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PM distances Sam Group from gov't
News - NationalBy Editor December 13, 2019 Leave a comment
PRIME Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the Government has no connection and does not know about China Sam group. He was answering question in parliament about the controversial Chinese firm. East Are'Are MP Peter Kenilorea has questioned why China Sam Group was included as part of Sogavare's delegation during his recent visit to China and what…
Body found washed ashore
A BODY of a middle aged man has been found washed ashore at Susuka village in Choiseul province over the weekend. Acting Police Commissioner Mostyn Mangau revealed this at the commissioner's weekly conference, Thursday. "I urged the general public to support police in their investigation," Mangau said. He appealed to anyone who may have any…
Church condemns actions of Rietveld
THE Christian Reformed Churches of Australia (CRCA) says they have taken a strong stance against the actions of Kevin Rietveld, who was jailed for three years recently for abusing girls here. That's according to CRCA's chairman of the National Sexual Abuse Complaints Committee Rev Dr Leo Douma in a statement issued to the Solomon Star…
Students to move to 12 best China universities
NINETY-ONE Solomon Islands students studying in Taiwan have been given opportunities to study in 12 of the best universities in China. That's according to the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development. A statement from the ministry said the 91 students have completed the China Scholarship Council (CSC) online application process last month. "The Ministry…
RSIPF commends Makira Ulawa Province for peaceful election
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) commends the people of Makira Ulawa Province for a peaceful provincial assembly election and the bye-election for the East Makira Constituency held at the same time, Wednesday (11 December 2019). "From situation reports that have been received from our officers in Kirakira this morning (12 December 2019) the…
More pathfinders arrive
HUNDREDS of pathfinders are pouring into Honiara as the countdown for the 2019 Trans Pacific Union pathfinder camporee is fast approaching. Over the past days, pathfinders from Fiji, Vanuatu and the provinces have arrived in Honiara. Most of the overseas pathfinders are being accommodated at the Burnscreek high school and Betikama in East Honiara, while…
Eight rescued at sea
POLICE in Temotu rescued eight people last Sunday aboard a fibreglass boat after drifting at sea for hours. The 60-horse engine powered boat left Lata on Santa Cruz the day before enroute to the outer island of Vanikoro when it developed mechanical problem. Provincial Police Commander (PPC) of Temotu Province, Superintendent James Toaki said the…
Five MPs unfairly punished, says premier
SUIDANI HITS OUT AT GOVT By IAN M. KAUKUI MALAITA Premier Daniel Suidani says the Sogavare Government acted unjustly to deny the Chinese component of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) to five constituencies in the province. Government made the decision, stating the five MPs supported the Auki Communique, which amongst other things, spelled out…
Kooline says thanks
Sports - NationalBy Editor December 11, 2019 Leave a comment
KOOLINE Futsal club has acknowledged the support rendered towards the team for the recent OFC Futsal League competition in New Zealand. Kooline Team Manager Mohammed Shameem told media upon arrival on Tuesday that the support rendered by the sponsors, families, friends and football supporters both at home and abroad is what keeps their hopes alive and…
New Georgia, Western Cup champ
NORTH New Georgia is the new champion of the 2019 Western Cup football competition successfully completed on Tuesday in Gizo, Western province capital town. North New Georgia claimed the top title after beating favorites and hosts Gizo Hawks 2-1 in a stunning grand final showdown at the JF Kennedy Stadium in Gizo, Tuesday. Both teams started…
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Interested in a new place to buy supplies for your Mini-Picasso or Crafting Diva? While we love Hobby Lobby (perfect for decor and seasonal crafts), Michael's (great sales and coupons), and JoAnn Fabrics (wonderful selection for fabric crafts) Indy has more to offer by way of craft stores than just well-known chains. Check out these area supply stores that are bound to have whatever it takes to bring your artist's vision to life.
Prizm, The Artist's Supply Store (8607 Allisonville Road, prizm.patcatans.com) offers an array of fine art products and boasts affordable pricing as well as price matching. This is the perfect location for a budding artist who specializes in drawing, painting, or sculpting with clay. Prizm sells professional quality items as well as items for the less-serious artist.
Woodcraft (7330 E. 86th Street, Woodcraft.com) carries anything you could possibly need for a craft or project using wood. They also sell plans and materials for projects ranging from a tiny reindeer ornament to a full-sized bedroom armoire. Woodcraft is the place to go for specialized hand tools and workshop accessories that aren't easily found at the hardware store.
If your young artist loves to create with beads you need to head to Heirloom Classics Jewelry and Beads (1311 Prospect Street, www.heirloom-classics.com). Heirloom Classics sells beading and jewelry materials in addition to custom jewelry pieces. They offer a wide assortment of classes related to jewelry making including beading, silversmithing, and glass fusing.
For multiple interests, multiple kids, or just getting ideas I love United Art & Education (5671 E. 86th Street, unitednow.com) and on the south side (7639 US-31). So much more than a teacher supply store, United Art has a wide variety of project materials, art supplies, and kits. This is the perfect place to stock up on activities for rainy days or find a new interest for young ones in need of a hobby. With their great selection of educational toys and games it's also the perfect place to grab some gifts for upcoming birthday parties. They also offer shipping.


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Please join Soroptimist International of Placerville in sponsoring "A Chocolate Affair" for 2019!
Soroptimist International is presenting our Our 21st Year of A Chocolate Affair event on February 9, 2019. We are preparing new and exciting ways to add to the great reputation this event holds in our community.
This event continues to raise funds for local educational scholarships, awards and other community service projects. This is a true labor of love for our club and we are looking forward to creating a fun-filled atmosphere for guests to enjoy wine and beer tasting along with samples of delectable bites from local wineries and restaurants.
Soroptimist International of Placerville mission: A global volunteer organization working to improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.
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Paris is one of the world's foremost centers of culture. Situated on the river Seine, Paris is a beautiful, cosmopolitan city whose influence on politics, education, entertainment, fashion, and the arts is felt worldwide. Innumerable monuments built to reflect the glory of France and its rulers stand testament to the city's rich history and have led Paris to be the world's most popular tourist destination. Famous sites and landmarks include the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Arc de Triomphe. Enjoy a 6 Day Paris Museum Pass which provides free entry to over 60 museums and monuments in and around Paris.
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Q: Dark theme for Mars 4.5 Mips? I am using Mars MIPS Assembler and Runtime Simulator 4.5  for an assembly class and i find white background tiring when you stare at a screen for hours.
I want to change the editor's color to a darker tone (preferably the whole window) like sublime text or eclipse's dark theme .
There is no such option in settings so i tried to search the java code in the .jar to see if there is a resonable fix with no luck.
Is there actually a way to change the color , has anyone tried it?

