sedevacantist position.
Yes: habemus papam. He just happens to be a very bad one, by every standard ever applied to assess papacies in the past 2,000 years.


When you are in need of or when you are seeking financial support either for hosting any programs or for some charity works, etc., then you have to write letters regarding the same for donations. If you are very much low in funds, then it is a must that you must seek for contributions to conduct a program, anything for that matter. And thus a letter like this is also a must. This kind of letters is known as Letters asking for Donation or Donation Letters.
The details about what you have planned or are planning to do must be mentioned in the letter also if you do have any ideas or suggestions about how the donations must be made, then it must also be included in the letter. Once you have developed a good donation request letter, then you may use it again and again which would make your job easier for the next time when you plan for a donation asking letter.
In case you have not written a donation solicitation letter ever before, then it's better not to write it by yourself. Seek someone's help in doing the task than making it an utter flop. Since it's a matter of donation, the letter must be written with utter care.
Keep your letter formal and to the point.
Let the recipient know in prior that their donation will help you to create a successful situation in your ongoing idea about your project of conducting the program.
The conclusion of your letter must always be a thank to the recipient who took their time and consideration from their busy schedules to at least read your letter.
The letter before forwarding must be rechecked for any grammatical or spelling errors and must be corrected, if necessary.
Use our free Letter asking for donations to help you get started. If you need additional help or more examples check out some of the sample letters below.
I ___________(name of the sender)am writing this letter to you on behalf of _______(name of the organisation), an organization that is working for the ________(aim of the company). __________(mention your plea).
Your donation will bring us closer to our goal of ________(mention the about). You can be a part of this project by supporting us with a _________(suggest the amount)donation. We are happy and very much delighted to acknowledge your donation on our website and at our numerous events that will happen at any time.
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I, Joe Rahul, am writing this letter to you on behalf of Hometown Rollerpark Committee, an organization that is working for the new public children's park in our community. We estimate that today there are 93 kids in our town.
Your donation will bring us closer to our goal of Rs.1,00,000. Our community is excited and eagerly waiting to see this project succeed. You can be a part of this event by supporting us with a Rs. 10,000 as a donation. We are very much happy and delighted to acknowledge your donation on our website and at our numerous events that will happen at any time.
Lastly, I would like to thank you for considering your time in reading this letter. If you have any queries and clarifications regarding our organization, our management policy, or the project itself, please feel free to contact me at the address given above or at my mail id, joerahulskatepro@gmail.com.
Looking forward to receiving a positive response from you.
The following is the Email Format that must be followed while writing a Letter asking for donations.
Your donation will bring us closer to our goal of ________(mention the about). You can be a part of the project by supporting us with a _________(suggest the amount)donation. We are very much happy and delighted to acknowledge your donation on our website and at our numerous events that would happen anytime.


Tired of the same old brunch or vase of flowers as a Mother's Day gift? Trust us…you'll have much better luck with handcrafted beverages and muffins! Celebrate all things "Mom" during our 5th Annual "Muffins with Mom" event!
For just $10 in advance ($15 at the door if any remain), pamper Mom with the ultimate flight: A Blueberry Muffin (paired with Pom Beach, Chambourcin, or Blackberry Port), a Banana Muffin (paired with Weize Guy Hefe, Chardonnay, or Sparkling Moscato), and an Apple Muffin (paired with Central Pale Ale, ApPaul Revere Apple Pie Cider, or Sweet Riesling). In addition to the pairings, we'll have live music from 2-5 pm to keep everyone smiling and entertained.
A kid's ticket is available with a choice of a juicebox!


We have all come across a person that was really pure. What we mean by this is that they were too good-hearted.
These people warm up our hearts but also make us laugh because they are hard to come by.
Below is a list of 25 people who are just way too pure for this world.
1. Dad's Approval: This girl sends all of her photos to her dad before she sends them to anyone else. We are guessing she believes that her father will be completely honest about the way she looks. His response to her photo is so pure that it is making us laugh uncontrollably. He was able to compliment her while digging at her mother in the purest way.
2. Dog's Birthday: There is nothing that screams pure more than someone caring for their pet more than their friends. This person decided to not go out with their friend because it was their dog's birthday. This is so adorable and we have decided that everyone should do this in the future. But as for right now, this person is way too pure for this world.
3. Lady Issues: When a father doesn't know what lady issues are then he is completely pure. When this daughter told her father that she had to leave school due to lady issues her father thought it was because she got into a fight with another girl. Oh, if he only knew what it meant.
4. Parent's Response: The people on the left side of this photo went to Disney World and took this photo. Once they sent it to their parents their parent sent one back, which is the picture on the right. These parents are way too pure for this world. We have to admit we like the parents' photo more because they are purely adorable.
5. Freezer Bags: When this husband opened up his fridge he noticed his wife put the freezer bags in there. His wife is way too pure for this world if she thinks that these bags actually need to be placed in the freezer. This is so adorable and funny, we can't get over it.
