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Cyprus Education
Spat erupts at house over 'missing' education ministry file
By FORMER STAFF January 29, 2014 November 16, 2016 2 133
By Angelos Anastasiou
EDUCATION Minister Kyriacos Kenevezos found himself in hot water yesterday at the House watchdog Committee where questions were raised over the tender procedures for a digital educational programme called 'Aristotelis'.
It is a project undertaken by a private company to create electronic versions of school textbooks, which can then be viewed on tablet computers.
So heated did the exchange become between the minster and AKEL deputy Irini Charalambidou, that the committee chairman was forced call a time out to cool things down.
Auditor general Chrystalla Georghadji was also on the warpath over the tenders. She said while an invitation for expressions of interest for such a digital programme was issued at the end of October last year, Kenevezos had called an evaluation committee meeting to discuss 'Aristotelis' specifically in September, suggesting collusion between the minister and the private firm before the tenders process had even begun.
Kenevezos replied that the September session was not convened to evaluate the project, but was rather a "preliminary assessment" of 'Aristotelis'.
Georghadji said the ministry had been asked to deliver all 'Aristotelis'-related government documents to the auditing service for review but the minutes of the September meeting were missing.
Kenevezos claimed that the 'Aristotelis' document file had been lost and that he had ordered an investigation, but Georghadji said she had been told that she had all the files. According to the Auditor-general, if evidence was found to have been withheld, the issue would have to be referred to the attorney-general.
Charalambidou, with whom Kenevezos had clashed earlier, called this a "convenient disappearance."
It was Charalambidou who had introduced the discussion. She accused Kenevezos of having pressured the ministry's evaluation committee – a body of high-ranking ministry officials – into approving the specific project.
Following her damning introductory comments, Kenevezos reportedly said: "Now that the show has stopped, we can get to work", which caused Charalambidou to erupt in protest, furiously asking that the minister retract his comment. At that point a break was called.
Kenevezos denied Charalambidou's charges, pointing out that the ministry had not spent any money in this project, but merely evaluated the digital library as an educational tool that can be used by students at will outside school. The 'Aristotelis' material, the minister said, is freely accessible by the public from the ministry's website.
He also denied having pressured the ministry's evaluation committee. Members of the evaluation committee at the House confirmed the minister's position, and claimed to have acted lawfully.
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A key focus is on developing benefical relationships between all elements in the design whether these are structures, plants, insects, animals or birds or the people involved in developing the site and outreach projects. Each element is designed to have mulitiple functions and meet the needs of its own and other elements in cycles of exchange that are similar to those found in nature. These are circles and spirals rather than linear systems and this is reflected in the aesthic of the place. Energy and nutrient flows are captured and used within the system to maximum benefit and are linked to related systems.
Permaculture land based methods encompass such principals as those found in true organic gardening, where it is a nature friendly, bio-diverse, and a resilient food production system. We are trialing plants in a perennial food forest, varieties in an Irish heritage apple orchard, new ways to create water management systems for irrigation and nutrient flows, greenhouse production both annual and perennial, bio-diverse pollinator friendly organic annual gardens and natural bee friendly bee-keeping and a recently established native woodland.
We are creating our permanent farm structures, such as our barn, using natural building techniques and materials: cob, strawbale and round pole construction or up-cycling like our 40 year old restored commercial greenhouse.
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\section{Introduction}

Given a finite  group $G$,  the generating graph  $\Gamma(G)$ of $G$ has as  vertices the non-identity elements of $G$ and two vertices  are adjacent if and only if they are distinct and generate $G$ as group elements.

When $G$ is simple  many deep results on generation of $G$ in the literature can be translated to results about $\Gamma(G)$. For example, the  property   that $G$ can be generated by two elements amounts to saying that $\Gamma(G)$ has at least one edge. The fact due to  Guralnick and Kantor in \cite{GK} that every nontrivial element of $G$ belongs to a generating pair of elements of $G$ is equivalent to saying that $\Gamma(G)$ has no isolated vertices.   More recently, Breuer, Guralnick and Kantor  proved in \cite{BGK} that $G$ has spread at least 2, or in other words $\Gamma(G)$ has diameter at most 2.

More generally, one can try to characterise finite groups $G$ for which a given graph-theoretical property holds in  $\Gamma(G)$.

As an illustration, recall that a graph $\Gamma$ is Hamiltonian (respectively, Eulerian) if it contains a cycle going through every vertex (respectively, edge) of $\Gamma$ exactly once.
In \cite{BGLMN},  Breuer, Guralnick, Mar\'{o}ti, Nagy and the first author have investigated  the finite groups $G$ for which $\Gamma(G)$ is Hamiltonian. For example they showed that every finite simple group  of large enough order has an Hamiltonian generating graph. In \cite{marion}, Marion and the first author have studied generating graphs for the alternating and symmetric groups on $n$ points proving that they are Eulerian if and only if $n$ and $n-1$ are
not a prime congruent to 3 modulo 4.

The aim of this note it to determine the finite groups $G$ with the property that $\Gamma(G)$ is a planar graph. Recall that a graph is said to be embeddable in the plane, or planar, if it can be drawn in the plane so that its edges intersect only at their ends. If $G$ cannot be generated with two elements, then $\Gamma(G)$ contains no edge and all the vertices are isolated. So we may restrict our attention to the finite groups that can be generated by two elements. We prove that there are only finitely many 2-generated finite groups $G$ such that $\Gamma(G)$ is planar. More precisely we have:

\begin{thm}\label{main}
	Let $G$ be a finite 2-generated  group. Then $\Gamma(G)$ is planar if and only if
	$G\in \{C_2, C_3, C_4, C_5, C_6, C_2\times C_2, D_4, Q_8, C_4\times C_2, D_3, D_6\},$
where, as usual, with $C_n$ we denote the cyclic group of order $n$, with $D_n$ the dihedral group of order 2n and with $Q_8$  the quaternion group.\end{thm}

We will prove the previous theorem showing that, with only finitely many exceptions, the number $e(G)$ of edges of $\Gamma(G)$ is at least $3|G|.$ Some crucial preliminary results in this direction will be proved in Section \ref{prel}, where we will compare
the ratios  $e(G)/|G|$ and $e(G/N)/|G/N|$ in the particular case when $N$ is a minimal normal subgroup of $G.$

\section{Preliminary results}\label{prel}
Let $N$ be a normal subgroup of a finite group $G$ and choose $g_1,\dots,g_k\in G$ with the property that $G=\langle g_1,\dots,g_k\rangle N.$ By a result of Gasch{\"u}tz \cite{g1} the cardinality of the set $$\Phi_N(g_1,\dots,g_n)=\{(n_1,\dots,n_k)\in N\mid \langle g_1n_1,\dots,g_kn_k=G\rangle \}$$ does not depend on the choice of $g_1,\dots,g_k.$ Let
$$P_{G,N}(k)=\frac{|\Phi_N(g_1,\dots,g_n)|}{|N|^k}.$$
Denote by $P_X(k)$ the probability that $k$ randomly chosen elements of $X$ generate the finite group $X$. Notice that if $X$ is a finite 2-generated group, then the number $e(X)$ of the edges of $\Gamma(X)$ is $|X|^2P_G(X)/2.$
It turns out that $P_G(k)=P_{G/N}(k)P_{G,N}(k)$, and $P_{G,N}(k)$ is the conditional probability that $k$-randomly chosen elements of $G$ generate $G$ given that they generate $G$ modulo $N$.