A: I have tried it and ended up implementing a theme engine. Check it out: https://github.com/aeris170/MARS-Theme-Engine
Edit: I know link-only answers are frowned upon but answering this question without one is quite impossible given the complexity of MARS. It is impossible to include the essential parts of a possible solution since the said "essential parts" cannot possibly fit into a post like this one. The implementation I have has over 2k LOC. This doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a simpler solution, but given there are no other answers, it is the only solution we have. Therefore, please don't delete this answer, the link is not going anywhere, it will stay forever in my Github profile. By deleting this answer you would be wasting the productivity and time of many people who come across this "unanswered" question.

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New MacBook Pro Accruement -5K Retina Display
A few days ago, Apple announced that they will be making some enhancement and configuration changes in their new MacBook Pro and iMac. These improvements are seen by industry insiders as Apple's way of looking towards the future, with the summer season almost here, back to school season is going to be coming up soon after, and the company is trying to upgrade their products, and make them more competitive with their counterparts.
One of the improvements Apple is making is improving the storage on the MacBook Pro, the 15" MacBook Pro is going to come standard with 256 GB of flash storage, which will make it 2.5 times faster than the previous edition of the MacBook Pro. The new MacBook Pro is also expected to have a longer battery life, and will be able to last up to nine hours without a charge.
Another addition to the 15" MacBook Pro is the inclusion of the Force Touch trackpad. This was first introduced in the new 13" MacBook, and it allows users to set the sensitivity of the trackpad to their liking. The graphics on the 15" MacBook Pro is where it really shines, because it has an AMD Radeon R9 M370x graphics card, which gives you excellent graphics, and is 80 percent faster than the graphics card in the previous MacBook Pro, and deliver a better performance when editing videos, playing HD games, or rendering 3D graphics.
There are different versions of the 15" MacBook Pro being sold by Apple, the regular model of the MacBook Pro comes with a 2.2GHz quad core Intel Core i7 processor, a Turbo Boost of 3.4GHz, and 16GB of RAM. This is the cheapest version of the 15" MacBook Pro that Apple is selling, and it is currently retailing for $1,999.
The other version of the 15" MacBook Pro being sold comes with a 2.5GHz quad core Intel Core i7 processor, a Turbo Boost of 3.7GHz, 16GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage. This model retails for $2,499. Some people were expecting the new MacBook Pro to use the new Intel Broadwell processor, but Apple stuck with the older Intel Haswell processors. The theory behind this is that Apple didn't believe the Broadwell processors would make that much of a difference, and they decided to skip it, and wait for the latest Intel processors, the Skylake to be ready, and put them in their next generation MacBook Pro.
The new updates that Apple has done on the MacBook Pro, make it better than the previous edition, which should be enough to get people to pick one up for themselves.
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IBF World Heavyweight Champion Anthony Joshua (17-0, 17 KOs) fresh from his successful maiden title defense against Breazeale at the packed O2 Arena, is not so fresh, this was said by his promoter Eddie Hearn.
While talking to Sky Sports he revealed that Joshua was suffering from exhaustion and a virus before the fight, which effected his fight preparations.
The Londoner stopped his unbeaten American challenger in the 7th round. Although it was quite a one sided fight but it took hell of a beating from Joshua to drop Breazeale on the canvas. Breazeale proved one thing that he's got one of the best chins in boxing. If he can develop his attacking game he can be a force to reckon with.
"In nine months, Anthony Joshua has boxed four undefeated opponents, he has won the Commonwealth, British and the world title heavyweight title and defended it. It is not just the fight – people will say Gary Cornish was one round – it's the camp. It is eight to 10 weeks of solid training for every one of those fights. Now, he's going to go off and I said to him to be a young man, have a laugh, go to the beach, hopefully where nobody knows you, which I know is difficult these days. When we left that weigh-in on Friday, he was bundled in the Range Rover and people chased him down the street. It's great to see in boxing, but that drains you in itself. The adulation is fantastic, but it takes it out of you, too. Young kids look up to Anthony Joshua and we should embrace him." Hearn added.
The Champ is expected to take a well-deserved rest and will be back in September, fresh with recharged batteries to defend his title against a tougher opponent. The name is not yet finalized but it is rumored he'll face mandatory challenger Joseph Parker. Super unification fights with Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury are expected in 2017.
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Lawmakers will get earfuls Tuesday urging them to support a redistricting reform bill during this year's legislative session.
It's "redistricting reform lobby day" at the General Assembly.
Organizations will call on legislators to pass House Bill 824. The bill would set up a nonpartisan redistricting process overseen by a Temporary Redistricting Advisory Commission. According to the bill, the commission would include appointees from the president pro tempore of the Senate, the Senate minority leader, the House speaker and the House minority leader. Those four members would choose a fifth member to serve as chairperson.
The state House easily passed the nonpartisan redistricting bill last year, and it awaits action in the state Senate. In the House, Rep. Susi Hamilton, D-New Hanover, and Rep. Carolyn Justice, R-Pender, voted for it. Rep. Danny McComas, R-New Hanover, and Rep. Frank Iler, R-Brunswick, voted against it.
Currently, every 10 years, new state legislative district and congressional district boundaries are drawn by the majority party in the General Assembly. Today, that duty falls on Republicans, but for many decades Democrats controlled the process. Under the proposed changes, the Legislature's nonpartisan staff would draw the districts instead.
District lines are redrawn once every 10 years to make up for population fluctuations identified in by the U.S. Census. It goes without saying that the political party in charge of the process typically does what it can to draw districts in a way to ensure that its candidates have good chances of winning elections.
Groups pushing for the changes — including the N.C. Center for Voter Education and the N.C. Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform — want to take the politics out of the process.
If passed, House Bill 824 would take effect Jan. 1, 2020, just in time for the next redistricting effort.
No district shall be drawn for the purpose of favoring a political party, incumbent legislator, or member of Congress, or other person or group, or for the purpose of augmenting or diluting the voting strength of a language or racial minority group. In establishing districts, no use shall be made of any of the addresses or geographic locations of incumbents.


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Archive for the 'Medical Science' Category
Amazing! Scientists awake patient from 6 years in coma like state.
In 2007, 21st century, amazing story, coma, coma patient, health, Life, Living, Medical Science, new york, News, People, science, Science & Technology, Society, surgery, technology, United States, US News, USA, World News on August 2, 2007 at 1:04 pm
In what could be a major breakthrough, scientists from the United States have been able to wake a man from a near vegetative state, and he can now talk to his family, watch TV and chew.
The 38-year-old from Ohio had been in a coma like state for 6 years, after being mugged and bashed, but when neuroscientists from New York and News Jersey used a pacemaker and two electrodes to send impulses into a part of the brain regulating consciousness, the mans quality of life was dramatically improved.