6. Student Grandma: This grandson caught his grandmother working on her master's thesis. This grandma is so cute working on her thesis on the computer. We would not want to interrupt her while she was intensely in the zone like she is here. We love that she has the determination to get her master's degree no matter her age. You go, grandma.
7. Feeding Chickens: This girl is so pure she can't possibly be living in this world. She made a bunch of tiny pancakes, which we all know take forever to make, all to feed to her chickens. It's really rare that we want to make pancakes for ourselves or our loved one. But this girl when through all that cooking for her beloved chickens.
8. Painting Party: A lot of us think of a party of having alcohol and loud music. Well, not this guy. For his birthday he wanted to have a painting party. How pure is that? His friend and him look like they had a really good time at this party. Maybe all of us should try this out sometime.
9. Dog Training: This boy wanted to train his dog and his father told him that there are videos on YouTube to help. What the dad actually meant was that the son could look at them to learn how to train the dog. But the boy is way too pure for this world and thought the dad meant show the dog videos on YouTube. It seems the dog and the boy are loving the videos though.
10. Overhear Conversation: Remember when you were in grade school and everything was simple. We were all so pure back then, just like these two boys. This girl overheard two school boys talking about falling in love. And just like a pure young person would do they replied that they would fall in love with someone that likes pancakes like them. How innocent.
11. Duck Family: This guy dressed up as a duck, for what reason we have no clue. But what makes this so pure is that he decided to go hang out with some real ducks. This is so cute, random and funny that we can't stop laughing at it. We wonder what people thought when they saw this happening.
12. Collections: People have collections of all sorts of things, but we have never heard of a paperclip collection. Turns out that there is such a thing and Bert is so pure that he thought this was one heck of a day. If only all of us could enjoy the simpler things in life.
13. Pokemon Grandma: This grandmother downloaded Pokemon Go on her phone. She wanted to know what all the hype was about and got really into the game. The way Cathy describes playing the game is so pure that it's way too pure for this world. And we are loving it.
14. Sushi Man: This guy's uncle went to Japan and was really loved. There is only one reason why someone would go through all the effort to make sushi that resembled a human. And that reason is that they thought that you were way too pure for this world and deserved more. This is cute amazing to look at and we wonder if we will ever get this done for us.
15. Game Day: When we attend a sports game we all have a thought in our heads of what team we are on, and who we want to win. This guy is way too pure for this world and decided that he was rooting for both teams. You never get to see anything like this but thanks to this guy we now do.
16. Lesson Taught: If anyone got bit by an animal and they stuck around afterward you would probably run away. But this tough grandma stuck around after they got bit by a pelican. This pure grandmother decided to teach this pelican a lesson and told them that it's not nice to bite. How cute.
17. First Impressions Matter: When this guy found out he was shortly going to become an uncle he headed to the delivery waiting area in a suit. When asked why, he told everyone that first impressions matter. This might be one of the purest things on this list and we love that this guy thought so much of his niece or nephew to do this.
18. Trip To Florida: This guy decided to book a trip to Florida to pet a dog that he saw in a photo on the internet. We have never heard of this happening before and we love the fact that this man got super excited to pet this animal they haven't actually met before. This guy is way too pure for the world to handle.
19. Cat Fight: When these two parents heard their cats fighting they took them apart. After a while these two made the cats sit down together and have a reconciliation. This is something only people who are way too pure for this world would do. We are really curious as to if this technique actually works on cats.
20. Those Are Some Nice Jeans: These two boys might be the purest ones in their school. When their principal told them that he liked their jeans they went out and bought the principal a pair. The best part about this is that the principal actually wore them around the school for a day. We wish our principals were this cool.
21. Hero In Booty Shorts: This guy is definitely one of the purest people in the world today and we wish we had a friend like him. When his friend needed a pair of pants to wear into their exam he decided to switch out his sweatpants for booty shorts. This is one of the purest things to happen in school.
22. Caring Baby: This girl was having a really bad day and then met this baby. If there is one thing that is pure in this world it is a baby. They don't know anything else really except innocence. When the baby say that this girl was having a bad day it reached out and offered her a hand. This is so adorable.
23. Cool Dad: This dad has to be cool and pure because he has a whole folder of photos of himself on his laptop. When you search through someone's laptop you expect to find something bad, but there is nothing at all bad about finding a cool dad folder on your father's laptop. Way to keep it pure.
24. There's Ben: The guy holding the Ben sign is Ben's best friend. He goes to every single one of the this guy's games. This man is now calling Ben his best friend because he sees him everywhere he goes. This might be the purest form of friendship and the world can't handle it.
25. Alpaca Love: This kid's dad went to Peru and met an alpaca in real life. Judging by the messages he is sending his kid we are guessing he never knew these animals existed before. He looks like he is having a blast and anyone who can have this much fun rubbing an alpaca has got to be pure.


