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Potpourri of Popery, Summer Vacation Edition
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The pope's retired to his summer digs for a "rest," which includes writing his encyclical on faith, completing the trilogy. He's also reportedly writing a book on the infancy narratives of Jesus, in spite of once having remarked the forthcoming second volume of Jesus of Nazareth would be his last book. Vacation this year will be at Castel Gandalfo, not northern Italy as usual.
Popery
What's he been up to since Cyprus?
Keeping up with his Audience series on the great theologians of the Church, notably several on St. Thomas Aquinas, which I'll let Against the Grain tell you about. Wednesday before parting the Vatican he spoke of Duns Scotus, the great theologian of the Incarnation. There's a very interesting catechetical passage in which Benedict remarks on Scotus' contribution to the defining of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Valuable theologians, such as Duns Scotus with the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, enriched with their specific thought what the People of God already believed spontaneously about the Blessed Virgin, manifested in acts of piety, in the expressions of art and, in general, in Christian living. Thus faith in the Immaculate Conception or in the bodily assumption of the Virgin was already present in the People of God, while theology had not yet found the key to interpret it in the totality of the doctrine of the faith. Thus the People of God precede theologians and all this thanks to that supernatural sensus fidei, namely, that capacity infused by the Holy Spirit, which qualifies us to embrace the reality of the faith, with humility of heart and mind.
In this sense, the People of God is "magisterium that precedes," and that later must be deepened and intellectually accepted by theology. May theologians always be able to listen to this source of faith and have the humility and simplicity of little ones!
A common objection to Catholicism being that celibate old men impose their views on the helpless faithful, it's refreshing to be reminded the precise opposite is true.
Last weekend he travelled to Sulmona for one of his intra-Italian pastoral visits. He had a nice chat with young people. Can't find a transcript of their questions, but here's his response.
true prayer is not at all foreign to reality. If prayer should alienate you, remove you from your real life, be on your guard it would not be true prayer! On the contrary, dialogue with God is a guarantee of truth, of truth with ourselves and with others and hence of freedom. Being with God, listening to his word, in the Gospel and in the Church's Liturgy, protects you from the dazzle of pride and presumption, from fashions and conformism, and gives you the strength to be truly free, even from certain temptations masked by good things.
Good news/bad news:
faith and prayer do not solve problems but rather enable us to face them with fresh enlightenment and strength, in a way that is worthy of the human being and also more serenely and effectively.
Prayer is not magic, in other words. Love this next part:
If we look at the history of the Church we see that it is peopled by a wealth of Saints and Blesseds who, precisely by starting from an intense and constant dialogue with God, illumined by faith, were able to find creative, ever new solutions to respond to practical human needs in all the centuries: health, education, work, etc. Their entrepreneurial character was motivated by the Holy Spirit and by a strong and generous love for their brethren, especially for the weakest and most underprivileged.
The saints as entrepreneurs of grace? I like it. (See why Catholic Americans are the best Americans and the best Catholics? At least potentially: corruptio optimi pessima. Or maybe what I mean is that Americans are especially suited to be Catholic.)
Very nice homily for the July 4th Mass in Garibaldi Square, too. He talks about Pope St. Peter Celestine, whose 800th anniversary the pilgrimage was observing, and particularly about his "listening."
From his youth Pietro Angelerio was a "seeker of God", a man who sought the answers to the great questions of our existence: Who am I? Where do I come from? Why am I alive? For whom do I live? ... Here there is a first important aspect for us: we live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be "filled" with projects, activities and noise; there is often no time even to listen or to converse. Dear brothers and sisters, let us not fear to create silence, within and outside ourselves, if we wish to be able not only to become aware of God's voice but also to make out the voice of the person beside us, the voices of others.
Here's the homily for the feast of Ss. Peter & Paul, on which occasion he presented the pallium to 38 Metropolitan archbishops. Cool pictures here -- including of the statue of St. Peter dressed for the feast, and of the Pope & the new bishops descending to pray at the tomb of St. Peter.
Note this (but, yikes! I think the regular translators must already have gone on vacation, as here and in the above texts there are some barbarities. "Millenniums"? "Inconsistence" for "inconstancy"? Really?). He's been speaking about terrible persecutions and says:
despite the suffering they cause, they do not constitute the gravest danger for the Church. Indeed she is subjected to the greatest danger by what pollutes the faith and Christian life of her members and communities, corroding the integrity of the Mystical Body, weakening her capacity for prophecy and witness, and marring the beauty of her face. ... The First Letter to the Corinthians, for example, responds precisely to certain problems of division, inconsistence and infidelity to the Gospel that seriously threaten the Church. However, the Second Letter to Timothy a passage to which we listened also speaks of the perils of the "last days", identifying them with negative attitudes that belong to the world and can contaminate the Christian community: selfishness, vanity, pride, the attachment to money, etc.
There follows an interesting meditation on the pallium as a sign of freedom and how union with the Holy Father is a sign and guarantor of freedom. A little difficult to excerpt, so RTWT.
The evening previous, in a vespers ceremony, he reflected on the Church's missionary vocation. Nice distinction here regarding the "new evangelization":
"new" not in its content but in its inner thrust, open to the grace of the Holy Spirit which constitutes the force of the new law of the Gospel that always renews the Church; "new" in ways that correspond with the power of the Holy Spirit and which are suited to the times and situations; "new" because of being necessary even in countries that have already received the proclamation of the Gospel.
Some words of encouragement for those ascending to the throne at a time when no one in his right mind would wish to be a bishop:
The challenges of the present time, the historical and social and, especially, the spiritual challenges, are certainly beyond the human capacity. It sometimes seems to us Pastors of the Church that we are reliving the experience of the Apostles when thousands of needy people followed Jesus and he asked them: what can we do for all these people? They were then aware of their powerlessness. Yet Jesus himself had shown them that with faith in God nothing is impossible and that a few loaves and fish, blessed and shared, could satisfy the hunger of all. However, there was not and there is not hunger solely for material food: there is a deeper hunger that only God can satisfy. Human beings of the third millennium want an authentic, full life; they need truth, profound freedom, love freely given. Even in the deserts of the secularized world, man's soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
Which is why he's created a new Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization.
Neat:
at the end of June he blessed a new statue --and therefore visited-- a cloister and prayed with the nuns there.
And ordained 14 new priests for the diocese of Rome
And blessed a fountain created for him, taking the occasion to reflect on St. Joseph.
And my favorite thing he does all year: the Q&A with priests, this time an international gathering for the closing of the Year of the Priest. Each answer is my favorite, but if I'm limited to two...
A Brazilian pastor asks how a priest can possibly keep up as society de-Christianizes and he's in charge of a huge parish or perhaps several. If it's not possible to do it all, what should he do?
To this the pope replies that it's less important to try to do everything than to radiate Christ. If people see your joy and sincerity, they'll help you, and you ought to let them help. Then, prioritize: Sacraments, Proclamation of the Word and caritas --being present to the sick, poor, suffering. Also vital is the priest's own prayer:
St Charles Borromeo, a great shepherd, who truly gave all of himself, and says to us, to all priests, "Do not neglect your own soul. If your soul is neglected, even to others you can not give what you should give. Thus, even for yourself, for your soul, you must have time". Or, in other words, the personal colloquy with Christ, the personal dialogue with Christ is a fundamental pastoral priority in our work for the others! And prayer is not a marginal thing: it is the "occupation" of the priest to pray, as representative of the people who do not know how to pray or do not find time to pray. The personal prayer, especially the Prayer of the Hours, is fundamental nourishment for our soul, for all our actions. Finally, to recognize our limitations, to open ourselves up even to this humility. Recall a scene from Mark, chapter 6, where the disciples are "stressed out", they want to do everything, and the Lord says: "Come away by yourselves to a lonely place, and rest a while." Even this is work, I would say pastoral work: to find and to have the humility, the courage to rest.
Then comes a Q from an African priest distressed over theologians whose approach is academic and doesn't support true spirituality. Comes the A:
Even St Bonaventure distinguished two forms of theology in his time and said: "There is a theology that comes from the arrogance of reason, that wants to dominate everything, God passes from being the subject to the object of our study, while he should be the subject who speaks and guides us". There is really this abuse of theology, which is the arrogance of reason and does not nurture faith but overshadows God's presence in the world. Then, there is a theology that wants to know more out of love for the beloved, it is stirred by love and guided by love. It wants to know the beloved more. And this is the true theology that comes from love of God, of Christ, and it wants to enter more deeply into communion with Christ.
Hmm. Who are you thinking of? He defends the numerous theologians throughout the world who follow the latter model, but this is priceless:
"Do not be afraid of this ghost of science!" I have been following theology since 1946. I began to study theology in January '46 and, therefore, I have seen about three generations of theologians, and I can say that the hypotheses that in that time, and then in the 1960s and 1980s, were the newest, absolutely scientific, absolutely almost dogmatic, have since aged and are no longer valid! Many of them seem almost ridiculous. So, have the courage to resist the apparently scientific approach, do not submit to all the hypotheses of the moment, but really start thinking from the great faith of the Church, which is present in all times and opens for us access to the truth. Above all, do not think that positivistic thinking, which excludes the transcendent that is inaccessible is true reason! This weak reasoning, which only considers things that can be experienced, is really an insufficient reasoning.
Can't help myself, he continues:
we must have the courage to use the great, broader reason and we must have the humility not to submit to all the hypotheses of the moment and to live by the great faith of the Church of all times. There is no majority against the majority of the Saints. Saints are the true majority in the Church and we must orient ourselves by the Saints! Then, to the seminarians and priests I say the same.
...and he goes on in that vein about knowledge of Scripture. RWTW or I will go off in exultations on the other Q&As, too, and nobody wants that.
Big doings in the Vatican: Archbishop de Paolis named administrator of Legion of Christ; Ouellet to head bishop-picking dicastery (Yay!); CDF to define new procedures for people who try to ordain women and doing a doctrinal assessment of liberal women religious in US. New universal norms on clergy abuse said to be released imminently. Card Kasper retires from Christian Unity dicastery, replaced by a man with a more Ratzingerian approach. And that new dicastery, about the re-evangelization of the West, to be headed by Archbishop Fisichella, formerly of the Council for Life. Plus: various takes on Summorum Pontificum at 3: a debate, Damien Thompson, and Fr. Z & his readers.
Austria: Panel recommends payments for victims; Card. Schonborn got himself in hot water, had to clarify. (Apparently all is forgiven.)
Belgium. Good, if distressing, round-up of the disgrace of the Belgian church. Card. Danneels files suit. Also, washing the dead down the drain.
Britain: ongoing rumblings about papal pilgrimage in September.
China: new bishop ordained for See 50 years empty. Bishop Zhiguo released. Priest & nun of underground Church murdered.
Cuba: releasing 52 political prisoners after Church negotiation.
Iraq: Christian nurse killed by bomb.
Sudan: update from Bishop Gassis.
U.S.: U. of Illinois fires professor for expressing tenets of Catholicism in a course about Catholicism. Campus Newman center fires him too. Notably the issue was homosexuality. Nuns & the new evangelization. Catholic Giving up despite economy. Court case against Vatican. SCOTUS stuff.
Relations with Islam: Fr. Samil Samil on whether Islam is part of God's plan; Christian misionaries arraigned in Michigan for "disturbing" Muslims.
And finally: prayer beneath the sea; and the Very Model of a Modern Seminarian.