For the remainder of this section we will assume that $G$ is a 2-generated group finite and  $N$ is a minimal normal subgroup of $G$ and we will define $$\alpha(G,N):=\frac{e(G)/|G|}{e(G/N)/|G/N|}=|N|P_{G,N}(2).$$

\begin{lemma}\label{uno}If $N$ is non-abelian, then $\alpha(G,N)\geq 1.$
	\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
Assume $G=\langle g_1,g_2\rangle$ and let $n\in N.$ We have $$G=\langle g_1^n, g_2^n\rangle=\langle g_1[g_1,n],g_2[g_2,n]\rangle,$$ hence $([g_1,n],[g_2,n])\in \Phi_N(g_1,g_2).$ On the other hand, if $n_1, n_2\in N$ and
 $$([g_1,n_1],[g_2,n_1])= ([g_1,n_2],[g_2,n_2])),$$ then $n_1n_2^{-1}\in C_G(g_1)\cap C_G(g_2)=Z(G).$ Since $N$ is non-abelian, it must be $n_1n_2^{-1}\in N\cap Z(G)=1,$ so $n_1=n_2.$ We deduce that $|\Phi_N(g_1,g_2)|\geq |N|$, and consequently $\alpha(G,N)\geq 1.$
 \end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{due}
	If $N$ is non-abelian and $G/N$ is soluble, then $\alpha(G,N)> 35.$
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
	It follows from \cite[Theorem 17]{crowns} that if $G/N$ is soluble, then $$P_{G,N}(2)=P_{G/C_G(N),NC_G(N)/C_G(N)}(2).$$ Moreover
	by \cite[Theorem 1.1]{lon},
$$P_{G/C_G(N),NC_G(N)/C_G(N)}(2)\geq \frac{53}{90}.$$ Since $|N|\geq |\alt(5)|\geq 60,$
we conclude $$\alpha(G,N)=P_{G,N}(2)|N|\geq \frac{53}{90}\cdot 60>35.\qedhere$$
\end{proof}

\begin{lemma}\label{tre}
	Assume that $N$ is abelian. We have $|N|=p^a,$ where $p$ is a prime and $a$ is a positive integer. Let $c$ be the number of complements of $N$ in $G$.
	Then $$\alpha(G,N)=\frac{p^{2a}-c}{p^a}\geq p^a-p^{a-1}.$$
	In particular
	\begin{enumerate}
		\item $\alpha(G,N)=1$ if and only if $|N|=2$, $N$ has a complement in $G$
		and $G/N$ has an epimorphic image of order 2.
		\item $\alpha(G,N)=3/2$ if and only if $|N|=2,$  $N$ has a complement in $G$
		and no epimorphic image of $G/N$ has  order 2.
		\item $\alpha(G,N)\geq 2$ in all the remaining cases.
	\end{enumerate}
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}By \cite[Satz 2]{g2}, $P_{G,N}(2)=1-c/p^{2a},$ hence $\alpha(G,N)=\frac{p^{2a}-c}{p^a}$. If $c\neq 0,$ then $c$ is the order of the group $\der(G/N,N)$  of derivations from $G/N$ to $N$; in particular $c$ is a power of $p$. Moreover, since $G$ is 2-generated, it must be $c<p^{2a}$ and consequently
	$$\alpha(G,N)=\frac{p^{2a}-c}{p^a}\geq \frac{p^{2a}-p^{2a-1}}{p^a}=p^a-p^{a-1}.$$ In particular we can have $\alpha(G,N)<2$ only if $|N|=2$ and $c\neq 0.$
	Let $H$ be  a complement of $N$ in $G$ and let $K=H^\prime H^2.$ We have $c=|\der(H,N)|=|\Hom(H/K,N)|.$ Since $G$ is 2-generated, either $H/K=1$ or $H/K\cong C_2$. In the first case $c=1$ and $\alpha(G,N)=3/2,$ in the second case $c=2$ and $\alpha(G,N)=1.$
	\end{proof}

\section{Proof of Theorem \ref{main}}

Our proof of Theorem \ref{main} will rely on the following result in graph theory.

\begin{thm}{\cite[Corollary 10.21]{bm}}\label{crit} A planar graph with $n\geq 3$ vertices has at most $3n-6$ edges.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{main}]First we prove that if $G\in \{C_2, C_3, C_4, C_5, C_6, C_2\times C_2, D_3, D_4,$ $Q_8, C_4\times C_2, D_6\},$ then $\Gamma(G)$ is planar. Let $\Delta(G)$ be the subgraph of $\Gamma(G)$ obtained by removing the isolated  vertices. Clearly $\Gamma(G)$ is planar if and only if $\Delta(G)$ is planar. We have $\Delta(C_2)=K_1$,  $\Delta(C_3)=K_2$, $\Delta(C_4)=K_3$, $\Delta(C_5)=K_4$	and $\Delta(C_2\times C_2)=K_3$ (as usual, we denote by $K_n$ the complete graph on $n$ vertices).
If $G=\langle g \rangle$ is cyclic of order $6,$ then $\Gamma(G)=\Delta(G)$ can be  drawn as follows:
\begin{center}
	\begin{tikzpicture}
	[scale=.6,auto=left,every node/.style={circle,fill=black!10}]
	\node (n4) at (5,9)  {$g^5$};
	\node (n1) at (3,7) {$g^2$};
	\node (n2) at (5,7)  {$g^3$};
	\node (n3) at (5,5)  {$g$};
	\node (n5) at (7,7)  {$g^4$};
	\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n3,n1/n2,n2/n3,n1/n4,n2/n4,n3/n5,n4/n5,n2/n5}
	\draw (\from) -- (\to);
	;
	\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
If $G$ is a non-cyclic group of order 8, then $\Delta(G)$ has 12 edges and 6 vertices and is isomorphic to $\Delta(Q_8)$, which is planar as indicated by the following picture.
\begin{center}
	\begin{tikzpicture}
	[scale=.5,auto=left,every node/.style={circle,fill=black!20}]
	\node (n6) at (2,9) {$-j$};
	\node (n4) at (5,9)  {$k$};
	\node (n5) at (8,9)  {$-i$};
	\node (n1) at (3.5,7) {$i$};
	\node (n2) at (6.5,7)  {$j$};
	\node (n3) at (5,5)  {$-k$};
	\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n3,n1/n2,n2/n3,n1/n4,n2/n4,n4/n5,n2/n5,n4/n6,n1/n6}
	\draw (\from) -- (\to);
	\path
	(n5) edge[bend right=50] (n6)
	(n6) edge[bend right=50] (n3)
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\end{center}
Let $G=D_3=\langle a, b \mid a^3, b^2, abab \rangle$. Then $\Delta(G)$ can be drawn as follows:
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	\begin{tikzpicture}
	[scale=.6,auto=left,every node/.style={circle,fill=black!20}]
	\node (n1) at (5,2.5)  {$b$};
	\node (n2) at (5,7.5) {$ba$};
	\node (n3) at (7,5)  {$ba^2$};
	\node (n4) at (5,5)  {$a$};
	\node (n5) at (9,5) {$a^2$};
	\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n3,n2/n3,n1/n4,n2/n4,n1/n5,n2/n5,n4/n3,n5/n3}
	\draw (\from) -- (\to);
	\path
(n1) edge[bend left=60] (n2);
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\end{center}
Let $G=D_6=\langle a, b \mid a^3, b^2, abab \rangle$. Then $\Delta(G)$ can be drawn as follows:
\begin{center}
	\begin{tikzpicture}
	[scale=.7,auto=left,every node/.style={circle,fill=black!20}]
	\node (n1) at (1,5)  {$b$};
	\node (n2) at (2.5,5) {$ba$};
	\node (n3) at (4,5)  {$ba^2$};
	\node (n4) at (5.5,5)  {$ba^3$};
	\node (n5) at (7,5) {$ba^4$};
	\node (n6) at (8.5,5) {$ba^5$};
	\node (n7) at (4.75,3) {$a$};
	\node (n8) at (4.75,7) {$a^5$};
	\foreach \from/\to in {n1/n2,n2/n3,n3/n4,n4/n5,n5/n6,n1/n7,n2/n7,n3/n7,n4/n7,n5/n7,n6/n7,n1/n8,n2/n8,n3/n8,n4/n8,n5/n8,n6/n8}
	\draw (\from) -- (\to);
	\path
	(n1) edge[bend right=100] (n6);
	\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}

Assume now that $G$ is a 2-generated finite group and let $e(G)$ be the number of vertices of the generating graph $\Gamma(G).$	We have $$e(G)=\frac{|G|^2P_G(2)}{2},$$ denoting by $P_G(k)$ the probability that $k$ randomly chosen elements generate $G.$

Assume that $\Gamma(G)$ is a planar graph. Then, by Theorem \ref{crit},
$$\frac{|G|^2P_G(2)}{2}\leq 3|G|-6.$$
In particular
\begin{equation}\label{main0}
|G|P_G(2)<6.
\end{equation}

Let  $1=N_t\leq \dots \leq N_0=G$ be a chief series of $G$. We have
$$P_G(2)=\prod_{1\leq i \leq t}P_{G/N_i,N_{i-1}/N_{i}}(2) \quad \text{and} \quad |G|=\prod_{1\leq i \leq t}|N_{i-1}/N_i|.$$
So, setting $\alpha_i=|N_{i-1}/N_i|P_{G/N_i,N_{i-1}/N_{i}}(2)=\alpha(G/N_i,N_{i-1}/N_i)$ for $1\leq i\leq t,$ we deduce from (\ref{main0}) that
\begin{equation}\label{impo}
\prod_{1\leq i\leq t}\alpha_i < 6.
\end{equation}
If follows from Lemmas \ref{uno} and \ref{tre}, that $\alpha_i\geq 1$ for every $1\leq i \leq t.$ Hence we deduce from (\ref{impo}) that $\alpha_i<6$ for  every $1\leq i \leq t.$ This implies that $G$ is soluble. Otherwise we could find $j$ such that $G/N_{j-1}$ is soluble and $N_{j-1}/N_j$ is non-abelian, and therefore $\alpha_j>35$ by Lemma \ref{due}.