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NEW NI SUPER COUNCILS
Chris Page of BBC Northern Ireland reports on the new 'Super' Councils, that take over tomorrow. There will be eleven of them, with Belfast taking in parts of Castlereagh, which is being combined with Lisburn (LCCC). Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council joins up with Cookstown and Magherafelt in the new Mid-Ulster Council, while Strabane has been hitched to Londonderry. Fermanagh is combined with Omagh. The other six authorities are: Antrim and Newtownabbey District, Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon (ABC) District, Causeway Coast and Glens District, Mid and East Antrim District, Newry, Mourne and Down District and finally North Down and Ards District, whose website appears to be the only one not to have gone 'live' so far. It is easy to tell the Sinn Féin-controlled administrations as they have bilingual signs, with Irish often being given first preference above the English. Hardly a very inclusive start to the new structures. Here is an edited version of the report by Chris:
Life in local government will never be the same again. From weddings to waste management (and street cleaning), cemeteries, (parks) and leisure centres: their duties tended to be summed up as "emptying the bins and burying the dead". Now they are taking on some important new powers. The eleven councils will take most planning decisions. Only those deemed to be "regionally significant" will be retained by the NI Environment Minister. In a year's time, the local authorities will get powers for urban regeneration.
Tied to that, they will have responsibility for local economic development and tourism. The super-councils will also take over more than 300 off-street car parks from the Department for Regional Development. The idea is that councils will be able to take the lead in shaping towns, cities and rural areas. One example being held up is that of Manchester, where the council has led a striking city regeneration programme in recent years.
The chief executive of the Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA), Derek McCallan, is "unapologetic" about his enthusiasm. "It's a very compelling change for the average ratepayer and for the average politician. But there'll be no such thing as an average council, because there'll be no poverty of ambition from them. You can be sure of that," he said.
Derek McCallan said the changes would mean that local councils could become real drivers of economic development in Northern Ireland. Photo: BBC NI
According to Mr McCallan, similar models of local government elsewhere in the world have brought more prosperity. "In places like the Netherlands, about 88% of development takes place in towns and cities driving their own development. Here, councils will now be able to be a real driver of economic development, rather than a consultee or a recipient of a grant."
He, and others at the heart of the transition, believe it will take a few years for the new councils to bed-in and get used to using their new powers effectively. Most politicians will surely agree that working to improve local economies should be high on their priority list. But some political disagreement in council chambers is inevitable.
Already, there has been a row in the Mid-Ulster council, when a meeting in "shadow" format resulted in a ban on the sale of poppies or Easter lilies on council property. There has been controversy over Newry, Mourne and Down Council's decision to place the Irish language above English on its signs. But on the eve of the handover, the super-councils are emphasising the potential positives rather than the possible pitfalls.
On Wednesday, there will be little, if any, change to council services – the public will probably not see much to suggest that a revolution in local government has begun. It may take several years before the public will see if this huge change in the way Northern Ireland is run will have a truly transformative effect.
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WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET PREGNANT?
Martha Lane Fox CBE Photo: BBC Radio 4 Website
It was a clever way to grab attention at the start of a televised address about the internet: the question above and the circumstances it was raised (by a potential investor when she was a young entrepreneur in her 20s) were set out in tonight's BBC annual Dimbleby lecture by Martha Lane Fox, the UK Digital Champion appointed by the British government. She is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, appointed in March 2013. Still a digital entrepreneur, she is Chair of Go On UK, a charity dedicated to promoting computer literacy among the 10.8 million British people who do not use the internet.
She co-founded Europe's largest travel and leisure website, lastminute.com, with Brent Hoberman in 1998; they took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005 for £571 million. In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University. Martha co- founded and chairs LuckyVoice, revolutionising the karaoke industry. She chairs MakieLab and Forum for Good. She is a Non-Executive Director at Marks & Spencer, MyDeco.com and the Baileys-sponsored Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2007 Martha founded her own charitable foundation Antigone.org.uk and also serves as a Patron of AbilityNet, Reprieve, Camfed and Just for Kids Law. In 2013 Martha was awarded a CBE.
In her blog, she gives a taster of her talk on DOT EVERYONE:
We need a new national institution to lead an ambitious charge – to make us the most digital nation on the planet.I don't say this because I'm a fan of institutions. I say this because the values of the internet have always been a dialogue between private companies and public bodies. And right now the civic, public, non-commercial side of the equation needs a boost. It needs more weight.
We have an opportunity to make Britain brilliant at digital. We've been going too slow, being too incremental – in skills, in infrastructure, in public services. We need to be bolder.
A new institution could be the catalyst we need to shape the world we want to live in and Britain's role in that world. Today, we're letting big commercial technology platforms shape much of our digital lives, dominating the debate about everything from online privacy to how we build smart cities.
fact, I probably wouldn't call it an institution at all. This is no normal public body.
It's time to balance the world of dot com so I would create DOT EVERYONE.
I would prioritise three areas, that I think best demonstrate the opportunities we should be grabbing with both hands: education, women and ethics.
Firstly, DOT EVERYONE has to help educate all of us, from all walks of life, about the internet. The internet is the organising principle of our age, touching all our lives, every day. As the late activist Aaron Swartz put it, "It's not OK not to understand the Internet anymore".