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Dallas Buyers Club review (Blu-ray)
Stuart OConnor 25/05/2014 8:41pm No Comments
There's one thing to love about McConaughey: the older he gets, the better he becomes. After years in the rom-com wilderness McConaughey has got his mojo back of late, and this mid-career renaissance possibly reaches its zenith (so far) with Dallas Buyers Club.
That's no mean achievement, given this run includes Killer Joe, Mud and a his theft of The Wolf of Wall Street. But in a riveting two hours in which he is almost never off screen, Dallas Buyers Club gives McConaughey has a film he totally owns. He plays Ron Woodroof, a redneck par excellence – homophobic, misogynistic, racist – whose drugged-up, casual sex-filled small world of rodeos and bullshit is turned upside down when he is diagnosed as HIV positive at the height of the 1980s AIDS scare, when Rock Hudson was on the front pages.
Initially dismissive of the diagnosis as news only "faggots" would receive, Woodroof soon becomes angry when he realises the extent to which the system is stacked against people in his position. Unable to access the drugs that can actually do some good, rather than the toxic substances that were being peddled by the big pharma companies Woodroof gets himself some learning and begins making dangerous runs across the Mexican border to bring back the sort of vitamins and supplements being refused him by the American Way.
Aided by the arch, unrecognisable cross-dressing Leto, and inspired by Garner's occasionally sympathetic doctor, Woodroof sets up a buyers club, enabling him to circumvent the law by giving away medicine in return for an annual fee. Dallas Buyers Club is the sort of inspired-by-true-events little-guy-against-the-system story that Hollywood loves, like Erin Brockovich or Milk.
But do not let that put you off – there is little schmaltz and plenty to enjoy, not least in how McConaughey brings pathos to both extremes of his character's personality, where there could easily have been stereotyping. This is McConaughey's moment. Increasingly emaciated as the illness takes hold though he may be, an energy radiates out of him as his fearful, ignorant friends desert him and he shakes the tree to try to get the government and the multi-billion dollar drug industry to listen to the voices of the desperate dispossessed.
If all that sounds a bit "issue movie", then rest assured – Dallas Buyers Club is a fantastic film about a remarkable man, portrayed with humanity by a wonderful performance.
EXTRAS ★ The very short behind-the-scenes featurette A Look Inside Dallas Buyers Club (3:58); and three deleted scenes (4:55).
Stuart OConnor
Stuart O'Connor is the Managing Editor of Screenjabber, the movie review website he co-founded with Neil Davey far too many years ago. He likes all genres, as long as the film is good (although he does enjoy the occasional bad "guilty pleasure"), and drinks way too much coffee.
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\section{Cosmological constraints from {\sf JVAS}\dots}

The Jodrell Bank-VLA Astrometric Survey ({\sf JVAS}) is a survey for
flat-spectrum radio sources with a flux density greater than 200\,mJy at
5\,GHz. Flat-spectrum radio sources are likely to be compact, thus
making it easy to recognise the lensing morphology.  In addition, they
are likely to be variable, making it possible to determine $H_{0}$ by
measuring the time delay between the lensed images.  (See
\cite{ABiggsBHKWP99a} for the description of a time delay measurement
in a {\sf JVAS}\ gravitational lens system.)  {\sf JVAS}\ is also a survey for
MERLIN phase-reference sources and as such is described in
\cite{APatnaikBWW92a}, \cite{IBRownePWW98a} and \cite{PWilkinsonBPWS98a}.
{\sf JVAS}\ as a gravitational lens survey, the lens candidate selection, followup
process, confirmation criteria and a discussion of the {\sf JVAS}\
gravitational lenses is described in detail in \cite{LKingBMPW99a}
(see also \cite{LKingIBrowne96a}).

In order to have a parent sample which is as large as possible and as
cleanly defined as practical, our `{\sf JVAS}\ gravitational lens survey
sample' is slightly different than the `{\sf JVAS}\ phase-reference calibrator
sample'.  For the former, the source must be a point source and must
have a good starting position (so that the observation was correctly
pointed) while its precise spectral index is not important.  For the
latter, only the spectral index is important, as the source can be
slightly resolved or the observation can be less than perfectly pointed.
Thus, the {\sf JVAS}\ astrometric sample
\cite{APatnaikBWW92a,IBRownePWW98a,PWilkinsonBPWS98a} contains 2144
sources.  To these must be added 103 sources which were too resolved to
be used as phase calibrators and 61 sources which had bad starting
positions (thus the observations were too badly pointed to be useful for
the astrometric sample), bringing the total to 2308.  This formed our
gravitational lens sample, since these additional sources were also
searched for
gravitational lenses \cite{LKingBMPW99a} (none were found meeting the
{\sf JVAS}\ selection criteria: multiple flat-spectrum point-source
components with a separation between 300 mas and 6 arcsec with a flux
ratio of $\le$20).