Unable to chew or swallow, the Cleveland patient, who has been identified only as an artist with two brothers, was fed by tube and could communicate solely through slight movements of his eyes and fingers.
Although he still does not initiate conversation, the surgery has allowed him to respond to questions with answers of up to three words. Several weeks ago, he recited the first half of the U.S. oath of allegiance without help.
The patient has also regained some movement in his limbs.
Electrodes were inserted into his thalamus, the region believed to be key in consciousness, to boost its speech and movement signals.
His mother said: "My son, as well as the entire family, had little hope of further recovery. Now he can eat, express himself and let us know if he is in pain.
"He can cry and he can laugh and, most importantly, he can say, 'Mommy' and 'Pop' and he can say, 'I love you Mommy'. I still cry every time I see my son but it is tears of joy."
The story is detailed HERE in the journal of Nature.
See related story on Jan Grzebski who suddenly woke up from a 19 year coma earlier this year.


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A Border Policeman was wounded tonight (26.5.00) lightly by a smoke grenade launched at his guarding post near Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. The Border Policeman was treated on the premises. Two more smoke grenades were launched at the post, but there were no other casualties. The IDF views the continuation of attempts to injure IDF soldiers and Border Policemen in the West Bank seriously.


To coincide with the first anniversary of the Current Account Switch Service on 16 September, the Payments Council's communications manager Mark Bowerman, explains how the majority of people in the UK now know they can switch bank in seven working days.
Next week sees the first anniversary of the Current Account Switch Service. The new service allows individuals, as well as small businesses and charities to move their current account from one bank or building society to another in seven working days.
The service covers virtually 100% of the current account market, meaning customers now have the mobility to move to most banks on the high street or online. This is obviously a good thing for consumers, but also for challenger banks trying to make an impact on the marketplace.
But what have we learnt a year on? Well our latest research released today shows that more than 1.1 million people have used the service in the first full 11 months (1 October 2013 to 31 August 2014) – an increase of 19% compared with the same period one year before.
And 88% of consumers who have switched felt that there was very little effort involved on their part in switching accounts, and a similar number of small businesses (87%) said the same.
These are very encouraging figures, but are there any areas that can be improved? Since the launch, it has become apparent that some switches don't start successfully, impacting on the seven working days timescale. The main reason is customers' details not matching between the new bank and the old bank.
So customers need to make sure the information held by their old bank is up-to-date and correct, so that it matches what will be provided to the new bank. A typical example involves someone who may have recently got married and not informed their bank of their change of surname, or moving house and not notifying the old bank of the new address.
Understanding delays caused by things such as this has helped us to improve our communications further to ensure people receive a successful seven working-day switch.
Another important figure our research revealed is that 70% of people who haven't switched, have heard of the Current Account Switch Guarantee.
We understand not everyone wants to move banks – research undertaken by the Payments Council earlier this year showed that the most popular reason for consumers and small businesses not switching is because they are happy with their existing bank.
Indeed, the Current Account Switch Service is not about making people switch; but what's important is that they know they can switch easily and quickly if they choose to do so.
For most people, moving bank accounts is not a decision they are bound to take lightly. But now that people know that they can move quickly and easily, many banks and building societies have launched new accounts in the past few months offering fantastic deals and incentives.
This is good news for many current account holders, as existing providers do their best to keep their customers.
However, improving competition in the current account market goes beyond deals and incentives. Customers want good customer service, banks that are open at hours to suit their needs, better interest rates and new innovations like Paym – the UK's industry-wide mobile payments system.
It is heartening though that as the Current Account Switch Service reaches its first birthday the majority of people in the UK are now aware that they can use the new service to move their account quickly, simply and reliably.


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Caguas, Puerto Rico: Squatter City
By Erin Sheridan, Indypendent.org
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Against a backdrop of gentrification, austerity and hurricane wreckage, these activists aren't just rebuilding their city, they're reimagining it.
The main thoroughfare in Caguas, Puerto Rico, a city of nearly 150,000 people, remains desolate for hours at a time. Its buildings, ranging from pale pinks to bright orange and lime green, appear vacant. Many of the storefronts have boarded windows as if the shopkeepers left in a hurry and haven't looked back.
Hurricane Maria hit Caguas, 19 miles south of San Juan, with the same devastating force that met other municipalities on Puerto Rico's eastern coast. But for locals, it was a common sentiment that life in Caguas was already careening in an unsustainable direction well before last year's hurricanes — Irma, followed by the even more devastating Maria — were even on the radar.
City blocks abound with vacant apartments, a situation caused not only by Maria but also in large part by landlords who are holding out for a flood of foreign investment. Puerto Ricans have long expected an influx of wealthy mainlanders in what some activists characterize as the island's "third invasion." Post-Maria, Puerto Rico is struggling under a new wave of austerity measures imposed by the Financial Oversight and Management Board — set up by Congress in 2016 to restructure its debt.
The island's government is aiming to privatize its public resources and is incentivizing mainland investment in tech and the island's tourism economy. Business elite from the mainland, ready to take advantage of tax breaks, arrive prepared to buy up entire blocks of land. Caguas' convenient location, just inland from the big city, would be the next logical step in the line of gentrification — cheap property within driving distance of San Juan and world-renowned, pristine coastline.
'In a world where you have no control over anything, at least you can paint a wall.'
The future looks bleak in Caguas. Just over 37 percent of the city lives below the poverty line, well above the national average of 14 percent. Homelessness and displacement have reached unprecedented levels in this small city, where the local economy has long struggled to compete with chain stores based on the mainland.
The situation is not dissimilar to that of Manhattan, where 20 percent of retail space remains vacant as property owners hold out for corporate tenants willing to pay rents mom-and-pop shopkeepers can't. But Maritza Hernández, a member of the squatter collective Urbe Apie, compares Caguas to any "small town in America."
"You know what happens," Hernández says, pointing down an avenue of vibrantly colored, empty storefronts. "They put in a mall and they build a Walmart and then nobody comes to the [local] shops anymore." According to Puerto Rico's Centro De Periodismo Investigativo, Puerto Rico has a higher percentage of Walmarts per square mile than any U.S. state.
"And then if the [landlords] are not reasonable and they want really high rents, then nobody rents them," Hernández explains. "That's what happened here."
Pinpointing the root of Urbe Apie's mission, she says, "Nothing was more evident post-Maria. We cannot depend on the government, we cannot depend on anybody. If we don't provide for ourselves, nobody is going to help us."
It is difficult to say precisely what Urbe Apie translates to in English. One of the group's founders, Omar Ayala González, characterizes the meaning behind the group's name in poetic terms, as "an invitation to walk, to connect with spaces, to discover and activate them for the benefit of all."