We need to make sure that those in power understand how the internet can help us redefine public services, improve the lives of the most vulnerable, bolster our economy. Leaders and legislators cannot lay claim to grasping the power and potential of the internet just because they're on Twitter.
Crucially, we must ensure that no one is left behind; that the 10 million adults who can't enjoy the benefits of being online because they lack basic digital skills, no longer miss out.
Secondly, DOT EVERYONE must put women at the heart of the technology sector. Currently there are fewer women in the digital sector than there are in Parliament.
Something that is for everyone should be built by everyone. Do you think that social media platforms would have done more to stop abuse if they had more women in senior positions? I do. And how about the Apple Health Kit that went to market without anything to do with periods? Building an awesome cohort of female coders, designers, creators would help make us the most digitally successful country on the planet and give us a real edge.
Finally, we should aim for a much more ambitious global role in unpicking the complex moral and ethical issues that the internet presents. For example, what are the implications of an internet embedded in your home appliances? Do children need online rights? What is an acceptable use of drones?
Our rule of law is respected the world over; we should be world-leading in answering these questions.
DOT EVERYONE is new – it won't and shouldn't feel familiar. No grey suits, no dusty buildings. It will be an independent organisation. It will have a strong mandate from government, but also from the public – we will be setting its agenda, we will be informing it and taking part in it. It might produce written reports but it would also prototype services. It should show what is possible when you put the internet at the heart of design.
We should be making sure that the original promises of the internet – openness, transparency, freedom and universality – are a protected national asset, as integral to our soft power as Adele, JK Rowling, Shakespeare, or even Downton Abbey.
Britain invented the BBC, the NHS – let's not have a poverty of ambition – we can and should be inventing the definitive public institution for our digital age.
If you like the idea, I have set up a petition at change.org so please sign it. And please blog, tweet, respond – lets start the debate.
https://www.change.org/p/the-uk-prime-minister-create-dot-everyone-a-public-institution-for-the-digital-age
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ARCHBISHOP'S APPEAL ON DISAPPEARED
Columba McVeigh, one of the 'disappeared'
The Catholic Primate of All-Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh has made a new appeal for information to help find the remains of the six people known as "The Disappeared". RTÉ News reported that Archbishop Eamon Martin celebrated Mass with family members of the victims in Armagh this afternoon.
As happened with his predecessor, Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop Martin this afternoon celebrated Palm Sunday mass in Armagh with families who had a loved one killed and secretly buried by republicans during the troubles. Since the mid-1990's ten bodies have been recovered but six are still missing.
A dig for the remains of one of them, Joe Lynskey, began in a County Meath bog earlier this month.
Archbishop Martin said some families are living a long Good Friday. He appealed to the conscience of anyone who has information that might help to come for forward. His hope is the six affected families could, at this late stage, be able to offer a christian burial to their loved ones.
In recent years republicans, through confidential channels set up by the Irish and British governments, gave information that led to the recovery of the remains of several victims.
Annually on Palm Sunday in the College Chapel of Saint Patrick's Grammar School in Armagh a Mass of Remembrance is held. For the past sixteen years the gathering helps the families to connect with each other in solidarity and compassion. Eleven of the seventeen families have recovered the long-lost bodies of their loved ones.
The text of his homily was published by the Catholic Communications Office:
"Some families are living a long Good Friday, and it is difficult for them to know the Easter promise of resurrection"
"I appeal to the conscience of anyone who has information that might help to come forward to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains" – Archbishop Martin.
"It is a humbling experience for me to meet and pray for the first time today with families of 'The Disappeared'. For sixteen years the families of those abducted, murdered and secretly buried, have gathered annually on Palm Sunday here at Saint Patrick's College in Armagh for a Mass of Remembrance. The gathering helps the families to connect with each other in solidarity and compassion.
Over these sixteen years the families have comforted each other, and consoling friendships have formed among them. There have been moments of hope when fresh information has come forward leading to a new search. There have been great disappointments when some of those searches have proven futile. And, thank God, during that time, eleven of the seventeen families have recovered the long-lost bodies of their loved ones, allowing them to begin at last to find some closure.
For other families the pain, uncertainty and waiting continues. Today, as we begin Holy Week, their sorrowful burden reminds me of how our Saviour had to carry His heavy Cross along the Via Dolorosa. Some families are living a long Good Friday, and it is difficult for them to know the Easter promise of resurrection. The recovery, last October in County Meath, of Brendan Megraw's body, encourages them not to lose hope. I appeal to the conscience of anyone who has information that might help to come forward to the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains so that, even at this late stage, the remaining families can experience the consolation of being able to offer a Christian burial to their loved ones. They come with the assurance that the information can only be used to recover the bodies of those disappeared".
Archbishop Eamon Martin Photo: http://www.armagharchdiocese.org/2013/05/13/archbishop-eamon-martin/
Archbishop Martin also issued a Joint Holy Week and Easter 2015 message with the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, Archbishop Richard Clarke:
We join in wishing you all, wherever you may be, a blessed Holy Week and a joyful Eastertide. We invite you to enter with real spiritual seriousness into the powerful story of Holy Week so that you can experience personally and profoundly the joy and happiness of Easter.