We have used the gravitational lens systems in Table~\ref{ta:lenses} in
this analysis.
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}llllll}
\hline
\hline
Name &
\# images &
$\Delta\theta ['']$ &
$z_{\mathrm{l}}$ &
$z_{\mathrm{s}}$ &
lens galaxy \\
\hline
B0218+357     &
2 + ring      &
0.334         &
0.6847        &
0.96          &
spiral        \\
MG0414+054    &
4             &
2.09          &
0.9584        &
2.639         &
elliptical    \\
B1030+074     &
2             &
1.56          &
0.599         &
1.535         &
spiral        \\
B1422+231     &
4             &
1.28          &
0.337         &
3.62          &
\textbf{?}    \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
\caption[]{
{\sf JVAS}\ lenses used in this analysis.  Of the information in the
table, for this analysis we use only the source redshift $z_{\mathrm{s}}$,
and the image separation $\Delta\theta$.}
\label{ta:lenses}
\end{center}
\end{table}
The {\sf JVAS}\ lens B1938+666 \cite{LKingJBBBdBFKMNW98a} was not included
because it
is not formally a part of the sample, having a too steep spectral index and
having been recognised on the basis of a lensed extended
source as opposed to lensed compact components.  Also, the {\sf JVAS}\ lens
B2114+022 \cite{PAugustoBWJFM99a} was not
included because it is not a single-galaxy lens system.

For this analysis, due to the paucity of the observational data, we have
made rather stark assumptions: the redshift distribution of the sample
is assumed to be identical to that of the CJF (Caltech-Jodrell Bank
Flat-spectrum) sample
\cite{GTaylorVRPHW96a},
independent of flux density, and the number-magnitude relation is
assumed to be
identical to that of {\sf CLASS}\, the
Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey, \cite{SMyersetal99a}, independent of
redshift.  Otherwise, we have calculated the likelihood as a function of
$\lambda_{0}$ and $\Omega_{0}$ as described in
\cite{CKochanek96a}.  That is, we use a non-singular isothermal sphere
as a lens model, model the lens galaxy population with a Schechter
function and use the Faber-Jackson relation to convert between
luminosity and velocity dispersion, considering only elliptical galaxies.
The results are presented in Fig.~\ref{fi:jvas}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_1.ps, width=9cm}
\caption[]{
The likelihood function $p(\lambda_0,\Omega_0)$ based on
the {\sf JVAS}\ lens sample.  The pixel grey level is directly proportional to
the likelihood: darker pixels reflect higher likelihoods.  The pixel
size reflects the resolution of our numerical computations.  The
contours mark the boundaries of the minimum $0.68$, $0.90$, $0.95$ and
$0.99$ confidence regions for the parameters $\lambda_0$ and $\Omega_0$.}
\label{fi:jvas}
\end{figure}
At 95\% confidence, our lower and upper limits on
$\lambda_{0}-\Omega_{0}$, using the {\sf JVAS}\ lensing statistics
information
alone, are
respectively $-2.69$ and $0.68$.  For a flat universe, these correspond
to lower and upper limits on $\lambda_{0}$ of respectively $-0.85$ and
$0.84$.  (Reducing the constraints in the $\lambda_{0}$-$\Omega_{0}$
plane to $\lambda_{0}-\Omega_{0}$ is, of course, just an approximation,
but a reasonably good one when considering upper limits on $\lambda_{0}$
for small $\Omega_{0}$ values.  These numbers were derived from the
corresponding confidence limits on $\lambda_{0}$ for fixed $\Omega_{0}$
and are thus of course different than the intersection of lines of
constant $\lambda_{0}-\Omega_{0}$ with the corresponding contour in
Fig.~\ref{fi:jvas}.)

\section{\dots and optical gravitational lens
surveys\dots}

One can improve these constraints by adding those from optical
gravitational lens surveys, though one should keep in mind that the
systematic errors---for example, lens systems which are missed due to
extinction in the lens galaxy or to the fact that the typical seeing
is not much better than the typical image separation---are probably less
well understood than is the case in
the radio (though the statistical properties of the unlensed parent
population are better understood).  Not only does one have more objects
and thus better statistics, but a different redshift range is sampled as
well.  Essentially repeating the analysis in \cite{CKochanek96a} (but
with $\lambda_{0}$ and $\Omega_{0}$ as free parameters, of course) and
combining the resulting constraints with those from Fig.~\ref{fi:jvas},
one obtains the better constraints shown in Fig.~\ref{fi:joint}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_2.ps, width=9cm}
\caption[]{
The same as Fig.~\ref{fi:jvas} but combining
{\sf JVAS}\ with optical
gravitational lens surveys from the literature.}
\label{fi:joint}
\end{figure}
Using the combination of {\sf JVAS}\ lensing statistics and lensing statistics
from the literature as in \cite{CKochanek96a}, the
corresponding $\lambda_{0}-\Omega_{0}$ values are
$-1.78$ and $0.27$.  For a
flat universe, these correspond
to lower and upper limits on $\lambda_{0}$ of respectively $-0.39$
and $0.64$.

\section{\dots and `reasonably well-accepted
wisdom'\dots}

Gravitational lensings statistics alone cannot usefully constrain
$\Omega_{0}$.  Thus, it seems sensible to combine the constraints shown
in Fig.~\ref{fi:joint} with measurements of $\Omega_{0}$.  Fortunately,
there seems to be a consensus developing that $\Omega_{0} \approx 0.3$
e.g.~\cite{RCarlbergetal97a,RCarlberg98a,RCarlbergetal98b,
NBahcall97a,NBahcallFC97a,XFanBC97a,MBartelmannHCJP98a,
SPerlmutteretal98a,
ARiessetal98a,BSchmidtetal98a,AKim98a,CLineweaver98a,EGuerraDW98a,
RDalyGW98a}.  Conservatively,
these results can be summarised as
\begin{equation}
  p(\lambda_0,\Omega_0) =
  L(\Omega_0|0.4,0.2).
  \label{eq:p2}
\end{equation}
where the two arguments of $L$ represent the mean and standard deviation
of a lognormal distribution.

In a similar vein, lensing statistics determines a lower limit on
$\lambda_{0}$ much less strongly than an upper limit, so it seems sensible to
include some prior information which can give a lower limit on
$\lambda_{0}$.  To be conservative, we take relatively undisputed
estimates for the age of the universe and the Hubble constant, their
product setting a (slightly $\Omega_{0}$-dependent) lower limit on
$\lambda_{0}$.
The best estimate of the absolute age of the oldest galactic globular
clusters currently is $t_{\mathrm{gc}}=11.5\pm1.3\,\mbox{Gyr}$
\cite{BChaboyerDKK98a}. We choose to formulate this prior information
in the form of a lognormal distribution that meets these statistics
\begin{equation}
  p(t_{\mathrm{gc}}) =
  L(t_{\mathrm{gc}}|11.5\,\mbox{Gyr}, 1.3\,\mbox{Gyr}).
  \label{eq:ptgc}
\end{equation}
Similarly, we roughly estimate
$H_0=65\pm10\,\mbox{km}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}\,\mbox{Mpc}^{-1}$ and choose to
formulate this prior information in form of a normal distribution
\begin{equation}
  p(H_0) =
  N(H_0|65\,\mbox{km}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}\,\mbox{Mpc}^{-1},
    10\,\mbox{km}\,\mbox{s}^{-1}\,\mbox{Mpc}^{-1}),
  \label{eq:ph0}
\end{equation}
where, again, the notation for $L$ (and $N$) is such that the two arguments
correspond to
the mean and standard deviation.