For Caguas residents whose poverty was exacerbated by the storm, community organizations like Urbe Apie played a life-saving role. Hernández estimates that soon after Maria Urbe Apie's small team of volunteers "were feeding 400 to 500 people every day" out of their mutual aid center — one of dozens of grassroots, de-facto hurricane relief stations that sprang up across the island in the absence of federal relief.
Urbe Apie quickly shook its reputation as a collective full of "los pelúz," she laughs. The phrase means hairy people, a common derogatory term for leftists in Puerto Rico.
Relationships were forged over hot meals. Volunteers coordinated trips to check on neighbors. The organization took over various vacant spaces throughout Caguas, utilizing them as distribution centers that formed a solidarity economy still thriving today.
The impact is evident. While it may seem unlikely that a predominantly young, loosely-organized urban squatter organization like Urbe Apie and citizens of this majority working-class city could maintain a productive relationship, that is precisely what happened.
After feeding so many people in such dire circumstances, "They'll never forget you," Hernández says and smiles. She exchanges greetings with everyone she passes in the street. For each of them, she recalls a compelling backstory.
"I watched her teaching students in the orchard," shares Hernández as a middle-aged woman waves from across the avenue. Local students are required to complete "green hours" in order to graduate high school and Urbe Apie offers garden space to surrounding schools. "The way she talks about the herbs, the plants, 'Here, touch this, smell this, isn't it wonderful?' I thought, 'This woman is amazing."
Besides its gardens and mutual aid center, Urbe Apie maintains a patchwork of squats that include a clothing exchange, a kitchen, a cafe, a gallery space, a library, a bicycle repair shop, living quarters and even a building where addicts can exchange needles. The organization has also worked to provide condoms for local sex workers.
AN ALEXANDRIA Of THEIR OWN: Unlike the ancient library, Urbe Apie's lending room has sprung out of ruin. Credit: Erin Sheridan.
In every space the organization occupies — on walls, on doors — there is poetry, murals of graffiti. Members regularly organize community art classes at one of the collective's larger buildings. "In a world where you have no control over anything, at least you can paint a wall," says Hernández.
Not all of Urbe Apie's buildings are rented. Hernández — who describes herself in English as an "uncharacteristic" representative of the group because she, unlike many of her younger counterparts, has a background in contract negotiations — has been able to bargain with landlords.
When Urbe Apie does decide to squat at a location, it first carries out a thorough investigation before deciding to occupy the property.
"The Spanish were very good at keeping records," says Hernández. "So everything that happens with the building has to be registered. We ask questions like, 'Who's the owner?' 'What's going on?' 'What's happening [with the property]?' 'Are they interested [in working with us]?' We try to approach the owners sometimes if we know."
Many landlords are simply choosing not to rent out unoccupied buildings, holding out for tenants willing to pay exorbitant prices as the island gentrifies. In Puerto Rico, squatting has long been a solution to the island's housing crisis. Nearly one in five Puerto Rican homes are built illegally on abandoned government land. An estimated half of the island's homes are built without official permission, a process that Hernández and others attribute to close-knit, family-based community networks through which land and property have been shared across generations.
Urbe Apie is charting fairly new territory in taking over effectively
abandoned, privately-owned properties. As long as the owners of the properties lay no claim to the unused buildings, or otherwise have no
intentions of renting them out, the collective says it is well within its rights to utilize the abandoned spaces for the sake of struggling residents.
Once Urbe Apie determines that the squatting is viable, members move in and begin to revitalize the space. At the collective's largest building — housing living quarters, a bike repair shop, a library, a meeting space and two rooftop terraces — members have faced off with the law.
"The first time [the owners] came over with the lawyers and said, 'If you don't leave in five days we're going to bring the police,'" says Hernández.
She and others knew that the owners would have to bring a court order to kick Urbe Apie out, so the volunteers decided to stay. This particular building, just past the city center, sits abandoned because it is the subject of an inheritance dispute and remains unclaimed by either party.
"Until then," furthers Hernandez, "we don't even know if the person coming over has any authority to kick us out because if it's [in] succession, they need everybody to agree."
The next eviction tactic the alleged owner took, according to Hernández, was to accuse the occupiers of theft. The police stopped by to let Urbe Apie members know that there were photographs of them "stealing doors."
"Even the lieutenant of the state police came over," she recalls. "Why would they mess around with some people taking a door from an abandoned place if there's nobody claiming the door?"
Hernández describes her love for the building. The volunteers who live inside and maintain the adjacent orchard, she says, are even more attached to the place than her because they've created a home inside.
But she has a wider vision for Caguas. Hernández has submitted proposals to open a convenience store and has completed the construction of two community gardens in collaboration with neighbors. The collective will soon open a cabaret-style cafe, teatro and event space, El Reflejo, where local artists and musicians will exhibit work.
Hernández is perhaps more of a pelúz than she is aware. Though she presents an image akin to a professional working mom, she has, for instance, adopted a pigeon that she found dying and nursed back to health. It now flies around her house and sits on her shoulder when she goes outside.
She and other Urbe Apie members are nursing Caguas back to health as well. They maintain a positive outlook, embracing uncertainty as part of the uncharted territory of building the city up from the grassroots.
Puerto Rico can't achieve a real recovery with do-it-yourself organizing. That will ultimately take the state mobilizing and directing the necessary resources. That's not happening right now in Puerto Rico. For Urbe Apie activists and members of similar collectives that have sprung up amid the mutual crises of gentrification and hurricane devastation, theirs is not merely a struggle over squatting but is also about holding on to vital living spaces as the island shifts rapidly around them.
Occupation comes out of necessity.
"There is a phrase people use here when they occupy buildings," Hernández says, staring proudly at a makeshift community garden next to the contested squat. "Aquí vive gente, 'people live here.'"
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The list of high school dropout jobs may be longer than you think!
When it comes to finding good work, no one has a tougher time than high school dropouts. According to a recent study conducted at Georgetown, those without a college education have a much harder time finding employment than those that went to college.
These days the unemployment rate for somebody that holds a college diploma is 4.5% while those with just a high school diploma is 24%! That's almost six times as much!
Still, for many high school students the goal of getting their diploma isn't met for a wide variety of issues including financial problems, personal commitments, and more. However, it is still possible for high school dropouts to find good paying jobs based upon having the right skill sets and connections to land desirable positions.
We decided to put together a list of the best jobs that a high school graduate can likely land. The study we cited above shows that the large majority of such jobs will be in the fields of transportation, construction and manufacturing. Although those fields tend to be dominated by men, that doesn't mean that women who have dropped out of high school are out of luck. There are still positions that are offered in the fields of hospitality and tourism, which unlike the others we mentioned, as usually dominated by women.