Assume that $G$ is cyclic of order $n\geq 7.$ Then $\phi(n)\geq 4,$ so there exist four different elements $g_1,g_2,g_3,g_4$ with $G=\langle g_i\rangle$ for
$1\leq i \leq 4.$ Choose $x\in G\setminus \{1,g_1,g_2,g_3,g_4\}.$ The subgraph of $\Gamma(G)$ induced on the subset $\{g_1,g_2,g_3,g_4,x\}$ is isomorphic to $K_5,$ so $\Gamma(G)$ is not planar. We may so assume that $G$ is not cyclic.

Firstly, assume that $C_2\times C_2$ is an epimorphic image of $G.$ It is not restrictive to assume $N_0/N_2\cong C_2 \times C_2$. Lemma \ref{tre} implies $\alpha_1=3/2$, $\alpha_2=1$ and $\alpha_3\geq 2$ if $j>2$ (notice that if $j>2$ and $N_{j-1}/N_j$ has order 2, then $N_{j-1}/N_j$ cannot be complemented in $G/N_j$, otherwise $C_2^3$ would be an epimorphic image of $G$ and $G$ could not be generated by 2 elements). By (\ref{impo}), we must have $t\leq 3$. If $t=2,$ then $G\cong C_2\times C_2.$ If $t=3$, then $\alpha_3 <4$ and, again by Lemma \ref{tre}, $|N_2|\leq 4$. If $|N_2|=2,$ then $G$ is a non-cyclic 2-generated group of order 8, i.e. $G\in \{C_4\times C_2, D_4, Q_8\}$. The possibility $|N_2|=4$ cannot occur: $G$ would be a group of order 16 and it could not contain a minimal normal subgroup of order $4$.
Assume $|N_2|=3.$ If $N_2$ is non-central in $G$, then $G\cong D_6$. If $N_2\leq Z(G)$, then $G\cong C_2\times C_2\times C_3$: in this case $\Delta(G)$ has 9 vertices and 24 edges: since $24>3 \cdot 9-6=21$,
$\Delta(G)$ is not planar by Theorem \ref{crit}.

Finally assume that $C_2\times C_2$ is not an epimorphic images of $G$. In this case, again by Lemma \ref{tre},  $\alpha_1\geq 3/2$ and $\alpha_j\geq 2$ if $j > 1$.
 By (\ref{impo}), we must have $t\leq 2$, and consequently $t=2$ since we are assuming that $G$ is not cyclic. By Lemma  \ref{tre}, $|N_1|\leq 4.$ Since $G$ is not cyclic, we remain with the following possibilities: $G\cong C_3\times C_3,$ $G \cong \alt(4)$, $G\cong D_3$. The first two cases can be excluded by Theorem \ref{crit}: $\Delta(\alt(4))$ has 48 edges and 11 vertices, $\Delta(C_3\times C_3)$ has 24 edges and 9 vertices.
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Today, the Kenyan Government is starting their biometric registration exercise known as NIIMS, leading to the issuing of Huduma Namba ID numbers. Along with our colleagues and partners in the human rights community in Kenya, we are very worried about the ramifications of this system for people in Kenya, and particularly for marginalised communities.
Thanks to the hard work and timely action of civil society in Kenya, the judiciary has intervened at the last minute. A court ruling on Monday made some important concessions on the roll-out of this registration exercise, pending a later ruling on the system. These included: registration is no longer mandatory; and people cannot be denied government services for not registering. DNA and the GPS location of people's homes, in the original proposal, now will not be collected.
These court-imposed measures are in place pending further hearings. The organisations who brought this challenge - including the Nubian Rights Forum and the Kenya Human Rights Commission - are to be congratulated in achieving these concessions to date. Some of those worst affected by the identity scheme - for example, the Nubian community - have played a leading role in this case. There are communities in Kenya - including the Kenyan Nubian and Somali communities - who face additional hurdles and scrutiny when establishing their citizenship and applying for identity documents. They are deeply concerned that the introduction of NIIMS will deepen their exclusion.
The system remains extremely concerning. We share the concerns of others over the nature of the system and the purposes to which it will be put. The process of developing the system has been far from the democratic ideal: it was created by a few lines in a Miscellaneous Powers Act, and was not subject to public consultation. This is the unfortunate replication of a lack of democratic processes in the introduction of identity systems that we've seen all over the world.
Identity systems, even when they are claimed to be voluntary, are core to systems of control that result in severe interferences with freedom and dignity.The safeguards that must be in place before any identity system is implemented are rarely present, and this is certainly a key concern in Kenya. A data protection act is not a panacea for all the problems with NIMS, but it is a nescessary precursor; a data protection bill is making slow progress in Kenya, in stark contrast with speed which this system was approved and deployed. Why is it that establishing protections for a population takes an age, whereas a privacy-threatening ID system can be passed and implemented in a matter of months?
The challenges by civil society continue and hopefully, the identity system will now receive the scrutiny that it deserves. The consequences of an identity system can be huge, and potentially grave. It's essential that the purposes for the system are interogated; and claims made about the system are evidenced. As we've seen elsewhere, the consequences for those who do not have access to an identity granted by the system are huge. This is strongly coming to the fore in the Kenyan case, given the stateless population and those who have problems with citizenship. With the consequences for the privacy and human rights of all Kenyans at stake, it is time to reconsider NIIMS.