Fig.~\ref{fi:posterior} shows how inclusion of this prior information,
representing a conservative estimate of what we know about the values of
the cosmological parameters, tightens the constraints on $\lambda_{0}$
and $\Omega_{0}$ as compared to the constraints from lens statistics
alone (Figs.~\ref{fi:joint} and \ref{fi:jvas}).
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_3.ps, width=9cm}
\caption[]{
The same as Fig.~\ref{fi:joint} but
combining {\sf JVAS}\ and optical
gravitational lens surveys from the literature with prior information on
the value of $\Omega_{0}$, $H_{0}$ and the age of the universe.  This
figure thus represents the combination of constraints from lensing
statistics and from relatively undisputed knowledge about values of the
cosmological parameters.}
\label{fi:posterior}
\end{figure}

\section{\dots and the CMB\dots}

It has long been realised,
e.g.~\cite{DEisensteinHT98b},
that the direction of degeneracy of constraints from cosmic microwave
background anisotropies is roughly orthogonal to that of most other
tests, including lensing statistics.  Thus, combining the constraints from
CMB anisotropies with those
from other cosmological tests can give much tighter constraints than
either alone.  We have performed an analysis similar to that done in
\cite{CLineweaver98a}, though including an updated Tenerife data point and
calculating two-dimensional joint likelihood constraints as in the
calculations done previously in this poster rather than employing Lineweaver's
statistical method.  Adding the constraints on $\lambda_{0}$ and
$\Omega_{0}$ so derived to the previous ones narrows down the region of
parameter space further, as is shown in Fig.~\ref{fi:cmb}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_4.ps, width=9cm}
\caption[]{
The same as Fig.~\ref{fi:posterior} but
combining {\sf JVAS}\, optical
gravitational lens surveys from the literature and prior information on
the value of $\Omega_{0}$, $H_{0}$ and the age of the universe with
constraints derived from CMB anisotropies.  Since the CMB constraints
are more or less orthogonal to the lensing statistics constraints, this
reduces the allowed area of the $\lambda_{0}$-$\Omega_{0}$ parameter
space significantly.  Note that the scale of this plot differs from the
previous ones.  For technical reasons no models with
$k=\mathop{\rm sign}\nolimits(\lambda_{0}+\Omega_{0}-1)=+1$ were calculated; this slightly distorts
the contours near the $k=0$ line, which otherwise would extend a bit
more into the $k=+1$ region.}
\label{fi:cmb}
\end{figure}

The power spectrum for the best-fit model using the CMB data alone
($\lambda_{0}=0.6$, $\Omega_{0}=0.3$, otherwise not shown here) along
with various data points from the literature
(see the collection of Max Tegmark at
\texttt{http://www.sns.ias.edu/\symbol{126}max/cmb/experiments.html})
is shown in Fig.~\ref{fi:bestfit}.
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_5.ps, width=9cm}
\caption[]{
Power spectrum shown with data points from the
literature for
our best-fit cosmological model, fitting to the CMB data alone (and
keeping parameters
other than $\lambda_{0}$ and $\Omega_{0}$ fixed at predetermined
fiducial values).}
\label{fi:bestfit}
\end{figure}

(Note added for the proceedings.  The likelihood based on CMB
observations which (combined with other tests) is shown in
Fig.~\ref{fi:cmb} is, due to a numerical error, qualitatively but not
quantitatively correct.  We have since performed the correct
computation, which will be presented elsewhere.  However, the difference
creates a smaller error than that caused by many other approximations
made use of in these calculations, so we present the figure as shown in
the original poster, in keeping with the concept of providing a record
of the conference as opposed to an updated paper on the same subject.)

\section{\dots and how this compares to other
cosmological tests}

Fig.~\ref{fi:cmb} combines constraints based on optical and radio
gravitational lensing statistics, `direct' measurements of $H_{0}$,
$\Omega_{0}$ and the age of the universe and constraints derived from
CMB anisotropies.  This restricts $\lambda_{0}$ to a narrow range.
If one believes that $\Omega_{0}\approx 0.3$, then it follows that
$\lambda_{0}\approx 0.5$.  This should be compared to the result
of Perlmutter et al.~\cite{SPerlmutteretal99a}:
$0.8\Omega_{0} - 0.6 \lambda_{0} \approx -0.2$: inserting $0.3$ for
$\Omega_{0}$ one obtains $\lambda_{0}\approx0.43$.  Taking the errors
into consideration (which are not large enough in either case to allow,
for example, $\lambda_{0} = 0$) one obtains perfectly consistent
measurements of $\lambda_{0}$ from completely independent methods.

Taken together, present measurements of cosmological parameters
\emph{definitely} rule out the Einstein-de~Sitter universe
($\lambda_{0}=0$, $\Omega_{0}=1$), \emph{very probably} rule out a
universe without a cosmological constant ($\lambda_{0}=0$) and
\emph{tentatively} rule out a flat ($\lambda_{0}$ + $\Omega_{0}$ = 1)
universe as well.  A universe with $\lambda_{0}\approx 0.4$ and
$\Omega_{0}\approx 0.3$ seems to be consistent with all observational
data, including measurements of the Hubble constant and age of the
universe.

\section{The future}

{\sf CLASS}\ is similar to {\sf JVAS}\ but contains about 4 times as many sources.
The
definition of both is flat-spectrum between L-band and C-band,
i.e.~$\alpha>-0.5$ where $s_{f}\sim f^{\alpha}$, the essential
difference
being the lower flux density limit of 200\,mJy for {\sf JVAS}\ and 30\,mJy for
{\sf CLASS}.
However, since {\sf CLASS}\ is defined based on the newer GB6 and NVSS catalogues
\cite{PGregorySDJ96a,JCondonCGYPTB98a}
than {\sf JVAS}, there will be some essentially random differences due to
differing quality of observations and variability of the sources.
All the {\sf JVAS}\ lenses mentioned in Table~\ref{ta:lenses} are in
the new {\sf CLASS}\ sample, which, having no upper flux density limit,
subsumes {\sf JVAS}.
The previous samples {\sf CLASS}-I and {\sf CLASS}-II will be similarly subsumed
in the same sense as {\sf JVAS}, though the differences here will be slightly
larger since bands other than L and C were used in the preliminary
definition of these samples.

The initial phase of observations is complete; currently lens candidates
are being followed up.  At present, we have confirmed as gravitational
lenses the systems listed in Table~\ref{ta:class} (which for
completeness also includes the two {\sf JVAS}\ lens systems not used in the
statistical analysis presented here).
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}llllll}
\hline
\hline
Name &
\# images &
$\Delta\theta''$ &
$z_{\mathrm{l}}$ &
$z_{\mathrm{s}}$ &
lens galaxy \\
\hline
B0712+472     &
4             &
1.27          &
0.406         &
1.34          &
spiral        \\
B1127+385     &
2             &
0.70          &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    \\
B1600+434     &
2             &
1.39          &
0.414         &
1.589         &
spiral        \\
B1608+656     &
4             &
2.08          &
0.63          &
1.39          &
spiral        \\
B1933+507     &
$4+4+2$       &
1.17          &
0.755         &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    \\
B1938+666     &
$4+2$         &
0.93          &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    \\
B2045+265     &
4             &
1.86          &
0.867         &
1.28          &
\textbf{?}    \\
B2114+022     &
2 or 4        &
2.57          &
0.32 \& 0.59  &
\textbf{?}    &
\textbf{?}    \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
\caption[]{
{\sf CLASS}\ gravitational lenses and the
two {\sf JVAS}\ lens systems (1938+666 and 2114+022)
not listed in Table~\ref{ta:lenses}.}
\label{ta:class}
\end{center}
\end{table}

We hope that the larger size of {\sf CLASS}\ will allow the constraints on
cosmological parameters from gravitational lensing statistics to
improve.  At present, the greatest uncertainty is the redshift-dependent
luminosity function (or equivalently the flux-dependent redshift
distribution) of the unlensed population (which of course, due to the
amplification bias, extends to fainter flux-densities than the survey
itself).  We are currently taking steps to decrease this uncertainty.

\section*{Acknowledgements}

{\centering
\epsfig{figure=13_phelbig1_6.ps, width=9cm}
}

\noindent
This research was supported in part by the European Commission, TMR
Programme, Research Network Contract ERBFMRXCT96-0034 `CERES'.  {\sf CERES},
standing for the Consortium for European Research on Extragalactic
Surveys,
is an EU TMR Network, coordinated by Ian Browne at Jodrell Bank, and
involving the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories of the Universtity
of Manchester at Jodrell Bank, the Institute of Astronomy of the
University of Cambridge,
The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen, the
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy at Dwingeloo, the
University of Bologna and the University of Portugal.  One of the main
goals of {\sf CERES}\ is the use of the {\sf JVAS}\ and {\sf CLASS}\ surveys for
research in gravitational lensing.