All that being said, we have provided you with a list of the TOP 5 good paying jobs that a high school dropout could land.
Also known as food service managers, this job requires somebody to make sure the daily operations of a restaurant are met including the food being properly cooked, sent out in time and a sufficient wait staff. Although the job can be very stressful, it provides a healthy median income of $43,700 on average.
Think of an assistant who specifically works with somebody very high up in a corporation, such as a company executive! This person is responsible for scheduling appointments for their executive, filing away reports, etc. This position fortunately is a growing one, with an expected 12% increase over the next 10 years. Average median income with this position? $43,700. Not bad! This is also a position that is usually dominated by women, giving them an edge over men during the hiring process.
Ever drive on one of our highways and pass a large tractor trailer truck making a big delivery? One of those drives could be you, even if you dropped out of high school. A heavy-truck driver can put in long hours and many miles on the road, but the position has a median starting income of $39,400 and could be a lucrative option for some.
In some cases depending on the number of hours the driver logs and how many deliveries he makes, he can earn even more. Although very rare, recent state that some classified ads have been spotted stating that interested individuals could earn upwards of $73K a year as big rig drivers!
Did you know that 16% of people without a high school diploma are employed in this position? Interesting, huh? So, with so many cars switching over to diesel and the re-insurgence of bio-diesel, there is a need for mechanics who can work on diesel engines.
With , there is a large need for people to help repair bridges, build new roads, create highways for those big rig trucker drivers, etc. This is where heavy equipment operators come in. These people make all that possible and although they can work long hours and outside in tough conditions, the position has a median starting income of $38,900 and 25% of workers employed in this position have themselves dropped out of high school.


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Weather music: What we heard
John Constable: "Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead, 1819. Wikimedia
We braved a lot of musical weather in my class, Sunday, from the ravishing daybreak of "Daphnis et Chloe" to the fierce mountain storm of Richard Strauss' "Alpine Symphony" to the surging tides of "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams. I had a blast putting this class together. Thanks to everyone who made time on the last Sunday before Christmas.
Here's the list of music and links to the YouTube videoes we watched.
1."Daphnis et Chloe," Suite No. 2, Maurice Ravel
Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa: https://youtu.be/amGl9Qmgu7E
2. Claude Debussy plays his "Jardins sous la pluie" ("Gardens in the Rain"):
https://youtu.be/c0VZoprw03g
3. "Der Leiermann" ("The Hurdy Gurdy Man"), the last song from "Winterreise," Franz Schubert: https://youtu.be/tnuvs2w7ges. Ian Bostridge, tenor, Saskia Giorgini, piano. This is the entire song cycle. "Der Leiermann" starts at 1:11:13.
4. Sea Interlude: Storm from "Peter Grimes," Benjamin Britten:
https://youtu.be/J20ROYLZfX0. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner, London, BBC Proms, 2010. This clip contains all four Interludes. "Storm" starts at 11:43, to the end.
5. "Alpine Symphony," Richard Strauss: https://youtu.be/FQhpWsRhQGs, Vienna Philharmonic, Bernard Haitink, BBC Proms 2012. The storm starts at 36:24.
6. Storm from "William Tell" Overture, Gioachino Rossini:
https://youtu.be/_n52_yLz2hs, Halle Orchestra, Mark Elder, BBC Proms 2004. Start at 2:55 to the end.
7. Storm scene from "Rigoletto," Giuseppe Verdi, "Ah, più non ragiono!" ("Ah, my reason has left me"): https://youtu.be/VpXJIjpH2E0
8. "Winter Wind" Etude, Op. 25, No. 11, Frederic Chopin: https://youtu.be/YJMIIxm1bGo Maurizio Pollini, piano
9. "Become Ocean," John Luther Adams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGva1NVWRXk&feature=youtu.be
Seattle Symphony, Ludovic Morlot
10. "Morning Mood" from "Peer Gynt," Edvard Grieg: https://youtu.be/-rh8gMvzPw0 Spanish Radio and TV Orchestra, Guillermo Garcia Calvo
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Oakley Hall's dark tale So Many Doors sees its first reprint in 60 years
Review by C.J. Bunce
Crime novels tend to include an element of mystery. Usually the attraction for the reader is going along for the ride with the detective, the cop, the private eye, or the wrongly accused. Some novels have variations on the theme, but few are purely character studies that begin with the reveal of the murderer and then take readers on the pathway of whydunit. That's not 100% what's going on in Oakley Hall′s So Many Doors, but it's close. First published in 1950 and reprinted by Hard Case Crime for the first time in 60 years, So Many Doors centers around Vassilia Baird, a teen girl who, despite her father's best efforts, ends up in the arms of a bad boy, resulting in a downward spiral that leads to her death. Hall's writing has a storytelling quality that may make it a good study for writers, but, despite his quick prose, it is bogged down with ugly characters in the obscure world of Depression era bulldozer operators.
At first Baird is the obvious character whose cause needs championed–an innocent. But without explanation, she's transformed overnight into a femme fatale. Hall does not give the reader enough access to her to understand anything personal, any motivation, any reason other than she's in the position of the novel that a reader should ordinarily be sympathetic toward, until she isn't. Hall never gets into her head, instead choosing to provide access to others who were part of her life, including an odd father, a would-be friend, a creepy much older neighbor, and her murderer. Readers will not likely find those characters as particularly real either, or follow common sense (or decency toward others in many cases), or participate in the average person's experience with the human condition. And the single twist is predictable. It's unfortunate, because the set-up is brilliantly introduced upfront: A public defender is assigned to the bad boy, who refuses his services and admits to murdering Baird (known throughout the story as "V"). But that's followed by 300 pages of waiting for something exciting to happen and the action never again matches the first chapter.
The fact that So Many Doors saw acclaim in 1950 is unfortunately telling about the era, a story full of shockingly smarmy or cowardly men on the one hand and stock naïve and stock evil women. It wants to be Vera Caspary's Laura, but isn't. Instead the leads are caricatures of characters with little chemistry out of The Great Gatsby, embedded in a setting from The Giant and East of Eden and unpleasant interactions and relationships like those found in On the Waterfront and Dangerous Liaisons. That kind of tale may very well still have an audience out there, but the sum of the parts may not add up for modern readers.
Robert McGinnis's new cover for the new Hard Case Crime edition of So Many Doors.
Oddly enough the novel seems misplaced in the crime genre. It's more dramatic in scope like those films mentioned above, and like modern stories Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or Legends of the Fall–not what you'd typically think of as crime or pulp (and not as riveting). For fans of Hard Case Crime's more hard-boiled, resurrected finds, it's an unfortunate follow-up to last year's lost-and-found novel, Charles Willeford's similarly jolting Understudy for Death (reviewed here at borg).