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Number: 96/2017/ND-CP
SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
Ha Noi , August 16, 2017
Defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure
of the Ministry of Justice
Pursuant to the June 19, 2015 Law on the Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP of September 1, 2016, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of ministries and ministerial-level agencies;
At the proposal of the Minister of Justice;
The Government promulgates Decree defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice.
Article 1. Position and functions
The Ministry of Justice is a governmental agency functioning to perform the state management of law making and enforcement, examination of legal documents, law dissemination and education, civil judgment execution, administrative judgment execution, judicial assistance, judicial administration, state compensation; the management of the enforcement of the law on handling of administrative violations; the state management of public non-business services in the fields under its state management.
Article 2. Tasks and powers
The Ministry of Justice shall perform the tasks and exercise the powers defined in the Government's Decree No. 123/2016/ND-CP of September 1, 2016, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structures of ministries and ministerial-level agencies, and the following specific tasks and powers:
1. To submit to the Government draft laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, draft ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee; draft decrees and resolutions of the Government under its approved annual law-making programs and plans and other projects and schemes as assigned by the Government or the Prime Minister.
2. To submit to the Government long-term, five-year and annual development strategies, master plans, programs and plans and national key projects; to submit to the Prime Minister draft decisions and directives on the fields under its state management.
3. To promulgate circulars, decisions, directives and other documents under its state management.
4. To direct, guide, inspect and organize the implementation of legal documents and its approved strategies, master plans, programs, plans, projects and schemes in the fields under its state management.
5. Regarding law-making work:
a/ To submit to the Government draft strategies on building and improving the legal system;
b/ To appraise, participate in making, and contribute comments on proposals on formulating laws and ordinances, which are submitted by the Government, and proposals to formulate decrees; to list the Government's proposals on law- and ordinance-making programs regarding issues within the Government's functions, tasks and powers; to propose presiding and coordinating agencies to draft bills and ordinances to the Prime Minister for decision;
c/ To appraise, participate in elaborating, and contribute comments on draft documents in accordance with law;
d/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with ministries and ministerial-level agencies in preparing the Government's opinions on proposals to formulate laws and ordinances, which are not submitted by the Government, and on National Assembly deputies' motions on laws or ordinances in accordance with law; to prepare the Government's opinions on draft bills and ordinances, which are not submitted by the Government, as assigned by the Prime Minister;
dd/ To make lists of documents detailing laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, ordinances and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee, and orders and decisions of the President to be submitted to the Prime Minister for decision; to notify People's Councils and People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities (below referred to as provincial-level People's Councils and People's Committees) of the lists of contents to be detailed by local administrations;
e/ To guide, monitor, press for and examine ministries, ministerial-level agencies and localities in law-making work accordance with law.
6. Regarding monitoring of law implementation:
a/ To guide, examine and urge ministries, ministerial-level agencies and government-attached agencies and provincial-level People's Committees in monitoring law implementation;
b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government-attached agencies and related agencies and organizations in, monitoring law implementation nationwide; to monitor law implementation in the fields under its state management or as assigned by the Government or Prime Minister and in the fields under inter-sectoral management facing many difficulties, problems and shortcomings in the course of implementation;
c/ To contribute opinions on the application of legal documents under the assignment of the Government and Prime Minister.
7. Regarding examination of legal documents:
a/ To assist the Government in examining legal documents promulgated by ministries, ministerial-level agencies, provincial-level People's Councils and People's Committees and local authorities in special administrative-economic units; to propose the handling of unlawful documents in accordance with law;
b/ To direct, guide, inspect and urge ministries, ministerial-level agencies and provincial-level People's Committees in the examination of legal documents.
8. Regarding codification of legal norms:
a/ To guide, examine and urge codifying agencies in making codification;
b/ To appraise headings of the Legal Code; to update and remove new legal norms and headings of the Legal Code in accordance with Law; to submit to the Government decisions to approve topic-based codification results of the Legal Code and add new topics to the Legal Code; to propose the Prime Minister to decide on addition of new headings under regulations;
c/ To manage and maintain the law codification website.
9. To guide, examine and urge the review, systematization and consolidation of legal documents.
10. Regarding checking of administrative procedures:
a/ To guide the assessment of impacts and assess the impacts of administrative procedures on the making of proposals to compile documents, appraisal and formulation of legal documents within its competence in accordance with law;
b/ To review, evaluate and handle results of the reviews of administrative procedures under its management in accordance with law; to study and propose to the Government and Prime Minister initiatives to reform administrative procedures and relevant regulations under its management;
c/ To receive and settle reports and petitions of individuals and organizations on administrative regulations under its management in accordance with law.
11. Regarding enforcement of the law on handling of administrative violations:
a/ To oversee and report on the enforcement of the law on handling of administrative violations in accordance with law;
b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, providing guidance, training and retraining on the implementation of the law on handling of administrative violations; to examine the implementation of the law on handling of administrative violations in accordance with law.
12. Regarding law dissemination and education and grassroots conciliation:
a/ To direct, guide and organize law dissemination and education; to perform the tasks of the standing agency of the law dissemination and education-coordinating council; to recognize and dismiss law communicators in accordance with law;
b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and guide the building and recognition of communes and wards that satisfy law access standards;
c/ To guide and examine the organization of grassroots conciliation and activities in the field.
13. Regarding execution of civil judgments and administrative judgments:
a/ To manage the organizational apparatus, state payrolls and operation of civil judgment enforcement agencies; to decide on establishment and dissolution of civil judgment enforcement agencies;
b/ To professionally guide, direct and retrain enforcers, verifiers and other civil servants engaged in civil judgment enforcement work;
c/ To provide guidance on and training in management of administrative judgment execution;
d/ To decide on plans on allocation of funding sources and assurance of material facilities and equipment for the operation of civil judgment enforcement agencies; to assure payrolls, material facilities and equipment for state management of administrative judgment execution in accordance with law;
dd/ To issue and implement regulations on statistics on execution of civil judgments and administrative judgments;
e/ To report on civil and administrative judgment enforcement work under law.
14. Regarding civil status, citizenship and certification work:
a/ To provide professional guidance on civil status, citizenship and certification;
b/ To monitor, urge and examine the implementation of the civil status, citizenship and certification laws;
c/ To settle applications for renunciation, naturalization or restoration of Vietnamese citizenship for submission to the President in accordance with law;
d/ To settle civil status-related matters in accordance with law.
15. Regarding criminal records:
a/ To provide professional guidance on criminal records;
b/ To monitor, urge and examine the implementation of the law on criminal records;
c/ To make and issue criminal record cards and provide information on criminal records in accordance with law.
16. Regarding adoption:
a/ To guide and examine adoption registration;
b/ To settle matters related to intercountry adoption in accordance with law;
c/ To grant, extend, modify and revoke operation licenses of Vietnam-based foreign adoption organizations and manage Vietnam-based foreign adoption offices.
d/ To perform the tasks of Vietnam's central agency of international adoption.
17. Regarding legal aid:
a/ To guide and examine the organization and activities of legal aid;
b/ To adopt and implement measures to support the development of legal aid services.
18. Regarding state compensation:
To perform state management of state compensation and other tasks and exercise other powers related to state compensation in accordance with law.
19. Regarding registration of secured transactions:
a/ To guide and examine the registration of secured transactions, notify the distraint of property for judgment execution and other transactions and property in accordance with law;
b/ To assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with related ministries and sectors in, guiding the registration and provision of information on secured measures and notifying the distraint of property for judgment execution and other transactions and property in accordance with law;
c/ To develop, operate and manage the national database on secured measures under the Ministry of Justice.
20. Regarding judicial assistance:
a/ To guide, examine the organization and activities of lawyers, legal consultancy, notarization, judicial assessment, property auction, commercial arbitrators, bailiffs and assess management officers; to guide provincial-level People's Committees in examining and settling violations in activities of lawyers, legal consultancy, notarization, judicial assessment, property auction, commercial arbitrators, bailiffs and assess management officers;