We thank
our collaborators in the {\sf JVAS}, CJF and {\sf CLASS}\ surveys for useful
discussions and for providing data in advance of publication and many
colleagues
at Jodrell Bank for helpful comments and suggestions.  We also
thank John Meaburn and Anthony Holloway at the Department of Astronomy
in Manchester and the staff at Manchester Computing for providing us
with additional computational resources.  RQ is grateful to
the {\sf CERES}\ collaboration for making possible a visit to Jodrell Bank
where part of this work was done.

\section*{References}

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Imagine living in a world where trash overflowed onto the streets and landfills reached their limit because nobody recycled.
Recycling is just one of the major issues that Earth Alert, University of Miami's environmental organization, deals with.
On Tues., April 16th, Earth Alert held it's fifth annual Earthfest on the U.C. patio from 11a.m. to 4 p.m. Earth Alert invited the band "Late for Life" to entertain those in attendance.
As the band played, students took the opportunity to visit the humanitarian and environmental organizations that tabled.
Earth Alert president, Stefan Fairchild, started planning Earthfest last month, along with former president Kristina Trotta, and publicity chair, Shelly Stromosky.
"We wanted students to be environmentally conscious," said Fairchild.
This year, the organization's main concern was recycling, because in previous years, the university never had a formal recycling program.
Among the organizations present were the Sierra Club, Students for a Free Tibet, Food not Bombs, and the Living Wage Coalition.
Earth Alert also had a table where interested students could sign up to become members. They distributed pamphlets and literature about recycling, water conservation, and habitat preservation.
Each organization present addressed serious humanitarian and environmental issues. The Sierra Club distributed information about maintaining clean air and water, waste reduction, and protection of forests, parks, and wildlife.
Students for a Free Tibet informed everyone about the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and how Tibetans have been imprisoned for their political and religious beliefs.
Food not Bombs, an all-volunteer and non-denominational organization, passed out numerous fliers on anti-authoritarian issues. They are well known for cooking food at a local kitchen every Sunday and afterwards dishing it out to the less fortunate in downtown Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
"We also address homelessness, poverty, and war. All decisions in our organization are based on consensus and is never hierarchical," said a Food not Bombs representative.
The Living Wage Coalition distributed fliers about people who are making just enough money to get by, but are not able to live comfortably. Each table allowed those in the UM community to get involved and do something about the issues concerning the earth and the environment.
"I'm amazed that the organizations here show us how to write to the President and our senators in order to tackle the major issues at hand," said senior Daisy Cruz.
One major achievement for Earth Alert is that they were able to start campus-wide recycling by placing bins throughout six locations at UM.
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Q: Check whether a condition holds within a list of lists I have a list of lists (converted to an array using NumPy) as follows:
array([[ 1,  1,  1],
       [ 4,  3,  1],
       [ 5,  2,  1],
       [ 8,  4,  1],
       [ 9,  4,  1],
       [12,  3,  1],
       [13,  2,  1],
       [14,  3,  2],
       [15,  1,  1]])

I would like to get a Boolean variable indicating whether there is any row in the above array that its first and last columns are equal to r1 and r2, respectively. Note that r1 and r2 are constant numbers. What would be the most efficient way to do this? Thanks.

A: You can put your conditions inside np.any. For example:
import numpy as np

a = np.array([[ 1,  1,  1],
       [ 4,  3,  1],
       [ 5,  2,  1],
       [ 8,  4,  1],
       [ 9,  4,  1],
       [12,  3,  1],
       [13,  2,  1],
       [14,  3,  2],
       [15,  1,  1]])

np.any((a[:,0] == 15) & (a[:,2] == 1))
# True

np.any((a[:,0] == 14) & (a[:,2] == 1))
# False

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The Nigeria Airforce (NAF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and have emerged winners of the 2019 prestigious PR Golden World Awards (GWA) instituted by the International Public Relations Association (IPRA).
The duo, earlier in the year, were named among the recipients of 2019 African Public Relations Awards which recognized Superior Achievement in Branding Reputation and Engagement popularly known as the SABRE awards at an event in Kigali, Rwanda.
While the Nigeria Airforce garnered the award on Crisis Management in relation to the counter-insurgency campaigns against terrorists, the CBN won the award based on Crisis Communication Online Strategy.
The PR campaigns of the two Nigeria's public institutions were undertaken in partnership with a multi-award-winning PR agency, Image Merchants Promotion Limited (IMPR), the Publishers of PRNigeria and Economic Confidential. The award ceremony will hold on September 27, 2019 in Armenia, a country lying between Europe and Asia and formerly part of the Soviet Union.
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Lambert Heinrich von Babo, né à Ladenburg le , et mort à Karlsruhe le , est un chimiste allemand.

Biographie

Lambert Heinrich von Babo est le fils de l'agronome Lambert Joseph von Babo et de sa première femme Karoline Ehrmann, l'œnologue August Wilhelm von Babo étant son demi-frère. Il étudie la médecine aux universités de Munich puis de Heidelberg et obtient son doctorat en 1842. Il intègre l'année suivante l'université de Giessen pour des études de chimie sous la direction de Justus von Liebig, ce qui lui permet d'obtenir en 1845 une habilitation à diriger des recherches à l'université de Fribourg-en-Brisgau.

Le , il épouse Elise Baumgärtner à Fribourg. Le couple a une fille et deux garçons.

Il devient ensuite Privat-docent à l'université de Fribourg-en-Brisgau puis, en 1854, maître de conférences (außerordentlicher Professor) et, enfin, en 1859, professeur (ordentlicher Professor). À ce titre, il peut officier comme expert au sein des cours et tribunaux des grands-duchés.

Travaux

Lambert Heinrich von Babo a établi la pression de vapeur saturante de l'eau. Il a également créé un embout, qui porte son nom, et qui est destiné à chauffer des récipients de verre et des ampoules. Il consiste en un cône inversé fait d'acier avec des bandes d'amiante disposées dans la paroi intérieure.

Il a également travaillé sur la structure des alcaloïdes, isolé la choline et développé une méthode de détection de l'arsenic pour le cadre d'enquêtes médico-légales. Il a aussi réussi à synthétiser l'ozone à partir de dioxygène.