All that said, Oakley Hall's writing is impressive. So Many Doors is like a graduate school writing project: Can you introduce the big reveal immediately and write a compelling narrative from five vantage points and still build to the same kind of satisfaction readers expect in a standard-format story? Into the Wild is an example of how master true-life storyteller Jon Krakauer accomplished this more successfully. It's more interesting to pay attention to what Hall is writing and how he does it, than the actual content.
One important note for fans of pulp art covers: The new Hard Case Crime trade paperback edition features a new cover painting by Robert McGinnis, working from reference photos shot by pulp illustrator Robert Maguire—the first ever collaboration between these two well-known painters of paperback cover art.
Most of the imprint's discoveries come with a certain revelation along the way, a co-discovery by the reader and understanding that this lost story is, indeed, another great find. Unfortunately that's not so here. So Many Doors is available now here at Amazon.
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The 1930's meets rustic forest in today's vintage wedding styled shoot from Mossfloor Photography. With a rich color palette of burgundy, plum, and gold, this shoot brings out the glitz and glamour of the era, while adding a relaxed rustic vibe any vintage lover would fall for. I love the ink dipped invitations and all the amazing colors and textures in the bouquet!
The 1930's was an era filled with polar opposites in our nation, from poverty and dust bowls all the way up to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and its attempts to take the everyman out of their meek and desolate world. The inspiration of this shoot was the soft elegance of Hollywood in the early 1930's, as well as the beautiful forests of Kanaskat-Palmer State Park. We attempted to stay as true and vintage to the period, with Vintage Ambiance providing gorgeous period pieces for our table set up as well as our lounge. The deep and warm floral design by Leah Erickson Floral helped add to the vintage feel of the shoot. A simple but elegant cake with sugared flowers by Baked. that echoed the floral arrangements brought together the entire lounge area. Keeping with the period, the bridal stylist Rachelle Witt found us the perfect art deco style Eve of Milady gown at MeaMarie Dress Atelier, while the groom looked dapper in separates, suspenders, and a pageboy hat from Nordstrom. Hair and makeup echoed the vintage feel, with old Hollywood glam style waves and a bold lip look done by The Beauty Mark.
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Ayad appointed Assistant Manager for GB Deaf
Fulham DFC are delighted to break the
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Ayad has plenty of experience as both player and
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Polestar 1 is a carbon fiber-bodied 600-horsepower hybrid coupe
Sean Szymkowski October 17, 2017 Comment Now!
Volvo was among the first automakers to announce intentions to phase out the internal combustion engine and move to a purely electrified portfolio of cars. In the process, Volvo's former in-house tuning division, Polestar, parted ways to become a standalone brand.
Its mission? Build electrified performance cars. Its first execution? What you see here: the Polestar 1 that was unveiled Tuesday in Shanghai, China.
You won't be able to buy the Polestar 1, though. This svelte 2-door will only be available by subscription. Only 500 examples will be built each year when production starts sometime in 2019.
Polestar promised a hybrid sport coupe and it delivered with Polestar 1, which is basically the production version of 2013's Volvo Concept Coupe whose design was inspired by the Volvo P1800 of the 1960s. Performance is certainly present with 600 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque on tap. Polestar hasn't released many powertrain specifications, but it will be "an electric car supported by an internal combustion engine." That internal combustion engine, mounted up front, is a Volvo-sourced inline-4 that includes supercharging and turbocharging. The brand says 93 miles of electric range is possible, made possible by a sizeable battery plus a pair of rear-mounted electric motors.
Although Polestar utilized Volvo engineering and various technological aspects, the brand says 50 percent of the car is unique to Polestar. Notably, the car still rides on Volvo's Scalable Platform Architecture, found in Volvo's 60-series vehicles and up, but the Polestar 1's body is made completely of carbon fiber, which also improves torsional rigidity by 45 percent and lowers the center of gravity. The powertrain, meanwhile, is based on Volvo's T8 Twin Engine setup.
Polestar also said its new coupe is the first car to use Öhlins' Continuously Controlled Electronic Suspension chassis technology that includes adjustable dampers. Engineers also fitted dual rear electric motors to enable torque vectoring, and the car is rear-wheel-drive biased from the get go. Massive 15.7-inch 6-piston stoppers should arrest all that motion.
Like Volvo, which previously announced its Care by Volvo subscription service, Polestar's sales model will follow the subscription-based lane. However, the electric-performance brand will take it a step further; Polestar will not operate any traditional dealerships. Instead, it will build "Polestar Spaces" around the world for customers to experience its cars, but all configuring and buying will take place online.
Buyers will choose from a 2- or 3-year subscription plan, which includes pick-up, delivery, and the capability to rent other future Polestar and Volvo cars. The brand says its service will be all inclusive and no down payment will be necessary—just one monthly payment.
Polestar 1 plug-in hybrid sport coupe
And at Polestar, keys are a thing of the past. Instead, Phone-As-Key technology will allow subscribers to share a virtual key with a third party, and also enables access to a host of other on-demand features. Volvo alluded to this technology when it revealed the XC40.
Despite only being revealed today, the Polestar 1 could already be a classic. Why? All future Polestar cars will be battery electric and not feature an internal combustion engine at all. In fact, the brand says its next model, the Polestar 2, will arrive in 2019 with a pure electric powertrain.
It specifically named the Tesla Model 3 as a rival and said the 2 will measure in as a mid-size car with a higher production volume than the 1. Then, a large SUV dubbed the Polestar 3 will arrive.
Production of the Polestar 1 will take place at a new Chinese facility in 2019. Recall, China's Geely owns Volvo and Polestar, and more production will take place in China. Polestar says the new facility is under construction and it will go online in mid-2018. However, Polestar won't keep fans waiting. Pre-orders opened Tuesday.
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Kaarel Targo is an actor with the theatre Must Kast since 2014. Targo began his acting career in 2006 at the Youth Studio of the Estonian State Puppet Theatre and continued at the Tartu Student Theatre. He has performed on the stages of Ugala Theatre, University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Theatre Must Kast, Baltoscandal, Estonian Drama Theatre and the Estonian National Opera. His repertoire includes the following productions: Drewe's/Stiles' "Honk!" (2011), Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (2011), Pihl's "Au revoir, chevalerie", Tuglas' "The Mystery of a Life", "Day of an Androgynous Person", "Woolf" and "The Royal Cook" (all in 2012), Granov's "Once More About Love", "Tales From the Tail" (various authors), Shakespeare's/Stoppard's/Unt's "The Damned Cross", Ehlvest's/Kasterpalu's/Raag's "The Last Day of the Screening", Pervik's/Tungal's "Arabella" (all in 2013), Kafka's/Unt's/Klooren's monoplay "Monkeyflight", Landberg's "The Games of Adam", Unt's "Nero", Maeterlinck's "Pelléas&Mélisande", Suominen's "The Little Prince Hamlet" (all in 2014), Põllu's "1987", Landberg's "Ada and Evald", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", Kalvet's "The Tour in June" (all in 2015) among others.