b/ To appoint, re-appoint and dismiss notaries; to appoint and dismiss bailiffs; to grant and revoke bailiff cards; to grant and revoke auction and law practice certificates; to grant and revoke licenses for professional practice in Vietnam by foreign lawyers; to gather, make and post on the Ministry of Justice's website a list of adhoc judicial assessors and judicial assessment organizations; to grant and revoke practice certificates of asset management officers; to make, publicize and manage the list of asset management officers and asset management and liquidation enterprises nationwide;
c/ To grant and revoke licenses for establishment of branches or foreign law firms, arbitration centers, or branches and representative offices of foreign arbitration institutions in Vietnam; to approve arbitration centers' charters; to give opinions on the establishment of public judicial assessment organizations under the competence of ministries, ministerial-level agencies and localities;
d/ To perform the state management of the organization and activities of lawyers, legal consultancy, notarization, judicial assessment, property auction, commercial arbitrators, bailiffs and asset management officers nationwide;
dd/ To grant licenses for setting up lawyer-training institutions, notary training establishments; to develop framework programs on training of lawyers, notaries, auctioneers and bailiffs.
21. To provide professional guidance to and examine ministries, sectors and localities and state enterprises in legal affairs, provide legal aid to enterprises and implement legal aid activities for enterprises in accordance with law.
22. Regarding international law:
a/ To appraise and give opinions on draft treaties; to preside over and participate in the negotiation of treaties and international contracts, contribute opinions on draft international agreements and international contracts in accordance with law;
b/ To give legal opinions on treaties, international agreements, government guarantee and investment projects in accordance with law or other cases as assigned by the Government and Prime Minister;
c/ To assist the Government in performing the state management of mutual legal assistance activities and perform the tasks related to mutual legal assistance in accordance with the law on mutual legal assistance;
d/ To act as a national agency in the relations with members and standing agencies of the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
23. To be the Government's legal representative authority in the settlement of international investment disputes.
24. Regarding international legal and judicial cooperation:
a/ To ensure uniform management of international legal cooperation nationwide; to implement international cooperation in external information in the fields under its state management in accordance with law;
b/ To submit to the Government the conclusion, ratification and approval of or accession to treaties and measures to ensure the implementation of treaties in the name of the State or in the name of the Government in the fields and sectors under its state management;
c/ To propose the accession to and participation in international organizations; to act as the national focal agency of Vietnam in the relations with international judicial and legal organizations to which Vietnam is a contracting member under the Government's assignment.
25. Regarding administrative reform:
a/ To monitor and summarize the performance of institutional reform tasks; to perform the task of renewing and improving the quality of the formulation and promulgation of legal documents;
b/ To decide on, and organize the implementation of, its administrative reform plans under the state administrative reform programs and plans of the Government and directions of the Prime Minister.
26. To promulgate, manage and guide the use of forms, papers and records in the fields and sectors under its state management in accordance with law.
27. To manage associations and non-governmental organizations operating in the fields under its state management in accordance with law; to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Home Affairs in, approving the charters of the Vietnam Bar Federation and Vietnam Notary Association.
28. To perform state management of public non-business services in the fields under its state management.
29. To inspect, examine and settle complaints and denunciations, organize citizen receptions, prevent and combat corruption, and handle violations of law in the fields under its state management in accordance with law.
30. To direct the application of information technology in the fields under its state management; to manage, establish, develop and use the national database in the fields under its state management in accordance with law.
31. To draw up and implement plans on scientific research, development and application of the results of jurisprudential researches to legal, administrative and judicial reforms and building a law-governed socialist state; and organize jurisprudential information work in the fields under its state management.
32. To organize law training at different levels, train judicial titles in accordance with law; to hold professional refresher and training courses on the fields under its management in accordance with law.
33. To manage the organization, civil servant payrolls, working positions and structure of public employees according to professional titles and the number of public employees working in public non-business units; to implement the salary regime and incentive policies, appointment, relief of duty, retirement, dismissal, commendation, disciplining, training, retraining and building of the ministry's contingent of cadres, civil servants and public employees in accordance with law; to appoint or dismiss verifiers, bailiffs and holders of other judicial titles under its management.
34. To manage the assigned public finance, assets and public investments and organize their use in accordance with law.
35. To perform other tasks and exercise other powers as prescribed by law.
Article 3. Organizational structure
1. The Department of General Affairs on Legislative Development.
2. The Criminal and Administrative Legislation Department.
3. The Civil-Economic Legislation Department.
4. The International Law Department.
5. The Law Dissemination and Education Department.
6. The Organization and Personnel Department.
7. The International Cooperation Department.
8. The Emulation-Commendation Department.
9. The Ministry's Inspectorate.
10. The Ministry's Office.
11. The General Department of Civil Judgment Execution.
12. The Department of Examination of Legal Documents.
13. The Department of Management of Handling of Administrative Violations and Monitoring of Law Implementation.
14. The Civil Status, Citizenship and Notarization Department.
15. The Child Adoption Department.
16. The Legal Aid Department.
17. The Department of National Registry of Secured Transactions.
18. The State Compensation Department.
19. The Judicial Support Department.
20. The Planning and Finance Department.
21. The Information Technology Department.
22. The Southern Affairs Department.
23. The National Center for Criminal Record.
24. The Institute of Legal Science.
25. The Judicial Academy.
26. The Democracy and Law Journal.
27. The Vietnam Law Newspaper.
The units specified in Clauses 1 thru 22 of this Article are administrative ones assisting the Minister of Justice in performing the state management functions; the units specified in Clauses 23 thru 27 of this Article are non-business organizations serving the Ministry of Justice's state management.
The Department of Criminal and Administrative Legislation may have 3 sections; the Law Dissemination and Education Department, 3 sections; the Department of International Cooperation, 3 sections; the Department of General Affairs on Legislative Development, 4 sections; the Civil-Economic Legislation Department, 4 sections; the International Law Department, 4 sections; and the Organization and Personnel Department, 4 sections.
The Department of National Registry of Secured Transactions may have 2 sections; the Child Adoption Department, 3 sections; the State Compensation Department, 3 sections; the Legal Aid Department, 3 sections; the Information Technology Department, 3 sections; the Southern Affairs Department, 3 sections; the Civil Status, Citizenship and Notarization Department, 4 sections; the Department of Management of Handling of Administrative Violations and Monitoring of Law Implementation, 4 sections; the Planning-Finance Department, 4 sections; the Department of Examination of Legal Documents, 5 sections; the Judicial Support Department, 5 sections; the Ministry's Inspectorate, 5 sections; the Ministry's Office, 8 sections.
The Minister of Justice shall submit to the Prime Minister for promulgation the decision defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the General Department of Execution of Civil Judgments and a list of other non-business organizations of the ministry.
Article 4. Effect
This Decree takes effect on the date of its signing and replaces the Government's Decree No. 22/2013/ND-CP of March 13, 2013, defining the functions, tasks, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Justice.
Article 5. Implementation responsibility
The Minister of Justice, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, heads of government-attached agencies and chairpersons of provincial-level People's Committees shall implement this Decree.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc
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Astrology is an age-old, pseudoscientific tool for explaining a person's character traits according to the star sign he or she were born under. It's also used for predicting their future events by measuring the positions of the sun, moon and planets at the time of their birth. While it is rejected by science as having no validity whatsoever, more times than not people are impressed by how accurate the 12 zodiac signs can be in predicting a person's character traits and thus, their zodiac dating compatibility with other star signs. The following is a complete guide to zodiac dating and matchmaking that will assist you in your search online for your perfect – heavenly – match!
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Passionate and intense, the Aries is always ready for a new adventure. They can't stand for the mundane and trivial parts of a relationship, and, competitive by nature, they will accept any challenge you throw at them.
Best Matches: Leo, Sagittarius, Libra. Worst Matches: Pisces, Gemini, Virgo.
People born under the sign of Taurus are well known for their stability, solidness and stubbornness. They have a reputation for being reliable but also for being sensual and moody. Potential partners beware: A typical Taurus loves to be pampered with the finer things in life.
Best Matches: Scorpio, Virgo, Capricorn. Worst Matches: Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini.
Witty and expressive of himself, the Gemini has a natural curious streak that encourages him to understand the world around him. This trait is represented in Geminis' relationships by their constant need to understand their partners' innermost thoughts and feelings. It's extremely hard to keep a Gemini interested for long, since Geminis are anything but stable; they thrive on changes and will always prefer instability to constancy.
Best Matches: Libra, Aquarius, Leo. Worst Matches: Taurus, Cancer, Pisces.