Easter Day is far more than a happy ending to the sad tale of Good Friday. Rather it is the celebration of the ultimate victory of God over all that damages, terrifies and destroys us.
On Good Friday it seemed that the worst that the world can do was victorious over the best that there can ever be. The crucifixion was the rejection of all that it is to be truly human. It was the refusal to believe that only in Christ can men and women find their truest identity and fullest humanity. It was the attack of darkness on the reality of a total Love.
All around us today, we still see powerful signs of that same darkness in our world. It is found in in the horrors of cruel and vicious inhumanity to those who are seen as other; in the day to day debasement of the dignity of those who are unable to defend themselves; in physical violence, murder, war and persecution. It issues in the extreme selfishness of some individual lives that have fallen away catastrophically from any generosity and forgiveness.
But in the compassionate cry of abandonment from the cross, Good Friday reminds us that God is to be found not among those who can destroy others most effectively, but rather totally with those who are at the receiving end of the envy, spite and viciousness of others.
Saint Paul describes the resurrection of Christ as the "first fruits" – the evidence that there will be a harvest of hope, and a final victory of love over hatred, injustice and futility.
May we together follow trustfully with Jesus Christ on the way to the Cross, and share fully with him in the joy of his resurrection. Christ is risen. He is risen indeed, Alleluia!
+Eamon Martin +Richard Clarke
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh
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EASTER EGG HUNT CARRICKMACROSS
The Easter Bunny is in town Photo: Carrickmacross Chamber of Commerce
Passing through Carrickmacross? Then take part in the Chamber of Commerce annual Easter Egg hunt which started today and runs until Easter Saturday 4th April.
Photo: Carrickmacross Chamber of Commerce
The hunt takes in shops and businesses from all over town. Each business has two eggs hidden in their window. Everyone is invited to come along and take part. Entry forms are available from Bits and Bobs, Birdys, and Keegans newsagent's. There are great prizes for the winner and lots of chances to win something on Easter Saturday if you are around. Carrickmacross Chamber of Commerce invites you to come along and take part in the hunt. Remember the safe cross code when crossing the streets, and you are advised to wear a high-viz vest.
On the Easter Egg trail Photo: Carrickmacross Chamber of Commerce
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ORGAN DONATION WEEK
Kevin Hickey from Monaghan and other transplant recipients with Donor Awareness Ambassador Mary Kennedy at the launch in Dublin Photo © Conor McCabe Photography
ORGAN DONOR AWARENESS WEEK LAUNCHED IN DUBLIN
Northern Standard Thursday 26th March 2015
UCD law student Kevin Hickey, aged 22, from the Cootehill Road in Monaghan is among 3000 people in Ireland enjoying extended life as a result of organ transplantation. This is his story:
Born with a crippling defect in my heart muscle, I was gravely ill as a baby and under the care of Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin. Following a relative stabilisation of my condition, I went on to live what I believed was a relatively normal, healthy existence. However, in January of 2014 my health nosedived. I presented myself to hospital in late January of that year and didn't emerge from inpatient care until mid-April, by which time I had received a heart transplant at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.
My end-stage deterioration was swift and brutal, culminating in exhaustion and my heart being unable to function to any satisfactory degree without the assistance of invasive devices. So grave was my position that, by late February, I was placed on the waiting list for a transplant. My decline continued rather swiftly from that point forth, incorporating blood clots amongst other hugely painful events.
My survival chances were grim with medical thinking being that, without a transplant, my life expectancy was abysmal – less than 50% chance of lasting a year and less than 5% likelihood of making it to 27 years of age.
In late March, just as my condition was at an extremely low point, I received word from the wonderful Transplant Team in the Mater Hospital that a heart might be available. Following an excruciating wait one Saturday evening, including a battery of tests, it was agreed that the heart was a match. The operation could go ahead.
In the absence of organ donation, I would most likely not be here today. Not only would my existence be unlikely, it is unquestionable that my standard of living has improved immensely. I feel better now than I have done my entire life – a sense of energy that I never enjoyed with my old heart.
Organ donation has provided me with the gift of life, as it has done for many others. What we must do now is encourage the message of its merits to be spread. It is truly the most generous thing a person can possibly do – whether said person is a loved one agreeing that the organs of a clinically dead loved-one be donated or the extremely selfless act that is living organ donation.
The gift of life is something that is required all too often. Even in our locality at present, there is a beautiful baby from Corcaghan under the care of Our Lady's Hospital as she awaits a life saving heart transplant.
I cannot begin to thank all of the people in my life who have assisted me over this period, ranging from my wonderful family and friends to the fantastic medical staff in the Mater Hospital, Dublin. Of course, it is to the donor family whom I will never know that I must express the greatest gratitude.
The Mater Hospital in Dublin conducted a record number of heart and lung transplant operations in 2014. It was also a record year for kidney transplants for children and more living donor kidney transplants were carried out last year than ever before.