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The European Union and Ireland made a contribution of over €20 million to the Palestinian Authority payment of social allowances to vulnerable families in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The social allowances are paid on a quarterly basis to some 108,000 vulnerable families.
For this payment, the contribution of the EU (€20 million) and Ireland (€275,000) will cover the social allowances of around 76,700 families of which 77% live in the Gaza Strip.
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Home » The EU Court in Luxembourg is raising the bar on LGBT rights
The EU Court in Luxembourg is raising the bar on LGBT rights
By Sam MacMahon Baldwin, Attorney-at-law (Advokat) at Gorrissen Federspiel
2017 ended with the Strasbourg Court reaffirming the decision from Orlandi and Others v. Italy that Member States must recognize and protect same-sex unions – although the Court did not require recognition of actual same-sex marriage. Now well into the new year, it is the EU Court in Luxembourg that is pursuing LGBT rights and personal dignity. Two cases from January are set to raise the bar for EU Member States.
The first case is Advocate General Wathelet's opinion in Coman and Others v. Romania in which he recommends the CJEU to hold that the term spouse applies equally to same-sex as well as opposite-sex marriages under the Citizens' Rights Directive. If the CJEU decides to follow the Advocate General's opinion, it could have a huge impact on how same-sex unions are viewed under European human rights law. While Member States would still be free to provide (or not) for marriage for persons of the same sex in their domestic legal orders, the judgment would essentially require Member States to accept the notion of same-sex marriage when applying European Union law.
The second case F v. Hungary deals with what tests asylum seekers can be subjected to when Member State border controls seek to verify an asylum seeker's claim that he is being persecuted in his own country on account of being homosexual. Certain psychological tests for the purpose of assessing such claims are offensive to the Refugee Status Directive read in light of the Charter, says the CJEU. In addition to the issue of LGBT rights, this judgment comes in the middle of a broader legal and political stand-off between the EU and Hungary on the issue of accepting refugees and migrants.
Coman and others v. Romania – EU law recognizing same-sex marriage
The Citizens' Rights Directive fleshes out the treaty based right for Union citizens to move and reside freely in the territory across Member States. For free movement opportunity to be effective, the Directive affords Union citizens the right to bring along their closest family members even when such family members are not themselves Union citizens.
In 2012, Mr. Coman sought to make use of his free movement rights by returning to his home country of Romania to work and reside after having worked for three years at the European Parliament in Brussels. During his time in Brussels, he married Mr. Hamilton, a US national, whom he naturally wished to bring back to Romania. The Romanian government, however, refused to grant Mr. Hamilton residence permission under the Romanian framework implementing the Citizens' Rights Directive. Although the couple were indeed married in the eyes of the Belgian state, Romania recognizes no form of same-sex union – be it marriage or other form of registered partnership – despite Strasbourg case law. The couple challenged the rejection decision before the Romanian courts who asked the CJEU whether refusing to recognize the marriage could be squared with the Directive read in light of the Charter.
Defining the notion of marriage
Entry and residence rights under the Directive apply to a Union citizen and his/her spouse. The rights apply equally to a registered partner of a Union citizen, but only if the host Member State treats registered partnerships as equivalent to marriage under domestic law. In other words, the Directive clearly and intentionally discriminates between the spouse of a Union citizen on the one hand and the registered partner of a Union citizen on the other.
Backed by the European Commission and the Dutch government, Mr. Coman argued at the CJEU that he was not traveling from Belgium to Romania with a registered partner. He was traveling with a spouse which meant that the domestic law limitation did not apply. The position of the Romanian government – supported by those of Latvia, Hungary, and Poland – was that defining the notion of marriage falls within the exclusive competence of each Member State and that the Directive cannot directly or indirectly override this prerogative.
A term intentionally left open by the drafters
The Advocate General makes it clear from the beginning of his opinion that the case goes far beyond the Directive and free movement in general. He emphasizes in his introduction that
"[T]he definition of the concept of 'spouse' to be given will necessarily affect not only the very identity of the men and women concerned, and therefore their dignity, but also the personal and social concept that citizens of the Union have of marriage, which may vary from one person to another and from one Member State to another."
After a thorough analysis of wording, context, and purpose, the Advocate General reaches the conclusion that the interpretation of the term spouse under the Directive must be one that is autonomous and independent of sexual orientation. Mr. Hamilton is thus Mr. Coman's spouse for the purpose of the Directive.
Based on the need for uniform application of EU law and equal treatment, he rejects the Romanian government's position that the concept of marriage under EU law must respect and be subordinate to the domestic law definition in each host Member State. The Advocate General emphasizes that the term spouse was intentionally left undefined in the Directive by its drafters back in 2004, thus supporting a gender-neutral interpretation independent of the place where the marriage was concluded.
Combining human rights and free movement reasoning
In probably the most pivotal part of his opinion, the Advocate General recalls the need to interpret EU law "in the light of present day circumstances, that is to say, taking the 'modern reality' of the Union into account.". And that failure to adopt such an approach "would run the risk of imposing outdated views and taking on a static role." Indeed true human rights law language and overlapping with Strasbourg reasoning.
Interestingly, during the drafting process of the Directive, the European Parliament did actually table an amendment of the wording, so that the term spouse would expressly include that of the same sex. However, the Council and European Commission rejected this amendment, referring to the fact that only two Member States provided for same-sex marriage at the time (2004). Importantly though, the European Commission stressed while drafting, that the final wording "allows for a possible change in interpretation in the light of developments in family law in the Member States". On this basis, the Advocate General asserts that the 11 more Member States who have since amended legislation to allow for same-sex marriage form part of a general movement justifying a new interpretation.
Finally, the Advocate General emphasizes the Directive's overall objective to facilitate and encourage free movement. When faced with a choice, he says, the interpretation which "facilitates the free movement of a greater number of citizens" must be chosen.
Will the CJEU follow the Advocate General's opinion?
In a case like this, the composition of the chamber hearing the case could well play a role in whether or not the CJEU will follow the Advocate General's opinion. One need not look very long at a map of Europe before spotting that Central/Eastern Europe Member States have been less adamant than Western European ones in pursuing pro-LGBT policies. Cultural differences in this regard are also reflected at the highest judicial level, cf. for example the dissenting opinions in the ECtHR's judgment in Orlandi and Others v. Italy.