Domestic traits are clearly inherent in Cancerians; they are nurturing, caring and natural homebodies. They love to fix things and are extremely intelligent emotionally. If you want to partner with someone who sees things through and strives to protect his loved ones from all harm, you'd be best to settle down with a Cancerian.
Best Matches: Capricorn, Scorpio, Pisces. Worst Matches: Gemini, Aries, Sagittarius.
The life of the party and a natural born hunter, the Leo is highly motivated and always at the center of attention. Leos love to take the leading role in any relationship and will usually fight to establish their dominance over other. They are all heart and desire, and when they take a liking to you, they usually put everything they have into it.
Best Matches: Aquarius, Aries, Sagittarius. Worst Matches: Gemini, Capricorn, Pisces.
Virgos are ever the practical people, who always choose the more reasonable decision over their heart's desire. They always try to perfect themselves and others, and are perfectionists by nature. They tend to shy away from others but once they overcome this they can become quite the passionate lovers.
Best Matches: Pisces, Taurus, Capricorn. Worst Matches: Aries, Libra and Aquarius.
Libras are passionate and intuitive. They are very aware of their surroundings and are extremely empathetic to peoples' feelings. They strive for achieving balance and harmony, but as an air sign, they don't like to dig too deep and can loose their concentration pretty quickly.
The passionate Scorpio is powerful in social settings and often desirable. Scorpions have a way with drawing people to them and are quick to make friends. They are popular and outgoing, but can be vindictive if you betray them.
Best Matches: Cancer, Virgo, Pisces. Worst Match: Aries, Gemini, Sagittarius.
People born under the sign of Sagittarius are known for their creativeness and extremism. They are all heart and open up to others like a book. They are usually athletic and always on the go; as a result it is hard to keep them settled down for long and they loose interest in things pretty quickly.
Best Matches: Gemini, Aries, Leo. Worst Matches: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn.
The Capricorns are ever the ones to plan ahead and strategize for the future. In relationships they are one hundred percent supportive of their partner and tend to be open about their feelings. As lovers, they are very sensual and sexual.
Best Matches: Cancer, Taurus, Virgo. Worst Matches: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Sagittarius.
Aquarians are anything if not logical. Their cool demeanor is part of their charm, and they value their privacy greatly. They don't like to expose their feelings or weaknesses, and are born with a fighting streak that makes them ready to battle it out when the sense injustice. They are known to be interesting and dynamic people.
Best Matches: Gemini, Libra. Worst Matches: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo.
The Pisces is creative and dreamy. They love to fantasize and albeit their tendency to drift away and daydream , they are incredibly empathetic and sensitive to others.
Best Matches: Virgo, Cancer, Scorpio. Worst Matches: Aries, Gemini, Leo.
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Inside Bethany House: Fun with Grammar!
To prove how nerdy we are here at Bethany House, I could tell you about the time a cake arrived to a work celebration bearing the word "Congatulations," and how one of the editors had inserted the appropriate letter complete with proofing mark, using frosting stolen from one of the decorative rosebuds.
I could mention the number of charity pamphlets, flyers, and yes, even an out-of-order bathroom sign that have been marked up with red pen within the Bethany House walls.
I could even link to the article that was circulating around editorial last week to add fuel to a heated debate on the Oxford comma.
But I figured I'd ask a few co-workers some grammar-nerdy questions and share their answers with you instead. Enjoy!
Do you have a favorite punctuation mark, and if so, what is it?
Elisa, editorial: My favorite punctuation mark is the em dash—it's so versatile! My runner-up might be the period. It's not fussy and packs plenty of meaning. It's also very hard for people to misuse, which makes my job easier.
Noelle, marketing: For sure, the semi-colon. Correct usage for it is so little understood (even fully by me), but I somehow feel cooler attempting to use it. Only real grammar nerds try to use it over a plain old regular period. I am also a huge Dickens fan, and boy does he work those semi-colons.
Jessica, editorial: I really love parentheses. I use them a lot in casual, personal correspondence (reading my emails is basically like reading The Princess Bride). However, parentheses are not really allowed in formal fiction, so I have to fall back on my second favorite punctuation mark, the em-dash, which lets you sneak in parenthetical phrases without using parentheses. Score!
Is there a mistake you find yourself making over and over again?
Amy, marketing: I can never remember how to spell medieval. Also, I'm pretty sure I have yet to correctly format an ellipse, including on this blog.
Is there a grammar or usage mistake that is particularly painful for you?
Anna, marketing: YES! The Oxford comma should always be used. That's all I have to say about that.
Jessica, editorial: This isn't really a question of grammar, but one of my greatest editorial pet peeves is people referring to characters as "the man" or "the woman" instead of just using a pronoun. Especially when we know the character's name! For example: "She opened the door to find Jake standing on her doorstep. Today the man wore jeans and a plaid shirt…" It's SO AWKWARD. Just say "he"! Please! For me!
Elisa, editorial: I cringe when I see "apart" when the writer means "a part," especially in situations where the writer is thanking people for the opportunity to be a part of something, because it comes across as being grateful for the opportunity to be standoffish.
Are there any grammar rules you don't think should be rules?
Noelle, marketing: Let's talk about smart quotes. They are like the Kim Kardashian of grammar—newsworthy for who knows why but always mentioned in copy editing. What's wrong with my non-smart quote quotation marks and apostrophes? They get the job done.
Not something posted at Bethany House, thank goodness, but it still made me laugh.
She'd left the backpack containing her personal values in a locker at the Y.
When his wife died, he was housebroken.
Thank you for taking time to read my letter and your deep consideration on my behind.
There'd been a rumor she was loose and a maybe a trumpet.
Logan and his friends would drive to Pizza Ranch to gouge themselves on the buffet.
Our family is invisible if we stand together and believe the same things.
He ran across the street cat corner, still dogged by the man in black.
Needless to say, if we took a poll of Bethany House staff based on last week's checklist, everyone would score pretty high, even those of us who don't edit books on a daily basis.
Okay, grammar nerds out there, time for you to chime in! What grammar or usage error makes you cringe? Do you have a favorite punctuation mark?
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Loved Charlene's quotes. So funny!
What about a favorite editing mark? I personally like the carrot for adding content.
Also a great question! The mark for deleting something looks so elegant to me.
AND–I vote to ALWAYS use the Oxford comma!
Yes, good one, Myra! I saw a menu once where every plural word had an apostrophe. Every one. Milkshake's. Burger's. It was awful!
"She'd left the backpack containing her personal values in a locker at the Y," along with her phone, ID's, and all other memorabilia of the supposedly normal life she'd created as a Russian sleeper agent. She was a sleeper no more.
That is a brilliant typo! I wish I'd thought of it.
I am very expressive when I write – usually either in my scrapbooking or in a note to someone. I use a lot of "!!!!!!" and love the comma ",". This makes me wonder if I should set apart the symbols with quotes or ( )??? I love English, but really see all the ways we use words when I do crossword puzzles! They never seem to be using the same synonyms as I use. My mother ( a teacher) always corrected our English, making sure we said things right. So, of course, I did the same with my children – but somehow it seemed to get lost with the grandchildren. (Of course, they use terms & words we would have never been allowed to use!) Of course, then there is the typos that we don't notice before sending. INTERESTING ARTICLE! Thank you, Barb C.
We always need those people in our lives who attempt to keep us from mangling the English language!
Hands down, when people write your instead of you're. It drives me crazy!!
I cringe at that one too (although I'm sure I've done it from time to time).
So funny! I laughed out loud more than once.
Pet peeves: Misuse of your and you're; their, there, and they're; and the recent wave of comma bashing. I love commas. I love em dashes. And I love ellipses.
All of those punctuation marks are great! And the abuse of homonyms is really quite shocking…we should all care about fixing it!
I think I love . . . ellipses best. They're always so– No, wait! I think it's the em dash! Or maybe it's the exclamation point!
Or maybe all of the above! Why not?
That's a good one (or a bad one?), Deb! Grammar nerds have to support each other.
I think I get most frustrated not with common grammar errors but with inefficient writing. For example, when someone has five prepositions in a single sentence, I get annoyed. When this happens repeatedly throughout a book . . . well, let's just say I need to pray for patience and practice some deep breathing. Particularly if I'm not editing and thus have no power to fix the problem.
I love the em dash, but lately, it's the comma that has my respect. It's so simple, so common, yet so powerful. Its presence can clarify a meaning or change it all together. I just wish that writers treated it better. Too often, commas are neglected or abused. A well-placed comma is as admirable as a well-placed word.
I love your tribute to commas, Annalyn. They are very underappreciated.
That's great, Regina. Typos are the best! It makes you realize how crazy language is when you can transpose two letters and have an entirely new meaning!
Hahaha! Love this post, and that there are so many fellow em dash lovers here! I have all sorts of pet peeves, misplaced commas and apostrophes being a major one, along with the usual there/their/they're issues.
That's a great one! Our editors have mentioned that their job is the one of the only ones where the requirement is 100% accuracy all the time.
This made me smile! I love language, warts and all. (And I'm totally with Anna — #teamoxfordcomma. Ooh. . . and #teamemdash. WAIT! And #teamellipses. Or would it be #teamelipsis? Fun, fun!
Those are some wonderfully nerdy hashtags, Kristine!
In the olden, pre-digital days, I worked at a conservative think tank designing, illustrating and proofing a monthly magazine. Outside ads came in camera ready from agencies. One issue, we were to run a full-page ad for a new book by a noted theologian, entitled The Naked Public Square. Had I not examined the negative from the agency before sending everything off to print, we'd have had quite the typo, as it would have run as The Naked P u b i c Square!
Oh my! That was a close one. Way to catch that typo!