Publications

 Arsen in Vergiftungsfälle (« Cas d'empoisonnements à l'arsenic »), 1844
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Going strong on cloud services, Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) is making its biggest data centre investment in Singapore to date with a new S$400 million, Tier 3-Plus data centre in Jurong to meet growing demand for co-location and cloud services in Singapore.
"This new data centre is designed to meet the critical hosting needs of the financial services industry, government agencies, and cloud and Internet service providers," said Bill Chang, Chief Executive Officer, Group Enterprise. "It enables Singtel to attract and host world-class cloud players in Singapore and position the country as a global hub for cloud computing and innovation."
With an approximate gross floor area of 570,000 square feet, the network-ready data centre features secure, high-grade private and co-location data hosting capabilities. To be completed in the third quarter of 2016, it can host an array of new technologies from cloud solutions, smart applications to different platforms for analytics.
This new facility brings Singtel's network of data centres in Asia Pacific to 13 – nine in Singapore and two each in Hong Kong and Australia. Bill Chang, Chief Executive Officer, Group Enterprise, adds again, "This enlarged footprint enables businesses to use Singtel's regional hosting capabilities to grow and connect their operations within Singapore and the region, seamlessly."
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The facility is equipped with a total power capacity of up to 36 megawatts, which is one of the highest power densities in the region. This high power density enables customers to deploy and scale virtualisation and blade servers more efficiently, according to future needs.
Incorporating the Building and Construction Authority Green Mark Platinum standard for green efficiency and environmental impact, the new facility comprises an integrated climate control system and a critical cooling system using recycled NEWater, running on energy-efficient equipment.
To optimise and manage energy consumption and costs, customers can use the centre's Infrastructure Management tools.
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If you are an adult (16+) who sometimes stammers/stutters or clutters and you want some advice, information or help then you can contact our service.
Mindfulness – body-mind connection strengthening, etc.
Group therapy can also be arranged dependent upon demand.
We can also offer tele-therapy, if necessary, to our registered clients.
There is a support group, which sometimes meets monthly in various venues, dependent upon demand.
Our specialist Speech and Language Therapist, who has clinical lead in disorders of fluency, has over 30 years of experience in this area.
We have strong links with the British Stammering Association (BSA) who host an excellent website www.stammering.org.
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IDM Research Sees New Science Solving The World's Chronic Health Problems
IDM Research predicts that scientists will prevent chronic disease before the end of the current decade, by developing the behaviorial science that will give them the tools they need to more precisely measure and improve the logic of successful human behavior.
Even under ideal circumstances, the human genome does not have the capacity to produce perfect human bodies.
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In the near future, IDM claims, chronic disease will be prevented from causing more discord in the human body's immune system, by applying new techniques that sharply reduce anxiety. Scientifically validated diet will further prolong life by assuring the health and vitality of the endocrine system.
"Our past personal experience with anxiety and chronic disease," says IDM founder Neil Roberts, "has motivated us to become better qualified to help those who are in need of preventive health solutions now and for the future. Experience has motivated us to find the whole truth, and that's why we want to teach the public what we've learned."
IDM's seminar and workshop programs are designed to enable the public to:
1. Understand where their chronic anxiety comes from and what causes it to grow.
2. Appreciate the history of the unwise choices that gave birth to the disease.
3. Become civilized enough to do a better job than their parents' generation did.
4. Teach their children how to avoid the stresses that make the problem worse.
5. Learn how to adopt less stressful, less complicated and healthier lifestyles.
6. Free themselves from the costs and complications of conventional health care.
7. Promote the philosophy that will enable them to help others do the same.
Even under ideal curcumstances, IDM studies have shown, the human genome does not have the capacity to produce perfect human bodies. Now, thanks to scientific curiosity and IDM'S more comprehensive program, chronic disease is a problem that has a solution.
IDM's work is based on more than 10,000 individual case studies, developed and applied through more than 30 years of practical experience in the business world. Among other honors, IDM was pleased to receive The Samurai Award from Japan's Sumitomo Corporation, for developing the 'New Standards for Global Alliances' philosophy that enabled Sumitomo to become more influential and successful world-wide.
IDM believes that chronic disease is a problem that can be resolved by applying new developments in the physical and behavioral sciences. They feel that childhood anxiety is the root cause of all chronic disease, and that the problem can be more quickly resolved by encouraging health specialists, in all fields, to cooperate in finding more common ground.
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"The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power": When is Episode 4 coming to Amazon Prime – and what's next?
Every Friday a new episode of the highly anticipated fantasy series "Lord of the Rings" series comes to Amazon Prime Video – Episode 4 of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" will be released on September 16, 2022 on Amazon Prime. In contrast to the season premiere with a double episode, which ran on September 2nd at 3 a.m. German time, all other episodes in Germany are now always available from 6 a.m.
» "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" on Amazon Prime Video*
The first season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power consists of eight episodes. This results in the following release plan
"The Rings of Power" episode 1+2 on September 2, 2022 (at 3 a.m.)
"The Rings of Power" episode 3 on September 9, 2022 (from now on always at 6 a.m.)
"The Rings of Power" Episode 4 on September 16, 2022
"The Rings of Power" Episode 7 on October 7, 2022
"The Rings of Power" Episode 8 (Season Finale) on October 14, 2022
There is a trailer for Episode 4 of "The Rings of Power", but this is exclusive to Prime customers on Amazon (will be played automatically at the end of Episode 3 and is also under "Extras" on the "Rings of Power" page and available there under "Bonus"). And in this it becomes clear that we will learn more about the mysterious Adar in the next episode, who was introduced as the new big villain in episode 3 – hinting that it could even be Sauron. Warning, possible spoilers follow!
We don't believe Adar is Sauron, however, and a tiny detail from the trailer supports that suspicion – though not revealed in the German dubbed version! At the end of the trailer, Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) speaks Quenya (a language of the Elves). In the German synchro, this sentence is not subtitled, but in the original English version it says "[speakingQuenya)Whoareyou?"HeasksthatquestiontoAdarwhocanbeseenrightbeforethatinthetrailerbutit'sstillblurry-soAdarnotonlyhasanElvishnamebutalsospeaksthelanguage[speakingQuenya)Whoareyou?"DieseFragestellterAdarderimTrailerdirektdavorzusehenistallerdingsimmernochverschwommen–AdarträgtalsonichtnureinenelbischenNamensondernsprichtauchdieSprache
Of course Sauron can probably speak Quenya too. But it is more likely that Adar is an Orc leader and important follower of Sauron – a corrupted and tormented Elf, rumor has it, who does not appear in Tolkien but was invented for the series. Adar is played by "Game Of Thrones" star Joseph Mawle, who has appeared on posters for the series and is also credited as playing Adar in Episode 3. "By the way, Adar" means "father" in the Elven language Sindarin – which, according to our theories, brings Adar into play as a possible father of Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin)…
We will see Theo and his mother Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) again in episode 4 after they were absent in episode 3. And the dwarves of Khazad-dûm are back on stage too – and we probably might finally found out what was in King Durin III's chest at the end of Episode 2. (Peter Mullan) and his son Prince Durin IV (Owain Arthur).
In the trailer, there are increasing indications that it the rare and very valuable metal mithril could be – an extremely hard yet very light material. Prince Durin tells his wife Disa (Sophia Nomvete) with a meaningful and conspiratorial look that progress is being made in the old mines. So the dwarves really seem to have stumbled upon mithril, but want to keep it a secret so no one else gets their hands on the metal (like the elves).
Meanwhile, in Númenor, Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) will be busy convincing Queen Míriel (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) of the urgency of her departure for Middle-earth. Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) wants her on board. To do this, however, the man from the Southlands must first be brought out of the dungeons – which is why Galadriel reveals to Míriel in the trailer that Halbrand is not just anyone, but a king who could help unite the people of the Southlands against Sauron .
It remains to be seen whether we will find out Halbrand's true name in episode 4. There will be news from Middle-earth and Númenor on September 16, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.
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HMRC target Barristers – are you being "discovered"?
As barristers are self-employed and declare income on a self-assessed basis, there is much more scope for HMRC tax investigations and being prosecuted for not paying their VAT liabilities. Concerned though the Bar Council might be, this is happening and deliberate failures to submit tax returns and/or income omissions may not just be a tax issue.
Time to call in a tax investigations specialist?
HMRC tax investigations are intrusive, in addition, when involving barristers this can impact the time they can spend working, as well as occupying disproportionate amounts of the clerking and administration teams' time, making external expert support and strategic direction from the outset invaluable. Often HMRC operate on risk and suspicion. Investigators are reluctant to reveal their case, so not enough information is released to advance matters from the taxpayer's side. However, if HMRC commit to the civil route the position with HMRC is regularised by agreeing a contractual financial settlement.
Has HMRC made a Discovery?
Discovery tax assessments are regarded as the final weapon in HMRC's armoury to correct an insufficiency of tax. The presumption of finality in self-assessment is in favour of taxpayers and the restrictions for issuing discovery assessments reflect that, in cases where enquiry windows have been missed, HMRC have hurdles to overcome if they wish to disturb the finality of a taxpayer's self-assessment. A discovery assessment is the final leg of the process to rectify a potential loss of tax.
The validity of a "discovery assessment" is raised under the provisions of section 29 Taxes Management Act 1970, but often subject to statutory conditions such as the following discrete issues:
Was there a discovery (within the terms of section 29(1))?
If so,
Was the situation "attributable to fraudulent or negligent conduct on the part of the taxpayer …" (as required by section 29(4))?
If the discovery assessments were validly made, was HMRC entitled to issue assessments outside the standard four (carelessness by taxpayer or agent), or six-year limit (deliberate/fraud)?
The burden of proof for each limb falls on HMRC. As HMRC tax assessments are just numbers they do not explain and cannot explain the basis on which there is "an additional liability" to tax. HMRC has to explain the reasoning for making the discovery assessment and by doing so the investigator reveals his/her case.
In short, section 29(1) provides HMRC with the right to raise an assessment (commonly referred to as a "discovery assessment") if a situation (within the terms of s. 29(1)(a), (b) or (c) and broadly described as a potential loss of tax) is the subject of a "discovery". However, it should be noted that the required level of an officer's knowledge regarding the potential loss of tax is relatively low: there must merely be a reasonable basis for the belief that there is such a loss1 – there does not need to be a legal or factual certainty at the time that the assessment is made.
1Authority for it can be found in R v Commissioners for the General Purposes of Income Tax for Kensington, ex parte Aramayo [1913] 3 KB 870 at 889. 2Authority for it can be found in Lansdowne at [69].
Suspicions of tax fraud – What is HMRC Code of Practice 9?
If HMRC suspects fraud or dishonesty, as an alternative to a criminal investigation the Code of Practice 9 procedure is used with the Contractual Disclosure Facility (CDF). This is an opportunity to disclose all material irregularities in return for a guarantee that HMRC will not prosecute. Generally, a CoP9 Disclosure cannot later be used in evidence against the taxpayer in criminal proceedings.
How does HMRC Code of Practice 9 work?
CoP9 CDF can only be offered by senior HMRC FIS investigators. Given its complexities and forensic approach, independent specialist tax investigation advice should be sought, often in addition to the accountant's advice as such investigations are relatively rare. HMRC's own CoP9 literature recommends:
"You are strongly advised to seek independent professional advice. If you already have an appointed adviser you should contact them immediately. However, many people find it helpful to appoint a specialist adviser who is familiar with COP9, as well as their regular adviser."
CoP9 Case Study – the busy barrister
The following is a real FIS intervention matter where Tax Networks Ltd was engaged to advise a barrister after receiving a CoP9 letter.