In the same vein, a likely debate in the deliberation chamber will be what level of Member State consensus is required to trigger a dynamic interpretation based on present day conditions. Although there is indeed a real trend in favour of complete equality by way of recognizing same-sex marriage, half of the Member States still do not allow for it. Further, a handful of Member States have even enshrined in their constitutions that marriage is exclusively reserved for a union between a man and a woman. Critical members of the CJEU will be questioning whether the Advocate General's opinion is simply reacting to a change in society or rather seeking to drive it by imposing a development in Western Europe upon the rest of the Union.
F v. Hungary – border control psychology tests
How are immigration authorities to verify the credibility of statements made by an asylum seeker who claims, as grounds for seeking asylum, fear of being persecuted in his country of origin for reasons relating to his sexual orientation? In particular, does EU law preclude psychologists' expert opinions?
These were, in essence, the questions that a Hungarian court asked the CJEU in the case between F, a Nigerian national, and the Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office. In 2015, F submitted an application for refugee status expressing his fears that he would be persecuted because of his homosexuality if he were to return to Nigeria. To test the credibility of his claims, the Office carried out a number of personal interviews with him. The Office also appointed a psychologist to examine F's personality which served to substantiate his sexual orientation. The psychologist in question made use of various projective tests in the form of the "Draw-a-Person-in-the-Rain" test, the Rorschach test, and the Szondi test. The psychologist concluded that the test results did not support F's claims that he was a homosexual and, on this basis, the Office rejected his request for asylum.
F challenged the decision before the Hungarian courts arguing that subjecting him to these tests violated his fundamental right of human dignity under Article 1 of the Charter. He moreover submitted that the tests were wholly unsuitable to determine his sexual orientation.
No scientific basis for using projective tests to determine sexual orientation
The CJEU – who was asked by the Hungarian court for guidance – essentially agreed with F. The CJEU held that the assessment under the Refugee Status Directive must, in particular, be based on whether the applicant's statements are found to be coherent and plausible. Also taking into account whether the applicant's general credibility has been established and that his statements do not run counter to the available specific and general information relevant to the case.
Psychological expert reports may be relevant, the CJEU says, only if they are based on sufficiently reliable methods and principles in light of standards recognized by the international scientific community. The CJEU then notes that although it ultimately falls to the Hungarian court to consider, the reliability of the report on F was rigorously contested by the French and Dutch governments as well as by the European Commission. The Hungarian government had not put on a very persuading case as to the suitability of the tests, which was also noted by Advocate General Wahl who stated the following in his opinion:
"It would seem to me, though, that such type of analysis inevitably involves the use of stereotyped notions as to the behaviour of homosexuals. In fact, when asked at the hearing, the Hungarian Government was at pains to explain why the analysis at issue in the main proceedings did not involve the use of stereotyped notions."
On this basis – and considering the serious and intrusive nature of the tests in question – the CJEU found Hungary's use of projective personality tests to be a disproportionate interference with F's right to privacy. In no uncertain terms the CJEU therefore precludes the use of such tests for the purpose of determining a person's sexual orientation under the Refugee Status Directive read in the light of Article 7 of the Charter.
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Law and religion round-up – 25th February | Law & Religion UK says:
[…] MacMahon Baldwin, Strasbourg Observers: The EU Court in Luxembourg is raising the bar on LGBT rights: worth reading for his views on AG Wathelet's opinion in Coman & Ors v Romania, on […]
The CJEU's judgment in Coman: a small step for the recognition of same-sex couples underlying European divides over LGBT rights | Strasbourg Observers says:
[…] for same sex couples. Yet, overjoyed celebrations may be rushed. If the Luxembourg Court did raise the bar on LGBT rights in Coman, the step forward regarding the recognition of same-sex marriage is a rather small one. At […]
The Coman case: Extending Free Movement Rights to Same Sex Couples or Protecting Marital Status? • Alberto-Horst Neidhardt says:
[…] received positively in the legal community. Following the decision, it has been affirmed that the CJEU has significantly raised the bar on LGBT rights. In a blog post titled 'Love wins in the CJEU: Same Sex Marriages and EU free movement law', […]


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Report on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, Addendum, Mission to Afghanistan (9 to 19 July 2005)
Ertürk, Yakin. 2006. "Report on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, Addendum, Mission to Afghanistan (9 to 19 July 2005)." United Nations Commission on Human Rights. http://www.refworld.org/publisher,UNCHR,,,441182170,0.html.
Author: Yakin Ertürk
This report contains the findings of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, following her official visit to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 9 to 19 July 2005. It addresses the diverse forms of violence against women in the country within the context of conflict and post-conflict situations and key measures and initiatives needed to ensure the protection and promotion of the rights of women and the elimination of violence against women.
In view of these challenges, the Special Rapporteur makes recommendations to the Government of Afghanistan, the international community and non-governmental organizations under seven broad categories: State-building and sense of citizenry; family and criminal law; public awareness and targeted information campaigns on women's rights; the situation of women in detention; expanding and strengthening safe houses; data collection and research; prioritizing women's human rights and the elimination of discrimination against women in public policy. (Ertürk, 2006, p. 2).
Topics: Armed Conflict, Gender, Women, Gender-Based Violence, Justice, Post-Conflict, Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Violence Regions: Asia, South Asia Countries: Afghanistan


I love design and for many years I worked together with the American designer John Hutton when he started to work with Dutch furniture manufacturer BENCH. Since I was involved in the production process from beginning to end, my interest goes beyond just selling furniture.
I am a son of Italian emigrants from the north of Italy (the heart of the Italian furniture industry) and it seems that a part of my DNA has the "furniture gene".


Hello Pretty Providence readers! This is Shonee from Hawthorne and Main here to share another easy DIY with you.
I have started to become a plant lady. I am not really sure how it all happened but I was at the store one day and decided to try, yet again, to keep a succulent alive.
I had purchased one years earlier and with my black thumb killed it off.
This time around I was careful about watering correctly and making sure it got enough sun. After a few months of a healthy plant I decided to get another and another. I have gathered quite the collection, including my dear Fiona. Plants really are awesome.
Even though most of my plants sit on a shelf, I thought it would be fun to have a few hanging. This DIY plant holder is quick and easy.
Once you decide on how tall you want the planter to be, grab some yarn and double the length, in my case 60 inches. Gather all of your cut pieces of yarn and find the middle. String on a metal ring.
Using an extra piece of yarn wrap a tight knot just below the metal ring.
Erin the yarn around and around the yarn it looks something like the image above.
Tie a knot in the bottom, leaving about 6-8 inches of loose yarn below the knot.
Trim the yarn to make it even.
Insert your plant into the holder. Place it right above the knot. Separate the yarn so that they are all around the pot.
These would look great hung up in a bedroom or even a dorm. They don't take up much space.
Do you have a green thumb or a black thumb? I am proof that those with black thumbs can recover and still have plants that thrive.