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Festivals in Germany: The 15 Best German Music Festivals (2019)
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There are so many festivals in Germany that it was even tough to list the top 20. Germany is known as a haven of music, with some of the most amazing clubs, music scenes, and djs in the world calling Germany home. This situation gives way to tons of German music festivals that are among the best in Europe and the best in the world.
While Germans definitely lean toward electronic music, there are festivals in Germany of every genre imaginable (is beer a genre?! Yep, Oktoberfest is listed of course!). No matter what kind of festival you're looking for, this list of German music festivals should have you covered.
These rankings are made from sales data shared with me by Festicket. This means that they really are ranked as the top 20 most popular festivals in Germany, according to the people who buy tickets to them. So this was not written from my personal opinion (you know I LOVE my techno :P), but it means that there will be a lot more variety in this list with festivals bridging all different kinds.
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1. Airbeat One Festival
2. Nature One Festival
3. Time Warp DE Festival
4. Sea You Festival 2019
5. World Club Dome 2019
6. Love Family Park Festival
7. Indian Spirit Festival
8. New Horizons Festival 2019
9. Ruhr-in-Love 2019
10. Echelon Open Air & Indoor Festival 2019
11. Ikarus Festival
12. MAYDAY Dortmund
13. Habitat Festival
14. MS Dockville Festival
15. Oldenbora Festival
16. Psychedelic Circus Open Air Festival 2019
17. Heroes Festival
18. Snowbeat Festival
19. Wacken Winter Nights Festival
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20. Oktoberfest
Airbeat One is one of (if not the) most well-known festivals in Germany. Taking over a usually quiet little town of Neustadt-Glewe, Airbeat One comes alive each July with five different stages across every possible electronic genre. And these aren't normal stages, either. Airbeat One festival is known for its extraordinary stage design, with fantasy-like stages and atmosphere paired with mind-blowing lighting and production to create a fully immersive environment for festival-goers. There are even carnival rides and tons of crazy activities to do as well.
It doesn't stop there, either. Airbeat One matches its top-notch production with an equally impressive lineup. Already announced for next year are Armin Van Buuren, W&W, and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike. These names join past greats such as Tiesto, Adam Beyer, Paul Kalkbrenner, Angerfist & Partyraiser, Nervo, Richie Hawtin, Hardwell, Steve Aoki, DJ Snake, Above & Beyond, Black Coffee, Headhunterz, and more. So yeah, a bit of everything.
Flugplatz Neustadt-Glewe, Germany
Electronic – EDM, Hardstyle, House, Techno
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Nature One perhaps has one of the most unique venues of the German music festivals, converting an old NATO missile base into a venue with four main large dance floors/stages and tons of smaller dance areas as well. All together the different areas total easily up to 20 different stages, with upcoming talent and something different going on at each. The interesting industrial background adds an even more unique element to this massive festival, which takes in more than 50,000 guests each year.
Past headliners have included Sven Vath, Nina Kraviz, Charlotte de Witte, Aly & Fila, Joseph Capriati, Sebastian Ingrosso, ATB, Fedde Le Grand, and Robin Schulz. The festival doies lean towards house + techno, but has artists of all different backgrounds there as well.
Pydna, former NATO missile base in Kastelluan, Germany
Electronic – House, techno, EDM, trance
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Time Warp is possibly one of the world's best known and longest-running techno festivals, bringing the world's biggest names into a 19-hour warehouse rave each April. This year will be Time Warp's 25th – yep, twenty-fifth – edition, and it shows no signs of slowing down its multi-story hangar party anytime soon.
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It would be tough to even find one name on the Time Warp lineup that you didn't know, with world-famous names taking over the decks for the full almost-day. In the past you could see Nina Kraviz, Magda, Solomun, Rodhad, Loco Dice, Seth Troxler, Ricardo Villalobos, Dixon, Tale of Us, Pan-Pot, and more, and you can guess the lineup will be similarly amazing this year too.
Maimarkthalle Hangar, Mannheim
Techno, house, techno… and more techno
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Sea You is a super unique house + techno festival located on the banks of Tunisee Lake outside of Freiburg, Germany. Festival-goers can immerse themselves into water sports, floatie races, swimming, and lakeside barbecues between stints boogie-ing to some of the world's best house and techno. The area, which is in the countryside near to the borders of France and Switzerland, had been dubbed the 'Beach Republic" due to its serene nature.
It's not all relaxing and floating, however. Alongside all the relaxing on the beach is a lineup to rival any house and techno festival. Next year the names Amelie Lens, Boris Brejcha, and Neelix have already been announced, while in the past there has been Solomun, Nina Kraviz, Len Faki, Paul Kalkbrenner, Maceo Plex, Vini Vici, Richie Hawtin, and more. The festival tickets are extremely cheap, too!
Tunisee, Freiburg, Germany
House + Techno
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Perhaps one of the most unique and interesting concepts for festivals in Germany, World Club Dome transforms a sporting arena in Freankfurt each summer into what it dubs the 'world's biggest club.' So what it goes for is making an ENTIRE covered sports arena into one massive single-stage club, with off-the-scale production and lighting that fills the entire thing.
There are a few more open-air stages outside and around the stadium, and camping/food/activities in the fields surrounding it as well. But the main stage with the EDM headliners is of course within the stadium.
This festival mostly brings in EDM giants, such as Tiesto, Steve Aoki, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Nervo, deadmau5, Klangkarussell, W&W, Robin Schulz, and more.
But at their 'WCD Pool Sessions' at a nearby outdoor pool, you could find some equally great names within the house music umbrella such as Solomun, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Adriatique, ANNA, and H.O.S.H. In recent years they have been bringing in some more stage areas such as Q Dance (hardstyle) and another future/G-house stage with the likes of Jauz, Yellow Claw, EDX, and Malaa.
Commerzbank Arena, Frankfurt, Germany
7-9 June
Mostly EDM, some house + techno
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Quite contrary to its name, Love Family Park festival isn't a family festival…. it's a techno one. I mean, your techno family is debatably just as close as your actual family, right?!
One of many techno festivals in Germany, this one takes place in a park (one thing that's true to its name!) in Russelsheim am Main. The one-day gig is a massive celebration of all things techno, during the daytime outdoors in the German summer.
Techno giants such as Carl Cox, Luciano, Andhim, Ricardo Villalobos, and Sven Vath (who headlines every year!), have made appearances in the past, and you can also expect a similar vibe in the future.
Russelsheim am Main, Germany
Techno, house
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Indian Spirit is one of the proper transformational festivals in Germany that focuses on psytrance and everything spiritual. Alongside the music you can expect to find vibrantly colored stages, tons of art and installations, crafts, markets, workshops, yoga, and more, all designed to elevate the spirit. The festival goes for 5 days, so there's plenty of time to check out all that they have on offer.
In the past, headliners such as Neelix, Vini Vici, Astrix, Infected Mushroom, Liquid Soul, Ace Ventura, have made appearances, alongside dozens and dozens of up-and-coming or underground talent as well.
Eldena
29 August – 3 September
Psytrance, electronic
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New Horizons has quickly taken German music festivals by storm after its first year in 2017 – that's right, this will just be its third edition! Dubbed 'seven festivals in one' due to all of the different music and things to do, New Horizons really reels attendees into another world.
The stage production, atmosphere, and decorations are like something out of a fantasyland, and when you add in different performers and actors, art installations and fun areas, and different activities going on all over the place, you get a fully immersive experience.
If you even have time to see the headliners alongside everything else there is to do, you will not be disappointed. In the past, New Horizons has seen Steve Aoki, Tieso, Dimitri Vegas + Like Mike, Axwell V Ingrosso, Chris Liebing, Armin van Buuren, Dillon Francis, Marshmello, Angerfist, Claptone, Malaa, Ghastly, Charlotte de Witte, and Flosstradamus… creating what is surely one of the most diverse lineups of all the electronic festivals in Germany.
They have different stages for each genre – trance, trap, urban, goa techno, house, EDM and more – making it easy to decide where you'd like to get lost.
The Nürburgring, Nurburg, Germany
Electronic- House, EDM, Techno
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Going since 2003, Ruhr in Love is on of the favorite one-day electronic festivals in Germany. Happening from noon across a massive 40 – yes, FOURTY – stages, I will absolutely guarantee to you that you'll find at least something that you like, whether that be trance, techno, EDM, hardstyle, psytrance, house… you get the idea.
You'll witness loads of up-and-coming and local talent alongside some bigger headliners, but the focus here is on smaller-yet-still-amazing talent from the area. No matter what, you'll surely have an adventure exploring around the many, many stages that there are.
In the past years, the headliners included Klaudia Gawlas, Party Favor, Plastik Funk, Ostblockschlampen, Moonbootica, Tujamo, and Pappenheimer. See if you can catch them all while still checking out all of the stages – it'll be an adventure! If you want to check out the Netherlands while you're at it, you could spend a day in Nijmegen – it's just an hour away from this part of Germany.