Kevin Hickey attended the launch of Organ Donor Awareness Week by the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar T.D. at the Mansion House in Dublin on Monday. A life saving awareness campaign organised by the Irish Kidney Association will begin on Saturday and continues until 4th April. During the week IKA volunteers will be distributing organ donor cards and selling 'forget-me-not flower' emblems in towns and villages throughout the country.
In his address at the national launch, Mr Varadkar said, "an organ transplant can make an enormous difference to a patient, and to the lives of those around them. That's why Organ Donor Awareness Week is an important annual event. Although Ireland has a reasonable strong record on organ donation, I would like to see our rates rise to levels seen in other European countries. In 2014 the number of deceased donors was lower than in 2013, but we performed well in terms of maximising the number of organs that were transplanted. A total of 251 transplants were performed thanks to the generosity of 63 deceased donors and 40 living donors. Last year I launched a new scheme to reimburse the expenses of living donors. And additional funding of almost €3m has been provided to the HSE's Organ Donation and Transplant Office to develop the most appropriate infrastructure for organ donation and transplantation. This includes for 19 whole-time-equivalent staff dedicated to organ donation and transplantation across the country".
This year marks the 30th anniversary of heart transplantation and the 10th anniversary of lung transplantation at the Mater Hospital.
Irish Kidney Association Monaghan Branch Members Margaret McCague (Scotstown) and Martin Thornton with Donor Awareness Ambassador Mary Kennedy (right) Photo © Conor McCabe Photography
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COUNCILLORS OPPOSE GAMING OUTLETS
Ground floor unit in Carrickmacross proposed for conversion into a private members gaming club Photo: © Michael Fisher
COUNCILLORS CONTINUE TO OPPOSE GAMBLING OUTLETS
Michael Fisher
All six Councillors in the Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District have again highlighted their opposition to a proposed private members gaming club in Carrickmacross. A fortnight ago planners in Monaghan County Council put on hold an application by Carrick Gold Mine Ltd to set up a private gaming club in a vacant commercial unit off Main Street, beside the car park at the rear of the Shopping Centre at Drummond Etra.
Carrickmacross-Castleblayney MD Councillors PJ O'Hanlon, Aidan Campbell, Colm Carthy and Padraig McNally Photo © Michael Fisher
The applicants said the proposed use of the premises would be for a professionally managed Private Members Gaming Club. It would provide card games like Baccarat and other games like Texas Holdem etc "for groups of dedicated card players". It would the Club's intention to have weekly Poker tournaments, some of which would be for local sports teams and associations, according to the letter. The club's facilities would be open to members only, who must be over eighteen.
Planning officials have requested additional information about a number of aspects and have given the applicants six months to reply to the Council.
Cllr Jackie Crowe (SF), Cathaoirleach Carrickmacross-Castleblayney Municipal District Council Photo: © Michael Fisher
The March meeting of the Municipal District Council held in Carrickmacross and chaired by Cllr Jackie Crowe heard from District Co-Ordinator Cathal Flynn that because of a loophole in current legislation, there was nothing the District Council could do to prevent the operation of such a club, if the application was approved. Councillor Padraig McNally asked for Standing Orders to be suspended so that he could ask a question seeking additional information, following last month's decision to write to the Minister for Justice, asking for local authorities to be able to introduce bye-laws that would prohibit gaming facilities, including gaming clubs. He was told that the Council had received a letter from the office of the Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald T.D., last week. It informed Councillors that the government had approved the general scheme of the Gambling Control Bill in July 2013. The scheme was currently with the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, awaiting legal drafting. A copy has been made available on the Department's website. The letter, signed by the Minister's Private Secretary, said that upon enactment of this proposed legislation, the Minister would assume the sole regulatory function as relates to all forms of gambling, with the exception of the National Lottery. It was not possible to indicate at this point when the Bill is likely to be published, according to the Minister's Office.
Cllr Padraig McNally (FF) Photo © Michael Fisher
Councillor McNally said this letter should be circulated to local Deputies and they should be asked to help speed up the process of bringing the Bill through the Dáil, so as to ensure this planning application would come under the remit of any new gambling legislation.
Cllr PJ O'Hanlon (FF) Photo: © Michael Fisher
His party colleague Councillor PJ O'Hanlon said they would do everything in their power through the Council to stop such private members clubs. As public representatives they had a role and a function to represent the views of people on the ground.
Cllr Colm Carthy Photo: © Michael Fisher
Councillor Colm Carthy said a number of local businesses and residents in Carrickmacross had already been in contact with Oireachtas members and they would push the issue to try to get it resolved. Councillor Noel Keelan said their aim should be to try to close the planning loophole concerning private members gaming clubs. Councillor McNally proposed and Councillor O'Hanlon seconded a motion, which was passed unanimously:
"That this Authority writes to our local TDs to ensure the speedy passage of legislation in Dáil Éireann and to seek their support for measures to stop such gambling outlets from receiving consent for planning authorities and court services".