The barrister had many years of practice involving complex law and was consumed by the rigours of day to day practice, involving long and irregular hours. As with most chambers, the barrister's work was sourced and managed by the clerks. The barrister and clerks would generally quantify all fees and in turn inform the accounts department to send out invoices (inclusive of VAT). Payment was then processed by bank transfer net of the barrister's chambers' expenses. Apart from accrued bank interest, there were no other sources of income.
Over time, and due to the challenges of the barrister's practice, a range of sequential administrative failings gradually developed; delays in the barrister notifying chambers' accounts department to raise invoices; failure to file Income Tax and VAT Returns on time; and these breaches continued over the course of several years.
In early 2016 the barrister received a letter from HMRC asking for clarification of fee payments. Rather than obtaining specialist tax advice, the barrister directly contacted the chambers' accounts department, obtained the historic earnings details which were then passed on to HMRC.
Following review, HMRC sampled and evidenced the tax periods establishing longstanding and repeated Income Tax and VAT compliance failures. HMRC found that the barrister had financially benefited, as the consequential tax shortfall was substantial, HMRC had been prejudiced.
Several months followed and despite the first hint of HMRC activity, the years of tax compliance failures were not rectified and the tax defalcations continued.
The barrister received a FIS CoP9 "suspected serious tax fraud" letter.
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Tax Networks was engaged to produce a Report under CoP9 CDF and negotiate an exit by way of a civil financial settlement with certificates of full disclosure.
Below are some practical tips to help avoid a tax investigation: –
Develop an effective invoicing system and authorise chambers to provide monthly financials to an accountant to prepare robust records and timely Returns;
Beware of Accounting Mechanics: Avoid incorrect calculation of earnings due to mistakes in the assessment of work in progress and completed but unbilled work – recognition of debts, calculation of completed work (UITF40/FRS102) etc is crucial;
Do not omit ancillary income: Returns (VAT or Income Tax Self-Assessment) must be complete including income arising from assets/property, authorship/royalties, lecturing, direct access etc;
Disallowed Expenditure: Some purchases may have a dual purpose (clothes) and also consider whether travel-related expenses are wholly exclusive;
VAT Return: Quarterly VAT Returns are required together with annual Income Tax Self-Assessment Returns (including year-end accounts); If chambers invoice inclusive of VAT, the VAT funds deposited need to be included in the barrister's quarterly Returns.
In the Case Study above had there been a voluntary tax disclosure before HMRC's letter, it is highly likely that Tax Networks would have negotiated settlement without admission of tax fraud!
By Chris Leslie, Specialist Tax Investigations and Disputes Adviser at Tax Networks.
Chris Leslie is an experienced Tax Investigations and Disputes Adviser from Tax Networks Limited, instructed by accountants and lawyers nationwide in complex, document heavy HMRC interventions.
Website: www.taxnetworks.co.uk
Email: chris.leslie@taxnetworks.co.uk
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The (Surprising) Main Source of America's Successful Ideas
Sonya Sasser Send an email July 1, 2016
About a month ago I publicly announced that I was going to teach my children America's Spiritual Heritage this summer, and I have been doing my best to hold up to that commitment. Because, if we are going to "Make America Great Again," we have to actually know exactly what made her great in the first place.
Something interesting that we have already learned, were the sources of Founders' successful ideas:
Political science professors examined a broad spectrum of writings (from 15,000 writings while isolating 3,154 direct quotes in those writings) from the Founding Era with the goal of identifying those sources cited in writings. At the end of ten years, researchers had traced the quotes back to their original sources, identifying the most frequently-citied sources of the Founding Era.
The individual who was cited most often in writings was political philosopher, Charles Montesquieu with 8.3% of the quotes being taken from his writings. Next was Legal Scholar,William Blackstone with 7.9% of the quotes; and then political philosopher and theologian, John Locke was third, with 2.9%
However, the single MOST-cited SOURCE was the Bible, with 34% of the quotes coming from Scriptures…that percentage is even higher when we take into account that the Bible was source of the ideas also used by individuals such as Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke (the Bible also had strong influence on their writings).
In fact, Charles Finney (a university president, educator, civil rights leader, and famous for the revivalist during America's Second Great Awakening) read Blackstone's famous work, 'Commentaries of Laws,' and became a Christian simply by reading Blackstone's writings.
Therefore, the Bible was far and away the most influential source of ideas in the Founding Era. So, it's NO surprise that the Constitution reflects many Biblical principles (i.e. the three branches of government was inspired from Isaiah 33:22; the logic of the separation of powers was based from Jeremiah 17:9 and so on)…
While political revisionists are rewriting our nation's own history to make people believe that we have been secular from the very beginning, our Founding Fathers actually had an expansive Biblical worldview which indeed, shaped our nation and made her the great nation that she is today.
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Set Date For Baba Ijesha Case To Be Decided Upon
The Ikeja Special Offences Court has deferred the case of prominent Nollywood Actor Olanrewaju James, Baba Ijesha, accused of defiling a 14-year-old girl till July 14. On Monday, June 6, Oluwatoyin Taiwo the Justice postponed the case for judgment after the prosecution and defense counsel issued their last written addresses. Baba Ijesha is accused of, indecently treating a minor, sexual assault, attempted sexual assault by penetration, and sexual assault by penetration.
The Lagos State DPP (Directorate of Public Prosecutions) brought the allegations against him. On the other hand, Baba Ijesha has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Dada Awosika, the defendant's lawyer, sought the court to dismiss the case and discharge the defendant in his last written address dated May 12 and filed on May 16. go
Mr. Awosika claimed that the Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) material was taken unlawfully.
"The exhibit was not tendered by the maker. It was tendered by Princess, the complainant,"
he said.
He claimed that the video had been manipulated with, noting that the defendant had not gone to the complainant's residence uninvited. Mr. Awosika went on to say that this was all the more odd because he was accused of a crime seven years ago that was never reported to the police. He further claimed that the defendant's supposed confessional statement violated Section 9 (3) of the Lagos State Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) 2021.
"We urge the court to discredit the confessional statement. The defendant moved in a jiffy to participate in a short skirt that put him in trouble. My Lord, my client was trapped.
"Concerning the age of the girl in question, Exhibits D and E are not saying the same thing.
"It is our submission, My Lord, that the court is bound to call the biological mother inside the box to tell us her real age or her birth certificate or scientific evidence is tendered to ascertain the age but none was done.
"The prosecution agreed that the age of the minor must be established. However, it has also agreed that nothing has been done to provide the real age,"
Mr Awosika said.
The Director of DPP, Babajide Martins, in his last written address dated May 31, however, urged the court to convict Baba Ijesha as charged.
He argued that one of the defense witnesses, Lawrence Ayeni told the court that the CCTV recording could not be manipulated.
"On the issue of the CCTV recording My Lord, the first defence witness(Ayeni) told this honourable court during cross-examination that it cannot be manipulated and that the content of CCTV cannot be changed.
"Most importantly, he said he cannot say if the sexual assault did not happen. These are the testimonies from the defence witness, My Lord.
"The defendant admitted to having been with the girl in both the incident that happened seven years ago and the one that happened in 2021.
"He also admitted to having sucked her fingers during the cross-examination,"
He went on to say that the accusation of defilement may be used to anybody under the age of 18.
"We have compelling evidence of six prosecution witnesses which I must say are not contradictory,"
Mr Martins said.
According to the DPP, the defendant also confessed throughout the trial that he never stated acting on a script when the police held him at Sabo and Panti.
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3 Best office chairs for back pain
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The evidence is there, "stuck in a chair" for more than a day's worth of work is hard on your shoulders and back when working at the office. The culprit, the infamous office chair; increasing doctor's visits, building up hospital bills, countless pain pills, and loss of sleep. Not only does cardiovascular disease creep up on you by the day, it's symptoms are dreadful: the numbness, the joint pain and the numbness in certain areas of your back, the neck pain and herniated discs along with misalignment of your spine can only drive you back to the medicine cabinet.
It's a known fact that sitting too much, without getting up every once in a while (i.e. 30 minutes, 3 hours), to relieve your back from stress and tension is critical. The National Institute of Health has recommendations for such problems. Productivity goes up more than 15% when office workers have a safer ergonomic setting and environment to work in; second, ergonomic chairs bring about healthier mindsets at work and home; and thirdly, individuals attendance improves in the long run.
Some of the best office chairs for back pain have the following:
– Casters and a 5-point base, a seat pan with dense, small-cell foam padding or coils
– A curved backrest, small to fit the lower portion of your back
– Comfortable, soft armrests to support proper posture the ability to adjust height and width of chair
– Hydraulic seats with special features such as heat adjustments
– Tilt adjustments for body weight adjusting which will then transfer to the backrest.
– Top Office Chairs: back pain prevention
The CT9400 Premium Orthopedic Mesh Back Office Chair
An ideal office that was voted one of the best because of the relief on the back, the tailbone, and the pelvic areas. The patent seat design, approximately 2.5″ wide, can be elevated for targeting the right areas of the spine and pelvic area. This eliminates upward pressure when sitting, a common factor for those with shoulder and neck pain causing the entire back to burn and get those 'tingling sensations' up and down, along the spine. The seat is approximately 19-3/8″W x 17-1/4″D x 4″ and is thick with a back sized at 19-1/2″ W x 20″ H.
The chair weights about 250 lbs. and recommended for short (5'2), as well as tall people. The unique upholstery made of a "web mesh" material, allows ventilation. With tilt-tension control and tilt locks, seat height and width adjustments, adjustable arm width and height adjustments, and ratchet-style back height adjustments make it a premier office chair for back pain prevention.
The CTB94 Premium Orthopedic Mesh Back Office Chair relieves back pain, tailbone pain and pelvic pain.
Another ideal office chair for preventing back pain and with the standard targets of elevating the back, the tailbone, and the pelvic areas. Patented seat design with 2.5″ wide recessed channel; elevates the spine and pelvis floor eliminating upward pressure when sitting.
Some similar attributes of the CTB400, like arm rests adjustments, back height/width adjustments…etc.
Office Star Breathable Woven Mesh Back and Leather Seat with Built-in Lumbar Support Office Chair, Black
With a ventilating mesh material which covers the back, it has an adjustable lumbar support element and has a light weight of only 42 pounds; but, it's the adjustable lumbar support that makes it a great chair for back pain prevention.
It measures 20 x 22 x 26 inches and has a thick padded leather seat and 1-touch pneumatic adjuster for the right width and height and comes with carpet casters and dual wheels. Lock controls keeps it from rolling off adjustments, and the armrests are safe and can change in length and width. It is also made with heavy duty nylon base.
The CTB94 Premium Orthopedic Mesh Back Office Chair
This indeed is the premium of office chairs, a little pricey but if you're one of those that have acute and extreme pack pain already, this one is perfect for you! It has the same adjustments on the seat for height and width; also, the armrests are adjustable.
With a seat designed with a 2.5″ wide recessed channel, it is adjustable for the lower part of the back and spines floor elevation; also eliminating upward pressure to the shoulders and neck, plus overall back while sitting. Its measurements are 19-3/8″W x 17-1/4″D x 4″ The back is sized at 19-1/2″ W x 20″ H while weighing 250 pounds.
The Steelcase Amia Chair
With 4-Way adjustable armrests, standard carpet casters with upholstered seats, the Amia Chair has premier lumbar technology that contours to fit snugly against the spine, lower and upper. The support is a dream, with the Indoor Advantage Gold certified from Scientific Certification Systems. Up to 97% recyclable and can handle up to 300 lbs. (tested for prime support).
Other chairs that you may want to consider are the Aeron Task Chair by Herman Miller, The VIVA OFFICE Bonded Leather Thick Padded High Back Managerial Chair which comes in light grey or black, the Office Star Breathable Woven Mesh Back and Fabric Seat with Adjustable Lumbar Support Office Chair and the Essentials by OFM, an executive-style office chair, a top of the line in office furniture.
For any back solutions: ergonomic chairs for the office, even a home office, is a healthy investment all around. Normally, you wouldn't want to spend a dime on a great chair for the office, but the investment is more for your productivity, your health, and the comfort of your spine as well as your mind. Finally, a "poor-quality" chair with no back support as a result will cause you to lose sleep, loose hours at work, and health problems.
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Abadía (deutsch: "Abtei") ist der Name folgender geographischen Objekte:

 Abadía (Cáceres), Gemeinde in der Provinz Cáceres, Spanien
 Abadia de Goiás, Gemeinde in Brasilien
 Abadia dos Dourados, Gemeinde in Brasilien
 Abadía del Sacromonte, Abtei in der Provinz Granada, Spanien

Abadía ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Francisco Javier Abadía (1770–1836), spanischer Militärführer und Politiker
 Guillermo Abadía Morales (1912–2010), kolumbianischer Folklorist

 Lisandro C. Abadia (* 1938), philippinischer General
 Lucas José Estrada Abadía (1938–1981), kolumbianischer Komponist
 Miguel Abadía Méndez (1867–1949), kolumbianischer Politiker und Diplomat


Today, Gov. John Bel Edwards hosted a final meeting in his statewide tour of meetings with business leaders and elected officials from the Lake Charles area. The governor has traveled the state of Louisiana seeking input with the goal of stabilizing and reforming the state budget to avoid the upcoming $1 billion fiscal cliff. Today's meeting was the tenth overall that Gov. Edwards has hosted around Louisiana.


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President meets with China's Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs
President Mohamed Nasheed has today met with the Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Hu Zhengyue, who was visiting the Maldives as a special envoy of the Chinese government. The meeting was held this afternoon at the President's Office.
Discussions at the meeting were focused on climate change and ways of enhancing the bilateral relations between the two countries.
President Nasheed said that the Chinese Premier played an important role at the Copenhagen Summit and that it was crucial that China to fully commit to the Copenhagen Accord.
Mr Zhengyue said that climate change was a long term challenge and that China understands the concerns of small island states such as the Maldives. He also said that China would continue to extend its assistance to the Maldives in its developmental efforts.
Both the President and Mr Zhengyue expressed confidence that the long historic relationship between the Maldives and China would continue to strengthen in the years to come.


Everything you need to build the perfect physique is readily on hand at Future Fitness. Whether it's the latest equipment, such as the Humansport training system, expert advice from staff who have competed at the highest level, or the opportunity to purchase leading nutritional supplements at excellent prices.
All of this is why Future Fitness remains the choice for many serious body builders and sportspersons alike.
Enjoy 2 free-weight areas with professional Polyurethane Dumbbells up to 70kg.
Make use of the top quality Boxing/MMA bag. There is plenty of room to stretch, warm up and even do your own boxing fitness session.
HumanSport ® is simple, intuitive and so natural that it feels as if it's built just for you. Great for rehabilitation after injury too.
We stock a comprehensive range of all major branded sports nutritional supplements. You can buy from our online shop or directly at the gym.
Our tanning salon offers you the choice of either vertical or horizontal tanning beds.
Our equipment is regularly replaced and updated with the most advanced of training equipment.
We have qualified personal trainers to help you reach your goals in the best way possible.
Our equipment is regularly replaced and updated with the most advanced of training equipment and Future Fitness now boasts the most comprehensive training facility in Coventry.