OLGA Park, Oberhausen, Germany
All Electronic – literally ALL.
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Echelon Open Air + Indoor Festival is yet another one-day techno banger, which as its name suggests takes place in both indoor tents and outdoor stages. It takes place on a Cold War satellite tracking station, and there are still massive tracking orbs present at the venue. It takes place across five stages that are supplemented by the interesting and historic venue.
This German music festival is knows for its techno, but also has some house, EDM, and other electronic. Past headliners have included Carl Cox, Deborah de Luca, Boris Brejcha, Don Diablo, Yellow Claw, Neelix, and Yen Faki. Oliver Heldens, and Sam Paganini.
Ehemalige US Kaserne (Cold War NSA Satellite Tracking Station), Bad Aibling, Germany
House, techno, electronic
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Ikarus Festival takes place each summer quite literally in an airport – well, on the grounds of an international one. And yes, you can still fly into it via quite a few budget airlines like RyanAir and WizzAir! Along with six different stages, Ikarus comes with performances, a circus program, and more.
Past headliners have been Richie Hawtin, Nina Kraviz, Solomun, Tale of Us, Pan-Pot, Oliver Koletzki, and Nina Kraviz, and you can bet that any house music-lover will be in heaven at Ikarus Festival in any year to come.
Memmingen Airport, Memmingerburg, Germany
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MAYDAY is yet another of the many fantastic electronic music festivals in Germany. You can find whatever you are looking for at this festival as long as it's within the electronic scope – techno, trance, house, hardstyle, EDM, and more. MAYDAY has been going for 25 years now and is well known for its immersive and incredible visuals, music, and production quality.
Past headliners have seen a range of artists from Ferry Corsten, Aly & Fila, Marcus Schulz, and Adam Beyer to Angerfist, Charlotte de Witte, and Chris Liebing. The festival takes place across tons of different rooms, and has grown lots since Sven Vath helped its inception in 1991.
Westfalenhallen, Dortmund
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Habitat is yet another music festival in Germany that is much more than a music festival. This festival brings in all sorts of conscious festival-goers to experience art classes, installations, sustainability workshops, film, theater, performances, yoga, and more. This all occurs alongside a pretty massive lineup of all different genres within the electronic umbrella. Sounds like a pretty ideal festival to me!
If you can find time alongside watching theater, doing yoga, and learning all kinds of new things at the workshops, the lineups are always great. In the past they've included the likes of Charlotte de Witte, Rodhad, Reinier Zonneveld, Monkey Safari, Alex Niggemann, and other equally deep and amazing artists.
Flugplatz Hungriger Wolf (an airfield), Hohenlockstedt, Germany
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MS Dockville is a multi-genre festival that takes place each August around some industrial docklands along the Elbe River near Hamburg. Dockville prides itself in its creative expression, with loads of art, markets, and more to do alongside the lineup of alternative, rock, and electronic giants.
Caribou, Bonobo, Elderbrook, Flume, Moderat, Murea Masa, Foals, alt-J, Interpol, and more have headlined in the past, so you can expect similar types of live acts fused with electronic elements in the next editions of the festival as well.
Wilhelmsburg Docks, Hamburg, Germany
Alternative, Rock, Electronic
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Oldenbora is a one-day fest that takes place within and on the beaches surrounding a lakeside beach club called Nethen, which is near Rastede, Germany. They like to say that this festival brings the vibe of Ibiza to Germany for a day, in that there are huge beach parties with great dj's playing to them. If you get tired of dancing (or need a quick break), the lake is a popular and scenic place for water sports as well.
Past headliners have included Moguai, Oliver Koletzki, Moonbootica, Will Sparks, Riva Starr, Tom & Jame, and more.
Nethen Beachclub + Surrounding Beaches, Rastede, Germany
House, Techno, Trance, EDM
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Psychedelic Circus is pretty much exactly what its name says it is. This festival is a fully immersive atmosphere where nothing makes sense and everything makes sense at the same time 😛 . It is a true fantasyland where you can be whoever you want to be, while you listen to trippy music, play fun games with fellow attendees, explore around the decked-out venue, and forget the real world.
It's a vibrant festival in every sense, from the decorations to the lineup. This festival is not all about the performers like many are, but there are also usually quite a few names to get excited about. In the past it has seen Fabio & Moon, Berg, Neelix, Francis Inferno Orchestra, Phaxe, and Secret Portal.
Near Gohlen, Germany
Trance, psytrance, house, acid house
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Heroes Festival is somehow one of the only fairly large hip hop/rap festivals in Germany, taking place at a huge events center near Geiselwind (closest to Nuremberg). It has risen quickly in popularity since its recent inception in 2017 – perhaps because there was a bit of a void when it came to larger hip hop German music festivals. Heroes Festival is known for being an all-around amazing party for the rap and hip hop scene, with amazing sound and production, rap collectives, and MC's from around Germany coming to strut their stuff.
Last year the headliners included SXTN, Nimo, Olexesh, Luciano, Sido, and MoTrip, and you can expect similar local DJ's , MC's and talent for this year as well.
Eventzentrum, Geiselwind, Germany
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Snowbeat Festival is one of the few big winter music festivals in Germany, and surely one of the most unique. It's an electronic music festival that takes place in an indoor ski slope complex, with multiple rooms full of amazing production, sound, and pyrotechnics. Oh, and you can of course hit the slopes as well!
Snowbeat bring in dj's in many different genres, including EDM, hardstyle, and house. In the past it has seen names such as Salvatore Ganacci, Coone, Ostblockschlampen, Alan Walker and Headhunterz – lots of talentt from both Germany and international.
Alpincenter Indoor Snowsports Complex, Wittenburg
2nd Feb
EDM, hardstyle, house
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Wacken Winter Nights is an extremely immersive and unique rock and metal festival held in the small and charming village of Wacken. This festival even focuses on medieval and mystic rock/folk, with some attendees and performers even dressing the part. This immersive music works perfectly in a snowy small German Village, where you can almost go back in time through performance, food, and costume.
If you enjoy German rock and metal, you may recognize names who have headlined before. PEople such as Saltatio Mortis, Grave Digger, Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Schandmaul, and Orphaned Land have played on the past, all presenting their own unique take on both dark and passionate music.
Wacken, Germany
22 – 24 February
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What is Oktoberfest?! Well, the biggest beer festival in the world, of course. This cultural festival could absolutely not be left out when making a list of the best festivals in Germany, because it very well may be more famous than all these German music festivals combined. And hey – it's not completely devoid of music. To be honest, music is just as important to Oktoberfest as any of these festivals – in fact, there are bands playing live music pretty much all the time in all of the many massive beer halls that comprise the festival. It's just that, in this situation, beer and delicious food take precedence.
Oktoberfest takes place in a massive lot in central Munich, which is bordered by 14 beer halls/tents with massive capacities. Beer is only available by the liter, and this is not beer for the weak, either! Pretzels, pork knuckles, bratwurst, and other German delicacies should keep you going through crazy amounts of beer, and it would also be a good idea to take breaks and play carnival games or try the many amusement park rides outside.
I wrote a massive Oktoberfest Festival review-guide that will tell you 100% everything you need to know before attending one of the most famous festivals in Germany, so give that a read and check below for packages from Festicket and Stoke Travel.
22 September – 6th October
Beer 😉 And live cover bands.
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Hello! The Summer Crazies are almost over and it's time to get back to planning my dinners for the week. We are doing most of our Labor Day celebrating this weekend, so both my husband and I are looking to get back on track tomorrow with the Beachbody Health Bet.
I have, thought, been doing Country Heat all month! I need to take my after pics this week, but here are my week 3 results.
I am, without a doubt, in love with this program! I plan to do a second month and follow the deluxe calendar, starting with day 15 so I can get some variety. Who else is starting month two?
Anyway, here is my week ahead! Hope all of you that are heading back to school have an easy transition.


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I have been trying to write an automator script that will take various files from my downloads folder and my desktop folder and organize each file into various parts of my computer. I have it set to select those folders, then get their contents, then filter by extension and then move those files to a certain other folder.
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New York Malware Assessment Consulting For 2022 Regulation Compliance Update
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2Secure explains that the main reason small businesses are often targeted is that they have information cybercriminals want – personal and customer data such as social security numbers and credit card information – but lack the security measures to protect it. As such, regulatory compliance becomes ever more important, as it not only helps business owners avoid non-compliance fines but also ensures their information and reputation are protected.
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