Cllr Noel Keelan Photo: © Michael Fisher
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COUNCILLORS DEFEND LIBRARY SERVICE
COUNCILLORS OPPOSE PLANS TO CHANGE LIBRARY SERVICE
Moves to amalgamate library services in Monaghan and Cavan by the appointment of a joint librarian will be strongly opposed by Councillors in the Carrickmacross and Castleblayney area. A meeting of the Municipal District Council on Monday discussed a submission received by a Ballybay resident and member of the local library, who expressed her concerns over the issue. She said there was a real fear among members that if the proposal goes ahead then smaller libraries like the one in Ballybay would close. The library service is important to local communities on many levels, she told Councillors, and she asked them to contact Minister Alan Kelly to get him and his department to abolish the proposed amalgamation.
Councillor Padraig McNally said they had been told the only proposal was to share the County Librarian between the two counties. But he said they did not need such a change as they already had a good system in place. He proposed that the District strongly objected to any amalgamation. This was the thin end of the wedge and next thing they would be looking at the fire service, he said. The county had already been stripped of so many services.
Councillor PJ O'Hanlon said this was the start of another service being taken away from the county. Councillor McNally proposed and his party colleague Councillor O'Hanlon seconded a motion:
"That this Municipal District rejects any amalgamation of our library services. Monaghan has a proud record of providing library services and does not need to be linked with any other counties or regions". It was passed unanimously.
Cllr Noel Keelan (SF) Photo: © Michael Fisher
Councillor Noel Keelan said 'amalgamation' was another word for cuts and proposed a motion: "That this District Council writes to the Minister, Mr Alan Kelly T.D., requesting that the proposed amalgamation does not proceed, given how important the Library Service is to the people". Councillor Colm Carthy seconded and this motion was also agreed.
Cllr Jackie Crowe (SF), Cathaoirleach Carrickmacross=Castleblayney Municipal District Council Photo: © Michael Fisher
Cathaoirleach Councillor Jackie Crowe said they were all absolutely opposed to any amalgamation.
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ON THE RUNS REPORT PUBLISHED
Palace of Westminster Photo: http://www.parliament.uk
In a major report the House of Commons' Northern Ireland Affairs Committee says the administrative scheme of "comfort letters" sent to "on-the-runs" (OTRs) should never have taken place in the manner in which it was developed and run, and its existence has distorted the process of justice. The Committee announced its inquiry into the scheme after the British government appointed its own inquiry led by Dame Heather Hallett. The Committee was concerned that the Government's inquiry was too narrow in its remit, and also that it was not going to be conducted in public. The Committee conclues that:
It is questionable whether the "on-the-runs" scheme was lawful or not, but its existence distorted the legal process.
The scheme should never have taken place in the manner in which it was developed and run.
If it existed at all, it should have been formalised within the various agencies involved with clear lines of reporting and accountabilities, and made public.
The Government should set its mind to ensuring that all necessary steps are taken, including, if necessary, introducing legislation to ensure the letters have no legal effect.
The judgment in the Downey case served to highlight the inherent risk in the design and subsequent operation of the scheme, and it is regrettable that neither the Judge nor the prosecution sought witness statements on the nature of the OTR scheme from other parties.
The refusal of leave to appeal to remove the stay put on the Downey trial placed the balance in favour of preserving the integrity of the criminal justice system over the public interest involved in continuing the trial of someone accused of carrying out multiple murders. The Committee believes the integrity of the criminal justice system, and part of HM Government, has been damaged by the stay.
The Secretary of State's refusal to name which of those recipients of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy are OTRs wholly unacceptable.
There was a difficult peace process going on at the time, but there must still be transparency and accountability in government and in the legal process. A more open process could have prevented the letter being sent to Mr John Downey.
No letters should have been sent out by the NIO, and they should have had no involvement in the scheme after sending the names on to the AGO. The prosecuting authorities should have sent out the letters, as they would have been in a position to ensure their content was correct by checking the files before the letters were sent.
The wording of the letters–"the PSNI are not aware of interest in you by any other police force" should not have been allowed to stand: the writers of the letters should have realised that this was an incomplete assessment of a person's status.
The status of the letters after the devolution of policing and justice should be called into question. Given differing opinions on whether the scheme was devolved or not, the legitimacy of the NIO continuing with the scheme after that point is questionable.
The checks being undertaken initially by the PSNI, in relation to OTRs, were not as a result of its normal policing role; they were being carried out at the request of the NIO for political reasons. What has followed, specifically Operation Redfield, was a direct result of that piece of work being commissioned by the NIO. This needs to be separated out from the wider work around historic investigations and the NIO should commit the funds to ensure the review of the names of all those who received letters is undertaken swiftly.
The secrecy of the scheme also meant that aggrieved person has been denied the opportunity to have a decision made by a Minister quashed in judicial review proceedings.
The availability of this scheme to only one section of the community, and even then only effectively at the whim of one political party, raises questions about equality rules in Northern Ireland.
The letters themselves, and subsequent statements by the PSNI and NIO, have left it unclear quite what "new evidence" would be required for a prosecution to be brought against a recipient of one of the letters. This issue is key and should have been addressed before the text of the letters was decided. This issue exposes again the lack of care that was taken in designing the scheme.
This must be clarified, particularly as the PSNI believes that 95 recipients of letters are potentially linked, by intelligence, to almost 300 murders and indeed that the Metropolitan Police wished to speak to some of them. HM Government must provide the resources to enable the police to reassess these cases quickly.
A number of Members of the Committee felt that the names of those who had received letters should be published immediately, provided that publication would not prejudice any future trial and would not cause any security risk to the individual named.
The members of the Committee were appointed in July 2010:
Laurence Robertson (Chair), Conservative; David Anderson, Labour; Joe Benton, Labour; Oliver Colvile, Conservative; Stephen Hepburn, Labour; Lady Hermon, Independent; Kate Hoey, Labour; Naomi Long, Alliance; Jack Lopresti, Conservative; Dr Alasdair McDonnell, SDLP; Nigel Mills, Conservative; Ian Paisley, DUP; Andrew Percy, Conservative; David Simpson, DUP.
Laurence Robertson MP, Chair NI Select Committee Photo: http://www.parliament.uk
The Chair of the Committee, Laurence Robertson MP, said: "Our priority is to serve the victims and their relatives, whom we believe to have been let down by HM Government by the way in which this scheme has operated. If any scheme had been put in place at all, which is questionable, it should have been properly introduced and correctly administered. It also should have been open and transparent. This scheme was none of those things. Regardless of the intentions, this scheme has caused further hurt to people who have suffered far too much already, and has led to further suspicions being raised. It is therefore very important that Operation Redfield is concluded as quickly as possible and that the government ensures that no letter provides a shield from prosecution ever again. That is the least people can expect, and is the minimum our Committee requires."
SDLP Leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell MP Photo: http://www.alasdairmcdonnell.com
SDLP Leader and Committee member Dr Alasdair McDonnell MP said the report of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee on the On The Runs scandal further emphasised that the scheme was a backroom deal which had undermined the peace and political processes while letting victims down.
Dr McDonnell said: "Today's report is a further indictment of how a British Government and Sinn Féin colluded together to defeat due process, cause hurt and offence to victims and survivors. The OTR episode is a disturbing insight into the lengths some in London would go to in order to pacify Sinn Féin- from the OTR Bill to the OTR schemes. It was a joint enterprise to derail justice, truth and the needs of victims and survivors".
"The people of Ireland endorsed the Good Friday Agreement. By engaging in side deals, Sinn Féin and the British Government have betrayed Irish democracy. One response to clear the smog and smell of secrecy around these deals is to restore transparency, accountability and the primacy of victims in all future processes".
"All of this now begs the question- is there any other secret deal the London, with Sinn Féin or with anyone else, signed up to?", Dr McDonnell concluded.
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JUNK KOUTURE SUCCESS
Carrickmacross Creation in Junk Kouture Final
The Future by St Louis Carrickmacross students Naoise Brennan, Katie Lynch & Aimee Ward
A group of students from St Louis Secondary School in Carrickmacross have reached the final of the 'Junk Kouture' competition with their creation called The Future. Earlier this month the Millennium Forum in Derry was packed with supporters and family members of the eighty regional finalists. Second level schools from the nine counties of Ulster were represented at the event, and five of the regional finalists were from St Louis Carrickmacross, all of them students of Art teacher Patricia O'Reilly. Each model had just ninety seconds to impress the judging panel on the catwalk and twenty designs were chosen to progress to the glamorous grand final of the competition in the 3Arena in Dublin on April 24th. The St Louis girls displayed great creativity in their designs. The school was delighted that The Future, a stunning creation by 4th year Art students Naoise Brennan, Katie Lynch and Aimee Ward was chosen for the All-Ireland Junk Kouture final.
Junk Kouture is a national competition for second level students which challenges teenagers to create high-end wearable fashion from everyday junk that would normally find its way into the bin. Junk Kouture aims to inspire and ignite passion in these teenagers while at the same time subtly educating them about the importance of recycling and reusing waste. Over the last four years, Junk Kouture has established itself as the premier recycled fashion competition for teenagers throughout the island of Ireland.
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MONAGHAN MILITARY REMEMBRANCE
Current and former Defence Forces members gather at Monaghan Education Campus Photo: © Michael Fisher
Monaghan's military past was commemorated at the weekend with the unveiling of a stone at the site of the former army barracks. The site has been redeveloped and is now the Monaghan Education Campus on the Armagh Road, which was formally opened by An Taoiseach last month.
27th Infantry Battalion Shoulder Flash
The barracks was opened in 1976 as a base for members of the 29th Infantry Battalion who were assigned to border duties and assisting the civil power (Gardaí). The 29th also had a base in Cavan. The Monaghan element was later combined with Castleblayney to become the 27th Infantry Battalion, which has a headquarters at Aiken Barracks in Dundalk. This is where most of the seving personnel transferred to when the tricolour was lowered for the last time at Monaghan barracks in January 2009.
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